New Ulm weekly review., 1885-12-30

B 1n TIE wiinte a soff ,f 1888, Y oss Nere 8 81 81
Brand Station, writes il ) Boston cor
respondent ofthe Philad lphia Press.
o()u Our cook was FrankD. Hewasa tip
top fellow, passably honest las cooks
|go), and being q Boston boy, swasfond
|of beans.
One night / was sergeant Of the
guard, and a short time after taps, /
happened to be near our company
street, and saw Frank and his assist
ant quietly remove the elnbers from
the hole under the fireplace. and then
put IN a small sized camp kettle,
which knew from experience to con-
tain beans. / went back to the guard
house; I said nothing about my dis
oovery till near morning. but l did a
heap Of thinking.
At about 3 q. M, another fellow
and went and took The kettle out of
the hole more quietly than Frank had
put it there; we carried it to+he guard
house, and, after pledging the guard to
secrecy, divided the beans among them.
The morning was cold and the beans
violation Of the eighth commandment
but they tasted as good as though we
had paid for them. besides, Frank
himself had stolen them from the
company in the first place, and when
/ was 8 boy we had saying to the
effect that the last thief had The best
title to the article purloined. At any
rate, we ate the beans.
After the last one had disappeared,
some one proposed that we put the
empty kettle back where we found it,
as if it had never been disturbed.
Quietly, but rapidly we showed it back
into the hole, and, replacing the cover
raked the Goals around and on top OF
it, and then retired toIawait develop
ments. We had not long to wait.
Just before daylight the cooks turn
ed out and went to take out the beans.
They had to be removed before the
men saw them or there would be a
row. Their looks of mingled satisfac-
tion and expectation would do you
good to look at. Carefully they drew
the kettle from it's packing of cinders
and then-ah, then!- noticing its low
specific gravity they set it on the
ground, removed the cover and looked
within. Now both these young mer
were OF good family. In youth theil
home influence had been of thebest
and one of them, when at home, hac
been a Sunday school teacher, but tht
Language they uttered on that morn
| ing at Brandy station would never dc
| for publication in the columns of {
Sunday school paper. was presen1
4 when Maj. H. discovered that som,
evil disposed person had shaven tn,
tail Of his charger, and put whee
| grease on the seat of his saddle.
have often heard an army teamste
discussing the situation with his mule
when the wagon was hub deep il
4 the mud, and the mules would
not pull a pound; and I ono
heard Gen. Phil Kearney make som
remarks of q personal nature to 81
4 orderly who. in helping the general t,
mount his horse, had BY his awkward
ness caused the general to tear hi
trousers; but for good, cool, clear
hair-lifting profanity, for malediction
which embraced the whole nine part
OF speech, which were formed accord
} ing to the rules of syntax, and coul
:. be anaylized and parsed, / neve
J; heard anything quite come up to tina
; little discourse which Frank Delivers
that morning over the empty bea
pot. He insisted on fighting some one
he didn't care who, if he was s'aslarg
l as an elephant and as tall as Bnnke
J Hill monument. It was long tim
before the company got their COTE
that morning, and a longer one befor
he cooled down, and up to the las
day Of his service you had only to sa
'ebeans" to him to drive him into
fit Of emotional insanity.