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Show r Gentleman From Paris The it tov hv Pet hobby, Indulge from Wt you It urn!!. my t to a fcomraonpaee ohscur use-and Influence wo!d oa of nible you eventuady m r -- 1 .m. great .ervtc. for Among other Represerutlv Ambassador William Graves Sharpt Cvp.rtAn es ms. by Fvihiie I from, othei States he was not known at ab Rut he piomptlv lu'd hi House ah about ' a fi ,tr m.cionoir" "A fi - microiniier is t,- nient th it is attached to th tt-ot ihi eu c (t wh'ch has lines ruao.-- s it the -- iim as in a su'Vrvor's insuumtnl. and in the use of tbe--e lines which aie olum: t a'e i at n cm hv eiecrn,i. ian p. tie Ub of which has g,4ii un provid r. the ir.s rumt ,.u, tirj can gel Ciu observations of th -- ursanl the heuvenlv bod.es more accu-a'In fa't w.t out their use the rig!" asc-- t ci arid detimat.cn if stars t 4- rter c. tween hla own country and the coun trv to wh ch he 's gc irdred " sa, M bl.arp shortly afei i 111 19H t if ia S i S.risu.d.-lfr-- t P"St was h d ,1, 'n.ii s He wras nrst tor l w r Mi aw i at 'I - l,i : no e me repu c i ev t , av'ng - There in recreative He '.King tor astronomy. kSB" at his office to. (mg (.ours 1"E mf prohlems, seeking the rti, bu'ce9 o. J n.ai kets and ssndmg form gat Success and of salesmen i arnsv lu way and he found jsoiiei o indulge his fancies One M- - re ume . tkW0 sudy of the stars. H. fad With him. Upon the su-2,4 of hia'horr.e he placed prrstru ,lP From the corners of w obsirvew ry f.p bi ought together the best 4(jh) enaes procurable. Then he g jjeopi over fp a study of the vir-e- f J,n-Just lor the pure love of It. din s vvn quiet woild, He had ons to become a greater po sit urtr who developed (il-n- e w St c1' In v boits , s f isv ion he contln ied cha man temmded h.m that hK five ir.n m had ed whtieupnn a member of tue House asked 'that the gent.eman s tree be extended five muiu'es' which was done to the sat isfattion if the august rtpi esentatlve-o- f the pi upie When the money finallv was voted the naval observatory, not (k4"-the world a man thei-- but knew the Importance however, Ever a iy. or cut rather his neigh-trt- - and function of a filar micrometer g.hi in Tile incident may apmar trivial bu sent h.m to the. Congress of was the first ttrm the world had it as i a tiia'es representative yg fni'i ever heard from tips pariliulai 'gen th Commonwealth of Ohio. To an un-.- r lleman from Ohio It rrved to give gashing' m be went, virtuafly him place Since that dav in 1910 d an unknown he remained when he was a ' fi eannian"' in the time just as many another Con gft rtrnur. has gone to the national House the gentleman from Ohio hai come forwaid by haps anil ,lis blt without 9pi;sl and dn a Democrat the Ohioan was anv political stampedes or presi-tia- l But with the gentle-gfiguratively taken to the bosom of th' booms Hon James Robert Maim, the Repub from Ohio it was different. May-lican "whip of the House, and the in bis studies of the stars back in two became cronies close were Ohio be had read his own horoscope the future in store for they that when Democratic Presidern Uid glimpsed Wilson appointed the Democrat It Ohio astronomer as ambassador to One duv the House of Represents Franco In the summer of 1914 tjvwhJ before it an appropriation the same Republican Mann delivered U an among HU including provision himself of this warm panegyric new mlcrom-ge- r for fll,ir of (tan We know that the country will Naval States United for the be reprpsented at its fullest height No one seemed tp know The abroad while the gent'eman from Ohio piltlilng about a micrometer us a ambassador to (Odenuous Congress seemed bent represents Fiance. w detemiring the full details of the Mann Probably tho Hon. "Jim proposed appropi iatiotv before, putting wove a subtle double meaning Into K "What is a mitrome-Krthgg the.r o ipustlon was raised, and they that eulogy of an Ohio astronomer thlrkmg of sending out for a representing his count! y "at it fullscientist to solve the est heght abioad, but there can be Gsiemnifiit