Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — Wellington and the Blankets. [ARTICLE]

Wellington and the Blankets.

What you any About the difllcuHy of preventing peculation In the army ronrfnda me of an anecdote I have heard ■ay mother teR of the Duke of Wellington. A friend of my mother had a contract to supply btanketa for the army. When they warn delivered the Duke deaired that every blanket should be unrolled and ahown to him. When the gentleman, who wan as proud of his honor as a manufacturer as any soldier could be of his honor, remonstrated against what seemed an aspersion on Ms Integrity, the Duke only said: “It is my duty to see that the soldiers have proper blankets” I do not know ths time or the drcumstancris, beyond the bars fact as I have heard my mother relate IL Perhaps yon wIH allow me to tell another story I have heard from my mother of the great Duke. He was staying in some town—lt may have been Cheltenham—where was a girl who longed Intensely to see him. She was ill and could not leave her bedroom. Some one told the Duke of her wish, and he came and walked for some time in front of her window, that she might see him.—London Spectator.