The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



A French 

 cartoon 



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you will understand the " Man of the Hoe." 

 The man who is left, the man whom glory 

 cannot use, becomes the father of the future 

 men of France. As the long-horn aborigi- 

 nal type reappears in a neglected or abused 

 herd of high-bred cattle, so comes forth the 

 aboriginal man, the " Man of the Hoe," in 

 a wasted race of men. 



In the loss of war we count not alone the 

 man who falls or whose life is tainted with 

 disease. There is more than one in the man's 

 life. The bullet that pierces his heart goes 

 to the heart of at least one other. For each 

 soldier has a sweetheart ; and if she remain 

 single for his sake, so far as the race is con- 

 cerned, the one is lost as well as the other. 



A recent French cartoon pictures the peas- 

 ant of a hundred years ago ploughing in a 

 field, hopeless and dejected, a gilded mar- 

 quis on his back, tapping his gilded snuff- 

 box. Another cartoon shows the French 

 peasant of to-day, still at the plough, and 

 equally hopeless. On his back is an armed 

 soldier who should be at another plough, 

 while on the back of the soldier rides the sec- 

 ond burden of Shylock the money-lender. 



