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Show 1 i ... I , THE HUMAN ,v CATACLYSM i' ! ' jujt whon tho harvests wero rip- 1 . j-nttis tu Kuropo mid tho peasants If wtro planning for their uutumn fcstl- '' J viln; when tho young woro planning, I ' tar happy culminations when the toll ij ot iho season should bo over;, a llttlo i 'i cloud appeared on tlj souUiorn sky S if ! and before tho peoplo could realize 1 hat was coming that c'.oud expand- f I C4 until tho whole sky was enshroud if 7 t j. and tho grim reaper appeared, not. I'f ' ' usivo tho harvest but to tread the f,f , fleWa underfoot; to blast a million P S jv., . Carts; to chango tho songs of tho ;'l &.' '0Peful i)00r ll,t0 wnlll83 for tho lit) iisL. " dead. kWJMkfW And for what? That long cherish- HH rd on tho HB four rnlors bo grntincd or that MMi hunJirJu might dlo In tho nttempt. The original orig-inal blame Is upon Austrin, for al the claim she lu.s upon Servla Is really re-ally tho c'.alm that Servia Is In her way. Tho second and greatest criminal crim-inal Is Russia. Behind tho raCw hates there Is tho smart that when her "far flung battle lino" vns extended extend-ed too far and tho further wings of It wero being scorched by llttlo Japan she had no sympathy In Europe Bo-yond Bo-yond all that Is tho long cherished dream of securing an open way for her ships between the Ulack and the Mediterranean seas, nnd evidently sho believes that ns Turkey has Just been devastated by a wasting war, now Is the time for her to strike We can woll believe tho dlspntchcs that said Germany had dono her ut most to stop the conflict for Germany Is In a place so dangerous that nothing noth-ing but the wisdom of her rulers and. tho valor of her soldiers can save her. Franco Is thinking of Alsar.o Lor-nine Lor-nine and the humiliation of 1871-72 and Is eriger for vengeance. Sho does not stop to recall tho fact that so many ot her young men died In the Napoleonic wars of a century ago that her peoplo have not yet regained their full stature. And Great Britain will not bo ablo to keep out of the lino of flrn. Ono of tho first questions that will have to bo solved will bo what will coma when tho English and German navies meet la war. .J i Tho prestige is with Great Britain, In tho old days Franco nnd Spain had quite as lino Bhlps as England, but thejl wero always beaten. If tho fleets ot Great Britain and Germany meet In combat on tho ono side will bo the memories of Blake and Howard and Drake' and Colling-wood Colling-wood and Nelson nnd tho rest to remember, re-member, on tho other thero will be no such memories to hold men up to tho guns. A great many of what nro now beautiful ships will bo but scrap Iron when this thlug Is over.. Wo do not believe that the powers rnmhlnlni? can crush Germauv but there will bo less nrroganco on the part of German ofheors for a good many years to como. But tho war Is a most shameful one. Every ono of the chief mover has apparently been a warm ndvo.-cate ndvo.-cate of arbitration by the Hague tribunal tri-bunal of any differences that might arlso between them. In tho light ot present events how much nro their professions worth? The great shamo Is the suffering of the Innocents. What ot the poor peasants? What of tho prayors of tho mothers that If possible this cup might bo put aside? Surely beforo It Is over tho world will have grown most weary of kingly king-ly rule. It may be tho cataclysm was necessary neces-sary that with clearer vision tho peo-pie, peo-pie, whose eyes will havo received the bath of blood, may have tho strength to dlctnto tho course of future fu-ture governments. Men Uko tho enrth have sometimes tbolr earthquakes, Bomethlmes like the air their cyclones cy-clones to work their reforms. Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly. |