UNE 25 is the anniversary of a battle which whl be forever famous in Ameri- can history. It was not a battle upon which great is- go far as the fate of ion, hung. In point bat- al- wns 1 the y science It was sues, the nat of the ants engaged it was most insignificant. It not a battle to whict student of mili number of com will turn for lessons in tactic an affair of a handful of Ut 1 Sta cavalrymen pitted eine an over- whelming force of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, and if it has any particular importance in American history, it is becat rked the last out cess scored by the red man For this cially tle Bi 1876, bu the nan Thereby this {es only standing sud again was known portar arou the § Arm Georg» book mopolitan Book cor and aptly oo other b happily soldier as rt done when he uses his book the phrase avaliers” For truly the last was born in There 1e him often and | kn doeg not belon cent American his whiskered, formed ger this boy velvet, blue shirt wit with gold George Arn of are of the th} erals general wi army, 8 cont of black ed hat, his navy h a bros ir adorned stars and held together at the throat with a wide let necktie, his trousers stu boots, and with eto } ng to hi his wire-brimz 1d colls a monarch, ollower Prince , or he should have |} the fortunes of Charlie and ended amid the fla lodenmoor, “A fighter of fighters and a of soldiers, he beau of the American one hi hag called him. He was born of sol- dier ancestry; he grew up surrounded by soldier traditions; he became a sol- dier by « and he dier would choose to The Cus- ters were a fight His great. grandfather had been a Hessinn mer cenary in the Revolutionary war. “He was ly-haired blond giant was fighting for the fun of it,” writes Hunt. When the war was over and he, with his fellow Hessians, was paroled, he decided to settle down and grow up with the country. The family name of Kuster was changed about the time this good-natured Saxon fighter moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland. His grandson, the blacksmith and farmer, Emmanuel Custer, felt the call of the frontier and migrated to Ohlo, and here it was that the sturdy tow-headed boy was born in 1839, “War was in the alr again. The fall of the Alamo down in San Antonio and the great stretch of country north of the Rio Grande owned by Mexico had burned its way into the hearts of the country. A bitter hatred was flar- soldier sabreur army,” storian was the hoice died as a sol- die, ing stock. inst Mex a was getting ready ~war-per-generat! constantly n« } more than once saal im to the brink of dismi academy, he was absorbing 81 oiethisg of greater value than mere classroom know! ledze, for, writes Hunt It would be aln impossible to whi the IT Years nat i had done this bt smiling, six- farmer eastern Ohio, ine had sunk deep Withe of it, blac its motto-Dut ¢ had given for him a tone, to the ancient business of arms. It was as | me one had taken him by a hilltop and shown him of mounted knights in re 18 forth to war, for honor, for and for the battle’'s sake. In the very air of West Point he breathed the very greatness of the sword. It would not have been surprising’ if Custer had chosen to follow the for- tunes of the Confederacy, and to have added the color of his personality to the roll of its cavalier leaders such as Jeb Stuart and John Morgan. Instead he chose to stick with the Union and although he falled to graduate with his class because at almost the last moment he had committed a grave breach of rules which led to his court. martinl and his retention at the acad- emy, finally he was ordered to Wash- ington for duty In the summer of 1861, As a lieutenant in the Second cav- alry he saw action almost immedi. overestimate West P haired, from lond- boy traditions eart and mind ut hi el in th least aware virit of the three words of rf ountr g-reflected A resonance renown, —— Smashed Precedent An American girl relates that when she sat for an examination at Oxford university, the following directions a8 to costume were handed out: “If the candidate Is a woman, she shall wear a dark sult, white jumper and Llack tie, black shoes and stockings, No detail may be changed or disre- garded. N. B.—If anyone should dis regard these regulations, proctors are authorized to ask them to withdraw year later with more } la credit, rand Georgo major gen him comn of the Thi Armstrong Cus a major general with twelve rigiments under his twelve regiments which idelized him as had the regiments of Wolverines, The fighter, tition here, after venth cay ion, r, age twenty-five, was comms three Indian iz too well known to need repe- It is the story of one suc- of ti. story of Custer, the another as alry, which still and for destined to known as "Custer's regiment,” until that June day In 1876 when, In sight of the great Indian village strung along the Little Big Horn, he made the fatal division of forces and, trusting to the “Custer luck,” which had carried him safely through a decade of warfare, he rode into battle for the last time. A fitting epitaph to this last of the Cav- aliers may be found in these words of Hunt: To the millions of plain Americans he is remembered not as a commander of a dashing and victorious division of cavalry that captured 10,000 prisoners and 65 battle flags from a gallant and stubborn foe, but as un Indian fighter, who with a handful of troopers eleven years later galloped to a tragic death. He had fought Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and “the gallant Pelham”~~great and remembered pole diers—but it was the naked Bioux war tiors of the plains who sent him to deathless fame, The gods of battle have their own Inscrutable way of making heroes, CORN leader Se he all time seems his from examinations.” This was failure. She defied them, however, and wore a green necktie, but waited with trepi- dation the arrival of the Don! Pres. ently he approached her desk from the rear and laid the papers on her table, Catching sight of the green tle, he scowled, hesitated a moment, then the frown gradually melting into a smile, he said: “Bo you change, are still rebels !"--Ex- A Gossip Is the tool of cowards. Facial Judgments If you would measure the quality of a man, look first Into his eyes, But if you would gauge the character of a woman, study her lips first and then try to find out whether her eyes confirm their message. The mouth, lips and chin form the emotional area of the face.~Exchange. 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