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single and double track railways, tele-
graph lines cuts, fills, bridges, cul-
yerts, rocks, sand and swamp.
Strategy of the War
1--WE have to make our Manchurian
maps" said Capt. Stacey, "or patch
them up as well as we can, and we
lack many details of information. But
SO far as these limitations will permit,
we have followed both the Russian and
Japanese armies and tried to under
stand the strategy of the war.
Tt would be very instructive If we
could learn about the beginning of the
various movements. Then we might
consider the nature of the country, To-
cation of the enemy, etc.-and surmise
as to the object of each movement.
But, as everybody knows. the censor
ship is extremely rigid in this way.
We seldom hear that any movement
has begun, but only that it has ended
Even with that knowledge it's in
structive to see how the plan was car
ried out.
yet we have been able to predict
easily several of the Russian disasters.
Now, when we heard that one Jap
army was just south of Liau-yang, an
other east of the town, and third
west of it, we, or the least trained OBJ
server for that matter, could foretell
that Kuropatkin must abandon Liau-
yang and retreat northward along the
railroad leading to Mukden and Har-
bin. Had he remained, one of the Jap
forces would no doubt have cut the
railroad and bottled up the Russians.
"And I recall, speaking OF this sort
Of thing, that when the war broke out,
I couldn't understand why the Rus
sian ships in the Orient were scattered
about various ports while the Japanese
had assembled their navy at one or two
points I took it for granted that the
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Russians couldn't have been expecting
to fight. They must have known that
the Japs would attack their Eastern
fleet so as to destroy it in sections.
That, of course, was exactly what hap
pened.
Japanese Generals Expert Strategists
ITO the extent that we can learn the
facts, and, of course, We may be mis-
taken because we can't learn more
we think that the japanese generals
have shown strategic skill of high
order. Apparently they have made no
mistakes and they have taken every
possible advantage.
'sBut, as far as / can see, Kuropatkin
has not shown himself equal to his
reputation. He has conducted his re-
treat we'll But he has done only what
any general would do who had fair,
average ability. He has made some
mistakes apparently For instance,
when Gen. Stalkenberg's division was
cut off during the retreat from Llau-
wang This was evidently due to
mistake by Kuropatkin, or by one or
his subordinates.
ITO risk that way the loss OF $4,000
men was certainly not evidence of good
management. 1t was proof OF mucn
better generalship when somebody
managed to save this same division.
And when I heard that Gen. Kuro-
patkin had decided to quit retreating
and make a general advance, con-
cluded that he must certainly be acting
under strong pressure from st. Peters
burg. He probably did not take that
step Of his own initiative. He must have
considered that his men had suffered
one defeat after another, and that
aside from a few refnforcements and
little rest, they were no better situated
than they had been. In these cireum-
stances they were not in the psycho-
logical condition to advance against
, an enemy flushed with repeated VIC
tories.
Retreat May Become a Rout
"And now that Kuropatkin is said
to have been defeated at Yentai, ! pre-
dict that he can do one thing only. He
will retreat, and his retreat will verge
upon a rout. He has nothing to hope
for Having lost Mukden, he must
fall back upon Harbin. Only the ap-
proach of the savage Manchurian VIM
ter will save him from destruction.
"But perhaps Gen. Kuropatkin is
doing as we'll as might be expected
with his material. Consider the meth
DDS of the Russian army. It's officers
are seldom well instructed IN their
profession Many of them know less
about the science of war than our
American sergeants. The Russian Off
Ger spends his time chiefly at cafes.
Drinking and making love are his
principal employments. If he is Of
noble family, or if he has powerful
friend at ST. Petersburg, especially if
that friend is woman, he is sure to
be promoted, no matter whether he
knows or doesn't know parabola
from needle gun.
'.As for his men, they are, as rule,
extremely ignorant. Why, many of the
Russian sergeants can't write their
own names. The rank and file know
little about the cause of the war and
care less. Not a few Of them are Nj
hilists who would like to see their
country lose You can't wonder They
are treated like brutes. The officers
kick the men and knock them down on
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any provocation. If a man protects
himself he is shot.
But a Japanese officer must be- edu-
Gated. If he is a lieutenant he has one
chance to be made captain. If he
then passes a thorough examination
he is promoted. If he doesn't pass he
must remain lieutenant the rest of
his life. It's the same with the cap
tain, the major, etc. Each gets one
chance for promotion and one only.
Merit and knowledge count at this ex-
amination; nothing else is considered.
"The japanese private knows all
about the war. He's quite as eager to
give his life for the mikado as are any
of the officers.
1.-THE same difference exists seven in
the accouterments of the two armies.
The Jap wears light shoes; the Rus
sian, heavy boots. The Japs have had
khaki uniform this summer. Until
very lately the Russians were wearing
almost winter clothes. Their summer
kits, are coming in now just as winter
is about to begin.
1.-THE Japanese canteen is aluminium,
light and sanitary, the very latest sci
entific pattern. But the Russians carry
a wooden canteen that weighs as much
as four of the aluminium articles. In
America we haven't used wooden can
teens since the war of 1912. The wood
soon fills with germs and poisons the
water. Already disease is prevalent
among the Russians, and it's easy to
see why. They carry even their food in
a h sack with their clothes.
Contrasts Are Studies
"These are some of the contrasts our
officers have been making in their
study of the Manchurian campaign.
The facts are often interesting, but es-
peciaIly they are instructive.
"Yet it's nothing new for US to be
studying strategy and similar subjects.
The officers in eur army can't have too
much information if they wish to pass
the regular examinations. And as for
special studies of foreign countries, did
you know that all1the officers in the
army were studying up Colombia for
dear life short time ago?
It's a fact. The United States was
preparing for war with Colombia, If
war became necessary. Maps of that
country were distributed among our
officers. We studied the topography OF
Colombia, read books of travels and
government reports about it, and post
ed ourselves thoroughly.
Besides. the department sent several
officers down into Colombia to make a
fresh personal investigation. don't
suppose they wore their uniforms down
there. One of the Investigators was
an officer of the Twenty first. He was
granted four months leave, it was re-
ported, because Of impaired health. i
think 1t was said that he had gone
to Europe"
Friday afternoon Capt. Stacey told
that, according to his maps and paper
flags at Smelling, Gen. Kuropatkini
would probably retreat from Yentaf,
and that this retreat would verge upon
a rout."
When newspapers reached the fort
Friday evening they announced that
Kuropatkin was in full retreat; that
the japanese were as vigorously aplsr
suing him; that ne had lost many pris-
oners and guns; that his killed and
wounded numbered 10000 men. His
retreat, indeed, had ''verged upon a
rout."
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SOME MYSTERIES OF MODERN EDU6hTI0N

