Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-18

Two candidates for office in Missouri
We're stumping the northern part OF Tn
state, and in one town their appearance
was almost simultaneous. The candi
date last arriving happened 20 stop a
p house for the purpose of getting {
drink of water. To the little girl wh'
answered his knock at the door he said
when she had given him the desired
draught and he had offered her in rec
ompense some candy: Did the mar
ahead of me give you anything"
"Oh, yes. sir" replied the bright girl
"he gave me candy"
"Ah!" exclaimed the candidate
there's five cents for you. l don't sup
pose that he gave you any money!"
The yOungster laughed merrily. Yes
he did, too! He gave me ten cents.'
Not to be outdone, the candidate gave
the little one another nickel, and, pick
ing her up in his arms. kissed her.
Did he kiss you, too?" he asked, gen.
tally.
Indeed, he did, sir" responded the
little girl, land he kissed ma, too"
A. j. Cassatt, president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. has n stock farm on
the outskirts of Philadelphia, and at {,
recent dinner of the Philadelphia Clo-
YER Club a friend of his said: Mr..
Cassatt has fine stock farm, and he
runs it on businesslike basis. Some
times he makes money out of it.
Last year he bought a pig for s27,
fed it forty bushels of corn at 81 i
bushel, and then sold it for $3.50.
{" I made $3.50 out of that pig ne
said to me the day after the animal was
taken away.
bushels of corn at 81 a bushel that you
fed him.
Oh, said Mr.. Cassatt, I didn't ex-
pect to make anything on the corn Z"
Golfers Weekly. -a7@.
A young man gayly essayed to be en-
tertaining at dinner party. ia
He had just been introduced, but he.
blandly said:
king Edward fell off a yacht today.
and was drowned"
What"
president Roosevelt killed seventeen
bears with penlnife."
Yes"
THE Car of Russia had a fist fight
with Count Tolstoi, and the President
of France was seen turning cartwheels
up and down the Champs Elysee'
THE ideal"
Now, you try and think up some
thing to keep your part going and may
be we will feel less like a couple Of
b irn1 tor
They did not get along very Well.
MOral-Be breezy. but not fresh.
Yes said the fashionable doctor,
as he wrote out a prescription, you
have told me your symptoms and see
you are troubled with acute nervous
ness.
oh" walled the fair patient, every
little noise makes me jump, every time
a door creaks l start like a person in
danger. BY the way. DR.. Hicharge, I'm
Just going to take my motor car out
for spin, / always run the machine
myself, you know. If you jump in, I'll
leave you right at your door,"
Still explaining the sad condition of
her nerves. she drove the auto down the
avenue at a rafting clip. In and out
of the tansle of vehicles the jolting jug
gernaut flew at twenty miles an hour.
The nervous wreck put on brakes and
glanced casually at the mounted police
who were galloping far behind. The
pale faced physician gasped.
Here's your house." said his patient
sweetly. Il hope your prescription will
calm my poor, weak nerves."
stranger walked into the lobby Of
the Masury Hotel recently and began to
descant on the wonders of psychology.
says the Thomasville (Ga.) Times. He
said he was a specialist in that branch
of science, and talked for some time
about the effect a mans opinions have
upon his personal appearance. Why"
he continued. II can look at a man and |
tell his political preference. 1t is a |
very simple matter to tell a Democrat |
from Republican. Down here you are |
all Democrats, but though it is a hard !
task can tell mans favorite for the |
nomination by looking ut |