Evening star., 1908-01-19

but he was awfully busy seeing men in the
hotel lobby, and then he had a very trying
time in his first conference with the Presi-
dent.
He went there by appointment. 1t seems
every Congressman has to arrange with the
secretary beforehand; but they don't give
much protection after they get there, for as
soon as Amos reached the White House grounds
a big bulldog ran at him, and poor Amos had
to run like mad to save his clothes and maybe
his life. He actually had to climb little tree,
and if it is graft of the original George Wash
ington tree, it will never bear cherries again
after having supported Amoss weight for
half an hour.
Finally young girl came out on the por-
tico, and seeing the dog at attention sup
posed he had treed one of the squirrels that
run about all over there, and she called the
dog cunning" and told him in baby talk to
stop teasing the little animal" That made
Amos mad, and he let her know it was man,
and then two guards came and took that awful
dog in charge.
Well, Amos went down to that end of the
White House where the Presidents offices
have been tackled to the main building, and
there he had to wait in a big hall sort of wait
ing room for long. The room filled
up and at last, instead of messenger to sum-
mon him to private office, the President him.
self came out a door right at Amos's elbow.
He was very cordial indeed; but Amos had
to tell him who he was, and that he had come
about the appointment of a postmaster in
Pikeville. Amos told the President that he
would like to have Phil Shallenburger get the
place.
The President repeated the name, and then
laughed, saying that it was the same name as
the man who chopped his grandmother up in
his sausage machine the other day in Chicago,
and that was naturally against him; but he'd
look up the case and let Amos hear. He said
all this out loud, and of course it fustered
Amos and when he left lot of other men
just shook hands with the President and went
out. Amos thinks they were afraid of having
their private business told in public, and
think he even suspects that the President
meant these men to go.
is with the President,-that Congressman are
like the old dog who wants to suck the eggs
and hide the shells in the hay, just naturally
secretive,-and that no human being could
afford the time or the nerve strain of wrapping
even a country postmastershlp up in all the
ceremonial of an international treaty in its
preparation. And of course there is good
deal in that.
Congressman Teale is a great help to me
here. He is the kind of man you can ask
question without being afraid it is a foolish
one. Besides, he knows all the social ropes too,
and can save me lots of mistakes. Only he
has some queer ideas about some things. For
instance, he said tonight, half laughing of
course, yet scrutinizing me until felt like an
immigrant being inspected for trachoma:
Il passed you IN Connecticut-ave. Don't
make the mistake, SO common to womankind,
of thinking that all the world has but one eye,
and that when you wish you can tie bandage
over that. You know we have serious work
to do here for Amos Rural
/ don't see any harm in walking with Cap
tain Roderique. and really, Eta, Congress-
man is not half SO important at the capital as
we thought. This is not disloyal to Amos,
but just plain statement of a rather dis
couraging fact, as you can see from these tell
it-all letters.
Please destroy those first greenhorn gushes
of mine. and be patient until you sometime
get the whole from
Your most bewildered BEULAH.
To be continued next Sunday