The Advocate and news., 1898-10-26

AOAOsnNAO RAOAgubAOAAg 9gA0RtoA uA0 yoA-
der Of lieutenancies in the regular army
in 1865, the war having broken up all
their vocations at home, and now, haV-
ing given four years more TO the mill
tary serviCe-taken all those years out
Of their lives that might have been
given to establishing themselves in bust
ness--they were hidden TO choose be-
tween voluntarily quitting the army
with q bonus Of a years pay and re-
manning with no hope Of advancement
Most Of them, despairing Of finding en-
ployment in civil life, concluded to
stay; so other methods Of getting rid Of
them were devised, and, to the amaze
Of the army and the dismay Of the vic
Tins, a big list was published Of officers
rendered supernumerary" and sum-
marily discharged.
And this was how 1t happened that
gallant, brilliant and glad hearted fell
low, the favorite staff officer of a glori-
ous corps commander who fell at the
head Of his men after three years Of
equally glorious service, found himself
in faraway Texas this BLACKLIST Of black
Fridays, suddenly turned loose on the
world and without hope or home.
Cruel was no word for it. Entering
the army before the war, one Of the
few gifted civilians commissioned be-
cause they loved the service and then
had friends to back them, Edgar Law
renee had joined the cavalry in Texas,
where the first thing he did was to fall
heels over head in love with his cap
tain's daughter, and a runaway match
resulted. Poor Kitty Tyrrelll Poor Ned
LawrenCel Two more impractical peo
pie never lived. She was an army girl
with aspirations, much sweetness and
little sense. He was q whole souled,
generous lavish fellow. Both were ex
travagant, she particularly So They
were sorely in debt when the war broke
out, and he instead Of going in for the
volunteers was induced TO become aid
de-camp to his old colonel, who passed
him on to another when he retired, and
when the war was half over Lawrence
was only O captain Of staff, and captain
he came out at the close Brevets Of
course he had, but what are brevets but
empty title? What profiteth it a man
to be called colonel if he have only the
pay Of sub? Hundreds Of men who ca
gerly sought his aid or influence during
the war "held over him" at the end Of
it. Another general took him ON his
staff as aid-de-Camp, where Lawrence
was invaluable. Kitty dearly loved city
life, parties, balls, operas and theaters,
but Lawrence grew lined and gray with
care and worry. The general went the
way of all flesh, and Lawrence to Tex.
as, unable to get another staff billet.
They set him at court martial duty at
San Antonio for several months, for
Texas furnished culprits by the score in
che days that followed the war, and
many an unpromising army career was
cut short by the tribunal of which Cap
tain and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Lawrence was judge advocate, but all
the time he had skeleton in his own
closet that by and by ratified it's way out.
Time was in the war days when
many of the men Of the headquarters
escort banked their money with the be-
loved and popular aid. He had nearly
81, 200 when the long columns probed
the Wilderness in 1864 1t was still
with him when he was suddenly sent
back to Washington with the body of
his beloved chief, but every cent wa
gone before he got there, stolen froi
him on the steamer from Acquia creek
and never trace was found of it thcr
after. For years he was paying that
it good in driblets hur " :,
he was serving faithfully III Tera
commanding a scout that took hir
miles and miles away over the Llanu
Estacado, there were inimical souls
who worked the story Of his indebted