Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — Fifty to One. [ARTICLE]

Fifty to One.

War is not such a dangerous game an people think. In spite of all efforts to annihilate each other, enemies do comparatively slight damage. During the Franco-German war, with its scores of battles on a vast scale, only 10% men In each 1,000 were killed and 108 wounded. while 4% per 1,000 were missing. Thus any soldier engaged had about nine chances to one that he would not get a scratch, and over fifty chances to one that he would notxbe killed. Moat of the wounds received were slight—that is to say, one-fourth of an the wounds were severe, and three-fourths were slight. But tt Is surprising bow small a wound disables a man and knocks him out of the rapks.