Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-29

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.sYos will @ ssek On the river aDd - .
nase asaiB. l sspposer
eth msn replied that be would
.sWeIl. I want you 10 promise NJ. sos
thing resumed the governor. i rsns
yos 70 pledgs your vor.i hat vhen zoe are
. NJ sesiu yos gill never take billet Of
sood in your hand sud drive . sick hoy oss
Of bunk 20 help yeu load your boss on .
stormy night The steamboat m n sss. be
voasd rms. snd he irqnissd u'ist III cover
nor meant By asking hisa such . qnes'i.,n.
"The governor replied .B-csu-e .cne
day that boy may BECOME . soserew ard
you NAV vans him 70 pardon you for
crime. One dark. Stormy night. many
Year, SGD. you stopped your boat m ths
Mississippi river 10 take load ~ ~ood
There vas boy on board Who vas ~orsine
his passage from New Orleans to 81 L us,
but be sas very sick 81 . fever and VS.
living in . bunk You bad plenty u men to
do the work. but you ven, to that boy With
Q stick Of wood in your hand and drove him
With Blow and curses out into the vrerehs
night, and kept him toiling like slave IN
al the load vas completed. vas that boy
Here IL your pardon. Never agsin be
guilty Of such brutality. And the man,
covering and hiding his face, vent out.
A. l never heard Of him again suppose he
took care Rot to break the Law"
The Captain 10 jealous of his title and
when any one relates An anecdote Of some
important parsonage they have seen he
brides up and goes them one better.
Here 10 the Renaissance - told BY the
Captain;
s.Oue of the uer iest games Of poker
ever saw in this city was played not long
ago in q room 1t the Arlington hotel where
several gentlemen we'll kaown in national
politics were 10 the party. All the hands
bad been dealt and about $500 were in the
pot before the draw. Only two staid in.
they were Gen. Malone and Col. Henry
Wa.ter.on. Gen. Mshone h. ID two pair
and drew one card Watterson stood pat
Malone bet an even 4l00 Wa'terson saw
he 800 and raised him $500 Malone saw
that amo unit and raised it another 500
Watterson saw that and raised il 81 009
Malone laid down and asked Watterson 70
let him see the cards, but Henri said
NO; if you want to see what | have you
NUT pay for it,, and he rsked in the pot.
A fferward be told his fri nds just What
he had. II was cool bluff and he hadn't
. card in his hAni higher than qleen,
bus he took several thousand dolisrs Of
the Virginia gen, eman's money through
using his nerve at the proper time
II became scquaiit.d once with 4
Frenchman who knew the theatres Of
Paris like an open book" said Lsfe with
fhI
Captains remarks. Sara Bernhafdt Al
you know. 10 now . widow - well ~ in
teresting actress but it may be of interes
to know how enc obtained her husband ane
[ will relate the st,ry as my Partisan
friend told it to me.
| The lately deceased Damala. her hus
band, had kno~n . sufficiently varied
career before Sara saw him. She va
pleased by his manly beauty, and secured
him easily enough. Before their marriage
she attached him to her dramatic com
pany. When she was on the stage ant
be- vas in the wings he used 10 flrt abomiu
ably with lie. Lima Maute. Tbs wsI
in Italy, where Bernhardt had frequen
fainting fits on the stage The qusrre
over Damala between Bernhardt and Mile
Lima Maute became common gossip
Bernhard once ordered Lima to leav,
Damsl. slone. What right have you Z
interfere?" asked Lima.
THE best Of all rights" replied Sara
he is to be my husband"
What" cried Lima. do you think tina
q handsome fellow like him would tie him
self for life to pair of csstinets Beside
he has wise and chiidred hidden away 9
Marsei les
II don't mind that" Sara retortei; "I'l
buy her interest in him. As she has NO
seen him for three years she'll sell GU
cheap"
At ths time Of the marriage Bernhard
fortune is said to have amounted to 200,
600 francs, independent of her Jewel of
house in the Rue de Via aud her place nes
| Havre,