Life — April 4, 1907 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Ul ~ oe LIFE: THE LAST PAIR The woman stumbled and fell, but was instantly lifted and half she hurried her onward, onward and upward, for they bing a mountain and were near its top, Beyond that 0 nor descend from it. It was the sole re: (even temporary safety left on earth. Safety Just below them and far beyond their sight rolled 1 flood, a heaving, tossing ocean of boiling water only partly when here and there the tempestuous wind broke rifts nse clouds of ste: verhung it and rushed upward ya sky that glowed as flame. Save this man and this woman, mained alive upon the face of the certh, nor animal, insect, fish, fowl or any living thing. All s had been completely overwhelmed by the sea 1 mighty tide had leaped from its confines and swept ly over the world. Over the plains, filling the valleys, over the hills and peak after peak of the mountains until but 2 few of the highest still arose above the surface. Over the cities and those that lived in them, over everything that had len beneath the sun. There had been ample warning of the coming of the strange and terrible visitant from the depths of ¢. but it had been unheeded or met with ridicule. But {mattered it? None could avoid or stay the swift, rushing doom, And now it had fallen. For days the stars had been Ulotted from the heavens, the moon had vanished, the sun ceased his shining. No light was there but the fierce and un- carthly glare of the comet that as a great destroying angel was hovering over a world that it was soon to strike into nothingness. Already had the planet felt the first blow, for the attractive force of the monster had dragged the ocean from its bed and hurled its heated waters over the land, meanwhile rocking and aking that land with the throes of mighty earthquakes. All humanity had at once perished except thae who sailed in ships soon were wrecked and lost. AM but two, and how they J thus far escaped they knew not except that they had sought the mountain top and at last reached it. And there they the end. Deafened by the awful and continuous roar of 4 by the glare and the flash of the the steam and vapors that ever and them from sight, had there been any to see, husband nd wife stood. They had scen their children dje as well as all they knew of loved, but still had they clung to their own lives, f with reason, but simply influenced by the instinct that cath. For a moment the storm lulled, the vapors Jed and then the man shook his clenched fist at the blazing heavens. The deep and dre se was never uttered. One soft hand seized and drew down the upraised arm, the aid upon his lips. Her eyes met his, “No, dearest, Shuddering, he obeyed and drew her closer to him, then started back and stared wiklly. ‘The hissing, seething waves were almost upon them. His hand sought the knife at his side. “Better the steel than such a fate.” She did not wurderer and suicide was the last of the sons mortal ears heard the detonation that No mortal eye saw the vast, glowing cloud apor that slowly drifted into space, the ghost of a world that ining spot his wife, not a human being ful othe never ut not as die, HORACE GREELEY’S PENMANSHIP te is what Greeley wrote Dear Six—I am overworked and growing old. I shall be sinty next February 3. On the whole, it seems I must decline to Iecture henceforth, except in this immediate vicinity, if I do at HT cannot pro pow Yours. Horace Greetey. M. B. Castle, Sandwich, TIL And here is how the lecture committee read it Sandwich, Hl, May 12 Horace Greeley, New York Tribune Drag Sta Your acceptance to lecture before our assoxiation next wint and this morning. 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