The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-01

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revenue of Cuba and he sees on paper how
many efforts she is making to bring peace
into the island. She asks him II he sympa-
thizes with her. and of course he says he
/ does
The next day he wires his country all
about the interview. The return wire tells
him that the Cuban trouble must end now
and that he must persuade the Queen to
| end it. He goes to her and tells her so
| She asks him how 1t is he cables back ia
his country. He is between two firesl
Minister Woodford, one of the most sue
| cessful diplomats who ever stepped into a
| Earring country remained az peace with the
| Queen Regent up to the last moment. In
| fact she shook him tenderly by the hand
when she could not bear to as much as
hear the name of the United States. IF all
were like you, ishe mufmured to him.
That is conducting ministry success
| fully. You give up nothing while appear
| ing to give up all.
Said a man at the Stock Exchange the
other day, 'If Chauncey Depew were
minister to Spain we would have all this
| Cuban trouble Strengthened out in three
| days" That is the highest tribute that
can be paid a man for diplomacy-thath he
can settle troubles!
When accepting foreign mission a
would-be diplomat begins AZ once his
parry thrusts, he commits TO memory bon
mots and preserves neat little speeches
to be brought out when wanted. A ia
nous ambassador, now at a no less IA
nous court said that Immediately upon
| his notification from Washington he went
| 10 a celebrated after-dinner speaker and
| said to him, Il am notified of my APP
| pontment as minister to X. If you
we're I, what would you do to make ready
| for jt?''
Il should learn to tell STORIES" said the
after-dinner speaker Take a story with
| pretty moral and commit II to memory.
Make 1t a very graceful recital and tell
/ it in the language of the country 10 which
you are going. When you have commit
ted it to memory drop 1t from your mind.
! Sometime when you are in tight place
that story win spring up inadvertently
TO your lips and you will find yourself tell
ing 1t in a pleasing, graceful manner"
Many stories are told OF The ready an
swers of our diplomats. One is of Alfred
e. Buck of Georgia, the minister TO Japan.
On being presented to the Mikado, his
majesty said, You are from Georgia;
what kind of a place Is Georgian"
Georgian" replied the minister. "GeDr-
gia is beautiful plaee-as beautiful as
Japan"
This so enlightened the Mikado that he
understood at once what sort of a place
Georgia might be and he conceived imme-
diately the Importance and elegance of
the mlnister-a man from Georgia which
is place so much like Japan.
A great deal has been said about the
rivalry between Queen Marguerite and the
wife of Ambassador Draper of Massachu-
sets. The facts in the case are that no
such rivalry exists. Immediately upon
their arrival in Italy the ambassador and
Mrs. Draper were invited to meet Queen
Marguerite informally. They did so. and
were afterward presented at court. "A
friendship sprung up between the two wo-
men and to-day there is no more cordial
relationship in Europe than that between
Queen Marguerite of Italy and Mrs. Drap-
er of the United States. Mrs Draper is a
young and marvellously beautiful woman.
Her husband glories in her loveliness and
loads her with fine clothes and Jewels.
He took with them enough to afford Mrs.
Draper a magnificent supply while she
should grace the court of Italy. Queen
Marguerite commented one day upon the
Jewels and asked to make closer .exami-
nation of them. They are more beauu-
| full than the crown jewels" she remarked
with a sigh of admiration.
Mrs. Diapers gems are so different from
those belonging to Queen Marguerite that
they can hardly be compared One con-
sists of massive old gold in which precious
stones are imbedded. Mrs. Diapers, on
the other hand, are modern gems of beatty
butterflies, fieur-de-iis, tiaras, coronets
and brooches. She has lovely little orna-
ments and everything that a modern wo-
man wears. The Queen might envy them,
but the envy in this case IS a friendly enc.
The beauty of Miss Hay, the daughter OF
John Hay, Ambassador 80 Great Britain,
has been a great assistance 10 the ambas-
sador at the Court of St. James, and the
court journals have made frequent men
ton of the pleasant relations between Miss
Hay and the royal family.
Gen. Horace Porter, ambassador to
| France, has warning and diplomatic re-
cord In the United States and Andrew d.
White, formerly minister, to Russia, now
| ambassador to Germany, is a scholar and
diplomat of such wide repute that lis
name was known the world round
| In Spain, diplomats are born in the flesh
and bred in the bone They are trained as
the wrestlers of Japan are trained from
generation unto generahoB.l Senior Polo y
Bernabe is the son of Polo y Bernabe. who
was here twenty years ago. Diplomat az
| ter diplomat have succeeded each,otner in
| that family.
| so with M Patrenotre, who was the
| French minister to the United States but
! who now represents France at the Court
| of Madrid. No more polished gentleman
ever stepped upon these shores and IL Is
j surprise to no one to know chat he
comes from a long line of accomplished
| diplomats. polished French gentlemen.
The hard jobs abroad are supposed "a
belong to the ministers of what we are
pleased to call the semi-civilized countries
James y. Angel of Michigan Is minister
to Turkey, Harold NJ sewall OF Maine Is
minister to Hawaii. William w. l.. Rock
| hill has Greece, Roumania aud Servia tc
diplomatic and Charles Page Bryan OF
Illinois. represents the United States IN
China. 1t Is seldom, however, that min.
listers to these countries have difficult
tasks to treat and in this respect he ori-
| email "heathens' may claim some superi.
ority over their civilized brethren.
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