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1914.
>Eelistonis, Pa., August 21,
—
FOR HIM WHO WAITS.
Everything comes in its own good time;
It is we who get in a hurry,
The wires get crossed and our hearts grow sad
With watching and waiting and worry.
To have and to hold of worldy goods,
Or winning a common living,
Absorbs of our time a greater share
Than all of our schemes of giving.
Everything comes to the one who waits,
Save the things we dread from habit.
Some have a way of catching cold
As aboy might catch a rabbit.
Some have a way of looking down,
No matter how bright the weather;
They seem at a loss to understand
Why troubles all come together.
Everything comes our way in time,
Whether we're brave or shrinking,
Comes in about the way we shape
Our habits of life and thinking.
Lives that are lived in a stress of pain
Cannot be blithe or cheery.
‘While the heart that sings in its love of song
Will never of singing weary.
Everything comes to us all in time—
Money and health and station.
None are so small but they have a right
To the bounty of all creation.
A right? Why, yes, there's a place on top
For the best in every calling;
The fellow who climbs without looking down
Need never have fear of falling. .
—A. M. Thurber.
FROM INDIA.
By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern
Country. A Night Drive. Queer Customs
and Curious Night Effects. Death of Hindu
Woman. A Wedding and a Birth.
JuANSI, Jury 10th, 1913.
Dear Home Folk:
I went out for.a little drive tonight
and took with me a young man and his
bride. The young man is just recovering
from a bad attack of quinsy and looks
much the worse for wear. Unfortunate:
ly, although I had only been gone for an
hour and a half, when I returned one pa-
tient was dying and another is so bad I
know she will go before morning, so that
I feel as though I ought to stay at home.
On my way I met a big crowd of wom-
en coming along and two of the lot
would walk a few steps, then stretch
their full length in the dust and after
staying so for a few seconds would arise,
and repeat the process in a few minutes.
Two only, of the lot did this and seemed
not to care a bit when we came along;
in fact, looked so wrapt in their duties
that they did not see us. I, of course,
asked what it was all about and was told
they had vowed to prostrate themselves
so many times, and that all the crowd
were on their way to worship at some
temple.
We went on, and I wish you could have
seen the curious cloud effects; off in the
south a heavy storm was raging and be-
sides the rain coming down in sheets, and
the lightning flashing, a rainbow was
beautifying the heavens and just
where we were the sky was a clear blue,
the sun shining and not a whisper of
rain, and nature was so beautiful one al-
most forgot to remember humans.
Going through the bazaar, again my
attention was caught by a crowd of very
sombre women, beating a drum and mov-
ing slowly along; no singing, no laughter
and talk as one usually sees with such a
crowd, and again I was told they were
on their way to worship and they must
not make too much noise.
But another sight: Coming home
from the hospital last night I saw two
moving lights coming bobbing and sway-
ing toward me. They were up in the
air about six feet and about three feet
apart and I wondered what it could
mean. When I met them, I found a man
in as few clothes as possible, a large
brass tray (three feet in diameter) heap.
ed high with sweets, balanced on his
head and high upon each side of this
tray, fastened by means of wires, were
set two bobbing lanterns and as the man
jogged along with his burden he resem-
bled nothing I have ever seen; he looked
like a child’s conception of the devil with
his two bright horns. He was a sweet
merchant, with his store upon his head
"and his woven bamboo pedestal to put
his tray upon, under his arm; a simple
store. *
Tonight the young Hindu woman, who
has just died, afforded me another oppor-
tunity to see Indian customs. She had
been ill for four months before they
brought her to us, and looked as though
dying the day they walked her into the
dispensary. Well, we did all that we
could for her and I felt so sorry for I
liked her, she being the one who did the
native dancing at the first “Tamascha”
(wedding) I attended, and although the
mother of several children, she was but
twenty-two years of age yet wasted and
frail. There was some one being mar-
ried at her home so that all day her
mother was away, and she was sinking
rapidly. Toward the end, after having
called continuously for her mother for
three hours, and we having sent three
times for them, the women finally came.
