| Show FORT DOUGLAS FACTS Sergeant Haines company B Twenty first infantry is on four months furlough The summary court is giving general satisfaction This new departure will evidently evi-dently do away with garrison courts martial The remains of Tina Rapp the suicide were consigned to their last resting placa in the military cemetery at 3 oclock on the afternoon of the 10th instant Colonel Blunt will be with us on Wednesday Wednes-day the 12th instant The cmmand wi 1 be glad to see him and to know that his trip cast has been a pleasant one A general courtmartial was convened at this post on the 10th inst to try such as have offended so grievously as not to have the case settled by the summary court The attendance at the band concert on Sunday afternoon was not very largo owing to the cool weather The music was of a high order and appreciated by those in at t3ndance George Boll company H Sixteenth infantry in-fantry left on Sunday last for Milwaukee He goes on a two months furlough and will look after a snug cash inheritance whilst away Captain Wittich the new company commander com-mander of F Twentyfirst infantry is expected ex-pected very shortly He will relieve First Lieutenant Eltonhead the officer at present pres-ent in charge of F It can be said that Lieutenant Eltonhead has proven his efficiency as a company commander and is on the whole an excellently drilled officer and thorough soldier Some days ago a gentleman 1 spoke of the soldiers as a mass of ignoramus and his auditor no doubt coincided if our informant reckoned correctly from the facial expression The writer of this is aware of the antipathy against us by a great many The argument used to our detriment is that we are not fitted for any other avocation and as a last resort enlist Further that none but those of inferior intellectual capacity are in the enlisted branch It is not our desire to make the soldier an angel elevate him above all others but it is to state facts concerning the much despised wearer of the blue uniform uni-form Our knowledge cof the regula army dates back to August 18S4 and in tao intervening time it hasbeen our good fortune for-tune to meet with many of very superior attainments from standpoint intellectual In this free country if a man cares to adopt the profession of a soldier he has a perfect right sa to dolt do-lt is nobodys business the soldier is supposed sup-posed to have attained his majority when he enlists If his conduct is such that he is confined in the guard house for violating the regulatious he suffers the penalty no one else God has not endowed all men with an education Poverty has kept many worthy men from the acquirements which his other friends in the army possess as regards re-gards an acquaintance with the text books forming a common school education We have met in the army men of fine classical 1 attainments thorough in their knowledge of the old Roman and Greek authors as well as expert mathematicians These men enter the army with a view some of them to rise to the commissioned rank others too old for that apply themselves to wear the chevrons of the noncommissioned rank whilst others again are content to do the clerical work of the quartermaster or subsistence department teach school or accept other details for which they receive extra compensation As to a soldier being of that lazy good for nothing class we simply sim-ply beg reference to the fact that under recent re-cent orders many have availed themselves or furloughs and are working some at trades others at hard labor and are earning earn-ing standard wares That incoEsittentJrcmark that weare amass a-mass of ignoramus is Uioreiore too thin to bear dissection and with these remarks we dismiss it trusting that those who think us creatures fit for menagerie purposes pur-poses will withhold their anathemas until they have been fully convinced Remember Remem-ber you cannot judge a mun by the clothes he wears even if they be blue Uintah Encampment Kb 2 Independent Champions of the Red Cross met at Recreation Recre-ation hall at 080 pm Sunday lust for the purpose of reorganization About twenty five were present Several names were proposed for membership Tnis is a capital move and in the right direction We will lend our support to the organization and trust the membership will roll up to the hundreds The object of course is first last and all the time temperance yet the meetings will be made interesting and instructive in-structive by the reading of choice literature litera-ture All who desire to swear veugain a against intoxicants are invited as well s those who are temperate or rarer total abstainers It is to be hoped that tlc o joining will stand firm remembering that health is wealth and no one can bo the happy possessor of gooi health by being on too intimate terms with liquids solely compounded com-pounded to unstring the nerves and debase the man morally FrITZ Nov 11 1890 |
