STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 17

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

POSTMAN'S 2000-MXXE "ROUND." Charles Anderton, a Government rural postman, left Edmonton this morning on his j annual journey of 2000 miles in the north of Canada, which will occupy about four months. says an Edmonton, Alberta, dispatch of November l!0th. j He is travelling by train to Athabasca, , 100 miles away, and will complete his jour- | ney on foot, the mails being conveyed in > a sledge drawn by dogs. Anderson will ; penetrate to the shores of the Arctic ] Ocean, where there are a number of whalers. MAKING £ 10,000 A TEAR FROM | DRESSMAKING. The profits from a dressmaking establishment which caters exclusively for New York's "Four Hundred" is indicated by the accounting of the estate of the late Mrs. •iosefa Osboru. which, the executors announce, will yield an Income of £10.000 a year to Mrs. Osborn's daughter, a girl of seventeen years. All this money was made by Mrs. Osborn In her business venture. Mrs. Osborn, who was descended from Colonel Neilson, the bosom friend of George Washington, married Robert Osborn, a well-known and wealthy New Yorker. Later she divorced him, and started to earn her living by opening a couturierc's establishment. She had many friends among society women, and was able to increase her business by her artistic taste In dresses. THE CHILD AND THE MTTRDER CHARGE An extraordinary occurrence is reported from Milwaukee (United Statesl. On December 5 in that city the trial began of ; Mrs Martha Sperbacher on a charge of manslaughter. The jury had been sworn, f the prisoner was in the dock, and the proseouting counsel was übont to open his case, when it was found that the official record of the preliminary hearing was covered . with hieroglyphics, which rendered it illegible. Inquiries showed that the scribbling was the work of the court steno- ( grapher's three-year-old child, who had evldenty obtained possession of it while her father's attention was distracted. As it was Impossible to go on without the record, counsel for the defence demanded the immediate discharge of his client. Neither the Judge nor his advisers could think of any suitable method of solving the difficulty, and eventually the hearing was adjourned to enable the judge to look up precedents. -WHAT A NEGRO SAW. The evidence of a negro porter in a Pullman railway carriage secured a divorce for 1 the wife of Mr Fritz Augustus Heinze, the , "Copper King." The porter was the onlywitness, and when he bad finished his description of a journey which the "Copper ; King" took from Los Angeles to Denver the judge merolj* observed, "That is sufficient," and forthwith granted Mrs Heinze her divorce, with £200 a month alimony and £47 a month with which to pay the rent of her flat In New York. Mrs Heinze was an actress before she married Mr Heinze. whom his companions regarded as a confirmed bachelor, two years ago. She declares that she became convinced within three days of the wedding that the millionaire was unable to approach her ideal of a husband. The court granted Mrs Heinze the custody of ber little boy, and ordered Mr nelnze to pay for tbe child's education after be has reached the age of Aye. 15,000-MH-E WALK. Dora Rodrigues, a pretty girl of 19, whose home is In Amsterdam, has arrived in Philadelphia after w'alklng 13,000 miles on her way round the world. She has tramped through every- country in Europe and most of the States. She is working her way south with the intention of wintering in Mexico. Her father Is a diamond dealer in Amsterdam, and until she started on her worldcircling tonr two years ago she bad nevei been out of the land of dykes and windmills. "If women only knew the charm of the highways of the world," said Miss Rodrigues, '" they would not be content to stay at home. I can't 6ee how any healthy woman can stand staying at home unless she is absolutely without Imagination. " Just think of the wonderful things to be seen and the strange places to be visited! I pity most women, and I don't think they should be allowed to vote, either. Their lives are too narrow." HAIR UNCUT 16 TEARS. For the first time since 1896 Ebenezer Henderson, a bachelor and a Democrat, who lives on a small farm between Olivet and Eaton Rapids, Michigan, has had his hair cut. His friends say that they hardly recognised him with his thirty-six inches of long looks missing, but Ebenezer doesn't mind that, so great Is his relief. In 1896 Henderson, who is an enthusiastic Democrat, stated to his friends that he would not visit a barber shop until the Democrats had succeeded ln placing their man in the White House. Bryan was the party candidate that year, and Henderson did not expect that he would have to wait more than a few weeks. However, the great leader ■was beaten, and Henderson was doomed to four years without a hair cut. Defeats in 1900, 1904, 1908, gave Henderson no opportunity to lose his hair, and he became one of the unique sights of the county. After the election of Wilson, nenderson hitched up his horse and drove to Bellevue, where a barber worked for one forenoon shearing his hair. The longest measured nearly thirty-six inches, and almost filled a bushel basket. GERE BURGLAR. Danbury. Connecticut, is greatly excited over the arrest of Amy Travers, a pretty girl of twenty-three, whose people are among the most respected citizens ln the town. She was caught ln the act of robbing a house. Miss Travers was dressed In man's clothing, which she confessed was given her by a confederate, George Smith, a notorious thief. Smith, who is a presentable fellow, by some means get the girl ln love with him. and apparently has been employing her ln the commission of crime. The girl is Infatuated with the burglar, and refuses to give any Information which might lead to hi- capture. From the partial confession she has made, however, several robberies of bouses are attributed to the girl, working under the direction of Smith. The affair has caused tbe greatest sensation, because Amy Travers Is exceedingly popular at Danbury, and was a teacher in one of the local Sunday schools. She managed her nightly thefts by telling her ! parents that she was going to spend the j night with a girl friend, and neither lier ■■ j people nor any of her friends bad the slightest suspicion of how the girl was employing [her _____