Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1891, Page 17

e iend v i at 1 owe my good health to you. With best respects, 1 am B il find that LONG AN SVORMER, 1717 Third St., Counci) Blulla, a. OMAIA, Nob., Jan. 22nd, 1891, 1 have been a sufferer from REEUMATISM and INDIGESTION fiftoen yoars, and like other unfortunates, tried every remedy possible, and some of the' best e ey did me no good. For the past fow weeks I have been doctor- P with it . Gk WO, and now 1 am fully cured, having a splendid appetite, cumatism entirely gone Nt e . aod Eheni o entrely BO%h0MAS COUGLIN, 4ith and Harnoy Stracts. ] [] 1 2 ' v | after speadidie from one and a half to three THEY ARE BORN, NOT NADE, | Stice baimira trato s Stitd'ont and segin over again, Thore are o great many Individuals lather- fng una scraping today who had no in- Euch Are the Tonsorial Artists Whose Work | tention of becominy barbers when 1 they fiest went o work in a_shop. Delights You. Whien soys they were much in need of a job or a littlo ready; cnsh and took places 1n shops " o doJaitor worl, lelearning up,” s it is called, and gradually drifted along passing BUTCHERS WHO HAVE INVADED THE RANKS | G, e 8o agea of Iathoring ahd i N . combing wntil It might be sald that they 3 4 wero harbers, almost before they knew it, Some Facts and Many Superstitions | and barbers they have remained to this day. Concerning the Rarbers and These aro barbers merely by accident, but i AR thero 18 another class, porhaps not a whit AOIDENAIBERY LA AN better artists, who started out with the High Class Artists, avowed attention of learning the trade. They P entorod upon thoir sphers of usefulness, TWEN TIETH YEAR. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 1 . 2, 1891 EN 17 TU2, 1estunonials. DR. C. GEE WO—Denr Sir: JOHN H. HAM T have suffered for some and could not get any relief from any friends to try Dr. ¢, Gee Wo, and now | 1 have, and ‘will in futu ail. (Signed) (Signed) MR recommend his t has been permanent and very much to For the past six years I have doctored without guccess for heart disease, pain inthe chest and kidney trouble, and since I have undergone a short course of medicine with you I ean say I am almost well of them METT, Wast Albright, South Omaha. time from Female Weakness and Sick Headache, I was asked by some source whatever " am happy tosay [ am quite well again. atment to all my friends, as Lis cure stion, 2015 Q St., South Omaha. TO DR. C. GEE WO To Whom it May Concern: SOUTH OMAHA. on troubled with I have gevere pains in my breast and genecally feel weak. T was unable to do any work. An old friend recommended me to try vour treatment. [am glad to say that I am perfectly cured, - I never felt so strong before. My friend’s long standing ¢ has also been cured ee Wo, quaintances to try Dr. € have already calfed to tell me about the without any coercion or request, MR [Signdd) To Whom it May Conc Rheumatism and n cure, but failed. the Chinese Doctor in Omaha. [ did no time, but feel perfectly cured in haif th ever, I am perfectly g DR, C. GEF WO—Dear Doctor: 1 your kind and cflacacious te itment in have not ever feltlike puins in the chest, have all gone. fenith, T writo this and you are at My J. W. BUSHEKIRK, suralgin, and have tried ¢ As a last hope L thought I would put my ca toful and will be giad to recommend D I now do, hale and full For this renson I should like all my friends and ue- My children and about half a dozen friends good that was done them. I write this th St., South Omaha. rn: 1 have been troubled for several years with vthing that money could get for » in the hands of be cured withina good long culated—six months. How- C. Gee Wo. A, South Omaha. t expect to time I e W. H. HAN write this to thank you very much for my cuse during the last two months, I hear.y ® My aisease, goneral debility, s family are likewise in good to publish it in order that my brother liborty UNPARALLELED SUCCESS!i! UNHEARD-OF SKILL! PERMANENT AND PROMPT CUR‘ES!!! —BY— THE GHINESE PHYSICIAN, DR. CHAN GEE WO. Hundreds of cases pronounced “incurable’” by other doctors who Wo. during his stay in Omaha. accompl thousand reason to regret the trial? No. will bend to such an assertion. Debility, Ulce patients on the road to health. given up as an incurable by himself. seemingly sweeping detractions he makes. have been unable to distinguish one form of disease from another. such are invited to place themselves under the treatment of Dr. C, Gee The doctor makes no failure whatever, chronie or otherw ions are expressed that the perfection of the medicinal art depends a good deal on the exercise of human faculties as well, and that there is no such thing as infallibility. who are uneducated, unex perienced, and for that reason thoroughly unqualified for practice, who Dr.C.Gee Wo has never known a case that has been so stubborn as to be His triumphsin cure furnish They know how far