The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-01
ANDREW D. WHITE
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THIS
 AMERICAN
Diplomat COntains Many Interesting
 Anecdotes.

Diplomat Contains Many Interesting
 Anecdotes.
 Andrew D. White, formerly United States Minister to Russia and Am bassador to Germany, in his long public life has had many amusing ex- periences. In his autobiography, just published by the Century Company, he describes many of these and has many anecdotes to tell of the life of diplO- mat.
 According to Mir White, one of the messages which President Roosevelt intrusted to the former to give to En- peror William was as follows:
 Tell his majesty that am hunter and, as such, envy him one thing es- peciaily. He has done what I have never yet been able to do-he has killed a whale. But say to him that if he will come to the United States I will take him to the Rocky Mountains to hunt the mountains lions, which is no bad sport, and that if he kills one, as he doubtless will, he will be the first monarch who has killed a lion since Tiglath-Pileser.' Mir. White continues: T need hardly add that when, a few weeks later, delivered the message to the Emperor at Potsdam, it pleas ed him. Many people on both sides of 1.-the Atlantic have noted a similarity in qualities between these two rulers, and, from close observation, I must con fess that this is better founded than are most such attributed resem- blances."
 Mir. Whites first diplomatic expert ence was as an attache at St. Peters burg at the time of the crimean War. The war brought to Russia many Am erican adventurers.
 1 One man who came out with superb plans" MT. White says, bought a militia colonePs commission from the Governor of a Western State and the full uniform of a major general. At first he hesitated to clothe himself in tall his glory, and therefore went through process of evolution, be- fgining first with part of his uniform, and then adding more as his courage rose. During this process he became the standing joke of St. Petersburg, but later, when he had emerged in full and final splendor, he became a man of mark, indeed, so much so that se- rious difficulties arose. Throughout the city are various corps de garde, and the sentinel on duty before each of these. while allowed merely to present arms to an officer of lower rank, must, whenever he catches sight of a general officer, call out the entire guard to present arms, with the beat l ing of drums. Here our American was a source of much difficulty. for when ever any sentinel caught sight of his gorgeous epalets in the distance the lguard was instantly called-out, arms Iwere presented and drums beaten, much to the delight of our friend, but even more to the disgust of the gen. erals of the Russian army and to the troops, who thus rendered absurd hom- lage and found themselves taking part in something like a bit of comic opera. | Another example was also interest l ing. A New-York ward leader-big, rough and rosy-had come out as an agent for an American breech- loading musket company, and had smuggled specimens of arms over the frontier. l1lAllNEll5 III lIG WGtS pre- scented to the Emperor, and, after re- ceiving handsome testimonials was but in charge of two aides-de-camp, | who took him and his wife about in court carriages to see the sights of the Russian capital. At the close of his stay, wishing to make some return for this courtesy, he gave these two officers dinner at his hotel.
 "The table was splendidly furnished. At the head of it was his wife, and at her right one of the Russian officials in gorgeous uniform; at the other end of our table was our host, and at his right the other Russian official, splendidly attired. Beside the first official sat our secretary and beside the other was the place assigned to me. The dinner was successful, all spoke English and all were happy, but toward the end of 1t our host, having perhaps taken more wine than was his wont, grew com municative, and, as i'll luck would have it, the subject of the conversation became personal courage, whereupon he told story. Recalling his experi- ence as a deputy sheriff of New-York, | he said:
 "'When those river pirates who murdered sailor in New Y ork Harbor had to be hanged, the Sheriff of the county hadn't the courage to do it and ordered me to hang them. rather hat ed the business, but made everything ready, and when the time came took an extra glass of brandy, cut the rope and off they swung.
 1 '"The two Russian started back in consternation. Not all their politeness could conceal it. Horror of horrors, 1 they were dining with a llangman! Be- sides their sense of degradation in the companionship, superstition had been bred in them which doubled their dis tress. A dead silence fell over all. I was the first to break it by remarking ! to my Russian neighbor:
 "'You may perhaps not know, sir, that in the State of New-York the talk 1 ing of life by due process of law is considered so solomn matter that we 1 intrust it to the chief executive officers 1 of our counties-.to our Sheriffs-and not to hangmen or executioners.
 He looked at me very solemnly as I announced this truth, and then, after solemn pause, easped out in du- bious, awestruck voice: 'Merci bien, monsieur Henceforth it was cold, in- deed, and at the earlist moment pos