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Show Wolseley to Hc-t)fn. His friends say that so disgusted is he by the mismanagement of Lapland's Lap-land's matters military in South Ai- rica and China, that world famous general. Field Marshal Lord Wol-seley, Wol-seley, has announced announc-ed his Intention of retiring from his proud - position as commander in chief of the British forces. There are, those who are unkind un-kind enough to, suggest that Lord Wolseley has been requested to quit in order that the equally famous "Bobs," the well-beloved well-beloved of the British s o 1 d 1 e ry ill can assume the Lord Wolseley. leadership of England's armies. This likenes of the present field marshal 1b from his latest photograph. ' fiot jKboOe Suspicion. King Philip of Macedon removed one ot hie Judges because the man dyed his hair and beard. "I could not think," he said, "one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty In his deeds, A close observer was Colonel Carr, a war veteran and a veteran journalist. It was his pet diversion to notice critically the color of men's hair and whlskera, and he often quoted these words: "I would not trust that man were he my brother, whose hair one color is, his beard another." This referred re-ferred to natural color. Undoubtedly a great many men shave off their beard in order to be above suspicion. New York Press. Woman Mail Carrier. The distinction Is claimed for Miss Sarah M. Burke, of St. Johns, Ariz., that she is the only woman mall carrier car-rier in the country, and certainly the only woman who regularly carries the 1 a' "V - mails over more than fifty miles of wild territory, populated pop-ulated only by wild Indians and wild beasts. I Miss Burke's route lies between iSt. Johns and Jim-!town, Jim-!town, Ariz., and the distance is flfty-1 flfty-1 two miles each Miss Burke. Every week' mounted on a fast pony and carrying a couple of revolvers revolv-ers for her protection, she makes two round trips. She wears a short skirt of blue serge, a corduroy jacket, and heavy leather leggins. and has never been attacked or molested in any way. Each week she rides an average of 208 miles on horseback, and she always rides alone except when a prospector or cattle buyer takes the cross country coun-try trail with her. Her route leads through a country so covered with rocks that practically no vegetation can grow. It might be well to consider the advisability ad-visability of imposing a severe penalty penal-ty for the careless handling of firearms when such carelessness results in death or injury. The number of "didn't-know-it-was-loaded" accidents Is alarming. The man who. carelesuly handling a gun or pistol, shoots and kills his friend is to be pitied, but he Is likewise to be blamed. Every man knows or should know the peril involved in-volved in what is commonly known as "fooling" with firearms. If he temrts that peril with results fatal to innocent inno-cent people he should be punished, not only as a chastisement to himself, but as a warning to others. Mechanical Man. Louis Perew of Tonawanda. N. T., has been trying for nine years to make a man. At last he has succeeded. His man stands 7 feet 8 inches high and Is as strong as steel rods and wires can make it. The man wears a special suit of clothes, made to order because of its great size, and its wax face is ae natural as such things ever are. When properly wound up and connected with an engine en-gine the man can walk at a great rate of speed and can pull a heavy load behind be-hind it It is in this way that Mr. Perew proposes to make his invention useful as well as ornamental. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson of Jackson township, ; DeKalb county; Ind., have lived on one farm for sixty years. They have Just been celebrating celebrat-ing the sixty-first anniversary of , their wedding. |