no gam -- ay ing the-fa- et that the gentle-man'lndi e the s ti At question has bfjond all gentleman juncture the floor. He was from Ohm took proved himself a stai of the first magnitude In the diplomatic biown among his associates fiom the firmament. For he Is none other than Euckev e state as a lawyer, a manu the "Hon William Graves Sharp, the fjaurer of wood byproducts and char United States ambassador to France. e0Aj pig Iron, but not as an astrono un-th- e And-ew- bound-Althou- fci e n THE LAST ttlLLHM OR.ULS who ar.ived b a br.ef vls.t from tew rtav-- 1 ago on rarli after repr senting this Government so adequately and efficiertlv duung the whole e the woild war in the court of our great allv Ftame lit" ' will allot him a gieit place He went to Hails m the titful sun shine of that summer of 1914, just before the horiron was clouded bv the approach of the impending war He was (n Paris when the blow struck home, he stuck to N post while Von Kluck and the right wing of the hosts swept up to the verv gates of the French capital Thiough all the trying days foi Fiance and Eng land that followed he upheld the dignity of the Stars grid PtHpes at the Gei-ma- same time serving as the inteunediary for Germany and Austria W 1th the release of "f, ightfulnea and unrestricted submarine warfare Mr Sharp still clung to his country's patient tenets of neutrality until that day in Apnl nearly two yeais ago when the bHAKP die was cast sword with aid b tancc over there whm General Per-tg ir rived an,! made the pi grimage to the di tomb of Rdf ivitti, I i SOLDIERS like to kill each other? Is simply because it is a part of the game of war? Ask any returning soldier. In this case read the answer of an Italian officer, whose story is vouched for by no less an authority than Professor Vincenzo de Santo, specialist in philosophy, and formerly a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsjivania. roRTINARX was an e boy at a blacksmith shop i town of ths Abruzzi th fra t.rr e I met him about eight years He was then only twelv and be w,i by all the townfolk. on account of his eagerness i4f.arn and his A1 i t ap-Tr- t- kind-hearte- Big at that time were H had gone arimals i the flist few grades of Ulll P et i ary school, but eomenow ot) n had developed an intense IpnA-. any kind of printed tnat- kr ii s too poor to buy books, so ktll1 l"'irovv them from any one h w 1' nd them. And, In Justice to Up 'iv n, I must say that there !ei "one In it who wer ' rxi 1 Gp him along. 1 u,s M "i ling my vacation there V' i '"1 at times I amused my elf os him books that I knew d his age and education., Ifp A!- ' h or bo he would return - i a disappointed look on bis fr't p a! -- n he brought back a il of philosophy, I asked blip ' i read E bOOrl T hobl 'ps ! -i p v j v 12- 0-- "V 1 his ltr rather wouldnt kill a rabbit if they paid me a thousand lire I wouldn't kill even a " flv. Its terrible If dogs were good said, "that's to eat, mavbe they would shoot my he Init?" 'How do ou pronounce poor little Jedele." terrupted. That was the last time I saw Mario I repeated It and tiled to explain Its meaning. He laughed heartily, ae until the spring of 1916, at a training hs made repeated attempts at pro- camp In a mountain town not very far He recognized me nouncing the word, which In Italian Is away from Rome. first. If he hadn't told me who he was "P'lchtco" and It read pseekeeco There seemed to be something in the I would never have known him. He f this term which actually was a second lieutenant in the artilphonol'g lery and his ss,eech and manner were tickled h.m loved those of a perfect gentleman He had them all, As for anlma.s, he fond of an old and also grown up to be a strong, robust but was youth extrenifly uglv dog of a mixed breed, and very "Goodness," I said, "how long have with whom he shared his scanty meals unyou been in the armv? Whenever I teJS'd hln about the to used argue "Seven months,", he replied; six sightly thing he .first was not month at th military school in Turin, called him, h aa Tedele, that to at