Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — Feeding to the Finish. [ARTICLE]

Feeding to the Finish.

Justice Monkey ate all the cheese that he was called upon to divide equally between two joint owners, because at one tijne he bit a little too much from what was in one scalepan and the next time a little too mmlr from what was in the other. Somewhat similar was the predicament in which a guest at the table of C. H. McCormick, the inventor of the reaper, found himself. The story is told in the recently published book, “Cyrus Hall McCormick.” A very dignified and self-centered military officer was taking supper with the McCormick family. The first course, as usual, was corn meal mush and milk. It was served In Scotch fashion, with the hot mush in one bowl and the cold milk in another. The practice was so to co-ordinate the eating of them that both were finished at the same time. The officer planned his spoonfuls badly, and was soon out of milk. y "Have some more milk to finish your mush, colonel,” said McCormick. Several minutes later the colonel’s mush bowl was empty, at which McCormick said, “Have some more mush to finish your milk.” And so it went, with milk for the mush and mush for the milk, until the unfortunate colonel was hopelessly incapacitated for the four or five courses that came afterward.