Tombstone epitaph., 1890-01-18
WAR IS INEVITABLE.
But Death-DeaIing Inventions Will Tenn
 porarily ReGard 1t.

porarily ReGard 1t.
 Captain E. l.. Zalinski, Americas high explosive celebrity, is studying things military and otherwise in Paris. He is travelling under orders to obtain such information as may be obtainable re- garding certain military questions. He has already visited England, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Germany and may go to Italy.
 In an interview touching the question of a European war Captain Zalinski said: 'I am convinced that European war is inevitable, but not in the immediate future. One consideration alone is suf- fcient to maintain peace for at least two years-viz., the fact that continental nations will need that amount of time to equip their armies with the new style of rifle and possibly, with notifications, their artillery, to meet the requirements of smokeless powder in both cases.
 ''In this connection 1 may add that war, instead of being hastened by the frequent Improvements in it's appliances, is actually retarded by them, because whenever any thing of military impor- tance is discovered nations are apt to wait before risking conflict until they have tested and applied them to their own use. As such discoveries are con- stantly being made, war may thus be postponed indefinitely.
 But, postpone it as they may, the crisis must come. When war does come it will be terrible. have just witnessed tho Eo,sY,oo11 ,ooooor,-arc o+ o1d I assure you that had those two army corps done in earnest what they made pretense of doing, of the 50, 900 men who went into that ten days action there would not be 10000 ready for service to- day. The rest would have been placed hOrS de combat, dead or wounded. To such degree have modern improve ments in life-destreying machinery ad ded to the horrors of war"
 ''What are apt to be the new features, Captain, of coming war?"
 ''One will be that smokeless powder, about which so much ado has been made, but I am not altogether certain as to the future of this invention. In the first place it is more than questionable whether the powder will preserve it's qualities long enough to make its adop- tion warrantable. Secondly, supposing that difficulty overcome, there is an ob- jection to its general use, in the fact that the maneuvers of attacking troops would no longer be masked, thus plac- ing them at serious disadvantage. In consequence armies might have to carry two kinds of powder, and this would, of course, be great encumbrance.
 "The small bore rife is another new thing. The European armies carry rifles to-day with a bore of about half the di- ameter of those used in our late war, and is 12 or millimeters. This re- suits in an appreciable saving in the siza and siFhE-af- -+l.eA that the soldier who could formerly carry only so rounds can to-day carry 12O or 140 rounds"
 ''ls there any prospect of using high explosive cartridges in rifes?"
 What would be the advantage? A rife ball kills or disables surely enough as it is. We do not want to blow our enemies bodies into fragments. In fact, we would rather wound their men than kill them, because every wounded man incapacitates at least two others, who have to look after him, whereas a, dead man only needs burying and even that is sometimes omitted. Paris Let ter