The morning call., 1893-05-21

matte scheme: he has anticipated some
subsequent further revelation or it may
be has laid the net for some other and less
wary Giplomatist. The plomatists them
selves are not So iHcredulous,, They listen
to what n. de BlowJlZ is saying with "A
more respectful attention, and, thinking
discretion the better part of valor, they
usually end in bringing their mite to his
universal diplomatic bureau. Upon his
discretion they know they can count
Here Is "a fact In point. Breakfasting
once in !, P Paris, i ith an ami able lady and a
very distinguished diplumatist, who was
alsD a poet, tie conversation fell on the
subject of NJ. de BlOwitz nd Count Nun
ster. who had recently been the OBJECT OF
long-resounding letter in the Times. The
diplomati,t who sat opposite me spoke
freely of the Munster episode which was
then entertaining the whole of Europe,
save the person most eoncerned.
.tsM. de BOMitZ,S SAID he, rs our only
peer. But there should be honor even
among thieves He has cooked Count
MINISTER'S goose.
"Yes. l replied, but with fuel of Count
MINISTER'S own providing
ia"Quite so," he continued; but of
course We are paid to deny just such
things as this. And l have heard of IL
censed testers. but the w0Fld has come TO
pretty pass if ws are TO be at the mercy
of licensed truth-tellers. What will be-
fessiOnP
~ agree with you,'' INTERRUPTED our
host, -'"bat what does 1t matter so only
diplomacy may be the bayleaves of poets.
aud you may have time 20 take the world
into your confidence IN verse"
This estimate implied in the Embassa-
doris somewhat cynical words has aways
been shared by all Df. de BiowitZ's con-
freres. Il wrlIld bepmore than amusing, il
would be curouslye obstructive, to cor
roborate this anecdote by Comparison with
the hundred others that tremble in the ink
ofmy,lep. But fOrtur ately 81 is many
years before 'Blowitzana will be written,
while now there is Hawaii and Panama
and the Papal ambassador to the United
States to occupy our attention. UT he
cause of the existence OF inst this as>ur-
ance in the Fdreign+O Officesf allithe Euro
pean powers, it seems necessary tn set the
average reader pn his guard against a
natural error. Wh%tit all comes to is this
M. Jules Sim on has said it-''newspa-
pers are better served than kings and
peoples, E2s c@cC Fs-lHc'
Everybody has been recently ia king of
an extt ordinary scheme of n. de Blowitz
for the reformation Of journalism. That
artfcip, cracking with ana hema against
the ignorance and irresponsibilty of most
modern Journalism, and warm with gem
erous and high notions of what constitutes
the duly and privilege or The ipurnatst,
had about it surprising fiavorof detnch-
ment and idealism which recalled the
famous utopian schemes familiar in the
pedantic idlom of schoiars. IL was a
dream. g, ,warning--a yislnn of a kind of
journalistic City of God" But the air
of that city is. after ait rhe air of tlA
world in which NJ. de Biewiiz the most
surprisingly spn1Tsfe SsiOnals of men seems
eternalIy to live. Not that he is aIwavs n,
ideaIist.- de " as not. for instance. when,
jumping the wall at Versailles after din
ner to the-Shah OF PefsIa. he outwitted
every journalist In the Palace garden and,
Rsetre says, ,"'made five elenIies in single
we'll employed evening" No, even the
most ubiquitous of American reporters
would admit that he may practical
enough if need be.
But after all and above all he is an
idealist marked bysa d distinguished i'm gin
ntien and an saatiable and generous sym
pathy. No journalistic tagis on-him. He
is simply gentleman with the " idest iu-
terests and uncommon Capacities whc sue
ceeded In convincing he Times and then
every other Intelligent observer of his
power and usefulness. He has his own phil
anthropic ends for tAe propagatfon of
which 1T pieases him TO have SO esteemed
a medium as the Times. The people who
cometo see him, the deputies, the minis
ters, the ambassadors. the writer's, the
artists, the simple gems du monde come
most uftpn, not to his office, but
TO, his warm and baspitable home. Here,
In one of the streets that wind about The
star arch at the head of the Champs
Elysees he receives all the world rather
as the charming gentleman than as the
historic journalist De Blowi,z. The CEN
ter, l must add-the admired center-of a
devoted family circle he dscourses at his
dinner-table Of the serious events Of The
day voubly, pcturesquefy and with con-
victi0n, although always ready to listen
and even to alter his opinions 1T mo-
ments notice, though that notice must be
good. While he himself makes the coffee
the talk becomes less exacting and more
general.
Often he tells you of his pictures and
points cut to you the panels set into the
wall,uf the room, works OF his friends,
grest canvases by NJ. Giairm or by Mile,
Sarah Bernhardt, ana one a sunny view o.
the Norman House on the cliff. bv NJ.
Dnphot. After dinner in the private