Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-06
sroale. OF THE DAY.
4 nii,,eaa;,e Cones 70 The Aid o. . I's''sy
Car Conductor.

,,.no AFRO crowded Euclid
- honrd east. took on lew extra
nassengers at the @Hikok stree. s.vp'
Among them wa 49,, a ma, mn the N rear plat.
scrrna The last insta1nent OF patrons
crowded the car TO the TmosV: lne LIE .s
was full the platform pachcu anu sn'
fnafboard lined. The motorman. Know
;ng The ear was overcrowded. went right
head regardless of signaling patrons. AZ
the corner of Erie street ssont man
waved his arm vigorously. hui the mNof-
man shook his head and pointed BACK.
where another Euclid car was i
Tile s.tout man wasn't to he ienore0.
however he yelied 'i i.d da.h at the ear
Ne reached for the hand bar on the rear
platform. missed II. and went d9wn IN
heap. gays the Cleveland Pam Dealer.
The conductor instantly stopped the car
and vert back and helped the stranger to
his feet lie wasns hurt. but he was
frishtfully mad. The conductor took his
Off. ard then vert back TO the car:
When ne had rung the bell TO 90 ahead
he asked for the names OF few wit
r 81 ne 20 So sn the m on hs
platform shook their heads. They were
not looking. or fnev didn't want to get
mixed up in 1t. The conductor looked
discouraged.
just then the man in the gray clothes
reached across and tapped him on the
shoulder
saw the aIfaF. ne Sdln, you may
call upon me If necessary"
The conductor looked relieved as he
poised his pencil in air.
What is your name?" he asked.
The. man in gray clothes hesitated
slightly.
..Rockefelior." he replied; u. D.
The conductor shut his book with a
sEap that suggested he had all the wit
nesses he needed. and the car bow1ed
along.
MARX TWAIN IN POLITICS.
Once in while Mark Twain has taken
"A hand in politics. On one occasion be-
ing invited 10 speak in the interest Of his
feMow-townsman. General Joseph Haw-
ley. who was a candidate for reelection
to the United States Senate. he said. in
the course of a droll address: General
Hawleg deserves your support. although
he has about as much influence In puri-
flying the Serate bunch OF flowers
would have in sweeteninS a glue factory
But lies all right-he never would turn
empty handed. He always gives them
oine;hinS-alnlost without exception IL
le;ter Of introduction to me. urging me TO
help them
ONE OF BRET HARTE's STORIES.
So fast does the world go around that
i would seem incredible to most of US
II today anyone objected to Bret Hartes
delightful little story. 1.-The Luck of
Roaring Camp on the ground that it
made for the antithesfs of righteousness
Yet It appears that the first objection
raised 10 it was on just such grounds.
The former editor of the Overland" In
return to San Francisco with the galley
proofs my chief clerk. Joseph Hoffman,.
greeted me with the statement that there
was a great hullabaloo at the printers
over the immortality of the Luck They
were saying that 1t would kill the magu-
zine. TO this replied that If it killed
i Inc magazine it could do nothing more.
then MT: Harte came in from the prin-
ters with the sharp demand to know
wha; meant to do about ii. Nothing.
replied, except go ahead.
HOW STURGEON MADE A CONVERT
Here is another story about Spurgeon.
nv ne once psissed stonemason who, after
each stroke of his hammer. cursed and
swore. Mr. Spurgeon laid his hand on
ms shoulder and looking kindly at him.
SAID; You are an adept at swearing.
he replied: Not very likely" Holding
up five shilhngs Mr.. Sturgeon said n he
would promise never to pray he wouId
give him that. That is easily earned
said the man with a fresh oath. and put
/ in his pocket. When Sturgeon LEFT the
man began 10 feel little queer. When
he vert home mis- wife asked him what
allied him. and he told her. 1T is Judas
irnDulse. he threw it into the fire. The
wife found it. and took it out, and dis
covered who had given II to him. The
man took it hack to spurgeon. who con-
1T length was the means of saving him.
lie became an attached member of his
flock.
BLAND WITHDREW HIS THANKS.
Ex-senator John B. Henderson and
Representative Bland ore probably as far
apart as two men can be on the financial
question. says the ST. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
Bland" said General Henderson. one
1ay last winter in Washington. "a New
York friend of mine asked me what kind
Of man you Were. He wanted 70 know
# You Were honest: If you really believed
YOUR doctrine of free and unlimited COIN
age of silver at IS to L.
What did You tell him. asked Mr.
Bland.
Il told him that YOU We're honest: that
silver
am much obliged to YOU said the
father of the cartwheel
Yes, continued the ex-senator ct
said tnat you believed in free silver; that
you didn't know any better
Il don't know that I ought to he so
much obliged to YOU after ALL" said Mr.
Bland. good humoredly.