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Show mi: miniums or naii. A prominent Trench author, CamllleKlanimarlon,ls also something of a statistician and otten permits his laulon (or Irgurea to lead him to strange aud unusual lengths. He has lately taken up the subjsot of the wars of thu earth aud what tliel cost III blood ond treasure a suljitt tulllclent. ly vast nnd fntrlcatu to keep his mind and tiicmloyod for some little time, one would think. He shows bow general statlttlct prove that since the great 'In Jan war, which occurred about lUM It. O, not n year has comu and gone In which i millibar proportionate with the drttructlon Ultra have not been killed. He figures that for thbte thirty centuries a loas uf 4J,U0),000lneach has occurred, making mak-ing a grand tolil u to date of 1,200,. 000,000, or within about 200,000,000 o( aa many poo le as theru are on the globe today. He Is nut satisfied with this mouutrous showing, how ever, hut goes on to prevent the ghastly result ot all this killing by theiiuautlly of bood split, placing It at 18,000,000 cublu inelret! This Is en ugh to keep the Heine or a river half n nillu wldo an I ten fett deep running for two whole dayil Hammarlon must tie a huunnltar. lau aud I Itterly opposed to wars, for tlio exhibit Is not yet gruetomo euough to satisfy blm; lie evidently wanta to make the situation so revolting that killing wlllbelalkul of no more. He guts on to show that If thol,'J03,000,. OOU skelutous should rise and climb one llon the other, the ladder thus formed woulj reach the maun, toll about thathoJy, anl continuing on ward wuuld mount Into Inflollu spate four times aa far agalu, that la 00,700 lesgura In height. The corpus II thrown Into the channel at Calais, would form a bridge between France and Knirlaud and separate the ocean from the Ninth sea by a weir. If only the heals of the men slaughtered lu war were taken and laced aide by hlifo, a band wuuld be formed reaching six times around the world. Is not this awful? It co-Is, sjys Kliuiimtou, 7000 to kill a nan. From the Crimean war down lu that of 1670.71 the civilised nations ot l.uro e and America sut lu destroying ene another $JI,OOn,000,. 000. The wars ol the last 1(10 years have coat 1 41,000,000,000, without counting thu turrow, thu luu of men aud other rttulu, Ibe laituamtd beln;, of course, too murh for enuaieratlon ly even so Kuutratliig and studious a mind as that ol the glttod Frenchman. Hiirely no one but he would think ol arranging war statistics lu such a fashion, and yrt why not? Those who have never ton to war, aud thsdrnuni-tH-ramcunts to more now than at auy other time In modem hlttory, have no conception of Its urmltlgated horrors, and such tablet as FUminsrleu's, Ian. Utile and ivulalvavsu though they may be considered, lerve a guod purpose pur-pose II they do no more thou create a deterrent feeling for the time being. |