Show r No NY N fW fV fW 0 r ru I g n DO NATIONS FIGHT AT BEGINNING OF EACH YEARS 1 1 c tent IfE superstitious notion nollon Is a ex ox extant extent THE T tent tant that there th re must be n 1 great sat war s because I tho the opening years at of every emery ever century have always been thus thull marked Of at course If IC the thu latter true It would form torm no 10 sull sufficient cleat clent reason for Cor a 1 war at this time timea says a 11 tho the Now New York Tribune A t cen century cenI century tury tur is le not Mt a n natural division of ot time I I as is I is a n day a n season of a year eur but Is entirely artificial artificial and there Is li no moro more reason renson why wh war should occur nt at the beginning than nt at the middle dlo or the tho end of It However ns an a matter of ot fact tho the statement ment is not true as nil ev cv every C Cery ery cry one ono at nt all nil acquainted with history should know Tho The nineteenth century began with Ith tho the establishment of oC moro more general penco than tho rho world had known for tor runny many years curs and If It a fI couple of at years later war broke broko out It was only the tho ro re renewal nowal newal of ot the tho wars that had marked tho tIm closing years enra of ot tho the preceding century Tho The eighteenth century began with wars warl but they the were wore merely the tho th contin continuation of conflicts begun in tho the seven soven seventeenth seventeenth Tho Iho early years of ot the tho seven were marked with store more peace peacemaking peacemaking making than war n nat The s nt It tin opening of ot the sixteenth cen con conJury century Jury tury tur were prolongations of ot those III In tho thu fifteenth and were ill III most petty affairs af nf affairs fairs Those at nt tho thu opening of ot tho the fit If fifteenth were left over oel from tho the fourteenth four fourteenth There worn no Important wars warsIn warsin In III tho the first years of ot tha tho fourteenth cen century century tury save those at Constantinople and between England and anil Scotland both hoth legacies from train the tho thirteenth Xo No great war occurred in the first dorado d of ot tho the thirteenth century or of ot tho lie twelfth At the opening of at tho the eleventh Malt Mali mud mUll of ot Invaded mended India The Tho tenths tenth was marked with no new nes war scar warnor nor was ras Is tho the ninth The Tha eighth one ten tn years old when the tho Saracens Invaded Spain The Tho bo ho ginning of ot tho the seventh was peaceful The Tho first years of or the sixth and fifths neth saw sa Rome Homo involved Inoh d In war but Jut war was 18 then the habitual state stale of at Homo Tho rho fourth and third began In com coin comparative ho peace Tho The second saw sass no tie new lien war var but hilt rather the tho ending of tho thin old struggle lo In Dada I and the tho fierce 11 ore conflicts of the early earl years of ot tho the rat Brat 11 century of at our era orn were merely the tha continuation of ot those begun a dozen years ears before b toN In fill all these theeo last nine no r v teat teen centuries Indeed not moro mono that thai two are to bo be charged with having opened with now new and Important wars war Of ot the centuries before our era the tho first began In peace the second with nothing but Jut the second Macedonian war soar tho the third with tho the third war the fourth with no nu great grent struggle the fifths fifth with tho the burning binning of ot mid and tho the battle of ot Luko Iulo con cat continuations of at wars warn begun long before tho the Sixth with eon con conquest l on quest of ot Jerusalem Jeru and In the tho earlier centurion centuries so RO fill far as n chronology UH us there hero were no Initial wars wais of oC mag snag magnitude Tho rhu cm current rent superstition then Is II In ht Inn Inn hta n a noteworthy degree delree contrary to the tha facts Instead bateau of ot being Invariably or even generally marked with tho the out H of great Kreut wars the tho begin beginnings flings of at centimes centuries base hae In ht the tho vast Mint ma ml majority of cases been hen remarkably free tree from such catastrophes If It wo we were to form any nn rulo rule from historical prece precedent dent it would be he therefore that lint this year mid and the next tow few years should be peaceful But Dut wo swo shall snake make no too such prophecy nor shell shall wo WI expect this ex ox position of ot the facts entirely to 10 demol domol lei ish tho foolishly false e superstition which now so widely w prevails |