Monotony Will Never Kill England's
Postmaster General.
The British postmaster general Is
wnat Londoners call a universal pro
vider, a regular department store of
puDiic functions.
He will insure your life, give you a
nttie bane to hoard your pennies in,
take care of your savinsrs. sell vou an
annuity, a postal order or a foreign
draft, invest your spare, capital in a
nice little government bond and Dav a
weekly pension to your aged mother
or aunt.
He carries letters and other mail
matter, transmits telegrams, cable
grams and wireless messages, main
tains an enormous staff of messenger
boys and conducts an exDress enmnnnv
business for every sort of parcel, from
a halfpenny packet up to shipments of
eggs, dressed poultry and fresh fish.
He collects all the worn copper
coins for the British treasury. He
nas ractories for making his supplies
and an etectric central station of his
own in London for lighting his offices.
sending the current throueh his on.
ble ducts. He will sell you a license
for a dog, a carriage, a motorcar or a
family coat of arms, or he will put in
your telephone and take care of your
neiios.
At a dinner the other nieht the nost-
master general confessed that he some
times doubted whether he had any hu
man personality at all. When he
thought of his own functions, he said.
he Was appalled by them. In his offl
cial capacity he is responsible for more
property than anybody else in the Unit
ed Kingdom, employs far more people
man any individual or corporation.
prosecutes more malefactors every day
than the public prosecutor and sends
out every week more apologies for
himself and explanations of his ac
tions than all the rest of the British
population combined. Telephone Re
view.
LITTLE SORREL
The Favorite Battle Charger of Stone
wall Jackson.
Among the many battle steeds ridden
during the war between the states by
the celebrated Confederate Corps Com
mander Stonewall Jackson of Lee's
army his favorite WAS n rhnpiror affan-
tionately named Little Sorrel by the
oecona corps of the Army of Virginia.
He was about fifteen hands and, as
General Longstreet said to the writer,
strongly resembled, except In color.
President Zachary Taylor's Old Whitey
of the Mexican war. Jackson rode him
at Bull Run, Winchester, Cedar Moun
tain, Manassas, Antietam, Harpers
Ferry, Fredericksburg and on many
other battlefields. He mounted Little
Sorrel for the last time at Chancellors
vllle May 2, 1863, and In the battle was
mortally wounded by his own men and
died a week later.
General Bradley T. Johnson of Mary
land in a letter to the present writer
remarks: "Jackson was an ungainly
horseman, and when he rode by the
troops Little Sorrel would strike off on
a run. The general would pull off his
cap and ride bareheaded at full speed
past miles of shouting Confederates.
The saying was when you heard that,
yell before or behind you on the march,
There goes old Jack on a rabbit.
When the - soldiers started a rabbit
they'd scare him to death with yell
ing." Little Sorrel died at the Soldiers'
home near Richmond at the age of
thirty-six years and is now to be seen,
like Sheridan's Winchester, carefully
preserved in a glass case after being
prepared by a skillful taxidermist nt
Lexington, Va. James Grant Wilson
in S. P. C. A. Bulletin.
surest Cloilkj
Barg
aims
Offered!.
You know the unwavering policy of this store to give its
patrons the benefit of every bargain purchase without delay.
This is why we offer at the season's beginning the high grade
clothing at prices that others offer at the season's end. A few
weeks ago we accepted an offer from David Adler & Son, mak
ers of "Collegian Clothes' and secured a big line of that famous
make at prices that permitted us to offer our patrons a rare bar
gain. It is your opportunity to buy clothing of the higest fabric
and make at prices almost ridiculously low. Had we bought
this clothing in a regular way we could not have given you such
a remarkable low bargain price. But as it is, we give you the
benefit of our good fortune. Look at these prices:
$223 $20 and $18
Collegian Suits
Now
mm
$15.00 and $12.50
Collegian Suits
Now
$8.85
Hats and Shoes Bargains
Your choice of any Straw Hat in the store for $1 and
some of them are worth three and four times that money. In
Shoes Tans, Dulls and Patents $3.50 and $4.00. Oxfords.
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