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SHINER GAZETTE. SHINER, TEXAS
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tion is written the deeds
of valor of their great
worqen in peace and
war. Fiction relates won-
derful acts of bravery in
imaginary wars that were
never fought.' The spirit
of this endeavor, whether in fact or in
fiction, and whether inspired by pa-
triotism or love, fascinates every
reader. But as wonderful as are
hook stories, there are others as thrill-
ing and as full of valor which are
den In the hearts of living people, and
which never will be revealed.
Mrs. Lucy Matilda Kenny, is to
South what Joan of Arc is to France,
and what Molly Pitcher is to Revolu-
tionary fame.
With her hair cropped and in th
habiliments of a man, Miss Kenny,
then Mrs. Bryant Gauss, fought from
Manassas to Fredericksburg, shoulder
to shoulder with her husband, whose
• dead body she finally brought from
the trenches in front of Richmond for
burial at the old home in Baden coun-
ty, North Carolina. Mrs. Kenny was
•inown on the rolls of the Confeder-
acy as private “Bill’ Thompson, Com-
pany B, Eighteenth North Carolina in-
fantry, under the command of Capt.
Robert Tate. Of rather masculine ap-
pearance, it was only necessary for
her to cut her hair and don a suit of
hsr husband’s clothes in order to pass
as a man.
Mrs. Kenny and her then husband
went to the front with the first batch
of volunteers from the “Tar Heel”
state; was badly wounded in the first
battle of Manassas, and as a result
she wears a long .ragged-scar, on her
scalp to this day. The wound^was in-
dicted by a bursting shell. Her hus-
band, Patrick Kenny, whom, she mar-;
ried. after the war, died a few months
. ago at the advanced age of one hun-
dred and six years. The remarkable
story of the woman was found in his
memoirs/ She has- a number of chil-
dren and grandchildren living in
Georgia and North Carolina.
Outside of her immediate family no-
body knew of the tragic events in the
life of this old woman, who is spend-
ing the evening of her days surround-
ed by a few of her remaining children,
some of her grandchildren and a few
friendB. Fate has decreed to her only
the hare necessities of life, but her in-
domitable spirit still lives, and she
finds happiness in optimism. »
■While hundreds of the noble women
of the Southland were bending over
their spinning wheels, weaving shirts
and socks for their brave fathers,
brothers and sweethearts facing death
upon the firing line, the sturdy wom-
of whom this story tells was.jen,
of
the soldiers in the field, plunging
through the murk of battle with a gun
In her hands, taking life and offering
her own in sacrifice. Now, a half
century afterward, when many of her
comrades have answered the final roll
sail, Mrs. Kenny lives and relates with
remarkable accuracy the history of
those days that “tried men’s souls.”
Now, in her declining years, she has
a mind that is bright and active, a
sight that is keen and piercing, a heart
that is perfect and a memory that is
retentive. She has never worn glasses,
and the visits of the family physician
tx? her home have been infrequent in
spite of the sufferings inflicted upon
her by the hand of war and the mis-
DID NOT SLAY MADERO
BUT KNOWS WHO DID
Huerta, Former President of Mexico,
Issues Sworn Statement at New
York on Madero’s Passing. ,
fortune of circumstances. Mrs. Kenny
was born in the year that America
wrested her second victory from the
mother country, and she fully expects,
to live for many years to come. She
is still active and ambitious, and takes
a keen interest in the current history
of the times. .
But it is the story of her career
as a'soldier in the" field that. is• Of
greatest interest. It is a story of tvar
and love, of sacrifice and adventure,
of struggles and sorrow's. It is a hu-
man document as thrilling as any in
the pages qf fiction. There is not in
all the world a woman who has en-
dured the hardships of Mrs. Kenny
and lives to tell the tale. There is
not another in the world who has
charged shoulder to shoulder with
men over a field slippery with blood
into the belching cannon’s mouth.
