Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Rear Admiral Melville was praii-
ing the turbine engines that he had
been studying in Europe West
| minister Abbey in some way thrust it.
self into the conversation, and the
noted sailor, ceasing his technical dis
cussion of turbines said:
| westminster Abbey is a grand old
place for everything except prayer.
They say that n devOut American
| visited it one day and, after he had
looked at all the tombs and inscrip-
tions, he kneIt on the stone pavement
and bowed his head.
"A verger, frowning, tiptoed up to
him.
You can't pray here he said.
| '"The American rose in confusion.
"'Can't pray in the abbey? he ex-
claimed.
NO said the verger. IF I was to
| allow it once, we should have 'em
praying all over the place.
| Near Kidderminster," continued
Admiral Melville, there is an ancient
and picturesque church. the show
church of the country. 1t is only
show church, though: public services
are no longer held in it. Well, one
day. struck with the impressive beauty
| Of the place, tourist said to the
| sexton:
~ suppose there are some people
| who use this church for private pray
| ers?'
"The sexton answered fiercely:
| 81 ketched two of EN- at it once"
That we'll known legal light of the
state of Washington. James Hamilton
| Lewis, is fond of telling of the vicissi-
tudeS he experienced during the days
when he had first hung out his shingle.
| IN Boise City, Idaho" says Mr..
| Lewis, II was once called upon to un-
| dertake the defense of a Texan who
during a visit to our city had in the
course of an alteration rather seri
| ouslv done up one of our prominent
| citizens.
During the progress of the trial !
! observed that our Texas friend seemed
not in the least worried as to the out
come Things looked bad for him and
I told him so. Yet he didn't worry a
bit. One day I said to him:
| MY friend, you're taking this mat
| ter a trifle too complacently. I desire
to impress uron you the fact that there
| is a very fair chance that you'll be |
| jailed for this
"Whereupon, for the first time, the |
Texan began to evince signs of alarm |
| "'Say, sport said he, lis that right |
"Tt certainly u.s. I replied.
| "At this the Texan began to stride |
about the room, all the time pulling |
! fiercely at his big mustache. Finally |
he stopped and, bringing down his fist |
| upon the table between us. he yelled: |
| "'Then. by hell, I've got to get a |
| lawyer.'"
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss was talking ,
last week at Los Angeles about the
worlds custom Of spending more on
armies and navies than on edueation.>
Il once heard this custom epigram- I
matically condemned by an Irish i
| priest" said Bishop Foss. There was
! under discussion a bill to appropriate
| S?G eco 600 for battleships and So, 900, 900
| for schools. The priest spoke against
! the bill, and his speech ended in this
way:
| "'Friends. consider this proposal.
| Its absurdity is evident. For educa-
! tion, $12O00,On0: for warfare. $36, goo.
| That is to say, S12,000.0G0 for putting |
brains in. and $36,O0O,O0o for blowing
| them out
/ Mrs. DOre Lyon. the leading candi-
! date for the vice presidency of the
F, National Federation of Women's Clubs,
was talking the other day in st. Louis
| about the servant question.
"A maid Mt my hotel said Mrs.
! Lyon, told me last night n new serv-
ant girl story. She said that a st.
| Louis woman engaged new servant
| and gave her a number of instructions
| about her duties. In conclusion she i
said:
"'And. Hannah, we have breakfast
at s.
Very well, num- Hannah ans
wered. If I'm not down by that time,
| don't wait for me-
Russell Sage who is too busy to take
a vacation this summer, was in early
life an errand boy in n Troy grocery
store.
At n certain directors meeting, re-
verting to his boyhood days in Troy,
Mr.. Sage said:
II remember we'll frequent visitor
to our Troy grocery, a rich young
farmer from Schaghticoke. This
young man would drive in to Troy be-
hind fine pair of bays, and he would
spend the day on a barrel before the
shop. He amused me because he had a
simple mind
HE had been disappointed, too, in
lone. He had fallen in love with Il
New York girl who had spent the
summer at Schaghticoke. and in the
autumn ne called on her in town and
proposed marriage.
THE story goes that, as soon as she
refused him, the young man put on his
hat and stalked out of the house. once
outside. though, an idea struck him,
and he put his head trough the window
and said:
Would the tower Of Europe he any
inducements? -
]. Adam Bede, the Minnesota con-
gresham, was talking the other day
about his boyhood.