The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-14

cadet clothes, and saw that he had wicked
eye on it. After while he said: That pin
or yours makes me feel very bad, Mr.. Smith.
l had one exactly like it when | came here.
/ was given me by my grandmother, and
had been in the family over hundred years.
l was so unfortunate as to lose it, and when
| get home the first thing they will ask me
about will be that pin. | suppose you
wouldn't care to part with yours, Mr.. Smith|
II was not quite so fresh as some of the
boys coming from New York, and of course
l saw the dodge. So l told him l could not
part with the onyx pin, but that had a
small cameo pin in my trunk that I would
be happy to give him, when it was I'M
packed. He said he supposed that would do
nearly as well, and he would call in the next
morning to get 1t.
"'What is your name? | asked him; and
his face immediately stretched oiit about
yard long of courses lie had no notion of tell
ing me his name, and he was SO taken back
by my effrontery in asking it that had to
laugh, and this made him as mad as a hor-
net
Don't YOU know, you beastiy, ill-man-
nered young plebe said he. that the great
est affront you can give cadet after asking
his name is to laugh In his facet | told him
| didn't know IT. and that l was very sorry
to have offended him. SO he went off, and
never saw anything more of him. | still have
the pin. A few days afterward was in need
OF postage stamp, and a cadet had got ac-
uuainted with said he would find me one if
would 60 with him to his room. l went,
and when he handed me the stamp offered
him three cents. He looked at fhe as If had
asked him to black my boots Young man.
said ne, as long as you're in this academy
never offer money to cadet. A cadet
never takes pay for anything! One evening
during visiting hours four or five fellows had
come into my room, and we had been smok-
ing pipes till the smoke was so thick you
could cut It, We were all fresh enough
about the rules and were singing a
song. Suddenly the door few open and a
cadet officer looked in. He was fairly para
lyzed at first to see what was going on, but
as soon as he recovered his breath he gave
us q good rating, and told us if we wanted TO
be reported we should just open our heads
again that night Nobody dared saw a word
for you don't know the dignity Of a cadet
officer, tell you, They are very strict about
having the rooms kept in order and having
everybody in. At taps which is at 10
o clock, all lights have 10 be out and every
body in bed. Sometimes there are three Ca
diets in a room, and one of them is appointed
orderly and held responsible for the others
! being in bed and every thing in order. The
minute the taps cease a cadet officer comes
| flying round, bangs open the door, and asks:
"'AIl inn
"'All in, SIR replies the orderly, and the
| door slams and the officer skips on to the
next room, If any body is out or not in
bed the orderly has to report it. There are
no locks on the doors, and cadet officer is
likely to bounce in at any minute, day or
night. to see that everything is all right.
When he comesin the night without liant
| ern he challenges the orderly and the order.
ly has to answer him. But if he comes with
lantern he Foes right up to the beds, and
flashes the light in your face to see that you
are there. Sometimes, at taps, the boys
have not taken time to undress
and pile into bed with their clothes on.
II the cadet officer suspects anything
he comes in to see that every body is UNI
dressed, and if he finds man in bed in his
| clothes there is music, Every morning a
cadet officer and a regular officer go around
| inspecting the rooms. The cadet throws
| open the door, and the officer marches in as
| st # and dgnified as statue. If he finds as
much as a scrap of paper on the floor he
points to it, the cadet makes q minute of it
in book, and you get so many dement's for
it. The officer swings around on his heel.
the cadet slams the door, and they go on to
| the next room. Oh, its lovely time of it
| the boys have. And I'm so sorry l studied
too hard and got bounced out"