The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-10
SIR WILLIAM NAPIER.

How He Managed the Most Lawless Sol ,- diers in, the. British Army.
 Sir William Napier, who first helped to make history and then told it, was the most tender-hearted of men and the sternest of disciplinarians The com panv of which he was made Captain was the worst in his regiment and the regi- ment, the Forty-Third, was the worst in the army Three months after Napier took command of the company it.was --.,-.- in such perfect order thats.the young Captain was looked up to as the best disciplinarian in the army. The regi- ment at the siege and assault of BadaJoz had shown itself the bravest of the brave. Its Colonel had been killed, and nearly all it's officers were dead or wounded, - lf> when Nap;er, ,twenty-seven years of age, arrived from England to take com mand. ,-s.r v-.E
 He found the men who had braved unheard-of terrors demoralized by de- bauchery and the absence of control. His heart jumped into his mouth at the thought of punishing such brave men, but punish them he did with unf1inch- inc severity He told them plainly that he would curb their law ,eSsnesS, and they defied him to do his worst. At Salamanca while a skirmish going on and the enemy guns were pouring 
 disobedient. He halted the reg iment, and fiocced four of the ring-eaders un der fire Then they submitted to the order, and advanced three miles under constant cannonade as steadily as at review. At Vittoria, his regiment, which had been the most lawless of the plunderers at Badajoz, marched over the richest articles of dress and furni- ture strewn about the field, and not a man stopped to pick up a single thing Yet this same officer. who could halt s-7 a regiment under fire to fog four men. sa had the heart of an affectionate woman Once when he returned to England on sick leave his youngest child, a baby ot twelve months was so frightened at the sight of his moustache that she would not kiss him.. He stepped into an ad- joining room, shaved off his moustache, and came back to be kissed One day he met a little girl sobbing over broken bowl, because she would be whipped when she got home.
 '.But 'ee can mend it, can't 'ee?" said s,sz she looking up at the giants face. - saes "I'm afraid not my dear" said he, .szsg feeling in his pocket; but will give you sixpence to buy new bowl" He couldn't find even penny. sz.
 Meet me here tomorrow atsthls time,,r said he, .'and I will give you the & sEpeRce,,s' [ ssss.. eThe child went off smiling, to tell hel
 
 mother that stranger would replace e ztEf the bowl Napier returned home to EAR sA find an invitation to dine in Bath the next evening, to meet gentleman whom he wished very much to see.s Al once he thought of the little girl and o the possibility of meeting her and ther returning in time for the dinner. Find ing that it would be impossible, h' wrote declining the invitation, saying to his daughter:
 -- s.I can't disappont her; she trustee me so Implicitly. 1.-The young Colonel could halt a ,mu =. tinous regiment, under 'plunging can non balls, and fog their ring-leaders because of his tender heart. All hi men knew that Napier loved them, wa their best friend and was trying to ssav them from their wicked selves H held them while they saw their con rades fiogged and the;r ranks decimatee because he had hold upon their heart . The leader who has grpped his men b sgg lovecan do what he pleases with then They will stand in the jaws of deathssl he cries "HaltT' Youtt'S COmpGaio1