it reaches. All Hundreds of questions have lately arisen regarding the marvelous success of DR. C. GEE WO Hundreds of times have those questions been answered by the grateful patients who have been treated successfully as well as permanently cured. This is the point. readers will see that by the testimonials that are daily and weekly published. The If good work was not hed, gentlemen would havdly affix their names to the evidences they know are to be read by They know the circulation of the Bee. names they literally tell their friends “Go and try the Chinese Doctor.” In affixing their friends ever had ., Opin- Have their In his opinion it is only those him all the good grounds for the Consult him in all cases of Catarrh, Rheumatism, Consumption, Heart Discase, Asthma, Neuralgia, Fevers, Cancers, General The method of the treatment of Dr. C. Gee Wo has above all to be taken in consideration. medicines which consist of the simplest, yet most effective kind, can be taken with comparative ease. His sure and steady cures are too well known to dilate upon, in fact his whole system of placing his His medicines hold their virtues for years if kept: s, Kidney Troubles, Lost Manhood, Nervousness, Dysentery, Chronic or Other Discases, Etc., Etc. His They cure not be- cause they are over strong remedies, but because each have a special relation of cure for a disease. The secret does not only lie in experiment, but in the skill of one who has devoted his life to the pro- motion, one who has removed all the embarras has made such natural remedies and their administration a lifelong study. Here is one fact in particular that Dr. C. Gee We w return to him which he has pronounced cured. That is saying a good deal in the full knowledge that during all his practice he has had under his treatment, for the most part, chron standing. The advantage of cures efected by him are therefore double. shes to me ment and intricacies hitherto existing, and one who ntion. He has never had a case cases of many years’ This fact he claims for the ef ficacy of his remedies which act through the medium of the nerves and blood and not through the di- gestive organs. You cannot cure in the sume manner as he does by any other treatment. ing one’s case and preparing medicine he has neveri get in good health again and visit Dr. C. Gee Wo. failed, He treats In diagnos- So if you are sick make up your mind to Congestion, Bronchitis, Indigestion, Inflamation of Bowels, Female Weakness, Sterilitv, Sore Eyes, Eczema, Carbuncles, Dropsy, also All Forms of Female Discase. No Difference How Far Advanced Your Case May Be! No Matter of How Long Standing! * Give the Chinese Doctor a trial, No M atter Who Have Failed ! He can be gonsulted at all hours in his office at |{OSTHOFF BLOCK, 519% NORTH 16TH ST. 1 have suffered a long time TROUBLES. I must suffer all the time. WO, and today [ can gratefully s months treatment, with [Signed] MRS, AUGUST anyone suffering us 1 did to see DIt ¢ [Signed] 1estimonials. I was run down, weak and sickly all the time. yme of my friends advised mo to try ¢ that 1 I'have lived here fiften yoars and am well acquainted, and I will be glad to see anyore 1 know of my friends who are sick. For the last few years T have been a v entirely curod me, and today I am grateful in attesting to his skill. GIZE WO, MRS, W. A SICK HEADACHE AND STOMACH I thought, perhaps DR. C. GER berfeotly cured aftor only am 15 DREITFOLD, 1289 N. 20th Street. ictim of chronic sickness of .-u-\'rrng kinds My troubles began with RHEUMATISM, then HEMMORRAGE OF TIE LUNC and fing HEART OISE ASE compl ly wrocked me. I sold my prop= erty and went to Kurope. I spent most of my money trying to got well. At last I returned to Omaha and began to doctor with the CHINESE DOCTOR. e hus T will ndviso NICHOLSON, 907 18th Street. 1 have suffered with RHEUMATISM and thought I would malke n last effort. ing and running as I did when a child. [Signed] i This certifies that T have been under the treatment of DR. C. nd GENERAL DEBILITY. after two weeks’ treavment, parfoetly Alway SICK H now feel, all kinds of medicines and doctors, ADACHI and entirely gave up tha idea of ever being cur IRVINGTON, Neb. and DROPSY for upwards of ten y Iheard of DR. C. GEE Aftor four months’ treatment 1 am walk- 1 will be glad to have been afllicted like myself who may wish me statement I have given out of gratitude to the doctor PAUL seo anyone who may authenticate this to written "HOMIP'SON, Irvington, Neb. GEE WO for I could not do anything. [ cured. 1 had previously tried relioved only for a time, Anybody wishing to see me, car see my healthy appearance by ealling at 1502 5th streot. [Signed] Two years ngo I was attacked with a CONSUMPTION. Tbegan totake physi six months. Several others agreed with work. I had heard about the Chinese his medicine six months every day, and feel perfe [Signed) tly cured. 