Show WarS Are to fo Cease Just about the time of the close cloe o df the Japanese Rt Russian Japanese ss anwar war it w was s it ill I j pers that heat Great Britain was about to b build a acre cre battleship that was to exceed in power speed offensive of- of fC and defensive and strength any ship ever dreamed dream d of and th that t tit it Was to be rushed to completion n in one third the time usually consumed in ih the c construction of a battleship There was Iwas much sp speculatiOn cula i ll over the matter W England afraid of a a awa wa war or was sh h building an engine of destruction so terrible that no nation no of nations dare gOJo goo war ar against her That was seven seve years ago But a few days ago the Queen Eliza Eliza- ib th was launched by th power and is to be much s the first nal an and l more than vi t e as powerful as asI I m as tred by bythe the eight of metal to be thrown in a broadside G Gat at Britain will build three more of the same class only more lJ l than the Queen Elizabeth Thus the race for more and more destructive on and probably will never cease until another clement shall be called in hl which will in a day make all th h of all the nations mere There was a similar to that going on now though on much cheaper Ji i S' S j just t before the opening of our great hH civil war warThen When Then that y YI r opened France was vry ery saucy to us the most influential L I l n in p E igl nd backed France nce until the tIle l little monitor went down I from New York lork and asserted herself off Hampton Roads That I t lio Iio only vanquished the Merrimac but made clear that the mO most t t 1 ships be beyond the sea were fit only for the scrap scrap pile The same thing is liable to come to the worlds world's navies any da Maybe it will vilI be a ray that penetrating the armor of a bat bat- tO ship will explode her magazine maybe it will be through an anig J ig gent nt that will seal an army in death as army was vas wast t tt m it will be a th t exploded above an army rill vill prostrate it in sl sleep ep for hOl hours rs War Var h luis well nigh reached a point when something is to come come th t trill will rill call such stich a halt that nations will learn war Ya no more ore |