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

| Senator SpoOner of Wisconsin served
as an army officer for about year and
was stationed among the Sioux Indi-
ans. in North Dakota. Yesterday,
when the Indian bill was under consd-
Grafton. he related an annecdote Illus
trttive Of the red mans improvidence.
zone Indian ! know Of" said he, "re-
ceived 81 800 for the sale Of some TIM
Der. He took his wife and children to
st. Paul. and he saw the town. In a
| couple of weeks he came back to Ash
land. Wis. with his family in a freight
train. They unloaded Il pair of beauti-
full horses, then came a beautiful set of
double harness, then came the Squaw
and the children, and then came the
llIanGSOmeSt hearSe that ever had been
seen in that region.
| The horses We're harnesS"d TO the
hearse, the Indian mounted the drivers
| seat his family went into the hearse.
and he drove them us proudly as any
King through the streets Of Ashland"
| BY forty Abraham Lincoln had got
the sObriquet of Honest Abe" There
| was money honesty. for though he
! WAS long so poor, and was so often in
debt. and even his surveyors compass
land chains We're taken from him BY a
sheriif's levy. and he was not out of
debt until he went to Congress. he
seems to have paid all: Professional
| honesty: for as q lawyer h. would not
| take a case if he saw his client had no
riGhtiul claim. After listening one day
to 4 clients statement of his case. Linz
coin. who lad been staring at the CELL
| ing. suddenly swung around i'm his
| chair ana said:
| Well YOU have 4 pretty good case in
| technical law. but a pretty bad one in
cquit.' and justice. You'll have to get
some other fellow to win this case for
YOU. | couldn't do it. All the time
while talking to that jury I'd be think
| ing. Lincoln. YOU are a liar" aEd be-
iicvc ! should forget myself and say ii
| out loud
Once in the midst of Il trial. when he
iisco"rrrd that his client had falsifiad
MS position to him, he left the court
| room and Went over to Il hotel The
judge sent tor him to come back. But
he said to tell the judge he would not
return. for he had to wash his hands"
PERSONAL honesty. He could never act
part; and, though he could keep his
own counsel. he never disguised his
feelings. His pictures show the bur-
den of inward sorrow during the war,
Which, he said was killing him.
| In every family there are family
| jokes on some member of the family.
and often they are better than the pro-
fessitnai ones You hear Here is n
| time ilOnortd one in the family of Mrs.
John J. ingalls,:
| At the dinner table one day Mrs. In
gals dropped Il little gravy on the
front of he" dress. one of her daugh-
| terS called her attention to it, Mrs
| Ingalls, said: My dear. knew the spot
was there. You need not have troubled
yourself to call the attention of other
! people at the table to it. If the spot
| ahnoyS YOU You may leave the table"
Ana the next time Mrs. Ingalls, dropped
| something on the front of her dress all
her children got up and marched away
from the table. The event has passed
into The family joke book.
| Names are great things among some
81 my constituents" said Representa-
tive Mudd. of Maryland who comes
from the black belt of that state There
is an Episcopal preacher who was
| called on to baptize Il child
| What is his nalne? asked the
| minister of the chld's father.
| john James George Washington
| fit@Eueh Lee Blaine Harrison Smith,
answered the father. The old minister
Jotted down the names. and then. walk
| ing To the baptismal font. a crockerv
Wasi:haSin. said to the ianitor: Nose.
get some more water. There amt half
enough to baptize this child if we have
| to take in all his names
one of the Well-knOwn almanac
| makers Of England. as long ago as last
| June. printed the following prophecy
winch his followers think has been full
iiiied IN Russia: "A yelling Surging
savage crowd. fur-coated and thicklv
cla", desperate through taxation. bad
government! and the horrors of war
try To clear tie throne Of \ weak,
minded badly advised autocrat. bullets
IN hi"od flows and people fall-but not
Yet. Later will they-like their allies
nut education must march on first ana
set the workers thinking"
ihe armory at the Naval Academy
where the graduating ball was held
was cold, and some of the ladies who
wore low-neck and short sleeve gowns
suffered severely.
On the train home in the morning
there was general conversation about
The disconIforts.
well. said Mrs. Littlefield, wife of
the representative from Maine. II
don't know which is wOrse-having to
go to midshipmen's ball or to 'Parsi-
tai. but ] guess l would choose .Parsi-
fi'l. New York World.
Tho sleekest game I ever had PLAYED
on ne was worked while riding in the
train from Buffalo TO New York about
! -four months ago" said Charles u.
Hammond of the real estate and brok-
era@e firm of Hammond e. Titus of
Euttc, Mont, while in New York re