After first greeting her, they proceeded
to take off all the gold jewelry she had
on—all jewelry on a person dying must
be taken off before death, or must be
burned with the body—then, although
the girl was simply gasping and writh-
ing, she was lifted, sheet and all,
and carried out of the hospital and
laid upon the ground and there,
with perhaps six or eight white-draped
figures hunched up beside her, she died.
At first, such. crying and screaming as
there was, (until we made them hush
‘| whole lot of people had a rather good
up on account of the other patients) you
‘have never heard, and I smiled at the |
irony of it all. All day trying to get
them to come and see her and then, when
all was over, such a fuss. Sometime
during the night, or just as soon as the
friends could collect, and the red cloth
procured in which the body is wrapped,
(many times before the body is cold)
she was carried to the burning ‘“ghat” |
and “finis” written to her life. Perhaps
it is best; her brother’s wedding can now
go on and all grief for her will be for-
gotten.
I have been over at the club tonight
and one of the people was telling a crazy
joke and wanted a susceptible person
and I, of course, played the part. That
laugh at my expense; but when they
asked me why I was so stupid, I remark-
ed that “jokes would always be flat if
some one didn’t play the game, so I did
not mind in the least.”
The longer I live out here the more I
am impressed by the fact that, either
among Indian or English people, money
counts more than anything I know about
Give an Indian girl a dowry and she is
married to a high up noble and holds a
high rank; and this English society is the
same.
But to tell you of something else. The
sweeper class is nearly the lowest we
have here and the other day one of our
sweeper women had a little girl, her
next eldest child is about two and one-
half or three years old and she told us
that that daughter was engaged to be
married, and some one remarked, “too
bad this new baby’s marriage has not
already been arranged for.” You see,
that even in the lowest strata of society,
the child’s future must be planned and
arranged for, since no girl is supposed to
be provided for by her own people after
she is fourteen years of age. But in
most houses she works with her hus-
band’s people, and if poor, often side
by side with her husband—either in carry-
ing burdens as a “coolie” or in the field, or
in fact any place else, and usually gets
even wage, but must be married and be
a child producer or she is a most unpop-
ular object.
But I am off for a drink, since it has
been a drippy day, and from that think
I'll go out to bed and see what the moon
will do to me.
(Continued next week.)
Hundred Million Robins in the Esatern
United States.
Partial returns from the census of
birds which, for the first time in its his-
tory the United States government is
now undertaking, indicate that there are
wide variations in the bird population in
different parts of the country.
A call for volunteers was published
some time ago for observers to help in
the bird census and replies have come
from all parts of the United States. Each
volunteer observer was asked to select a
certain definite area of from 40 to 80
acres and enumerate the different kinds
of birds occurring there and the number
of pairs of each kind actually‘ nesting
within each territory.
The most numerous bird life so far re-
ported is in Chevy Chase, Md. An aver-
age was found there of about seven pairs |
per acre. Only a few places report as
high a population as four pairs per acre,
while it seems probable from the data so
far received that the average for the
whole United States east of the plains
will be not far from a thousand pairs to
the square mile after omitting the land
in corn and potatoes where there would
be small chances for any birds to nest,
and after omitting also the land covered
entirely with forests. Timber land sup-
ports a much smaller bird population
than an equal area of farm land.
The most extensive census of forest so
far received comes from Montana, where
the careful counting of the birds on near-
ly a thousand acres showed an average
of one pair to each three acres.
The arid lands of the Southwest show
the smallest bird population, and large
stretches in Arizona and New Mexico do
not contain more than one pair of birds
to seven acres.
Apparently the most abundant bird in
the United States east of the Mississippi
river is the robin, with an average of
about 50 pairs to the square mile, or
100,000,000 robins in the eastern United
States.
