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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYRVTLLE. UTAH Truthful Wifs. detective was praising the truthfulness of women. If war bulletins were as truthful as women, he said, "wed have a better Idea of how this world struggle Is , really gtvlng. I remember a case the other day It IntercMlng In its revelation womans truthfulne the ease of a husband who lirfd disappeared. Questioning the. wife, I said to her; '"And now. madam, tell me this I very lmiortiint tell me whnt your husband's terj last words were when he left?' "Ills Inst words.' the truthful creature answered, with n blush, 'were. For beatens sake, shut up' . - What She Wanted. Lydia Virginia was having her fiftk birthday prepured for her. Grandma bttked her birthday cake and made Ler a little sample cake. Lydia Virginia on breaking the sample apart exclaimed; Why, grandma, this Is not the kind of a cake 1 want. Questioned what kind she wanted, she answered: Why, 1 want my cake when you cut a piece of It to took like spotted cut." Iler'jrandma baked A marble cuke and wheu cut Lydia Virginia was delighted, and said: This is it, grandma; this is the kind of a cake 1 w unted." Cleveland Lender. A The Only Way. Teresn The man I murry must be bold and fearless. Viola Yes. deur; he must. Nothing can he made out of nothing. What is Castoria ASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregorio, Drop and Soothing Syrup. It is Pleasant, It contains neither Opium, Morphlw nor other Narcotio substance lU age is its guarantee. It destroy Worms and allays Feverishness,, It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colio. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency, It assimilate the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Th childrens Panacea Th Mothers Friend, The Kind You Dave Always Bought, and which has been In use for over 80 years, has the signature of Chan. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since ita infancy. Allow no one to deceive you In this.' d All Counterfeits, Imitations and are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment, C &kXtM-- ks trn ' Just-as-goo- v. , t iS'- v wti ('M"' - CX ss v H IsJ ','' V.:, -- iSe " -- ' -- ' ' s ' x 'v-. Jl ' ,NX VY. w 7 - - .vW v yy if sj ' yyg ' v s v i '1', ' . wxx .; t , ' k ' s N : S4vSCf 'O'- - ' f . . v7' " t fjx ,. , r t ( v zoQKmuzp mnm& 27?o?rwjrpcwr The: famous old ballad has been sung for nearly a century by the cadets of the' United style-make- States Military Academy. lb history makes good reading Wsll never fail to drink to her and Benny Havana, Ohi HO was Benny Havens! Ask the next West Pointer you meet to tell you something about Benny Havens. He knows and youll 4 that his eyes will kindle at the mention of the name, says' the find New York Sun. West Pointers for half a century have told the story of Benny Havens they have bled and died with It on their Ups. Wherever Duty called they went, their atpa were never slow With Alma Mater on their pa and Benny Havana, Oh!' "Benny Havens, Oh I Is the epic of West Point It Is a story In song, the story of West Pointers and their sacrifices for duty, honor, West Point GivmDitourfrHJir v&rfv&r Point Grant, Fltzhugh Lee, Sherman, Custer and others spent happy hours In Benf a retreat In 1838 Lieut Lucius O'Brien of the Eighth United States Infantry paid a visit to Cadet Ripley A. Arnold, who was then a first classman. Arnold Introduced O'Brien to Benny Havens, a and country. warm friendship at onca springing up between the This old academy of West Point laid out on a two. In the academy at this time ware John rugged shelf overlooking the majestic sweep of the Thomas Metcalfe, who after graduation studied Hudson, has many prized traditions, unsullied. Inmedicine and became one of the foremost surgeons alienable, but none more sacred to her sons than In the country, and Irvin McDowell, who comthat of Benny Havens. Go to Cullum .Memorial manded the Union forces at the first battle of Bull hall at West Point and read in Imperishable letBun. Both Metcalfe and McDowell were great ters of bronze the story of her sons. She has seen friends of Benny. them march out of her sallyports singing "Benny Benny Havens, Lieutenant O'Brien. Metcalfe and Havens, Oh! and seen them brought back while Arnold together composed the original five verses minute guns were echoing among the granite hills of the ' song "Benny Havens, Oh and set tt to the that surround her. The