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Show i ) i Accord ins: to a press dispatch, de- - ; tails of the affair at Winberg were J censored and only Lord Kitchener's re- " . "What a grand story will be written , " some day of the greatest fighters in all history: j Judging from his testimony, if Judge ; j Taft should live in the Philippines ten A I : years instead of two he wouldn't know 1 i t whether they are in the Chesapeake 4 hay or in Bering strait. Possibly the climate of Washington has confused his wits. 1 i I . I Mr. Francis Gildart RufTin, who died j "' t recently at Mobile, Ala., was a des- : " eendant of Thomas Jefferson, president f the United States. He married the I Cathoiic writer of the south, Mary E. ; Henry of Mobile, and became a con- vert of the faith about four years ago. I ' Tlle British -say Delares' " troopers I wore British uniforms, and the real I . British could not distinguish a Boer J from a Tommy Atkins when the mix- I ' "P t Winberg occurred. How did De- ,ares come by those uniforms? How 1 i ' di(3 the Boers manage to conceal their I whiskers? I i Dispatches from Kitchener later on I ; ' may throw the whole nlam. nf at I thueu's disaster at Winberg on the J . ' Missouri mules in the British convoy. I . .Secretary of State Hay may aid his ) " English -.Hies by allowing a shipload i of Missouri negroes to go along with I ' the next cargo of mules. It takes a I i darkey to manage "a mule. i Prince Henry's cordial reception I . . supplemented by the refusal of the president to allow his daughter's pres- ! once at the king's coronation, is a had dose of medicine for John Bull from j tn's Me of the water. But patience passes endurance when the old man is 1 ioreeti to listen to Irish cheers in par- I , lia ment over Delares" victory and eap- : ture of Methuen. Job seated on a dung I ; ''i'l arid covered with boils is a com- j ' panion picture to England's humilia- i y ' , ' tion during the past two weeks. 0!ier "Wendell Holmes was once I asked by a clergyman what effect re- - Jigious belief had on the dying. He re- I , plied: "So far-as I have observed per- : -sos nearing the end of life, the Cath- ; p,il s understand the business of dying J better than Protestants. I have seen I a many Catholics on their death- I ' ' bed. anrl it alvva'.-e ... . I ' " "l i""1 " i me mat I theJ" i-ecepted the inevitable with a composure which showed that their . ' lM-licf. whether or not the best to live hy, Mas a better one to die by." I '.). It is no doubt owing to the discon-I discon-I ; tent .f the country and the strength I ani activity of the United Irish league lhat ,ho king and cpu-en have been I if . : ' obliged (o jjostpone their visit to Ire-I Ire-I ; 5and- which was fixed for next month. u was a signincant little sign that as 1 ' ; ' : !"oon as the date of the visit was aril ar-il ,' ranged the nationalists fixed the day I i : "f the king's reception in Dublin for IK f j 1he rresentation of the freedom of the ! ' ity to one of its most distinguished members. . ' I Ambrose S. Ottey of Cecil county. !..- Man-land has made a systematic I : reading of the Bible Tor the past thir- I . i ; ty-three years, and can tell the num-Ur num-Ur "f letters in the scriptures, how ! : : . i "any tim,-s thpy appear, the number I of chapters and verses, what words , fpc11 the same either way, etc. He has just finished reading the Bible for the HTth time. Chicago Tribune. How this man has escaped getting his picture alongside the beautiful nun who was cured by Dr. Quack's wonderful won-derful sage root. Is a mystery of this advertising era. Perhaps he Is going on the road to give exhibitions of biblical bib-lical calesthenics. |