Himan Hair Market.
Many strange exhibitions for booming
trade are held each year, but the palm
for oddity must be awarded to the dis-
play of human hair which takes place in
London every summer.
The exhibition is held mainly for the
benefit of dealers in human hair. Lon-
don, it may be explained, is the chief hu-
man hair market in the world, and deals
with something like £300,000 ($1,500,000)
worth of hair every year. This mostly
comes from the heads of peasant girls in
Italy, Brittany and the South of France.
The best fetches over 50 shillings
($12.50) an ounce, |but white hair is the
dearest, because of its rarity. The ex-
planation is that a lock of pure white
hair-is only obtainable by picking out
the white hair strand by strand from
about 50 pounds of gray hair,” which, of
course, is a mixture of white and dark.
It is a long, tedious process, and prices
as hight as £5 ($25) an ounce are paid
for such hair. Natural white hair above
30 inches in length § is impossible to ob-
tain.
It would be just as sensible to fill your
pockets with coal and expect to keep
warm, as it is to fill the stomach with
food and expect to keep strong. Coal is
converted into heat only by combustion.
Food is converted into strength only by
digestion. When the digestive and nutri-
tive system is deranged the food crowded
into the stomach is an injury to the body
it should sustain. Many a severe illness
would be saved if people would pay more
attention to the warnings of the deranged
stomach. Many a person pays a doctor’s
bill for treatment for “heart trouble,”
nervousness, sleeplessness or other ail-
ments caused by “stomach trouble,” who
could have been cheaply benefited by a few
doses of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
covery, the great remedy for diseases of
the organs of digestion and nutrition.
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Division of the “Sinews of War” Among |
European Nations Concerned in Conflict |
New York—In view of the war situation in Europe there has been a |
| great deal of interest in the financial district in the relative financial strength
of the nations involved in a general cenflict.
It will be seen from the following
entente substantially exceed those of the triple alliance, although the national’
f ceed the aggregate of the indebt- !
$ebts of he former group 91 powers far =x ggres | triple alliance and that of France and
edness of the latter group.
table that the resources of the triple
The revenues of the United Kingdom, France, and Russia are much larger
than those of Germany, Austria, and italy. , d
wealth of the United States is greater than that of all the nations in the triple |
alliance combined, and exceeds the total resources of the Franco-Russian alli-
Figures show, however, that the
In Naval Strength.
Discrepancy Is Not Great, Whiie, of
Course, With the British Navy
Added, There Could Be No
Comparison Possible.
London.—In effective fighting ships,
there is by no means a great discrep-
ancy between the strength of the
her ally Russia, according to the 1914
. edition of the Naval Annual, sdited by
Viscount Hythe, which has been re-
cently published. The difference is
small enough to leave the struggle for
. sea supremacy in doubt, even without
ance. It is greater, too, than that of the United Kingdom and Russia coms
bined.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Financial Strength and National Debts of the Powers.
Revenue. Expenditures. Debts. Total Wealth.
Germany ......... $ 979,656,000 $ 879,656,000 $1,177,418,000 $60,500,000,000
Austria ..... ..... 636,909,000 636,852,000 1,433,511,000 25,000,000,000
italy ............. . 512,800,000 505,841,000 2.706,609,000 20,000,000,000 |
TRIPLE ENTENTE. !
United Kingdom .$ 918,805,000 $ 917,929,0CC -$3,425,818,000 $80,000,000,000 |
France .......... 914,604,000 914,550,000 6,283,675,000 65,000,000,000 |
Russia ............1,674,038,000 1.674,038,000 4,553,488,000 40,000,000,000
UNITED STATES.
.$ 992,249,000 $ 965,274,000 $1,028,344,000 $130,000,000,000
United States ..
The above tabulation does not include the resources of the colonies of the
respective nations or of their dependencies.
London’s Black Day.
