The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-22
An Irrepre..IbIe soldier.

when / was in the army during the
war" said the ez-army officer to Wash
ingtOn Star reporter. Eve had chap with
us that for an ali around merry fellow
could not be equaled anywhere, He was
always doing something unmilitary and
just as often coming out OF IL with flying
colors- He was captain and quartermas-
ter, and I shall call him Capt A IL you are
going to print what / say"
enough"
We'll then, on one occasion Capt. A
was seated opposite Maj. 3. at a hotel
table Now the major was one of those
severe looking men who strikes the OBJ
server as IT ne wanted 70 Dite a nan IN
two and would do il il the nail got be-
tween his teeth. He was a good deal
like he looked, too, and never permitted
his dignity to be mOnkeyed with without
resenting il. The captain didn't know the
major, nor the major know the captain.
ana possibly never would have made his
acquaintance if the captain had been at all
Ike the major But he wasn't. he sat
watching the major cut a tough piece Of
steak, and the more he noticed the deter
mined look on the majors face and the
fierce, Nindictive manner in which he at
tackled the steak on his plate the funnier
1t seemed to the captain, and at last he
could restrain himself no longer.
Excuse me, major he said. with a
twinkle in his eye. as the major stopped
his operations and looked UP, excuse me,
but did that steer ever kick your
ne mayor caught on IN a minute, anu
he was as hot as fire, and at once handed
his card to the captain. The captain
knew what that meant in the south, but
he was not disturbed, and went out of
the dining room smiling. He was about
going away and at the front door of the
hotel he found an ambulance. The cap
tain asked whose it was, and when he
was told it was Mai. b. s he tumbled his
luggage into II and got in to wait for de-
velopments. They came in a few minutes
in the person of the major.
" Sir? exclaimed the major, fiercely, as
he started back on seeing who the oc-
cupant was.
'' That's all right, major smiled the
captain. Get in and we'll go out and set
tie our little affair and the ambulance
will come in handy to send the remains
And the funny part was that the ma
jor got in, but not to fight. The ludi-
crousness Of it all struck him then, and
he and the captain became the best of
friends.
Another time" concluded the officer,
the captain was called on by the depart
ment at Washington for his quaTtermas-
ter report. Indeed, he had been called
on many times, but his responses had
been few. He was as honest as old wheat,
but he was no sort of a business man, and
his accounts were Greek to him. However,
when the peremptory order came, the
captain got a move on and hunted up
every paper that he could find in his Of
flee, running back for months, and tumb-
led them pell-mell into a barrel. This he
headed up carefully and shipped to Wash
1ngton, accompanied by the following note:
Dear Sir-In accordance with your re-
quest, l send you herewith my accounts,
and sincerely hope you can do something
with them, for ! swear l can't"
Wasn't he bounced?" inquired the Star
man.
mo" replied the officer. ''he was too
qualities to be thrown out for a little
thing like that"