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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26
IF EUROPEAN WAR LASTS ONLY AS LONG AS
' THE RRIEF FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. OUTLAY
TU EXCEED FIVE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS
•A Daily Expenditure of $54,000,000---That is the Estimated
Cost of Armed Conflict Between France, Russia, Ger
many and Austria---With England and Balkan Nations In
cluded it Brings the Total to a Much Higher Sum---Much
Talk of This War During Russo-Japanese Conflict.
THE WAR’S COST.
A Day.
What the war costs ..$54,000,000
Another estimate by
famous French statis
tician for four Eu
ropean powers .. . 18,000,000
Herr Schaffle, former
member Austrian
cabinet estimates the
cost to France, Rus
sia, Austria and
Germany:
France $5,100,000
Russia 5,600,000
Germany 5,000,000
Austria 2,600,000
A Daily Expenditure of $54,000,000.
This is the estimated cost of armed
conflict between France, Russia, Ger
many and Austria. With England
and the Balkan nations included it
brings the total to a much higher
sum.
At the time of the Russo-Japanese
conflict there was much discussion of
this Europeapn war although na one
accepted it seriously at that time.
M. Jules Roche, the famous French
statistician, however, studied the
problem carefully and estimated that
a war involving the four nations
would cost $400,000,000 the first two
months, or $6,000,000 a day each.
Most of ti»e conclusoins arrived at
by M. Roche were based on figures
of expenditures for previous wars.
He allowed for the difference in cost,
for modern warfare is much more
costly even than warfare at the time
of the Franco-Prussian wtar. His
calculations may be this summarized:
$3,200,000.
In January, 1871, the actual cost
per day to the French treasury, ac
cording to the Boreou-Lajanadie of
ficial report, was 16,000,000 francs
or $3,200,000); this for 600,000 men
under arms. The actual cost per day
of every man under arms during the
entire period of the war was exactly
13 francs, Bft centimes. Into the
costs of forage and of keep of horse,
which are usually figured at the rate
of say one dollar a day for each
tiorse, M. Roche did not go. But even
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with the figures for the war of 1870-
71 before him, he admitted that it
was no easy matter to estimate the
financial expenditure of this great
war that happens in our times. He
continued:
“Conditions generally have consid
erably changed within the last thirty
years, and warfare is now far more
expensive. To begin with, the num
ber of men under arms in Farnce, on
the declaration of war, are far greater
than In 1870. France then began by
putting 600,000 men into the field;
but in this great war in whish B’he is
engaged, military organization is such
that within forty-eight hours she mob
ilized. in round figures, 2,000,000 men
and $600,000 horses and mules. The
first troops called up were the thir
teen ‘clasies’ of active and active
reserve troops.
“Class.”
"Each ‘class’ numbers 160,000 men.
Provisioning of troops $12,500,000
Feeding of horses 1,000,000
Pay .. .. 4,250,000
Wages, arsenals and harbors 1,000,000
Mobilization 2,000,000
Transport of foodstuffs, weapons, etc 4,000,000
Ammunition—
Infantry 4,000,000
Artillery 1,250,000
Ship artillery 375,000
Fitting out of army 4,000,000
Ambulance service 500,000
Movement of ships 500!000
Deficit in taxes $10,000,000
Support for population, without means 6,750,000
Requisitions, damage to towns, bridges, etc 2,000|000
TOTAL, .. .. $54,125,000
On this basis if this general E uropean war lasted only as long as
the brief Franco-Prussian war in 18 70, the outlay would exceed five thou
sand million dollars.
COTTON BELT WEATHER
Washington, D. C. —Uniformly favor
able weather over the cotton belt .luring
the past -week was reported today by the
weather bureau in its weekly review.
“Showers over the eastern and north
ern districts,” says the review, “and
drier yveather over much of Texaß fa-
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“Orange Label”
Blend—3oc. a
half pound.
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Often the coming of guests or
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so that the actual number of men
mobilized at once was 2,080,000.
Against the Germans put 2,550,000
men, the Austrians, 1,300,000 men,
and Italy 1,200,000 men.”
With France, Russia, Germany,
Austria and Great Britain at w'ar
there are somewhere near 10,000,000
men in the armies alone, not to men
tion the navies of the powers nor the
armies of Servia, Roumania, Monte
negro, Greece and other small nations
eitlvßr now involved or likely to be
come involved, it can be seen that M.
Roche's estimate in reality is a con
servative one as applied to the pres
ent situation, since M. Roche did not
figure on Great Britain or the Balkan
nations.
