Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14

your sentence is worked out 2
Never said the prisoner And be
was pretty pallid and thin-Iooking
lot. too, by this time.
During the ten-day trick in the dun
geon that followed this, the man was
found in the dungeon in state OF col
lapse. He was surveyed by the sur
geon. The commanding officer
| thought 1t better, after the man got
out to "boh-tair' him outright-that
is, dismiss him from the service with
out further ado. The man would have
died before he would have worked un-
der a sentry He was one OF the few
buckers who ever came cut ahead IN
contention with military authority in
the regular army.
/ An apprentice boy aboard one of the
gunboats performed star bit Of buck
ing about three years ago, but after
| getting very much the worst OF ii. his
nerve left him and he succumbed. This
boy took a dislike to enc Of the chief
petty officers. The lad was q striker
| for the chief petty officers mess, and
one day in a fiji Of temper he threw the
chief petty officers mess stool violent
ly away from the table. Grown men
in the service 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 day and told quietly OF
/, the occurrence. saying that while he :.
didn't care to have the boy punished.
he'd have TO insist upon the appren-
tees picking up the mess stool, and
placing it at the table The appren-
tice boy was summoned by the officer
! of the deck. lectured and told to pick
up the chief petty officers stool and
place it where it belonged. The boy
would not do 1t, and said he wouldn't
do 1t. This was simply mutiny. but
the boys age was considered. He was
double-ironed and put in the brig. Ten
days later he was given q chance to
put the mess stool back at til >sss Ia
bic. but he wouldn't do 1t. pcA
was permitted to remain just Wy the
boy had thrown 1t, even during Sunday
| iusuectiou and on muster. The lad
was general court-n1artialed for rank
disobedience of orders and was SEM
fenced 10 thirty days solitary conslne-
ment in the brig on bread and water.
After doing twenty-seSen days of this
hard stunt the lad wilted, habied Of the
mast and was released He picked UP
| the mess STOOL
even wlen uniformed men of this
| generation mutiny, or buck, In n bcdy.
| they very rarely make their point
| stick The reason why seven bells is
never struck in the British navy is be-
| cause at seven bells one evening over
| a hundred years ago, there were n.A-
| tinies-long prearranged--abogrd 3 .at
| of British ships of war throughout tire
world, Seven bells has never been
| struck on the evening watch on a Arlt-
| ish man-of-war since that occasion, in
| order that the absence OF the half-houg
| tolling at that particular period CT the
| day may be perpetual remainder Of
| obedience to British naval tafs--for
| the necks Of slew of the mutlneers
! were stretched when this thing was
| all over and the mutinies were sup
pressed. But this was long time age
| Mutiny doesn't go now The old Hart
! ford, Farragut's flagship had as wild
| and reckless gang OF sailors aboard OF
| HEREAFTER the war as ever jumped 70
| the piping of mess gear. This ships
eompanN then included scores OF buck
ers. A faN years before the Hartford
| went cut commission the huckers
got togetl Mud decided that they
| didn't likl \uality OF the necker-
chiefs Asals Isss.aA - aiidu -
them by the SHIPS paymaster. 50 IliGy
declined TO accept the tobacco and
| neckerchiefs. It was a big ships COM
pany and the buckers numbered 2iT.
They thought they'd surely overawe all
hands with such goodly numbers. The
PIT of them did all the way from two
weeks to two months in double irons
for their little job Of attempted skip
per bulldozing, and that was the last
mutiny in our navy But the indiyM-
ual bucker remains, and he probably
always shall 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 Eno ar
rived ct his finish at Fort Leayeu-
worth, Kan, good long while age
The man was good drum major, but
the commanding officer at the post had
to break him time aud again to the
ranks for all-around tumultgousnesg.
II wore on the Irish drum major might
lily. this thing OF being frequently rel
egated to the privates barracks for
bad conduct, and his nerves, no doubt,
got on edge. Anyhow, the last time
he was broke to the rank OF private
nc went mo Inc dA URGES liIAa| OHg
afternoon with the determination that
he'd get square with the commanding
officer fer breaking him If he had to
hang for it. So, as the command was
passing in review before the commands
ing officer, the ex-drum major dropped
quietly out Of ranks. made for a loose
brick walk, picked up half brick and
let the commanding officer have It
right In the chest The Commanding
officer went down as If be had been hit
by bullet The soldiers brake ranks
and made for the ex-drum MS jDY. He
stood them of. pelting them with
bricks. for ten minutes and be used
them up a good deal. Then they over
powered him and he got twelve years
at the Fort Worth military prison.
The army and navy. Ia brief are bad
places for the man Of an analytical
turn Of mind He Is liable to meet up
with some things that were not devils
ed for analysis, but for performances
There is justice, the very best quality
Of II. In the two United States GER
vices, no better in any service IN the
world. But the bucker who sets about
10 undo tie man with the gilt orna-