The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07

country and people so great as to be abl
70 forget, and, in short, he put me perfect
ly at my easen
AS TO the dress suit question: Gener a
LaWton continued, lit mas been one o
trouble for our foreign ministers for years
bucnanan greatly offended Queen Victoris
because ne did not appear at an opening Oh
parliament at which she was present. be-
cause ne could not appear without a dress
sword. AT the funeral ceremonies held in
Vienna in honor of the death of King Viii
LAID, OF Prussia, l was very much embar-
raised on account of my dress. arrived
late, through mistake in my directions to
the church in which they were held, and
escaped by the skin of my teeth of being
later than the Emperor, which would have
peer you know, objectionable. AS it was
hao to walk through an audience of more
than one thousand of the nobility of Aus
ira, to find seat for myself, and to be for
the time the most conspicuous Of the
church, man wearing evening dress at
tending funeral held at 10 o'clock in the
morning.
HOW LAMBERT TREE WAS TAKEN FOR A
WATER.
Il am not sure now whether Mr.. Lam
bert Tree, the late minister to Belgium,
was relating his own experiences when he
chauted about this matter not long ago.
SAID ex- Minister Straus. 'sBut he told me
OF an instance where one of our new minis
ters at diplomatic reception was taken for
waiter by one of the attaches of another
!egation he was holding a cup Of coffee
IN ms band waiting for it to cool before
drln king ii, when this attache clad in a
peck OF brass buttons and lot of gold lace,
seized 1t and said, Thank your and took
IL away before the minister knew what he
was about" ''As for me,'' Mr.. Straus
went on, II had little trouble as, to my
clothes, for you l:now we have in the
Orient gorgeously dressed draymen called
kavasses, to go with us everywhere and
clear the way. These men are as gay as
Soioman in his glory. They have silver
headed stats, great swords, and they are
pompous as an English beadle. They ride
! beside the coachman of the minister when
ne goes out TO drive, and they accompany
him everywhere.
STORY FROM PEKING.
"The minister's evening dress suit" said
Judge Ward, WAS fully as much of u
trouble 10 our diplomats of the past gener-
alton as OF the present one. 1t had troubled
our ministers long before the war, and l
got around 1t in q very nice way. | had
never been in the army, but the Chatham
al 0iiASIy VI SudinduH, 1SorBld, Ia II eleCttu
me captain of their company. and as such |
had very dressy captains uniform. The
suit included single-breasted frock coat
with lots OF gold lace and brass buttons, "a
sword and other accompaniments OF u full
military dress Before leaving for China
1 had the military lace taken off of the coat
and the I'm EST ST diplomatic Fnid lace put
on. This transformed the un rm into u
diplomatic uniform, and the buttons of the
Dnltlrm oil
labelled e. A." standing for Chatham ar
tlllery. and remember when sal Q / up the
Pelho river on my way to Picking, retinue
OF mandarins accompanied me.
America and Americans were then newer
to the Chinese than they are now, and
these mandarianS were much interested
In my dress. They especially admired the
buttons, and asked me what the charac-
tiers on them meant They we're the more
delighted when l replied: "Those charac-
tiers are the two American letters G aud
A. They stand for our two nations, China
and America, and our people have so great
an admiration for their friends of the Gel
estlal Land that they have put China
first" The idea that afar off IN America
we had planned such delicate compliment
to China delighted mandarins, and this
story paved my way into their favor 1t
came all the more pat from the fact that
we had had discussion as to which of the
flags should have the place Of honor on
the boat, the American Or the Chinese.
This had been arranged according to my
suggestion that the Chinese flag,
lnasmuch as it was that of the
mighty son of heaven, the Chinese
Emperor should be first on the
Prov of the boat, and that the
American stars and stripes should go be-
hind 1t on the topmast. Of course this put
our flag as the flag of the boat, but the
Chinese did not know it, and they accepted
my solution of the problem with glee.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE AND THE SULTAN
General Wallace was partially Indebted
to his general uniform for his friendship
with the Sultan" said Mr.. Straus. He
Is, you know, finelooklng man. and the
Sultan first saw him when he was attend
ing Salemlik. The Sultan. you know goes
every Friday to mosque, and the foreigners
are permitted to see him as he passes along
the road from his palace to the mosque
There is building especially reserved lust
opposite the entrance for the diplomatic |
corps, and the sight is one CT the grandest
in Constantinople. The Sultan's favorite |
troops arc present by the thousands. and |
his ministers and courtiers attend with him. |
He rides to the mosque in beautiful car
riage behind the finest of full blouded Ara
blan horses, and a fine saddle horse and |
duoGueI Carriage Will Inllk Wnluo AraDlan
ponies follows behind, in case his majesty /
should prefer to drive home himself, or to
ride back On horseback. The first Friday |
that General Wallace spent in CONSTANT |
nople he attended this ceremony, and as /
the sultan was driving out of the court |
yard he looked up and his e,e caught the !
finely uniformed figure of General Wallace
at the window. He asked who he was, and
his figure made such an impression upon
him that he shortly afterwards gave him a
private audience, and the two from the
time on were friends
THE DEATH OF MINISTER BURLINGAME
'By the way, Governor Curtin said
Judge Ward, you must have been minis
ter to Russia when Burlingame died there
We're you mott" "Yes,n replied Curtin, 81
was and l saw him die. There was never
a nobler death, and he went out like can
die in a blow of wilma. He was, you know.
the am baSSadOr of China and RrsSio do