1k LIO1 talking about DR, ( T would try him. write this so my friends may see it. Signed) been troubled for WO. I neve frankly told me that in was only amatter of time and I would get well. and now I am perfectly well and hearty. [ did so, and 1 ffel happy to MRS, 1. ~ DRC.GEEWO. Osthofl Block, 519= North Sixteenth Street. MRS, H. LUGE, 1502 5th Street. vere cold s vhich in my belief led on to advice, who said I could not last him. 1 became g0 weak that I quit doctor and his wonderful cures. He I took Lam working B. H. YOUNG, 2715 N. 24th Streot. long time with SICK HEADACHE and BIT- NESS and was completely run down. N ot long ago I heard some friends said a word but thought to myself that that I am perfectly cured. I B. FRY, 933 N. 24th Street. “Next 1t is a very simple little word in the super- Iative degree, yet it is by no means an unim- portant part of a barber’s stock in trade, and upon the amount of impressive suavity that he can throw into that monosyllabie ejacula- tion depends, to a greater or less dogree, tho success that will attend him in his chosen calling. At least, s0 say certain members of the “profesh,” but then thero are superstitious cranks among the barbers the same as other trades and professions, and ill fortune might as well be charged up to an unfortu- nate voico as to a disordered liver, Did itovesr occur to you where tonsorial artists are manufactured! Whether they are turned out of a barber factory by wholesale or spring up indigenous to the soll, and like Topsy, “Jes’ growed There are certain conditions under which the Jatter conclusion would be by no means unwarranted or unreasonable, but the idea has provably occurred tonone butthose who have sought in & barber's chair that which,to their intense suffering and disappointment, they found not. 1€ was this class that the proprictor of oo of the most popular _shops in the city had in mind last evening when, in answer to a ques- tion as to the average number of barbers em- ployed in the shops in Omaha, replicd: ‘Well, fu the 135 shops there are probably 800 barbers. Some shops have one, othors have all the way from two to six, while there are still others that haven't any.” It was, perhaps a cruel thrust at some of the ambitious excuses whoare engaged in the business, but there is in reality so much foundation for it that thore are undoubtedly vory many, who have silently *d, who would make thele solemun “davy" to the cor- rectnoss of the statement. Be that as it may, the barbers of Omaha are as & wholo amon g the top-notchers in the tonsorial profession, in support of which statement, the first Class work that they turn out for an exceedingly eritical class of cu tomers and the high stindard at which wages are maintained may be offered as indubitable proof. ‘There is a vast différonce between the east and the west in the matter of barbors’ wages, and there is likewise a difference in this re- spect botween Omaba and othor western cities, This difference shows itself in the percentage of Ib-cent shops in the city, as rates have been kept up bere better than in any city in the west. Kansas City is the only ‘town that approaches it, and Omiaha and tho city by the Kaw are far abead of Denver, Minucapolis,Milwaukee or St. Paul. jood work, good wages, good prices,” is the motto, and the result is alike satisfactory to_proprietors and patrons, Tho knights of the razor are to a very large extent, graduates of the farm, who gravitato to the towus and cities, and think they see in a barber’s lifo just the attractions for whith- they have beon longing. They want 0 learn the trade, and nothing is ensier than to get started. After once entered upon it they seldom leave it, especially after they aro able to hold a chair, as they are thenceforth assured of at least a ‘comfortable living aud there seems little inducement, either in smaller towns or suburban shops in the larger cities, Itit the common duty of a learner to lath omb hair, shampoo, wash faces, do ladics " hair dressing and the numberless lit- tle acts of care and attention thata barber indulges in, outside of shaving and hair cut- ting, The tvro is likewise instructed in theart of sharpening a razor, and he is supposed to keep his eyes open and discover the secret of operating the keen-edged blade. Of course, he is careful and painstaking, and mak friends of the redular customers of the shop. At length there comes a day when a customer who has taken a special liking to him insists on being shaved by him, “But what assurance has the customer that the greenhiorn won't cut his throat?’ was askei of a barber who passed through the embryouic mill many years ago. “Why, there isn'ta bit of danger of being cut,” was the reply. *The new man will be extremely careful, and ten to one, he will give his customer a better shave than his boss would have done, and from that time on he will allow no one else to shave him. In being so caveful the new man cousumes a great deal of time, and will fuss over his customer to the latter's satisfaction. “Unless a man is really in a hurry he likes to have his barber pay & good deal of atten- tion to him. He gets an idea that he has & hard fuce to shave, and that his barber is unusually attentive to him. He seems to be gelting @ little more for his money than other men get, und he is duly appreciative. “The new mun gives him this care, and erefore he lices him. It is no trouble, vhatever, to gev the first customer aftera man is really able to shave him. “A shave, however, is radically different from a haircut. ‘There are a great many good shavers who ave indifferent hair-cutters, but they get through life all right, simply because less than one man in a dozen knows a good hair cut when he sees it. A burbermay give a mana cut that would shed rain on his shoulders and throw a gen- uine hair cutter into the quick consumption, but the customer 1s satisfied and the' next time he wants his bair_cut he will chimb into that same barber's chair. 1t is likewise true that many men dou't know when they are well sLavén, but not to such an extent as re- garas the cutting of their hair, ‘One thing of wuich Omaha barbers are very generally ignorant is the art of trimming beards, T can clip off the stray ends and even up n man's raspetaz, but very fow of them are good, artistic beard trimmers. A good hair cutter is so naturally, and it would really be impossible for him to make a boteh ofajob. Aman must be agood mechanie and have some gcnius about him or no mever makes a good hair cutter, This is where white men have the best of coloreda barbers. T'he latter can shave as well as anyone, but they are not natural bair- cutters. 1have seen good hair-cutters among them, but they invariably had white blood in ' veins,! far the greater part of the barbers drift west from the eastern states, oither in search of adventure, a change of climate or better wages. In the east £13 a week is the maximum, but in Omaba it is the minimum wages paid w journeymen barbers, It is customary 1 the east to pay so much a week and board, and the amount ranges from 83 or $4 o &, or possibly §9 a week. In cas0 It 1a straight' cash 8 man may possibly receivo $12 a weels and pay his own expenses, Through the west the wages range from $12 t0 $15 a week, and in Omaha the average is above the latier figure. ‘There are some men in this city who work on a salary and a percentage on all work above a certain amount, who make as high as $20 a week and sometimes even more than that, but this is the exception. "The barbers of the country are organized and they have a powerful organization, al- though " the branch in this city is a very weak-kneed and dyspeptic affair; but cir- cumstances, or rather boss barbers, cowm- bined to make it so. The proprietors of three of the leading shops declared against it and agreed not to hire a union man. They also agrced to discharge every man who should join the union and neither would hire a man discharged by either of the others. hey employ together twenty-odd men, this tore'a ragged hole in the local uniou. Jealousy, however, was the rock on which ~'the union went pleces. There could be but one president, and just as sure as a man was lucky enough to be elected to thatofice,just so sure was he unlucky enough to incar the enmity ef all the othiers, It was not strange that under this state of affairs the organiza- tion should lapse into desuetude. Certain it is that there are men employed in the three shops above referred to who carry union cards, but they are politic enough” not to allow their employers to become cognizant of the fact, . These bosses oppose the union for fear that it would result in obtaining for the journey- men certain privileges which they do not now have in the way of regulating hours and simi- lar matters, The colored barbers have a union, which meets with favor both from bosses and jour- neymen, and has resulted in furthering the interests of its members, Barvers are fraternal and make it a point to assist impecunious brothers, They have an excellent trade to travel on and they are generally as successful in striking a job as a tramp priuter or signwriter. “*A barber always carries his union card on his travels,” remarked one of them who has “‘been ~there” on more than one occasion, “but,” he continued, ‘‘you can bet they don’t use them until they are sure of the situation. “When a barber goes broke and strikes a town the first thing he does is to hunt up a barber shop. Thea he finds out whether the boss is a union man or not. If he is he flashes his card, but if he isn’t he says nothing abeut | it and shoves it down deeper in his pocket. If it is a big shop the voys will always chip in enough to buy the hungry man a square meal, and if it 15 a littlo place with only one barber in town, the barber is always sure to want a bair cut. That is