The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-24

that the Ottoman ruler gave him a
fiattering invitation to remain in Con-
stantinople as a high official in the
sublime porte.
He was made naval adviser and por-
sonal aid de camp to the sultan. and
while putting the Ottoman navy ship
shape for Abdul saved that monarch
from assassination. So Abdul, as an
act of gratitude. conferred upon him
the title of pasta, the highest in the
Imperial gift. And under the regime
of the new sultan Bucknam Pasha has
been retained as admiral of the
Turkish fleet.
NIikado's Yankee Assistant.
The mikado. too. has his Yankee az
wiser, Henry Willard Denison. Yer
monter, who. In Grants administration,
was accredited to Yokohama as our
consul. and whose knowledge of inter-
national law SO impressed the mtkado's
awakening court that in 1880 that i'm i.
perial monarch persuaded the young
man to accept the commission of legal
adviser to the Ministry of Foreign AT.
fairs at Toxic. and in the thirty-one
years that have since transpired Deni-
son has made a great name for him
self at the Japanese court He is one
of the mikado's representatives on tho
permanent Court of Arbitration at the
Hague. and was the adviser of tho
japanese commissioners who in this
country drew up the treaty of Ports
mouth. ending the Russo-Japanese War.
And as reward for his many services
the mlkado has decorated him with the
Grand Cordons of the Orders of the
Rising Sun and Sacred Treasure. be-.
sides awarding him lately an annuity
for life and special gift OF $4,000 as
a token of gratitude for helping to
END the war with the Gar This
shrewd and circumspect adviser Of the
mikado attended Columbian Law
School. in Washington with Durha m
White Stevens. and the two went TO
Japan at about the same time
Stevens as our Secretary of Legation.
And while Denison was making his
mark as legal adviser in the Ministry
Of Foreign Affairs, Stevens-also taken
into the mikado's service-worked his
way UP to the rank Of counselor of the
Japanese Legation at Washington, and
finally to that of diplomatic adviser"
which rank he was enjoying when as
sassinated by a fanatical Kvvean sew
eral years ago.
sinmese Kings Adviser.
At the same time that stevens was
at the height of his power in japan
Edward Henry Strobel-and honor man
of Harvard who had served his coun-
try as Secretary of Legation at Mad
rid and Minister to Chile-was dis
tinguishing himself at the Court Of
Bangkok as general adviser to the
King of Siam. He had Just succeeded
In enoins the Siamese-French crisis, in
abolishing state-regulated gambling, in
revising the harbor laws and in initial
ing many other reforms for the Sismese
king when his life was lately cut short
by the bite of an Egyptian insect
But 1t is not onl yin Oriental coun-
tries that Americans are assisting at
statecraft in one way or another
Petted by European rulers who have
pinned upon his bosom a dozen glis-
tening orders. that quondam Bostonian.
Reginal Henshaw Ward member of
the London banking house of that
name, now holds the rank of "Coun-
cilor" of the Nicaraguan Legation at
Lisbon, although his nome is in Eng
land. where he Is down on the books
as Lord of the Manor of North Scarle.
Lincolnshire" In European courts he
is addressed as count" a pontifical
title Of nobility which he holds BY
hereditry patent from Pope Leo XIII.
And there Is also James Gustavus
Whitley, of Baltimore. who some
years ago Joined the Belgian con-
sular service. in which he has been
elevated TO the highest rank OF con :
sui general King Leopold. before nc
died made Whitley a Knight Of the
Royal Order of the Crown of Belgium"
Copyright 1911. by John Elfreth Wat
kins)