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Show I.i A m ekica we are enpyiug suc'ti profjur.d peace, that wo ImrJIy reali5. Several wars have b':eo or are being waged this year in vuious pari ol the world. England Ins closed a petty affray with AfKiiariistjn, and got weil out of wint threatened at one time to be a most serious j war. Bhe is, however, still strupfK'mfi j with a trrjublesome foe in Zjluland. Bo far it has provnn to ba a war "a a war," as Johnny wild remark. In rioutit America tney are bavin a triangular fight between Bjli7ii, Cuili and I'eru, and aitm-uli it is a small aflair as Cjfnprr'l witn national wars eU;whf re, it is deipera'e and bi'xly as the poverty-stricken, unitab'o howid' merit dovvn tl.it wy can make it. Coina is makiriK vigf-rou cflnrts to recapture the rich principality' of Kasbgar, and is anO preparing to occupy tho oorUiern province ol Kuldja, rerntly cdd to that country by Ilu'ti. HkirrnntiiDg ii still indulged in-dulged in in some- of the Oriental provirc, titougri evry tiling Ilk" orgni'l warfare has co". Tur-k'-y anl (lf liao tirnpirfirily S'ip;nd'd brtilitic, pr:nflirm a sm. rnnt nf tho b'JiniUry ('n stion, but bo'h sids are prr pfd f'-r a p'.aible C'jr,fl;r;t which is likely to oc:ur bofurn b drfinili ntllmenl of the dipu(o in arrnng'd. I' ii rrrnarktd that while Kngland is an a-dive participant in ,rno of thai Intihlca, slie Im n strong in'Tst n the rfioilt of oil i,t trieru. We say nothing of t'no wrt k Ijr broils on nie of the Wel Ir.'liri n) on tho fliimus. Alt'.g"h"rf Jf.VW w II fiK'irR well in history as a , yiar of wi', |