The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-05
BY H. c. WELLS.

cure us of cancer, cure us of consuNap- fion, cure our colds and relieve us after repletfon. We have changed all that, Gardener. Science is no longer our servant. We know 1t for something greater than our little individual selves. It is the awakening mind of the race and in little while-in a lit tie while [ wish, indeed. I could watch for that little while now that the curtain has risen
 ssWhiIe lie here they are clearing up what is left of the bombs fn London 2 he said 'aThen they are going to re- pair the ruins and make it all ae like ns possible to its former condition be- fore the bombs fell. Perhaps they win dig out the old honse In St Iohn's wood to which my father went aGbaF his expulsion from Russia. That Lon don of my memories seems tO me Ike place In another world. For you younger people it must seem like place that could never have existed
 .sIs there much left standfng2P asked Edith Haydon.
 Square ml1eA that are scarcely alal7- en in the south and northwest, they say, and most of the bridges and large areas Of dock. WestminsteF. which held most of the government Ol1cas. suffered badly from the small bomb that destroyed the parliament; there are very few traces of the old fhoE- oughfare of Whftehan or the goveEli- ment- region thereabout. but there ara plentiful drawings to scale ef It's build ings, and the great hole in the east of London scarcely matters. That 8ras poor district and very like the north and the south. It will be possible t0 reconstruct most of ft 1t fs wanted. Already 1t becomes difficult tQ recall the old time even for us who saw it 2
 It seemg very distant to me. said the girl
 It was an unwholesome world. re- hected Karenin. q seem to remem6er everybody about my childhood as if they were i'll. They were il Tg were sick with confusion. Everyh
 was anxious about money, and eves . body was doing uncongenfal tilln They ate queer mixture of foo either too much or too little. and odd hours. One sees how ill they
 by their advertisements. All thIs region of London they are opening now is plastered with advertsensei. of pills. Everybody must have Des taking pills. In one of the hotel TossIl. in the Strand they have found the lug gage of lady covered up by falling rubbfe and unburnt, and she was equip ped with nine different sorts of pin and tabloid The pill carrying age fol- lowed the weapon carrying age. They are equally strange to us. Peoples skins must have been in vile state Very few people were properly wash ed; they carried the filth Of months en their clothes All the clothes they wore were old clothes. Our way 0f pulping our clothes again after week or so of wear would have seemed fan tastie to them. Their clothing haedly bearn thinking about. And the con gestion of theml Every body was jos ting against everybody in those 9Wful toyVns-in an uprear. People were run over and crushed by the huncired- Every year in London the caTs and ezl- nibuses alone killed or disabled 2Q|0 eco people Tn Paris 1t was worse Peo- pIe used to fall dead for want Of air in the crowded ways. The irritation e1 London, internal and external, must have been maddenfng. It was q mad dened world. It IS like thinking of g sick child One has the same effect af feverfsh urgencies and acute irrational disappointments
 .eAn history he said, @1s 8 Eecera of a childhood.
 aAnd yet not exactly a ehildhood- There is something clean and keen about even q sick child-and sOnething touching. But so much of the old tine makes one angry. So much they did seems grossly stupid obstinately, out rageously stupid, which Is the very opposite to being fresh and young.
 ssI was reading only the other day about Bismarck that hero Of nine teenth century politics, that sequel tp Napoleon, that god of blood and Iron. looked at his portraits, 8 heavy. al- most froggish face, with projecting eyes and a thick mustache to hide poor mouth. He aimed at nothing but Germany-Germany emphasized, indu- rated, enlarged: Germany and his class In Germany. Beyond that he nad no ideas He was inaccessible to ideas. His mind never rose for recorded tn- stant above a bumpkin's elaborate cum ming. And he was the most influential man in the world in the whole world No man ever left so deep a mark on t. because everywhere there were gross men to-resonate to the hes,FF notes ae emitted. He trampled on i#A4ss9 feysla things and a kind of malice in elese louts made it pleasant fo them Co see him trample. No. he vas nu ld- The dull national slsgrs Ssive tsss lie stood for, no < hifdlsstlie is a ss9d is promise. He was sgr2 tv
 *sAn Europe offered it's h ra aim. It sacrificed etlu a'ion tsf bap Iiness and all it's hoIss If fNti vel fare to follow the cla ter of hiS s;ther. The monstrous worsaia Of shat otd mans blood nd Iren F ;ssed all round the earth. until the atomic bombs burnt our way to freedom again.'
 aOne thinks of him now as one thinks of the megatberium.r said one of the voflss-s .aeH
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