Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-11


Imagine herd of mammohs with long tusks and
red hair little eyes, exceeding power and bulk the
modern elephant the elephant to-day exceeds ordinary
buffalo
Then think of the biggest most powerful Of the giant beasts
the leader of them ALL and you have the of this picture
drawn by clever English artist and illustrating the death Of
that giant, as scientists tell us it occurred.
It was bitter winter in those distant days of half formed
earth before had appeared in their shape of to-day.
Driven by cold the mammoth herd migrating in search
of food.
The giant with the long the leader And
it for him decide that the herd should
the frozen marsh
Hunger pushed the herd forward caution held
heaviest giant of all made the test foot then the other
big front foot
Then the whole weight the tracherous ice made up
mud and water, of grasses roots and bog.
For while cautious and trembling balancing his big body
he went forward then the eacherous spot where
animal from below perhaps had forced his way up breathe
And the giant caught helpless and hopeless in the frozen
marsh.
This striking picture shows the last hour Of the tOrmened
creature
The wolves and other little beasts that he could have crushed
by dozens his onward march gather the feast they
too driven by hunger and the marsh uphods their light
weight
trunk trumpetng, squealing.
animals biting ears at his eyes, at
the big lips and the trunk not quick enough
strike them
Finally the battle against Fate ends The eyes, the mouth
sink below the ice into the mud the struggling And the
wolves the flesh of the big trunk and gorge themselves
until it disappears from sight.
The bog closes the herd that has watched in safety
another direction indifferent the leaders death
CenuriesthOusand of themro by. And the scientists
collect bones preserved in the bottom of that bog man.
of the strange animals that lived day.
makes this picture of the mammoth death.
In the fate of monster mammoth once ruler of the
earth and nvincble in memOryhe reconstruct
ed curiosity of the museumhoughul read lesson of
encouragement
that ruling giant of brute force disappeared from the
EARTH other giants in their turn will disappear.
While the mammoth lived and ruled every believed
that of course he would live and rule forever.
The first imid monkey like human beings that the
moth by crashing his through obstacle had this
thought their dull brains Always weak shall flee
terror when hear that crashing sound and always that
animal will rule this earth apowerfu nvncibe despisg the
weak"
But the mammoth is GONE and his power and rule have
gone.
And the creatures that feeble half monkeys and
rule the earth They have conquered the big animals
and the small conquered the lightning and the wind conquered
time and space-AND WILL ONE DAY CONQUER THEM
SELVES.
We creatures powerful than the mammoth but timid
and feeble compared with what shall be- feel toward certain
forces of evil td ancestors felt toward the mammoth
They said THAT mammoth must rule forever. His power
And say injustice cruelty poverty and anxiety must
rule forever. Such monsters be destroyed
But they will NOT rule forever. THEY WILL BE
DESTROYED.
The power of thought has killed off the big The
power of science which is methodcal thought is KILLING
OFF THE MISCRoSCoPIC ENEMIES, DISEASE BREED
ING GERMS, MORE DANGEROUS THAN MANTMOTHS
And thought and the conscience of the human kill
ing of the moral monsteinustice brutality and selfshne
Those power and cruelty will sink and disappear
carried down by their weight destroyed by their
confidence this mammoth destroyed long
when the earth young.
Now his body reconstructed with minute accuracy used
in the to teach lesson children and students
The great bulk that terrified the world
the children.