The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-03

time the United States minister did not
know of our whereabouts, and he only
found us by telegraphing to all of the
hotels in western Japan where we might
possibly be stopping. AT any rate. he
found me, and that same night l LETT
my family and came back TO Toxic.
At this point DR.. Bell stopped and said:
4 think / had better call in Charles.
who was with me at the time He will
remember the details better than I do.
Thereupon DR.. Bell rang for his valet.
and Charles, a bright-looking coiored man
of perhaps 30 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 Kfoto
at the time we got the telegram and we
had to come right away to Toxic. We
stopped on the way at Yokohama, and
1t was not until the night before you
were TO meet the emperor that we got
hack to Toxic. Then you received news
from the American legation that you must
appear the next morning at 10 O'Clock at
the palace in full dress suit. with tall
silk hat and white gloves. You had the
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"
We'll what happened next"
That night, Mr.. Bell. you remember
you said you would so to bed early, so
that you would be bright In the morning
when you talked with the emperor. You
promised me you would go TO bed right
after dinner, but you did not You work.
ed all night until about o'clock in the
morning. and when l tried to wake you
at $3.50 | could hardly do SO. You said:
All right and turned over and went to
sleep again. I came in at and laid out
your evening clothes / walked you again.
and it was along about $3.50 that / finally
got 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. I remember when you
got back you were not much pleased
with the audience. You said that the
emperor looked over your head and SEEM
ed very stiff
DIR. Bell then said.
The audience was something like that.
We had no conversation except in plati-
tudes, and his majesty was evidently act
ing according to the fixed rules upon such
occasions
I give this story to illustrate some
thing OF the workings of DR.. Bells mind
He could come across the whole of Japan
to see the emperor, and with an audience
so losehimself i'm his work as to spend
the whole night without knowing or
thinking that there was such thing as
an emperor in existence.
Tt is interesting to know how a man
who does as much work as DR. Bell
keeps fit. He is now in his 66th year
and is the personification of intellectual
and physical vigor He is over six feet
in height and must weigh considerably
more than 200 pounds. lie is, however.
light on his feet, and his complexion is
as clear and his eyes as bright as when
I first met him Is or 20 years ago. have
spoken of his sleeping in the open air. He
has done that for more than a generation
and long before the open-air cure was
advocated. He is not a great eater. As
we sat in the library last night at about
o'clock the servant brought in a tray
upon which was his supper which he
takes at 3 a. M, 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
a visit I had made DIR. Bell about seven
years ago, Just before ! started out to