Show P 10 lOOY 0 Y EAB rne 11 7 va 4 W 7 i ft I 1 ao il IF I 1 before the breaking of 0 the great war a brochure calling attention to its dan J gers to european civilization was on the 1 point of ul appearing n simultaneously in all p v X the capitals v v A wealthy peace society ty which has the 4 work in charge counts on making its 9 general publication immediately it if still possible it is entitled guide to the ruins of europe and Is supposed to be compiled in america a hundred years from now for or the use ot of american australian and oriental explorers in the style ot of macau leys new zealander desirous to visit the piles of 0 ulna ruins 1 that were once proud capitals and cities blessed with art industry and commerce before the great war destroyed alike the populations and their centers and left europe a waste sparsely inhabited by scattered communities of survivors without strength or ambition to restore civilization we give herewith selections from the chapter entitled paris PARIS ruins of ancient capital of france under no pretext should the explorer neglect these ruins they are more accessible than the ruins of berlin or vienna and better preserved than those of london the natives still hold pathetic pretensions to constitute a city of light forthe tor the vast and desolate territory dotted by bif th the lair sot of savage shepherds and the strongholds strong holds of primitive cultivators that stretches from the ruins of st petersburg to the ruins of rome and madrid and called the wastes of europe see ville lumiere in the historical chapter A printing press evea exists in the chaillot Chall lot catacombs Cata combs connected with the ancient subway which Is the winter habitation of the better portion of the parisian natives parts aares aidt two cuir sold in the bosquets bosquett Bos of the opera and the pantheon cockpit see pantheon ruins of by the slaves of monsieur balao of java and ross of chaillot Chall lot la is not a newspaper but a mere weekly program of the so called pleasure of paris cuir see leather money and barter system slaves see hungry mouths the slavery Is voluntary the tact fact that tour four books have been published in paris in the past decade discloses an intellectual effort unequaled elsewhere on the dark continent they are our fathers culture words worda ot of one or two syllables reproductions ot of pen drawings processed in new york and gratuitously distributed in all the resorts of 0 pleasure by monsieur isaac baumchen Blu president of tile the republic hair growing as good as clothing brochure 44 pp ap by monsieur samuel rice henda benda tate ot of bucharest minister ot of football the paris song book and new dances by VI comte raoul de sancy new edition preparing and my pets by miss annie Bloom fontain the beautiful young south african dancer who has had the concession ot of the opera since the year 2001 explorers regularly purchase these unique works in quantity to encourage the natives see cuir and darter barter system any useful object such as a fine tooth comb or cake caka of soap or article ot of adornment like a single eyeglass string of beads or pair of eight ounce boxing gloves will provide the visitor with abundant supplies of leather money great hunts Mons monsieur montleur leur von minister of war marquis de trapper and guides porters dog trains the casbar bianc boss of the northern shepherds la is EL a useful person to fee places of 0 interest the opera this grandiose monument ot of the past destroyed along with the church of the madeleine and the entire opera quarter see avenue de dc impera in the second bombardment by the germans germai hs in 1914 15 Is under the control of 0 miss annie Bloom fontain and her troupe of blondes variety show on the grand stairway every afternoon from june to october the crumbling interior overgrown with wild vegetation Is unsafe the wild dogs of the opera which formerly made it their lair were exterminated by roosevelt Expedit expedition io n of 0 1993 market of the madeleine chief place of barter of the natives among the broken columns see bombardment of paris in the historical chapter twice a week this picturesque spot is the scone scene of the greatest animation of the dark continent the native women here exchanging finery which sets the fashion among the simple populations in far distant berlin antwerp marseilles and bucharest the great fur mart Is held in august traders by dog team carrying back with them tho the parisian products see articles de paris and recrudescence ot of big game in europe avenue de impera the jungle of paris unsafe tor for any but armed parties ot of explorers but visitors can buy protection from boss balao monsieur salomon syndic ot of the bourgeois gebis tribes or miss annie see trout fishing inhabited by the bourgeois tribes and hungry mouths see ethnographical note the avenue do de impera Is considered the most androse example ot of twentieth century A 02 and welfare of 0 society crumpled like an exploded bladder in five short years the world and the scope