Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-14

pany. It's outside the lines, and you're inside Don't look much like company anyhow"
 Indeed the sentinel's sarcastic allu- sion to the company was justified. as the men Sanced and roared and fairly hugged one another to see the difficulty into which their stern sergeant had fall en. He made no further attempt to cross the lines, but turned and strode swiftly toward headquarters, followed by fresh burst of derisivc laughter from his in- subordinate command In n short time he reappcarcd, and exhibiting n pass to the sentinel ad- vanced toward his dcmoraliZed com paLy, and rcsuming his rife uttered the single word, "AttentionT' Every face instantly sobored, for ev- cry man felt that not only was Tom deeply offended. but that retribution | was close at hand Very quietly he gave the order: ''Dy the right flankl Right face. company! Forward, march!" and rctribution began. It was December. Snow had fallen | some days before, then rain, followed by | a day or two of unseasonably warm weather. The country roads, tramped | by troops of drilling cavalry and plOwed | by teams and loaded wagons, were all slush, water and very tenacious, deep mud.
 Straight to this abominable highway | Tom marched Company l. Directly into | the middle of the road, where the mud was thickest and the water deepest, the boys wheeled in obedience to his stern command. Then, as uncunccrncdly as though on the most perfect parade ground in the world, he issued his or | ders:
 By company, into platoons! Left in- to line, whceli On right, by file into liner' and through all the revolutions.
 At one moment Company 1 charged bayonets down that fearful road at dou- blc quick, at another wheeled in circle through slush, while Tom noted defects and corrected them as nonchalnntly as though on grassy lawn.
 For full hour and q half. long after recall had sounded, without halt or rest, Tom maneuvered that weary company.
 At last, wet, weary and half exhaust cd, the mud bedraggled company was led to quarters by its memorable com mandcr. Throughout that remarkable drill tho only word. Tom uttered that ] tTC sAllC bl lllS NSLo spoken as hc gavo tho command of dis
 misSal.
 "Companv, right facer' ho ordered
 Arms aport! When you fellows would like to defy discipline again, let mo
 know. Break ranks, march!'
 And so ended the proceeding. which was known ns Tom Crandall's march"
 as long as Company was m organiza- . tion.
 In the days which followed the boys of Company came to know their order
 ly sergeant better and learned tO respect
 and appreciate his military qualities,
 for if his literal interpretation of orders
 sometimes tended to their inconven- , fence 1t oftener led to their comfort and we'll being. and in more instances r than one to the preservation of some of
 their lives.
 , Poor Tom sleeps today in tho silent
 camping ground, and many of his old , companions are with him, but with each
 returning spring the floral emblems of his surviving comrades are laid upon his grave as tenderly as though that gro-
 tesaue march, of which he was the hero. 7 had never been.-George IL Hosea V
 According to Law. The prisoner before the wild and . woolly western court hadn't much of a I chance and no friends. but young law. - yer from the east, out there to win his
 spurs, undertook the case for the glory a there might be in it. and the first thing he did was to demapd n jury trial "Aw, come of" remonstrated tho !, judge
 "Your honor." said the young man,
 with great dignity, ''I demand ill th' 5 name of the constitutional right of ev $ cry citizen of this great and gloriou, e country that my client hero be trieC
 before a jury of his peers l. He can't git it." said the judge. al
 most overcome by this oratorical out
 burst.
 F. '.I demand it, your honor" insisted
 the young advocate
 Il rD'you say jury of his pccrsG" in ct quired the judge, ns if about to relcnt p "Yes, your honor" d "Well. now, look a-here. young fel
 ler." decided the judge, fer half n ceni t. I'd fine ycu fer contemp'. D'you thinl n we'd stand a dozen more like him il this community If you do. you hadn' II better say SO Perceed with yer argu
 menS" And the mandate of the cour a- xxaa ohevp,d -Dafrnif Esr,ee pr,,SS