The National tribune., 1900-10-18

After guard mounting" the sick are
paraded for medical inspection at the doc
tors Office, where all are treated, accord
ing to their particular needs. But woe to
| the man who goes sick" without cause,
expecting to get excused from duty. Army
doctors are wiser than owls, and many a
man, while trying to impose upon them,
has come TO grief.
The time for the trial of prisoners Gf
there are any is 10 o'clock, and af-
ter this the commanding officer attends to
any other business. All the prisoners are
marched off to the orderly y-room, outside
which minor offenses are brought before
the Colonel for dismissal. A mans pun
ishment may range from being "admOn-
ished'' to ii days cells" according to
the nature of the offense ard the past con-
duct of the offender.
For very grave crimes a man is tried
by cOurt-martial. For the smaller of
will get about three days &c. b." (cOn-
finement to barracks); for being absent
from parade" man would be confined to
the barracks for seven days, at least.
Eight days &c. B." means ''regimcntal''
entry being entered against the mans
name in the regimental defaulters' book,
and this punishment for offense would en-
tail the loss of a goOd-conduct badge. "a
man receives a penny per day for each
good-conduct badge) Punishment less
than this is not entered in the regimental
defaulters' book. When man is brought
up for trial his "defaulter-sheet" must be
produced, and he is generally punished in
the light of his previous history, the pun
ishment man gets for any offense being
always chronicled on this sheet, together
with the name of the officer who awards
it, the place and date.
After the 'orderly-room" is over the
Sergeant-Major gives the OrderlySer-
geants the details of the duties for the
following day.
At 1916 o'clock the principal parade
Of the day takes place, under the COM
rade is in marching order. Two or three
hours marching, standing and drill are
calculated to take the spirits out Of all,
except those who have received letters
from home. 1t takes about two and q
half hours to get ready for n marching
order or inspection parade. At 40 de-
faulters fall in, in heavy marching order,
| and, groaning mentally, with fixed bayo-
| nets and sloped arms, they march to and
fro for one solid hour. Sometimes the
Provost-Sergeant makes them open valises
and "show kit to. finish up with. The
man who can go through his defaulter's s
drill without showing fatigue is much re
spected by his fellows; and it is said that
| a man is not properly a soldier until he
"cells."
At 1870 a warning call is sounded for
the Orderly Corporals to-get ready their
| Orderly-men, and see to the wants of any
prisoners who may be confined in the pris-
oners room, in charge of the guard.
At 12:45 dinners are served. With one
or two exceptions this is the British sol
der's dinner hour the world over; and
no sooner is that finished than every man
islands to-" tables and forms are carried
out, scrubbed and returned to their re-
spective places, each man doing his own
| work-no shirking; the man who is caught
doing that comes in for more than all the
rest, and so he should. Among the un-
written laws of non-cOmmissioned officers
none is more severe or changeleSS than
this, that any man who is in the habit of
throwing his work on the shoulders of his
fellows shall be shown no mercy. They
detest lazy man.
Fatigue duty takes place in the after
noon, as in the morning.
The regimental library can De resOrted
to in hours of leisure; and, generally, there
is fair number of readable books to be
had. The principal local papers lie on
| the tables, together with the most popu-
lar English weeklies. Those not skilled
in reading Roman letters read the pic
lures in the magazines instead.
| The school hours for those attending
are variable. Some attend by compulsion
others voluntarily. Every non-commis.
| stoned officer and every boy Is compelled
to attend, until he has second-class GER
| tifcate, for one and half hours each
day. Some there are who will never leave
it until they have finished with the ser,