Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-06-22
HANKERs FOR HOME.
Ed. Little Makes the Best Of the
Situation.

Ed. Little has writ" another letter.
1t does not make any difference now
how many he writes because his fam
boyant diplomatic career is nearly
ended and bis official head has rolled
into the sawdust. This letter he wrote
to viii White, Of the Kansas City Star,
and the recipient gives 1t out to the
press this wise:
Mr.. Little says: ~ shall be glad
enough to come home. Royalty is all
right in the winter; starched shirted
pomp is a good thing when II doesn't
conflict with the thermometer; but
take 1t along in June when this sand
bordered hell las Mr.. Kipling calls
Cairo in The Light That Failed'),
begins to crack and belch with heat
until the very fountains sizzle as their
waters strike the air-take 1t long
about knee deep In June and | want
to be in Kansas where man can wear
flannel shirts and eat cold cherry pie
and cream 10 his shirt sleeves out on
the back porch. have played horse
with royalty, bumped against nobility,
Toasted my eyes on dukes and genuine
trade marked and blown In the bottle
princes like those l read about In fairy
tales; and now my senses are surfeited
with the smell of blue blood, want to
get home and taste the wine Of good
fellowship that q crowd of Kansas
kings and heirs apparent can brew with
their heels against the posts of the
Copeland hotel balcony"
Mr.. Little has had just a sip of the
old Falerian to which he alludes. For
young Mr.. Richard Harding Davis
struck Cairo last April and the two
young fellows took in the town to
gether. Little gave dinner party to
Davis at the agency. lie had Law
renee Hutton also Of Harper's and two
American young wcmen, besides the
guest of honor. A day or 80 after that
the young men set out aud climbed the
great pyramid together Each had an
athletic record at his alma mater, aud
the climbing must have been a sort Of
pocket edition of the Olympian games,
for neither would take a dare and
either would slide down the rock pile
on his ear or walk up on his hands il
he thought the other would be edited
by the performance.
81 have bought me o mummy
writes Nj. Little. "lIe isn't what you
would cill pretty, But then the Kan
sas standard of beauty is laised By the
presence of such men as Clbbison,
Charley Lobdell, Charley Scott (be ny
married may he rest in peaceN, Harry
Gorden of Wichita aud Dick B,ue, Ia
contrast to Ell. Hoch, ID. II. Anthony
and Labor Commissioner Todd, late OF
Butler county. My mummy is a quiet
little fellow who sits In my hall chew
ing his tongue and schemlng for all the
world like Cy Leland. ! don't know
what ! shall do with Mr.. Mummy when
get him home, but az he comes creep
ing up through the dark ages to get In
touch with today, think shall have
him write reply to Colonel Phillips
young crowd article In the Agora,
"When | went into the presence OF
the khodve, ! will admit that was a
shade ratified. Not having had any
khedives on my calling list in Klnsls-
being DESTROYS of currying favor witt
the people rather than with princes
wasn't entirely familiar with the
figure that would be called of. So |
got trainer-my sponsor they call him
who plays Billy Delaney to my Gen
tleman JIM Well, to make a long
story short, broke all the rules Of the
game. forgot to duck my head when
| waltzed in and instead sailed up to
His Majesty much as Kansas legisla-
tor would march in to strike Charley
Folks for Santa Fe pass. My sa!uta-
tory was out OF the usual rut, aud the
khediye followed suit like the scholarly
gentleman that he Is. Our curves
puzzled the courtiers a little but though
we spoke different tongues we had a
code Of signals that each other knew,
so that we got on hrstrate. 1t ended
by the khedive's putting out pipe
studd@d with diamonds and We had a
quiet smoke. smoke Is great hu man
izng agency and even khedive cannot
resist it. And 1t was thus that |
discovered that the knedive Is very
human sort Of q fellow, 1t is likely
that ne prefers being treated as a
human being 10 being put on pedestal
1t is one OF the disadvantages Of the
kins business that you can't go swim
ming in the braAch' with the horses
after the haying is over. Probably
this khedive never in his whole lif,
experienced the exhilarating Joy I
youth feels who has Just tied hi
enemyls shirt and soaked II 10 MUDDY
water and 10 sitting back in the paw
paw bushes watching him 'chaw beef
and swear large, unusual and soothing