Born of the stanch stock of the ru-
ral districts of the old North state,
Mrs. Kenny had blossomed into ma-
ture womanhood as the wife of Bry-
ant G. Gauss when the southern
states seceded. She had been reared
on a farm near Bladenboro. She had
the vitality of the women accustomed
to life in the open in the days before
modern inventions lightened that of
the agriculturist and his household.
Her vigor enabled her to withstand
the hardships which she later endured.
When the South first called her sons
to efter ufe- se-rvices 16 his coun-
try. His wife would not consent to
be left at home. She feared that the
fire of the enemy might cause his body
to be left unidentified on some far
battlefield. Her love overcame her
natural timidity. She determined to
accompany him in the ranks of the
army and to share with him the for-
tunes of the struggle. The fact that
a woman could not enlist was not
sufficient to deter her. Those who
composed the volunteers from that sec-
tion of the state were her acquaint-
ances. It was largely through this
fact, and the sympathy these patriotic
men had for her, that, she was en-
abled to accomplish her purpose—
that of accompanying her husband to
the battlefield.
STARTS ON LONGEST VOYAGE
Oceanographic Trip of 250,000 Miles—
Is Expected to Last at Least
Seven Years.
Commander J. Foster Stackhouse,
yrko will lead the international ocean-
ographic expedition, the longest voy-
age for scientific research ever con-
templated, announced that he would
Deare in about two weeks’" time .for
England for the purpose of bringing
to this country the Discovery, the ship
•ased by the national Antarctic expe-
dition, and will sail about Christmas
next on a voyage of about 250,000
miles, extending over a period of
seven years. Commander Stackhouse
^ays its purpose is primarily oceano-
graphic, and many thousands of is-
lands, rocks, and reefs now unchart-
ed, or whose position is shown only ap-
proximately, will be definitely charted.
“For more than a century reports
have been received from mariners,”
said the commander, “that in and
around the position where the Ti-
tanic sank a rock has been seen, and
the district has become known as
Hervagault’s breakers. On old maps
of the north Atlantic this rock was
3kown for many years, although the
position was altered’by many cartog-
raphers, and that it was not until the
year 1316 that Captain Loury finally
gave a position to this ‘head.’
“If this houl<£.i>rove true,” said the
sommander, ‘&m the mountain head
still exist, rearing its head to within
BATTLES WON WITHOUT LOSS
80 fathoms of the surface, this must
of necessity prove of danger to ship-
ping, for an iceberg of but compara-
tively small proportions would be
aground on this submerged reef”
It is the intention of the interna-
tional oceanographic expedition to
spend some time in the vicinity of the
disaster, and ascertain whether a
mountain head actually exists there.
ivirs.- uauss was men a woman of
165 pounds. Her rather masculine
features aided her in disguising her-
self as a man. When her hair -was
shorn and she had donned a suit of
man’s clothing she could readily; pass
as a man. She enlisted in the same
company with her husband—Company
B, Eighteenth North Carolina regi-
ment, which was mustered ip at
Bladenboro. With her musket,: knap-
sack, canteen and blanket, she took
her place in line, shoulder to shoulder
with the strong men of the communi-
ty. Without her secret being known
to anybody in authority to force her
to return home, she fought frQm the
Battle of Manassas until after, Fred-
ericksburg.
A compact existed between Mrs.
Gauss-and her husband. It was that
if he should be killed on the field of
battle she was to take his body home;
if she was killed it should ,be his duty
to see that she found a final resting
place among the scenes of her child-
hood. This cofiipact was carried out
despite the fact, that-4t was the man
who was killed. Mrs, Gauss was
forced to face all manner of dangers
to accomplish it, and it happened at
a time when her own physical con-
dition was not of the best.
Of all the battles in which she par-
ticipated she recalled in after years
most vividly "the seven days’ fight
to arms Bryant Gauss was amQiig-t-fifi- -around Richmond—for it was h|r| that
Some Remarkable Contests That Are
Recorded in the Annals of the
British Army.
3b battles of the past when artillery
was not so deadly, contests were occa-
sionally waged without the loss of a
single British soldier.
