Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-20
THE STREAM OF CRANKS
AT THE WHITE NOTS
AND THE GRAVE PERIL
THEY CONTlr

Most of Them Are Harmless and Ana
ippand Controlled by Diplomacy-B1
ANY One May he an Assasiin-Gtat
man who Wanted a Light Fn|
..RiII,su Cigar-Klng Midas Calli-Os,
of CASTOR clothes for Mrs Cisy.list
other Incidents.
Throughout the larger part Of 4
wear the White House Is NaN|
for cranks of ell sorts and de:HI
tioas, male and female. In the nd
thew are harmless and their di9gI
cras,es are on the humorol: I'D
They are shunted out OF WashItga
on the double quick. But While na
are more of the apparently datgH
cranks than the public ever heanN
thing about, they are certainly ri
numerous as might be ezpt3E
considering the accessibility oil
White House to everybody.
None of the cranks who 60 ~
White House are turned down ~
by the attendants. BY dlplousQ
exne rience has proved, the! ais q
got rid of, and most OF tnen Oh
overwhelmed by the salaanlIg G
self-contlired attsches aoIl'
doors, that far from feeling badly
it. when they find themselye; is'
edged out they depart Win osaa
conferences and in a highly fiai'
state of mind.
A good looking, well.dressed nN
middle age, whose face huEe'e'
a steady tiaccid grin and whose
! had queer look in them saulill
90 to the White House door one a.
noon in the second winter Of Pie;.
McKinley's first incumbencS dei,
an unlighted, half-snoAed eM
his teeth.
"Howdy, said he, pleasatay
the tall doorkeeper T Wa2 i : =,
door open for bin. BIZ ID
! The doorkeeper replied ,la'
President was out driving
Too bad, too bad, sigla
man with queer grin aud TIL
SDurn the luck-tbat's vial
say!" 4
The doorkeeper politely a; 81
if his business with the res
was so pressing as all that
Yes" replica the visitor y
fully, at is. AS you see, "a
out his urlighted, half smoked u
..m, ueed has gone out. Eill
Bill to give me a light. he pfoI1
me in the yesr lisa, at the III
Hasting which, as you reueue'l
won hands downfall If e7a
cigar went out, all | 1aa
would be to drop in on MIN y"
a light. Too bad, too hao
the man again sighed mls4Fap!
wait minute, " ssid luz
keeper. II hear the rattle O.
Presidents carriage-he's conll-
the back way. III. see HIN,
leaving another attendant 10 W
eve on the man with the l1eua.|
grin, he slipped into the a ',,.1
lighte a cigar, and. after "a'
. moment, he returned Win "
hand. .,,-,.
of his most distinguished c? i.i ;,
ton" said the doorkeeFeT' WIZ 4
solemnity, holding out me
land here Is his cigar hop
he begs that you will accep'
, for your own. y .,rs
, There was an expression =,
4 rapture on the man s tste o.
the cigar and spilled the n !.noi
of it to his own. de reyG it.S
Presidents cigar. - placed oo'.
! hands upon his chest ana Dos ,.,,3
: to the doorkeeper, who Ts'g'b ,]
bow as ceremoniousl! anu ="
out, saying: .A the 4
=. in Flanders at twenty minutes
: o'clock, moon time. y nn, "a
= Then he passed out, puiaIts
2 ously at his cigar ara , ~ 4
: appeared at the Whlte hou -.,iTI
n ward. contrary to the eypglsa..i
= the dcorkeepers, who had ngra
+ he'd be dropping IN ever! p,s:i
!, bit Of the fire from tAe i''
|, cigar. ,..1, n Nd
r Bsy, a tall, dignied looking .r- !
;. gray hair and clear, steau! ~, Erc Il
n strollsd up the walk l9a !.n N
i man entrance to the WINE ;,n
swinging his walking s'lcS S,: y:
. II was at az afternoon h2I'
!. visitors we're not recei'sa
" Executive Mansion and oue
i, doorseepers, who happan1ea1 NJ 4
!, emerging from the ENecu'i' ,o,,r,
n stopped the man arc Hsy
n inquired if he was on h's
the President. ..;ssdltI
h yes" replied the clgu. .iy
m gray-hairsd man, cont1aep'H
d boiling the doorkeeper' E, Il
It Il desire particularly y. ~ "A
IS in order to furnish him VIZ. Vim
h assistance for the proseiu,'V,ls cI
a. war. Perhaps you do col ~ l,
70 me. +" be went on lower'ts ~ ~
hut | am the world i SAnIS5u.
IN Midas-my surname's Hoi' 4
q. that's immateriBL Inls "a
copper kettle" pointing - lid
"shich as you 70 doubt ID
300 feet 10 circumference a,i,;
t overlooking with pure soiu ''