Roosevelt Story.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1914, Page 4

Roosevelt Story.

Many good stories are told in Mr. Roosevelt's autobiography published recently. Mr. Roosevelt wished to appoint an ex-Roughrider marshal of a Rocky Mountain State, but first questioned him as to his past. " Now, Ben,"' asked Roosevelt, "how did you lose that half of your ear '?" To which, looking rather shy, Ben responded :— "Well. Colonel, it was bit ofY." "How did "it happen '.'" "Well, you sec-, I wa:, sent to arrest a gentleman, and him and me mixed it up and he bit off my ear, " "What did you do to the gentleman, Ben V" And Ben, looking mure coy than ever, responded ; "Well, Colonel, we broke ahout even."

mortem examination proved that his death had been caused by a broken heart, that organ being- torn literally in two. The doctor stated that the tremendous propulsion of blood consequent upon such a violent shock to the nervous system forced the muscular tissues asunder, and life was at an end.