Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-31
THE HERALD.
PHILLIPSBURG. KANSAS.
Washington Letter.
sgular correspondent.

President sees a queer COLLECTION OF
people. The other day L saw wait
ing for an audience about a score OF
people. There was Senator Chand-
Ter, nervous, quisical in expression,
doned in sombre black; near him We're
seated an old man and bevy of half
a dozen pretty girls; next to them
came Prof. Langston, the cOlOred ed
ucator and politician, oily but vindlc-
tive, scheming, pushing, restless;
across from him was seated Col.
Thomas Ochiltree, the red headed /
ranger Of the Rio Grande, dressed in
the noisiest of light plaid suits. and
talking to a friend in his familiar, OBJ
trusive, self-suficient manner; IN a |
group at the farther end Of the room
were a couple of Old-fashioned col
ored country preachers, respectful
and respectable, accompanied by a
broken down old colored man and
woman. The faces of the four were
anxious and troubled and the old
woman looked pleadingly from one to
another for hope They say not a
word but await their turn to enter
the Presidents presence. The four
have come to ask that the sentence of
this old woman's son, who IS to be
hanged this week be committed, and,
God help her, there is no hope!
Public Printer Palmer is not al
lowed to get lonesome, or forget that
lots of people are interested in his
welfare and are willing, nay anxious,
to render him all reasonable assist
ance in conducting the affairs of his
Office. Congressman have been fire.
quent callers this week. The Grand
Army delegation has called to urge
the retention and the favoring Of ex-
soldiers in promotions. And the Of
flee seekers have called by the hun
dreds to urge their own cases. It is
expected that employees discharged
during the Democratic administration
will be reinstated and that short work
will be made of democrats. Mr..
Palmer, when in the Chicago postof-
fee, made a record for partisanship
which the Office seekers fondly hope
he will fully sustain in his present
place.
About year ago, an ex-page OF
the Senate, Jacob L. Doty, was APP
pointed United States Consul in
Tahaiti. Doty, who had reached the
serious and diplomatic age Of q
years, packed up his lawn tennis suit
and his flannel blazers and HE'D him
self away to the royal court of Tahiti
court of whose very existence a mar
might be entirely ignorant and yet de
business; but a court that, Doty writes
back to his friends, is not to be sneez
ed at Many moons ago, an English
man, Lord Darcy, with fine eye 70
the main chance, married a nativ
princess of the South Sea IslanC
Today the result of the marriage is
beautiful dusky Tahitian princess c
20, in her own right the largest pror
erty owner on the Island. She pos
sesses cocoa plantations galore an
pearl fisheries worth untold millions
When Consul Doty arrived at Tahiti
this maiden was. fancy free.
course, the young noblemen of tn
islands who We're signing for her fl
vOrs were too numerous for comfor
A good many of them were great an
bowling swells. and how she could +,
fuse them all actually shocked I'll
court But Doty came and conuuere,
As quick as he landed on the mag
island, his loud spring SUIT made i
impression on her susceptible youn
Tahitian heart and but Il few sho
months and they were engaged. TIL
princess English father was, as W.
natural in a cad who had married
savage princess for her money, mad
a great howl about the princess ma
rying below her station. When
was represented to him, howeva
that Consul DOty was a great CRANE
son, on his mothers side, of Lor
Melburne, who was an undo
Secretary of State during the earl
portion of Queen Victoria's reign. an
is also related to the WalIaces an
McPherson's and so on and so on m
Lord Darcy was necessarily disarn
ed. Now society in the South Sc
Islands is humping itself to celebrat