Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-08

at 9:05 and wait In an outer Office for
what seems an hour. 1 look at my
watch and find it is 9:ll. l begin to
doubt, when j remember that my watch /
is fact. II is exactly $40 when a door
is opened and my name is called.
Il so into a long rom, II, which are
several desks. And at each desk. bend /
ing over plies of papers, sits high Off I
Ger. And at the end of the room at a
table which commands Il view of all
the rest of the room sits a big, dark.
stern man, With a heavy mustache, in
tent upon papers. Before he looks up
have time to note the telephones and
neatness and 5orderliness of the arrange
ment of the table. When he does look /
up he keeps his nnger on the paper in
front of him, marking the place where
he left off.
II begin 10 tell what l have to say.
He looks at nae With Very keen, bright,
gray blue eyes, and before have quite
ircalized that | haze shaken hands and
said aood-ine1iing. he is bending down
again over his paper. deep in Il calcutta
ton at the point Where he left oft. Lord
| INSTRUMENTATION II is he,--is engaged, they
lsteil NE, in reorganzlg the transport
lssA,ste ms.
TAinl of that-in time of war in the
snn,!si of campaign. he Is doing for him
stdi :, fl.,t iii., - i45iV ~ Pail Mall. srs,Gia
'have bussled at for years in times OF
4 peace: bat he thinks II is necessaiy.
4 he knows chat he carr dn H. and no one
\ seems 10 have the slightest doubt that
ut viii he q very advantageous thing to
do. And observe that IF the men
Immediately around him many. down
/ "a the marest stbordinatss, are men
Whom he has trained aud tried himself
at the other end Of Africa to know
What he wants and to do what he
4 wants.
4 The head manager. has brought his
4 sub managers along With him. Just as
Sit. Thomas Upton ~ Sin Westinan
~ amy other would oif he had big,
ies scheme 10 carry out business
big busineSslike business
MODERN FIGHTING.
Wfiling OF modern action, as
4 judged Is the hard fighting thai pre-
Iceded Sldonkop, Winston Churchill
sans III the Morning Post
Madsin action Is Very disappointing
As a spe6ta e. There IS no smqiSe ~
etrt hat Of the bursting shells. the
Ae@nlbatarts are scattered SPREAD over
II Il great eNpanse Of srannd, concealed
wherever possible. clad in neutral tint
81 .NlIsthe peinn and nagaiiiceree Of ,,nl-
durman, tho solid lines of infantry, the
tightly aerYisil array, bright With
Iti4silii.s spears and waving iags, wsre
exehideil ll9Ms q tiny dots purrled
faYWarl a few wards and vanished into
ltlle brown al The earth. Bunehes and
feiustvls o. hrown things tuddled
sa@nans this roeiss o. insheltelea spots.
1.-THE SIX balterfs u artillery uMliin-
bh,1sd and the hats hidden ii some
saie placs wc.e scarcely Visible.
Once | SAN III miniature, thru
glasses, d great Nave ofsinfamtiy surge
feru ard aiong a SPUR and disappear be-
efsi3gl q crest line. The patter nf the
Mauser rifles sweiled INTO a ceatinn-
, olis iginlhlng ike u train Of wagons
& I,,;ss ing OVER pontpan bridge aud
: presently he MAY Teceiled the minute
i figures mat composed il squeezed
tllsnlss into ever a,n5nas Some
KS. a great many gseuis Of men
began carving away black ebjects.
a tiiellle az independent drops DIS
lperselt Itself Then we groaned. There
had bean 4 check. The distant drama
: Heontinued. The hudaiins figures began
lsto move again--lithe, active forms
: hniov.fl about rcarranging thinss5af-
sfieers we knew, even al he distance
rhtn the Wanle waYe STATED again
full of ialpe us staryed--mel.t forward
;iiid nevsl came back, And Al this We
ware all aelighted ana praised the
satrr gi sur un.iuafed Infantry ana
visited ~ M.re near on3uga - giyt
~ them a ,sheers