Show THI lEND OP OF THE A A vivid of theo vinal final catastrophe tho the in orion saturn and tho the moon aro indeed suggestive of change types they maybe may bo call called edof ot tho the first fi 1 t stage the middle and tho the last t that h rt matter passos passes through in tho the long lou process of tho the evolution of worlds and 0 of all changes that change has most interest forus for us which affects our own planet tho the earth it has reached a later stage than saturn though not so I 1 lain ato a stage as the moon but only in long ages and by minute effects will further changes bo be noticed ages hence it may bo be discovered that thorn there la is somo some slight change in tho the earths orbit or mercury yet nearer to tho the sun than wo we may bo be seen to pursue soo a smaller orbit than now and tho the terrible fact may come homo home to man that wo we aro are drawing nearer to the sun time roos goes on and tho the tropics boemo too hot for existence and colder regions find a welcome change to warmth ago by ago age goes by an and the end Is visibly no nearer but buc tho the figures 0 of j astronomers only too surely toll tell their islo now tho the tropics aro are an impassable desert and all the life on tile globo globe congregates gre gates around tho the poles spain has lost tier her vineyards and tho the alps their snow england Is a burning dose desert und and greenland tooms looms with the vegetation foll of the tropics in smaller and smaller circles the inhabitants gather round tho poles but to quote tho the words of mr miller tile tho narrowed limits of tile tho habitable habit abla earth can no longer support this vast increase of population and famine begins to 10 mow down its victims by millions now indeed tho the end of life on tho the earth draws on apace tho the heat and drouth become moro more and lucre insupportable rain and dew tall fall no longer all springs of w water tier tall fail and the rivers dwindle down to stream streamlet lAt and trickle over their bed and now scarcity of water la Is added to scarcity of food those who escape from the iho famine perish by tho the drouth and those who escape froni from tho the drouth aro are reserved for a fato fate more awful yol yet for a timo time tholow the few remaining inhabitants are partially screened from tho the overwhelming mn ower of the sun by bk a don dense so canopy of clouds formed by the evaporation of every lake and son hut but soon the sun scorches up these vapor banks and dissipates them into space as bastas fast as they can form then the fiery orb shines splendor without tho the lightest cloud clond wreath to interpose between himself and his its victims then the iho last denizens of tile tho world aro are stricken down and consumed the last traces of organic lito life are blotted from its surface 11 longmans inc |