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Show BJ B Who Knows? I T is possible that the present war in Europe is 'the world's last great war. It was long ago B said that wars would continue until their destruc- Itiveness would become too terrible for poor human nature to try to stand before the destroyers. I The present war has brought the airship and Kj undersea ship into fearful prominence. B Moreover, guns and explosives and deadly 10 gases have been so perfected that men can no longer stand before them; they are obliged to resort re-sort to trenches and masks to mitigate their terrors; ter-rors; and all admit that the limit of what may yet bo added is not yet in sight Thousands of acute brains are wo'rking upon all these propositions and there is a feeling in the hearts of thousands of men that something yet more terrible than anything that man has over confronted is on the very eve of discovery. We have read from time to time how young Hammond from a station on land can cause a boat in the harbor to move away from its station, sail out to sea, turn around and return to its anchorage. an-chorage. Is that the extreme of the invention in that direction di-rection or merely some letters the alphabet which when completed and set to words and rightly read may culminate in something appaling. We say the foregoing because we all know that thousands of minds are working along all the lines of chemistry and mechanics in an effort to produce new means of destruction or improve upon the old, and we believe that thousands of expectant souls are in a condition which were some new terror to be produced would say, "I know it was coming." Shakespeare made Puck say: "I will put a girdle 'round about the earth in forty minutes." That was caused by a light that flashed before tht eyes of Shakespeare's soul for an instant. The world waited three hundred years, but the dream materialized into a fact at last. Who knows what may be in the near future? |