Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-10

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some day bear his name. He cherish
ed them almost to serious love, but he
invariably made IT a special feature
of his wooing To feel the pocketbook
of each fair one His affection In
every instance but one was tempered
by the amount of wealth the girls
were backed up with. This one in
stance was In his really serious heart
affair with Miss Sally Fairfax. With
the intense earnestness of his nature
he sought her in marriage regardless
Of her finances. but Miss Sally had no
room in her heart for her pleading
suitor. and fer once George Washing
ton was defeated His later marriage
to Martha Curtis brought fortune to
him which no doubt poised his affec
ton most admirably
Benjamin Franklin, on the other
hand, was not reminiscent. He plung
ed into a criticism of modern school
methods and called for a shorter day
and a simpler curriculum Abraham
Lincoln wasn't terribly excited over
the country he had saved. and talked
instead about the peculiar psychology
with which we are politically stamped
ed. Daniel Webster wrote about the
abolition of hell. The only American
statesman who had any special poiit-
ical message for the country was
Ulysses S. Grant. He wanted war
statutes abolished. They only tend,
he said, TO keep up a feeling of ha-
tired.
1t is hard to believe that all these
folks were actually here in New York.
But it isn't at all likely, though, that
the ghost of William T. Stead could
be fooled, and he heartily indorses the
whole work. If any one thinks for a
minute that Stead's ghost did not write
that Endorsement his suspicious are
easily allayed. For the ghost of Frank
Leslie called attention especially to Mr.
Stead and Mr.. Leslie knew him per-
sonally
What an opportunity the interview
ers lost. Just think of Moses and Soc
rates and Pontius PLATE being here
and getting away again without seeing
the reportersi Then there was Daoud
the soul mother of Attorney Levere.
Her story should be more interesting
still. She was in Atlantis, the Lost
Continent, $4,000 years ago, and she
has kept track of Miss Levere through
incarnation after incarnation ever
since.
Possibly the strangest visitant of all
was the ghost of Darlington. Mrs.
Darlington, being the mental creation
of B. P. Shillaber not every one knows
that she could be a ghost. But her
picture is there with the rest, and she
tells story about a trip in an airy
plane" which is excruciatingly funny
70 all those who think it is.
Only MIR. Shillaber," says the Stead
| Ghost, could have written this in the
vein Of humor ne gives it in" Mr.,
| Stead's English style, as revealed in
/ this sentence, is one of the things, &C
cording to Miss Levere, which proves
the genuineness of the production.
But say not that the book is not IL
Illuminating, or that the spirits bear
! an inconseQuential message.
The ghost of Cornelius Vanderbilt
asks the people to appeal, through the
Interstate Commerce Commission, to
compel the railroads, which are made
wealthy through the patronage Of the
public" TO furnish sanitary drinking
cups free. Surely only MT Wander
bilt could have written that in the
vein of humor he gives 1t in"
The ghost of William B. Hazen adds
still another proof by showing that the
| Weather Bureau should be abolished
Matthias w. Baldwin, deceased, in.
sists on two engineers in every loco
motive cab and two pilots on every
ferry. Peter Cooper. late of New York
would have the Fire Department make
less noise on it's return from fires
while James Gordon Bennett, disem
bodied, is especially opposed to wax
ing the town with night extras of tn,
newspapers.
II there be any need for furthe
proof of immortality read these word
Of Russell Sage. His ghost came bacl
ourdened with this message: In no
tel dining rooms so largely has thi
tipping evil spread that now the hea,
walters, who do not personally serv
you. demand periodical tips. And he