The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-04-04
u..,.r. n, m. National, Capital.

eturn for the many attentions SHOWN iiii' q
ave grand reception at the Arlington up il
n last Thursday night. The evening was C
tormv, as all our evenings are, that sort OF i
hing having been brought here by the en- 5
,a.sv from the Sierra Nevadas, 80 that all q
he social life invited By card was on wheels. I
L wasa grand time for 1wakura and the i
racks. We found ourselves at re end OF /
, lin. down near Welcker's, and took sew
eral bits in the way of refreshment at that
famous restaurant, waiting for the line TO
move on. We could not tell what IN the
old scratch was the matter, for our car
riace remained stationary for half an hour.
At last We ordered Dan to drive up anu
see what was the matter. We feared the i
great Igrakura had had lit, and probably /
the thing was postponed. On turning the /
corner Of Fifteenth and II We discovered
the cause of the delay. Hacks we've whip
ming into the line AMI a general var W IS
going on between the police AMI those
enemies to mankind known as hack drivers.
We've hal enough war in our tine, hav-
ing served through the late civil conflict
and been honorsl with the Acquaintance OF
Susan B. Anthony, so We cnt the umdlt OF
smashed glass and poles driven inb unof-
Tending bustles, AMI ordered ourman to
take US to the main entrance, which he DID.
Here the ofhcious porter asked for our lag
! gage, which we Immediately 90 nun IN
the. shagg4n NE narrowly escapei ,,.i.,, an atl
/ lstered without a room. That perfect GEN
tleman Mr. Shaekles, took Is tito the
clerks Office an gave US the safe IL a dress
room. Here we diSrobel AMI, pulling on
our immaculate XII Is, wake with or usual
/ dignifei grace into the reception. At the
door one of the hanisomet little fellows
/ demanded our ticket. We hal noticket,
AMI said as much, when Bauty bowel low
and said:
The Capital requires ne ticket, sir
This >moothcd our rumpled front like a
warm smoothing-iron oven dmnpened
bosom. and prepared us for The sh'ck.
We encountered the embassy in tie draw
ing-rooms stretched in a line as long as the
intermlnable ghosts of Macbeth. That
line was the strai.htest line we've ever
seen since the war, and it required good
deal of nerve to 90 down it on review
One Japanese ambassador is about a. much
as an ordinary citizen can stand But
when it comes to forty, and they present
| by platoon, it is somewhat irving. The
features of a japanese are attached to a
very small body and seem to be strangely
out OF drawing. They are somehow or the
other in the way Of each other. Ii seems
impossible to grasp and graPple all Of them
at once. You make a dive at the ewes and
you are thrown of by the nose You
seek to possess yourself of the mouth and
You suddenly find yourself occupied with
the napaot theneck. We supposethis isare-
suit of the old Eastern civilization of which
we hear 50 much. These japanese repre-
sentatiycs are noblemen and were verv *
elusive through ages, and repealed familiar
ity by beng incomprehcnsible. We believe
that if any familiar duck like Paw Director
/ Cunningham were to attempt to slap a Jap
! anese on the back he would find his hand
suddenly thnrst down his throat, or dis
posed in some other Nirhonesc custom Of
ancient oa=torn civilization, aud i is an
cent This embassy looks as if it hal
been picked out of the worn!loles Of time.
And it is our private opinion Tn1lcly ex-
pressed that this is the fact.
After we had got through with the pre-
sentatIon, we stood contemplating in silent
awe the venerable Secretary Of the State
who stood leaning against the side of a
door trying to sleep, while the Right Rev
Major Genera! DR.. John P Newman, late
rector of the Metropolitan Memorial Meth
odist Episcopal Church Of Washington, D
c., with the chimes attached, and Chaplair
of the United States Senate, bowed dowr
before him with little opera hat under
his arn-(if this pious divine worships tie
Lord with half the zeal he does offcia
greatness, his title to that real estate
above Is about rs perfect as it can be)-
where in the Old Scratch did We leave off
On, yes-while thus engaged we were
nudCei rather violently in ogr ribs, an,
turning saw slab-siIed, knock-kneei
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