Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-09-14
STORIES OF THE DAY.

| Ex-Governor Pingree," says a writ
er in the Detroit Free Press. was
never cold to the call Of aid, no matter
from what source it came. l remem-
ber one bitter winters night he was
standing at a street corner with a
group of politicians, when a TYPICAL
looking bum slouched up to the crowd
and made an appeal for assistance
He had all the earmarks of a profess
sional mendicant, and his appeal met
with gruff rebuff from most of these
in the group. He was about to sham
BILE off into the darkness when the
Governor, who had been too interested
in the conversation to notice him at
| first, called him back.
Don't give him anything said one
of the bystanders; he's regular pan
handler
But perhaps the poor fellows hun
gry.' insisted the man of the people,
and don't care who he is or what he
is, I'm not going to see anyone suffer
for the lack of food so long as I've got
the price
'Whereat, Notwithstanding the pro-
tests of friends, he put his hand into
his pocket and fished out a dollar,
which he handed TO the beggar Then
he accompanied him to a restaurant.
- Here he said, in his brusque way.
give this fellow all he can eat; fill
him up. and send the bill to me. Now
he added. turning to the grateful men
dicant, you get something into you.
and then get a good nights rest. And
keep away from booze
''Nes pjnuraa charitable in a
quiet. transformations way. and many
such incidents could be told of his big
heartedness.'
a. NJ. Mcclellan, the Scotch artist,
whose Field Of the Cloth Of Cold was
exhibited at the Paris Exposition last
summer and whose Coronation of
Robert Bruce" is now at the entrance
OF the art department of the Glasgow
Exposition, is at present in this coun
try. hut he still keeps up an eager in
terest in British politics, relates the
New York Times. When he heard the
other day that at a meeting of the
Liberals at the Reform Club Herbert
Asquith had declined to maintain his
position as the spokesman of the Lib
eral Imperialists and had joined in
piI )o'iiPcN'i AD"''
herman, he said that it reminded him
of two Engishmen perambulatinG
home from the club in the wee sma
hours They engaged in dispute. and
one of them tripped and fell.
Say. old boy" he said, 'wi-wi- will
you hic-help feller?
"N--n-n--no." replied the other,
s,eadying himself against a lamp
post. II cac-c-can't help you up,
b-b-but I'll lie down with you.
And" concluded Mr.. Mcclellan.
there's the whole history Of the Re
form Club meeting in nutshell
Many men, even successful members
of the profession. hold that. as Sood |
examination does not necessarily make
a good lawyer. it is better to make the
conditions of admission easy and thus
allow the fittest of the lot to survive.
says the Philadelphia Times. rms
sentiment has been less since the
American Bar Association took up Wig
orously the work Of raising the stand
ards of legal education. Many goou |
anecdotes are told Of the old tests. An |
able Southern lawyer still living mas
good story about his examination py
Reverdy johnson, one OF the greatest
LAWYERS of the last century. Mr.. john
son knew the young man. but appar-
emily he did not allow his familiarity |
10 influence the case He asked him
ono or two questions as easy as the
alphab bet or the multiplication table, |
and then very severely demanded:
Young man. can you mix GOOD
brandy julep?
Il think l can. sir. was the reply.
There" pointing to the sideboard.
ARE the ingredients. sir. Now let me
see what you can do
q! understand that Stratton has sold
the Independence mine to an EnSlsn
syndicate for Sl0.0OO.00O." said w. A.
Ealnamann. the mining expert. to
writer in a New York newspaper.
organized a company some years ago
and tried to buy it from him for 81 .ooO.-
coo. | went to see Stratton and found
him lying back in chair smoking
bip cigar. Hello he said, sit down
and have a drink.
No ] replied. I'm here on busi-
ness / want to buy the lndepend-
ence.
".Go over and read that piece of pa
per on that table said Strattonf.
II picked it up. 1t was from the
First National Bank of Colorado ana
read: Your shipment of ore from the
Independence mine today is valued at
S15.0OO.'
~ get one of those papers six days
a week" said Stratton. 1 don't want
to SELL
but he finally did sell out for $lO.-
00O, 900 to London parties. and as we
had estimated the mine to be worth
about s5,OOO,oOO he made handsome
profit"