Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-02-22

of tAeir own when serving under Lieut.
. This or That in the Eleventh horse or
. tine Thirty-third foot. Dozens of Nun
r chause1s wore the reporters pencils
down 90 ,ae wood with details Of their
B. narrowing >uiferingS. Then the edito-
rails began, and grayely lectuTed the
people on the wrongs of the whole SyS-
tem-tGe Uurepubican character Of an
army anyhow, the repungance i'm the
American mind 20 all idea OF discipline.
Meantime of coarse the Palladium was
dr.ug bot shot BY the ton, and new So
called acdndalSaJ Ryan. fresh outrages
on the helpless Gad downtroddeu sol
i.rry we've the sub ects OF Mr.. Abrams
laird deGneaJiouS. until it was to be
wondered al that in their wrath the Of
Tended public did not wipe the foul blot
Oh their civilization from the face OF the
earth.
II was on Friday evening that in an
swer 20 certain dispatches he had been
airing at department headquarters, Col.
Morris received a message that at least
put MIN Ont of uncertainty. That day
The Palladium had OutdOae itself, and
40 enc not couNersant with the illimit
able faculties of the paid correspondent
can begin 20 imagine the heroic size at
tanned iu its columns by the incident
briefly sSetched In the last chapter:
"Continaed Persecution of Trooper
Welsh Heaped p Limitations on
His Head. Forced 20 Show Slavi>h
Homage 20 His InsulJer. Helpless
Wrath of Comrades" etc. The details
of tA- incident. RS told by the special
c0rrosp oadcut. loStno,h.ug eff sensation
cG,n. and Lieut.. Lewis came ia now
for his shane oi obioruy Poor Welsh
0as represented as having been marched
.out. wiki brutal curses compelled
90 salute Lirlt. Hearu. despite the fact
THAT h-. Us e. member Of the guard. was
.by law al. regulations exempted from
che requirement.. In vain did the
Young soldier plead thGt paragraph 3Yl
LOT the regulations fully excused him.
His relentless prosecutors deded the
laws of Congress and compelled him 10
stand and deliver for the purpose of
adding 70 the iudicuitics-a ready heaped
upon him. Gould the readers Of the
Palladium have heard the low, deep
mutterinCs OF che men in the garrison
this night no mutiuy ou their part need
have surprised them.
The editor, zoo. backed up his corre-
SpOnGeut ju tirec-quarter column as
Sault on tine ridiculous etiquette OF the
army. Ill may Dee" he said, "all well
enough iu the cou>cripted camps Of
Europe. swhere whole nations are forced
% service under arms 20 exact OF the
rank and Size thi> S.aviSh exhibition 70
Superors. but 70 is am insult 10 the high
intelligence of the soldiers OF free Amer
lea that because beardleSS boy happens
to-have strap upon his shoulder thou
sands of SCARED veterans should be com
Deled % do him homage. The whole
idea of tine salute is repugnaut to the
republican mind and should be abol-
ishcd: and for that matter, as we have
no further Use for an army, why stop at
the SaiUte?'
Nod0ubt the uincty-and-nine OF The
PrU0dUm'S readers thought their editor
was sound. and were as opposed 10 the
idea of that courtesy which IS officially
declared % bee "indispensable among
military men, as 10 any exhibition
thereof in the streets of their own
peaceful and remarkably well regulated
metropolis.
But Col. Morris was himself woful'y
1er.urled about this time. After immO-
..atluc Cross and other officers by name,
rs was % br expected. The Palladium
man had taken 90 pOkius ugly little in
situations az the post commander and
Ithis. thought Morris. was the height OF
tn-ratitu4e He was in no pleasant
mood when tile men came marching zap
from stables. and 10 stung him TO see
how cordial everybody was 20 HeaIn.
vino. coutouud it, was the cause of tha
whole row. The Telegram he had just
received settled THAI matter once and
for all: vet lie was clad he had an adiu-
tant on whom t. deyo,ye the coming
duty.
Ever since Hearu'> trouble began Cap
tain and Mrs.. Lame had lost no oppor-
tunitv 90 make him understand that they
were devo,ed.y his friends, and that II
he would 0ut come TO them in his sense
Iof inter wrong the shelter OF their home,
|rne welcome of their freSide. would be
some COMPENSATION 40 least fOrihe harsh
treatment accorded him by the world
Lar large. Thanks 90 the efforts OF the
western newspapers million or more OF
free ue0u'e had learned 10 look upon
|nis name as the synonym for all that
was staggering. brutal. drunken and
|brllving: and iJ was easy to see that
the Young soldier was cut TO the heart.
But am unexpected ally had been dis
covered. Hearu, who had at first held
Ialoof in solitude. brooding over his
troubles. began % show decided readi-
ness TO come. Aud though at all times
grateful and most attentive TO Mrs.
Lane. that clear sighted young
matron speedily noted how his
handsome blue eyes would
wander about in search of her
.onietlv ob,eryaut friend, and that ever
since the night OF her tilt with Lawier
Miss Mar>hal.'s interest in the case had
been quadrup,ei. Now, this was not
exactly what Mrs. Lane had planned.
She wanted Georgia 10 marry in the
army. bun she also wanted, ana saw
nothing in the least unreasonable III so
wanting. TO select that spirited young
woman's husband tor hel. She did not
for moment thirE that there was any
|danrerOf Georcia's falling in love with
Hearn.
He was several years her senior. TO be
sure: he was handsome, distinguished as
"a soldier, q man Of mmpeachaoie char
.acter rs modern men 90: but, She ar
rued. "Le is 81 much younger Tor 4ls
wears than Georgia for hers She had
had m think somuch for herself, and
NOW, the man she should marry was
well. not Grabbed old MAJ. Kenyon ol
course. he was widower-sour and yet
I've bon. "a