Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-06-07
Saint Maru's Beacon
TEE coNTzDzRATE HONE.
PIKEsvrILE, April IA, 1894.


We have been having regular bliz-
card weather here for the last week,
and our gardening operations have
been sadly disarranged, and our
early harvest prospects knocked sky
high. The hearts Of the Farmers
Alliance are sad, to see their labor
thrown away, and the prospect of
early vegetables, they hoped TO help
eat, vanish like the schismatie vision
of dream, and leave no trace Der
hind; but there is o silver lining TO
every cloud, however dark it may
appear; and the silver lining that
sheds its refulgent rays on our not
too lovely life here, 10 the new de-
tails, just hung mp; and the part
thereof that just suits us 10 L, 10
that which refers particularly to the
dining room details. Heretofore
that detail has been looked on %
about the worst luck that could be-
fall fellow who here had made his
home.
Our superintendent has tried q
bout every scheme he could contrive
to get details that would stick, and
be satisfied with the duties Of the
place; but 80 far without success.
Seven days attention therein weekly,
added TO the difficulty of satisfying
the exacting guests that daily sit at
the tables, made about every one,
after q weeks trial, exceeding an
xious to trade jobs with some one
who had a hankering after o milk
diet. New, the milk is great at
traction, but it seldom proved suf-
ficiently so to induce any one to
make the change, and when he did
find one il did not take the party
long to arrive at the conclusion that
he had made a fools bargain, and
so it is that the victim has to re-
main, and take out his satisfaction
in growing at his bad luck.
The Captain has had his studying
cap on for the last week or two, and
has thought over countless schemes
to remedy this defect, but they all
seemed open to some objection that
would likely make them failure.
At last he struck on little scheme,
that has every appearance Of prov
ing success.
He seems so have reasoned thus:
The place is very undesirable. and
no one wants it. Now, if l could
offer an inducement, something
that would be useful, ornamental,
or Of some practical value, they
might be satisfied to remain and
stop grumbling, and that would be
q contamination devoutly to be
wished for. Now, what shall it be?
The papers have about stocked the
market with Chicago Fair pictures;
no one wants q chrome, and il ]
undertake to keep them in watches,
LII soon be bankrupt. What shall
1t be? that is the momentous ques-
tion-and it was answered in q
dream. Now you see that most Of
the old vets here, some time OF
other, during the four years pick
nicking sway down south in Dixie, %
got one or more yankee fur
loughs,' aud as these furloughs
were usually accompanied with q
general debility, and as there is
nothing known to medical science
that is better for the same than q
stimulant, why q stimulant, then,
of course he got. Now these fur
loughs and said treatment, is al
most certain to affect the future
health Of the soldier, and as most OF
those here have their nervous trou.
bles, and as nervines are not obtain
able without the necessary equiva.
lent, and as the finances Of "we all )"
at this time, are at very low ebb,
and the tide still running out, the
consequence is that the remedy is
very hard to get, and very much
diluted, when found. Sc the Cap
tain, taking this view Of things, Tin
his dreamy, thought that about
three doses daily would be consid.
Grafton with the boys, and probably
induce some of them to volunteer
for the duty; and while he was in an
amiable mood. he thought he'd
make it clincher. So, after due
consideration, (still in his dream)
he evolved the following general
order:
1st. The ID. r. detail shall con.
sist Of two squads Of FIVE men each,
numbered l and 2.