The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-21


at Chambersburg, Pa, academy
know of no better description of
him than this which l ran across the
other day: Taking himself always
with the utmost seriousness. he never
appears to be taking himself at all
seriously"
Henry" / said to him at washing
ton the other day, lets talk about old
times and refresh my mind for my
you?''
About your third year, I should
say" he replied. You have normal
intelligence and should be able to re-
member at that age. No. I shan't re-
call 1t in dates
well" | acknowledge. there does
not seem to be a time when you
weren't there. | remember very well
the night you were graduated from
the Chambersburg academy, the first
in your class"
Yes" unused the diplomat, Il was
always first-no, that's wrong, once l
was third. I had to be first, Pigtails;
there was too much economy back of
my school bills to let me, with any
self respect, be anywhere else. And it
was SO dead easy to be first
College Out Of the Question.
And the next move, Henry, what
was it?
TT wasn't college, you remember
he said slowly. THAT was out of the
question. sheerly out of the question
with half a dozen small brothers need
ing even the Johannesburg academy
and not sure of getting it. And yet
nearly all the other boys of that old
class of the Chambersburg academy
were going to college. Still. here / am
and didn't go to college, not bad fol-
a self made man. eh. Pigtails?'
Suppose you do the talking. Henry
l suggested; you can do the remem-
bering better than | can Tell me
about those old days that We're hard
and yet so full of fun"
well, let's see. There were The
years when was trying to build up ;
law practice that would land me
somewhere in a county whose bigges
lawyers fee had never reached thu
$4,000 mark And mine never came
within sighting distance Of that. oh
no: those fees dribbled in in IS ant
SO bills when they dribbled at all
Often the flow seemed dried at tn
source
THAT WAS a funny preparation 70
forcing the open door in China. WASH
it?"
And the first thing that shook m
out Of the rut was. do you remember
Roosevelts call for volunteers. go
into the Rough Riders with a lettc
from your father. the last but one +
be enrolled. Things have been nearl
always on the upward incline sine
then, pigtails; only the incline hasn'
always been an easy one to take o.
the run"
Ambassador at a.
He was 25 when the Spanish wa
broke out. and he was u simple PR
Natc with no experience of war o
craftsmanship or diplomacy. Toda
ut Al. what is he? The man to whor
the government Of the United State
looks as the one best fitted by train
ing, experience and ability to get
out Of its Mexican imhroglo.
Leaving the army in May, 1902 h
entered the diplomatic service as sec
ond secretary of the legation at IIa
vana. Not an important job, surcl,
but what does he us" it for" Seekin
the future Of Pan American diplc
macy he begins to study il in all il
details. More than that, H." Studio
Spanish unit h" is more than half
Spaniard in his rucnry with it,
Picked up with the suddcnness ,
diplomatic whirlwind> he is droppe
down in China to SERVE. as second sec
rotary of the legation there Whs
was it to him" Merely an opportunit
of studying the Far East questions
their relations to the United States.
Played With Queen.
And while he was doing il. whar
Only that in the mds, of it he W;
hurried to Lisbon, POrtugal-this tin
as first secretary-thcrc through Nv
years to play tennis with the pref
queen and her court Rather dscou
aging. that. for the man who h;
specialized so earnestly in Pan Anne
lean and in the Far East affairs.
Not at all discoura ging to til
man, who enjoyed it thoroughly al
quietly went on learning more al
more about Spanish and the SPANS
temperament.
Back again. by another turn of t
wheel. in Pekin in 1907, there to sha
in the last days of the Chinese Ell
pire. to have letters and gifts sent hi
from the old empress, to dine wi
the imperial palace guests and he