Show PEACEFUL AND NOT PEACEFUL powder that produces neither sound bound nor smoke and withal has greater power than any now in uela what the nations are longing for and firearms fire arms have been perfected or nearly so the man killing capacity having been brought up to such a eta stage go that a battle at anything like short range means the next thing to a antill lation for tor one side if not both the feeling of unrest which has been ebbing and flowing ever since the german evacuation of france can only be compared to the angry rumblings gs of a volcano which has no outlet but whose internal fires will continue their pressure and increase their dower till one is made we have stated herein what is generally conceived to be the reason why there has been no cut break before it would likely be the most murderous the most disastrous the most awful conflict the sur ever looked down upon it Is a case of counting the cost at last but the question if will the cost or adyth anything ing else be a r restraint much longer with the nations prep red for and even willing willin to fight E A recent german publication give gevea with exactness and minuteness a statement of the comparative military strength of the five great powers coming from germany it may be assumed that the figures have not dot been beell changed to exaggerate the strength of unfriendly nations this documents document while confessing that to in 1870 gerr germany n any was far the i power alleges allees that france has now seventy battalions of infantry and guns more than her enemy on the east the cavalry forces being about the same on both sides when the struggle which finally proved so disastrous to the french was waging germany a fore forces M were superior by battalions ofin of in fantry 0 squadrons qua drons of cavalry and guns furthermore the pamphlet shows that today france and russia together could pur into the field men and 1700 more guns than are possessed by the entire triple alliance allowing that the figures are only true in part and that the pamp pamphlet blet may have been issued with a view to breaking down opposition to the now new army bills it jig is evident that france la is fully prepared to attempt the recovery of her former prece precedence derce in europe meantime she has been extending her fortifications along the mediterranean and despite italis great fleet could give vigorous battle for supremacy of that inland sea all this does not lok lor k very muck much like the pea peace ceso so well secured abroad of which so much has been said |