all uglv and then would begin . where I got my commission, and one faithful-newsmonth here rave about his exploits and '"Why, I thought you were too young was to be called to the colors," I reOne day I had hem hunting anj , marked. hangreturning home with a rabbitUnder a "I wasnt called, sir; I volunteered." m gun of end the at ing "You volunteered'" I said with some of the town. ahadv fig tree. Just with recalling the last conastonishment, the grass I saw Mario tting in I had had with him eight his in versation a dilapidated looking hook 'T thought you sakl once at before, years deeping dog hands ard h's faihiul kill a fly. What do you It was 2 o'ci k In the aft you wouldn't 'his Side to do when you go' up to the t expeit $! was he eony'ng ernoon anl ked. I front?" ai you reedu e' "lie gave me a severe military look, I bor h wh, rtader A yiird gram' with a significant smile. "You h e11 nnxid rowed from al er must r,ot Judge me by what I said and g1' "He Is a good old pt I whs a boy," 'he declared. "I am when lnfr-'s'books that are reallv I have rhanged. When now man a eyes I nlee.I that as he spoke hi I was I go up' I expect to kill aa many rabh-dad wer fixed upon f.e " f tadr.es. A c.oud dfrty Huns as possfble carrying home this point wsa at conversation Our but somfvvl.at soiled on the appeared on his the by appearance interrupted blark handsome face His laig of t in colonel charge the of scene between wa showed eomethmg that rfn a see to had I whom gone a moment of camp, horror and anger After I returned to Rom errand. How nuiitwy exoU.mcd. of deep thinking he little rab- that same day and heard nothing of -could JOU kill that poor of month February the Mario until bit?" . last year, when I read hi name in th said. I eat." to good "XVhy, thats honored for distinguished retoi ted. 1 list of th j don't care," h And what is this funny one hoi gloomy ftn- - aked. TscMc7" I good-lookin- g ou-id- ies'a-W'ha- 1 bq jou learn from it? I mg quite certain that hd stoyd a word of It. hnow " he replied, "but toe just philosophy treatise and ethics , bai r I P'pp 1 ni- i- busy for two hours anITt; q to waa about ipstions. He herl bp took the book'll) bis hand, j X'"ard the end and pointed bidtx. linger at a woid which had jn') s'ruck both his curiosity a&d mp 10 ' t - of ) huruor. - e i - i T u . ill'- ' t w ii .,i . ii.r v - 1 ' e i i H was te i m - i 'ii i 16 9 was w ' ,r a ma'i -- ity oa Burned ' nr f r ia a it r J a - e active business, it became the largest of Its kind In the country. life began under Hia rea politic those circumstances that sometimes discourage men. Named as a candidate for Congress in 1902, although tr - r ft III i n- - 3 4 i'r pfHi a iiclv hu MTct f n ti of Is r t H x ) i f J i1 la i l- i or h f of otnt i was t - 'n me race for riv . ith- but h - K f i Ha!e AT! 1 M II lie, ' I a 'e tt the Airier an r L J i ior and Mrs. . I tia: p children Tha 4 S Air Vi. rparp n PaHa hi g'rit v f ' a'ed by the r i in i i toe .4 of h I wife, w o i nr "vi.ii bv al" France. lrr ui the beg'nnlng Ambassadey Fbarp eeern-k- l to sense the gieat part to le flayed by the United 8tatee ht f k i j v t- K -- l in-- fa ira re 7 is t,'oie t wav unrestricted subitum' before flui g di.wfi the gaurtlet to M.i le'fcf Sharp held Par, German. to the bedef that America Inevitably must p'ar tho roe of peacemaker First a.s the repreeer.tatlve of a netk Iral Government, be dared not lntt me'k the poalttUty of military in tinention, but it waa in hi mind all (he time Then when we went in at last the ambassador to France waa " Fee to speak bis mind All the Allied Governments, as well as those of the neutrals," be said, "are looking to us to lead the way tn war a a In the peace to follow. The part which the United States should play and la expected to play In the worlds terrible crisis is a large and oomms tiding one; It will be great and beneficent only in the proportion that tt reflects the degree of united purpose of the American pfoplei Nothing could have been better said by any American any time anywhere than Ambassador