Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-04-18

there There have been o number
Of Conferences OF South American
diplomats at the State Department
in the past two weeks and it is be-
lieved that they will be able 10 get
Honduras. Salvador and Nicaragua
together on the basis ofa permanent
peace and cement an agreement In
virtue Of which there will be quiet
and internal development In the lit
tie republics along the isthmus and
10 the south ward for some time 70
come.
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This government stands TO do all
it properly can for the peace Of the
world. and an Indication OF this was
given this week by the announce.
meut OF the peace delegates to the
Hague made from the State Depart
ment. The party will sail from this
country for Antwerp about the mid
die OF May and will include two
more members than was originally
intended. The scope OF the confer
ence has been enlarged. too. and
will take in other and more impor-
tant questions than would have
been considered had 10 met last sum-
mer as was intended.
The delegates as announced are
Joseph Choate. former Ambassador
to the Court of st. James, Gen.
Horace Porter, former Ambassador
to France. Judge U. NJ. Rose. pre-
sident Of the Arkansas Bar Asso-
citation. David Jayne Hill. American
minister to the Netherlands. Brig.
Gen. Geo B. Davis. Rear Admiral
Chas. Sperry, and William |.
Buchanan, first minister OF the
United States to the Republic of
Panama.
One Of the most remarkable
pseudo international incidents on
record for long time was brought
to close this week by the depart
ure for New York of Mrs. Ida Won
Claussen, who came all the wav from
Sweden to see President Roosevelt
about what she declared was aslight
put on her by Minister Graves of
Sweden. Mrs. Won Claussen was
never heard OF except by limited
circle Of friends till the present in
cident arose. She was rich, very
beautiful, and elegantly dressed.
While in Sweden she wanted to be
presented at court, but for some
reason, the official one was lack of
proper credentials. she was not pre-
sented by our Minister. She was
very much incensed at what she
termed this slight. and came all the
way TO Washington from Sweden to
present her case personally 10 the
President. She took quarters AZ the
most expensive hotel ia town and
prepared to lay siege to the White
House in her latest Paris gown.
But right in the ante-room, her per-
sonalty conducted embassy begged
down to the hubs and stopped. The
President was busy, very; the Sc
cretary to the President was also
busy, excessively. The secretary
to the secretary was buster still,
and the most that Mrs. Won Claus
sen could do was to send ia a card
by messenger and be told there
was no use in coming back. and the
whole of the White House staff would
be too busy to see her at any time.
She stayed in Washington three
days and tried to get commission
in lunacy appointed to inquire into
her own sanity. But the President
declined to take any of her demands
seriously aud she left town this
week, vowing that she was going to
Germany and renounce her Ameri-
can citizenship. How the Kaiser
will make out with this fascinating
but imperious subject is question.
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Those interested in the personali-
ty and doings of the great and near
great, will be pleased to learn that
Secretary Taft. maybe Republican
nominee for the Presidency, has
succeeded 10 taking 100 pounds of
his weight in the past year. He
has put himself under the care OF q
noted physician. taken to Q strict
diet, cut out sweets, beer and as
much of other liquids as he can. and
rides horseback as much as possible;
that is to say, as much as possible
for the horse. The Secretary says
he can afford to keep only two sad
die horses of the Percheron breed
and two horses don't go very far
with him vet. But be is happy In
the reduction he has already accom-
plished, and confided to q friend the
other day that he really did not