Mixing Up Disasters.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1347, 8 June 1905, Page 3

Mixing Up Disasters.

He was gaauig sadly at the paper, and his ook of utter dejebiion attractodtho .atiohtion of one ofhis fellow "passengers, who had been pondering on the disaster to the Russian fleet. " Terrible nows, isn't it ?" ! said tho latter. : . '!!Orrible,".w« the reply. "'Grrible, They got no'ope now." "Perhaps though it may not be wholly devoid of good, There's no cloud that has I not its silver lining—though my expertehc'o; has been that it's hard to find a silver lining that hasn't got a cbud. The disaster will end the struggle, and it may make thoughtful men pausi," ' !"E. muster: been still weak from the voyage/But—" ' "Exactly/' said thefirat man, "You ■ wore going to say that Togo could have • defeated him. anyway. No doubt; no ■ deubL/But the disaster would havo been •eveiwore fearful if the .fight had been i more even,. I pray that tho other nations. 'will not. iritcrvone i Q t' lo interests of 'civilisation and stop the war." i. % w as—" broke in tho fat man, . '''You woro. going to suggest thatww unusi.■ always exist, You ore wrong, sir. \War is atavism—an abandonment of the .viuleofreaaonatthe bidiliug of theclemontal passion that dominate tho child and the brute.. With a perfect civilisation. -it mast go.: .It must go, sir. But it will gobyalong red road of pain and ber-lud. This nows .to-day 1b most distressing—moßt ptinfal,.. No-don't: interrupt," as . the fat man grew hot and red, end tried to .breakin, "As. I soy, this disaster will ■convince mankind of tho horror oi organised butchery. It will—" \ But the fat man would not be gainsaid. : , '! Wot in thunder yer talkin' abart ?" ho mi'. •' 06 said anything abart.tho war ?" The peace advocate looked alarmsd. : V But," hcsiammered," it was you who mentioned tho disaster first," f "Disaster?" roared ;tbc other, "Oo • caVos about the war, Iro alludin'ter , Trnmper's accident." ■■ ■. 1 "Oh,"saidthepbacoadvooata. "Oh!'' ~WtilhgtonML ] '. ;■•■