Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-07
ion and drag out the time to the utmost

ton and drag out the time to the utmost
limit OF age will cost more;
/" After spending the thousand pounds.
what next Next. II the young fellow pro-
poses TO stay in England. the family purse
must produce supplement OF nj lcas. LOU
n wear for his use until he reaches the rank
Of captain. Even the sternest authorizes
seem 10 agree that it Is impossible Tor q sup
altern 10 live on his pay and meet the oD-
Egatorv expenses of uniforms and horses
and mess subscriptions. He Is forced
whether he will or not, 10 be host at balls
and dinners-giyen chiefly, let II be SAID
10 civilians- where bands. play. and chhm
pagne flows. and every luxury flat he does
not want has to be paid for in part by the
young subaltern. who probably fingers shy
and neglected during the. performance IN
confederation corner of the mess smoking
room. Without any extravaganza on ms
own part. the monthly accounts VIII De
regularly in excess of the monthly receipts;
Tailors' bills plunge him into periodical
despair. His richer fellows are proposing
schemes which it IS boorish and unsocia,
bic to reject, but impossible. FOR financial
reasons, TO accept.
AS for charges. no one, Of course, can
think of entering mounted regiment I'M
less he is prepared 90 contribute pretty
freely from his own pocket TO the expenses
of our thoroughly well-turned out army.
We have heare a witty horse artilleryman
describe his stud "a being composed OF one
k0's d0,rre and one horS de coobm. Nhen
money Is scarce desperate efforts are mace
to combine the two in one animal; Dut the
two are needed. and no matter what efforts
are made. the outcome is and must be, brief
", the same--that the subaltern cannot
live on MS pay in England. In the Indian
staff Corps il is possible. With $50 IN his
pocket for start the young fellow VINO
passes his examination and makes up ms
mind to ACCEPT an Indian career need never
come upon his family for further help, pro-
vided that his health holds out. Once
captain in an unmOunted regiment, man
is 10 longer absolutely forced even IN
England to spend more than he receives.
Paw and compulsory expenses begin TO
balance themselves, and It Is mat
ter of personal resolution for an oiiicer
who has no private income 10 keep ont OF
debt. Appointments for which extra pay Is
received begin TO be open 10 him. Hard
work and self-denial viii take him honor
ably through. IL IS well TO give nj TINS
point a tabulated statement, which has
been composed from the Royal Pay and
Promotion Warrant of 1887. amended by
the warrant issued the other day, of the
regular regmenial pay of officers not es-
pecially employed. Pay varies 80 much in
different regiments and IS subject TO 50
many conditions that il is impOss.-
bic to give complete statement with
in reasonable space and the figures must
be taken as only approximately accurate.
They are selected from average regiments
Of infantry. cavalry, and artillery, leaving
out OF count engineers, guards, and horse
artillery &c. in which special allowances
are made for specially entailed expenses.
The endcayor to approximate the age no
which a man may hope to obtain promo
ton and enjoy the increased pay of the
next grade is perhaps almost misleading,
the modern principle Of selection tending
as IL does TO make II more and more ques-
tiOn of individual ability.
1T would not be just. therefore. 10 cal
culatc pay without taking them into con-
sideratiOn, and the second total Of pay
with extra allowances represents the
fairest estimate that we are able % give Of
regimental payas compared civilians
income Il must stand to the credit
side of soldiers career that if be Is
forced 10 many expenses he also gets
pleasant and even luxurious daily life more
cheaply and easily than 1t can be got IN
any other profession. He travels. he en-
tcItains. he goes on horseback, he has
good house and servants. and he has a
perfectly well-defucd social standing all
in the natural course of existence, and
these are. after all, the signs by which men
estimate worldly success"