Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — Misjudged His Intention. [ARTICLE]

Misjudged His Intention.

An officer of the army tolls bow Major Whipple, of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, a veteran of the Civil War, hastened to Washington when the Spanish war broke out and offered his services to President McKinley. But all officers, as well as men, had tomndergo a physical examination, and it was stated to Major Whipple that he would have to place himself in the hands of the examining doctors at Worcester. ' ’ Now, Major Whipple, while a man of great bodily strength and perfect health and activity, was a Tittle deficient in the matter of teeth. An examining surgeon proposed to exclude him on that account. . Whereupon the major waxed wroth. “Gentlemen,” said he, ‘‘l'm going to Cuba to s/hoot Spaniards, not to eat ’em!” 1 The major went.—Harper’s Weekly.