Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
THEY FIGHT IT OUT.
HOW EMS slsA ARMY oFFicERs SET
 TIE HEIR DIFFERENCES.

HOW EMS lSH ARMY OFFICERS SET
 TIE HEIR DIFFERENCES.
 The Plebe.an and tho pesr-fow oae
 Regisneas N'as Opened to Others Than
 oaehoets Of the peerage How @aseiIy,
 Crushed tie Cheeky Youngster.
 In view q the disgracoful duel be- tween tlte Duke of Orleans and the Count of Turin we publish the follow ing article which shows the mannor in which Bsitish officers settle disputes:
 Officers have their disaereenlents. of eourse,slike other men, and they hayo to be settled. Dueiing is forbidden by law as well as by modern ideas and vsrnmon sense. Complaints respecting infractions of mess etiquette CT of un- gentlenlanly or pnsoldierly conduct may be submitted to the mess committee. the punitive. powers of which are extremely farreachfn fng. The life of all officer sent to CovcI Itry, by his fellows is unendura. 1. ble, and his only chance is to exchange. N k 13. and in t end disputes are frequently ksettled D a resort to first principles $fhe rule fist--while redress is some Times 9taincd in ways as drastic as sthey are novel
 \ gentleman joined crack cavalry regiment. He had no pedigree or falni. y to recommend him. In fact, his ia ther was retired brewer, aud by the |siens of nobility among his comrades he was rather coldly received. " Are you the son of Dash. b4e brew r2a inquired one of these. .'I am
 Then why didn't your father bring you up to his trade.a'
 Oh, well. you're the son of Lord Blank, aren t you?'
 Yes. '
 Then why didn' { he bring you up a gentlenansa
 The upshot of this was t rough and tumble, wherein was demonstrated that 4 III the army plebeian is the equal of I q peer--if he can box as we'll
 Another gentleman from the ranks of trade came homo onc day to find all the ereckery and breakable articles in his rooms smashed, the same being intend < ed by the wreckers as d delicate hint that his presence among them was ob- jeetionable
 He was late for dilnler that evening an1 apologized 10 the president of the lnsss for it, explaining what had hap pened--that he had been to the rooms of the three he suspected and returned the compliment; if he had wronged any, he would apologize and restore the articles; if he had hit on the right ones, they could hayo satisfaction i'll the rid lng school after dinner
 Accordingly, after dinner. two of them received satisfaction in fall, q Ia
 5oriett, Il drill lime Hut fhe third < proved a tougher nut to crack, and tie big hearted plebeian (who. hy the bye, is now ;l general. weakened by his ex- ertions, was getting worsted so anoth- er of tue same social status who was .sH expert boxer took up the running.
 He soon finislpd off the third man and obhgiagly offered to take OH any % enc who symfath Ized with the trio By # this n.ears-apTropria to their pro fessieR--these two officers opened tho dope i'll tIat regiment to others than N ofshoots of the peeFage, by whom it { had previously been regarded as pre- serve.
 & Among officers exchanging from enc regiment 10 another is common. One X title man. l lieutenant, incurred the ' enmity of the men of his troop by coil. tinually finding fault and rabbing it in by contrasting them uIfayorably with his late earps till they hated the very name of the 'Pinks as we'll call < them
 Not only the rank and file, but the noncommissioncd officers, came i'll for his animadversion till it got unbearable. and at last tho troop sergeant major told the captain quietly that there would be mutiny i'll the troop before # long if 1t continued
 It so happened that he had also car ried his insulting comparisons into the mess and as he wouldn't [ take advice and drop 1t his brother officers took # thAmatter into their own hands, with { th8result that one cold night in Febru- % ary there was hubbub within the off cers' quarters window was presently opened and little sJoey, ; clad only i'll his nightshirt, was handed out, seized, placed and held down in handbaTow. wheeled off to the manure heap and there shot out. to make his way back to bed as best he could He soon after left tho regiment.
 The antipodes of this gentleman was an officer in the same regiment, an Irishman, 6 feet and big ill propor- ton, but his go,' was not proportion ate to his size. He was too big and apa- < thetic for Q cavalry captain, Ill fact, x his nickname, Molly, well describes Y him. One check" youngster appeared M to think he could take any liberties # with such an easy going mountain 9f flesh, and i'll the billiard room one night x lle carried his impotence beyond all X reason.