New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-10-11

! 1890
pulled one at time and not +umultu-
ously, and that.he played cribbage with
his usual luck the same evening. The
President was saved from the annoyance
of having to talk about his teeth public
~ by the prompt and self-sacrifcing &C
ton Of his ''close personal friend.'
And now two more of them are on
deck. Mr.. Richard Watson Glider and
Mr.. Horace White have waltzed in. Hand
in hand. One poet: the otner poll
tical economist. Both earnest advocates
of reform, and "close personal friends
of the President. One INDUCES in fan
cies, the other attends very closely to
facts. One writes short verses, the other
long essays. The reader of Mr.. elders
verses as they appear in his printed
books is struck by the extent of the mar
gins, and by the fact that after starting
in, as it were, so sudden, they seem to
stop so quick; the first thought of the
reader is, "Where's the rest of it," Mr..
Whites essays, on the contrary, do not
start with any such suddenness; nor do
they end in anywhere near the same time
as elders verses. When White gets
through the subject is exhausted. So al
so is the reader. But they work we'll to-
gether, and no intelligent person can
read the works of either of them without
deep emotion. It is not known whether
Mr.. Glider ever read any of his verses to
Mr.. Cleveland-from the continuance of
their friendly relations it is thought
not-but he was quite frequent on the
porch at Buzzard's Bay and it was init
mated at one time that he had sure
thing for foreign mission. The fact
that the President has not sent him out
OF the country seems pretty positive
proof that Glider has not yet read any of
his verses to him. On the other hand,
there is reason to believe that Whites
economic essays have been on several &C.
casions poured into the Presidents ear,
though we do not credit the report that
his thirty six hours sleep on the Oneida
was due to the fact that Elias Cor
nelius Benedict sat beside him informing
one of Whites latest efords. It will be
seen that Glider and White sort of sup
plement each other, and are we'll mated.
It appears that the two were sitting
together one night last April in the City
Club. The millennium had been under
way about month and was not work.
ing we'll. Both were sad. They had
heard that somebody was going to get
foreign mission who had paid $4,000
to the Cleveland campaign fund, and as
"close personal friends'' of the President
they felt that something ought to be
done about it to prevent his disgracing
himself and creating scandal. For four
years White had been getting round
shouldered holding up the country
against the crushing scandal of appoint
ing to the Cabinet a man who had con-
tributed only $4,000 to a campaign
fund, and now-$50,O00 for foreign
mission! it was too, too much. He
wept. "Giller," said he, edo you re-
member that Midsummer Song If yours,
one of yourlongest poems, beginning with
ooh, fathers gone to market town
and ending with the call of the stricken
mother from the kitchen door,
polly !-Polly!The COWS are in the corn
Oh, where's Polly?'
Oh, Glider! I've thought of that so Of.
ten during the last MONTH It's just the
way l feel. The cows are in the corn"
Again he wept.
And Glider, sobbing, said: "OhHorace!
Horacc it will not do. he mustn't be
appointed. We must give him back his
money and save the Presidents good
name. I'll give $1,000 myself toward
it" "And another, Responded White. So
they started out for the$50, 000to pay back
to the bad man who was buying an Office
and bringing the President into disgrace,
and presently they had it all subscribed
and became momentarily cheerful. Then
a difficulty arose. The bad man would
not take back the $4,000. He treated
the poet and political economist with
such disdain that if one should write
scorching satire on him five lines long
that son the stretched forefnger of all
time, should 'sparkle forever and the
other should give him twenty-five col
umn essay crammed with facts and fcrti-
f o1 c+o