St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-10-20

flies out Of bed. Jumps into his clothes
and goes down four steps at a time to
formation. and one can imagine what a
task he has in getting his proper place
among the three hundred cadets pres
ent. He fiually gets among his green
companions, and q sorry looking lot
they make.
That night he gets another dose Of
hazing. The upper class men give it
to him between ESQ. when supper is
over, and 7:3O, when inspection comes.
He is made to read page after page Of
French, though he never read Freach
in his life; he speaks the orations of his
school days. He stands on his head.
A small button is put in basin Of
water and he fishes 1t out with his nose.
He eats candle.
The funny man Of the party fires fun
ut him. and If he smiles he is sat upon.
All through the performance he must
keep a straight face. and, indeed, by
the time he is out of it his straight face
seems to hnve grown there for good.
Then taps come. his tormentors hurry
away. and the officer of the day comes
around to inspect his room. The officer
taps at the door, and the cadet shouts
hearty ''come in" Imagine the look he
receives for his pains; for the rule is for
the officer to push open the door. take a
hasty glance and shout Goodnight"
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and the inspection is over. Immedi-
ately that it is, his tormentOrs are back
again; and they arrive in fiocks. He is
order to eat four dry soda crackers at
time, perhaps, and when he has done IL
told to cock his feet on the table and sit
there till told to move. While there q
high-class man comes in and shouts:
'tiet up" He has received instructions
and will not move. ''Get up" Not a
move. And finally he is shouted up
and keeps getting up and sitting down
in obedience to orders until he can
hardly move. One man refused to obey
any commands because it was Sunday.
and the hazers actually sat at his table,
played cards and compelled him to deal.
A crowd of men hurried in one night
and found q cadet on his knees, prepar-
ing to go to bed. Hey, what are you
doing there?" they shouted, and routed
him out.
''Do you know" they said to COM
panion as they went out, 1--WE found a
man in the queerest position in there.
Blamed If he wasn't on his knees"
"Why, he was saying his prayers"
was the reply, which staggered the rev.
ellcrs. Be it said to their credit that
they went back and apologized to the
man.
Hazing Is now quite harmless, and
the victims themselves find it q laugh
ing matter-mOre laughable, to tell the
truth, however, after it is all over.
Perhaps it may not be out of place to
give some Annapolis lOcalisms, or slang
terms.
"Sux" is nice, "Spuds" are potatoes.
skinny" is chemistry. To be "pro-
]ected" or chung on the Christmas
tree" is to be posted for a low mark.
Sat" and 'unsat" are short for salts
factory and unsatisfactory. "Tag ends"
is the name of book OF jokes recently
issued at the academy. The .'yacht" is
the Santce, where a man is sent for
light Imprisonment, in punishment for
smoking, drinking. etc. 1t is three
quarters of a mile from quarters. and
the men who get there have to walk
back and forth TO recitation, ETC., twelve
times day. The "brig" is the berth
deck Of the Santee. where man is sent
for serious disobedience Of rules. To
''shake leg" means to hurry.
''Sick list" is called at the academy
every morning. and those who think
they are too unwell to work report to
the physicians. The plebe whose ex-
periences we are reporting did two or
three mornings last year, complaining
of a pain in his back, and the physi-
clans, who thought he was shirking,
finally put Spanish-Hy blister on his
back. Space forbids our describing his
agonies, especially when. as he lay on
his back, companion came along. and
Hello" slapped him on
the back.
He was not shirking, but was in the
first stages of q severe attack Of chills
and fever. which developed in day or
two, and the surgeon who gave him the
blister was very kind to him during all
his illness. bringing him books to read,
and inquiring after him both the week
he was on duty and the week he was OF.
M T. Tribune.
Warning to Snuff. Users.
A discovery is reported to have been
made by Berlin physician. DR.. Ernst
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