Show 01 PERIL THAT w ra horrible tragedy that transpired on jan T in is mining tillage in washington territory an ait ia carnate fiend we blews up a houtie house waw dynamite beasto he be entertained ta ined grudge inmates three innocent lano sent pebble patolo were blown to and the head ot et the house had raw a leg torn away brorn rote his body A little eighteen months old coabe escaped unhurt that the dla dis bolest who perpetrated the frightful erime crime was su summarily manally dispatched by the populace is not surprising besides the intrinsic horror of the I 1 incident in itself it is suggestive of tiie the idea that the partition between civilization and savagery to is exceedingly thin this would not be so strikingly apparent if the murderous affair in ques question tiou were isolated this to is by no means the case however as it Is but one of a multitude of similar occurrences in atrocity these thrilling transactions according to their extent we are not excelled by any of the cruelties cruel oruel ties practiced in the dark ages except that in those times lingering torture was sometimes Inflict inflicted AA there is no room for doubt however that if the savages of civilization could put the objects of their hate through prolonged processes ot of excruciating agony without incurring the certainty of discovery and punishment no spark of humanity would deter defer them the very dispatch of the modern modem means so often resorted to for purposes of revenge renders it all tho th more dangerous for it becomes th recourse of cowards an assassin is necessarily a craven thus toe the perpetrator pe of the deed referred to secretly placed the explosive under the house where the victims were asleep returned to his bis cabin and when round by the populace after the eon consummation summation of the act pretended that he was bulled in slum her ber in this way he expected to escape detection and punishment everyday brings intelligence rover the wires vires that teat some building has bae bem been blown up by explosives placed in or near it by the he hands of civilized savages and life and aad property we are destroyed by that infernal process aa involving the some acme of bad barbarism arism and th the height hedgia of perfidy it is becoming favorite method for the wr creaking wreaking wre aking oking of private vengeance anee it will be observed how nearly lybbe the pat paths of civilization and savagery run together in parallel lines in decourse Be course to explosives aff ly if bl more reprehensible in fairs makers of private vengeance thandy quee mons lions relating to public lassu t we e fail towe lany bay specially ite deeming awaking features in ia the matter of its ite um me tor ft purposes jrp ces in any owe doubtless however the of russia imagine that their ultimate object io humane van jr if the means maas by which thy they seek to attain it are inhuman this forms no apology for resorting res opting to secret murder by the most atrocious method of any times involving the assassination of the innocent as well as those presumed to be guilty because it is claimed that they stand maud in the way of human progress there are two essential noial ingredients ingred tente to every undertaking without them the element of wrong enters into the transaction first theloa the object must be sound second the moans means by which its ita attainment is sought must be of the same character the one condition running parallel with the other whether the apostle paul had prophetic reference to such circumstances as those that every little while startle the better class clan of mankind because of their atrocity when he said in the last days peri perilous loup times shall come may not be quite clear it is a demonstrated fact however that tunes times of that uninviting nature are am at the doors the premonitory symptoms are am cropping out in every corner of the globe if the symptoms are bad some conception may be formed as to the repulsive character of the malady Is it not true that history teaches that when civilized peoples reach the culminating point without direct and accey accepted ted guidance from a divine source they turn the crest creat of the hill of advancement and decline toward the point of barbarism i this Js a lesson taught by the records of the past together eg with the accoo pauling truth aruth that the process was waa immeasurably slower than that of sliding sliding downward |