Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-14
Bob IngersOll in the War.
From the indianapolis Journal.

One of Morgan's redoutable men,
recounting his exploits during the
war, tells an apochyrphal story of the
ignominous capture of Col. Robert G.
Ingersoll. 1t is to the effect that
when his regiment was captured the
eloquent colonel was not to be found
until 'beardless, 14-year-old boy"
came marching into camp, having
captured him at the muzzle of a mus
ket. He said he skeered up the colo
mel in a hog pen, where he was con-
cealed under the litter. The credit or
discredit of hiding in any manner to
escape capture depends wholly upon
its issue. If successful it was shrewd
and admirable exploit, but if the enc
my discover the hiding place the as
pect is vastly changed. Passing over
the possibility that the boy may have
lied and the boaster now telling the
story may not stick to the truth, we
are brought into contact with another
charge against Robert. The racon-
teur goes on to say that the captive,
by his genial manners and eloquent
words, soon became a favorite with
his captors. He was placed on escape
parole and treated to the best that
could be had. In the course of events
he felt SO obligated to his generous
captors that he wished to return some
of their Inequalities. So he borrowed
the sum of 500 in good Confederacy
scrip and dispensed hospitality like a
lord as long as it lasted. Now, what
gals the gallant Morgan man is the
fact that Ingersoll forgot to repay the
money, although he gave his note in
due form, and since the war has been
dunned in regulation manner Nor
gan's men are of the opinion that he
is bold, bad man, and that his reli-
gion won't wash, and is not worth 9
cents yard. Bob ought to hunt up
some Confederate scrip and pay the
claim if it takes the last 1-cent piece
he can find in his pocket
The Chicago Breeders Gazette says:
The tens of thousands of farmers
who hold but a small area say eighty
acres, are not necessarily cut off from
stock rearing or feeding. They have
some advantages over the large farm
ers. The care of a small number of
animals may come III along with the
other work of the farm without notice
to those who do the work. And this
means considerable. When land is
fully used there is large quantity of
produce ON an eighty-acr farm,
which can only be profitably utilized
by farm animals Some rotation of
crops is nearly always essential to the
best farming, and grass and clover
should have prominent place III this
rotation. These can be used on the
farm, rather than be sold. We are
coming to learn that in cornstalks and
leaves there are vast stroeS of good
food, which ought to be made better
use of than simply turned under the
surface. If the smaller farms of the
country were fully stocked with farm
animals, they would be vastly more
important factors in etfecting prices
than all the great ranches.
An editor in Chicago recently order
ed pair of trousers from the tailor
On trying them on they proved to be
several inches too long. 1t being late
on Saturday night, the tailor's shop
was closed, and the editor took the
trousers to his wife and asked her to
cut them off and hem them over The
good lady, whose dinner had, perhaps,
disagreed with her brusquely refused
The same result followed an applica-
ton to the wife's sister and eldest
daughter But before bedtime, the
wife relenting, took the pants, and.
cutting off six inches, hemmed them
up nicely, and restored them to the
closet Half an hour later, her daugh-
ter, taken with conjunction for her
unfilial conduct, took the trousers,
and, cutting off six snches, hemmed
and replaced them. Finally, the sister
ln-law felt the pangs Of conscience,
and she, too, performed an additional
surgical operation on the garment
When the editor appeared at break
fast on Sunday the family thought a
Highland chief had arrived.