Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-03-01

movement has recently been set on
! foot amongst the clergy to establish
/ a lower scale of wedding fees In the
4 humber neighborhoods, The cause
Of the movement is not far to seek.
The returns from this source Of
clerical income have shown a lament
able falling off of late, whilst mar
riages in the Registrars office were
growing steadily in favor. An analy-
sis Of the places at which the ccre-
mony was performed during the last
year viii show that the number of
weddings celebrated in church was
| actually the lowest on record whilst
, the duties of the Registrar have in
creased enormously.
Army circles in general and society
in particular, in Scotland are being
considerable perturbed over the oper-
atoms of the new army scheme ipa its
relations to volunteers.
Under Mr.. Haldane's scheme sever
al volunteer battalions will be absorb
ed, and, as many of volunteer officers
in the country regiments in Scotland
are members of the leading county
families, they are concerned in a mat
ter which affects their personal dig
nifty and position,
Jealous of their lineage, they are
averse to their particular regiment
being swallowed up. and thus forcing
them to come under the command Of
another officer The matter has
reached a particularly acute stage in
so far at least as two Perthshire lairds
are concerned.
The War office in a quandary. and
seems bound to have to take the risk
of giving mortal offence to one of
these touchy gentlemen.
Soldering in the South African war
is one of the phases of a woman's ro-
mantle career, according to the story
She herself told before the Bradford
magistrate.
Lily Whiterose by name, and
dark-complexioned, smart-loking wo-
man of thrty-nine, she was found
helplessly drunk, and tore up the
rugs given to her when taken to the
cells.
In the police court she said she had
practically all over the world,
being a circus rider, now out of en-
ployment She declared she was the
daughter of a soldier and widow of
an officer who died in 1901. She had
six children, who were with her moth
er in Austria, and she had been
III buSli lllt ouulll AIiltdI wal.
interviewed afterwards Mrs. White
rose said her mother was an Austrian
lady of rank and her father an officer. |
She was born in India in 1869 and in |
her thirteenth year accompanied her |
parents and the regiment to this |
their headquarters being
When about fifteen she went abroad |
with her aunt, but having rowing |
disposition she ran away and Joined .
Buffalo Bill in Massachusetts. Under
Colonel Cody she became a crack shot
md a fearless rider, and she boosted
hat she could throw a lariat with
nybody. She left the company in
$50 and went to Austria, and there
married. an officer.
From that time she Travelled a good
teal with her husband and picked
hree or four languages up. When the
outh African war broke out she and
Ter husband were residing at Bays
water, and they were not on very
God terms When he left for Cape
own, not long after Mrs. Whiterose
eclared she followed him and OBJ
aiming a certain private information
old it to the Beers. Then she was
ngaged by De Wet as despatch run
er, and thus assisted the side fight
lg against her husband and his
Ountry.
She was quite enthusiastic with re- 5
ard to her shooting, and proudly de-
Jared that she could fire fifteen shots !
rom a Lee Metfurd rife and reload
I five minutes while riding bareback.
Although cosmopolitan by nature, \
he ultimately felt a desire to transfer s
err services to the British, and con- l
deserted from the Beers =
,onning military attire, she passed off
S an ordinary trooper and joined the S
british army Just before the Modder |
ver. She declares that she fought /
trough several engagements, and