Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-05

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Julian Hawthorne. the novelist,
visited Jail some ten or fifteen years
ago in order to write 4 magazine article
on prison life. On returning home he
described the horrors he had SEEN and
his description made deep impression
on his daughter Hildegarde, who was 4
little girl at the time.
Mr.. Hawthorne and Hildegarde, a
week later, took train ride into the
country. The train stopped at a
station near a gloomy building and a
man said:
Nv hat place is that?"
THE county jail" another answered.
Whereupon Hildegarde embarrassed
her father and aroused the suspicious
OF the other occupants of the car by
asking in a loud, shrill voice:
rs that the Jail you were in, father"
A London weekly says that when
General Grant was on his famous trip
around the world he and some friends
We're received by Queen Victoria in
Windsor castle. While the queen was
chatting with General Grant the latter's
son, Jesse, then quite n little chap.
whispered: Pa. can't you introduce
me-" The queen. overhearing. asked
that the boy be presented and shook
his hand cordially. The little fellow
thought it was up to- him to say
something, so he remarked affably:
Fire house you have here, ma'am."
Col BOZZariS Devlin of MaSSillOn, o.,
Il grizzled veteran of the Civil War, re-
ates this interesting reminiscenco:
While at the Gibson house in Cincin-
natl he was accosted by a well dressed
man in an elevator, who, looked at him
closely moment and asked:
Amt you Col. Deviin, formerly of
the --th Ohio infantry?''
Yes. sir replied the colonel.
do You remember that when your
regiment was near Pea Ridge Ark, n
few days before the big battle there.
4 rough lookin' bushwhacker was
brought into camp one morning anS.
condemned TO. be shot as a spy"
Il remember the incident perfectly,'
And sou interfered and saved the
poor devils life?"
Eyes. l have a distinct recollection of
that"
Wei. colonel" said the other. with
strong feeiing. you made Il thunderir'
Dig mis'ake., That man was hung in
Arizona loren twenty years ago for
stealin d hoss."
CORNER Governor Stone told story
I on the late Thomas Il. Reed, when the
latter was Speaker of the House of
Representatives. that may be Old but
it is worth repeating if it is. He said
that during the exciting days of the
Reed reign the vote between the Demo-
cratic and Republican sides was very
close. 1t happened that one day two
contests came up in which two South
ern negro Republicans We're involved.
Reed used the might of the ma jOrity
and voted one of the negroes into his
seat. Tho Democrats We're enragcI,
and they withdrew to one of the COM
mittee rooms to discuss ways and
means to put the negro out again.
While they We're absent the Reed ma
lority voted the other negro in. The
return of the Democrats and the discov-
cry of the second OffenSe resulted in
one of those explosions which made
Congress then worth reporting. There
was plenty of Southern pyrOtechnics.
and eloquence. and threats, and the
Democrats cried out in their despair
that when theye We're out to protest
against the election Of one negro Reed
put another in.
THAT reminds me-" drawled out the
Speaker, of an old farmer away back
in Maine who went to town every Sat
urday morning and weaved his way
home every Saturday evening very
drunk. One night while driving home
the old man fell out Of the wagon ar.tl
the wheels OF his vehicle passed orer
his body. The old man let out Il mighty
roar and an equally mighty 'Whoa.'
but he screamed so loud that the horse
backed the wagon so hard that the
wheels passed over him again. That
is jus. the trouble here" said the I'M
RULED Speaker, as he recognized Il
member on the Republican side and
suppressed the stupefed Democrats
with his gavel. They saw the point
Desks of officials high in authority at
the government departments contain a
series of push buttons that will bring
anything from n glass of water to a
troop of cavalry. In addition to the
handsome Ivory push buttons the public
secs on the tops of desks there are
mysterious buttons which may be.
touched with the knee or the toe.
Buttons are arranged in scales. r.
cording to the needs OF the official. Che
latest device is buzzer placed in the
office OF prominent official at the state
department which indicates to another
official that n troublesome caller is on
hand. At the sound of the buzZer an
urgent business call is sent to the an
noyed official and he leaves the caller.