The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-01-30

respects thoroughly in love with his pro-
fession. A fairer typo Of the American
cavalry officer, when once ho got In sad
die and settled down to business, one
would hardly ask to find. Tall, athletic,
slender Of build, with frank, laughing
blue eyes, curly. close cropped, light
brown hair, and o twirling mustache
that was source Of inexpressible delight
to its owner and Of some envy TO his
brother subalterns, Mr.. Perry was prob
ably the best looking Of the young OIL
this far away station on the borders Of
the Llano Estacado. he had been ten
years in service, counting the four he
spent as cadet, had just won his silver
bar as the junior first lieutenant Of the
regiment, was full to the brim Of health,
energy, animal spirits and fun, and, bar.
ring few duns and debts in his earlier
experiences, had never known q heavier
care in the world than the transient
and ephemeral anxiety a. to whether he
would be called up for recitation on Q
subject he had not so much as looked at,
or "hived" absent from roll call he had
lazily slept through.
Any other man, bis comrades said,
would have been spoiled dozen times
over by the petting he had received from
both men and women; but there was
something essentially sweet and genial
about his Misunderstanding "lacking In
guile about his perceptions, said Q cyni.
cal old captain Of the regiment-and o
jovial, stlnshiny way Of looking upon the
world as an Eden, all men and all women
as friends, and the army as the profess
sion above all others, and these various
attributes combined to make him popular
with his kind and unusually attractive
to the opposite sex. As q cadet he had
been perpetually on the verge Of dismis-
sal because Of the appalling array Of do
merits he could roll upagainst his name,
and yet the very officers who jotted down
the memoranda Of his sins-omission
and commission-againSt regulations
were men who openly said he chad the
making Of one Of the finest soldiers In
the class." As Junior second lieutenant
-"plebe"-of the regiment, he had been
welcomed by every man from the colonel
down, and Il was considered particularly
rough that he should have to 60 to such
. company a. Capt Canker'S, because
Canker was q man who never got along
with any Of his juniors; but there was
something 80 irTepressibly frank and
contrite in Perry's boyish face when no
would appear at his captains door
In the early morning and burst out
with, "By Jove, captainI / slept
through reveille again this morning,
and never got down till stables
were nearly over" that even that cross
grained but honest troop commander
was. disarmed, and, though he threat
ened and reprimanded, he would never
punish-would never deny his subaltern
thefaintest privilege; and when promo.
ticn took the captain to another regi-
ment he babe good-by to Perry with eyes
that were suspiciOusly wet "Why,
blow Il all, what do you fellows hate
Canker 90 forT' the youngster often
said. "Ho ought to put me Ia arrest
time and again. but he won't Blamed
II l don't put myself in arrest, or cOnfine
myself to the limits Of the post, and do
something. to cut all this going to town
and hops and such thingA Then can
stick to the troop like wax and get up at
reveille; but II I'm out dancing till Q or
Q In the morning it's no use. tell you; !
just can't wake up"
q Il was always predicted Of Ned Perry
that he would b married and done
for" within q year Of his graduation.
Every new face In the Eve years that
followed revived the garrison proph-
ecy, snow he's gone, surei" but, how.
ever devoted he might seem to the damsel
In question, however restless and impar
TENT he might be when compelled By his
duties to absent himself from her side,
however promising to casual Observers
perchance to the damsel herself-might
DO all the surface indications, the abso.
lutte frankness with which he proclaimed
bis admiration to every listener, and the
fact that he had been just % with half
q dozen other girls" enabled the cooler
heads Of the regiment TO decide that tho
time had not yes ,cOms-Or at least the
woman. No.
81 do wish, /" said \Mra. Turner, ''that
Mr.. Perry would settle on somebody, BE-.
cause, just 80 long rs be, doesn't. & b