The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-23
NEWS OF
WASHINGTON
Notes of Interest From
The Capital.
M'KINLEY AS AN ORATOR
Anecdotes of Prominent People :
Webster Davis Journey :
Needs of Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Much has
been said and written of the President
as an orator. We is surely notable in
this regard. His short speeches are
models of rhetoric and delivered in a
pleasing style, but his talents as an
auditor are equally remarkable, and
surrounded by his Cabinet he is fire.
quently called up to show them.
When he listens to a speech he sits
| TRANQUILITY in the large chair, generally
placed for his convenience, gazing in
tently at the speaker and usually hold
ing his silk hat in his hand. No ner-
vousness marks his manner, except
now and then he will tap quietly upon
| the arm of his chair with his gloved
| hand, or close and unclose it. He does
not miss a single point the speaker
makes; looks grave or smiles as the
case may be, and often, as though car
ried away by the enthusiasm of the
moment, leads the applause. He is tru-
ly a sympathetic listener, and, as one
of the younger orators put it, IAN in
aspiration to the speaker"
Mrs. Conger, wife of the Minister to
China, who was in town early in the
week visiting friends, had nothing but
what was pleasant to say of her life in
the Celestial Kingdom whittier she
will return late in February. The Chi
Inese she finds a gentle, sympathetic
trace and she speaks with the greatest
Admiration of their treatment of ami
mails, from which people the world
over could learn lesson. 1t is against
their religion to kill even those rep
titles that are considered venomous,
and scorpions and snakes are safe from
the ire of the inhabitants. Calling a
native servant to kill a snake that had
fallen from the caves of The Temple
their country home, to the floor below
lone day, Mrs. Conger said she was as
tonished to see him take the reptile
which was quite five feet long, by the
tail, and swinging it to and fro, walk
ing the while toward a ravine that raT
along in front of the house, throw il
carefully into the hollow.
why don't you kill the snake?" she
asked. Surely that is the simples
way to dispose of it,"
"Chinaman good to snake, snaK'
lgood to Chinaman," responded tn
Iheathen, who carries the Golden Rul
4 further than do his Christian broth
Iers.
Chief Johnson, of Juneau, head of tn
1
who is among the notable visitors t
town, is not the picturesque figure on
would expect to see, having laid asid
the dress common to his people an
the beautiful headdress of rare skin
and feathers to adopt the ugly costum
of civilization. His unique head-coy
ering, which indicated his rank, an
was, indeed, a sort of insignia of offic
is replaced by a nondescript cap wit
rather a military aspect. The Chic
however, is quite satisfied with his al
pearance, and tries to initiate h
American friends in manners as we
as dress.
Johnson is the first chief of the fl
away Alaskan tribes to offer his hon
age to the President, and has brougl
with him rare and valuable present
including blankets, rare skins, basket
shawls, pipes and other examples
Indian workmanship to distribu
among his American friends. His tr
from Juneau to the capital was huge
enjoyed, and he makes no secret of b
@ wonder and amazement at the marvt
~. lous things he saw. He has made ]
written notes, but he speaks of them
constantly they are doubtless indelib
written upon his memory, and the ia
he will carry to his subjects in t
Northwest Territory will doubtless
spire them with due regard for t
wealth and power of their white brot
ers.
There is also here from Alaska \
GARCIA, special agent for the Unit
v States Government at that place. \
GARCIA is Pole by birth, and a frie
q of Sienkiewicz. For some political
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