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Show t Patagonia. We suspect that it has always, been the rule. The Bible statement of te career of the Israelite after they passed the Red sea, is the same story the stronger races exterminating the weaker. Old Rome was exceedingly handy at the same business. In the sam way the Wilderness has itp wild beaata, the sea its sharks and sword fishes. Man is jusf now talking arbitration and peace, but it is not nature's way. She believes in violence and her ministers are multifold. The cyclone, the flood, the lightning, the wild beast, the cold, the blazing sun. The rule of the world from the first has been for the strong to prey upon the weak. A WORLD OF BRUTALITIES. - It ia said that in one district in Utah a new bug haa appeared which ia making a fat living by eating eat-ing alfalfa weevil a. Thia bug ia receiving unstinted praiae aa a public benefactor. What it will do when it exterminate the weevila, people have not itoppeil to consider. At present it ia a welcome guest and ia satiated with the hospitalities tendered it. , But come to think, that ia what haa been going ou from the first. The north ia never weary t.l praising the Pilgrim father; the eouth refers rev-erently rev-erently to the cavaliers who made the first settlements settle-ments in Virginia. Both the Pilgrims and cavaliers claimed that they wanted more freedom, the Pil-grinu Pil-grinu adding that they wanted "freedom to worship wor-ship Got!" their own way. But it was not long until un-til north an" south the killing of the Iudians began. Tin only man who proposed a humane way of settling set-tling the new country waa the Quaker of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. .' The killing of the Indians went on for 250 years. We suspect it had to be, but it waa a cruel process. The same thing has been going on from Canada |