Five Billion Dollars, It Is Figured,
Would Have to Be Drawn From
World’s Working Capital to
Pay Cost of Conflict.
London.—With 15 failures on the |
stock exchange and general conditions |
tending to justify the characterization
of the first day on which a general |
| European war seemed inevitable as
the blackest day the city had krown
in 20 years, with the stock exchange
committee considering the necessity
of taking the gravest steps to protect
members, and with war rates at
Lloyds rising by leaps and bounds,
London financiers are in anything but
a bellicose mood.
The fact that one steamer alone,
the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, had $10,
000,000 in gold aboard, bound for a
German port and mostly insured with
the London market, made for peace
until the steamer arrived.
As to the possible loss that a Euro-
pean war would impose on the bel-
ligerent countries and the world, a
correspondent was informed by a high
financial authority that the cost could
scarcely be less than $5,000,000,000,
all of which would have to be drawn
from the resources of industry, from
the world’s working capital. This au-
thority points out that the South Af-
rican war cost this country far above
$1,000,000,000, and if a European war
cost only two and one-half times as
much the total would be $2,500,000,
000, which is probably ‘a very conser-
vative estimate.
The money publicly raised in Lon-
don every 12 months is about $1,000,
000,000, so a war on a $5,000,000,000
scale would be draining the capital
market directly of five years’ supplies
of the greatest money capital in the
world.
But when the direct cost of the war
has been calculated and the bills paid
to the last cent, the world would only
be beginning to realize the waste,
only touching the edge of the actual
loss. In every part of the world to-
day capital is in a difficult and strained
position. The supply is not adequate,
and the amounts already expended in
industry are jeopardized because fur-
ther amounts are not at hand to keep
the works moving.
Army Mobilization Stirred
Sobs; No Cheers Heard
Berlin.— The Vorwaerts pub-
lishes from its correspondent, who
has been on a holiday in Bohemia
during the mobilization of the
troops, a pathetic description of
what mobilization really means, es-
pecially to men of thirty-seven or
so years old who are called out with
the rest.
“To every train,” the oriespond.
ent writes, “they came in unhappy
crowds through pouring rain—men
and wives, children and weeping
relatives. Fruitiessly does the band
of the veteran corps try to play the
national anthem, ‘Watch on the
Rhine;’ fruitiessly do the veter-
ans try to stutter out their cheers
in response to the commanding of-
ficer’s speech.
“There is no echo save tears and
sobs of misery. One unforgettable
scream uttered a soul's misery as a
crammed train moves off, the bay-
onets of the country gendarmes glit-
tering over the heads of women.
“Not a single person dreamed of
taking up the chorus of the songs
played. As the train passes on into
the distance the deserted moth-
ers, children, wives, fiancees, and
sisters move weeping away, and
with the next trainload the same
scenes are repeated.
= “l hear dozens of cases where
children, orphaned of their mothers
only a few days before, or perhaps
even on the day before, are now
made wholly orphans. |'hear also
of numberless other cases where
the mother is struggling with death
in a hospital, and now the father is
called away.
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Cause and Effect,
“It must be great to be a man?
One dress suit lasts you for years ang
years, and a woman must have a ney
gown for every party.” “That's wh)
one dress suit lasts a ‘man for year.
| as “good,”
. weather.
and years.”
Bron Ay Light.
Day Has Gone By When Monarchs
and Statesmen Exercised Their
“Right” to Force Subjects Into
Undesired Confiict.
In the old days, which not a few
pecple are accustomed to characterize
the question of war or peace
between neighbors was decided by
their respective kings, with a little
help from court favorites. The com-
mon folk, who did the fighting and
for war, as usually happened—had only
the vaguest ideas as to the cause of
the trouble, knew about its progress
little more than what they could see
for themselves, and exercised no in- |
fluence whatever cn the ultimate terms
of settlement. With or without
cheers, they did what they were told,
and the fortunate survivors accepted
the result much as they did the
In some parts of the world kings and
statesmen can still plunge nations into :
war*almost at will, but no longer can
they do it without having their acts
promptly disclosed and their motives
made the subject of general comment
and criticism. For the press, nowa-
days, shows a fine disregard for the
censorships by which the war lords |
and their servants always try to re-'
store the old conditions of secrecy, |
and not infrequently the departmental |
chiefs get from the newspapers they |
have tried to silence the first news of |
events in which they are themselves |
deeply interested.
