NO GENERALS NEED APPLY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10, 12 March 1908, Page 37

NO GENERALS NEED APPLY

Some years ago a traveller in the Western States stopped to -converse witih a fanner, who had a- .large number of mon at work' in his hay-fields. ' Most of these men are old soldiers. ' said the farmer. ' Indeed : Aro any of them officers ? ' » ' Two of 'em. One of 'em was a private, and the fellow beyond was a corporal, but the man beyond him was a major, and that iran away over in the corner was a colonel.' ' Indeed ! And are they all good men ? ' ' Well,"' said the farmer, ' the private is a first-class and the corporal's pretty good too.' ' But what about the major "and the colonel ? '. 1 The major 't only so-so,' replied the farmer, with some hesitation. .' But the. colonel ? ' ' ' Well, sir, I ain't a-going to say a word a p ainst.no man who has been a colonel in the American army, -but "'' Well, sir, 1 ain't a-going to say a word against no to hire any brigadier-generals.'