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Show DO l'OU KNOW WHY? Have you noticed that warfare is more frequent in summer than in winter Look back over ten years and see if you can remember whether it was in the warm weather or in tho cold, in dog-days dog-days or about Christmas, that most of the hot blood of tho world grow hot enough to boil. It is hardly worth while, though, for it is easy to recollect that the summer time is the season productive pro-ductive of riot and musketry and cannon. can-non. There was Arabi Bey; you remember him. lie waited until perspiration came easy before making a holy show of himself. The Zulu war was iu the summer time of years ago; the Central American wars were likewise products of the warmer season. Brazil revolted when May and Juue were smiling in sunshine; Hawaii now promises to go and do likewise while August is upon tha world. Aud why? Does warm weather make monarchs more petulant or men more patriotic? Is tho thermometer indicative indica-tive of the animal in man, so that when the mercury goes up the desire to fight and to see blood flow goes hand in hand with it? One would think of the summer as a season of rest from a year of toil, as a time for recuperation, as a period only to batho nnd row and fish, and to remember re-member that life is worth living after all. Why is it not universally so? Can anyone tell? |