| Show DAGGER JAGGER AND TORCH MOMENTARILY MENACE THIS DARING DARINO I I t ad a aTA TA w we e 44 r I tik dL I 1 11 r C f i p it tI tIt t I i v c I q c ck ci i I I t l k f 1 r i l air Claude Macdonald the tho h ambassador dor at the court ot of Pekin mn may share at any minute the tate fate ot of the ambassador Baron Daron Yon Von Ketteler murdered b by a maddened mob ot of fiendish fanatics Inspired either by the em ems i press clo dowager ager or by Prince Tuan father or of the heIr apparent to the Imperial imperialI I throne A Y Y t t r h 11 grater graer than was RS the situation tc t o il para ears ago ogO These are scanning the b w rids horizon with anxious eyes and lit arc watching every cloud for tor po liti al sign Th go even further than la Is hull t catri believe the Chinese Problem Is II today to at least the most threatening to the tho world that has haB come up for tor tl t n In three quarters of at a 11 century 11 h 1 hope bope for an oos easy and peaceful to the present disturbed c but even een as they hope they are afraid WORRY Naturally there is IA more worry I n ar ng ag White House and cabinet e cl lIer the situation than anywhere I c though the representatives ot of an all I i lt strong power are plainly on the I 1 4 1 lle The alertness ot of the I r I ts however le Is largely profession lon t Iud and can hardly bt be accounted nn airy t C PR as But with some ot of th the adminis t n folk It I Ii different They to Ie Iee toIL IL e not only that the current IEs are of Jr greater ma than 7 Ire ident since the time or of L anyway has had to face but e c that Mr Ir McKInley must deal with the the problems all through B a reel I campaign Some ot of the moro more t express that th so bt believing that the President vest cal wisely with each problem th tb t 1 m me up and so strengthen him r e t ut of DIen th lome of whom are great ad adl l Ot Of course no one not or of the cabinet Is allowed to bo be present at any meet meetIng meeting Ing ot of th the Presidents of but It ItIs itis Is well known In Washington that the cabInet meetings of July so tar far have been quite as animated and as Important important tant In the eyes eyell ot of all concerned all ae were th the cabinet meetings ot of the sum summer sum summer mer of oC 1111 It le Is the general impression based on leakages from cabInet them that In ordinary times their thel meetings are main mainly of a routine na an nature ture often otten lasting for tor II a few only simply because there le Is nothing ct t real consequence to consider and that when the gatherings are lone and ani animated animated mated It Is generally n rally the ot of proposed appoIntee to hili hie place than anything or of graver Importance e Late In 1897 1887 cabinet meetings be began ran t to Bt assume ume greater Importance and thin or of continued all through th the Spanish war Within the paNt few weeks week the cabinet meetings have rr re their Importance and It la Is high I 1 probable that nearly or quite all th the cabinet members will remaIn here all summer foregoing their usual warm weather vacations or at the most that thai the they will not venture many hours from the capItal WU The fhe conduct or of Minister Wu at the present juncture Is favorably com cam commented upon to In all quarters He was a especially happy In declining to speak on July 4 1 In Philadelphia und and In stick slick lag to his hla declination He Is no doubt I sadly puzzled by the despite all fill native which le IB C nod n by the t or of both the dental and the schools In a previous letter I 1 on Mr Inti intimate mite knowledge 11 ot of the tongue I heard a tory story about him today which this There was WAI a stag reception at the house houle ot of a high one evening when It was 11 decided to Induce the Ch nose nese to drink too mu much J punch Somehow hI he got on to the was wal an easy eAlY thing to do 10 doby by the way wa and nd so 10 managed himself that at the conclusion of the reception he was sober ober while most mOlt ot of the Cau Caucasian casian were wert decided decidedly I well filled up A friend met him n a day or orto two to after atler and rallied him on h his caps rapa rapacity city for tor punch Wu gently closed his hla left lett eye And said Mid quietly and without cracking n II smile The boys found It hard to saturate me they The wife or of Minister Wu unlike i iome some ome oriental ladies In Washington gore gOH out treaty There has haa been scene talk ot of the po pos possibility ot of handIng Wua passports to tl him It is II hardly haNIly probable that he would go to China were wre that course adopted Ite Ile does dOH not hanker to bo be made the victim 0 of Q a surgIcal open tion |
