The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
"""""I HAT officer of the United
VHTT* States army from the mer
lA/ est “shave tail” up to a
WW general with four stars on
" " his shoulders has not heard
that verse and for a brief
t moment been carried hack
to “Alma Mater," the Unit-
ed States Military Acad-
emy at West Point, N. Y.?
For one of the most pic-
turesque and beloved tra-
ditions of that famous mil-
itary school where tradi-
tion Is so strong, centers around the
name oDBpnuy Havens.
Who was Benny Havens? One of
America’s famous geuerals, a graduate
of whom West Point is proud? A be-
loved teacher at the academy? Weil,
hardly | Sometime prior to 1882 Benny
Havens came to West Point and oc-
cpled a one-story cottage a short dis-
tance west of where the old cadet hos-
pital, now the nurses' quarters, stands.
fWhat his ancestry was or where he
came from no one seems to know. But
after all those things are relatively
■unimportant, for the beginnings of a
tradition are frequently wrapped In a
inlst of obscurity, but a tradition Is
none .the less dear on that account.
In the early days of Benny’s residence
*iit-the post he sold to the cadets ale.
cakes and cider, and In the winter.
Inickwheat cakes and cider flip. Later
on the cider flip became ale flip and
still later something a hit stronger
;was added to Ms hill of fare. It was
this “something” which led to Benny’s
undoing, for he was expelled from the
reservation.
By this time Benny had become so
attached to the corps of cadets and
the cadets had become so attached
llo Benny that neither could think of
allowing this expulsion to mean his
retirement to the obscurity from which
be had some. So lie set up his little
shop Just off the post in what later
became known as “The House by the
Kiver,” a Mecca to which so many of
West Point’s famous sons made fre-
queut, even If forbidden, pilgrimages.
For slipping out of bounds to the hos-
pitable fireside of Bonny Havens,
where food and drink could he Illegal-
ly obtained, contrary to the rules and
regulations which have always char-
acterized 'he dignity and order of this
Revere academy, was one of the of
fenses for which a cadet could he
“skinned” (today (hey call it
“squllled," I. e. reported for one of the
many breaches of regulations).
For Instance, take the case of Cadet
Armstrong Custer of Ohio along about
the year 1801. Custer himself has re-
corded “my offenses against law and
order were not great In enormity hut
what they lacked in magnitude they
made up in number. The forbidden
locality of Benny Havens possessed
stronger attractions than the study
and demonstration of a problem in
Euclid." If you go to West Point to-
day you can find in an old sheepskin
bound vjiume the record of Custer’s
’’skin sheet," bearing the list of of-
fenses for which Cadet Custer was
reported. In ail there are 453 separate
“skins” with a total of 812 demerits
and many of them are for partaking
of Benny’s hospital Iky. Since a cadet
Is allowed 835 demerits before he is
dismissed. Custer had only 23 more to
go when he was graduated. So he
came very nearly being denied his
chance for fame and America came
very nearly losing one of her most
brilliant cavalry officers. But If Benny
Havens had a part In this, it wqa by
no means a unique case. Many an-
other officer who later became famous
could testify to a number of “skins”
because they simply could not resist
months) Poe frequently visited Ben-
jny’s place of business while It was still
on the reservation and .became de-
voted to trim. The future poet often
remarked that “Benny was the sole
congenial soul In the entire God-for-
saken place.”
Benny lived to the ripe old age of
eighty-eight years. Taps were sound-
ed for him on May 29, 1877, and now
he sleeps in the Hlghlund Union ceme-
tery on the banks of the river he
loved so well. But West Point is rich
in memories of Benny Havens. If
you go there today they will showf you
the pitcher from which he served his
famous cider flip. But most of all his
fame is preserved in the song which
has been carried literally around the
world by West Pointers. That song
was composed early in his career. It
was written about 1838 when Lucius
O’Brien of Maryland, a lieutenant (n
the Eighth infantry was visiting a
friend, Riley A. Arnold, then a first
classman. Together they spent many
a congenial evening at Benny’s place
and, so the story goes, O’Brien and his
friends composed a poem about
Benny and set it to the tune of “The
Wearing of the Green." It immediate-
ly became popular at West Point
and for the next quarter of a century
one of the first things o plebe did was
to learn to sing “Benny Havens, Oh!"
During the summer days of 18C5 wher
day after day the steamers hearing
home the veterans of the Civil war
passed Benny's little cottage on the
hanks of the Hudson the bands would
strike up one tune and Benny would
hear hundreds of voices joining in the
singing of:
Benny's Pitcher.
the charm of Benny Havens’ hospi-
tality.
“Benny Havens’ character was many
sided, kind to children, invariably
courteous to women,’’ so reads a sketch
in “Bugle Notes," the handbook of
the United States Corps of Cadets, or
“the pieties’ Bible," as it is called at
West Point. “He was possessed of a
terrible and ungovernable temper.
