The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-02
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE.


much the same in all ages. This is true The en-
vironments of people do not, after ALL change
their inherent natures so much as one would imag-
Inc. Some years ago men wore knee buckles and
powdered their hair. To-day they wear four but
ton cutaways and Derby hats. Then a whisky
straight was the ordinary matutinsl beverage,
now it is a whisky cocktail, spiked with absinthe
but the fact remains that despite the environments
of more modern civilization human nature in it's
essence remains the same
1t makes no difference that ancestors travelled
in stage coaches from place to place and waited as
many weeks we do hours to get the full returns
from election their hopes and ambitions, their
virtues and vices in fact all their material interests
in life were identical with their descendants who
live in day of electric lights, electric railways,
telephones telegraphs and Ascending bank cashiers
In re2ding of people of by gone days, we are
interested in what they wore, what they ate and
how ii was cooked, their amusements, their loves
and religions, their great wars and battles and
studying these, we may catch glimpses of human
nature which reveal to us the fact that from the
days of Homer down to those of Harrison, the
elect, man has ever been the same wonderful COM
pound of egotism and avarice, of humility and gen.
crosby. A great deal is written now days about
literary bores we'll, old Horace was pestered with
them too. and of his most delicious satires is
devoted to an individual of this class.
There is, however one disposition in human ma
ture which, under the genial influences of modern
civilization, has undergone considerable change,
and that for the better and that is the tendency to
fght-to go to war for the mere purpose of con-
Co.
been, in this respect, great charge in the worlds
mind. That is one reason why Germany and the
United States will not fight over Samoa The
whole island is not worth fighting about anyhow !;
and If it were, the two nations will settle their diff
ferences by arbitration.
The time was when nations fought about trifes,
but they wiser to-day. People do not recognize
the authority of their rulers to order them to bat
tle at an immense sacrifice of blood and treasure,
merely for the purpose of gratifying mOnarch's
personal spites and ambitions.
The wars that may come upon us in the future
will be brought about by the cashing of principles
great principles involving the freedom and hap
piness of the The day of battles, fought to
determine boundary, or to acquire new territory,
or for the mere love of conquest and the glory to
be won thereby, has forever departed.
This Is an age of intellect, an age of peace and
reason. There are great questions constantly COM
ing up to be settled, questions which affect the
welfare of the races but all these will be met fairly
met, too, and fairly disposed of by peaceabe dis
cusson and equitable arbitration.
Philip Fl. WEIGH, the we'll known humorist,
whose bright and keen. incsive atires have
appeared in all the leading humorous publications
of the east, is, am told, slowly dying with that
terrible disease cancer Of the throat Here surely,