The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28

federate regiment which he afterward COM
manded. After tho war his West Point
record and the United States commission
he had held made things particularly hard
for him. He could not get possession Of
even the remnant Of his patrimony without
submitting to the ''lronclad OATH" So he
stified his aristocratic feelings. took place
in q New York clothing store, made a
little money by introducing an. improve
1nent in the making of shirts and then
went to Canada.
Proapered in Hts Exile.
From Canada the colonel went to Ger
many, where, as he spoke the language flu
emily. he managed to get along pretty well
in the retail tobacco business From Ger
many he removed to Havre. France. using
his knowledge of French to equal advan-
tage. But London held out the strongest
financial inducements to him.
There, In spite Of the climate, social and
political drawbacks. he prospered and was
popular. Everybody who knew him liked
him: tho British found him an honest
man, with the feelings and the polished
manners of what they call the upper
classes" his humble business, his eccen-
tricitfes and HIS unique Georgian manner
Of speech notwithstanding.
This was one strikingly picturesque,
and, on the whole. noble type OF the ir-
reconcilable Southerner There were 9TH
ers. generally less picturesque and not al
ways 30 noble. A billiard marker, for ex-
ample, in a suburban hotel, whom the
habitues, including several officers Of q
regiment Quartered near by. always adj
dressed as major" proved on inquiry to
be genuine South Carolina ex-Confeder-
ate stan soldier. As rule, his conduct
was respectable and his manners entire
ly beyond reproach, but II was understood
that, contrary to the rule In English hotel
billiard rooms. patrons of those particular
tables were never to offer the marker q
drink. This. though necessary, was all the
harder on both patrons and marker be-
cause no one would ever have thought Of
daring to offer him coin. 1t was only In
the alterations following his occasional
sprees that he spoke Of the vow he had
taken never again to set foot on American
soil or on the deck of a vessel flying the
American flag. When not suffering from
the effects Of his weakness. he never spoke
of America or of anything connected with
his own past.
Joined the Egyptian Army.
The cases of D. and Mel. were hardly in
the line OF the irreconcilable Southerner.
These two men-cousins-were before the
civil war both officers Of the British Nine
ty-second highlanders. now the first bat
talions of the Gordons. They resigned
their commissions and came to this coun-
try, on a romantic impulse, to fight for
the South. At the end of the war-and Of
the Confederacy-the both found them
selves without career, and their small
fortunes had been invested in Confederate
government loans. Knowing no other way
OF earning a living but soldering they
took service in the Egyptian army.
The Egyptian army, indeed. was, thirty
years ago. before the days Of Cromer and
Of Kitchener, the refuge Of numberiess ex-
Confederates, ana of those who chose to
expatriate themselves perhaps no other
soldiers Of tho lost cause Jared 50 well as
a class as the American mercenaries of
Ismail. Many of them rose to high rank,
but few ever left Egypt to die, as one gal
liant I.ouisianian died. in his own country
with the rank of pasha and the jeweled
decorations Of the khedive.