There was an Indeflnihle something
about his personality, that bound his
friends to him by Inseparable ties.
Virtues and qualities were his which
helped to shape the lives of and give
guidance to, as they rose to life’s
pinnacles, many whose names are now
engraved on the pages of history."
For instance there was a certain
cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. Dur-
ing the short stay of that errutlc In-
dividual at the academy, (he was dis-
missed after being there ubout six
Come fill your glasses, fellows, and
stand up in a row
To singing sentimentally we’re going
for to go:
In the army there’s sobriety, promo-
tion’s very slow
So we’ll sing our reralnlscensea of
Benny Havens. Oh!
CHORUS:
Oh! Benny Havens. Oh! Oh! Benny
Havens, Oh!
We’ll sing our reminiscenses of Benny
Havens. Oh!
To our kind old Alma Mater, our rock-
bound Highland Home.
Well cast manv a fond regret as o’er
life’s sen we roam;
Until on our |.-i»t battle field, the light
of heuvi-n shall glow.
We'll nev,-r fail lo drink to her. and
Bennv Havens Oh!
CHORUS:
'Muy the Army be augmented, may pro-
motion be leas slow
May our country In the hour of need
be ready for the foe;
May we find a goldish's resting place
benenth a soldier's blow
With room enough beside our graves
for Benny Havens. Oh!
Benny Havens
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Prom Nevada's hoary ridges, from
stormy coasts of Maine.
From Lava Beds and Yellow Stone
the Story never waned;
Whenever duly called, they went,
their steps were never slow;
With "Alma Mater" on their lips
and “Benny Havens, Oh."
When this life's troubled sea is
o’er and our last battle's
through,
If God permits us mortals there
his blest dornnin to view.
Then we shall see in glory
crowned. In proud celestial
row
The friends we've known and
loved so well at Benny Hav-
ens'. Oh!"
Famous French Scientist
Pasteur, the celebrated
French biological chemist and | ntholn
gist, was born at Dole, dura. Decern
her 27. 1822. Devoting himself to the
study of chemistry, he was gradu-
ated from Ecole Normale. Paris, in
1847; became professor of physics at
Dijon, 1848; In the following year
professor of chemistry at Sf rasshurg.
ILater lie corrled on Ills researches at
tiie Inshilute Pasteur, Purls. One of
the most important of the many re
suits of Pasteur’s investigations Is the
well known treatment of hydrophobia
which lie showed to he caused by the
presence of specific bacteria In the
blood, the spinal column of the in
footed animal serving as a culture
medium. Pasteur died near St. Cloud.
September 28. 1895.
Reminders of Pledges
Special cards for husbands and
wives to remind them of their mar-
riage vows are being Issued by the
Mothers’ 7nIon of England. They are
of a size convenient for carrying In
ilie pocket, and printed in silver on
white. They record the date and
(dace of the marriage und the nume
of the contracting parties, and they
reproduce the essential portions of
the marriage service which have ref-
erence to marital fidelity.
It Is Intended that each married
couple should have two cards, one
for retention by the husband and one
by the wife.
Triumph Over Death
In the end ot the Sabbath, as it began to
dawn toward the first day of the week, came
Mary Magdalene and the other Marys to tee
the sepulcher. )
And, behold, there was a great earthquake:
for the Angel of the Lord descended from
Heaven, and came and rolled back the stone
from the door, and sat upon it.
His countenance was like lightning, and bis
raiment white as snow:
And for fear of him the keepers did shake,
and became as dead men.
And the Angel answered and said unto the
women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek
Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here:
for He ia risen, as He said. Come, see the
place where the Lord lay.
And go quickly, and tell His disciples that
He is risen from the dead; and, behold, He
goeth before you into GalKlee; there ye shall
see Him: lo, I have told you.
And they departed quickly from the sepulcher
with fear and great joy; and did run to bring
His disciples word.
And as they went to tell His disciples, bo-
hold, Jesus met them, saying, All bail. And
they came and held Him by the feet and wor-
shiped Him.
Miracle oi the
Holy Fire Stirs
Crowd to Frenzy
Six eastern rites simultaneously oh
serve the lno.st precious of all the
festivals of eastern Christianity. Eas-
ter eve in the Holy city finds the
Abyssinians lurching with their cu-
rious dancing gait around the dome
on the roof of St. Helena’s chapel, the
Armenians chanting within the chapel.
Hie Latins singing their midnight mass
in the chapel of the Apparition, the
gongs high up In the dome of the
Crusaders’ church shrilly calling the
Orthodox to prayer, and Jacobite and
Coptic litanies swelling this babel of
Christian ecstasy.
