Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-12
THE COST OF WAR.

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expenses; and yet its ships, and fortifca-
'lons' and arms, and ammunition, and 9TH
er engines of death and devastation, cost
an incredible amount Of money.
The expenses of single war-ship in
actual service are more than one thousand
collars day; and there are in Christen-
dom between two and three thousand such
ss!h'Ps. England lavished upon Lord Wei
i'ngton, for onl y six years services, near
" S5,0OO,000. In twenty years from
1897, she expended an average of 81
as, 444 every day-more than million
OF dollars day TOR 1oar alone; and in
one hundred and twenty-seven years, her
war-debt grew from less than foe millions
TO more than FOUR THOUSAND millions Of
dollars She spent in our revolutionary
war bout S600,OOO,OOO; and the wars of
Chrlstendom, during only twenty -one
years from 1898, cost barely for their
support, beside many times more in Incl
dental losses, nearly FIFTEEN THOUSAND
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! six or eight times
as much as all the coin in the word!!
Just think how much good might be
done with such a sum. 10 keep every
family on earth supplied with,a Bible at
one dollar apiece, would not take $780,
600, 900 year; the expenses of COM
mon education for all the children on the
globe, would not exceed $25O,OOO,OO a
year, for those in the highest branches,
Sl50,OO0,O0O; ministers of the gospel,
with an average salary Of $500 each,
could be furnished one 10 every thousand
souls for S4OO,OOO,O OO,-in all, $50
100000; while the bare interest at six
per cent. on the war-expenses Of Chris
tendon for only tWenty-One years, would
bring an annual income S9OOO,OOO,O 1000;
ninety millions more THAI would be re-
quisite to support the institutions of learn
ing and the Christian religion for the
whole world!
Did you ever inquire how much we
have spent for WARP In eighteen years
from 1916, period Of peace, we paid for
war purposes nearly S4OO,OOO,O0O, and
less than ons-sxth Of that sum for the
peaceful operations Of government. In
forty-one years from 1871, our entire ex-
penses amounted to more than S342, OO0,-
900, Of which on little more than 81,
whole, were for civil offices. The war
) system costs US, in one way and another
{ not less than S50OOU,OOOa wear even in
f peace; an average of more than $751;
! 900 every day! All the expenses and
: losses Of war to our nation since the be-
ginning of our revolutionary struggle must
, be more than TWO THOUSAND MILLIONS
OF DoLLARs!-the very interest upon
which, amounting at six per cent to $40
100000 a year, would more than detray
all our necessary expenses of education
religion. and government aOltd0ut the 1car
, system!
Who pay all this? Who endure all
the other evils of war? Who can, fthey
will, put an end to this fell destroyer
The PEOPLE. And will they not do it!
> Let them ALL resolve to hare it cease, and
} it toM cease-Adcocate Of Peace.
{ SNAKE F1GHT-STARTL1NG ADVENT
+ uKE.-On Saturday last Mr. John Eos
ter, who resides near the Washington
q Print Works, in this town, discovered
near his house large black snake; be
seized billet Of wood and pursued him
some twenty yards, to near a small tree
y when the serpent turned, raised himself
y in an upright position, and prepared to
act upon the defensive He threw the bill
let of wood and missed him. whereupor
: bis snakeship came at him full tilt, his
mouth thrown open, and with his fiery
! eyes and forkcd tongue exhibiting all the
o venom of his species. Mr. F. seized a
9 small stick, and as he came up made pass
o at him, but he dodged it and gave back
o This repeated several times, the snake al
the time with his eve steadily and pierre
ingly fixed upon that Of Mr. F. Atel
some two minutes spent in this way the
snake suddenly vanished, "and,' says Mr.
: F. "as quick as thought itself | beheIc
t. him upon the limb of a tree, about 0 fee
d above my head and in the very act O
n springing upon me-" The distance from
+ the ground 20 the extremity Of the limt
|, where the serpent prepared for leap
j could not have been less than from 25 tc
80 feet Sand vet Mr.. F. lad only time t.
> change the direction OF his own eyes ere
. thev met the keen gaze of the serpent r
his new position. He then called to hi:
d brother to bring him a loaded gun, keep
Il ing his eye upon the snake until he wa!
shot dead from the tree. Before they Ief
the spot a larger one appeared, much
more venomous than the first, being dete,
mined to revenge the death of it's mate
D This one they also killed; she measured
II 5 feet inches in length and 81 inches ii
If diameter. The mate was feet 2 inche:
d long, and inches in diameter
= RiUer Times.
u From the Youths Cabinet
FoRMs OF PETITIONS FOR YoUTH.-
e Let arrangements be instantly made tc
J. have the following petitions circulated