the way I invariably found it, and I made it a point while operaiing on my man to make & clean breast of wmy fin- ances, I never went away hungry, I didn't try to work him, for all I asked was what I would gladly have given if our places were reversed. You might call it a trick, but then there ure tricks in all trades, and of course we must have ours." to L § rried an Indin, Mrs. W. H. Sampson, who is married to a full-blooded Indian and lives in Allegheny City, Pa., recently called on the police to ar- rest her husband,” At the hearing it was brought out that the Indian got a quart of “firewater” one night and drank it to the last drop. Visions of the prairie came to nim, and he imagined that ne was chasing the buffalo. Taking o loaded gun from the wall, he thrust it into the face of his wife and yelled so the shook the windows and brought the bors to the door. The gun was & muzzle loader. He pulled the trigger threo'times, but it would not go off. Finally the neigh- bors ouerpowered the Indian. Mrs. Samp- son sald that she married her husoand twenty years ago, when she was a teacher in one of the Indian schools. He was twenty: five years old when she became infatuated with him, He was Jet off with a fine of $10 and costs. B Jon uny—T wish my father wasn't a preach er, Bobby -Whoyt Johnny—So's folks wouldu't be all the time giving him slippers. AMERICANTOWY GOVERNME How New England Towns Thrived Under “Town-Meeting, Rule., HAS THE SYSTEM BEEN IMPROVZD UPON? Edward Everctt Hale Compares a Primitive System With the Fuss-and-Feathers Methol of Today. BY EDWARD EVERETT IALE, John Adams is the ‘author of the much cited stotement that American government rests on four corner-stones—the town meet- ing, the church, the militia, and the school. The statement is philosophical and sug- gestive. It should always be cited, particu- larly by writers in Earope, with a distinct understanding of what we mean by the words town, church, militia, and school, For a New England town—and it was of this that John Adams wrote—is not a town in the English sense. A New England church is not an English church. The New England militia is not the English militia, and the New England school is not the Eng- lish sctool. The difference rests in this—that in each of the four cases the New England *‘corner- stone” represents all the peopie, good, bad and indifferent, rich and poor, wise and fool- ish. In England, or on the continent of Europe, each represents one or more classes, but not all. For instance, the British militia is not an assemblage of all the people in a given district able to bear arms, And, if we speak of an English-toyn, we mean, not ail the people of a certain district, but all the people who live in housea contiguous to each ofher. ‘The younger American writers of 0ar own time have been occupying tnemselves with the historical question, whether in New England the government of the state wade the towns, or whether the towns made the o. 1 believe it is thought that De Toc- queville overstated the au*ocracy of the town meeting, and that, historically, as each mod- ern town has _derived its power to be from the state, it bas had doied out by the state such power to act as it has used. I doubt, nowever, whether any of the founders of towns in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century op in the eighteenth, would have taken much interest in such a discussion. And they would have boen amused, but not much edified, if they had been told that the germ of thoir town meet- ings was to be found in Germau forests or in the institutions of Alfred. Whoever reads thelr chronicles will fiud a great deal of what their successors call “horse seuse,” involving ability to deal with practical problems, But he will fiad very little analysis by them- selves of the origin of their powers, Certain things were to be done. They were there to do them. Their united power represented the maximum of power for the doiug of those things. = Nebody else would belp them—no king, no parlisment, no gen- eral court. If they did not build the bridge, make the road, or hire the schoolmaster or the clergyman, buy thé musket or the match, nobody else would do it Accordingly, whether the general court told them they might do these things or uot, they did theuw, if they could ang wanted to. If they dia not, they did not. And in gen eral this bas bean the ruls till \'uri' racen times. For instance, the city of Boston wanted to open free baths, and it opencd them without_asking leave of anybody. 