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Show AN UNPOPULAR ENVOY Chiuies S. Francis, American ambassador at (fliS&SlPV. Vlonmi. Is tho latest Incumbent to find that espo- gK clal Job n long way loss attractive than It seems jSj? from n distance. Mr. Francis followed Hollnmy fogyj Storor In tho position nnd all tho world, or that section or It which rends tho United Stntcs nows-(k'f, nows-(k'f, -jf y,x papers, romembors how Dollamy quit. Ho ro-Vfl ro-Vfl wJf signed, it Is true, but tho net was accompanied V i'''V rctl "ro effects during which President Hooso- T veIt I'roBsetl sovernl chnstu hut emphatic opln- A. , Ions of Mr. 8torer nnd llkowlBo of Mrs. 8torer. -sty Mi. Fruncls has seen much of the diplomatic enmo before, nnd should havo known how to MwKw work " wnB "rctnry to tho Russian em-WJVP em-WJVP liassy while his father was United States mln-NSsySSySSSSgSSsWV mln-NSsySSySSSSgSSsWV Istor some 30 yenrs ngo, and on his own hook ho hail been minister to arcece, Iloumanln nnd Ser-via, Ser-via, Moreover, ho Is n nowspaper man, owner and editor of tho Troy (N. Y.) Dally Times, nnd might reasonably bo expected to hnve nil tho lucl. sangfroid, smoothness nnd nerve nnybody would need oven nt tho court of Vienna, Hut Mr. Francis hns apparently got In wrong with Francis Joseph nnd some of his friends. Ho camo homo to vote, of course, nnd now, on the ovo of his return, somo of the Vienna papers nro editorially hoping tho boat sinks beforo ho gets hack. "Novcr In diplomatic circles," says ono Vienna Journal with a namo llko a handful of pled typo, "Never has a moro unpopulnivman held the post ot ambassador. He and his family, knowing no French nor (Jer-mnn, (Jer-mnn, havo complained of Viennese Ignornuco of Kngllsh, and havo never concealed con-cealed their contempt for Vienna houses, shops, climate nnd women. When ho should havo returned hospitalities ho r.ubiented tho embassy to tho Japanese Japan-ese legation, sont tho Indies to Amorlca and himself occupied a back room on the fifth floor of n hotel, paying $1 n day." And a few other bun mots of llko tenor. Mr. Frnncls may bo n good ambassador. In fact, ho must he, for ho has been a typesetter, reporter, city editor utid held othor Jobs whoreln It requires the diplomacy tif nn nngel to keep out of oternnl fouds nnd knockdown arguments argu-ments with tho foreman, tho editor nnd other domineering enemies of civilization. civiliza-tion. Of courso, tho editor may feel a little peevish about something, i |