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Show ' INCREASING COST OF WAR. ! 'Two-or. three centuries ago it was discovered j that money for warfare could be secured more easily, eas-ily, and iu larger quantities by bonding the nation for 'it and taxing the people to pay the interest. Wars began to cost more. In less than GOO years Great'Britain has spent on warfare $0,795,000,000. The revolution of 1G88 cost 8155,000,000, the war of tho Spanish succession, $220,000,000 ; the Span-isn Span-isn war, $325,000,000; the seven years' war, $535,-000,000; $535,-000,000; the American war of revolution. $725,-?2!,QG0; $725,-?2!,QG0; the war of the Trench revolution, $2,360,-000,000 $2,360,-000,000 ,v the Avar against Napoleon, $2,930,000,000. Ihc Boer war cost Great Britain in cash more than $800,000,000. -.'It -is estimated that the wars of the nineteenth Century cost the world $17,922,000,000. A statistician statis-tician has figured that there are 3,155,673,600 seconds sec-onds in a century. According to these figures, the world, paid out nearly U a second in the last century cen-tury for war. Adopting Archbishop Usher's chronology chro-nology which 1 made the world 5,905 years old at the end of 1S99, the nation spent in the nineteenth century for -war an amount equal to nearly $6 a minute since the creation. This statistician has ..MUmotcd thattho world's population is 1,500,000,-w 1,500,000,-w lf JL"5, 13 C,0rrect the amount spent in war wonirifvn W0UlJ each man, woman ana emia with nearly $12 pocket money. -The debts ot the chief nations of the earth ag- 5Shrrr?ifn'?W It is believed that three-fourths ,of this sum was swallowed up m warfare and preparations for it. Near y all the H ranee and Germany was spent for warfore. These countries are spending annually in inteVe.t on the r deb s narly $390,000,000. This .u SdWon to the amounts being expended f the suppor of j military armaments. The amount appropriated this year for this purpose by Great Britain' in round figures is $360,000,000; bv Germm- Sl-500.000; Sl-500.000; by Trance. $200.20O0o0- bv X r 'V' |