Elderly Person-What subjects are
you now pursuing at school, my dear?
Margaret-Oh, arithmetic and Ian
guage and cookery and geography and
history and dressmaking and calisthen-
les and mechanical drawing and read
ing and current events and literature.
Elderly Person tseriously)-Is that
all?
Margaret may have forgotten
some.
Elderly Person-It would seem not
to be impossible, my child. But tell
me about your arithmetic. Where are
you now?
Margaret-We are studying insur-
ance and interest and bank bills and
taxes
Elderly Person-And what, Marga-
ret. is your present knowledge of ge-
ography?
Margaret oh, I dislike geography!
with sigh.) You see, we had to
hurry so. We got behind on Europe,
and so we had only two weeks for
Asia and two days for Australia.
Rapid transit, even for these days.
thinks the Elderly Person.
Elderly Person-Can you. tell me
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anything about these continents?
Margaret-Well, there are plains In
Asia. and Sydney is in Australia, and
Australia supplies Europe with beef.
There may be q reason why Mar
garet is not fond Of geography
Elderly Person-And how about his
tory?
Margaret-Oh, I don't. like that
eitherl We have to learn all about the
English, French, Spanish and Dutch
discoverers and what they discovered.
I can't remember the Spanish names.
I guess I'll get III" in the history test.
Elderly Person spoke about
cooking. What can you cook?
Margaret-We have had potato soup
and rice with sauce and fudge and
chocolate pudding. We have to eat
what we cook The chocolate pudding
made me sick for two days.
Elderly Person (who thinks that he
has come upon a subject which the
years cannot change) e)-You said that
you had language, Margaret, dear. Of
course you know all about verbs and
adverbs and prepo
Margaret lin high disdain) mo, in
deed! I never heard of those queer
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stick up; it enables one to find the
big cities in big type and the little
towns in tiny type; it indicates the
railroad lines; and it demonstrates,
with pretty contrast, just where the
pale blue sea declines to surge across
the pink or yellow land. If you were
going to Manchuria to sell nails or
spend honeymoon, this discreet Chi
cago map would lead you like the pole
star.
But if you want to know why Gen.
-tsu, who was at the Yentai mines
Aug. %, took a long time in chasing
Gen. "skoff to Shintingfu, the Chi
eago map would answer like a
Wall street witness. Apparently, the
Jap was lazy. The mounatins between
the mines and Shintingfu look no more
mountainous than other mountains in
Manchuria. The land between the
mountains, such as there is of it, pre-
sents a uniform pink surface easily
traversed, one would say, by infantry.
impossible Mountains
Now, a real war map, such as the
war department has of most countries,
such as the Japanese have of Man
churia, would explain the problem. But
the Smelling officer must learn from
books of travel, from press dispatches,
and from correspondents letters what
it was that impeded the movement of
the Japs. 1t was, in fact, a series of
nearly impossible mountains, noun
tains traversable along single trail,
so steep, at many places, that only the
ponies and the mules were really
marching as a soldier should.
But by dint of much reading and
many comparisons, a Smelling officer
contrives a substitute war map of
Manchuria. Upon the Chicago color
scheme he lays down mass of mill
tary symbolism that scents the whole
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daks. And when the war began, away
along the next spring, these records
and pictures came in handy'-why, 1t
was quite surprising how very handy
they We're
Officers Study the War
But if the officers at the army posts,
including Fort Smelling, do not study
the Manchurian war in classes, if they
are not even instructed to study it at
all, this is only because their regular
duties would prevent such organized
investigation. They study the war,
nevertheless, each man for himself at
his own convenience. They follow, too,
in all essentials, the methods pursued
by officer students at Leavenworth and
Washington.
Capt Cromwell Stacey, of Company
E, Twenty first infantry, who, like sew
eral of his comrades, is a graduate OF
the infantry and cavalry school, ex-
planned last Friday how the garrison
officers make believe that they are
twirling chop sticks with the Japs or
testing vodki with the red-faced chill
dren Of Little Father Nicholas.
The war news in the press dis
patches, as Capt. Stacey related, is
generally interesting and often sur
prising. It's too surprising some-
times.
When word came that the Japs had
800 field guns in Manchuria the majors
at Smelling shook their gray-heckeG
heads. Even the youngest lieutenant