Ae instance of this occurred at the
feeifie of Futtehpore, which occurred
staring Havelock’s forced march to re-
3sn*» Lucknow. Although the rebels
Artificial Bones.
A new method of treating fractures
has just been announced by Dr. H. J.
Kauffer. He dries and grinds to pow-
der a piece of fresh hone, and this
powder he mixes to the consistency of
a paste with petrolatum and properly
sterilizes the mixture. After the ends
of the fractured bofle have been
brought into proper relations, and the
location ascertained by digital exami-
nation and X-ray, a syringe having a
long needle is filled with the warmed
bone mixture/and the needle is insert-
ed to the seat of the fracture and as
deeply as possible between the frac-
tured ends. The contents of the needle
are then injected as the needle is
slowly withdrawn to the surface of
the bone, when the injection must
stop. This procedure may be repeated
several times at different angles, thus
filling the entire space between the
fractured ends with the petrolatum
and bone cells, which act as a focus
for the formation of new bone.
were driven from a position and 11
guns captured, not a single Britisher
was lost. Havelock put this astonish-
ing result down to “the fire of the
British artillery exceeding in rapidity
and precision all that has ever been
witnessed.”
When Lord Napier led the British
expedition against King Theodore in
Abyssinia he had the satisfaction of
winning the campaign without the loss
of a single soldier. Considering that
10,000 Britishers were engaged against
an enemy who fought desperately to
her TJeloweeLhusband went to death.
During the years^hcrYTrs-HaTFTm a
she was known by no other : name
than that of Private Thompson, and
those of her comrades who knew her
history never gave her secret away.
This soldier woman endured long
marches, accepted without complaint
the scanty fare which was the portion
of the southern soldier, did' her tours
of duty on the picket line and forced
her woman body into the thick of
the fray whenever there was work to
be done. She was a good soldier then
and she is a good- soldier now, doing
her duty each day as she sees it, fear-
ing naught but the wrath of God with
whom she has long since made her
peace. .
Mrs. Kenny related an instance in
which the corporal of her company
undertook to test'her ability as a sen-
tinel, and as a result narrowly es-
caped being shot. She was walking
a beat on a line one night when the
crackling of twigs warned her of the
approach of some living thing. In
those days a soldier shot first and
thought about it afterward. Mrs. Ken-
ny relates that she was quick to call
“halt” and to ask for the counter-
sign. It was not forthcoming. Upon
her thrice repeated request she al-
lowed her musket to back up her
voice.
“But,” she said, laughing, “I missed
him,” and adds that be then made
himself known.
It was not long after entering the
service that the nerve of the woman
became steeled. After experiencing
her first few engagements and losing
her inherent shyness of guns and the
smell of powder the battle lost a part
of its fear for her, the bloody field
some of its horrors.
“I have seen men on the field, after
the battle, bleeding and dying and
dead; some calling for water, others
calling for help, many lying silent.”
During the long months of the strug-
gle she was with her husband almost
continually. They fought side by side
against the common enemy. He was
her camp mate. Fortunately they
were allowed to remain in the same
company all the time. It was thus
possible for Mrs. Kenny to continue
her incognito without violating her
most womanly instincts. It was only
when on detail that she was away from
him.
defend their rocky homes, the result
was amazing.
In Afghanistan the British forces
avenged the massacre at Kabul by in-
flicting an qverwhelming defeat on the
Afghans. They were forced into a
river, and their ammunition, artillery
and stores captured. Yet the British
casualties only numbered ten, al-
though thousands of fighters were en-
gaged on both sides.
New York.—Vehemently asserting
that he had nothing to do with the
death of Francisco Madero, General
Victoriano Huerta, former provisional
president of Mexico, issued a signed
statement Friday setting forth what
he termed his side of the Mexican
question. General Huerta declared
that he knew who was responsible for
adero’s death, but that he was keep-
ing it as a “professional secret.”