Incidentally, journalistic enterprise |
and achievement create innumerable |
judges, all more or less well informed,
as to the sufficiency of the reasons of
for war, as to the competency with |
which it is conducted, and as to the |
propriety of the peace articles finally |
signed. In other words, private ambi-
tions and dynastic interests do not have '
the free play they did in the good old |
days, and though at the present mo-
ment it is reported that the press of .
several countries is clamorous for war, |
still, even there, the papers are telling |
facts with more or less accuracy and |
completeness, and in a dozen other |
countries they are printing columns |
and columns of matter the general
tendency of which is to emphasize the
disproportion between the excuses for
belligerency and the consequences !
that follow an appeal to arms.
That all wars cannot be thus pre- |
vented is unfortunately true, but un-
questionably their number and size are |
diminished by the involved compulsion !
to justify and explain—New York
Times.
PROBLEM OF THE AEROPLANE |
Conflict in Europe Looked for to Show
Real Value of the Airship in
the War Game.
London.—C. G. Grey, editor of the |
Aeroplane, a leading authority on |
aviation, writes on the use of aero-!
planes in a European war.
“The utility of air craft in a Euro
pean war would be almost entirely in
connection with reconnaissance,” he
says. “Under certain circumstances !
both aeroplanes and airships might
be used for offensive purposes, but
no nation owns enough air craft to
make them an important considera-
tion as weapons. It is possible that a
couple of German airships might make
a dash for Paris or London with the
idea of creating a tumult of the popu-
lace, but they would run big risks of |
being destroyed by faster aeroplanes.” |
The aeroplane fleets of the Piral)
powers rank as follows:
Triple Number
Alliance. of Craft.
Austria ....... Senha ea 150
aly .....5 tv aa Sse dea 200
Germany cv ies St aa 350
Totals ..... satan sinima ree Fev, 700
Triple Number
Entente. of Craft.
Great: Britain .......cevicinn cai 130
France .....evaevss savannas sii d DO
Russia. ...ccvsseverscsines Saiee 380
Totals ...oc.vsssreasssenvaedl) 260
Method.
Every great man exhibits the talent
of organization or construction
whether it be in a poem, a philosophi
cal system, a policy, or a strategy
And without method there is no or
ganization nor construction.—Bulwer |
! the
| modern battleships,
and older battleships;
| group contains first-class and light
intervention of Great Britain,
: whose naval strength, based on the
latest figures available,
is such that
- with the nations of the triple entente
| looking to the sea together, the navies
of the rest of Europe are overawed.
By effective fighting ships, the An-
nual deiines those which are classed
under the head of battleships and cruis-
ers. In the first group are placed
battle cruisers,
the second
cruisers. Another category, one in
which the navies of Russia and France
more than hold their own against the
combined navies of the triple alliance,
according to the Annual, is torpedo flo-
tillas. Here the Franco-Russian alli-
ance actually outnumbers Germany,
Austria-Hungary and Italy. With the
| enormous flotilla of Great Britain add-
i ed in, the triple alliance is hopeless-
. ly outclassed.
Viscount Hythe gives 76 battleships
to the triple alliance, including those
being built, contributed as fcllows:
Germany 48, Austria-Hungary 13, and
Italy 15. Against them Russia has
19 battleships and France 21, a to-
tal of 50, includging those under con-
struction. In the same class Great
Britain is cred ted with 82. In the
cruiser class, built and building, the
triple ailliance’s combined strength is
84 vessels, more than half the num-
ber being German, and the combined
strength of these vessels of France
and Russia is 52. Great Britain's
strength in cruisers is 127.
