Our Citizen Soldiers

The nioderu citizen-soldier, while hardy and athletic, has also decidedly the contour of the citizeu who eats good meals and sleeps every night in his bed. The inescapable characteristic of home comfort during times of peace would, however, speedily be left behind after a few weeks of actual campaign, aud a visit to the field would show us our foraier neighbors as free of rounduess as any seasoned regular. High-spirited, determined, courageous, with a toughness won upou the wheel, on the ball-field, or at soine other form of sport, to say nothing of the physieal strength which, in many regiments, is the result of manual labor, our militiaman is in ily preparednesa the peer of any voluuteer soldier ou oarth. Out of these ranke in time of crisis can be ealled men of every trade and form of practical knovvledge. They are not only men iiring gnns and knowing how to die in their tracks without fear- they are an army of scientilic versatility, which can turn a camp uto a civilized city with all its diversified industries and energies, and, in a conquered country, can transform itself for the time of its occupation into a co'lony of valuable citizens . This is the personnel of the real army which we would depend upon for