history of West Point Is The of tune Wearing of the Green. An obltnary doBely Interwoven with that of our country ; West Doctor Metcalfe says : He had an early of notice Pointers have written bright pages In the annals taste for versifying, and with skill at the guitar of the land. and a good tenor voice, composed many a ditty Their blood has watered Western plains and Northern to pass away the idle time. It was thus that be wilds of snow. Has stained Sierras highest peaks, where piercing wrote the celebrated song Benny Havens, Oh! To Thomas. Mtade and Sheridan pos) 11 u ers have carried Benny Havens, Ohi" The story of Benny Havens Is almost as old as that of the academy Itself. Many, many yeara ago, In 1824 to be precise, Benny Havens took up his residence on the southern border of what then constituted the post of West Point. Almost immediately he and the cadets became friends. He was a genial soul, generous, and of good company and an Inimitable spinner of yams, and be Invariably plied his visitors with buckwheat cakes and maple sirup. Soon bis refreshments acquired such fame that cadets often slipped away from their duties and made their way to Bennys retreat, where they found oblivion for their disciplinary woes. Almost every night after taps saw half a dozen daring cadets, who should have been la bed, gathered around Bennys bountiful table. Only for a short time did Benny's fare confine Itself to buckwheat cakes and maple sirup. Grog and wine were added to the menu, an addition whereby Bennys popularity Increased tenfold. About thlg time the West Point 'authorities, who had previously shut their eyes to Bennys liberalities, decided that the time had come to declare a blockade on Benny In so far as cadets were concerned, and consequently Benny's haven of delight became off limits for the future generals and punishment was meted out by those' caught runBing the blocka de. Jefferson Da via," af fence rd president of the Confederate states, had the distinction of being among the first batch of cadets d for midnight revels st Benny . . Havens. , was his Benny warned that generosity to cadets-wa- s demoralizing to discipline and that unless be called a halt summary proceedings would result. Ha was ou&Lie to refu.Se those few cadets who ran It out to his home and finally he was expelled from the post shortly after 1829, taking cp his abode at the base of a high cliff near the rivers edge ibout a mile below West Point Here he lived In a small frame house until tls death In 1S77 at the e of ninety, ne was burled in Union cemetery, About midway between Highland Falls and Fort Montgomery on the West Point road. . Many men who rose to fame after leaving West court-martiale- - - It Is not what would be called good poetry. Some of tt is crude. Today there are about 50 verses, almost all of which were composed before Bennys death In 1877. Class after class added a verse. In the waning years of Bennys life almost every night the cadets sang them through, crowding round Benny, with glasses full, while their host led them with bis fiddle and his low dear barytone. This fiddle, by the way. Is still In possession of an old dtlzen of Highland Falla Coins, fill your glass, fellows, and stand op In a row. To singing sentimentally were going for to go. In the army theres eobriety, promotion's very slow. So ws'U sing our reminiscence of Bfuty Haven, Ohi Soon came along the Mexican war to furnish inspiration to the cadet poets. Several versea were added to the poem in commemoration of the - deeds of those whose gallantry carried the American flag from Vera Crus to the heights of Chupul-tepeoverlooking Montezuma's andent capital. Two of these are: health to General Taylor, wbos rough and Hsrs's ready blow Struck terror to the rancheros of braggart Mexico no er forMay his country ne'er forget his deods and get to show She holds him worthy of a plao at Bonny Havana, c, Ohi . To the veni, vtdJ, victrr man to Scott, the greatost to the brim, let no on ehrlnklng go. nit thtTgoblet May life's cares on his honored bead fall light as flakes And hisfstrfame be sver great at Benny llsvsns. Oh! The civil war saw stressful times, at the Point andthe cadets turned their attention to sterner yanks cLtha- corps were "things then poetry. thinned by the loss of the Southerners, who went home to take up the cause of their respective states. Many of tjiose from the North and Sooth, who had been friends of Benny, fell on the field of glory Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Wilderness