The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-02-01
Evening Chat


Here III another instrument of tie
story about fhe robin Who YES Cupid
Idessenger. It IS also taken from the
New York World:
Some one who elects TO call him or.
fferseit Mss Beatrice Hinman. Of
M. 1852 Pennsylvania avenue Wash.i
ineton, and no one Of that name
liyes there, since that block Is occu-
Died by the Washing on Post, Office
fs wasting lei lot Of red breasted rob.
ms and aincid entaliy having some fun
with would :beS suffers by tying love
messaRessto the legs Of captured btrds
and sending them on their way.
Daniel Gallagher OF No. 961 Gates
avenue, Brooklyn, stage manager at
the Empire Theatre, looked out OF q,
rear window Of his home yesterday
and saw a strange bird among q lot
ofspigeons. It appeared tosbe crippled.
Gallagher took It into. the house and
examined It. Around one Of Its legs.
was tied "a note which read:
ITO Me Who It May Concerns: Il
under thirty years old and good look
Ing, write me" =
ItS waslsigned by Miss Hinman. with
thesWashtngtoni address
Mrs. Gallagher told her husband ne
didn't have time to take up any cor
respondence,. SO he turned the mlsslVe
oyerSto a friend. Only recently a
similar bird landed in Rochester with
aSHimilar note, and several were re-
ported from other points.
Students Of applied politics would
have found food for serious thought in
a humorous incident at the Hippo
drome theatre last night. During a
vaudeville turn one Of the performers
got OF gag at the expense Of Colonel
Roosevelt and was rewarded with both
a3Iaugh and "hand." Itseemcd only
yesterday when any one who would
have suggested such q thing TO an
actor would have been regarded as
crazy. The Colonel belonged at that
time in the company with Honest Old
ABE and the Father OF His Country
jbeyond tho reach OF criticism. only
few newspapers conspicuous for their
5intellectual attachments had the cour-
:age to differ with him. Now he ts
SEfafr game for any one who cares to
take crack at him and it is a ques-
sStton whether~he or that other colonel,
iSSWiiliam Jennings Bryan, is getting the
Inost banning. Figuratively speaking
Sit Is impossible to talk ones head OF.
Sir George Scott Robertson, the
member OF parliament whose death
has been announced. was the most
taIked.about man In British Empire
81 years ago, when ho was the prtncl-
pal figure in the siege Of Chttral.
Robertson's campaigning expert.
FtH
Joining the Indian Medical Service in
1878 after finishing his medical train
ing in London. He saw fighting In the
Afghan war OF 1S79.S0 and for eight
years following worked in the vari-
Gus districts OF India as o civil sur
Reon. He was then transferred to duty
on the Kashmir frontier. Because Of
his success in dealing diplomatically
with the tribeamen, he was made chief
poIIticals officer with the Hunza:Naga
Expedition OF 1s91-92. Afterward he
undertook mission to Cor, and had.
Ia narrow escape when besieged BY the
i natives.
THESE little wars attracted no. at!
stentton In the world at large and DR..
Robertson was unknown to Chitral, at
the extremity of the tribal country
over which the government OF india
Il exercises its influence. His instruc-
lions were to control the external at
fairs OF Chitral in a direction friendly
to British interests.
War now broke out in Chitral with
the murder OF its potentnte us the re-
suit OF the ambitious projects Of Umra
khan. Robertson, with his British and
Sikh force Of 543 men, including 1877
non.combatants, were besieged be-
tween March and April 20, 1895,
when relief was effected by a British
expedltion after great hardship. Rob-
ortson was severely wounded. But
the gallantry and determination of
himself and his force. SO necessary for
the maintenance of British prestige,
won him fame and honors. He later
returned to England and entered par.
lament n
willie Hoppe's manager says Willie
Isl improving at billiards. Impossible.