tossed his sunny curls. Because the
part of Manchuria where operations
now progress is very mountainous-as
broken as q prima donna'S heart.
One field gun would trouble any gen.
eral there more than would a single
wife. Thirty field guns would be a
burden for the whole Jap army; 800
field guns could have been seen only by
a correspondent "at the 'front.' across
the Gulf of Pechili.
The most reliable war news SO far
made public, according to Capt. Sta
: cey, has been furnished by one Of the
illustrated weeklies, which has made a
speciality of war correspondence. Yet
this information, although trustworthy.
is comparatively old and is often dis
counted in advance by newspaper bull
letins, black or red.
Reliable Maps
Hardly less important than complete
and reliable information are complete
and reliable maps, if one is to attach
himself mentally to all the staffs of all
the fighting generals.
But satisfactory maps of Manchuria
are not easy to secure. The war de-
partment, which usually issues special
maps of countries involved in war, has
published no maps of Manchuria. The
Japanese have such maps-beautifully
elaborate maps, printed from data OBJ
tained by Japanese officers disguised
as Chinese coolies. But every one Of
the Nippon officers has been so busy
looking at his splendid maps that he
has never thought of publishing them
in New York, or even st. Petersburg.
American officers must be eontented
now with maps made in Chicago.
The Windy City map is good one,
a very good one, for commercial and
general purposes. 1t shows where the
rivers WiggIe and where the mountains
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things. In language we write letters
for positions.
Elderly Person (gasping) The
saints preserve us! For positions, did
you say?
Margaret-Oh, yes! 1 have applied
for a position as clerk, stenographer
and work in a hotel. I answered an
advertisement for "boy wanted
In what subtle way can the new edu-
cation suppose that answering an adj
vertisement for "boy wanted" is to
benefit this "very pattern girl of girls"
with her yellow hair tied up with a be-
witching big black bow? Perhaps the
idea came from Germany, in which
case there is nothing more to be said.
The Elderly Person fears that he
must have forgotten his young friend.
the exponent Of the Mysteries Of Mod
ern Education at this point, for he was
reused from his reverie by polite
voice which said: Excuse me, sir, but
1 must go home now. / have to read
the daily papers for my current-events
class and prepare my mechanical
drawing and read two chapters in the
Young Citizen for the class In ciyics.
Abridged from Good Housekeeping.
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@HE quaver or eighth note is
Cossack painting proudly on his
charger.
The crotchet or quarter note is
a whiskered private of the Siberian
rifles.
And when you see stars you are
merely looking at a grove of pine trees.
That is, if you are student in the
conservatory of military music con-
Quoted at Fort Smelling.
All the officers of the garrison at
tend this school. Each of them takes
private lessons.
sIts a splendid school, said a cap
tain yesterday, "and I have learned a
great deal. But.I think I can say with
out vanity that 1 already know as much
as my teacher"
SUBSEQUENT statements as to the
methods of the school developed the
fact that every officer at Smelling is
now teaching himself kind Of conf
dental war game. He is studying the
progress of the struggle in Manchurla,
He is recording on maps every reported
move of the Japanese and the RUSSIAN
commanders, and he is drawing sell
entific conclusions as to why Gen.
Nodzu did this, why Marshal Oyama
did that, and why Gen. Kuropatkin
didn't do something else.
"The last inquiry" commented the
captain, presents the most difficult
ties"
More formal study of the Manchu-
rian war game is made at the various
professional schools where American
army officers take postgraduate
courses in the higher branches of mill
tary science. Such institutions are the
infantry and cavalry school and the
general service and staff college at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and the war
college at Washington.
Study Oriental Campaigns
Glasses in the army schools are now
studying the Oriental campaigns thor
oughly. Information about the war
that is published by the daily press,
the weekly papers and the magazines
is analyzed by the classes in an en-
deavor to trace every movement, every
motive, of the eontesting generals.
Moreover, the classes enjoy the use OF
exclusive information-often highly
Important is secured through the
secret service Of the war department
and of other federal departments.
Most people" said an officer yester-
day, "never dream how quickly and
how quietly the Washington govern
