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Show , The Wire la War. , ' "The great general of the future," said a prominent military critio not long ago, "will be a quiet man at the end of a telegraph wire." To a certain extent this description applied to Field Marshal Von Moltke. But it will be still true! : of the successful leader in the next European war. A dispatch from London Lon-don shows how England is preparing foi the change. It says: "An elaborate system of war telegraph-tig telegraph-tig has been arranged between the admiralty ad-miralty department and tho postoffice. ; It is now possible by this arrangement upon short notice to connect every telegraph tele-graph station on the coast directly with Ihe admiralty office." Quite a contrast between the old picture pict-ure of "the duke of Wellington riding about amid fire and cannon balls" and a military leader who does his work sit tiug at a desk in an office like a mer chant, conning bulletins from his various vari-ous subordinates as they come in on a "ticker," and dispatching orders, not by aid-do-Ciimp, but by telegraphic dispatch, dis-patch, just as a speculator wires his broker to "buy ten ix-ptemberl" There is nothing dramatic about that way of conducting a campaign. The pictur-esiiui'ness pictur-esiiui'ness of poetry is knocked ont of war, and it has become a grim business even in its superficial aspects, as it always al-ways was in its underlying reality. Slilwaukte Wisconsin. |