The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-10

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 ] You've learned sense now, I'll bet, :" said the provost sergeant.
 IT sense means work, I'm still a. learning replied the bucker, | The man had to be kept by regula- ton, three days locked up in the guard house proper before being again rele- gated to the dungeon, When the three days were up, into the dungeon he went again, this time for a six day trick.
 He loked ghostly when he was drawn up in the prisoners line on the seventh | day.
 | Willing to do a little coal hauling chore or two now?" inquired the pro- vost sergeant.
 No, never will be. Might as well get that fact drilled into your thick skull. I never will be-"
 Then the man was taken before the commanding officer. He was talked to rather nicely by the commanding otfi- cer, and recommended to take a quiet little tumble to himself.
 "Go to work, like the other prisoners, my man, and save yourself misery and get yourself restored to duty when your sentence is worked out"
 Never" said the prisoner. And he was a pretty pallid and thing looking lot, too, by this time.
 During the ten day trick in the dun seon in a state of collapse. He was surveyed by the post surgeon. The commanding officer thought it better, after the man got out of the hospital to ~bob-tail" him outright-that is, dismiss him from service without fur ther ado. The man would have died before he would have worked under a sentry. He was one of the few buck CTS who ever came out ahead in the contention with military authority in the regular army.
 An apprentice boy aboard one of the gunboat of our navy performed a bit of bucking about three years ago, but af- ter getting very much the worst of it his nerve left him and he succumbed. This boy tok ad islike to one of the chief petty officers. The lad was a striker for the chief petty officers mess and one day in a fit of temper he threw the chief petty officers mess stool violently away from the mess ta- ble. Grown men in the navy are not permitted to spank the apprentice lads, much as the boys occasionally need spanking, so this chief petty officer went to the officer of the deck and told quietly of the occurrence, saying that while he didn't care to have the boy punished, he'h have to insist upon the apprentices picking up the mess stool oi n at tbo toh hn apprentice boy was summoned by the officer of the deck, lectured and told to pick up the chief petty officers mess stool and replace it where it belonged. The boy would not do it, and said he wouldn't. This was simply mutiny, but the boys age was considered. He was doubleironed and put in the brig. Ten days later he was given a chance to put the mess stool back at the mess table, but he wouldn't do it. The stool was permitted to remain just where the boy had thrown it, even during Sunday inspections and one muster. The lad was general court -martialed for rank disobedience of orders, and was sen fenced to thirty days confinement in the solitary brig on bread and water. After doing twenty-seven days of this hard stunt the lad wilted, babied at the mast and was released. He picked up the mess stool
 Even when uniformed men of this generation mutiny, or buck, in a body, they very rarely make their point stick. The reason why seven bells in never struck in the British navy is because at ha1 inc a dred years ago. there were mutinies- long prearranged- aboard a lot of Brit ish ships of war throughout the world. Seven bels has never been struck on the evening watch on British man. of-war since that occasion, in order that the absence of the half-hour tolling at that particular period of the day may be a, perpetual reminder of diso- bedience to British naval tars-of the necks of a slew of mutineesr was stretched when this thing was over and the mutinies were suppressed. But this was a long time ago. Mutiny doesn't go now, The old Hartford, Far raguts flagship, had as wild and reck- less a gang of sailors aboard of her after the war as ever jumped to the piping of mess gear This ships conn pany then included scores of buckers. A few years before the Hartford went out of commission the buckers got to- gether and decided that they didn't like the quality of the neckerchiefs and tobacco being served out to them by the ships paymaster So they declined to accept the tobacco and neckerchiefs. It was a big ships company and the buckers numbered PIT. They thought they'd surely overawe all hands with such goodly numbers. The 217 of them did all the way from two weeks to two months In double irons for their little job of attempted skipper bulldozing, and that was the last mutiny in our navy. But the individual bucker re- remain as long as there is a. navy.
 The most picturesque bucker the reg ular army of the United States ever had was a wild Irish drum major who arrived at his finish at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan, a good long while ago. The man was a good drum major but the commanding officer at the post had to break him time and again to the ranks for all-around tumultuousness It wore on the Irish drum major might fly, this thing of being frequently rele- gated to the privates' barracks for bad conduct, and his nerves, no doubt, got