| Show LAST MAN ON EARTH WHAT 13 THE DREAD FATE THAT AWAITS MORTAL miar thoraf to th f lit aej dab will ue th loralou oc h lt lumler it bow astronomers tell us that the day must come when the earth will ilka the moon wheel through the heavern a dead and barren ball of matte leas waterless lifeless but long long that time will b extinct will have disappeared so utterly that not so much as the bleached skeleton of a human being will be on all the million of square of the surface of this planet unless by huge and universal cataclysm the whole race ie swept at once into eternity it Is but reasonable to that man like any other race of animals will disappear slowly and that eventually there will be but a single human being left old old man gray beaded and bearded and left to wander alone in a solitude that may be imagined but not described how will he die thie last relic of tho millions that once trans iha a ruled undisputed masters of ether uv ing thin there are many fates that may befall hira lie may go mad with the horror t lenell ness and end his own miserable existence he may be eaten by the vast reptiles or giant insects which will then probably infest the solitudes but bis fate may be far birder and mare dreadful ede nUtt that as we burn tle coal and timber we are still so richly with we let lose into the atmosphere an ever in ceasing volume of carbonic acid gas buob of this Is taken up by plants but not all it must is crease and eventually poison the breathable air filling the valleys and mounting slowly to the hill tops where the last remains of animal life are striving for exist ance the last man will climb higher and higher but eventually the saffo cat ing invisible flood will reach and drown him again it 1 aid that the earth as it gets older ie cracking aiice dry mad cracks will increase until at last they will let the water of the oceans and rivers ink into the alry center of the globe then will occur an cipio elon terrible as may startle the in habitants of neighboring worlds the laet man in abl cage bo arctic explorer or whom the vast plain of ice around will save from instant death and 14 to grill a few moment the ice continent are wallowed by gaev and iteal suppose thee earth crack develop more eflowly thy may uck away the awatar without devastating then the baat man a fate will be the wont describable will die of thirst the of hie death will probably be the great valley la the bed of the atlantic ocean off the brazilian coast balf nay between rio janeiro and the cape where now ix miles of green water lie between the etaamer e keel and the abysmal lime beneath there hopelessly digging in the ever drying mud he must perish and leave hl bonee to parch on A waterleen water leel planet the antarctic polar ice car hag been growing thicker aid heabler for un counted ages distance from the south pole to the edge of this lie cap 1 1400 atlee tho ice rise steadily from the edge to the center at that center it cannot be less than 12 callei in thick ness twice as thick as mount everest Is high suppose it splits imagine the el gantle mass of water and ice that will come sweeping up north over the oceans ani continents of the earth I 1 where then will the last man breathe hie anal gasp high up in the snows of bome great range be will miser ably of cold and starvation looking down on a huge shallow sea beneath whose tossing waters will lie the whole of the races of the world or last and perhaps dreariest drea riest fate or all the human race may outlive other nial and last until the eun ai some day it roust grows dull anil cold and vegetation dies the chilled earth the miserable remnant of earth people mast then slowly die out after ages of an existence to which that of the I 1 of today Is a para dle farmer gets along things dont go agatna the grain rioters are the terrestrial stars that bring down to earth and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven the of the Cre atif written lu beauty and fragrance |
