Show L BOBS IS W WORRIED R Bobs is worried w about England England's potion position int in t- t the he e. e world He I-e fought fo o ht her b battles for far si sixty tj years aud ml now he says the navy is not not- up to date and the he condition of t the e arm army is his pe perpetual ety jety J I-J He wants the navy vy ept up to its old po i ion Hon equal to any ny other two n navies vies in the thc world and aud nd he wants every boy in iq England d tr trained inc asa as asa a soldier soldier not as s s a volunteer soldier but with two years rears ears ears' training so that t though h he tic may merge ack ck into the ra ranks ks of pr peace ce on ou a call aU he will willbe be c ready realy to pick up his military duties s aud d perform per per- form orm t them em- em intelligently U Field fars 1 Marshal al Earl R Roberts berts is altogether r a soldier He Ire does doe not believe that the reign of p cace Is is here he e does not believe much iT ii in The Hague ague tribunal but ut he hc judges the thc f future by the e experience c of the be pa past and says that just so soon as Germany is able io fo o compete with ith England on the he sea abe will wilt make te war We think England's navy is all right that right that ship hip for ship she hc will wi 1 hold her own on the sea But what he lie says J s of the the arm army is good eVen even if there here is never never any war wal- for the Boer war de dc- th that t because cea e of hard hard times in the farm farm- ng distri districts ts of E England H the men were losing g t heir heir- h i stamina t mina It took six months 10 to drill t them em into any ki Kind ot or of efficient soldier soldiery such ana just for the he health and the l c strength and the intelligence in- in of the people England should determine deter deter- mil mine c to follow Lord Roberts Roberts' advice Looking g b ack bk k along his hi is career he sees nothing ng so certain as s what t Napoleon on saw aw at a glance which was th that hat t pro providence c w was ws s prone to smile on the he heaviest baital battalions oD He He was brought t up in a alife life ife where only two things one one was vas skill skill kill t the c other and force force and he wants the skill that i is s left to mold the forces that En England land h has at her heti tc t be always alway secure And that is astrue as asrue true rue of or ora a nation as of or a house No house is burglar burglar bur bur- glar J r proof b but t in times when burglars are arc p preys preva- ia lent ont lent a man pan sleeps ps c easier i r if he knows every winlow window win win- in- in low dow dOw is b ba barred red and md d every door bolted |