Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-13

In Washington they never tire in
telling OF the strong stride with which
Mr.. Roosevelt leads the secret service
men during his walks about town.
IT'S a race for the best of them. One
of these personal attaches describes
characteristic incident involving Sena-
tor Hanna'S illness. On the day when
it was announced that the Ohio states
man was suffering from typhoid, the
President. in his riding costume, was
anxiously engrossed in business of ex-
ceptional Importance, and had even
left his luncheon untouched.
Word reached the White House by
telephone of Mr.. Hanna's condition.
''Typnoid?" exclaimed Mr.. Roosevelt.
How dreadful! 1 must go to his
rooms Immediately. My coat, my coat.
Be quick
(Which horse will you have, Mr..
President
(Which horse? Which horse?' he
Numbered, as he stalked along the
corridors, pulling on his gloves and
flinging himself with headlong haste
through the doors. NO horse. When
I'm in a big rush, go on foot"
The incident reminds Washing
tOnians of Gen. Frederick Funston's
famous walk with the President along
the bank of Rock Creek one of the
chief attractions of Geological Park.
Funston thinks he's a good walker
himself. But when they asked him the
following day how he enjoyed the out
ing, he replied:
Fine, fire. But the next time I go
for a long walk with the President I'll
ride"
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette the humor-
lists wife. is Il great traveller. She has
in her California home collection of
beautiful bells from every quarter of
the world, and she has in her memory
a collection of odd incidents and say
ings gathered in rs many and diverse
places as the bells We're.
Mrs. Burdette says that while tour
ing in the Scottish Highlands one sum-
ner. she was taken to n cave in which
Macbeth was said to have been born.
She examined the cave attentively.
She listened attentively to the eloquent
speech of her guide. At the end she
said to the man:
Come now. tell me truly; is this
really the place where Macbeth was
born?"
The guide smiled awkwardly. He
shifted about little.
Well" he said It's one of the
places"
There it is again." said dignified.
wel-drcssed man in the crowd which
gathered around q man who had been
rescued from beneath truck drivers
team on lower Broadway. ITS the
old story-a man nearly sacrifices his
life to gain a few seconds of time. The
:ush and hurry here in New York is
actually astounding
You are not q New Yorker, then ~
said a bystander.
''Oh, yes" replied the aignified party:
yes. I live here in New York, but l
depreCate this spirit OF rush. this in
tense strain. this haste. this unnatural
oh. great Scott, There goes my
car" And he dashed in front of a van
gallOped around n mail wagon, lodged
the pole of a truck and Just did man.
age to catch the rail of an uptown car
He was pulled aboard by the conduc-
tor and as soon as he recovered his
breath he lectured the conductor for
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New York Press.
a group of representative huddled
| around one of the smoking-room fire.
places, We're talking the other after
noon of the wellknown absent minded
ness of Mr.. Cannon, in connection with
the story of the speakers having
recently made his appearance at the
| capitol wearing two collars and no
cravat.
We'll. there are other absent-minded
ones besides the old man. " remarked
q Democratic Representative from the
South. Our own man, John Sharp
Williams, can forget the ordinary
affairs of life himself. pretty well, when
his mind is away aloft on a soaring
kite.
Williams and I roomed in the same
house here during the session three OF
four years ago. My room was right
across the hall from his, and l used tc
dlop in on him of evenings for a chat
One evening I found him preparing to