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Show When Will The War End? THE writer once knew a physician who, while waiting on a patient ill with deliirium tremens, tre-mens, called upon his patient one morning and had hardly reached his room when the patient got out of his bed and started for the door. The patient was a hardware merchant and had sleeping apartments in the rear of his store. The physician was a powerful man, physically. He tried to restrain the lunatic, but could not, they struggled together half tho length of the store, when the sick man seized a hatchet that was lying ly-ing on the counter. The doctor, seeing his own danger, quick as thought landed a fearful blow under the sick man's ear, which knocked him down. Then the physician seized the hatchet and fiercely said: "Now get up and go back to bed or I will scatter your brains all over this floor!" The sick man obeyed, arose, went back to his room, got into bed, covered himself up, and then said: "You think you have got me, but you never would except that big Chinaman (pointing into space) had helped you; you could not have licked one side of me." It begins to look as though both Great Britain and Germany were seeking to involve the United States in their war. That one or the other may be able to say: "You could not have licked one side of me had not that big Chinaman helped you!" We hope it will never come to that, though some things have an ugly look, because, when the day of settlement comes, they will both need the good offices of the great republic to help them to reach an understanding. If it finally comes to a drawn battle, as it now looks as though it would, some very delicate work will have to bo done; if either side should make a decisive ending, the need of that fine work will be all the more necessary. neces-sary. By the way, is it not about time for the United States to call the neutral powers, and to prepare a basis for peace? |