The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05


minister had said he would arrange
for the audience. but that there was
no certainty when II could be granted
was travelling with my wife and
We a LEFT TOXIC ana
gone to the western part or Japan
| when one day I received a telegram
telling me that his majesty would re-
| ceive me two days later at 10 O'CLOCK
n the morning. At that time the
| United States minister did not know
Of our whereabouts. and he only founo
| us by telegraphinS to all OF the ho,eis
in Western Japan where we HllSht
possibly be stopping. At any rate ne
found me. and that same night | leit
my family and came back TO Iokio-
At this point DR.. Bell stopped ana
said:
~ think had better call in Charles
Who was with me at the time. He viii
remember the details better thar l
do =.
Thereupon DR.. Bell rang for his
valet. and Charles. a bright-looklnS
colored man of perhaps thirty, came
in and DR.. Bell asked him to tell me
how he had gone to the emperor. SAID
Charles:
You see. Mr.. Bell, we were IN
Kiote at the time We got the telegram,
and we had to come right away to
Toxic. We stopped on the way at
Yokohama, and was not until the
night before you were to meet the
emperor that we got back 10 TOXIC.
Then you received news q N the
American legation that you ,'ust %
pear the next morning at 10 O'Clock
at the palace in a full dress suit, but
YOU had no tall hat nor gloves. l 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 1T, but you
had only to carry it in your hand"
} well what happened next?'
THAT night, Mr.. Bell, you remem-
: Der, you said you would go to- beo
early, so that you would be bright il
! the morning when you talked with
l the emperor. You promised me yOJ
would go to zee right away after
! dinner, but you did not. You worked
all night until about 4 o'clock in thu
morning, and when ] tried to walk
you at h%alf-past 8, 1 could hardly do
so. You aid AN right and turnee
T over and went to sleep again. / came
r in at 8 n laid out your evenin!
I clothes. I walked you again and it wa:
q along about half-paSt nin and final
~ got you up. You then put on you
dress suit, while the man from tn
q legation was waiting for you, and has
e just time to get to the palace. l re
member when you got back you wer
: not much pleased with the audience
You said hat the emperor looked owe
e your head and seemed very stiff"
DR.. Bell then said:
L The audience was something Xix
= that. We had no conversation exceI
L in platitudes, and his majesty was ev
: IDENTIFY acting according to the fxe
u r111QC rlnnr C1,oh Noco ci0nc
l. I give this story to illustrate some
y thing Of the workings Of DR.. Belf
le mind. He could come across the Who'll
= of Japan to see the emperor, and wit
- an audience like that in view in tn
al morning, could so lose himself in h
" work as to spend the whole nigf
=. without knowing or thinking tn;
10 there was such a thing as an emper(
LII in existence.
i It is interesting to know how a ma
~ who does as much work as DR.. Be
- keeps fit. He is now in his sixty-six1
g year and is the perSonification Of i
tellectual and physical vigor. He
VI over six feet in height and must weis
considerably more than 200 pound
He is, however, light on his feet, al
: his complexion is as clear and his ey
as bright as when I first met hi
gu fifteen or twenty years ago. ha
e eo spoken Of his sleeping in the open a
.1 He a done that for more than a ge
~ Grafton and long before the open-s
~ cure was advocated. He is not ag re
eater. As we sat in the library Ia
On night at about I o'clock the serva
ny .rrner which ha +akac o. > = :.
before going to bed. It consisted OF
c half-dozen water-thin crackers, a b.
e tie OF Bulgarian milk OF artificial b,
termilk and a flask of distilled wat
The distilled water recalled to I
eat seven wears ago mot hofora r -.
ant TO make a ,ono 49, /.
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