The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-28
SCAPEGRACES NOT WANTED.
ARMY AND NAVY BOTHERED BY
 RICH MEMS SONS.

Young Men Who Have Enlisted ant
 Have Then Repented-TroubIe The'
 Can Mako With Impuntty-Two De
 moralized Army Posts--A Rich Sail.
 or's Long and Joyous Spree in Ja.
 pan.
 A chief yeoman in the navy serv-
 ing on the South Atlantic station re-
 gently came into legacy of one hun
 dred thousand dollars. Being asked if
 he was going to try to get out of the
 naval service, he replied that he was
 not He said that he liked his billet
 and that 1t would be no hardship for
 him to serve out his time or two
 or three enlistments more, for that
 matter.
 Last spring young soldier who had
 seen hard service in Cuba and in the
 hilippines fell heir to large estate be-
 queathed to him by an uncle in Mime
 sota. He was stationed at Fort Me-
 herson at the time and he had just
 re-enlisted. His reply to inquirers was
 that he hadn't the slightest notion of
 trying to get his discharge, that sol-
 diering had changed him from ha-
 rum -scarum rovsterer to a level-head-
 ed man, and had, in fact been the making of him; and that he decidedly
 intended to finish out the long remain ing butt of his No. enlistment.
 To judge from these two instances, 1t might seem that the possession of money did not turn the heads of all en- listed men in the two services But such cases it must be said, are very rare. The buck soldier or the bluejack
 ct who unexpectedly comes into money generally goes intothe air, to employ the sporting phrase. He essays to storm the war or the navy department in the effort to get his discharge; and when he fails in these efforts he Is pret- ty apt to play, by bad conduct, for bobtail or bleaching, as dishonorable discharges are respectively known in the army and navy; or he will simply take French leave.
 Nor are the sons of wealthy fathers who don uniform to spite their folks any more sensible. as a rule. When they come to themselves and find that, so far as their superiors are concerned, they are just like any other Bill or Jack in the ranks, they almost invaria- bly begin their frantic wriggling to shed their blouses for good and all and they use the liberal spending money allowed them by their parents in their efforts to effect this end.
 A few years ago a young fellow whose father was a millionaire lumber man of Michigan took on after ca- rouse at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago. He had been a pampered youngster all his life; had got his education at Hei- dleberg and had had money to burn since his boyhood. He was an only son, stalwart and clever, but a natu- ral-born scapegrace and black sheep.
 About week after this young man found himself with a Springfield on his shoulder, humping his little post with only the shelter of a rubber poncho, he rubbed his eyes, thought it over and reached the conclusion that he didn't like soldering little bit. The next day he respectfully submitted an ex- pression of this feeling to the captain of his company, and was grimly laughed al TOT ms palnS.
 Nothing disheartened, he went to the office of the commanding officer a stern, strange man, famous in his day | for these qualities throughout the | army, and told him that he really be- l lieved he was aweary of the service, | and would the commanding officer be | considerate enough to obtain his inn | mediate discharge? The commanding l officer appeared to be in two minds | about putting the young man In the | guard house for his impudence, but | finally chased him back to barracks with roast.
 Whereupon the young man, doing his duty. right up to the handle and giving none of his superiors chance at him on proper military grounds, inaugura- ted a little scheme of his own. He was a member of two of the swellest clubs In Chicago. Every evening, then, he would doff his uniform, after having got the required leave of absence, don a swell suit of multi, drive to a Chica- 20 hotel and rig repair to his clubs.
 Many of the officers of Fort Sheridan were members of these clubs. The voung buck soldier would elaborately salute them, as the regulations re- ,uired, every time he passed his offi- ,rs at these clubs. Sometimes he'd sa- ute each of them fifty times night at the two clubs, apparently passing to and from the rooms in which they ounged especially for this purpose and .hev'd have to return his salutes every ,ime He made no effort to chum with -hm although he was on terms of tnt1- macy with most of the big men of the ,Iubs and his friends in the club didn't are anything about his little escapade if joining the army as buck soldier .o long as he was himself and the son if his father Here was a manfestly impossible ,, for the Fort Sheridan officers,
 mischievous private soldier proving round their clubs every night, and be- : ng made much of by his sleWs or { friends. and forcing them to return his |, alutes every two minutes or so during , bair hours of relaxation. The officers , omnlained querously to the club au- z borities of this situation, which they [ r,,thfulIy said caused them to look and , eel ridiculous; and they were ln- ormed that. inasmuch as the young ,an behaved himself with perfect pro- riety. and was member in excellnnt Y 4,d;no they'd have to grin and bear