The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-10


cent, would pay my expenses while
there, and l had round trip ticket
which would take me back to San Fran
cisco, but l was unfortunate, for the
Young Mems Christian association of
Honolulu was not a strong society, and
report got out also that had made
light Of the Sandwich Island aristocracy.
This was not true
What I said was that my great grand
uncle from Maine, wealthy whaler in
1899, stopped off at Honolulu and was
made good deal of by the mayor, who
had him up at his house for dinner.
The native people Of Honolulu are
sensitive about this incident, it seems,
and hate to have it thrown up to them.
did not know that, and SO 1 said to the
secretary: 81 understand that one of
your ancestors had my great-granduncle
up home for dinner. Is that sop
He fidgeted around good deal, but
did not reply. Wishing to open up the
best of feeling, of course said did not
bring up the subject to create trouble. 1
was only too glad if the people of Homo
lulu were pleased with him, for We at
home always sort of feared that he was
so rich he might not agree with them.
This got out among the people, and
my lecture was q frost. In the meantime
1 had lost my return ticket to San Fran
cisco, and my physical culture class did
not succeed.
1t was at this time that I became de-
monetized, and no one today knows how
to better sympathize with the govern.
ment than do.
Recently it has been charged against
me that while in Honolulu / wore a
copy of The Sunday Examiner two weeks
at time. This charge is made to injure
me by people who are envious of my So
cial position. do not pretend to deny
the above charge, but only to extenuate
SO far as possible and excuse my conduct
on the ground that the steamers were
not running very regularly at the time.
and some one else got my new Examiner
while l was taking my studs cut Of the
soiled one.
As soon as times pick up little in
this bombastic country it would be a
good idea to erect a new executive man
sion. Why, there isn't policeman in
New York who hasn't better shanty
than the president Of the United States.
The building was modelled after that
Of the Duke of Leicester of Dublin, but
the cockroaches came from Virginia
The White House is 10 feet long and
Sc feet wide. including portico.
James Hoban, an Irishman, was the
architect. A great many people think
that the president lives at the White
House and has his Office ar the capitol,
but this is not so. The president lives
over mile and q half from the capitol,
and when congress is restless that is
none too far, he says.
The president has his Office right in
the house, and when say that he has
good inside job for the winter l am be-
traying no confidence reposed in me.
Any one can see that it is more conven-
lent for the president to have his Office
at home and a hearty hot dinner when
the whistle blows for - o'clock instead
Of having to carry can of cold lunch,
consisting Of big picked cucumber
mashed into custard pie.
The president holds general public
reception or levee from time TO time in
what is called the blue room. 1t is fit
ted up in blue and gold. 1t is 20 by 80
feet in size and oval in shape. Most of
the rooms in the first floor Of the White
House look as coy and homelike as the
Brooklyn bridge.
l would hate TO keep house there,
and that is one reason why have SO
rersistently rejected all oyertures from
my friends which i'll any way associated
ny name with the presidency
The other day among those waiting TO
greet the executive and shake him by
TIE hand was a plain man with pallid
eyes and is carat hair. He had brought
his wife, and she had brought the baby.
The baby was Q new thing even to the
parents, and il was trying 10 look stern
IL at the chandelier, but its neck was so
Timber that every little while the object
escaped
The child had evidently been convey
ed for long distance through the cold.
for its chin was completely raw from
exposure. II had a bottle with nothing
in it but space, and ever and anon the
poor thing made q hungry grab at tae
cork, while the mother looked over the
costumes Of other callers and mentally
put price on them.
Mr. Cleveland no doubt enjoys meet