The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-26
THE CADETSHIPS.
How squire Bner's ,Roy Jake Got to West

How Squire. BiIcr's boy jake Got TO West
A Washington correspondent writes:
The capital is greatly agitated Just now on
the question Of the sale of cadetships Mem
bers were never more reticent. IL is as much
as you can do TO get ci vii answer from them,
and any allusion to the subject now upper
most in oil minds brings you in such har-
vest of whitening looks, of scorching glances,
that il you had asked the President OF the
Washington Temperance Society to take
social glass, the effect could not have been
more startling. The gentlemen composing
the investigating committee are Stunned by
the representatives Of the nation as if they
carried some fatal contagion with them,
and it's common to hear along the street, as
any of them passes, such mysterious remarks
as. ''There he goes" 'He knows all about
it," ''Catch any foxes to-day, old boyH"
''Who got the last pig by the carp" and other
kindred and equally civil observations. L
have Just learned that Representatives Fin
nigan and Puddle are to be brought before
the committee upon suspicion of having graft
fed two aunts with the appointment of their
nephews at $500 head. / know Puddle we'll,
and struck him this evening in favorable
frame of mind, just after dinner.
"Fuddle, they say you are in for it..
''They say be d-dl Don't know anything
about it.
''Can't help that, old boy; statements have
come before the committee duplicating you,
and they're bound to see the matter through"
"You don't say SO! !" exclaimed Puddle,
slightly alarmed and disposed to be little
more communicative.
''Fact-saw the documents myself"
Under ordinary circumstances Puddle is O
cool man. have seen him stand up to But
ler and take hot-water shower-bath of But
lerian invective with no more sign of shrink
ing than if he had been q rhinoceros; but
must say that upon this occasion Fuddle's
legs forgot their duty, and he developed
symptoms of being knock -kneed that never
before suspected.
We withdrew from the gaze of passing
worldlings, took something to disguise our
agitation, and then Puddle made q clean
breast of it to me confdentially; and, although
the committee have suspicious that ] know
all about Fuddle's case, they have not yet
ventured to subpoena me. This really virtu-
GUS and upright member explained his case
thus
''You see there was two on EN- wanted it.
I'd knowed Sally Jones since she was little
gal. She never married, did Sally. She
never had nothin' of her own to love; but
when Sally's sister married and had little
boy, took an oath I'd do for him one day
or tother. was up for Congress in Squire
Biler's district, and the Squire went for me,
supposin' I'd go for Squires boy Jake for
West Pint. 1t was sort O this way The
Squire came to me, and says he--shaking
$500 g,eenback in his fst-'Fud, says he,
'taters is riz, and SO is flour, and times is
d-d hard. There's my boy Jake, likely
lad, as ell make a good soger, and you're
goin to Congress, Fud, and have the 'pintin'
of feller to the Milertary Schule. Goals SO
ton, specie payments is no nearer than
never, and there's Mrs. Puddle, as hasn't had
no new dresses, and the little Fuddles, as
wants schuling,' and the Squire wiped his
nose with the five hundred dollar greenback,
and then licked it into an envelope, meanin
the same to go to Mrs. Puddle. The tears
come to my eyes so that couldn't see what
was doin', but when Tim Puddle got to
Congress, Squire Bilers boy Jake went to
West Pint :"