The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
THE PRESIDENTS BUST
Mckinley Gives Daily Sittings
to a Washington Sculptor.
AN OFFICE SEEKERS PLIGHT.
Accepts = Consulship at q Yellow Fever
Port-The Presidents Prediction For
Appointing Old Congressman to Ofice.
New Orator In the House.

| New Orator In the House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1o.-lSpecial. Pros
ident Mckinley has for two or three weeks
been sitting for n bust to local sculptor
of great skill. Nearly every morning tho
president lights his after breakfast cigar
and walks to the lower part of the White
House, where small room which was
originally part of the laundry has been fit
ted up as a studio for the young artist who
is doing the work. Here the president sits
for half an hour smoking and reading the
newspapers while the man of clay with
| deit fingers fashions replica of the ex-
ecutive head and shoulders. Mrs. McKin-
| ley often joins the president on these occa-
sions, which both the master of the White
House and his wife appear thoroughly to
| enjoy. The model is now nearly finished,
and casts will be made in few weeks
Mr.. Mckinley is well satisfied with it, and
has spoken of its excellence to a number
of his friends, with the result that quite O
number of copies have been ordered of the
artist. Among the orders received Is one
from the city council of Canton, who will
place bust of the greatest man their
town ever sent forth TO the world in their
chamber in the city hall. -
A Consul's Predicament.
Last week u young man from tho west
was appointed to small consulship in one
OF the tropical countries of Central Amer
ica He came down to Washington to take
his civil service examination at the state
department. and as he passed that with
good rating began to think himself about
the luokiest man in America He was
going to pretty seaside town, where the
70,
do except to draw it and spend it, and he |
was advised that 81, 800 would go long |
ways in that country. BY some accident |
he discovered that there had been great |
many changes In that consulship during |
the last 10 or IL years, and this caused
him to look up the records. To his dismay
he found that u United States consul had
died there every two years during a num-
Der of recent administrations yellow
fever" was the assigned cause. This was
not so nice, and the young man hesitated
u long time before accepting the job.
II will tell you what to do, " said AS
sistant Secretary of State Cridler, who is
always ready with suggestions to help as
piring young men out of trouble. sit takes
just two years on an average to kill con-
sui down there. You so down and stay
year and half, have all the fun you can.
beat the game and come home"
"Ill do it," decided the candidate, and
his nomination went to the senate.
Wagers are even up that he stays there
till he dies.
Climate Couldn't Kill This Man.
OF course 1t is possible this young man |
may repeat the feat performed by the re. [
ioubtable Judge Riley of Virginia. Judge
Riley has been an Office seeker for many
years. In Grants time he wanted con-
sulship and was so persistent about it |
hat in order to get rid of him Grant sent {
lim to Zanzibar, where the yellow fever
'r some other deadly disease is warranted
% carry off white man in six months.
But to the surprise of every one Judge
Riley remained there about five years and ! /
probably would have been there yet if he 4,
lad not become involved in little trouble.
The ladies of Zanzibar, dusky of skin and c
lot afflicted with Caucasian modesty, had
/ habit of bathing in the sea in front Of
he American consulate and without
much concern as to their bath costumes
This was more than Judge Riley could
tand, and as he tells the story himself his
Tot southern blood boiled over one day at c
What be called this insult to the dignity of
he United States of America, and SO he
ook down his trusty old shotgun and let
20. When 1t was learned that he had put Z
! dozen small shot into the body of the c
ldest daughter Of the queen Of Zanzibar,
he country became too warm for Judge =
Riley, and he decamped for home
But this was not the last of the judges
onsular experiences. When General Har- a
ison was elected president, the Judge
wanted office again, and he hung after 1t
o persstently that Q place down in the
elbow fever district of Mexico was given
I'm. No one ever expected to see him Q
live again. In four or five years he turned Z
Up In Washington safe and sound, fatter
md sleeker than ever. 1t takes moro
han consulship In q yellow fever town I
o kill some men. c
Mckiniey's Old Friends.
President Mckinley Is famous for the C
manner In which he turns to his old con-
,ressional friends when he has appoint
nents to make about which elements of d
rouble appear. In an involved case it is z
afe to say the president will nine times
ut OF ten lind some man who served with
i'm in congress TO give tho office to That
vas what he did when he took Judge Nc
Aenna from tho bench in California and
made him attorney general lie tried to
10 tho Same thing when he offered the Sec
etaryship of the treasury to Congressman
)ingley. When no wanted new civil
ervice commissioners. h. turned to ex- =
Mark Brewer OF Michigan,
Vho was not only MIR. Aol-inleys fellow
member OF Che hOGsc, bu; BIS seatmate
uring one or two terms. When tho yrebi- r
ent became eiAcSfressod by the objections
aised to the appointments Of Charles Page :
5ryan TO the Chinese mission. no solved it | ?,
y asking enc oi bis CHI c1pElrssional
huns. Mr CongtT vi Iowa, " hOtn ice bad
previously appointed minister 10 .-,a..i,
o leave that post and 20 10 feaing. TS,so !
re only rev ot the !aHy appointments Of
lis old congressional brenda Tie urr,. !.nt |