Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-20
PATTERSON IN CAPITAL
Returns to Washington. At.
ter Extended Trip
Abroad.
Accompanied by Mrs. Watterson. Dis.
tinguished Editor of Louisville
COurier-JOurnal Is Guest of j
Mrs. Stanley Matthews.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 18.-Col.
henry Watterson, editor of the Louis
vile -Courier-Journal, and Mrs. Wat
terson, who recently returned from e
several months stay abroad, reached
Washington last evening and are the
guests of Mrs. Stanley Matthews.
They will remain until Saturday.
Colonel Watterson is in excellent
health.
A recent issue of the London Tele-
graph gave an interesting account of
luncheon given at Dorchester House
| for the distinguished editor by the
American ambassador, Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid. Among the guests were the ed
itors of the leading English magazines
and London journals, including also
Sir Conan Doyle, Sir Henry Ducy, Sir
Charles Wyndham, and Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree. DR.. Osler came u;>
from Oxford to be present The
health of the King and of the Presi-
dent of the United States was drunk
standing. Mr.. Watterson, in reply to
the toast of his health, said:
"The ambassador and myself are
old and good friends who have passed
our lives shooting blank cartridges at
one another across imaginary lines of
hre-battle lines in time of war and
party lines in time of peace-to find
toward the close that at bottom there
was never any great matter between
US, the good of the country and his
| duty, as each conceived it, the aim of
both.
Il long ago forgave him Appomat-
tox. l even forgave him Dorchester
| House and Wrest Park. He has risen
to signal eminence and honor. Still
dwelling in my humble cabin amid the
Wilds of eKntucky, I have followed
| each successive elevation with pride
in our profession and joy in him, TAX
ing leave occasionally to deliver a
oroadside of not very terrifying ver-
| bial bullets to arouse and vitaliZe a
proper respect for the freedom and
candor and independence of the press
"More than forty years ago I earned
my living with my pen here in Lon =.
Ion 1t was not much of living, but
we did not starve nor quite want for
shelter and raiment, though some
times our menu was hardly mora
elaborate than that detailed by the
Arizona innkeeper, gun in hand, to the
/. Eastern tenderfoot: There's NOTHING
but terrapin and hash, and you'll take
hash
''The English newspapers impressed
me greatly, and yet believe them un-
equaled in the elements of RESPONSE
0il1ty and cleanliness. 1 began my
career devotee of impersonal jour-
nalism. The broad columns, the abb
sence of headlining, and the total un-
consciousness of fallibility had a
charm for me. If circumstances
over which, like the recusant show
q man, 1 had no control have diverted
e me from my preference for obscurit,
g and my modest intention, no one car
k be held more at fault than the Ameri
# can ambassador, who has never failet
G to exploit me equally for the evil
:. have done and the good 1 have cor
: templated. I thank him with all m,
n heart for calling. you to this hospita
8 BILE board, and you for coming, tn
q rather in his dignity than in my de
> sert, and am rejoiced personally t.
h meet and make the acquaintance of 8
n many whose names and performance
h have long been known to me-"