Show THE ENGLISH SOLDIER I 1 his hl meager meae pay IW and still more 0 chance for promotion I 1 the nominal pay of a common soldier is twenty five cents a 0 ilay day varying up to forty two cents a day for men in the household eav ca cavelry alry vilry but when tile the prescribed stoppages have been mado made toward the cost of his keep very little indeed is left to him in the way of pocket money lie he may not fare baal badly Y as compared with men of his own rank in life who are not soldiers while lie he is in his teens or for a few years after soon however lie wants more and is worth more it if he is worth any thins thing and the bribe of four cents a day clay rifling t to six cents for re engagement is not enough M for his requirements quire ments or his deserts he may of course advance to be a corporal a sergeant t aint or even a sergeant 0 bant major receiving 0 as much as or in the royal engineers a day nay it is is now possible tor for him to be promoted altogether out of the ranks and to become col lie an all officer and a gentleman buttliere Butt but these liese latter promotions are very rare and though though 0 there are doubtless doubt lesi quite as many commissioned noncommissioned non officers as there is room or need for in a regiment enough scope is not thus a afforded affo ailed riled for the reward of good conduct and long service which the great t mas 3 of our soldiers have a right to expect surely it would be to the genet general al advantage and not really expensive if such a pro ive scale of pay were adopted as would enable a private it if through no fault of his own lie he continued to be it a private all through his career to have when lie was K orty forty or fifty years old muan larger remuneration than the balance left to him after stoll a nominal wage of thirty cents A day the addition of a penny to evera soldiers pay would amount to nearly a 3 ear but is as we surrender with every soldier whom we discharge after seven years service the value que n of oi something like there would lie be no expense whatever it if we kept that oil one thousand pounds pound worth of in the army in usilla using 0 the 1 money to recompense our trained men f for or c continuing n ir in our service gentle gen ile mans magazine |