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Show "Into the Jaws of Death" and Out - away the guns. French cavalry Is on your left." Cutting, who for 45 yenrs was a railroad employee at Iowa Falls and Cedar Fulls, retired two years ago nnd is now making his home In this city, lie Is now eighty-five years old, and wns seventeen when he enlisted lu tho Eleventh Hussars of her majesty, Queen Victoria. Mr. Cutting believes he Is among the last, if not the last, of the men who were Immortalized by Tennyson, He vividly recalls the charge. He disagrees with history as to the number num-ber who returned. He says there were only sis. After the Crimean war Mr. Cutting went to India with the Iiiltlsh troops nnd passed through the mutiny. Ha marched from Delhi to Lucknow and fought In that famous siege. Once ho wns wounded, lie passed through Egypt nnd was In active service In South Africa In 1857. In June, 1S0O, he received his discharge from the HrltlHh army nnd In 1871 he come to the United Stutes. pEDAR ItAPIDS. IA. Ellis Cutting of this city rmle Into the valley of deuth with the Immortal COO. Sitting Sit-ting at his home here this man, who rode "Into the Jaws of death. Into the mouth of hell," reculls the charge of the light brigade at Baluklovu In the Crimean war. He saw Captain Nolan, suave young nld-di-c,unp of the British Brit-ish commander, Lor I Uaglan, dash np and hand Lord Lucan, cavalry commander, com-mander, a note. History says It con-1 talued these terse orders: j "Lord Ilnglun wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front ami try to prevent the enemy from carrying |