of human life underwent a retrogressive change as great as that between the age ot of tho the antonides Aut Ant and the europe ot of the ninth century wells veils remarkable book makes passionately interesting te reading at this moment it shows how up to the very beginning or of the great war the movement 0 of I 1 the world seemed wholly beneficial to mankind sustaining and constructive forces seemed to more than balance the malign drift of chance and the natural ignorance of prejudice blind passion and wicked self seeking of mankind men sat said d indeed that moral organization was not keeping pace with physical progress but few attached any meaning to the lr oi kat 41 4 ta 1 destruction in which the german artillery marked its zenith in no one section of the ruins of berlin lin or vienna are the ravages of french or russian artillery so complete unter den linden it is to be noted crumbled as a mass only after the great thaw of 1930 eiffel tower originally it stood upright overthrown in the first german bombardment of 1914 it Is constructed ci of steel and contains separate pieces and rivets beneath it flows the seine with the trocadero marshes inhabited by fishing tribes 60 per cent of whose catches are claimed by the republic see dried fish salmon began coming up the seine in the year 1978 shad A D 2003 it was feared at first that they might bight mutually and reciprocally exterminate each other but the shoals of fish proved to be of too high an order of intelligence to commit such ouch a suicidal act so run certain pages of the chapter parts paris 1 of the guide to the ruins of europe which was prepared to warn the nations against the great war it was not issued in time the great war broke out too soon the brochure foresees a time when gold itself will be worthless in europe all factories will be closed its preface runs all railroads will stop all commerce will be paralyzed and the country sides ravaged by war and neglect will no longer have food tor for their own populations in the cities piles of ruins decimated by bombardments old men women and children will riot in famine all provisions will be finally with the armies and the armies will continue fighting to kill each other oil off and get possession of the precious foodstuffs such is the black picture of the brochure it quotes freely from the war in the air by H G wells published as long ago as 1908 9 in it the english philosopher brings america into the universal as a result of which the fine order phrases few realized that the accidental balance on the side of progress was far ar slighter and infinitely more complex and delicate in its adjustments than the masses suspected they say their armies and navies grew larger and more portentous some ot or their ironclads Iron tron a at t the least pst cost as much as their whole annual expenditure upon advanced education they accumulated explosives and machinery of destruction they allowed their national traditions and jealousies to pile up they contemplated a steady enhancement of 0 race hostility as the races drew closer together without concern or und understanding and they permitted the growth in their midst of 0 evil and propaganda ot of con propaganda spirited war all one ot of history were quest the precedents and the dangers tale of the collapse ot of civilizations of the time were manifest the swiftness of the collapse Is represented as its most terrible feature the older civilization rotted and crumbled down but this civilization of 0 modern europe was as it were blown up within the space of five years it wals was altogether disintegrated and destroyed st up to the very eve ot of the explosion one sees seea a spacious spectacle ot of incessant advance a gurid wida security enormous areas ot of highly organized industry and settled populations gigantic cities spreading gigantically t the he seas and oceans dotted with shipping the land netted with rails and open ways then suddenly the german cannons are heard and we are in the beginning ot of the end already the financial fabric staggered with those first sounds with the destruction ot of the american fleet in the north atlantic and the smashing conflict which ended the naval existence of germany in the north sea with the burning and wreckage ot of billions ot of pounds worth of property in the four cardinal cities ot of europe the hopeless costliness ot of war came home tor for the first time to the consciousness of mankind credit went down in a whirl ot of selling money vanished and at its disappearance trado trade and industry came to an end the economic world tell fell dead wherever there were great populations great masses found themselves without work without money and unable to get food famine was la in every working class quarter within three weeks of the beginning of the war within a month there was not a city in which ordinary law and social procedure had not been replaced by some form of emergency control and swiftly the famine spread to the rich the great nations and empires became but names i |