The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Vol. 7 My attention has been called to a remarkable story published in the New York Journal of Oct. 4, in which is set forth at considerable length, the sorrows of one Lieut. C. E. Lang, of the U. S. Army. The tale may be told in less than a dozen lines: While a cadet at West Point, Lang became engaged to the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Commissary Sergeant Kenkel. The Superintendent sent for him and advised him to break off the match, because the young lady was not the social equal of such a Grand Panjandrum as a petty commissioned officer in Uncle Sam´s army. Lang cared nothing for the inferior position held by his fiancee´s father - he was not marrying the old man. Then followed systematic persecution by the Superintendent, who seems to have considered that Uncle Sam was paying him a fat salary to act as arbiter elegantarium and preserve the altitudinous social status of the service. On graduation day Lang married the girl, and has since been ostentatiously ostracised by his brother officers and discriminated against by the war department. I do not know whether the story be true. The New York press is nothing if not a sensation monger. It can build mountains out of molehills and lie ad libitum without the slightest compunction of conscience. Still, it is not impossible for it to occasionally tell the truth, or at least make a reasonable effort in that direction. Lieut. Lang has, throughout, declined to discuss the matter. He is evidently not posing as a martyr or making a bid for notoriety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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