I have a new hero. It is G. M.Hennen.I found him in the old newspapers as I was doing my research for the column A Look Back in History.

In 1958, he retired as a newspaper carrier from the Sherman Herald Democrat. He was 77 years old and had delivered four million copies of the Democrat. He had gone through 17 automobiles and had thrown on average 400 newspapers a day，six days a week.He drove 100 miles a day, including the day he collected.

Before he was a newspaper carrier，he was also a teacher and a construction worker.

He opened the first motor delivery route in the newspaper's history. Driving a Model T Ford，his route consisted of Pottsboro, Gordonville, Sadler and Southmayd. Before he started in delivery，he solicited   subscriptions   riding horseback over the county.

Mr.Hennen had only one wreck in 30 years. The car spun out of control and flipped on its top. That didn't stop him. A man with a truck used a tow rope to flip the car back over and tied the doors shut，leaving Mr.Hennen to continue on his way. Now that was determination!

Mr.Hennen told of the time his headlights went out as he was delivering newspapers.He borrowed a kerosene lantern from a farmer to light the way and continued his route.

What a story! I complain when I have to drive to work when it is snowing，and I only have to travel three miles.I could never be that tough.

When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation(住所). I suggested that they should stay at local bed and breakfasts, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.

“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfasts,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”

I thought this was odd. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, because the Spanish word for “holidays” is “vacaciones”. So they did not go to the house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to the house where there was a sign saying “NO VACANCIES”, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full.

We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. When my friends saw the word “DIVERSION” on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. But that was not the case. In Spanish, the word “DIVERSION” means fun. In English, however, it usually means that you have to take the road because the usual roads are closed.

English people have problems too when they are faced with foreign languages. Once in Paris, I happened to see a “librairie”. I thought it was a library and walked into it, asking to borrow some books. However, to my surprise the “librarians” all stared at me in amazement! Later I found out that “librairie” in French means “bookstore”.

In a coffee shop in Lagos, Nigeria, the visual artist Ekene Ngige was meeting with some colleagues when he had an accidental moment that would change his career.

Ngige knocked over his cappuccino, making a mess of the notepad in front of him. He quickly noticed that the drink created random patterns on paper, so he thought: what if he used coffee to create art?

Ngige said, “It was supposed to be a mistake, but I loved the mistake. ”Back in the studio, Ngige began mixing instant coffee with water, creating a jelly-like paste that allowed him to paint with it—first drawing with a pencil and then layering it with different shades of instant or ground coffee mixtures, and sometimes adding the whole coffee bean.

He continues painting realistic portraits(肖像)of people and objects. Ngige says on average, it takes him about two weeks to a month to finish a coffee portrait. He says his paintings may depend on what the event is at that moment, or may sometimes be inspired by his emotions.

Through his works, the artist shares a message of peace, encouraging people to forget their differences and embrace peace. “The best part of creating art is being able to reach the whole world, ” he says. “I have had calls and messages from all around the world, from people that have been touched by the topics of the paintings I make. It warms my heart. It makes me feel that Iam fulfilling a purpose. ”