Evening journal., 1919-12-18
old WORLD IS
/. On JOB TODAY
GOODASEVER
Farmer Who Paid SIS to See
Smashup, Wants His
Money Back
WHAT WOULD EARTH
HAVE LOOKED LIKE?

SO the big show didn't come on after
all. Watch night parties sat up in vain
10 watch the world come 10 au end.
They were disappointed TO nnd the
earth rolled along as usual IN spite OF
any consplracies conoocied against IL by
The big league planets.
4 An end-of-the-world panic sent a
crowd Of shoppers In local store hy-
ing to the street yesterday noon. One
girl said 90 another: Have you seen
that awful looking cloud IN The sky 2
The world Is coming 90 an end
That was enough The word spread
from one customer 10 another, and i'm
medlatcly there was a struggling mass
OF frightened humanity trying 10 get
outdoors.
Men who had gotten a good ways he
I hind with their prayers caught up and
even said prayers for few years In
advance last night COnscience-smiiten
l individuals returned borrowed umbrel-
las, and paid up bills OF long standing.
and today are deeply regrettlng 10
school students went 10 School today
with unpreparcd lessons and lots OF
adults who had left undone the things
which they ought 30 have done are
nourlshinz the nifty. little excuse to-
/ day: well 7 thought the world would
end last night IT'S not my fault that
+ 10 didn't"
4 There was a distinctly anxious few
moments around midnight last night
when people who wouldn't have adj.
mitted 70 for world. held their breath
and wondered II possibly their las.
hour had arrived.
Apparently the only thing that hap
pened was that 70 grew cold enough {,
freze the tail OF a brass mule, as the!
say ont On Medicine Hat
The end OF the world has been pre-
dicied qu'te a number Of tim's sinct
its beginning. In 1856 and 1924 Their,
was an awful agitation over expected
I wOrld-endings. one Of the most famOu.
predictions was that Of Mother ShlpiOn
who lost her life as a witch This wo-
man. whose predictions about many
other things were fulfilled, set 1881 as
| the ending Of the world
/ With the stage set for the greatest
show OF an and with farmers out In
ohio paying as much as SIS 10 city
/ slickcrs for reserved seats. Old Earth
simply failed 10 respond 10 The celes-
, iial yanking. and by refusing TO play
IFS part as advertised gummed the
whole performance. Assalled by blare
Of 81 told you sos from the as
Economical fraternity and traced 10 his
/ lair in san Francisco by a representa-
/ tive Of the outraged human race, it Is
/ Iregreitable 10 note that Doc porta took
refuge behind an excuse as ancient as
I politicians.
/ He said in brief that he had been mis-
quoted and never had prophesied the
end Of the world and That although
most circumstances were favorable 10
, The production OF the calaclysm 70 real
p ly couldn't happen because the sun was
rotating The situation having thus
been clarified and the san Francisco
pundii exculpated u became possible 10
take stock Of what really did take place
on the spurious judgment day.
Ohio Farmer Nictimiyed.
Out. In West Salem. Ohio, Charles
Johnson. a farmer, Go years old. was
visited on Saturday boy two p'ous look
Ing men who said that as the end Of
all things terrestrial was TO come yes
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