1f the boys need an unmolested coast on the common, the city builds briages over the coast, and asks no leave of anyone. Aud the courts, in_one or two very stiff decisions,have confiued the rlghts of towns fo do as much as they chose. if what they did served the gen- eral welfare, In historical fact, the sottlers of Massa chusetts were alrcady d more or less distinetly when they arrived at their new hom The groups acted for their local purposes, whil they recogniz ity of the general court for keneral purpos “The name that each group ava its office showed whence their ity came. Th were “selectmen,” men who had been sot over them. Thero is in the records of tho general court no trace of authority to choose by these sclectmen. Thoy were selectod just the same authority as would have lected the men to carry timbers for a bridee or to yoke tho oxen when ‘“the town’ was vuilding or mending its highways. Some- body must do certain things, and the town selected the men who should do them. From this common seuse way of managing affairs there grew up an aamirable clastic but strong way of local admmistration. If a town could have a school open all tho year, 1t had it. Butf it could only open theé sehool twenty weeks, it did that; if it could carry it thirty weels, it did that. If it can build an iron bridge ‘over a stream, it doos; if it can ogly bave log briduo, it has that’ it it must be satistied with a ford, wky it must beandis. Ove has ouly to compare this with the delay and annoyance, with the “fuss and feathers" belongivg to F'rench ad- ministration, where a_central burcau must report about the stream, and a plan_for the bridge must be sent down from Paris, to see why the'New Englander hates centralization more than is really wise, in his consciousness that on tho whole™ “there is no manure like tho foot of the owner,” and that_ in_general, people should be left' to manage their own affuirs, As a school for government, the town- meeting has proved itself invaliable. The states which never looked kindly on it have suffered more than they kuow for the lack of such a school. Thero is uo_training for de- bate or oratory equal to that where people who know each other are to be convinced, and whera words are weighed by a standard balance which pays fit regard to the real worth of him who utters them. The proud boy who is permitted to drive his father down to the meeting, learns lessons of goy ernment there which no text book could teach him. Ho fastens the borse in the town shed. He goes into the meeting-house and takes his modest place on theside seats while the elders other leaders confer in front The moderator chosen, the w is read. The selectmen say what they have done and why, and what they h 1oft un- done and wh Every grumbler thero b hus rights, and may talk. They hay rights als0, and they may defend their policy, their characters and their administration. In that crossfire, in the discussion of details, or in the consideration of principles, the boy lities, les- h ho cannot gain elsewhore. cannot exist_where the town meet If the mayor of a city chooses to be treasurer of an electric light y earich himself and ruin his reputation by the contract which, as mayor, he makes with himself as treasurer. But this could not be if you had u town meeting, The selectman has fo appear in person and answer all questions. “I should like to know why the granite for the curbstone was taken from White Hill, and not from the town ledge!” The man who took the granite must stand up and say why. Woe to him if he cannot stayd that ordeal, I have been glad to know that of the thriving towns of the Western Re serve in Ohio has cousjdered seriously the question of introducing the town meeting proper into its methods of homo administra- tion. BosToN, Mass, learns, both of methods and of re sons whis e, at least, LT, CASEY FOUND THE TURKEY Rem! ences of the Lam:nted Officer’s Li‘e at West Point. SEARCH FOR HIDDEN CHRISTMAS BOXES. lothes Bags, Oavalry Boots and Dress Hats Filled with Contraband Pies, Puddings, Frulis and Sweetmeats. At West Point some v det, while Lieutenant tactical instructors, It was Christmas time, Casey as officer in ¢l for contraband article: ways turning up in the holid box directed to one of the boys had been seized by him and placed in the guard house for safa keeping, During his absonce from the room a foray had pcen mude, the box seized and borne away in triumph by the few cadets who werein the conspiracy. Of course the loss was soon discovered and a rigid search instituted. By a stroke of i1l luck the box had been hidden in the fourth division where I happened to be quartered, I say *ill luck,” for this reason, Thenight be- foro I had received from my people a box of ars ago, I was a ca- y was one of the and Lieutenant e, was on the alert of food that were al- Christmas goodi®s which 1 had man- aged to smuggle into my room. There was a fourteen pound turkey, a dozen mince pies, a whole plum pudding, fine, juicy oranges, rosy cheeked apples and nuts and raisins by the wholesale, It was a gorgeous supply and I had invited a few of my cronies to the prospective foast for thatevening. The turkey was stowed a clothes bag that swung door. The pies were piled oue above another and deftly hidden up the chimney: the oranges, nuts and raisins were stuffed iuside my spare cavalry boots, that stood up like seutinels in one corner of my aparyment, while the plum pudding found “a lodiment ler my full dross hat. Having passed in ction without eaciting a breath of suspic picion I was mentally congratulating myself upon the success of my scheme when there came three military taps av my door. ay in my soiled behind the closet Hastily jamming my pipe in a slipper caso behind me 1 yelled *C ! The door swung open, revealir utenant Ca the ofticer’ of tho and the specting oficer. 