Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14

merous as those of an insane asylum.
Take for instance the little woman who
wants to be made the 'N ational Poet OF the
United States" Her name is DR.. Sarah A.
Ulrich Kelley, and she is one of the queer
est OF ali the Capitol queers. She is pale,
weazcned little woman, dressed in shabby
widows weeds, and back of her queerness is
said to be the conventional big Government
claim which makes so many cranks. Ap-
parently deserted by her own kith and kin
she wanders about Washington, infesting
newspaper offices from editorial sanctum to
press room at all hours of the day and night
She calls herself the "Sweet Singer of Penn
sylvania," and her lctest feat is rose red
pamphlet which is entitled
A sTATEsMAN's LOVE
or True Autobiography, by Sarah A. u
rich Kelley, the world-renowned Bard Of
Shanty Hill. This book of nine pages
gives Mrs. Kelley's story of her alleged
Irritation with Charles Mansur, "the hand
some, brown-eyed statesman from Missouri. I"
SIT was" says she, "a case of love at first
sight The renowned statesman paid a
visit to DR.. Kelley and asked her to dag.
nose his disease clarvoyantly 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 in
sane 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 moi"
He spent S43, 500 she writes, in detectives
in II years, and it wrs 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 be said
"I'm glad you are widow fo- I've tell in
love with you" She tells him it's no use
she can't marry him, and he, by desperate
effort refrains from shedding tears and
leaves.
HIS BETE NOIR.
Now 16 years have gone and 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
widows like herself. or course this is silly
twaddle, but it is very annoying to Mansur,
and he is laughed at by his fellow states
men whenever Mrs. Kelley is mentioned.
The ostensible business upon which DR..
Kelley remains at the Capitol, is that OF
securing legislation on bill, creating Mrs.
Sarah A. Ulrich Kelley, the national poet
of the United States. She wants to be our
Poet Laureate, with a salary of 5000 a
year and a house to live in. At first,
amused by her extraordinary literature and
her claims as Poet Laureate, the local press
printed considerable of her poetry, but find
ing that the sottly-treading, softly-spea king
doctor was like the rest of her type, dis
posed to take an ell for every inch given,
she mas been pretty generally eliminated
from the non-paid contributors column.
LITTLE MISS FLIGHT.
Little Miss Flight, the shadowy creature
who haunted the Courts of Chancery in
Dickens story, has her prototype in the Ma
tional Capital. 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 novelty and SO en-
dures long seasons of neglect from insatia-
BILE correspondents. Nearly II years ago
she was written up by Gilbert Pierce, the
present new North Dakota Senator. How
many years Mrs. Emma Green Littlefeld
Carter has proclaimed herself as head OF the
Government, and Superintendent OF the Ma
tional Legislation, no one seems to know.
1t is said that in all these years of fruit
less waiting she has never exhibited aston
ishment, disappointment or impatien ce.
Neither in dress, expression or modulation