The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-16

instrument of torture to the ladies OF
his family was the threat. to marry al
American widow with billions of money,
How this would have u~nfavorably
affected her the excellent Mrs. vereker
but the mere hint always gave her
acute misery.
The secretaries of the embassy were
very well-meaning young men, who at
tended to then work as well as they
knew how, but as Lord Baudesert sell
dom took the trouble to read a docu-
ment, md would not sign his name
to anything which he a not read. il
was difficult to get business transacted.
When Sir Percy Carlyon was getting
his instructions from the prime min
lister concerning his post of first secre-
tary at Washington the premier had re-
marked.
"Your uncle, youSknow, is the LATEST
ma God even made, but he is also one
of the cleverest. No living Englishman
knows as much about American affairs
as Lord Baudesert, or has ever made
himself so acceptable to the american
people, but when he isn't doing us the
greatest service in the world, he lets
everything go hang. We are sending
you to Washington to get some work
done. I hear you can bully Lord
Baudesert in every particular"
Except one," Sir Percy had replied.
Neither I, nor anybody else, nor the
devil himself, could make Lord Bau-
desert work when he doesn't want to-
Sir Percy, on this December after
noon in the woods, reviewed in his cwn
mind his whole diplomatic career UP
to the point of that interview. His
first beginnings had been as a minor
civil servant on the Indian frontier
twelve years before. 1t is not uncom-
mon, however. for these clever young
sters who are. sent QUO to India to gov
ern, negotiate. threaten and subdue
a vast and deceitful people to find
themselves entrusted with RESPONSE
bilities which, might appal older repre-
sentatiyes of the British empire.
Far removed from Western civiliza-
ton, and out of the field of newspapers
young Sir Percy Carlyon was in effect
ruler and lord Of a million people,
whose united word counted less with
their English masters than n sem
tence from this sahib of 26 years of age.
His post was on the ~Afghanistan from
tier, where he had 70 circumvent
Afghans and Russians and out-general
all of them. The times were difficult
and in spite Of young Canyons great
and even splendid gifts of insight, tenn
per and diplomacy, he would hardly
haze succeeded in his work but fol
one man. This was General Talbot
who was in military command of thu
district, and an admirable type of ths
oldier-diplomatist. He had stood BY
Sir Percy with a vigor n generosity
and a fatherly Kindness, which no mar
not an utter migrate could yer forget
They had gone together through
stormy and tragic days. n when the
reports had reached the Indian Off1ce
it was Sir Percy to whom General Tai
bott gave the largest share of the credit,
and even the glory which had resulted
from their joint efforts.
Thanks Il this extraordinary gen.
crosby on General Talbott's part, Sir
Percy's efforts had received prompt
recognition. His first two years In
India We're brilliantly successful, and
marked him as a rising mar among
niS lCAiOWS. CAoHu lidt tlkiC OhW0fAs
he had been what is called lucky-that
is to say, when two courses were
opened to him he took the sensible one,
After a brief but distinguished service
in India he was transferred to the
diplomatic corps, and good fortune fol-
lowed him.
But the greatest stroke Of his life
had come two years before. in the