The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-18


 self write something entirely irrel- evant--something that has nothing to do with anything particular The less you say about foreign countries the better you will please your ,rasders, and if you can arrange to write q se- ries of letters in which no reference Is made to either Europe or Africa, who knows but what you will score a hit?"
 With no desire to boast of my ac- complishments. I feel that up to date have followed instructions rathe.' closely. If any dates. statistics or use, full information have erept into these communications it Is through over sight and not by intention
 In writing from Paris the natural impulse to describe Napolean's tomb and tell how the Champs Elysees runs right out to the Arc de Triomphe and then cuts through the Bois de Boul- cgne Fearing that this subject mat ter has been touched upon by other visitors, shall disregard Paris and go straight to my task of reforming con srlar service.
 To begin with. usually he American consul is all right in his place. bat his place is at home. Overpaid, possi- bly, but he does his best to earn his $500 per annum. If hs kept all the money that he handled ir the course  cessfuI grafter. He finds llinselt plump ed down in a strange country About the time that he begins to learn the language and has save1 up enough money to buy evening clothes he is re- called and goes back nome with dress suit on his har1s Take the case of MT Eben willoughby of Michi. gan. It Is simple narrative but it will give you a line on the shor.-cam- ings of our consular servt e, and it will carry it's own moral.
 "old man" Willoughby.' as he was known at home, owned lnd edited a successful daily paper on the outskirts of the Michigan ne belt. He was a wheel horse in the parry ana for forty years had supp brted the eau,us nomi-. nees. The aspiring politician who wish ed to go to Congress hl1 10 go and see Willoughby with his hat in h hand. He helped to make and unmake United States Senators and WIS con suited regarding appoin.m eaSs Put he never had asked anything for him. self. His two boys went 70 co,legs al Ann Arbor, and when the younger came home with his degree anI began to take hand in running he paper Mir Willoughby found himself. for the first time in his life, relieved of wearing re- responsibilities. He was wei fixed h- nanclallY ana Stlll Tn the prime of life E-not due to retire permanently, but ready to take it easy. For years he | had nursed a vague desire to travel beyond the limits of his native land. |Mrs. Willoughby, who in the home cir, tcle was known as Ma" was a dew tee of the Chautauqua Circle, and she, too, Ehad an ambition born of much reading Ito pack up and go somewhere. The Efamily doctor said that q visit to some tmilder climate. far from the rigors of zNorthern winter, would be a positive <beneht to her.
 So MT. and Mrs Willoughby began ' Do study the atlas. One of the sons Suggested to "Old Man" Willoughby hat hs could take a. trip to an attract ve country at tks minimum expense 2 by securing an appointment as consul. &And, of course, apart from the financial 4 advaptage, there would be the glory 4bf representing great nation and 4 Eloisting the flag over a oenighted foreign population. The suggestion vary strongly to Mr, Will Y oughhy He wrote to the Congress # han and the Senator and wanted to know if there was a vacaucy-salary ao object, but he would like to go into
 mild and equable climate where he
 ould pick eoeoanuts.
 & His friends st Washington simply
 vcrtuFned the State Department in iheir eagerness to give him what he Y MGanted, hey discovered that~ some < #yhere on the map there was city # alled GallivaHcia. II was down by
 ne southern seas---the abode Of perpet- Y al summer and already enjoying a
 rehminary bloom as resort The