Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14

little woman, dressed IN shabby widow s
weeds and back OF her queerness is said to be
the conventional big government claim which
makes SO many cranks. Apparently deserted by
her own kith and kin, she wsnders about Wash
ingIon, infesting the newspaper Offices from
editorial sanctum to pressroom at all hours of
the day and night. She calls herself the sweet
Singer of Pennsylvania and her latest feat is
rose red pamphlet which is entitled
"a sTATEsMAN's LOVE.
Or True Autobiography, by Sarah A.
Ulrich Kelley, the world renowned Bard of
Shanty Hill"
This book of nine pages gives Mrs. Kelley's
story of her alleged Irritation with Charles
MaEsur, 1.-The handsome brown-eyed statesman
from Missouri" at was'' says she, "a case
of love at first sight The renowned states
man paid visit to Dr.. Kelley and asked her
to diagnose his disease clairvoyantly and
was smitten with her charms. She then de-
scribes Representative Mansur in eulogistic
terms and states that she could not marry him
because she was at the time hiding AWAY for her
life from an insane husband who claimed all
her heart but in his insane delusions imagined
she loved him not, and imagined also that it
was right for him to hire wicked men to murder
her because she loved him NOT He spent
SAB, 500, she writes, in detectives in eleven
years, and 1t was for this that she was posing in
St. Louis as a widow when the Hon. Charles
Mansur called upon her. She told Congressman
Mansur this and he said Pm glad you are a
widow for I've fell in love with you.' She tells
him its no use she can't marry him, and he, by
q desperate effort refrains from shedding tears
she meets Mansur at Washington. She finds
him married and states that she has not seen his
wife, and supposes she never shall as women
are usually jealous of poor harmless widow
ladies like herself OF course this is silly twad-
die but it is very annoying to Mansur, and he is
laughed at by his fellow statesmen whenever
Mrs. Kelley is mentioned.
The ostensible business upon which Dr.
Kelley remains at the capital is that of securing
legislation on a bill creating Mrs. Sarah A NJ
rich Kelley the national poet of the United
States. She wants 20 be our poet laureate with
a salary of $4,000 year and a house to live in.
This she gives as the excuse for frequent visits
to editorial rooms and the necessary occasion OF
the wards OF poetry which she invariably carries
about with her. At first, amused by her EXTRA
ordinary literature and her claims as poet Ian
reAte the local press printed considerable of her
poetry but finding that the softly treading
softly speaking doctor was like the rest of her
type, disposed to take an ell for every inch
given she has been pretty generally eliminated
from the non-psid contributors column.
OUR LITTLE MISS FLIGHT.
Little Miss Flight, the shadowy creature who
haunted the Courts of Chancery in Dickens
story, has her prototype in the national capitol
So many years has this little red haired. grey
eyed woman fitted in and about the corridors
committee rooms and legislation chambers Of
the capitol that she has ceased TO be a novelty
and so endures long seasons of neglect from in
satiable correspondents. Nearly seventeen
years ago she was written up by Gilbert Pierce
the present new North Dakota SENATOR How
many years Mrs. Emma Green Littleield Carter
has proclaimed herself as head of the govern
ment and superintendent of the national legisla-
tion, no one seems to know. / first saw her
leaning against the desk of Superintendent Ell
lis in the ladies reception corner of statuary
hall. She had just written card, (which being