he reached the last man he was very beautiful to behold, but

excessively unstuffed and limp. Preponderance of individuality
was ever a bar to foreign travel. That pig could have been in

case to visit you in India had he not parted with some of his
most cherished notions.

The dissecting part impressed me not so much as the slaying.
They were so excessively alive, these pigs. And then, they were

so excessively dead, and the man in the dripping, clammy, not
passage did not seem to care, and ere the blood of such a one had

ceased to foam on the floor, such another and four friends with
him had shrieked and died. But a pig is only the unclean

animal--the forbidden of the prophet.
VI

The American Army
I SHOULD very much like to deliver a dissertation on the American

army and the possibilities of its extension. You see, it is such
a beautiful little army, and the dear people don't quite

understand what to do with it. The theory is that it is an
instructional nucleus round which the militia of the country will

rally, and from which they will get a stiffening in time of
danger. Yet other people consider that the army should be built,

like a pair of lazy tongs--on the principle of elasticity and
extension--so that in time of need it may fill up its skeleton

battalions and empty saddle troops. This is real wisdom,
be-cause the American army, as at present constituted, is made up

of:--Twenty-five regiments infantry, ten companies each.
Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies each.

Five regiments artillery, twelve companies each.
Now there is a notion in the air to reorganize the service on

these lines:--Eighteen regiments infantry at four battalions,
four companies each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper.

Eight regiments cavalry at four battalions, four troops each;
third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper.

Five regiments artillery at four battalions, four companies each;
third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper.

Observe the beauty of this business. The third battalion will
have its officers, but no men; the fourth will probably have a

rendezvous and some equipment.
It is not contemplated to give it anything more definite at

present. Assuming the regiments to be made up to full
complement, we get an army of fifty thousand men, which after the

need passes away must be cut down fifty per cent, to the huge
delight of the officers.

The military needs of the States be three: (a) Frontier warfare,
an employment well within the grip of the present army of

twenty-five thousand, and in the nature of things growing less
arduous year by year; (b) internal riots and commotions which

rise up like a dust devil, whirl furiously, and die out long
before the authorities at Washington could begin to fill up even

the third skeletonbattalions, much less hunt about for material
for the fourth; (c) civil war, in which, as the case in the

affair of the North and South, the regular army would be swamped
in the mass of militia and armed volunteers would turn the land

into a hell.
Yet the authorities persist in regarding an external war as a

thing to be seriously considered.
The Power that would disembark troops on American soil would be

capable of heaving a shovelful of mud into the Atlantic in the
hope of filling it up. Consequently, the authorities are

fascinated with the idea of the sliding scale or concertina army.
This is an hereditaryinstinct, for you know that when we English

have got together two companies, one machine gun, a sick bullock,
forty generals, and a mass of W. O. forms, we say we possess "an

army corps capable of indefiniteextension."
The American army is a beautiful little army. Some day, when all

the Indians are happily dead or drunk, it ought to make the
finest scientific and survey corps that the world has ever seen;

it does excellent work now, but there is this defect in its
nature: It is officered, as you know, from West Point.

The mischief of it is that West Point seems to be created for the
purpose of spreading a general knowledge of military matters

among the people. A boy goes up to that institution, gets his
pass, and returns to civil life, so they tell me, with a

dangerous knowledge that he is a suckling Von Moltke, and may
apply his learning when occasion offers. Given trouble, that man

will be a nuisance, because he is a hideously versatile American,
to begin with, as cock-sure of himself as a man can be, and with

all the racialdisregard for human life to back him, through any
demi-semi-professional generalship.

In a country where, as the records of the daily papers show, men
engaged in a conflict with police or jails are all too ready to

adopt a military formation and get heavily shot in a sort of
cheap, half-constructed warfare, instead of being decently scared

by the appearance of the military, this sort of arrangement does
not seem wise.

The bond between the States is of an amazing tenuity. So long as
they do not absolutely" target="_blank" title="ad.绝对地；确实">absolutely march into the District of Columbia, sit

on the Washington statues, and invent a flag of their own, they
can legislate, lynch, hunt negroes through swamps, divorce,

railroad, and rampage as much as ever they choose. They do not
need knowledge of their own military strength to back their

genial lawlessness.
That regular army, which is a dear little army, should be kept to

itself, blooded on detachment duty, turned into the paths of
science, and now and again assembled at feasts of Free Masons,

and so forth.
It is too tiny to be a political power. The immortal wreck of

the Grand Army of the Republic is a political power of the
largest and most unblushing description. It ought not to help to

lay the foundations of an amateur military power that is blind
and irresponsible.

By great good luck the evil-minded train, already delayed twelve
hours by a burned bridge, brought me to the city on a Saturday by

way of that valley which the Mormons, over their efforts, had
caused to blossom like the rose. Twelve hours previously I had

entered into a new world where, in conversation, every one was
either a Mormon or a Gentile. It is not seemly for a free and

independent citizen to dub himself a Gentile, but the Mayor of
Ogden--which is the Gentile city of the valley--told me that

there must be some distinction between the two flocks.
Long before the fruit orchards of Logan or the shining levels of

the Salt Lake had been reached, that mayor--himself a Gentile,
and one renowned for his dealings with the Mormons--told me that

the great question of the existence of the power within the power
was being gradually solved by the ballot and by education.

All the beauty of the valley could not make me forget it. And
the valley is very fair. Bench after bench of land, flat as a

table against the flanks of the ringing hills, marks where the
Salt Lake rested for awhile in its collapse from an inland sea to

a lake fifty miles long and thirty broad.
There are the makings of a very fine creed about Mormonism. To

begin with, the Church is rather more absolute than that of Rome.
Drop the polygamy plank in the platform, but on the other hand

deal lightly with certain forms of excess; keep the quality of
the recruit down to the low mental level, and see that the best

of all the agricultural science available is in the hands of the
elders, and there you have a first-class engine for pioneer work.

The tawdry mysticism and the borrowing from Freemasonry serve the
low caste Swede and Dane, the Welshman and the Cornish cotter,