The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-11

bumped against each other inside.
The ADORE is a figure Of speech. Of
course. for, as a matter of fact, there
cept torn note from New York pub
Usher asking the president to write an
article for his holiday number on "Ad-
vantages and Disadvantages Of Bait
That Has Been Spat Upon.")
81 am glad to see you, Nye." said
the president. ''for l know that you
don't want anything. You don't know
how welcome the friend is these days
whose cup of happiness is full and who
does not yearn for anything. Would
you mind looking through the keyhole
of that door minute to sea if any one
has his eye or ear against it on the other
side?''
Certainly not, said I, going to the
door aud cursorily glancing through the
keyhole as he babe me do.
"Well, said he, dropping his voice
to whisper, Il wanted TO say word
to you privately. You are safe man to
intrust with a confidence, l know, for
even though you write for the press you
would not oetray me, / know, and even
if you did no one would believe what
you said.
81 have been wanting to tell some
one for a long time this little truth that
is eating my life slowly away. / could
not tell it to members of the cabinet
very well, for each of them has his own
personal troubles to worry over. l can
not even tell my wife, for she, too, has
her household matters to think Of, bat
/ wanted to tell some kind friend, who
would not run right to the telephone
with it. that fear congress is conceal
ing something from me!
81 do not know what it is, but know
it is something Whenever l run across
congress suddenly it stops what it was
speaking about and looks out of the
window for quite spell and seems to
be cerebrating. OF course that is all as
sumed, for congress never cerebrates.
Now, no one can understand how I'M
happy all this makes me unless he has
been president himself and had q con-
gress on his hands that does not yield
him its full confidence.
1.-THE first sign l noticed of reserve
was when congress was out till after II
O'Clock one night and did not tell me
where it had been. The next morning
it could not look me in the face. fear
that it is leading double life.
What would you do if you were in
my place?
''Of course some of the things con-
gress does gets into The Congressional
Record, but that is only blind, for
surely what we see in The Record could
not take up one-fourth of its time.
Now and then congress passes an
act authorizing the building of
bridge perhaps and sends it down here
for my signature, but that is only to
mislead me and make me think that
have its confidence and am allowed TO
come in on the ground floor.
Formerly congress used to come
right up to me and look me straight in
the eye and allow me to smell of its
breath, and there was absolute conf
dence between us, but now the moment
] go up there to listen to the converse
ton both houses 60 into executive ses-
sion, and / have to go out and sit on
the doorstep. 1t has been so all winter.
No one can fully sympathize with
me, for no one understands the case.
Some ask me if intend to call an extra
session. What should l call an extra
session for when congress is so reticent
and taciturn when in my society?
''Of course | feel hurt and grieved,
for when a congress will not give the
president its confidence and comes in
late Of nights and takes off its boots TO
go up stairs one feels that it must come
to a bad end. !"
With that the president wiped away
a big hot tear. As L came away his head
was bowed sorrowfully on his desk, and