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Show The Training Of Soldiers LIEUTENANT ALLAN SUTOR, of the Royal Artillery, ridicules the system on whio'i thG British army is managed. He may be right, though we suspect the English people, in cas'e of trouble, would prefer to see Kitchener In charge, with the old system, than this Lieutenant Sutor with his improved system to back him. But after all the two great essentials of an army are, first, the very best war engines and weapons obtainable, obtain-able, and second, men who understand the use of the engines and weapons and of the material that still holds them up to their use when it becomes exceedingly dangerous to do so. The day after the culminating lay at Waterloo, in the midst of a square of dead men, a Highland piper was found seated, with the mouthpiece of his pipes to his lips. He was as dead as the others and had been for twenty or twenty-four hours. He was there to play and he continued to play until he was translated. Doubtless there was vastly finer music than he made in a thousand places, but his was good enough for him to die by. There are two kinds of armies. The one makes a brave showing on festal days; the other when between their country and their country's foes, remains there in life if possible; if not, then in death. It is good to train soldiers to the use of arms, and in the maneuvers of armies, but the fiist training for a perfect army is In the home; the love of home should expand into love of country coun-try and when that is done, such soldiers will be good soldiers always. |