Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-24
Personal Anecdotes

The origin of the idea which prompted
the famous trial ride of the army tne
reyerberations of which have not yet
died away, is traced in an article In the
current Harper's Weekly by Frank Waro
O'Malley The test ride was not, II ap.
pears, by any means an original ldea OIL
the president's 1t was young Froles-
sor" Mike Sweeney, whose job it Is TO
hoy alternate rounds with certain
party in the Willie House each day, VINO
suggested the brilliant scheme 1t seems
that Mike and this certain party were
having a bit of brush with the mltts
one evening while waiting for the roast
to he served, when Mike observed as tol-
lows:
"And I am walkin' past tie Army ana
Navy club early this afternoon. ana
am pipin' off pink-gille army gent
sittin' face to face with brandy anu
dota at a window. Now this person Is
sure the fattest, widest, beefiest, olgsess
party ever, 1 zee on the continent OF
North America An sittin' with him Is
another one twice as big. And loomin
above that one was
The certain oarty frowned thought
fully. e
with.'' he murmured, presently, as If he
were thinking aloud. '1ll show the
rocking-chair platoon that it'll have to
be able to canter as we'll as decanter.
Thus was brilliant sche5le matureo.
s.
The late Theodore Tilton, who had
never had a pipe, cigar or cigarette In
his mouth. used to declare that the most
inveterate smoker he ever knew was so
iourner Truth the famous freedwoman
reformer and lecturer. He was wont 70
fell how one day when the veneraple
dame. then about 90 years old, was on
,,isit 70 his home, she sat smoking her
nine bv the chimney corner when George
w I3,,npav. the author of several elo-
orent antt-tobacco tracts, called to see
her. ,,, .,o-o
vour character, but 1 deplore your smok :
ing. for it will keep you forever out OF
heaven" .,,oa
..Recause. Aunty, he rejoined, you
,,nouv that according to the good book
.noth,ng entereth there that defileth.
Now how do you expect to get to heaven
with YOUR breath defiled by tobacco"
"Iawkes, honey" answered the old
nepress. when l go to heaven L 'spect
to leave my breff behind mel'
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John w. Gates says that not all wo-
men. but some of them, a-e very poor
speculators, am. recalls this incident: A
Young friend of mine has pretty cousin
He was going to the races the other day
and she called him up on the telephone
and asked him to put $40 o. Forest *: Ag e
for her. Very we'll he said III DO It
If you'll pay me back OF course n
nav YOU back, you horrid thing All
right, said he You did-'t last time.
.0b we'll said she. last time the horse
didn't win, you .inow.'
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President Mckinley was an amateur
actor Of some note in his youth. One who
saw him in "a Widow Hunt as Maj.
Wellington de Boots says: Since then l
have had the opportunity of seeing the
mart of Mai. de Boots performed by many
eminent actors, in this country and in
Tendon and / always measured even the
e~cellence of John Sleeper Clarke in this
mart byl my youthful impression of Maj.
McT<inley. He was a great success with
h,s rural audience. and played the part
with dash and ease that made him
more admirable in their eyes than the
Uniform and the promotion he had won
In the army"