1 began to swallow nastily as I spran all the time won unusual visit, up and stood at attention, ng what had caused this Licutenont Casey was the aid he very sweetly, of a contraband natu you in your anything quarters “If you will excuse me, sir,” I repli t question [ must declind to answe He corsulted With the other officers & mo- ment and then said: “A box of goods his recoived and hidden in this division ou seen anything of iLf That question I must also decline to answ sir.” “Very well, then T am under the paiuful necessity of search our quarte 1 bowed politely said nothing. Then Casey be a systematic ferret a cold sweat all over Ho s my precious clothes bag that hung there so innoceutly, but concluding there was nothing suspicious about it ot it fall back against th wall. An! it struck with a ‘dull, dead thua' that caught his attention instantly and in a moment the strings of th bag were loosened, his hand inserted and i nauled forth my precious fat turkey befor 1 that sent ized hold of the horritied gaze of the luspecting officer, 1 l shuddered, but remained silent. end was not yet., My boots made to disgorge their hold- jngs: my hat was lifted and disclosed th oval dyspeptic mass of pudding bencath, an then the licutenant next thrust his sword up and when he jerkod it down, o] there was a string of _flakey, delicious mince pies impaled on the blade. : T'his was too much for the risibilities of the officers and they fairly roared with laughtor, but us for me, 1 groaned in anguish of spivit and closed my I was arousad by the I knew the lieutenant’s voice “You will take these articles, sir,” said he, striving them to appear firm and ' judicial, “tie in a bundle and convey them to the s, sir, 1 replied very meekly, and the ut out. Licutenant Casey very naturally con- cludea that he had stumbled on the' stolen articles, but the search was continued throughout the fourth division, and much to his surprise the veal box intact was found in a closet on the second floor. It was brought to the guardhouso and when the licutenant arrived and asked for an explanation I frankly told him that my Christmas box had traveled 1,000 miles 1o reach me and begged that I be allowed to retain the plunder, No," said Cusoy, “I really couldn’t per mit that, but if you wish you may earry it to the kitchen aid have the cook serve it on your mess table.” This was better than nothing, so 1 thanked him, gathered up the bundle and took it into the kitchen, The turkey and pies, togother with the pudding, nuts ana fruit, duly made their appearvance that ovening on our table, but 1 did not relish the idea of siaring my prizo turkey with that hungry mob, 50 I got one of the cadets, who was privileged to enter the messroom without the formality of falling in with the rest, to swipe that turkey, hide it under his eape and sneak off with it to my quarters. Tho plan worked to a charm; a select fow of us picked the bones clean that evening, but the hungry horde made havoc of my mince pies, plum pudding and other goodies. L Poor Cusey ! He was a_delightful fellow and 1 sincercly regret his untimely death, as does every man who knew him as a cadet and fustructor at West Point, an_ officer in eamp or field and as o gentlomanly, manly man at all times, JE. G, e Natur Underground Telegraph, Margaret Eytinge, oing,” sald March, and away he flow, umbling and a-scolimg; And the pearl like buds on the orchard trees Their leaves bagan unfolding. And the elves who' live in the ground ughed loud to hear him golug, ) work brothers work,” they mevrily ied, “We'll'start the flowers growing.” “I'm dark brown To the telezraph made of roots they hied, And s0on arose a-humming the sound of bees, as the good news ad l pleasant davs are coming, For April's here, and the sunniest smiles And the gladdest toars she's bringing. And she twines the vine round the woodland tree Aud sets the bir s a-singing.” “Weave, violets sweet, your purple robes, And duisies, yours of whitenos Blush, pretty May buds, and buttercups don Your crowns of golden brightuoess.” Thys the tidings ran through the darlk brown ound With merriment and laughter, Aud the whole green earth with'n joy-thril} burst Iuto flow o few days aftor, e —— The Pious Girl, New Yor's Herald, My lady love more pious is "Than other girls, for she In Lent gave up her youthful heart And dainty hand to me,