Show i JUST ONE STEP BETWEEN WE give today to day a detailed account of an inhuman butchery of natives of a couple of south sea islands by the german ship albatross the outrage was vas committed on the ground of three white men two germans sud aud one englishman gl ishman having been murdered on the islands the perpetration of these crimes by some of the savages was avenged by a wholesale slaughter ier ayaay of the victims of which without doubt had no hand whatever inthe in ithe of the three white men yet the article from the sydney herald states that those poor ignorant agnora at people were made to fe feel elthe the heavy hand of justice they were made to feel the hand band of bar barbarism baribin not much higher and much less excusable thau than their own in fact there appears to be no r redeeming ede eming feature in the act ot of the german government through the operations of the albatross whatever that a coat which was the property of the murdered englishman found in the vicinity where the first slaughter t took place furnished the evidence gok aba 8 those so mercilessly slain were the guilty ones is almost past belief but the ground for the destruction of a village i with all it contained and the consequent impoverishment of a mass of helpless men women and children ass f the crowning part of the savagery an i arm aria chair that belonged to the debased german was the t all the ini inhabitants habitants ohp third brilliant bril llAnt achievement of the refined barbari ass aas of the albatross was justified instilled on tho the ground that the j guides and interpreters who had been procured from another island said that eliat the men slain for the murder of I 1 the german mate were the guilty pari I 1 ties but how the resi residents dots of another island could bould possibly come ja in I 1 session of the information is not exi I 1 i doubtless the great german empire i ti imply desired to impress a lasting I 1 i lesson of its potency on the savage mind that would dserve serve ilor ifor all time to come it was not particular how bow it was e enforced so it ii was strikingly given it elec elected tec to place itself while thus en aed on the low level of the barpar I 1 f kaaa and ad provided another it instance stance i t ut 01 tact that is becoming more and im apparent rent in these singular times I 1 I 1 i that as there is but one step from the i isu blime to the ridiculous so is there a f intervening space salce between and savagery how can un tutored man anan be consistently condemned who because a white man does him a jirous wro wreaks vengeance upon the head of the next person he be meets of I 1 j th tha same color when civilized nations adopt the same dihe rf 4 procedure on a large scale ithe the work of the albatross was shameful i |