General Huerta’s signed statement
was, in part, as follows:
“After fifteen months of Madero’s
ill-administration a portion of the
patriotic Mexican army revolted and
took possession of the government’s
citadel. For ten days the streets of
the city ran with blood.
“The foreign diplomatic representa-
tives asked Mr. Madero to resign. He
did not want to accede. Then some
heads of the army, incited by our sen-
ators, placed Madero under arrest.
“Our congress, our senate and our
supreme court of justice, complying
with all the requisites of the constitu-
tion of our country, named me as the
constitutional president of the United
States of Mexico.
“"Mr. Madero, while being commit-
ted to the penitentiary, died an un-
natural death. In the opinion of some
of the public in this country I am
blamed as having taken a part in exe-
cuting him. I have never tided to
shirk any responsibility and anything
I ever did was done openly. I am not
to blame for the death of Madero.
Time and history will do me justice.
“Nobody can ever name a foreigner
who has suffered from my government
any loss of life or interests.
“During the seventeen months I
was president I had the confidence
and moral support of the whole Amer-
ican colony. Unfortunately, and for
our shame, numerous crimes have
been committed against foreigners on
Mexican soil during the last four years
and a half. Englishmen were coward-
ly assassinated,- more than three hun-
dred Chinamen were brutally slaugh-
tered in Torreon, German women wfcre
brutally violated in Covadonga, Span-
iards were butchered in Atencingo find
other places, foreign and native minis-
ters of the church were shamelessly
mistreated, but these crimes were
committed before or after my time or
by rebels in territory that I did not
control. I have always had and have
proved my great admiration and re-
spect for the American people.
“My Indian, honest blood boils when
-S' think -ef-t-he—unfortunate conditions
existing in my poor country. But
never mind. I have hopes. My Mex-
ico is young. My Mexico has plenty
of life in it. My country can not be
conquered. We have 16,000,000 of
men, women and children, and it
would need 16,000,000 of invaders, one
invader for each man, for each wom-
an, for each child, and when my 16,-
000,000 brothers and sisters are killed
off, then a devastated country would
be the prize of the conqueror, to the
shame of civilization and to the shame
of the conqueror.
“Never mind, Mexico will be saved
by a Mexican. By a strong Mexican.
Not by a bandit. Not by men that kill
for the sake^of money or of dastardly
passion, but by a Mexican who will
act as a surgeon, who will cure the
sores, who will amputate the dead
parts of the national body. And then
Mexico in a short time will revive and
will be the paradise on earth it de-
serves to be. »
“Where is the man? Who is the
man? When will the man appear?
I do not know.”
A tombstone is the dividing line b»
tween here and over there.
AGTS LIOIliTE ON LIVER
I Guarantee “Dodsons’ Liver Tone” Will Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Doesn’t Make You Sick! A
Japan to Crown Emperor.
Tokio.—The cabinet Friday fixed
November 10 as the date for the coro-
nation of Emperor Yoshihito. The
ceremony was to have taken place
last November, but a postponement
was made necessary by the death
of the dowager empress.
Two Royal Prisoners Escape.
Geneva, via Paris.—Two Russian
princes and a Russian count have es-
caped from the Austrian detention
camp at Milowitz. They are Prince
Vladimir Jaswill, Prince Michel Wuko-
"fie and Count Tolstoi, son of the
writer.
Produce Butter From Flowers.
London.—The production of mar*
garin from sunflowers is the latest de-
vice attributed to the German govern-
ment to meet the expected scarcity of
butter.
Stop using calomel! It makes you
sick. Don’t lose a day’s work. If you
feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti-
pated, listen to me!
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that aw-
ful nausea and cramping. If you feel
“all knocked out,” if your liver is tor-
pid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is bad or stomach
sour just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson’s Liver Tone.