When the comparison comes to tor-
pedo destroyers, torpedo boats and
submarines, France's activity in this
' style of construction gives the Franco-
Russian alliance a great advantage in
destroyers. Germany, Austria-Hun-
gary and Italy combined could muster
but 217 vessels, against 228 command-
ed by their opponents when ail the
vessels laid down by both parties shall
have been completed. And of subma-
rines the triple alliance could collect
but 73, whereas France alone has a
larger number, 93, and with Russia's
equipment the total is brought up to
136 underwater craft.
In torpedo boats the advantage is
slightly the other way, Austria is
particularly strong in these craft, pos-
sessing 85, or more than are found in
the navies of either Great Britain or
Germany. Germany and Italy bring
the total up to 207, while the Franco-
Russian combination totals only 178,
even with France’s strong equipment
of 153 torpedo boats.
In the matter of torpedo flotilla
strength, Great Britain is in a po-
sition to contribute 238 destroyers, 70
torpedo boats and 96 submarines.
Looking to the future, the Naval An-
nual says:
“At the end of 1915, we (Great
Britain) shall have 41 modern bat-
tleships, as compared with 23 for Ger-
many and 33 for the triple alliance. At
| the end of 1916 we should have 46
ships completed, Germany 26, and the
triple alliance 36, though it is possi-
ble that Austrian ships laid down this
year may be completed in 1916. At
. the end of both years it should be
noted that the strength of the Franco-
Russian alliance in this class of ships
will nearly equal that of Germany.
OFFERS HIS SWORD TO SERVIA
General Giuseppe Garibaldi, Grandson
of Famous Liberator, Would
Fight Against Austria.
New York.—General Giuseppe Gari-
baldi, soldier of fortune and grandson
of the great Italian liberator, offered
his services to Servia. In a letter to
the Servian representatives here he
said:
“My faniily and all the Italians who
follow the traditions of the red shirt,
put ourselves at your government's
disposal. I am preparing to return
to Italy with a small number of of-
ficers, and should Italy remain neu-
tral we intend to proceed to Servia
and support it in its fight.”
Why He Remembered.
“I don’t believe any man rememben
the first dollar he ever earned, though
a great many claim that they do.” ‘9
do.” “Now, what was there about i
that fixed it so firmly in your mem
ory?” “Because all I got was &
nickel.”—Houston Post.
a
; Counts -War’s Cost
Something Like $55,000,000 a Day Is
: Given as the Expenditure Neces
i :
| sary for Keeping European Ar-
} mies in the Field.
Paris.— What the cost would be of a
war between four or more iunst-class
European powers has repeatedly been
subject of calculation and estimate hy
European experts. When the matter
was under discussion at the outbreak
of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, a
well-known Freach statistician, M.
Juies Roche, estimated that a conflict
involving two or three large powers,
with, say, 3,000,000 men in all under
arms, would absorb $400,000,000 in the
first two months. On the same basis
of operations the average cost would
be about $6,000,000 a day. But a war
in which France, Russia, Germany and
Austria were all engaged would cause’
a total average expenditure, for purely
military purposes, of $18,000,000 per
day. His calculation may be thus
summarized:
In january, 1871, the actual cost per
day to the French treasury, according
to the Bureau-Lajanadie official report,
was 16,000,000 francs (or $3,200,000);
this for 600,000 men under arms. The
acital cest per day of every man un-
der arms during the entire period of
the war was exactly 13 francs 88 cen-
times. Into the costs of forage and of
keep of horses, which are usually fig-
ured at the rate of, say, $1 a day for
each horse, M. Roche did not go. But
even with the figures for the war of
1870-71 before him, he admitted that
it was no easy matter to estimate the
financial expenditure of a great war
that might happen in our times. He
continued:
“Conditions generally have consid-
erably changed within the last thirty
years, and warfare is now lar more
expensive. To begin with, the ~mber
of men under arms in Fran oil a
declaration of war, would be {2 _reat-
er than in 1870. France then ar by
putting 600,000 men into the field; but
in the next great war in which she
may be engaged her military organi-
zation is such that within forty-eight
hours she can mobilize, in round fig-
ures, 2,000,000 men and 600,000 horses
and mules. The first troops to be
called up would be the thirteen
‘classes’ of active and active reserve
trcops. Each ‘class’ numbers 160,000
men, so that the actual number of men
to be mobilized at once would be
2,080,000. Against this the Germans
can pit 2,550,000 men, the Austrians
1,300,000 men and Italy 1,200,000 men.”