and a hundred other places were stained with the blood of West Pointers. There was little gayety st Benny's daring the stern four years, for Benny was getting old and the almost daily new of the loss of his former old-tifriends on the battlefield robbed him of his lightheartedness. Some of the verses of the poem which were written just after the war are lost There seems to be only the following Intact: To t5 armys brave commsnilsr let bow oar glass -- flew. , vena - 1 wind eer blow; Has dyed deep red the Everglades, and deeper still, you know. The sacred Montezuma shades and walls of Mexico. Wherever duty has summoned them West Point- - Well drink to Grant and 8berman and to the aubs also, 11 the. Tinn'T I f0P sis. a v A UP. W il tOXt not reeommndJ if everythin; but kidney. Uvsr hv yu A 1VUW bladder trouble tt Winter Asserts Women Are to Blame msy b found Just or th remedy you need. At druggists in fifty cent end dollar for the Variations of Styles You may rclv a sample lx bottl of In Clothes. this reliable medicine by parcel Ioat, also pkmphlttt telling about It Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, Women want no Willing new to wear N.Address Y.. and enclose tea cents, also menThe absolute tion this paper. every few . uumilw. truth of this statement I uhut puts the world vf women against reformets. NO USE FOR HEARSE THERE It 1 easy to reud and write reams of theories ns to why women should not Sleepy Drivers Horses Brought Hla Unwelcome vehicle to the Wrong indulge lu tiny caprice of now Neighborhood, clothes; ninl, with delightful Ingenuousness, these dress reformers put the Curl Blessing, a youug farmer, livand shops, blame on the Ignoring the fundamental truth that ing near Columbus, was at work in the blame should be placed on the a field some distance from his borne. He happened to look In the direction women.. Those who are sincere and those of his "house and then stopped to look who itre lnsinctNt but want to be agnlh. A hearse was being driven up the lane nud as he stood there watchheard crying aloud In Into not do the ing, the horses stopped with the hearse go fur enough places, clothes question when pleading for at the Blessing gate. Blessing ran to the house to see what had happened. dress reform. On the front seat of the hearse wae What normal woman would want to be robbed of her privilege of seeing the driver, fast asleep. Biasing awaknew clothes and buying them when- ened him, Are yoa not dead! the drive ever It Is possible! What healthy-minde- d asked. woman would want to go "Not that you could notice, Blessthrough life wearing the same gown, cut on the same lines and preserved, ing returned. Well, Isnt anybody dead here! or copied, from season to season! Not unless they died In the last anMary Garden, the opera singer, swered this whole question once In on five minutes, said Blessing. Then the driver realized he had Interview on the deck of a steamer, to sleep and the horses had gone when she was salting for Paris. It In to the Blessing lane of their turned was at the height of the great hubbub own accord He remembered that he American the of concerning question was going to the White creek neighclothes only. The reporter cled up from the borhood, o he turned around, went When, In your opinion, down the lane and remained awakw gangplank. will American women wear American until he arrived at his destination clothes only and show their patriot- Indianapolis News ism I Way Out of the Difficulty. When theyre deod, she called out what Is the charge against "0 filccr, over the rail. They cant protest these two men! asked the court gainst an American' shroud. i "Disturbing the peace by scuffling. Your honor, piped one of the acWe wasnt scrappla. 1 wua cused. CLEANSE THE PORES tellln him .bout a fight dnt de Boost haos won, an he sez dat I didnt proOf Your Skin and Make It Fresh an nounce de name right. Den 1 called : Clear by Using Cutleura. Trial Frs. him a liar, an den he hit me. an I hit him back. Dat wuz all, your When suffering from pimples, black- honor. heads, redaesa or roughness, smear But hereafter when Discharged. the skin with Cutlcura Ointment you fellows have a dispute about a Then wash off with Cutlcura Soap ttd name delete Thats th foreign emolhot water. These way the censors do, and they neve lients do much for ,ke skin heesute get hit." they prevent pore clogging.' Free sample each by mall with Book. t Blissful Ignorance Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept