Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-11
TOLD OF CAiLIFFET
ANECDOTES OF "ENFANT TER.
RIBLE" OF FRENCH ARMY.
Once Ate a Wineolass on Wager
How He Attempted to Lead .
Cavalry Charge Down
steep Embankment.

There is hardly Paris paper which
does not every few days print story
about the late Marquis General de
Galliffet. who crowned an adyentur-
Gus career by accepting the portfolio
of war In the Cabinet Of Republican
Defense" only to find himself face to
face with M. Millerand, the socialist
minister Of commerce, whose father
Galliffet had once ordered to be shot
That was during the Commune
81 forgive you,' said the son cor
daily.
Il had no idea he vas such bad
father" remarked the Marquis dryly.
refusing to take the proRered hand
volume OF Galliffetiana has been
compiled by M. Louis Thomas Some
of the stories told of and by the cav
airy officer, who was an 'enfant ter
rible" all his long life, are new. Here
Is a bet of Galliffet's: .
"One evening. when was quite a
young officer, bet that l would eat
wineglass, stem and all, and did.
took some time about 1t, but ate
It, My mouth was bleeding when
had DONE but went to bed all right.
At in the morning | woke up In
fearful pain. tried to think what
| had eaten, and then | remembered
1t was the winegla.2, of course.
N lob off
| said. you're e. ass. You were going
to die for your country. and now you
are going to die in your bed, because
Of a driveling and disgusting bet.
While | cursed myself the pain
stopped turned around, went to
sleep and woke IN fresh and fit in
the morning, AID thought no moro
about the wineglass"
Some say that the pluck which Gal
liffet certainly had came from good
digestion. which he certainly seems
to have had also. Here Is military
anecdote of him:
During some Eaneuvers he was
watching charge Of cavalry under
his orders. Suddenly the leading
squadron stopped dead. Galliffet
roared, Send me the colonel and he
galloped up.
Now colonel. what's wrong?'
eve came upon road at the
bottom OF an EN- bankment too steep
to ride down. sir,
Nonsense. sir! You are not fit
for your job. will lead the charge
You go to the tail Of the squadron
"Galliffet took the command gal
Hoped to the road and rolled down
the embankment with his horse. Ly-
ing on his back with a sprained mus
| Gle in his leg he shouted to his men
to stop. adding, Send me the colonel.
The colonel came up from the tail Of
the squadron. Colonel, you were
right; I am blank fool You may
take the command of your regiment
again."
Toward the end Of his life, when
in bad temper. Galliffet insisted on
calling himself played-out old idiot
Journalists would Try to interview
him, and he generally showed them
TIE door with a voluble speech
mo, sir, every one k. ,ws | am an
old fool. If | were to talk to you
everybody would say. What does that
blank blank dotard Galliffet want to
be talking for? Who wants to know
what the decrepit old sinner thinks?'
And you, my dear sir, what would
people say about you? That you
were the blankest ass In the press to
ask the opinion of a senile idiot like
Galllffet about anything Now. l don't
want people to call you an ass. That
Is why | won't tell you anything.
Good day."