Herr Schaffle, the eminent Austrian
economist, who was for some time
minister of commerce in the Hohen-
wart cabinet, estimated in 1895 that
a European war in which any of the
above powers were engaged would
cost France $5,100,000 a day, Russia
$5,600,000, Germany $5,000,000 and
Austria-Hungary $2,600,000, and with
this estimate M. Roche agrees. He
calculates, in American values, an out-
lay of $3.12 a man for each day for
the forces under arms, in a first-class
contest between European powers.
A still higher estimate is that pub-
lished in 1913, at the time of the Bal-
kan war, by Dr. Charles Richet, a sta-
tistician of the University of Paris,
in a very detailed and elaborate calcu-
lation.
He bases his estimate on the as-
sumption that, roughly, 20,000,000 men
would be called to arms, of which at
least half would be sent to the front.
On this basis he works out the daily
expenditure for the seven powers as
follows, the figures being here ren-
dered into dollars:
Provisioning of troops..... $12,500,000
Feeding of horses......... 1,000,000
Pay an ae 4,250,000
Wages, arsenals and har-
i Sher Luna eli La 1,000,000
i Mobilization: ............... 2,000,000
| Transport of foodstuffs,
weapons, ete............ 4,000,000
| Ammunition—
| Infantry .......... sates 4,000,000
Artillery ........... «se... 1,250,000
Ship artillery ........... . 375,000
Fitting out of army........ 4,000,000
Ambulance service ....... 500,090
Movement of ships......... 500,000
Deficit in taxes. ........... 10,000,000
Support for population with-
out means. .............. 6,750,000
Requisitions, damage to
towns, bridges, ete....... 2,000,000
Totals. os, conn aoLdiien $54,125,000
If such a war lasted only as long as
the brief Franco-Prussian conflict in
1870 the outlay on this basis would ex-
ceed five thousand million dollars, ir-
respective of war indemnities.
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Husband—"“There you are, my dear;
you see I'm improving. I've brought
my umbrella back.” Wife—"“That is
very extraordinary, considering youl
umbrella is still in the stand, an¢
that you went out with your walking
stick!”
In Number of Soldiers Available for
War Triple Entente Is Superior
Peace
Available for -
Streeeh " Total Duty Un-
ngth. eserves. War Strength. organized.
Austria ....cec.00ie0. 390,000 1,610,000 2,000,000 3,000,000
Servia ........0.000nes. 32,000 1,610,000 2,000,000 3,000,000
x TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
USEPA... en ines 390,000 1,610,000 2,000,000 - 3,000,00
( 0
Germany ....... er BGi0D 4,430,000 5,200,000 1000000
Italy ea 250,000 950,000 1,200,000 ,000
Totals .....0uves». 1,510,000 6,990,000 8,400,000 5
TRIPLE ENTENTE. ons
Russia .................1,290,000 3,300,000 5,500,000 5,2
England ............... 254,500 476,500 730,000 io
France ................. 720,000 3,280,000 4,000,000 1,000,000
Totals .....e0......2,264,500 7,056,300 10,230,000 8,200,000
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