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his office with an intelligent animal that
he Immediately took a fancy to, though
he deemed 1t advisable to first inquire into
something of Its characteristics.
What can he do?" he asked.
oh, sir. he can do anything. If you've
lost anything he'll go direct to the place
where you lost 1t. He'll
by the way interrupted our friend.
he could find it?"
Certainly. sir. Just let him sniff at your
hand"
The officer held his hand to the dogs
nose and the animal trotted serenely off.
Presently he returned and with a joyous
wagging of the tail deposited his offering
at the officeholder's feet.
AT the same moment the click of the
typewriter in the next room ceased. A
' girltsh form appeared in the doorway.
My sash ribbon cried a high. sweet
voice; my sash ribbon! The dog has my
sash ribbon."
The ofiiceholder's face turned a dull red.
He cast u furtive glance at the man.
dived into his pocket and hauled out u
bill.
II guess the dog'n do" he said. quietly.
ss
Don Carlos Arosemena, secretary of the
Panama legation at Washington, Is of Il
'SAS JOSiul UcIl uilQ Drumming over WIFI
good nature. While a student at the Troy
Polytechnic Institute. where he grad
uated In the class of '92, he told some of
his classmates that When he returned to
the isthmus he would go into the brewery.
business as the one most suited to his
disposition.
A few hours after his arrival here last
week with the special commission from
the new republic he received the follow
ing telegram at the Fifth Avenue hotel:
Are you going to build that brewery.
now? McQuade."
McQuade was one of his fellow gradu-
ltes. The young diplomat sent him the
following reply:
No. My ambitions run a little bit
tgher now. Wine is more in my line.
Don Carlos"
General Daniel f.. Sickles tells this story
illustrative of the facility with which gov
srnments are made and uAmade in South
Africa.
when I was on a diplomatic mission
from the United States to Colombia, Just
after the civil war, l stopped on my way
1T the isthmus and there met General
Tomas c.. Mosquera. who had just wound
up what is known in history as the Mos
luera revolution. During our CONVERSE
lion he asked for a letter of Introduction
10 General Sherman. because, he said, he
~NNs 'AN =" ~ SlNutAy OS
nary as Sherman's march to the sea, and
would like to compare notes with the
American general. :
II asked him about this march of his,
and he told me that. having been success
full in the Colombian civil war, he had
formed a ongre and a government and
then asked 1t, In view of his services, to
send him as ambassador to France and
Russia for a term of four years. and. in
order to insure him against any subse-
1uent change of government, to give him
his pay in advance. This request was fat
~ refused by the government.
Feeling himself capable of overthrow
Ting the government he had created, he
started out to enforce his request. He
went to the province of Cauca on the
Pacific slope and hired fifty of the most
stalwart negroes he could find. With
these he began to canvass the country,
and collect an army, threatening with
death any man who refused to join. In
this fashion he soon had a force of 5000
men, and with 1t started to cross the
mountains which lay between him and
Bogota, the Colombian capitol. After
months of marching he arrived on tho
plains before Bogota and took that city.
The congress was in session. He rounded
up its members, put them in jail, and told
them that when they were ready to vote
him his MONEY and position he would let
them out. The congress had nothing else
to co and SO CAV him the money and cre-.
dentials and bade him godspeed.
IT heard OF a farmer n Pennsylvania
who lost his WIFE," said Secretary
Shaw, "and who married another and
took her to his house within a week
after he had buried the first One.
1.-The people in the neighborhood
thought he should have waited a little
longer and went around on his wedding
night to express their disapproval. They
had a couple Of horse fiddles and a lot
Of tin horns and a q frightful
racket.
When they were we'll under way the
farmer appeared on the porch Of his
house with his new wife and shouted
angrily: Get away from here! You peo-,
pie ought to be ashamed of yourselves
to make such a disturbance outside q
house where there has just been a fu-
neral. Have you no respect for the
dead?'"
New Impressions Of America are being
borne in upon the Baron Cederstrom,
PATHS husband, daily. His latest
strengthens his belief that the Amer.-
can people are thoroughly accommodate
Ing.
New York. with Mr.. Francke. treasurer
Of PATHS company. when a number of
pieces Of the IRE department apparatus
dashed by. The baron stopped short in
admiration.
Wonderful" he calculated, admir.ng,y.
"Wondeful! What magnificent horses"
He watched the apparatus out Of sight
md was greatly surprised when, q few
block farther up the street, he met It
coming back. He remarked to Mr..
FrAncke that he thought 1t was Z treat
deal Of fuss to make for what appeared
to be nothing. and Mr.. Francke replied.
carelessly:
"oh. didn't you understand, baron. I
arranged that for you. I thought It
might please you"
The baron's gratitude almost caused
him to fall on Mr.. Francke's neck. s.That
was more than kind Of you,' he ex.,
claimed. q n I appreciate It highly.
This II certainly . wonderful country. and
you Americans are wonderful people. I
have never before seen any 20 hospitable
ana accommodating. and 20 willing to nut
themselves out to oblige strangers..'
When Mime. Patti heard OF the exhibi.
ton arranged for tho bafon.s benedt.
however. and heard His praises Of Mr..
Franckess Kindness. she had no comment
to make. not even thanks fos the baron's
entertainer. She merely looked a her
husband. That was Ill.
Everybody was discussing the boil,
weevtl. which 10 Destroying the cotton
crop ct the south.