The Washington times., 1919-01-21

Germans boiled dead soldiers dur
ing the war, to get fat to be made
into explosives, etc" It may or
may not be true, but if the Ger
? mans thus utilized bodies of dead
soldiers they simply initiated old
Mother Nature and what she has
been doing for many millions of
centuries.
Dead trees, animals, human
beings 60 back to the ground, and
Nature uses the dead bodies to
iced and build up new bodies.
The rose that you pick in the
garden grew from soil made rich
oy dead flowers and dead animals.
: The animal you eat ate grass
that grew from bodies Of other
animals dead long ago.
Human beings learned the art
OF fertilizing fields by killing.
When they built house they would
Kill q human being and plant the
body under the cornerstone for
good luck and to please the gods
and appease evil spirits.
When they plowed a new field
they killed an animal or a human
oeing, as a sacrifice, and planted
the body in a corner.
They observed that grass and
vegetables grew abundantly where
the corpse was planted, and
thought that the gods, pleased
with the sacrifice, showed their
pleasure by improving the crop at
that spot Later they discovered
that fertilizer would do the work
without the help of gods or de-
mons, and fertilizing became a
regular part of agriculture.
Nature works in brutal ways,
and men have got much of their
education through brutality.
A most ancient and mysterious
disease, epilepsy, has taken the
youngest son of the English King
That malady defies science and the
doctors now, as it did thousands
OF years arn, when the unhappy,
writhing sufferer, foaming at the
mouth, was supposed to be in
habited by a devil, and was
cruelty beaten or pressed under
heavy stones to bring the devil
out.
Scientists do not know what
epilepsy is, what causes it, where
1T is located, how it stops or
starts.
Some of >, the worlds most
powerful men, including Caesar,
Napoleon, and one of Americas
greatest fnanciers who died
lately, ruling Wall Street, have
been torn by the dreadful afflic-
ton N which all the forces of
the body appear to be multiplied
and diverted from their natural
channels to torment the victim.
Science thus far has been con-
tent to deaden the nerves of the
sufferer with drugs, at the same
time destroying the intellect.
The death of the unfortunate
little English prince will undoubt-
edly cause scientists to concen-
trate again on the problem, and
perhaps solve it.
Humanity is educatei by the
suffering Of its members.
The beginning of our knowl-
edge of anatomy probably came
through the study of the en-
trails of victims, beasts and
men, cut open that the wise nen
might read the future in their in
sides. The surgeon of today is
the soothsayer OF yesterday.
Are the animals our weaker
brothers, as the Red Indian be-
ieved?
Are they, as Asiatic religions
teach, imperfect bodies inhabited
by the souls of human beings,
whose mistakes on this earth are
punished in animal form?
Has the animal, as has been
asserted, a spirit like our own
unable to express itself through
an imperfect body, just as the
greatest musician would be unable
to express himself through the
tom-tom of a savage?
These questions are based on the
fur sale going on in St. Louis to-
day. From all over the earth
buyers are gathered to bid on
more than five million skins taken
from the bodies of animals, includ-
ing $4,000 muskrats, 215.OOO
skunks, $4,000 Russian SQUIRRELS.
10000 moles, and hundreds of
thousands Of raccoons, ermine.
marmots, etc
Suppose you were introduced
TO magnificent, powerful creatures
from another world, and told that
they were infinitely your su-
periors? Suppose, looking closely.
you saw that they were dressed
In skins of human beings, their
women wearing around their necks
nicely-mounted skins Of human be-
ipgs, with the hands, feet and head
all preserved and lifelike, as Won
see our earth women, with the
bodies OF animals, with claws and