Show HE WAS WELL RECEIVED therefore gen butler did not deliver the speech ile he had prepared A good many people says the boston journal have heard the story of gov GOT ames and gen kutler butler when they had bad their famous ride to cambridge after the refusal of the university overseers to grant the governor an LL D bu but t here is a new story in connection with the gov ames own explanation of what was rather mystify ing to a good many people at the time the real explanation of gen butlers moderation in his speech at harvard college after the overseers had refused him the degree of LL D has never been told in print I 1 think I 1 rode over to cambridge with the gov arnor in a landau and on the way over I 1 hinted that discretion would be called for butler was rather reticent and moody but he replied 1 I am well prepared 1 I 1 rather expected an outbreak but when we arrived and the governor was received with even more expressions of regard than usual by graduates and undergraduates alike he began to be more genial and approachable as he was in his role of a private 31 at length the dinner was served and george choate the presiding officer of the day paid a most generous and eloquent tribute to the governor in his introductory y speech butler turned to me and ana sai eald la quickly just before he arose to speak 1 I have bave thrown my speech to the winds then followed his model oration without a fling without a hit a scholarly eloquent address it was not till at Williams williamstown town the next week that learned what he meant when he said 1 I have thrown my speech to the winds he meant that he had prepared an address which he believed he would be justified in delivering an address that in its scope took in all the sins of that institution and its management from the time of the defalcation of one of its treasurers treasur ers down through succeeding generations but bu t the hospitable treatment he received disarmed d him lie ile had expected hisses he received cheers he be had been prepared for a snub and he was complimented with his quick perception he under stood his position exactly and kept back the proposed speech substituting for it the impromptu and one e of the most brilliant impromptus ever delivered the woman speculators speculator A man standing in front of the news stand of an uptown elevated railroad station in new york the other day found himself rudely pushed aside with out apology and looking around with a scowl found himself suddenly dh armed for the offender was a woman she was a small blonde person clab in fashionably cut cat plain skirt neat sealskin coat and jaunty hat ornamented witha with a sage green ostrich plume she was daintily gloved and she carried a natty silk umbrella her rudeness was explained by her haste to get at the pews news stand she already carried under her ber arm several of the morning pape papers she bought the daily wall st street P publications licati ons coolly pushed her way through the crowded aisle of the car to a place where she found a seat and rode down town with a host of fellow speculators her eyes fixed upon the market column |