Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — MORE BULLETS THAN BOOKS. [ARTICLE]

MORE BULLETS THAN BOOKS.

France Staggers Under Enormous Expenses for Military Purposes. The United State and Franco—the two great republic-) of the world stand at opposite ends o the c.damns of nations arranged upon the basis of per capita annual expenditure for military purposes. The United States and Russia, the antitheses o each other in every j o itical i-stitution and tradition, stand very natu ally at the opposite ends o a colu nn cf the nations arranged on the bans of the annual per capita expenditure for purposes of education. tome very interesting statistic) on the comparative expenditures for defense (including preparations for offensive warfare and education of the different civilized nat’ons are given in a recent number o the Journal of Education, accompanied by a most instructive art'cle on the subject. The United States posse -se i the honorable diet net cn o ' ex-end ng annually more money per capita on a bas s of the ent re populat on for education and less money per capita for m litary purposes than an / other civ 1 zed nat on. And the d iterance in the expend tures ip both departments, a< co nj arid w th those of the nat ons standing next n o der, is so great as to give the d stinction a double significance and value from a humanitarian etandpo. nt. Appealed is a table <no aiong several comp led by the author oi the art cla in the Journal o Education ino n which nay be seen at «J»r/-nce the re ative expenditu os in these two widely divergent department, o. government of tne principal nwtionso. the world: Military. Education. France 44 uo $ 70 England 3 72 Holland 3 68 64 Prussia. 2 04 to Russia 2 04 3 Austria. 1 36 32 Denmark 1 7# 94 Italy 1 62 36 Switzerland H 2 84 United States 30 1 36 The showing m u’e in the above table by little Denmark is greatly to the credit of tha. country, whose compa atively slender resuurces, la ge popula] tion, and peculiar geographical posit on would go further to justify armament at the expense of education on her part than could the conditions obtaining in several of the other countries, which spend much more for military and much less for schoolbooks than does the little kingdom of the Danes. France's military expenditures are abnormally large, due possibly in part to recent changes in the equipmentof all branches oi the army, while Russ a’s disbursements for educational purposes as co spared with her liberal expenditures for warlike preparations are to d,i gracefully small as to wellnigh ?hut her out of the classification of civilbed nations. Aco opa.ison of these ie!at ve expend ures of revenue or the purpose ; of war and e iucation is calculated to induce a doubt o rhe optimiste’ claim that the wo Id is growing better and that ’he humau race is improving morally. Barbarism would seem tn still retain a large place even in the civilized world, andeduca ion, instead of displacing it, but serves when misapulied to make it more form.dable. Sti 1 there is a s Iver lining to the ,cloud. The Un '.ed States, Swit. er--land and I ttle Den 1 ark appear in bright contrast to the othe ■ staggering, swash buckling powers, and with such an object lesson as this country affords constantly in evidence the ultimate improvement of the conditions of ail the ot ers is not beyond hope. Goose Adopts Pigs. A gcose with remarkable maternal instinct has been found near Berry, in Harrison County. Kentucky. Hetbrood was recently drowned, and an old sow with a litter of twelve pigs died about the same time. The old mother goose has adopted the little orphan pigs, and persists in her attention toward them. The family is doing we’.L MR. M. S. Pembrey finds by experiment that increase of temperature around a warm-blooded animal les ens .its output of carbon dioxide to a remarkable degree, and diminution of temperature increases it. The reverse is true of cold-blooded a dmals. Up to the twenty-first day a developing chick reacts like a cold-blooded animal and afte - that like a warm-blooded.