The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-02-02

respects thoroughly in love with his pro-
tesSlon a faircr type of tho American
cavalry officer, when once he got in sad
die and settled down to business, ono
would hardly ask to find. Tall, athletic,
slender OF build, with frank, laughing
oluo eyes, curly, close cropped, light
brown hair, and a twirling mustacho
that was source of incXprcssible delight
to its owner and Of SOmo envy to his
brother subaltcrns, Mr.. Perry was prob
ably tho best looking OF the young Off
GERS who marched with tho battalion to
this far away station on tho borders of
the Llano Estacado. He had been ten
years in service, counting tho four he
spent as u cadet, had lust won his silver
bar us the Junior first lieutenant of tho
regiment, was full to the brim Of health,
energy, animal spirits and fun, and, bar
ring II few duns and debts in his earlier
experiences, had never known a heavier
care in the world than tho transient
and cphcmeral anxiety as to whether he
would bo called up for recitation on n
subject hc had not SO much as looked at,
or "hired" absent from roll call ho had
lazily slept through.
Any other man, his comrades said,
would havo been spoiled Il dozen times
over by tho prtting he had received from
both men and women; but thcro was
something essentially sweet and genial
about his nat,lrc-somcthing "lacking in
guile about his perceptions, said a cyni-
Cal old captain CT the rcgimcnt-and a
JoVlal, Sunshily way of looking upon the
world as an Eden, all men and all women
as friends, and the army us the profess
SION above all others, and these various
attributes combined to make him popular
with his kind and unusually attractive
TO the opposite son. As Il cadet he had
been pcrpctuaIly on tho verge of dismiss
6al because OF the appalling array of de-
merits hc could roll upagainSt his name,
ana yet the very officers who .ottcd down
tho memoranda Of his Sins-omssion
ana commission against the regulations
were men who openly said he chad the
making OF ono Of the finest soldiers in
tho class" AS junior second lieutenant
-"plcbe"-of the regiment. he had been
welcomed by every man from the colonel
down, and it was considered particularly
rough that ho should have to 20 to such
n company as Capt. Cankcrs, because
Canker was u man who never got along
"i'ii any vi iiio JlillloISj DuI lncfc was
something so irrcprcssibly frank and
contrito in Pcrry's boyish face when he
would appear at his captains door
III tho early morning and burst out
with: "By Jove, ,captainl slept
through rovcillo again this morning,
and never got down till stables
were nearly over" that even that cross
grained but honest troop commander
was disarmcd, and, though he threat
cncd and rcprimandcd, no would mover
punish--would never deny his subaltcrn
the faintcst privilege; and when promo.
ton took the captain to another rcgi.
mcnt Inc badc good-by to Perry with eyes
that wcro suspiciously wet. "Why,
blow it all, what do you fellows hate
Cankcr SO for!" the yomgstcr often
said. ''l1c ought to put mo in arrest
timc and again, but he won't. Blamed
If l don't put myself in arrest, or conlino
myself TO The limits of the post, and do
something, to cut all this going to town
and Eops and such things. Then can
stick to :hc troop like wax and get up at
rcvcillc. but il I'm out dancing iii 9 OF
in the morning it's no use, tell YOU;
just cant wake up"
1t was always predicted of Ned Perry
that he would bc "married and done
for" within year Of his graduation.