The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-01

HERE are deep CaNeEnS anu
assures that reach none
know whittier. There have
been volcanoes, some OF
whose openings still send out waters
of strange properties, and gases that
kill or make to vivify. Doubtless,
there is something magnetic or cleo
tric in some of these combinations OF
occult forces which work for physical
life in strange way: and in himself
were from the first some great quail
ties. In a hard and warlike time he
was celebrate that he have more iron
nerve, more subtle brain, more Drawer
heart, than any man. In him some
vital principle have in strange way
found their utmost: and as his body
keep strong and grow and thrive, so his
brain grow too. All this without that
diaboiic aid which is surely to him;
for it have to yield to the powers that
come from, and are, symbolic of good.
And now this is what he is to US.
He have infected you-oh forgive me.
nv dear, that must say such; but it
is for good of you that speak. He in
feet YOU in such wise, that even II he
do no more. you have only to live
TO live in your own old, sweet way;
and so in time, death, which is of
mans common lot and with GOD
sanction. shall make you like him.
VAN HELsING REVEALS
THE HORRIBLE TRUTH.
This must. not be, We have sworn
together that it must not. Thus are
we ministers OF Gods own wish: that
the world. and men for whom His Son
die. will not be given over to mon
sters, whose very existence would de-
fame Him. He have allowed us to
redeem one soul already, and We go
out as the old knights of the Cross TO
redeem more. Like them we shall
travel toward the sunrise; and like
them, il we fall, we fall in good
cause" He paused and 1 said:
But will not the Count take his re
buff wisely? Since he has been driven
Sfrom England. will he not avoid II, as
a tiger does the village from which
he has been hunted?"
"Aha!" he said, your simile OF the
tiger good, for me, and 1 shall adopt
him. Your man-eater, as they OF In
dia call the tiger who has once tasted
blood of the human, care no more for
other prey. but prowl unceasing till
he get him. This that we hunt from
our village is a tiger, too, a man-eater
himself he is not one to retire and
stay afar. In his life, his living life
he go over the Turkey frontier and
attack his enemy on his own ground,
he be beaten back, but did he stay
No! He come again, and again, and
again.
Look at his persistence and endur-
ance. With the child brain that was
to him he have long since conceive
the idea OF coming to a great city.
THE DRACULA'S CUNNING
EQUALED BY HIS LEARNING.
What does he do? We find out the
place of all the world most OF promise
for him. Then he deliberately set
himself down to prepare for the task.
He find in patience just how is his
strength, and what are his powers.
He study new tongues. He learn new
social life; new environment OF old
ways, the polite. the law, the finance,
the science, the habit Of q new land
and a new people who have come to
be since he was. His glimpse that he
have had, whe0his appetite only and
enkeen his desire. Nay, it help him to
grow as to his brain; for 1t all prove
to him how right he was at the first
in his surmises.
"He have done this alone; ell alone!
from a ruin tomb in a forgotten land.
What more may he not do when the
greater worlu of thought is open to
him. He that can smile at death, as
we know him; who can flourish in the
midst of diseases that kill off whole
peoples Oh, II such N one was to
come from God, and not the Devil,
what a force for good might he not be
in this old world Of ours?