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Show An Oversight. "See here." said satan to his friend Beelzebub, "we have overreached ourselves. our-selves. You insisted that we must put into the brain of man to invent instruments instru-ments for his destruction, and we have J so done. Man has made gatling guns, mitrailleuse, chain shot, giant powder, dynamite every day he effects some new combination which insures greater destructiveness. " "Well, then," said Beelzebub, "all is well." "What a fool you are!" sneered satan, sa-tan, with asperity. "Don't you see that we have made war bo costly that these manikins won't fight?" "Ah," said Beelzebub in despair, "why didn't I relect that these people are always calculating expenses." Kate Field's Washington. |