To-day the cave tiger has come back and with him the cave jackal. There is a terrible beauty about the tiger. The jackal is a mean and hideous brute. But both are out of date. Did not Monsieur Capus say the other day that Europe “cannot allow a return of the cave epoch”? HERBERT WARREN [Illustration: JACKALS IN THE POLITICAL FIELD JACKALS (_Flemish pro-Germans_): “What he leaves of Belgium will be enough for us.”] The Sacrifice The Kaiser is presumably human, though, in the language of former times, he is also presumably--if not undoubtedly--possessed of a devil, or of many legions of devils. How any human being can support the thought of the woeful red horror into which he, deliberately, and of long-planned evil intention, plunged the world passes the possibilities of human comprehension. Deliberately, cold-bloodedly, for the simple purpose of furthering his own ends, he has ordered the massacre of women and children in untold multitudes, and his orders have been executed by the tools he fashioned in the years of treacherous peace for the purpose. Executed too by fiends in human shape who were forced to do as they were ordered or take the consequences. Fathers of families themselves in many cases no doubt, it is one of the marvels of this new savagery that men, so calling themselves, could be found to do such deeds. Many of them have gone to their account. The arch-fiend still survives. And this man calls upon God to bless his evil doings! “Suffer the little ones to come unto Me!” said Christ. And His wounded heart must bleed afresh at knowledge of it all. There was massacre of the innocents in Judea when Herod thought to save himself by slaying the infant Christ with all the other children. But Christ lived. The Kaiser out-Herods Herod, and slays Christ afresh in the murder of all these little ones. They are pitiful sacrifices to the blood-lust of this modern Moloch. Their blood cries aloud to God. He is Justice. Their cries shall not go unheard of Him. But by their death and the horror of it they are helping to rid the world of the most monstrous tyranny which ever aspired to rule it. JOHN OXENHAM [Illustration: THE SACRIFICE For humanity’s sake.] “Lusitania” Amok