Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-03-23
ED LITTLE IN CAIRO.
How He Holds Up the Republic s
Dignity Before the Pharoahs.

4. q. Litll.. OF Abilene, is a stout
built young man who locks as well in
a snug nttinR three button frock az
Mercury does in his wings and cape
nvercnat. Mr.. Little IL a Kansas
young man who used to go swimming
in the Solomon few years ago and
muddy himself and run out of the
c0rnfeld when the Union Pacific train
roarrd by. Now he is representing the
United States Of America IN diplo-
matte agent aud consul general at
Cairo, Egypt. and thinks nothing Of
asking king over to dinner without
telephoning out to the house. He left
Kansas last December, having never
known the wide, wide waste that a
mans hands cover in feeling for n
haven of rest in his first dress suit.
Last week he beat the khedive of
Egypt three straight games of high
five and asked the prime minister If. rs
matter Of fact, His lIighness didn't
play pins" or "old maid" or casino"
or "authors" or some game Of that
class particularly we'll.
A Kansas City man received long
letter from young Mr.. Little the other
day. He says that he spent several
days in ROME and Naples on his way
To Cairo aud that he took run down
to pomprii. "PUmpeii is just like the
books about IT, Rome is like the
books; the Coliseum In like the books
everything il like the books. The
romance Of lrst sight is sapped out ct
rrything to man who reads travels.
There il wife merchant's counter IN
Pomppii. ] threw down franc and
asked for the old Falernian lazy
barkeeprr made no sign. There is no
poetry In the dago ut home. The talk
about his poetic soul is nonsense. His
eye. are expressive; ~ are those of n
he ,lthy calf" At Naples Mr.. Little
shipprd for Alex .ndna He was r..
criyrd In state HI n diplomat, Just u
LITTLE rich for my Dickinson COUNTY
blood, - he writes, but I reefed up my
top sails and saluted just rs | would NJ
dance in Lexington. where the caller
/ of says, 'S'lute yer pardners;' at the
agency troupe Of Egyp ,ians. Arabs
aud Nubians who kissed my hand and
made u terrible fuss, the band play ed
Annie II ,oney and the war began.
/ We fired all the men hired by
the rag shippers at Alexandria u dis:n-
feet rags, aud have put In men of my
own who nre paid by the shippers. All
rags shipped to America are disin-
fected. Formerly the shippers did
their own inspecting. They would
come to thu consul aud say: We have
dlsinfrctet our rags, give US a certii
cate 30 we can get into America
sid: Ply my men TO diSinfect aud !
VIII certify; II you DON'T won't. ]
notified the department at Washing
ton, trusted to luck Tor its support
aud got IT," That is the Kansas WAY
Of doing things.
There Is a good deal Of serious work
about this ] b." writes the young maj
from Kansas in another part of hls
letter, land the social duties are exact
ing. Probably thrre is no lady In
Kansas City has 81 long n list Of call
ing places as l, aud what's more, there's
no getting out Of 1t. Dropprt
In on the khedive the other day. II,
is a stocky-built, 10 year-old youni
man, short and fat: he speaks English
well and is remarkably polite and nice
IN nnrrpd. Grins sardonically-nul
sup.IcilIously though and received
me just as any other gentleman would
judge his habits If thought are slow
but he is NJ persistent temperament
and II ever chance is offered l think
he will show himself To be good dea
Vt man In an Oriental way. | dinet
with the prime minister the other day
He is little dried up fellow; old, bul
smart NJ Jim Smith-very polite, beat
ID o. McCray or John Martin al
hollow though he is nervous. III
will sit cross legged on divan and SAY
nothing for Ave minutes at n stretch
looking Into thin air, Hsstvsa NJ M