| Show HAS MERCY FLED THE EARTH As one month atter after month reads the war news lie is more and more reminded ot of col Roosevel ts description of his months of hunting in equatorial africa there since a time to the memory of man not back there lias has been a constant warfare between the myriads of animals great and small animals reptiles birds of prey the savagery of tile the animal lle flat fiat is teeming there on plain in morass and forest all the myriads of the deer family the zebra the different species of antelope and the eland have ped fed before the rhinoceros the hippopotamus po tamus the leopard and the lion the lion has been lord on only ay fighting shy ot oi the rhino and the hippo the contest has been unceasing the cormorant and the raven have followed la in the trail of the perpetual killing the serpents have kept up with and johned labbe la the savagery and itla difficult tor for men contemplating the perpetual suffering and fear to under bland why such everlasting everl astin B g cruel tied dhave been ordered and all the time the sun has been shining brightly and the songbirds song birds when not menaced by birds of prey have been singing and the landscapes have been brilliant with light with tropical green and a wealth of flowers inde bably beautiful the impression it all gives ts Is one of sadness it if the observer has any sensibilities and lie he keeps asking over and over why all that suffering and all that fear should have been ordered the low races of men and women existing there are not much advanced over the beasts of the field where a little bit civilized the colonel tells that in one pace a few weeks prior to his being there a man mail eating leopard had killed two or three women and live five 0 or r six boys who had been guarding their little nocks flocks of sheep beep and it was a frequent occur ence tor for a hungry lion to steal into their slight houses at night and carry off some member of the family lu in those regions he himself slept with camp fires around him every night and his gun by his side aide it if one cannot comprehend why that should be so to turn to the european battlefield and see how similar the conduct of 0 men bas baa been to that immemorial contest in the wilds of africa for untold ages it is difficult to fix the place where the acts of men are much improvement over the savageries sava geries of the lion the hippo the leopard the buff buffalo air the cobra and python we are taught that the world was given to man that he be might subdue it that he might subdue the wild beasts beast convert the wilderness into fruitful fields subdue himself until lie he became a creature of order and of law that lie he might drain ine swamps make smooth trails over t the he hills and finally with the order established bring himself comforts and luxuries and at last establish justice and a nd build temples to learning and a waken his own soul until the atrocities of this world should be disposed of finally in the procession ot of the the saviour came and for or nearly two thousand years his teachings have been calling on the children of men to do away with their savageries sava geries and to learn the blessing ot of peace and good will but suddenly in the most enlightened centers ot of the world where there was the most ostentatious worship ot of the prince of peace the nations all at once sprang to arms and now tor for well weli nigh eighteen months they have adopted only the method ot of tile the lion and the leopard the rhino the cobra and the python ot of baT barbarous barous africa it is not a good outlook for or humanity it shakes ones faith in fhe ultimate humanity and salvation of wan n kind tor for the strong to prey upon the weak has been the rule from the beginning and though the intelligence of men has greatly increased the methods of nations seem to be the same as in tile the wilderness with the wild beasts the strong prey upon tile the weak the struggle of the financier in the great city while different in method is not different in princ principle I 1 ale from that of the lion in the wilderness ahen hen he springs upon the prey europe is one vast house ot of mourning and it if the powers there do not swiftly come together and adjust their dl differences r feren ces the effect Is liable to be te tc make millions ot of men and women b believe a that thai there la is no god in hearen no justice on the earth goodwins Good wills ve beekly ekly |
