The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-14

(By p a. Koblegard. Weston.


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\ The worlds history Is an internln-
able record Of human misery. 1u
contemplat is unpleasant. ~
one can read it and be inspired
\ is depressing TO the ego. Ne4tner qo
we expect the reader OF THIS artlc q
| to experiences any OF the novel es-
sentials Of the modern upltft move
ment" threat. The sextant OF reason
as employed in determining onl
whereabouts IN the economy OF na,
iture Is not always agreeable 70 ou l
liking maybe. 1t points mankl e
the sloughs of despond nlled Will
sardonic skeletons OF dead ana van
isaed hopes. In the 1uT1d, misty gov ..
or receding ages, tine race strive y, y
incapic! fate the category OF Ioiy
and crime. The hideous saturnal.a
lasts throughout the centuries en-
bracing all the peoples OF the Wo S
in it's mad idolatry. The haggetIaln'
passions of the anctents and meale'
vaIists lash at the emotions today
with the same rutliess fury 1he
vampires and harples OF nate 81 81
Ientwined in the fabric OF soclety IKE
the serpents OF the. brow OF ,Meuu - J
Ihese' monsters OF tne utlne 80
j
and virtue, lie perdue Tor human
toll, in the streets, by the hresldS, "
1.-THE churches, stores, courts, every.
where Wretched preIense Int
universal fashion me business o.
life is conducted on the shifting OASIS
of dishonesty. ~
But the world has never peen .
depraved and bentghted that -
would-be reformers have not inter.
1Af TEl1y1a pfEaTfr OffIGaH.. sAl
che present day they have thetr-rep-
resentation, among whom appears
the name of that supsrman and arcn
enemy of hypocrisy and chlcane
lGeorge Bernard Shaw, OF England
This quixotic and enigmattcal gen.
Etleman is sometimes pictured by nls
critics as being cornuted. Pernaps
Shaw enjoys this attriouttve con n
ison to Lucifer. for has not MsIg
McLane assured us IN ner ss az
pasquinade few years ago that Lns
devil has many of the instincts OF 9
gentleman himself. In his sewers
arraignment of mankind, SnaW nas
divided the sheep from the goats ano
4 when he has finished the JOB mays
1.-The Lord has smiled. A SHAFT IRON
1.-THE culver of his VII, barDea VIZ WIZ
his sarcasm, will rout any, gatner4he
of drawing-room retormers ~
II tD9SplLe JA0 4S4OA
middle ages and the employment =
1.-THE glib word progress TO descrIpt
\ the Intellectual and ethical status y
the race today, comparison OF tn'
Irrespective periods VIII prove Una S,
1 mankind has not evoluted at al
With appreciation of the stnpenooul
research of the great darwin gu, -
Il other evolutionists, the cloutlsi
masterpieces of their labors, tneL
supreme subject, the genus nonao
reflects no credit on himself or add l
confirmation to their theories OF Pro
gression. In science and IN ONE
artistries, the world Is advanclns
n but the heart OF man is Just 9
stony as that which pulsed In IN
Ibreast,of his Simian foroearer OIL Gn'
tpleocene age. As further comn ll'.l,
tary OF anthropologtcal aepraNAty
witness the present-day drama .
wars being enacted on our terr tH ia
strange and the base and cruel mo NC
l tives operating back OF these sstcEt
fees to Mars; behold the destruc S,..
methods employed by the SoclaiisS
H to enforce their reign; oehoiu IN
insane acts OF feminist 1anallc
larson plots and their d1abollc sAe s,t
ton would turn Democratus' ~
\ jocund philosopher OF ApdeTa' M
morti hcatfon and tears, anu GER
tgate the refined art OF denololio -!
as obsolete and passe!
Were Schopenhauer' disciple
Epesssmism, a contemporary OF gu
time, he would ind nothing TO ~
tract No smile would cnange
immobilttp OF his Satut t. nAne 81
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