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Show XHPROVEXENTS THAT HANDICAP. HANDI-CAP. Gen. Miles was discussing army methods, meth-ods, ancient and modern, and defending the present systemo and officers. In calling call-ing attention to changed conditions he remarked: "What would George Washington have done If he had had telephone instruments in his various headquarters and newspaper newspa-per correspondents there who sent out his orders so that they were known to the public before they reached the officers for whom they were intended?, "The telephone is a great Institution, but I am afraid that the famous fighters of the past would not have appreciated it I never use one that I do not think of Judge Albion W, Tourgee's description of the instrument; " 'A man,' he said 'stands In front of a hole In the wall and yells: "Hellol" He gets no answer, and repeats the call. About the third time he leaves off the last syllable, and the fourth time he puts the last syllable first.' " |