Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — Horse Appreciated It. [ARTICLE]

Horse Appreciated It.

During the examinations for the new officers’ training camp in New York one enthusiastic young applicant w r as Informed that he was too light to be accepted, his height being but little less than six feet and his weight 120 pounds. “But,” he said, “my health is perfect and my father fought in the Span-ish-American war and only weighed 111 pounds. Is this to be a fat army?” He was informed that there were certain requirements of weight and that they must be obeserved in all cases. “Well,” said the young man, “my father was an orderly on the staff of General Shafer in Cuba and he used to ride at General Shafer’s side every day. He’s told me himself that when he and the general used to come in from a ride together, the two horses would whisper together and my father’s horse would turn around to him and try to kiss him.”