Show WAR NOT PROBABLE ali ae the first fint excitement caused by the publication of salisbury a reply io to secretary olney and aad president clove cleve lands message to congress on the matter subsides and a calmer view of the situation to la rendered possible it to ii evident that the probability of a war be tween the untied united states and lil on the venezuelan boundary question Is ia too remote toes u ge any alarm such eventuality would be the result of oer beyond the control of statesmen ta venezuela to IB but a small country A with about her landing army amounda to about but can on short abort notice be enlarged en lareed to or ovan more her fleet consists of three or four vessem vessels and the resources of the country art but limited yet an expedition to venezuela would be a far greater undertaking than might be supposed from these every able bodied wan in the be country would be under arms armo within a month after the invasion by 6 foreign power the invaders Invader js would have to contend against the climate in an undeveloped country with mountains and forests streams venomous rop reptile insects swamp cold and beat they would tee be much in the same phaltion po altion as aa the spaniards now are incura in cuba the president of the little republic crispo Is said to be a fighter by bv nature mature one story told of him I 1 is characteristic of theman the mao when still A more mere youth be started a rebellion and the state troops were called out be had about followers with no other arms than cowboy knives ID the night he be commanded them to steal through the camp of the soldiers and size eize their arms arma by remarkable strategy trat egy this bold maneuver was performed and in the morning all the rebels were armed and the regulars iare bad to make borms torms at pi present resent he la Is surrounded ur rounded by ft body guard of uniformed cowboys and they are looked upon pon as aa invincible on the battlefield A spirit of war is in permeating the whole people as the dispatches from caracas sufficiently indicate and they are re certainly much better prepared ared to defend themselves than were the american colonies in 1776 then a war at long range is always carried on a disadvantage notwithstanding the toast of the london papers that to a power ruling the thousand miles of intervening ocean Is no formidable obstacle for all these reasons nd others it to is inconceivable that the british government seriously contemplates allowing the diplomatic negotiations to proceed beyond a stage stag from which a peaceful retreat to la able with national honor |