ment gathers information whenever
there is the slightest probability that
It may be needed. In 1897. for example,
nearly a year before the public thought
of our having any serious trouble about
Cuba, two American army officers were
travelling through Spain. I won't say
that they were known as army officers.
Perhaps they were commercial trav-
elers or something else. But they trav-
eled in Spain, saw things, heard things.
asked questions, made notes, drew
sketches and practiced with their ko-
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came a time when the sea and the cold
conspired to get Hunger upon the throne
of that coast; a time when Hunger said,
"Thus and SO shalt thou do and thus and
so all the people of Ragged Harbor did.
Ragged Harbor passed into the shadow of
famine; wherein nightly abound all those
terrors and Affections which it is the con-
Germ of life to escape.
g IT'S a hard lookout for Ragged Ar
bor," said Eleazar Manuel to Elihu Gale,
one midsummer day.
There, Eleazar's forethought came to an
end. Not so with Elihu. From that day
he gathered food, seeking everywhere; and
he cruelty deprived himself that he might
accumulate store against certain time.
But all he said to Eleazar was:
% 'Tis that, by
Through the summer Ragged Harbor
Subsisted on the tomcod and dories of the
harbor water, the trout of the little lake
beyoyd the man-o'-war, the produce of
seven patches of handmade ground, an
the stray salmon which were meshed in
the nets off the Null; all being sufficient.
In the fall, the wilderness provided three
caribou which had strayed from the path
to the south, plenty of juniper berries,
thirteen partridges and a loon. When the
winter threatened, the traders came from
the lower outports with -four pork, mo-
lasses and tea, long faces and a generous
fund of advice concerning the virtue Of
frugalfty; but, being wary of bad debts at
such times, they could be persuaded to
advance ON the next seasons catch, but
food sufficient to keep the fire of life
burning until the spring Breakup, which,
they predicted. would be an early one.
Then the cold descended from the north;
it sealed the harbor and ponds froze the
wilderness, filed the passes with snow,
and spread the sea with ice. The people
were cut off and locked tight in their
place, whereupon they made great fires
and proceeded to humor their voracity
with what the traders had left; and when
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was view of the evening sky through
the tickle rocks
30 Lard, cried Eiihu Gale, emerging
from the shadow. making the cry Of the
prophet cry to voice his own agony. 20
Lard feed me with apples, stay me with
f1agons, for am sick of lover. He had
neither seen an apple nor heard of the
uses of fiagon but there was pain in the
cry, and beseeching;a a cry to voice his own
agony. 20 Lard, feed me with apples, stay
me with fagons, for am sick of loven'
God pity you, old Elihu Gale!
1t must now be told how that there
1t came to March they had eaten their pigs
and goats and were searching in the stages
for forgotten stores of dried caplin.
When it had come near to the pass of
unclean food or starvation, which was in
the beginning of late spring, Elihu Gale
waited for Melia Mary on the Lookout
path, half way up the hill; and when she
came down, he stopped her for word, for
If he were to speak at all he must speak
now before the promised west wind blew.
"Fine evn, 'Melia Mary" said he.
Even so simple phrase was hard to ut
ter calmly, such was the agitation which
possessed him, for he knew that the inn
pending moments held the fate of his
desire.
q 'Tis that, Elihu Gale.'
'Melia Mary made as though to pass on;
but she was. exceeding hungry, and weary
of the pairl,7and she oraved word Of
comfort. ss4s sl5
DO they be sign Of a west wind, think
you Elihu?" she asked, hopefully.
"a They be noa sign" Elihu answered,
with such conviction as.y7ade ,Melia Mary
stare, g 'Tis t. blow f IN the nor'east for
a week" Ei8lts
Ragged Harbor was waiting for the west
wind, which should break the rotten in
shore ice and clear the shadows, where
the fish lay
AN they were potatoes a-plenty, we
would 'ntpcarei ~ said Elihu. He fixed the
maid with his red trimmed eyes.
Sure, noa," she sighed.
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s.An' they were smoked salmon an flour
left t. Ragged 'Arbor." he went on, giving
each word impressive force, 1--WE wouldn't
be hungry
She was robust maid; large, hearty
maid; and her body had suffered depriva-
ton for many days.. 1t now craved clean
food as it had never before known desire.
She was in an agony OF hunger.
"Sure. noa, Elihu," she murmured.
An they were quintaI o. fish, t. the
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BY
NORMAN DUNCAN

