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Show The Lesson of Paris. When nn American city Is overwhelmed over-whelmed by the waters of tho earth wo sonso tho disaster, but wo do not regard It as something outsldo the ken of our national experience. We nro near enough to the primeval to accept ac-cept tho nets of naturo with something some-thing of tho fatalism of tho trappers and voyngours who used to range the woods nnd streams of our virgin coun try. But when tho flood swoops down upon a great continental capital the effect .upon us Is far greater. Wo feel that a civilization so ancient, a city that has lived upon Its island in the Solno since the century' before the Christian era began, must have developed devel-oped somo tough fiber of resistance, some moro bulwnrk of ago, that would protect and save It. Tho desperate strait which Paris fnces to-day teaches differently. After' all, tho 'metropolis of Europe Is no moro powerful against i tho mighty forces of tho elements than Is the llttlo mining town ol Cherry, 111. |