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Show Horrors f Modem W.r. Warhasgrown less roinsntir nod more ' horrible with the Inventions nf mechanical mechan-ical Ingenuity, When a grout battln-shlplsturned battln-shlplsturned upsidedown hy an nnseeo blow, plunging hundreds rt men instaut-ly instaut-ly to death, the whole w.rld is r truck less with excltlment than wllb grief. Fsraway indeed are tha days when two knights on "prancing steeds" cla l all in armor, represented war, and Itidividua prowess stood out blight In glory. Now any exceptional bravery can hardly be proved without almost the certainty ol deaib. The first Japanese torpedo feat ' Dad the thrilling elements of surprise and novelty. Now each nol le vinrl . i that carries her crew to eterniiy strikes us all as at best a mere sacrifice to haish neccesity. The long, picturesque pictures-que fighting Is ao uioro. It is a sudden shock, I turning of the vessel on her fare, I plunge and grief for thousands of children, mothers, wives. When the Petropavlosk took Admiral Makaroff to the bottom with ber, she made war seem darker still, for so constituted are we that one man whose nanieand station we know makoaappeala ' more to our imaginations than a Ihoiia- k ' and poor unknowns. "All history," say Kmerson. "Is the decline ol war, though the slow decline." Increasing huuoiuily, . victories won by the sermon on the j Mount, are causts ol this decline, but i perhsps acause slill deewr is the deadlr ingenuity ol scientific minds, killing romance a; d showing war ni slnughter j ha'dly draped in glory. War li as old . as man, and may last as long as he, hut t at least it is coming to be regrded ns j only part of huuiaii tragedy. Collier's W..liW. |