HnE was a man fashioned through
Hi generations by those forces which
It'll stripped the headlands of Ragged
u y Harbor of all graces long, long
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15
Roll of Honor.

The following pupils in the
grades have made grades dur
ing the 3rd month of school
which entitle them to be placed
on the roll of honor.
Grade 1.-Marvel DeLash.
mutt. Lena Drescher, Mildred
Fuqua, Richard Gibson, Monroe
Jett, Margaret Neale, Karl
Werner.
Grade 2.-Mabel Hawkins,
Aura Lee Ely, Edith Wood
ward.
Grade 3 -Laura Bell Brown,
Evert Burris. Aaron Burrjs,
Lula Werner, Lula Surgert.
Russell Wilson.
Grade 4.-Viviau Clark, Delta
Ashford. Bertha Naegelin,
Frank Werner.
Grade 5.-Leta Evans, Marie
Ragland, Reginald Ragland,
Edna Boulware, Nora Jamison.
Grade Mildred Buell.,
Emma Davis, Lyon Gartner,
Agnes Leake, Vera Terrill.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

Grade Amy Green, Fannie
Jayne, Edna Vaughn, Warren
Fuqua, Edward Jayne, j. Hen
derson.
Grade 8 Mamie Icenhower,
Gertrude Marshall, Marguerite
Reid, Edna Woolfe.
Grade 6 had the highest per
cent of attendance (99 s.. Grade
8 had no tardies, corporal pun.
ishments or truants.
Grade 5 had the best grade
on lines for the month.
The attendance for the month
has been quite good in spite CT
the very persistent rumor that
school was to be closed on ac.
count of the epidemic in our
city,
Again I wish to urge upon
parents to visit the school and
to confer with the teachers OF
heir children aud with the
superintendent about the prog,
ress made by pupils Several
of the rooms are making ar
! engagements for literary exer,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

Charles Wright the Marion
county surveyor was in the city
Yesterday enroure to Stephens
ford on North River to see that
the new steel bridge is placed
as per contract.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

A ducks feathers are ready to pull
when the feathers come out easily and
lave a clean quill.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

One of the best feeds for sheep in
winter is hay made from old meadows
that have grown up to a variety OF
grasses.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

w. B. Spalding was business
at the county seat Tuesday,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

The little birds say that the
wedding bells are to ring in the
near future.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-12-15

LowueV's Candies. Wood
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