The Jasper news., 1909-06-10


Revins paused for moment, with his
brows drawn down in thought, and
then returned to the drawing room,
where a shaded light rested In the CEN
| ter of the table round which his
guests were seated. With brief ex.
plantation he handed the order to the
king, who calmly placed his glasses
upon his high, fine nose, leaned across
the table, and perused 1t.
Everything of the night was strange
and unusual A few hours ago he had
gone to theater to rest his nerves,
and here he was across the Atlantic,
informally, and learning new lessons
or receiving astounding revelations
with each beat of time. He had gone
thus far and would go through to the
end and would go Informally.
1--WE prefer to accompany you" was
all the reply he made, and the party
filed out into the night, where two big
automobiles brought for this very
emergency were in waiting. They
| whirled away to the White House,
| where they we're met in the blue room
! by the president and his immediate
| advisers. The king himself established
the basis of etiquette by extending his
hand to the president and his COM
panions. He assumed no department
of royalty; but as the first gentleman
of England greeted the first gentle.
man of America.
Your majesty" the president be.
gan, "the time Is at hand when the
United States has no further object in
concealing the power at her CON-
| mand; the sole cause of concealment,
that Of meeting the Chinese fleet, hav-
ing been nullified by the action Of that
country itself. China has, broken her
alliance with Japan, is ready to make
such oyertures as we wish for peace,
and is dispensing her feet"
The president paused for moment,
and looked at those around him. The
king, steadily watching him, was i'm
pressed with his simple dignity, and
read Alright the great and high pur-
pose that shone in his eyes. Once
more he resumed:
1T has come to this issue, your
| pected; but events which make for
| war and peace move fast. They are
| in the hands of God Almighty, and
! not of rulers. / desired this inter
view, because you can assist me in
what l have to do, and for which
| believe am mere instrument in the
| hands of power before whom all
| must bow"
and am honored," the sovereign
| instantly responded.
| With his officials he was conducted
10 the presidents private apartments
where they were followed by the sec.
rotary of state and the secretary OF
the navy.
The king looked round the room
which he had entered on but one
other occasion; long years before
when as prince and without hope OF
throne he had been received by q
| former president of the United States
How many men had occupied 1t since
then, and how few of them had left
any great individual mark on the
worlds history! He took the
proffered seat and waited for the pres
ident to speak, only half compre
bending that he was entering upoI
one of the most important conference!
that the world had ever known.
"Your majesty and gentlemen" the
president began in his low, finel!
modulated voice. 81 told you wished
your assistance. l need more thar
that; l want your advice. have beer
man with a dream, and that yol
may know how much it has meant Il
me, l must tell you something of my
self. I come of a race that for genera
lions has given its blood for country
II was almost obliterated in the war
of the revolution and OF 1872. In tn,
: great civil war there were FIVE mel
! in my family, a father and four olde
brothers, the youngest mere lad
who went to war as volunteers. Som
of them never returned. My fathe
was brought back shattered by sui
fering to die in my mothers arms
The lad that had gone out with hi
drum came back to drag out only
few wretched months of suffering.
my home was on the borderland
where men fought backward and fol
! ward across our fields" He pause
for a moment as if the memory of hi
childhood was too bitter for recapitr
lation, then went bravely on: I'll
those years the sight of ghastl
wounds and cruel death was befor
me sometimes daily, but never far re
! moved. When peace came there wa
: nothing left to my mother but he
J ravaged farm, her bitter poverty, an
her one boy. Oh, 1t was nightmare