Show i LEONARD WOOD WOODIN IN GREAT tUCK UCK tUCKI I Promoted to High Rank Kink W te Went to Jail I FUTURE HONORS HO S IN III SiOE SQ I 4 I Icu r SIS IS cu nr x I I I I ta te The Tb HeraU w Washington D v Ct c April di ii SUS Leonard Wood tt is uw a Dialer fol c C good fortune Scarcely ten tan irp up as g he lie was an aft assistant surgeon OB OBI I ith tIa I the U th rank ra at ot captain and now he hea h ha a brigadier dIer general in Inh 1 1 h 1 i service and aad destined ned to be betna bema ma or general eral before many years yean t II lapse elapse e General Wood to Ie I DOt not a aK ah K h of ot any ar a military school and aDd intend teNd tile the th army ay y from civil life ure Luck t turned meet j hI way W when be he wa warn w made colonel of the tile first rim United States vol volunteer voll l ut T cavalry ln In n the t c Cd i n fl war W Within a year ear he be wee was a an n 4 in Sa the volunteer service and ad when he be wee was w discharged from this tit 5 It was wag to be made a brigadier g in the regular army As Aa mill mW ti t ry governor of Cuba Cubs General Wood e Joyed eJ all I the extravagances which tl t I s unlimited use me of government funds fund c coId aid give ve and while the g noes neN cf of f Director of Pouts Posts Rathbone 11 let laded ded that gentleman in jail those thOR of ofU I U nersI Wood were apparently all aU ii ht General Wood Ia Is now to be bex given x vex a tour tOW of the world at t the ez ex use of the Ut government He has baa been assigned to command the military de department of Mindanao I n nao in the taw Philip Philippines pines pi ria and Dd en n route to his bl post GIlt he be has b en directed to visit Egypt E pt Slop Sings r re the Straits Settlements Batavia Juva J JI II a and other points to study atud the thein theU in U thodi hoda of various powers powe In the em empi empI empl pi pl of native forces toCCa in ID their co colu lu ludI ilal possessions and aDd especially M to study II I the be manner and extent exten of the u ox Of u natives uv ai In LU connection with the regular army anny Title Thin is all preparatory to giving Gen Oen Geneta rial eta ral Wood command of the division of the Philippines Junketing 1 Trips Trip Vacation junketing trips trl have bave not been particularly in jn for favor for several years ean bat but thrifty senators ton manage to work in at t least on OD every very vacation Cation Lat Last summer mer it was w a trip bip of a sub ommittee of the th senate te committee on OlD onI I islands across aero the Pacific helle ocean to Hawaii The Th trip was pleasant enough and I the report was wal fairly vo voluminous voluminous luminous but bat scarcely a recommendation tion was waa acted arted upon upco by congress congre In Intact fact tact the report of the subcommittee was as U delayed ve until so 10 late in the see ses lil that practically all legislation for tor forthe tort forthe the t h session seon was decided upon before the t he report was w rendered The cost coM of oft the t he junket to the government was waa be between between between tween sod and and the value received practically nothing A less Ie I extended junket Junk t was wu taken eaken by b a sub mb subcommittee committee cf of the thc senate committee on OD territories into hato New Mexico Okla Okis Oklahoma homa hom and Arisona Senator Bever Beve Beveridge ve idge the frothy Demosthenes of Hoo was the star atar performer on Oft ski biD and tA thI YeP vr It U i I tn tA A sume the same l Jn r roll t in a nice little UWe Journey at government expense to I Alaska Ala that is Ii If his senatorial fences fencee at It t home can be neglected for tor the sum summer summer mer nero Senator Beveridge had made macI all II of M his ble plans piau for t r the trip and Dd just ex cx expected to stop op off OK for a few weeks In his home state before going on to Alaska but he b wh was warned by friends that it would be welt web for him to stay atay at t home If It he wished to retain his bis prestige and get back hack to the senate at atthe AtthE atthe the expiration of his b term which will end two years hence be The senator tor took heed of this title warning and the first ant result was a with his bla colleague C senator Fairbanks in the Indianapolis mayoralty fight Ight t It is I expected Fair Fairbanks hanks banks will make It ft so o warm for tor his bla young colleague that he be will have baw to toa abandon a his bIa Alaska pleasure trip Women W Mail dl Carriers It baa has hem been frequently said mid b t tA A W the general superintendent of the free tree delivery service nice of the department to is partial to women omen In the allotment of appoint appointments ments menta Congressmen CODal brought the ism dam to Mr Machen attention and remarked riled that hundreds reda of men man passed the I 1 h he big gray department pry cry day dy who would be glad of the jobs held beld by his hla women clerks clerics Of Ot course they would said aid the superintendent superintendent they could have bave them too if It they could Gold do the work Mr Machen has baa opened up a new occupation tion 1011 t for tor women woman There are now some hundreds of them all II over the coun count 11 t ry rv v acting as u rural letter carriers carrien and nd the t th h records show abow that they are doing wonderfully welt well Under the rules raise ru for forthe fort the t ht h appointment of rural nral carriers the carrier after he baa has entered upon the duties of his bla office omee may m name his hM own substitute Of late te carriers carrIen Iu have ve been naming namina their wives daugh daughters tra and even their mothers as AI their i I f in th rk performed rf t h p I I PM h hi hen M II II h I II to the department Not long Jonc ago aco during durin a western w ern bUzzard blizzard I a woman took her husbands plate in inthe Inthe Inthe the little mall mail wagon wason one e morning morn In and worked her hr way V ugh miles mil of country deliver delivering deliverIng ing log and nid tm tie te ranchers maP malt Rout inspectors fifty cay y that female lurat lura carriers arnera do not waste time in ID gossip goul ing inc but bo that tle Innate love leve of gad arad gadding gadding ding amt am a mit meeting U their nel h bern bers makes maII th tb the work particularly at attractive attractive t I to them and ud robs roM the te tong long daily dally drive of tweet or more orem mlee of oi o oits I its it tedium and drudgery J |