L, IIow much does It cost you to rua Boston, Sold everywhere Adr. tills ynebt, old chupTV . - If 1 knew I wouldnt do It Ufa. C O INSIST ON FREQUENT CHANGE . S ( detain Castoria always bftri the signature of '- v--,'''y- ''-',(k.M- , - v ii? ', . . - - , V V5-- s 1 v' fc-- y !L (these mm I apro- Oh : Early In 1SC8 Gea. Winfield Scott died. Far him ' this vers appeared : Another rs star has fad4. w miss its brilliant glow. cott has vad to b a soldier hrt ' For th vttsrsn below; a heart' And th country which h honored now fait wo As we toast hi asm In reverent at Benny Haven, Oh! fls During the last year of Bennys Hf cam the stunning news that Custer and his men had fought their last fight James E. Porter, Harrington anc others, lieutenants and West Pointers all, peri abet with that gallaat hand. Not until Benny had diet did these verses appear In memory of Custer and hla command: In silence lift your glass; a metaor flashes out So swift to death brave Custsr; amid th bsttlss shout Death called and, crowned. h went to join th friend of long ag. where now h dwell with To th land of Pea.-- , Benny Havana Ohi We'll drop a tear for Harrington and his comrades. Custer's braves Who felt with non to see th deed that glorified their graves; May thlr memory Uv forever with their gloria present glow. Theyve nobly earned th right to dwell with Benny Havens, Obi i It, super-cream- y . Forget te Psy. Patrons of Wlncheater barber shops Cbstscfes. seem to have a mania for forgetting What are the relations beFather In many Bom of ths other versea are fraught with the Ur pay their tonsorial bills. tween you and Miss Darllngtou! cases done Is It unintentionally. la of best West Son Her father-anTolnt that spirit that mother! magic spirit One evening, recently, a former summed up in the words, Duty, Honor, Country, resident who now lives In CaliWest Point, which are part of the motto of th for end Cft fornia a barber shop for a entered . .academy. . In a w,as shave. He and haircut hurry. Nowadays at West Point every cadet memorize the first three verse of Benny Havens, Oh ! The Ills business for the evening Included first has already been given ; the other two are as a lodge meeting, and, most Important of all, catching a train for his home. follows : txik:;x Err quality friends were In Many of hla To our kind old Alma Mater, our rock bound Highland the shop when ho stepped from the horn. He bade them all good-bchair. and w hack eaat a Ilf fond as May many regret re we roam; started to leave the shop. He had not 3S Aje fcefi Book Fm Until on our last battlefield the light of havn shall yet paid his bill. glow We'H oaver fail to drink to hsr and Benny Havana, Did you forget something! the barDAilCT MAOXQie FACTOSt W AHCUCA Ohi ber aiked as the customer was leav" th army t augmented, promotion h less slow. ing the shop. TM K::a QTALITT tl (7 May our country in th hour of oed h ready for yea, I beg your pardon, the th fot Good-by- , May we find a soldier's resting plsc beneath a sob customer replied. good-by- . filers blow. And the bill still remains With room enough beside our gray for Benny Haven. rb! News. x a::i 31 tsio es::a ait Writs far fr trjoklrt "Point iobseoniUsrul before Wherever duty has led them West Pointera bare purchasing s Sewing Machint, 'Learn the tacts. David Guessfcrd, sung Benny Havens, Ohi Since Benny death thirty' years IKUtW UC2 Dr.SSKACHECOCEJlS:A:M these verse have appearedTIn" commemoration of mourned IsVdead, recently returned to " hr parents! home In Town the' deede-o- f pointer W.17uv Salt" Lake City, country : d Win-cheat-er M v old-tim- e 'MACARQNI- -- or y ::::m:rG.ca ciujimua, " unp&ld,--Indlunap- olls tto Wr tatPTttof'ihr Their blood has watered Western plains and Northern wind of snow; stained where piercing a Has peak highest -- wind o'er blow; Has dytd deep red th Everglades, asd deeper still, you knrw, Montezuma shades and walla of Mexico. Th From Nevada's boary ridges, from stormy coast of Mains. From lava bed and Tellowetono th story never waned; Wherever duty called 'they went their steps wsr never slow With Alms Mater on their lips and "Benny Havens. Buy materials thr.t Izzl a's p -- sax-re- d J FtCy Ohi the old, old story of West Point and they who ktw It veil love best to tell it. It will nevet die; It Is a firmly fixed In the highlands of the It ' fnirtrliH lt rr a r , y T -- - Is Hudson ss tk academy Itself h-t- -tr lew ? c isi I a 'A - T ". r ) I - - ii w f t - . I W c i I rj " |