Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-30

been learning ever since. 1t was while he
was page, he was thinking of going west.
when Stephen A Douglas told him that he
ought to stay in Maryland and decide to be
Senator. Mr.. Douglas told him that the
Senate was much easier place to reach
than is generally supposed. He advised him
to study politics and to learn how to man
age men and things. ard that it would not
be very hard for him to succeed. Young
German took this great statesman's ad-
vice and succeeded. He has become
more than a politician, however, and
there are many who believe that he has
some craftsmanship as well. He lives
quietly at Washington, spending most of his
evenings at home, and running off to his
country estate in Maryland now and then on
Sundays. He neither drinks nor smokes,
and he is one of the few men who can chew
tobacco without the habit being visible to
his associates.
New Stories of President Harrison.
President Harrison is expected here
within few days. He will hardly call
upon President Cleveland. He has shun-
ned the White House ever since he left it.
His presidential career contained many I'M
pleasant things which are unknown to the
world, and the loss of Mrs. Harrison while
he was in the White House has associated
1t with his saddest "reminiscences l talked
not long ago with prominent Indianapolis
woman. to whom President Harrison lately
terms. This lady had been a close friend of
the President and Mrs. Harrison, and during
call upon the eX-President she asked him
whether he was not happier outside the
White House than in it. He replied that he
was, and that he had a horror at the idea
of being possibly asked to return there.
Said he:
You cannot appreciate the feeling l have
toward the White House and the presiden-
tial office. 1t is filed with disagreeable
things. and the President of the United
States, if he will permit it, could keep him
self miserable all the time. There are SO
nany unpleasant things In the newspapers
and the life is one 81 wear and tear and
worry. l guarded myself from many of the
disagreeable things said about me by my
private secretary. Mr.. Halford never al
low ed me to the unpleasant things eX-
cept when they were necessary. Insulting
letters or unjust newspaper criticisms were
never presented to me, and l hardly knew
that they existed. l gave directions that
they should not be allowed to come into the
hands of Mrs. Harrison, and l supposed
they had not. But after her death. among
her papers, found tied up bundle of such
things. In some way she got hold of them
AMI l really believe it was that which killed
her. NO" concluded the President, Il have
70 desire to go back to the White House. My
life there filled with sorrow and | do
not want to repeat it,
Why Didn't You Tell Him So, Ben.
l have heard a number of stories like
snow. but his friends say he really has
warm soul inside his Icy cut.cle, and one of
his greatest troubles is that he cannot show
what he feels. He may have the kindest
of feelings toward people, but he lacks the
ability to express them. His skin is sallow
and repellent His cold blue eyes give
forth no spark save when he is angry, and
his face has no more mobility than that of
the statue of Washington in front of the
Capitol. Many time he makes man feel
uncomfortable when he really likes him
and wants to please him. l heard an Incl
dent not long ago which illustrates this. 1t
was at his home in Indianapolis. A prom
inent man had called. with a letter of in
PRODUCTION to Gen. Harrison. He was ad-
mitted, and for an hour talked with the
President and his family. Harrison, how
ever, was. as usual, gruff and cold He
said but little, and when he did speak it
was in opposition to the views advanced by
his caller. When the man left he turned
about and remarked to Mrs. Harrison:
THAT man is good fellow. 1 like him
very much, and want to know him bet
ter"
"Oh. why didn't you tell him so, Benz"
more warm in your reception of him? He
has gone away, thinking you cold and hard
and venture he believes that you have no
sympathy whatever with him."
Il don't Know" replied Gen Harrison
Somehow or other 1 can't do 1t. It's not
in me, l suppose"
Natural Kicker.
President Harrison is, in fact, a natural
kicker. There are today good many men
in the United States who would not like to
see him nominated. There Is a prospect
that they may goad him into being a cau-
didate by saying that he Is not one. He
likes to fight, and his nature Is combatve
Shortly before his death. Jeremiah Rusk
Harrison's late Secretary of Agriculture,
told me that duffng the cabinet meetings
the President always took the opposite
side IF every question proposed by his
cabinet ministers. Said Mr.. Rusk:
You could never tell what his real opin-
ion was. He would argue in favor of his
position as though his soul was bound up
in it. After the matter was thoroughly
discussed, and the members of the cabinet
had gone away half mad, he would follow
just the policy which he had argued
against. 1 suppose he took this method to
find out the arguments for and against
think his nature has been developed in this
direction by his practice of the law"
She TrIpped on the Bottom Stair.
Speaking of Mrs. Harrson's death: 1t is
not generally known that she had a pre-
sentiment that she would die before she
left the White House. The story was told
me by man who was present at the Har-
rison house on the morning that the presi-
Dental party left for Washington. Mrs
Harrison came down stairs when ready to
start, with the President on her arm. When
she got to the bottom she tripped and al
most fell, and she superstitiously thought
that this was an omen that she would not
live out the administration. It made a
deep impression upon her, and during her
last illness she said:
Il will never get WELL, I tripped on the
bottom STAIR"
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