The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-04-01

fish,"
Somehow or another, when. this
young man finally reached the White
House to prefer his claim upon the
Spanish post he found himself quite
unable to see the President,
Another applicant for Consular pre-
ferment, this one from Iowa, told the
State Department people, upon whom
he called to make preliminary in
quiries, that he wanted the Consul
ship-held down by very competent
man who is not going to be disturbed
at a German city near which a
famous Spa is located.
He was asked why he had fixed his
mind upon just that place.
"Well," he replied, quite offhand,
like a man sure of his ground, Pm
all run down with the rheumatic, and
I'm informed that them Dutch baths
fix rheumatic Teller up in no time
l want to git near EN- SOS l can get
boiled out"
Oddly enough, this man, too, found
it impossible to have an interview
with the President about the matter
near to his soul when he called at the
White House a few hours later.
Not less engaging was the reason
offered by a young Michigan man for
desiring a Consular berth in a Italian
city of the second grade, this place
also being occupied by man who is
going to be let alone.
You see," he explained at the State
Department, "a sister of mine married
a Dago up in Detroit three or four
years ago-Dago who paints, or
sculpts, or something of that sort. He
took her to this town in 1taly-the
place where | want to go-soon after
they were married. The folks at home
heard from various sources-not from
Sis herself, because She never writes
a word about it that he isn't treat
ing her on the square, neglectS her,
and all that. l want to be appointed
Sis, and if find that she's getting the
worst of it, SOS / can punch the nose
off the Dago. l guess that's a pretty
good reason, isn't it,"
The applicant with the brotherly
feeling hasn't gained the ear OF the
President up to this hour.
There are very few Swedish Office
seekers, but one of them, from Mime
sofa, drifted along to apply for Con-
sulship in his native country. He was
very keen after the appointment, and
he named the reason why.
cay got rich oncle dere," he en-
planned, land Ay tank Ay like be dere
ven he die. He may get loaf me and
leave me somet'ang ven de die"
The Swede was told that however
meritorious his motive it was scarcely
of character to entitle him to billet
in the Consular service.
The usual crowd of colored appli-
cants for the Liberian post have
come to Washington. One of them, a
jolly, very fat and very black man
from Arkansas, gave a singular reason
for his desire to be appointed to the
post on the east coast OF Africa.
"Ah'm dun tiuhd O. desc hyuh mig
guhs in dis country wnut wants tub
be wife folks" he said. "Ah wants
tub mix up wifi sho' 'nough nigguh
nigguhs, dat doan' want tub be nothin'
else, TO- uh change"
A lot of white men down here VINO
have heard this black Arkansan's
reason for wanting the Librarian billet
think he ought to have it.
A curiously cool individual, who
said that he had had some stories
accepted by magazines, wanted Con-
sulship in a certain district OF south
ern France.
I'm writing a historical novel," he
explained with all the blandness in
life, land the scene OF large part OF
the story is laid in southern France.
1 want to live over there for year
or SO, to get atmosphere while am
completing my novel,"
The people who listened to this
statement of his reason for wanting
a Consulship in the south of France
are freely laying 100 to 1, with no
takers, that if he ever gets the at
mosphere needed to complete his
work of historical fiction it will not
be at the expense OF the United State.
Government.
q good many Of the applicants for
Consulships who haven't picked out
the posts to which they want to be
appointed turn up their noses at the
suggestion that they ask for Consular
billets in the South and Central Amer
lean countries. They seem to be I'M
der the impression that yellow jack
has all of the South and Central Amer
lean posts under its perennial grip.