Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — Not to Be Outdone. [ARTICLE]

Not to Be Outdone.

A note of family pride was struck In the conversation between three •mall boys the other day. The parts played by their respective grandfathers in the civil war were being depicted by two cf the boys in vivid colors. The career of each, It seemed, had been halted by confinement In Southern prisons, and it was on the latter fact that the lads laid particular stress. The third youth, unable to match these recitals with any military achievement of his own forbears, preserved an envious silence for a while, and then; not to be outdone, said disparagingly: “What, that’s not so much. My Uncle Bill was in jail a long time and he was never in the army at nil.’’