| Show WAR IN EUROP Lr SERVIA has formally declared war against bulgaria and the order f from rom the he t government of the former to cross the frontier which divides the two nations has been obeyed with hostilities on a minor scale the rule of the hour Itis it is probable that news from that quarter will now and for some time how iong long ion lon no one can venture a guess be the absorbing object of news gatherers and readers like many other conflicts which have startled the world before they were completed this one begins humbly so soto goto to steak sleak speak two petty european states are at alt all that are involved actually so tar but we all have seen that war was brewing in the vast scope of territory bounded on the south by the the marmora the dardanelles Darda nelles and them the egean man pan on the west by the adriatic and on the north by the southern limits of austria antt anil russia and it has taken a position somewhat central but will it be confined to its present scope from the warlike preparations made and still going on in other parts of europe it is reasonable to conclude that it will not but that it will spread and perhaps involve its surroundings for a thousand miles or more on either side then may come the question of absolute supremacy among the nations of the old world A and the civilized semi civilized and barbarous stat esbe plunged into a war meaning subjugation for mangand man and conquest for a few or it may mav be a work of comparative annihilation ending only in the weakness and helplessness of all these are the days when we are admonished moni mont shed to look for wars and rumors of wars the rumors have been rife nife for a ion lon long iong time and the wars have come the misery ml suffering despair and death wh which will follow if nut at once t then en shortly after the present outbreak brea cannot be estimated even after it Is a ali all I 1 over and when that will be god 0 o ont out only knows no s |