During the week that thus readies
its climax, two services stand out
from all the rest: The placid miracle-
pla.v of the washing of the feet, based
on the thirteenth chapter of St. John,
which is performed separately on
Maundy Thursday by the Orthodox,
the Armenians and the Jacobites, and
the wild outbreak of the holy fire on
the Saturday before Easter which Is
held Jointly by the Orthodox, the Ar-
menians, the Copts and the Jacobites
in the lofty rotunda of the church.
Of tiie three ceremonies of the
washing of the feet, the Orthodox
service Is the best known, for it is
held publicly on the forecourt of the
church, while the Armenian and Ja-
cobite services are held Indoors—the
Armenian in the cathedral of St.
James, In the southwestern quarter
of the walled city; the Jacobite In
the church of their monastery of St.
Mark, also in the southwestern quar-
ter. Those who have seen all three
services say that the service In the
splendid Armenian cathedral is in-
comparably the finest.
The Holy Firs.
The little tableau of the Garden of
Gethsemane is a feature peculiar to
the Orthodox service. Members of
the clergy impersonating SL f’eter, St.
James and St. John dispose them-
selves for sleep on the steps of the
platform and presently are aroused
from their slumbers. They full
asleep again and are again roused.
This bit of symbolism brings the serv-
ice to a close and the putrlarch und
his clergy, reforming In procession,
leave the forecourt to the renewed
clangor of the bells.
From these simple services the as-
tounding spectacle of the holy fire is
a violent transition. It Is moving be-
yond belief, but It Is a devotional rite.
This is the annual miracle of the
bringing down of flame from heaven
and the thousands of believers who
have waited all night around the sep-
ulcher In the rotunda where the
flame descends are moved to an un-
controllable emotion as the hour
nears.
By ten o’clock on the morning of
the Saturduy before Easter the floor
of the rotunda is pucked with a seeth-
ing swaying, murmuring mass, leaving
only a narrow lane from the old Cru-
saders’ church, now the Orthodox ca-
thedral, to the door of tiie sepulcher,
where police, holding hands, preserve
a way for the coming of the pa»rlarch.
Higher In the rotunda the urched win-
dows of the ambulatory and the upper
galleries below the dome ure similar-
ly crowded.
Scene of Color and Frenzy.
The gold and ‘silver of hanging
jimps, the bright garments of the
women in the galleries and the blend-
ing red of the fezzes struggling about
the walls of the little pinnacled sep
ulcher below, the low roar of voices
rising Into snatches of chanting and
the clapping of hands In rhythm, the
sudden erruptlon of angry shouts as
a flying wedge of men beuring a
frenzied singer on their shoulders seek
to force their way nearer to the sep
ulcher, only to he met and broken
up by a rush of police, the never-end-
ing rhythmic chant which gives time
and neat and measure to the rising
tension—all these comprise a scene
overwhelming In Its effect. Back In
the ’30s more than 300 people were
trampled to death at one of these
frenzied miracles of the holy fire.
At twelve o’clock the bells over-
head break Into a deafeuing torrent
of sound. The procession emerges
through the narrow lane from the
Orthodox cathedral—banners borne by
choristers nnd laymen, bishops follow-
ing and finally the white-bearded and
white-robed patriarch, a golden cross
upon his crown. Three times the pro-
cession circles the sepulcher, diving
through the awed and hushed crowd.
Finally It halts before tiie low door
The patriarch removes his crown and
an acolyte hears it away on a silver
dish. His heavy robes are removed
and he passes into the sepulcher, fol-
lowed by an Armenian bishop iu coral
biretta and blue stole.
Wild Exultation.
The tension is now at its highest
pitch. A lane has been cleared from
tiie smoke-stained hole in the side of
the sepulciter to an outer door. Run-
ners in white singlets and shorts are
waiting at the hole and the crowd
has resolved itself into a thousand
clusters of tapers straining toward
the hole through which the heaven-
sent fire Is to be given. A passionate
suspense fills every dragging second.
The.rest happens more quickly that
the eye can take it In. A confused
impression remains of the thrust of
a flaming torch from the hole; of a
great roar of exultation drowned by
the furious clangor of the bells; of
half-naked runners dashing away with
blazing torches held high over head;
of Are dancing from taper to taper and
candle to candle until the entire ro-
tunda glows with a million wavering
points of brightness; of the aged pa-
triarch staggering from the sepul-
cher holding aloft three blazing bun-
dles of tapers—an unforgettable fig-
ure of gleaming white against u hack
ground of dark faces und dancing fire.
There remains tiie memory of his
white form carried struggling an.!
swaying Into the Orthodox cathedral
There remains, too, the memory of
the processions circling the sepulcher
rejoicing in the possession of tiie re-
deeming fire.—New York Times Mug-
irzlue.
Easter Eve
1 saw two women weeping by the tomb
Of One new-buried, in a fair green place
Bowered with shrubs; the eve retained no trace
Of aught that day performed; but the faint
gloom
Of dying day was spread upon the sky;
The moon was broad and bright abova the
wood;
The breeze brought token of s multitude.