Sharps laconic, "X know of no higher honor or title than to be an American citizen " i hs re wa-ft- in You may not agree with Mario Portinaris point of view, but you will concede that when it came to fighting the blond beast the Italian had a hard time living xrp to his con- victions. On the day the armistice was signed Portinari sighted over his battery piece directly upon a German artillery post where The many Germans were congregating. range was easy; the gun was working fine and a shot home well, twenty or more dead Huns. But five minutes remained until the armistice would go into efTett. At this juncture the most extraordinary thing hapThis story pened to the Italian officer. brings you to the staitling climax. services in battle The following waa the citation from the Supreme Command ; Portinari Mario Sublieutenant bronze medal and promotion to full lieutenancy On January 15, entirely of hi own will and at th risk of losing ' hie life, he rescued 2,'.0 horses from an Inclosure which was being heavily bombarded by the enemy The next time I heard from him wae also through a citation In a newspaper, which read' Portinari. sliver Captain Mi-l- o medal During the retreat from the Tagllamento the battery In hi charge wtrs overtaken by an enemy patrol He and his men fought despeiately, anrl .Hating the enemy, which was four times superior in number, and saving their gun " I wrote him, congratulating him on bis exploits and honors, but d'd not receive a reply until a few days ago The following la. In part, th letter he wrote "I have bcn In a hoepl'al here in Rome for 'about a week. 1 had to undergo a severe opeiatlon In my left shoulder, from which several piece of Although not mefal were extracted yet strong etoNgh to sxercise myelf, I am writing to you. for I am In a reminiscent mood "looking omr some papers X came arrows the letter vou wrnXe me In March of this year Tide letter, brought back to my memory that beautiful 'summer of long, long ago when we first met in the Abrurzl and also, very brief talk we had. at vividly.-th- e early In 916. Camp "t told you then that I had changed and that I Intended to kill as many Huns a I could.. Wejl. I want to confers, now that the whole thing ia oyer, that I was Just talking. I had not changed at all. The mere thought of killing any living thing, and eapwl!y r- W.3 You Have Done in a Case Like This? try and countenance the killfhg involved he saw the van ' there any personal satisfaction in jabbing a bayonet through the breast of an enemy or in dropping a shell plumb in an enemy trench? Or do men fight from sheer patriotic motives for the honor of their coun- lincenzo de Santo h guard of Aiifpruan eoMn-i- s aitive, saw our army grow guattr and greater until It moved out In splendid battle array, i pringlng up at Chateau Thierry and carrying on" from Lens to Be dan; he was there all through the glo r'oU summer and (all of 191S until thy Ormans shitted ft urn kamerad to Vcougl and signed the urmisMie, and now die is home for a bit of ir-- t after four and a haJf years of strenHON. WILLUM GRAVES SHARI uous diplomacy . U. S. ambassador to I ranee To have repieeented America in France during this epochal world war hoi in the most war the was something more t an Mr yiharp world ever has mmnen'ous nor of the known, had ever dreamed of back In the days close relationship Icetwcen France and when he was scanning the stars at inst a - two (.nat republics- - that Elyria, O. True enough, he aspired at would develop duung his tenure of one time to ambassadorial position, offic e but never for one moment suspected ''.An ambassador first duty is lo the important post he one day would maintain the friendliest relations be- - SHOT What Would J)0 B j 1 I b-- and th.a t,.me alaau.n ir! itea rr.ijurity ume ti of : " -- - t po'lii interfere with ov,whr m.ng.jr dw i u r .0 ,cn .i 111 it- - a4in cori tel to a i t but tbe l tun i -f U u m. i with the re!it 1 Then came the arim 'nurl to i unit m n of utilo Although a na'.v State he repi evented In Cot n,re-.