The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-03
F WORLDS GREATEST INVENTORS

left my family and came back to
Tokyo"
At this point DR.. Bell stopped and
said:
~ think had better call in Charles
who was with me at the time. He Will
remember the details better man
do"
Thereupon DR.. Bell rang for his
valet and Charles. a brirht-looking
colored man OF perhaps thirty. came IN.
ana Or. Bell asked him to :ell me ho,y
he had gone to the Emperor. said
Charles:
You see, Mr.. Bell. we were in K,oto
ut the time we got the telegram. and
we had TO come right away 10 Tokyo
we stopped on the way at Yokohama
and II was not until the night before
you were to meet the Emperor that we
got back 10 Tokyo. Then YOU ro
ceived news from tho American leeo.
ton that you must appear the next
morning at 10 o'clock at the palace
In full dress suit. with tall Sill,
hat and white gloves. You had the
dress suit. but you had no tall hat nor
gloves went out and bought the
gloves"
But what did we do for a hat?"
"oh. We hired that. 1t was so small
that you could not wear it, but YOU
had only to carry 1t In your hand
Well. what happened next?"
THAT night, Mr.. Bell. you remember
you said you would go to bed early
so that you would be bright in the
morning when you talked with the
Emperor. You promised me Won wou,a
go to bed right away after dinnor
but you did not. You worked all night
until about 4 o'clock In the morning
and when / tried TO wake you at half
past could hardly do so. You said.
All right and turned over and went
70 sleep again. l came in at and
laid out your evening clothes.
walked you again. and 1t was along
about half-past that I fnallv rnt
you up. You then put on your dress
suit, while the man from the legation
was waiting for you, and had Just time
to get to the palace. remember when
you got back you were not much
pleased with the audience You said
that the Emperor looked over your
head and seemed very stiff"
DR.. Bell then said
"The audience was somethinp ill.
that. We had no conversation except
In platitudes. and his majesty was cyl.
IDENTIFY acting according TO the fixed
rules upon such occasions"
give this story to illustrate some
thing of the workings of DR.. Bells
mind. He could come across the whole
~ o"PHA ~ bCt INC Emperor, ana with
an audience like that in view in the
morning. could so lose himself in his
work as to spend the whole night
without knowing or thinking that
there was such n thing as an Emperor
in existence.
1t is interesting to know how a man
who does as much work as DR.. Bell
keeps Mt. He is now In his sixty-sixth
year. and is the personiacation of in
tellectual and physical vigor. He is
| over six feet in height and must
weigh considerably moro than 200
pounds. He Is however, light on his
! feet, and his complexion Is as clear
and his eyes as bright as when + first
met him fifteen or twenty years ago
have spoken. OF his sleeping In the
! open air. He has done that for more
than generation and long before the
open cure was advocated. He is
not a great eater. AS we sat in the
library last night at about 1 o'clock
the servant brought In tray upon
which was his supper, which he takes
at A. NJ, just before going to bed
1t consisted OF a half-dozen water
thin crackers. a bottle OF Bulgarian
milk or artificial buttermilk. and flask
| Of distilled water.
The distilled water recalled to my
! mind visit had made DR.. Bell about