A Human Contribution to the Meeting of the fibllivRnt 
Moss Society: A Letter from M. .Ttiles C^rdot. 
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by John M. Hoilinger. 
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From the beginning of the Europe** the Writer had deity misgivings 
' e S®-bciing the personal safety of the prominent French Moss Student 
II. Jules Cardot, for twenty-one years a delightful scientific as well 
co personal correspondent. In the third meev of *ugu?t, *n^ of the 
war, Charieville, his horns city, was mentioned as lying in the path 
of the invading German hosts. Not knowing Esther an Am#rloan letter 
could reach him, I hesitated to write. But -o painful became my anxiety 
that I finally wrote r letter on August ffth. This letter wb six 
wee'.s in reaching him. And on October ]*th, the day of its receipt, 
he replied. The following are extracts translated from Cnrdot’e 
paths tic ' hr ;er. 
”1 have only today received your letter of August ?Oth. Your ex¬ 
pressions of friendship one most touching to re. T confess to you that, 
knowing you of German extraction, I -shed mysepf if the terrible rm 
occurrences would not nut an end tm forever to oui? longstanding and 
cordial relations. This war is so terrible, (the Germane are committing 
in our unhappy, violently invaded orivinces such fearful atrocities, 
that the romtetabrance of them can never be effaced ■ f ‘v<y« my mind. 
"I ias t <n years old in 1070, end I remember that period a* if lt 
* ,re >«•*«*». [tty fntT^r.-rtH. -rnvor of =(«.,, t l~ss 
threateden with shooting by the GermsnsT] 
Ah* my dear friend, that mar '"ns mere ch’lde piny p y the side of 
the present one. jrt seems verily that the entire German nation has been 
seised with a veritable frenzy, with a madness for dietruction! After 
Louvain,--- Rhoims, whose beautiful cathedral is now p mere ruin.-- 