Here’s my guarantee—Go to any
drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent
bottle of Dodsonfs Liver Tone. Take a
spoonful and if it doesn’t straighten
you right up and make you feel fine
and vigorous I want you to go back to
the store and get your money. Dod-
son’s Liver Tone is destroying the
sale of calomel because it is real liver
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it cannot salivate or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti-
pated waste which is clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone will keep your entire fam-
ily feeling fine for months. Give it to
your.children. It is harmless; doesn’t
gripe and they like its pleasant taste.
“COUNT” TOO ABSENT MINDED
New Oil Well Is Brought In.
Taylor, Tex.—The tenth producing
well for the Taylor-Thrall oil field on
the Mrs. E. Etiles lease came in Mon-
day and is classed by the talent as a
500-barrel-per-day proposition.
New Mexico Quarantine Ended.
Santa Fe, N. M.—Governor McDon-
ald Wednesday issued a proclamation
removing the New Mexico quarantine
from live stock and commodities com-
ing in from Texas, Arizona and Colo-
rado, effective April 15.
Principal Reason Why One Interna-
tional Marriage Was Permanent-
ly Called Off.
Henry P. Davison of the Morgan
banking firm was talking about inter-
national marriages:
“Well,” he said, “I know of one in-
ternational marriage that failed,
thank goodness, to come off. The girl
was the daughter of a Paint Rock
millionaire. The man was a count, a
Spanish count.
“The count was absent minded.
That was his undoing. The girl’s
father gave a dinner for him in the
Paint Rock pastle overlooking Paint
Rock, and at the dinner’s end the
count got up to light a cigarette, and
then, by jove, started to remove the
plates.
“The guests watched him in an
open-mouthed silence. His napkin
slung over his arm, he had got nearly
all the plates, removed when his mil-
lionaire host said to him gently:
“ ‘Wake up, George. You're not
waiting in the beanery now, you
know. You’re pretending you’re a
count in Paint Rock. Wake up, man,
for gracious sake!”’
Aviator Falls to His Death.
Washington.—Cecil Malcolm Peoli,
22, an aviator, was killed at College
Park, Md., Monday while making a
test flight in an aeroplane of his own
invention. The machine fell 300 feet
EXPLAINING SONGS OF BIRDS
More.
Cobb—Is it a privelege to know
Short?
Webb—Yes; an expense, also.—
Judge.
This would be a much better world
if people would only finish everything
that they start.
Beautiful Notes of the Nightingale,
for Instance, Are Inspired by
Paternal Love.
It is generally assumed that a bird,
sings because he is happy, but sci-
ence goes deeper for an explanation
pf the why and wherefore of the
bird’s song. Nature’s optimistic joy
in constructive progress is expressed
in the singing of the male birds who
charm their mates to further their
wooing, and continue after eggs are
laid to encourage the fulfillment of
hatching.
The song stops when the little birds
come out of the shell. The nightin-
gale, for weeks during the period of
nest-building and hatching, charms
his mate and human ears near him
with the beautiful music of his love
song. But as soon as the little night-
ingales come from the eggs the song
changes to a sort of guttural croak,
implying anxiety and sense of respon7.
sibility. f-
If the nest and contents wer-6 de-
stroyed the, nightingale would at one©
resume his beautiful song to inspire
his mate to help him build another
nest and start all over again the lov-
ing work of being fruitful and multi-
plying.
Corn on the Cob
—the Roasting Ear
is not more delicious than
Post T oasties
—the toasted sweet
of the corn fields!
In the growth of corn there is a period when the
kernels are plumped out with a vegetable milk, most
nutritious. As it slowly ripens this hardens and
finally becomes almost flinty.
Only this part of the corn is used in making Post
Toasties, the husk, germ and all waste being rejected.
This nutritious part is cooked, seasoned “just
right,” rolled and toasted to a crackly golden-brown
crispness—Post Toasties—the
Superior Corn Flakes
And they cost no more than the ordinary “corn
flakes.” Insist upon having Post Toasties.
—sold by Grocers everywhere.
Helpful Advice.
“Some of these social workers
evolve some profound theories.”
“What.pow?”
“This one, advises the poor to mod-
ify the cost ot-v
their stuff in bar
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