The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-18

congress-,
been a member Of the Cabinet and had
even had higher aspirations With him
were, among others, well-known states
man, diplomat of more than usual abil-
Ity a member Of the Cabinet and several
Senator'S. While not altogether q politi-
cal dinner. 1t had that complexion. espe-
cially In view of the rumors OF the hosts
desire to become Chief Magistrate of the
nation.
During the evening the conversation
turned on the most suitable recreation for
men who worked with their brains, espe-
cially men In public life. The diplomat
confessed that he found outdoor physical
recreation in riding and indoor in fencing.
The latter sport, he declared, was the |
proper relaxation for men whose muscles |
were In danger of becoming set. For /
mental recreation he preferred flirting to |
Anything more exhausting. His candoi !
was greeted with uprosrious laughter.
THE statesman said that for exercise |
he went driving or walking, and for men,
tai diversion he devoted himself to as
tIoLomy and occasionally To versifying.
1hs Secretary found mental relief in play
ins peculiar sort of chess. where the
map of Europe tcck the place OF the
chess-board. the knights were warriors.
III" castles fortresses, the bishops the
c"n missary and hospital departments,
ard the pawns were the people
"After several more had advanced their
idcas of the proper way 10 relax their
runds ard bodies it was suggested that
AIr. y was yet 10 be heard.
g I fear you will laugh at me-, he said.
snilingly. when tell you of my pet hob
b.. j don't believe have ever mentioned
II before. You all know that have spent
some forty years of my life in public SER
vice. During that time have found 1t
necessary to study the course of nations
from somewhat philosophical stand
point The true way to judge of nations
is TO examine them critically, not with
our judgments influenced by our passions
and our personal interests, but as though
the events with which We are concerned
had happened century ago and nothing
We could do could after the trend of
, events. In other words. correctly to
|, gyuge public sentiment, accurately to
weigh the influence something We are
. contemplating doing will have on our
| selves and the world at large, we must
. isolate and insulate ourselves and view it
: with the calm and dispassonate mind of
the impartial historian.
1t has been the object of my life to
perfect myself in that art. During my
$ career In Congress and while / sat in the
4 Cabinet 1 had many occasions when j
\ was called upon to demonstrate my the
: Dry, and 1t often worked out to my en-
$ tire satisfaction. i have had many OPP
j portunities, as you know, to obtain IN
: formation denied to less fortunate indi-
a viGuals. and i have amused myself by di-
:. costing the unwritten history of our coun-
:. try, as far as possible, for the past forty
: years
J. Although Mr.. y had already given tC
a the world some interesting "reminiscences
s no one had ever expected that he haC
e been engaged in preparing a history
Il largely. 1t was suspected, from document.
n and personal knowledge which he alon'
y possessed
ID And do you intend to publish Thu
-e Interesting volume, Monsieur x?' inquir
10 ed the diplomat.
lie That cannot answer at present h
10 Piled. There are many things to b
n considered public man must guard hi
personal knowledge of his political an
E. social associates with the greatest care
T: By publishing such matter during his life
re time he may make for himself powerfu
lie Ell, mics where he had stanch friends. 70
u can never tell what may wound a ma
n even when you believe you are payin
We him a compliment. If you publish ther
We after you dead, while you may es
ne cape their resentment your family ma
n suffer, or II tie man himself Is dead hi
H. family may suffer. Again, If they al
a published years after the death of tn
adj writer. when all possibility of harrnin
n anyone is vanished, the question arise
ne would anyone be interested in the ma
OF ter? Would. for instance. the memoirs
e. Alexander the Great, of Pericles, of a,
or gustus Caesar, If published today, a
ne tract any more than passing notice eve
~ among scholars? Would the secret i
III formation of diplomatic intrigue posses
Sc ed by Bismarck and Gladstone be of suf
" cient interest century from now
m cause even a mild sensation? l doubt
the authentic announcement in Ri
We marck's memoirs that he caused the W
-o- between Prussia and France by forgii
led telegram would arouse the rancor of
rst single Frenchman in that year 1000.
on may even be possible that by that time t
w. two races viii have been anialgamated
es- even swept away by some other, strong
ice race. SO you see il is a serious probe
ihs as to what disposition i shall make
II tn, work on which 1 have been engaged
re- Further than that he continued,
ate have utilized my STUDY of the condiuo
ary of the present to amuse myself with spe
1pt ulations concerning the future. AT
ave rapid rate with which inventions
bes multiplying the inhabitants of this ear
lry i'm 2it0 will be surrounded by convenien.
the o. which we have not more than drea
ors eu. Steam advanced the world a tho
We sand years IN "A hundred. Electricity h
we advanced il 1900 in less than half &C
i'm tury. Some new discovery, the propulsi
ust of machinery by ether, the diffusion
of light without heat or power, and so
too r1ay advance it thousand years in
be day. Based, then, on a study of the
the fects which discoveries and inventiC
ose have had on the human race up to da
bic. / have ventured 10 peer into the futl
ook and frame the map of the world hi
as dred years hence, predict its seve
of forms of government, and give my i'd
led. OF the life. comforts and pursuits of
the citizen of this country in A. ID. 1000.
IL cOTrse / would not think for an inst
es- of publishing such romance at the pr
an ent time, any more than issuing my
published "reminiscences. But 1 wo
one ike to feel that some day, say about
we're Icriod / am describing, my work wo
ost, come out fresh, a voice from the nj
had tctuth century to the twenty-frst.
He politician, statesman, philosopher, II
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