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Show I THE LESSON. There is much thst is fateful and atrange i going on now in the United States. A mingled t tornado and cyclone smots Omaha, in a moment plowing a furrow of devastation and death f through streets that but an hour before were re- fleeting the first warm smiles of spring. . That storm started in Nevada ; it flew high above I us, sending down some clouds of snow ; rocked Denver ss a great ship is rocksd in s storm; bent down and smote Omaha, and then paaaed ,on, wearing itself out in the deep woods of northern north-ern Quebec, or possibly Ungava. Before that for ,ten days we had been reading of cyclones in .North Dakota, hi Arkansas, in Mississippi and Alabama, and hardly before the first horror passed, there earns thick and faat the news that Ohio and Indiana were being swept by floods Which in their fury had dressed two states in r mourning. And now there is. apprehension of 'more destruction from the mountains of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania all the way down the great waterway of f the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. I With it comes the news of a train of six sleep-i sleep-i ing cars being whelmed in the Mohawk river, ' while from Los Angeles comes the news that a lady from this city has probably been fatally ' hurt as one result of an attempted attack by the . banditti that infest all our cities. Every emotion of horror and pity and sympathy sympa-thy haa been awakened in all the people of oar country. The lesson is that all tha people of all the states of this great republic are interdepend-jjjaat interdepend-jjjaat upon each other. A wound in one state wounds Sail the others, and through the sorrow and the suffering there shines out the fact that we none of us can escape our duties, and one of those ia that we must all work together to euro the wounds, to wipe away the tears, and, mora than all else, that we must work together to correct mistakes to make the future more safe than the past baa been, and to spread the knowledge that 'will enable people to anticipate and provide against future dangers. It is time that a comprehensive system for handling floods be adopted, and while tha cyclone cannot be avoided, some things can bo done to mitigate is destruction. And the new systems ! must take in every stats. Again, as the very life of the nation haa grown dependent upon trans- portation, that transportation must be further strengthened until accidents are reduced to the I minimum. And as with every succeeding calamity the 'fact grows more apparent that the only difference .among our people comes through the differences of environment, and a sorrow that smites one state by its reflex smites all, we must all put aside our provincialism, and, keeping in mind that none of ua are immune against the disasters -that may be sprung upon us without notice, our "duty is to keep our hearts open to every cry - and to do what we can to make leaa unbearable t he sorrows that come, and there must be no state lines to limit our charities. : Then there are local duties which pertain to all cities, great and small, to have organizations Bpat will enable the proper authorities to know f the condition of all the people, and where thsre is Swant or the. absence of hope see that what is I needed ia provided, and thus not give the weak Mr vicious to imagine that there are times when the commission of crime may be justified. |