The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-01

AAAC EGAEN4Ao DL l4A4EfgA ts~-A-% RAEoCAACs among whom We were evidently in cluded. Suddenly there came a dead stop, stiffness and an evident atmos- phere of embarrassment. Then the ceremony began again, and again the censers were swung toward us, and again a dead stop. Everything seemed paralyzed. Presently there came softly to my side a gentleman who said, in a low tone;
 You are of the American Lega-
 tfon.
 T answered in the affirmative. He said: This is a very interesting cere- mony. To this I also assented. He then said:
 "'Is this the first time you have seen it?"
 "'Yes,' answered. We have never been in Russia at Easter before.'
 He then took very formal leave, and again the cermony was revived, again clouds of incense arose. and again dead stop. Presently the same man came again. gently repeated very much the same questions as before, and re- ceiving the same answers, finally said, IhAlh SOltlG EltAbCtA lGtSoSAliCilbs
 Might I ask you to kindly move aside little? A procession has been waiting for some time back of this door, and we are very anxious to have it come out into the church. At this Secretary Frying anl start ed aside instantly, much chagrined to think that we had caused such stop page in such a ceremony; the doors swung open and out came a brilliant l procession of ecclesiastics with cross 1 eS, censers light and banners
 The following is an interesting ex-
 plantation of the way hay Russian dispatches originate.
 Owing to the lack of public discus sion, Russia is the classic ground of myth and legend. One sees myths and legends growing day by day. For ex- ample, one meets half a dozen people at five o'clock tea in Russian house, and one of them says: How badly the Emperor looked at court last night" Another says; Yes; his liver is evident | ly out of order; he ought to go to Car ! lsbad.' Another says: I think that 1 special pains ought to be taken with food etc. People then scatter from this tea table, and in a day or two one hears that sufficient precaution is not taken with the Emperor's food; that it would not be strange if some Nihilist should seek to poison him. A day or two afterward one hears that a Nihilist has endeavered to poison the Eemper- or. The legend grows, details appear ! here and there, and finally there come in the newspapers of Western Europe full careful particulars of a thwarted 1 plot to poison his majesty
 1 Apparently all sorts of things are expected of Ministers and Ambassa- dors. Mir. White enumerates some Of : the queer things which were expected of him when Ambassador to Germany: Some compatriots expected me to for ward to the Emperor begging letters, or letters suggesting to him new ideas, aware that riyriads of such letters are constantly sent which never reach him, and which even his secretaries never think of reading. Others sent books, not knowing the rule prevailing among crowned heads, never to accept a published book, and not realizing that if this rule were broken not one book in thousand would get beyond the office of his general secretary. Others sent medicine, which they wish him him to recommend; and one man was very persistent in endeavoring to secure his majesty's decision on a wa ger.
 Then there were singers or per formers on wind or string instruments wishing to sing or play before him, sculptors and painters wishing him to visit their studios, and writers of mus ic wishing him to order their compost tions to be brought out at the Royal Opera.
 All these requests eliminated in two, wherein the gentle reader will see a mixture of the comic and pathetic. The first was from a person (not an American) who wished my good offices in enabling her to obtain a commission for a brilliant marriage, she having in reserve, as she assured me, a real Italian duke, whom for a considera- tion she would secure for an American heiress. The other, which was from an eminently respectable source, urged me to induce the imperial authorities to station in the United States a young officer with whom an American young lady had fallen in love. And these proposals I was expected to further, in spite of the fact that the rules for American representatives abroad forbid all special pleading of any kind in favor of individual inter- ests or enterprises, without special in structions from the State Department" When the question of annexing San to Domingo, which country, for so small and insignificant a nation, has been playing rather large part in the political drama of the United States lately was being discussed thirty or more years ago. General Grant, then President, selected Mir. White as one of the commissioners to visit the little republic and determine its value to the United States. Some of the events connected with his visit had an anus ing side to them from serveral points of view. Here is MT. Whites account of one of these incidents:
 Civil war had been recently raging through out the republic, and in one of the interior towns I was one day noti- fled that a well known guerilla gen. eral, who had shown great bravery in behalf of the Baez government, wished a public interview. The meeting took place in the large room of the house