Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-11

FOuT tOIdTS.
You think So do you?"
"Yessir. an I've been t'inkin' so fer
tree weeks. but I've been so blamed
busy l haven't had time to speak to
You about it,
The boy got the raise
Il was born in the Ohio town Of
Alva,' said Thomas A. Edison. 1T is
from Alva that I get my middle name
An old-time Alva friend of mine
was rich young farmer who I'll call
Josh. Josh, when he was about "a
made his first visit to New York. He
took room at a good hotel, and, after
he had unpacked his Gladstone bag he
went to the desk to inquire about the
meals.
What is the eatin' hours in this
ycre house, he said to the clerk.
" breakfast the clerk answered, q
to II. Lunch. IL to g. Dinner, 3 to 3.
Supper, to 12.'
Jerusalem!' said Josh. When am
I goin' to git time to see the town?''
DR.. Richard T. Cottheil, of Columbia
University. has broad knowledge of
Oriental tales and proverbs.
"Pessmism," he said. lis as old as
the hills. Mankind has always recog-
nized it and has always derided it.
There is Persian story about
pessimist. This story is so old that
no date can be assigned to it. 1t con-
Germs a pessimistic farmer.
'''GoOd FRIEND a visitor said to the
farmer, you are fortunate this year.
He pointed to the heavy and rich grain
fields spreading as far as the eye could
see. You can't grumble,' he went on,
'about(Hour crop this season, eh?'
"'Nd whined the pessimist, but q
crop like this is terribly wearing on
the SOIL"
William Waldorf Astor spoke recent
ly before the London Cabmen's
Benevolent Society. an organization
| in which he takes deep interest. Mr..
Astor's subject was kindness, and at
| one point he said:
Kindness is virtue that stands out
brightest by contrast with some signal
piece of cruelty. I'll tell you of piece
of cruelty that was practiced. nv
gardener Informed me, on a certain
costermonger.
This costermonger lay dying AS
he neared his end, his wife said to
| him:
Don't you think you could eat a
| bit of something, John?'
II might the man answered.
Good said she. Now what can :
get for you?'
Well said the costermonger, I
""''n to smell a ham a-cOokin' some
| where's. I think I could eat bit O.
that
oh. no, John. dear said his wife.
You can't have that. That's for the
funeral"
Senator Quay. of Pennsylvania. was n
collector of Indian relics. and he took
great interest also in autographs coins.
anu stamps Often. though. he ridiculed
scod-naturedly. collectors hobbies.
He was showing a reporter his India n
fobes one day. The young man took up a
| table. '''''
This dagger must be very DID," he said.
Has it history?'
1T has indeed said Senator Ouay aft
is the dagger that Macbeths thought he
saw. descendant of Macbeth's gave it
10 me in Scotland several years ago.
Senator Quay smiled ''There is only
one dagger / would trade this for. and
that is a dagger that used to hang on the
wall in Alphonse Karr's study" he said,
Kari. in one of his stories. had poked
a good deal of fun at a woman named
Colet Nine. Colet enraged at being made
butt Of stabbed Karr. He on his re-
covery. hung the dagger she had stabbed
him with. above his desk with this in
scription beneath it:
CO... Presented rs It to Alphonse Karr by Nine
The late Nellie Farren. when she visited
America with the London Gaiety COM
nany danced before well known New
York club.
At the end of the dance. during an in
formal supper, someone began to talk
about the new woman-a burning topic at
DO the English believe in woman's
emancipation?' a lawyer said to Miss
Farren. DO they believe in opening the
same me heIds to women as to men, and in
paying them at the same rate?'
on, yes. said the little actress. even
the English tramps believe all that A
tramp asked countrywoman of mine one
day for assistance and said to the man
sternly:
Why don't you go to work.?
Madame. said the tramp. twenty
years ago l made VOW not to do an
other stroke of work till women were paid
the same wages as men,"
Captain Norton Goddard. the energetic
reformer of New York. puts little trust
In mental healing. faith cure. and such
like movements.
"A mental healer once" said Captain
Goddard recently, "calIed at a house
where an old man lay very i'll.
What Is the trouble with the old gen.
tleman? he said to the servant who an
swered the ring
% He has rheumatism, sir the girl re-
piled.
." oh, no. said the healer, impatiently
He hasn't rheumatism. He only thinks
he has It, There is no such thing as rheu-
matism. May l go up and talk with
The servant made inquiry. and said on
her return that 1t would be impossible for
the healer to see the sick man. Accord
ingly he went away. but in a few days he
came back to try again. The same ser
want opened the door for him.
We'll he said. does the old gentleman
still persist in his delusion that he has
rheumatism
No. SIR the maid answered. The
poor man thinks he is dead now. We
buried him yesterday"
Susan B. Anthony, who will represent
America at the International Woman Suf-
frage associations convention in Berlin,
had an amazing experience with little
girl last month