Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01

sun sets: the farthest east and the farth-
est west have met.
And presently, the wide storm of clatter-
ing, SCATTERING hoofs come laundering In
hundreds of thousands, in heaped-up, ever
succeeding accumulation, like rivers or
rushing sound Their impetuoslty cannot
be checked, because the wind cannot be
checked: and they attack in the rear; and
each of them IS general.
And now the eyes of Wilhelm noting
wide confusion from afar, tighten; ana
strange raying rumors and growths OF
sound come to his ears from out of the dis
tant dark. And within fifteen minutes, the
millions of the yellow men, hurried inward
from front ana rear are no more an army,
but an astounded rout, flying from nothing
upon death, caught in error and delusion,
bewildered blind and panic-struck. They
cast away their weapons in a horror OF
haste, they trample themselves to death in
purposeless fury. Never on the earth was
half such extravaganza of carnage in
similar space, such an excess and waste or
slaughter such banalite of death, such
frenzy of melee. The white men, drunk
with blood become mere beasts of prey,
chopping at flesh in feeble, exhausted
eestacy. The night grows old, and still
they hunt they track; they slip In moving
lagoons of gore, and fall, and faint; and
die trampled careless rise, and hunt,
and hack The battle degenerates into a
debauch of hell
And with the morning light the plain of
Stralsund, viewed from the submits of the
low hills, is like a saffron ocean of stag
nant putridity wherein twist and coll,
feeding on the ancient slime. myriads OF
iet-back snakes. Here in Armageddon-
the last great agony of struggle between
the white man and the yellow: the act Is
over.
But only the fourth act. The earth re-
mains; spring. and the joy of life, and the
fntensties of the pulse, will return. Let us
look a moment four months later. at a
great assembly in the Albert Hall at Lon
don 1t is on what properly speaking, is
the third day of new century-the Sd or
January, 1901
throng indistinctly, ncalculable as leaves
In Valambrosa. The great circle of the hall
is CAV with dropping flags; the platform Is
Graped with them; the flags of two nations,
which vet by mystery of Destiny, are for
ever one.
About the building the people of the two
nations throng all the streets knowing that
this day is a hegira of the world, such as
las not yet been. And orators emerge above
that sea of heads, and there are huzzas and
wide tendencies and motions, precisely as
when through the innumerable forest the
breezes run tittertng In torrents of rumors.
But within. on the platform, the President
of the United States Is sitting, and beside
him the prime minister of England stands
speaking, and sometimes, solemn and
worldwide Is felt to be the occasion that
the spoken words have In them something
of the strain OF prophecy:
This reahipment. then, he says "of the
remnants OF the yellow men to their natu-
raj home being now we'll on the way toward
completion. we are faced by the task OF re-
facilitating and administering that portion
of the earth which. since authentic hisory,
has played the greatest part in Its events.
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