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Show THE f.A8T MAN. raws Thai May Oterlaki, the Knrtlior of Ih Human lUrr. Astronomers tell us that the day must come when the earth will, like the moon, wheel through the hear ens a dead and barren ball of matter, airless, waterless. Ilfeles. Hut long, long before that time man will be extinct, ex-tinct, and will have disappeared to utterly ut-terly that not so much as the bleached skeleton of a human being will be visible visi-ble on all tho millions of square mile ot the turfaco of this planet Unless by some huge and universal cataclysm the whole rnce Is swept at once Into eternity, it Is but reasonable to tup-poae tup-poae that man. like any other race ot animals, will disappear elowly and that eventually there will bo but a tingle human being left tomo old, old man, gray headed and bearded, and left to wander alono In a solitude, that may be Imagined but nut described How will be die, thla last relic of tho teeming millions that onco transformed tho globe and ruled undisputed master ot every other living thing? There aro many fates that tray befall him. He may go mad with the horror of loneliness loneli-ness and himself end his miserable existence. ex-istence. He may bo eaten by the vast reptiles or giant Insects which will then probably Infest the solitudes. Dut his fate may bo far vrelrdcr nnd more dreadful. Scientists say that as we burn the coal and timber we are still to richly supplied with wo let loose Into the atmosphere an over-Increasing volume of carbonic acid gas. Much ot this Is taken up by plants, but not all. It must Increase and eventually poison tho breathablo air, filling tho vnllcyt and mountains slowly to the hilltops, where tho Inst remains of animal lite are striving for existence. Tho last man will climb higher nnd higher, but eventually the eiirfocatlng. Invisible fluid will reach and drown him. |