Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-12-13
(From Atlanta Gcorgian.)


of those cataleptic frances to which
he was subject he saw sublime Wis
ion Of the Day Of Judgment. and ut
tered rhapsody Of which these
conclusion.
Spoken more than thousand years
ago, with what power do these amaZ-
ing words bring home to the reflect
i've mind the condition Of mankind
this very day, after nearly two thou
sand years OF Christian civilization! !!
II have stood" said Lloyd George
4 fcw weeks ago, after his return
from the Somme battlefelds, "and
seen five hundred thousand men fed
into the mouth Of that burning hell "
The dreadful vision OF the Arabian
seer. after more than a thousand
years. had become Il dreadful reality
before the eyes OF a matter-of-fact
W"lshman gazing into that ghastly
hell o! death and woe which is the
ultimate achievement Of twenty CEN
turics Of human thought, human en-
pertinent. human endcavor and the
religion. laws. institutions and GOV
"rnmcnts OF the civilized peoples Of
the earth.
And still Allah cries to Hell. Art
thou filed fulI?" And still Hell
clamors unto Allah. "Morc! Give me
more"
"Thc saddcst thing OF ALL" said a
thoughtful and observunt man who
but lately returned from journeys in
france. in England and in Russia
lis tho dreadful callousncss with
which human slaughter has come to
be regarded. Europe is rcverting to
barbariSm."
"What We have to do" wrote an
;nglshman of letters. "is to kill
Germans and then keep on killing
more Germans until there are no
more to kill"
THE hardest thing to bear" says
4 German. writing home from the
front. "is the terrible smell Of the
decaying corpses between us and the
enemy trenches. There are thousands
OF them lying out there that neither
side dares to try to bury. Day be-
fore yesterday we had good success
and killed many hundreds more in a
bomb attack"
The day | was wounded" relates
an American who returned on fur
Tough the other day to sec 4 college
foot ball game, II had gone up to
meet German nier and got my man.
1t is great sport"
Great sport! TO cross the seas and
risk life and limb. not for ones own
people and the dear sake OF native
land. but the mere lust of killing
other human beings!
Great sport. TO hurl another hu-
man being to an awful death. to
widow some wrctchcd wife. to orphan
poor, weeping children!
Good friends, this dreadful war has
made savage beasts OF mcn-tigcrs
and hyenas. fanging each others
lhro'ts. dripping with human blood.
rNu!tinG above the slain and raven
'ng. as it were. among the fostering
heaps OF mutilatcd flesh that but yes
Lerday were living bodies. made in
he image OF God.
The ch!Nalry OF the oldeu wars has
departed. These millions are muir
lcrcd by machinery, slain by mathe.
matical formulas, butchercd BY the
OF the laboratory.
Meantime, while the fields Of bat
tie and the burrows in which these
tavcmen OF the modern world lurk in
readiness to kill and to be killed run
with streams OF blood. other regions
beyond the thunder Of tn" guns and
thc tnmult o! the fighting rcsound
with the groahs and cries OF those
who suffer and die in the agonics OF
starvation or under the brutalitics OF
invading hordcs.
"Art thou filed full, o Hcli:"
Md Hell cries still, "More. give
me more! Are there not vet the wo.
mon and the little children and the
tender bahcS?"
In all that vast region" declares
An American who has returned to
make report Of his missiou to Po-
iahd, there Is not living child un-
""r hYc years OF age. They have all
iuccumbed to exposure and famine
TO the number Of at least two mil
lions"
men and women OF America, has