Show ENGLISH MISTAKES These are sad days In England The llpwer of her army is inciting aWay Jtofflments that have glorllled names oh their banners that have come clown through the centuries today are ground to nieces as the glacier grinds the soil There is mourning in many a titled house on the old island Earls and dukes and barons and lords have gone down In the storm oi the fight which the stubborn Boer is putting up against them and the somber picture la I not relieved re-lieved by a single success She has I received many wounds but the great wound of all to her Is that her prestige has been assailed and so broken that Europe Is planning now what will be done when Great Britain ceases to be a great power There has always been a great deal of caste in the British army The yeomen were not like common com-mon soldiers They furnished their own lioraes Then certain regiments standing on the reputation which their predecessors had made held themselves I them-selves as better than the ordinary soldier sol-dier All that is i being ground to pieces and the lesson Is being forced home that the magazine gun Is 110 respect of persons The proportion of olllcers killed Is something appalling appal-ling An ofllcer in the Filipino war yesterday said The first day we went into battle the ofllcerc were uniformed uni-formed and conspicuous < 100 or 200 feet in the rear of the soldiers but after they listened to the singing of those I bullets for one day all that was I changed and the next morning they were In blue shirts every Insignia was removed they did not carry a sword even and the British would be wise If they would reach that same conclus alan and do it quick t The rule has come down from away back that an ollicer in the British army must take all possible care of his nien but he must never on any occasion do anything to ho1 the white feather It has been a foolish I rule from the first because olilcers if worthy ufo worth more than soldiers And more English soldiers when their I II I r officers are killed are not a thinking j I I Illlrn y like Americans When orders I conns they ceaae and do not know what to do whereas In the American I army In moro than one light that was t ledyljrst Uy u Colonel thenby u Major I I I I then by Captains finally lieutenants were in command and they with the I men under Ihem were sufUcIent for the I I emergency The struggle In the Brlt 1h l army Ja to ukq away the indlvidu I I alltyV Ihe l solutgi i ll At the s mc llmo J I c I a J mjperable nUehus prev llfiu that1 I J y I If those who are to do the thinking must expose themselves on all occasions Just to show that they are not afraid All that will have to be changed before be-fore any progress Is made in South Africa and it ought to be changed quickly because in these modern days events move rapidly Then they are in a dangerous country If Once the Impression prevails there generally that a few Boers can stand off a large i British army there is no telling what I the wild tribes In that country may do for they do not lack In personal courage They do not lack In any of the elements of savage warfare and It la I possible that In two months more there may be a general uprising of all the fighting classes of barbarians in that region They have been held back heretofore by the awe that British I j Brit-Ish prestige has given With that I prestige broken there Is no telling I I what would come |