The estimate of M. Roche are bas
ed on an outlay of $3.12 a day for
each man in each army. It may be
that M. Roche has far underestimated
the cost. Dr. Charles Richet, a sta
tistician of the University of Paris,
published a very exhaustive calcula
tion at the time of the Balkan war in
which $54,000,000 was the estimated
daily’ expenditures. Dr. Richet esti
mates the expenditures as follows,
for Germany, England. France. Rus
sia, Italy, Austria and Roumania:
vored plant growth and. ns a rule the
crop is promising. Picking is progress
ing over the Southern districts but it.is
been interfered with in some localities
by too much wet weather. Some shed
ding of cotton is reported from neatly
all the states and damage from rust and
weevils continues in a few sections.
“In the trucking districts of the South
late crops and citrus fruit continue in
good condition.”
NOMINaFe TRIBBLE FOR
4TH TERM JN CONGRESS
Athens, Ga.—The eighth district con
gressional convention met here Tuesday
and formally nominated Samuel J. Trib
ble for congress for his third term.
He had no opposition in the recent
primary, and very few times In anv of
the fifteen counties was his name
scratched by voters.
Resolutions indorsing Congressman
Tribble were passed.
THE KAISER AND THE GOOSE.
When the kaiser goes on his Norwegian
cruises he is In the habit of coming
ashore from his yacht and having nis
meals with a family who have n house
on the coast. It is a modest menage
with only one servant.
The emperor was at lunch one day
when the servant brought In the* princi
pal dish—a goose. Unluckily, she let It
full on the floor, and her mistress, with
ready taste, bade her bring in “the oth’-r
bird.” The maid retired and brojght
the same goose In again.
The emperor said nothing, and partook
cheerfully of the lunch, but at the end
he said to the hostess, "You were very
clever about that bird.”—Liverpool Post.
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Belgian Dead, 16 f OOO; 50,000
Wounded; 7,000 Fugitives
The Hague, (via London, 2:12 p. m.) —A camp for interned Belgians,
of whom there are about 2,000 in Holland is now being constructed at
Oudeirdum, in Friesland.
It is understood here the Belgi an wounded up to the present time
number about 60,000. The first casualty list published contains the names
of 2,000 Belgian dead. Conservative estimates made here place the total
dead at about 16,000.
7,000 FU GITIVES.
Maastricht, Holland, (via London, 2:12 p. m.)— Nearly 7,000 fugitives
from Belgium already have arrived here. Many are slightly wounded.
They are being cared for in sheds a t Calvarienberg.
A large number of Belgian farm ers are among the refugees. They
say that the treatment of Belgians by the Germans has been none too
good but the opinion prevails here that this treatment is due to overt acts
on the part of the peasants. Many 0 f the refugees here fought in 1870
and 1871.
GERMAN PRINCE KILLED.
Paris, 6:55 a. m.—lt is officially an
nounced that a German prince has been
killed in battle and the ministry of wid*
says it presumes it was Prince Albert of
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FISH
Salmon, Pink Alaska, 3
one pound cans
for Z7C
Salmon, Pink Flats, three
cans no
for ZdC
Shad Roe, two QP
cans «jDC
Shad, three one lb.
French Sardines, in oil,
two cans
for Z*> C
COFFEE
Rio, pound 1 A
for lilC
E. C. D., pound 29c
Mocha and Java, three
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FOR ICED TEA
J. B. White Special Blend
has no equal. It is a 60c
tea which we have AQ
priced at
Snowdrift Compound
No. 5 55c
No. 10 sl.lO
No. 20 $2.20
Canned Vegetables
Tomatoes, No. 3, PP
six cans JwC
Tomatoes, No. 2, A p
six cans 4DC
Pumpkin, No. 3, *\n
three cans Z / C
Sugar Corn, No. 2, 40
six cans for *iOC
Peas, Early June, No. 2,
six cans P/h
for DUC
Spaghetti,two cans OC
for LO C
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WHITES
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Charge Purchases Made the Succeeding Days of
August put on September Bill.
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THREE
Orange
Brand or
S. & S.
POUND
20c
Picnic Shoulders, •% /*
pound IOC
Butter Surety Brand,
pure and sweet, Q A
pound
Spanish Onions, large,
Rice, fancy head, (*Q
10 pounds UOC
Potatoes, peck, Ar\
new 4UC
Lemons, fancy, a |
dozen 1 • C
Breakfast Bacon,
strip, pound .... IDC
Cheese, full cream, 44
pound - ZZC
PINEAPPLE
Sliced or grated, No. 2,
three cans p j
for 54c
Libby’s No. 3, £p
three cans ODC
Grated, three no
cans Lt<jQ
Jelly, three op
glasses for IDC
Ketchup, three op
bottles lD C
Olives, stuffed or plain,
three bottles op
for ZdC
Pickles, three o«y
bottles for Z/C
Tripe, two cans OQ
for JOC
Brains, two cans OC
for ODC
Crisco, small, oo
for ZO C
Crisco, medium,
for 4/C
Crisco, large, . 96c