Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-03

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New York Sun.
Barney Oldfeld, the automobilist,
was talking Of n trip he once made
through Manitoba.
"The most dangerous town i'm Mani
tota," he said. lis Brandon. Harsrave
is near Brandon. and on the outskirts
of Hargrave, in front of little inn, 1
diSmOunted.
81 found the landlord and another
man sitting on bench. They were
both very old.
Excuse ire, landlord l said. but
can you tell me how far it is to Bran
DOM
The old man jumped up and hob
bled behind the bar.
Brandy he said, in "A thin luavcr.
Yes. indeed, sir, and very fine brandy
it IS
HE put a bottle and a glass before
me.
" 4 asked you said. more loudly
how far it is to Brandon
" The best brandy, of course. sir h
answered. I don't keep nothing but
the best
an despair | turned from this deaf
veteran to the other old man on the
bench.
Look here said. can you tell ma
how far it is to BrandCn?'
1.-The old man, with IA grateful LOOK.
rose and limped hastily up to the bar.
Thanks he said, 4 don't care if l
DO"
The recent tornadOes in Kansas lead
The Kansas City Journal to tell OF
the experiences OF a kansan CROSSING
the Atlantic in rough weather. one
morning he went out on deck when Il
big gale was blowing. Nobody was If
sight except the captain.
Go below tlere!" the captain shout
ed.
The passenger looked around to see
whom he was talking to.
You mean me?" he yelled back wher.
he saw there was no one else in sight
"Of course I do; go below" and the
captain came alongside.
well, guess not" protested the
KanSan. I'm up here to see how one
of your mountain high waves and ter
rife gales compare with what we have
in Kansas in the way of cyclones.
This Amt a patch to what I've seen out
our way
A big wave broke over the deck.
sweeping the Kansan aft. They picked
him up with broken leg. n twisted
shoulder, Il spraincd wrist, and his face
looking as if it had been dragged back
ward through a briar patch. When he
came to he saw the captain.
~ Sai6 fpahly
chat reminded me of home, only 1t
was dern sight wetter."
Miss Estelle Reel, the general super
intcndent of the gov ,rnmcnts Indian
school, was talking about cruelty.
Cruelty" she said. is lack of imaEi-
nation. 1t isn't true that only savages
are cruel. All people without developed
minds. minds capable Of sympathy, ara
cruel. Children. till they have learned
to think. are cruel invariably"
Miss Reel smiled.
Let me tell you about 2 little boy"
she said. ITO this little boy there wcr9
given two images of plaster. coated on
the outside with pink sugar. H
wanted to eat the images. but he was
warned on no account to do SO.
They are poison he was told. If
you eat them it will kill you
However. the little boy was dubious.
He had been cheated before this by
grown up people. Day after day he
asked il he might not cat the images.
Finally he had a youn., friend, Richard
Howe. to spend the day with him. and
that night it was discovered that one
of the images had dsapp, AIRED.
His mother. nearly frantic. rushed to
him.
"Harold.' she SAID, where is tina,
pink image
Harold frowncd as he answered de-
family:
L gave it to Richard Howe. and if
he's alive tomorrow TN going to cat
the other one myself"
Professor w. G. Hayes. Of the Geo
logic al Survey. was talking in Washing
ton about the trial of biologists.
Did you ever hear Of the geolngist
in New Hampshirc?" he asked. well.
there was gcologist who spent a long.
hot summer day in Croydon. gather
ing specimens Of the old New Hamp-
shire rock formations to DO found there.
anu ltt' Ill tut nt nlTeu Il DON
to carry his heavy bag back to New
port for him. This boy exhibited to Il
friend that night a half dollar, and The
friend said onviously.
Where did you get that?'
Il made it, was the answer.
"'How did you make il?'
" You know that there man that was
all day with q little hammer
chipping off rieces of rock
and putting them in leather bag?'
Yes
Well he asked me to carry his bag
for him I" the Newport Hotel. and he
gave me 30 cents for the job
"'Well. it was worth il. Must have
been pretty heavy, car:yin' all them
rocks four miles,
THE other hoy smiled.
Do you think carried them rocks
all that way?' he said. No. sir ri
the bag before startin' and
just filled it again outside the hotel,
Congressman Morrell. Of PHILADELPHIA
SAID in the course Of an address IN