Music, and shout, and mingled revelry.
At length came gleaming through the thicket-
shade
Helmet and casque, and a steel-armed band
Watched round the sepucher in solemn stand;
Tbs night-word past, from man to man con.
veysd;
And I could see those women rise and go
Under the dark trees, moving sad and slow.
—Henry AL'ord, D. D., ia Kansas City Star.
Yaqui Tribal Dance
an Old Easter Custom
The dawn of a new Easter breaks
over Superstition mountain, near
1‘lioenlx, Arlz., as a small group of
exhausted Yaqui Indian dancers end
their weird movements of “Dia dl
Gloria" nnd totter off to their wlfcklups
and hogatis.
Tiie colorful spectacle, which reaches
Its climax just before dawn, Is wit-
nessed by thousands of tourists and
residents of Phoenix. Police with
double-barreled shotguns stand guard
by the throng nnd spectators as the
dance Is near its end.
As the rites progress, bronze figures
flash In the light of smoked oil lamps
and the grotesque headdress of the
dancers nods und topples.
When the tribal dance ends the In-
dians move away from a bank of
smoldering embers, nil that remains of
fires kindled at sundown the day be-
fore, and the scene shifts to a little
adobe chapel covered with twigs from
a thousand mesquite hushes.
Here services for the penitent In-
dians are held. The self-confessed
sinners, wrapped In blankets and pros-
trate before a shrine, have prayed
since Sunday- the day before
Denver Mother
Tells Story
Nature controls
the functions of
digestive organs ex-
cept one. We have
control over that, and
It’s the function that
causes the most trou-
ble.
See that your
dren form regular bowel
at the first sign of bad breath, coated
tongue, biliousness or constipation,
! give them a little California Fig
j Syrup. It regulars the bowels nnd
! stomach and gives these organs tone
and strength so they continue to act
as Nature intends them to. It helps
build up nnd strengthen pale, listless,
underweight children. Children love
its rich, fruity taste and it’s purely
vegetable, so you can give It as often
as your child’s appetite lags or he
seems feverish, cross or fretful:
Lending physicians have endorsed
it for 50 years, and its overwhelming
3nles record of over four million bot-
tles a year shows how mothers depend
on it. A Western mother, Mrs. R. W.
Stewart, 4112 Raritan St., Denver,
Colorado, says: “Raymond was ter-
ribly pulled down by constipation. He
got weak, fretful and cross, had no
appetite or energy and food seemed
to sour in his stomach. California
Fig Syrup had him romping and play
ing again in just a few days, and
soon he was back to normal weight
looking better than he had looked Id
months."
Protect your child from imitations
of California Fig Syrup. The mark
of the genuine is the word “Call
fornin’’ on the carton.
Constipated
Instead of habit-forming physics#m
or strong, irritating purgesM
take-NATURE’S REMEDY^
KJ—the safe, dependable, all • m ll lk,
vegetable laxative. Mild, # wurtlT
gentle, pleasant—N? to- m lU'iMIUnI
night—tomorrow alright * TO-MORROW
Got a 25c box. • ALIWGHI
For Sale at All Druggists
For Poisoned Wounds
As Rusty Nail Wounds
Ivy Poisoning, etc.
Try Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh
A0 dealer* ere anthortud lo refund yonr nraey (or the
firet bottle if lot luited.
Looking Into the Future
The Lover—I must get my fiancee
a birthday present. What could you
suggest?
The Cynic—-Oh, a stickpin or a
cigarette case—something you can
use when she breaks off with you nad
sends it back.—Border Cities Star. •
A Ray of Hop*
Doctor—After a conference with my
three colleagues on this case we each
give you a yfear to live.
Patient-^Is that sentence to run
concurrently or consecutively?—Judge.
If Back Hurts
Flush Kidneys
Drink Plenty of Water and Taka
Glaaa of 8alta Before Break*
faet Occasional lx
When your ktdneyB hart and yonr
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which helps to remove the body’s
urinous waste and stimulate them to
their normal activity.
The function of the kidneys Is to
filter the blood. In 24 hours they
strain from it 500 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital importance of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots of good water—you can’t
drink too much; also get from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts. Take a tnblespoonful In a
glass of water before breakfast each
morning for a few days and your kid-
neys may then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon Juice, combined with llthla,
and has been used for years to help
clean and stimulate clogged kidneys;
also to neutralize the acids In the
system so they are no longer a source
of Irritation, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts Is Inexpensive; cannot In-
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
ilthin-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to help
keep their kidneys clean and active.
Try this; also keep up the water
drinking, and no doubt you will won-
der what became of your kidney trou-
ble and backache.
SWAMV
*RJU- 6. rEVfR IONIC
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