The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14

said Forbes, from whose lips I had
this story. Not a word Of my dispatch
was written, and had news for which
I knew the world was waiting-news
on which the fate Of an empire and
the fortunes of half Europe depended.
And it was as much as l could do to
keep my eyes open or sit up in the
chair into which 1 dropped What did
you do| I told the waiter answered
Forbes, to bring me pint of dry
champagne, unopened. I took the cork
out, put the neck of the bottle into
my mouth, drank it with all the fizZ,
sat UP, and wrote the four columns
you read next morning in the Daily
News AS a piece of literature, the
four columns were of a high order AS
piece of news, they were one Of the
greatest beats ever known"
Mr.. Smalley is still actively connect
ed with the London Times. De Blow
itz, according to very recent report,
has retired from his connection with
the same paper, after a service extend
ing over more than twenty years. 1t
is doubtful if any other single news
paper correspondent ever welded so
much power as De Blowitz did during
his most active period. His reminis-
cenceS are the most sober fact yet
they read like a series of the most
highly improbable romances, in which
royalty and diplOmatists of many ma
tons figure. When he took UP his
residence in France nearly fifty years
ago, De. BlOWitZ was a teacher of Ger
man. afterwards he invented a wool
carding machine and now and then
wrote for the French newspapers. He
took considerable part in the exciting
times of the early seventies and when
he began his work as special cores
pondent for the London Times in II
he was a good deal of a parsonage
During the next ten years he became
Intimately acquainted with Bismarck,
Theirs, Gambetta, Beaconsfield, Pope
Leo XIII, and many others. So thor
oughly conversant was he with the
affairs of government that he was able
to telegraph to his paper the full text
Of the treaty of Berlin before it had
been signed. He Is now over seventy
years of age and has earned the rest
he has at last decided to take. Those
who know him describe him as d re-
markably shrewd man, with an enor-
nous egotism and absolutely no sense
of humor
Knows the Oil Story.
Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell, whose His
tory Of the Standard Oil Company is
probably attracting more attention at
present than any other serial publica-
ton, confessed the other day to have
begun several years ago a novel CEN
tered about the oil regions, and to
have given it up because she never
had the courage to finish it.
Speaking of her present series of ar
ticles, Miss Tarbell says: I've tried
to lean neither to one side nor the
other, but merely to tell the truth.
corroborated by court documents and
pamphlets issued at different times.
This has required thousands of miles
of travelling and the unearthing of
such pamphlets and documents in
newspapers and law Offices For MANY
years I have wanted to write the
story of the Standard Oil company
and for what may seem to some, q
very strange reason. 1 wanted to set
my own mind and conscience right
about this great business which, in
my girlhood days, seemed like great
evil which had fallen upon the oil
country. You see, was born and
brought up in Titusville the heart of
the oil country, and l grew up to look
upon the system of rebates practiced
by the railroads in favor of the trust
as great crime and to think of those
who worked for the Standard Oil COM
pany or who surrendered to them as
having given up fighting on the right
side. Later on in my life I came to
see another side to the matter. and
felt the need of setting myself right by
studying the whole thing and writing
its history. I have been engaged on
The work for over two years now and