- . for alx yeai hefi re taklr g up the t . -- n , ' appointment Aii.Iwr-- . id'-- S ; H tielongs to ilaj y land g' father. Gecr go W Si.arpe (the 'e was droppei tv tho grandeorn was editor of the Frederick jf Uien Hi Was a s'anch Democrat and served in the State Senae at Anniiii The family line goes back through th'eo centuriee to James Sharpe Aichbiahop of St at Edinburgh The ambaanador a grandfather le'e Maiyland in 1S34 arid married Ga o line Snider a datlghtei of Lrlten States Marelial Nlchoiaa Snider nute-- l He located in De'a for her beauty ware. O., twenty five miles north of Columbus, and assisted In founding Trom! Ohio V. eelevan Umver-lt- g nent aa a Dt mocrat, ho served in th At his death in Ohio legislature 181.4 he was editing the Delaware He had five daughters and Gaswtte two eons, the elder, George Snider Sharpe, the father of the ambassador. At Mount Gilead O, the future ambassador was born in 1859 After spending hia boyhood days in, that place be moved So TllyTla with hia grandparents, graduated from the public eehoola there and then from the University of Michigan In 18S1 he waa admitted to thebar In Ohio- and three years later 'began hia public life as prosecuting attorney in Lorain County. In 1892 he was a presidential elector. Politics, however, was not yet lila lino. He engaged in the manufao-turof pig Iron and chemicals and developed It o that for the rent twenty years, until he retired from I, 1 4,1 - g i e' " v.i, Gov t -- c at lv e S a l r o p.Lssport pioiot-l- i on Mi Sharp hai 1, i lete-btr- o ros i, i j-- f.oi "t Fir in-i- g taut i n-iu- 1 ti-- I -- nJ gjjl mer U. S. human hurt my very- - aoul. country, to our great cane and to humanity made me re-sto take the step I to k when I volunteered. That sarre duty mad m art aa a soldier should art when In battle I want to sav. however, that I felt, all the time I ws in eervir. I wagr that like a lamb In armor soldier nine hundred and nirie'y-niu- e out of a thousand in ths war felt the same a I d'd- - with-- , exception of tie T u i who have fTer-n- t nabeluga Duty to th il r,e rt " i Ideas rt ,t br,gii gup" "lie rt ad and Imr vnij o m different irh of the I do not nor do I think that thh k (hit P ntj lie atf'ed to many Kh for m, Italian or A! led soldiers I d mm h rather he railed an 'artificial horn po A expression t a I had been signed w had exactly six more hour of fighting. I had crossed the Plav with my battery. Tho order were to fight on with th The maximum Intensity enemy wa retreating In a great and dlaorderly rout. Only here and ther an enemy battery or machine-gunest put up eome resistance I had to follow the order and mv gun and my men never worked more The rapidity of our fire perfectly. wa maddcr.lt g Tie resul's among the routed enemy, who were grouped by hundreds and thousands along vis Ib'e roads and open fields, were stag n feeing, If I weie not wearing I never saw the hours drag watch so How I prayed that the time might "God, Lord cf Heavens, rush fly the hours!' These wer the unspoken words that cam to my lips hundred of times Fifteen minutes before the time to erase I spied frofii my observation point an enemy medium-calibegun firlr g in our d rertlon from five ir ea away By the Hint we found the r ght range on It ten m n'l's- - went bv AV had ouy five rno.-I waa rntnees Biout to give tre sig i! to fire when I obit cved 4 arge t um er of enemy "lil w) girt.t.njf aru ind the gun on u t, I ha w tr.i'ned mme They el-d'v r ib ti fo t e gin in their mad tic-ito U we er fr m o ir mawho we.e prrsu'ng il in g in ,i,i n tin m '1 cond not te'i vou ,dl the thought win ti t i!i nr mlr d at that ft' e ! a uniform I would have stopped firing Tbousuriii of atrocious thought went through mv In spite of the fart tlmt I had mind the greatest contempt for those beast sokl'er of shells while tip ly Huns, on account of their unsprak "I shot thou-andable crimes agalnet humanity and of t ei e and I r in te'l you that not many of them went atray But 1 am not all tbe.rruei and outrageous sufferings ti confess that each sh?P they had Inflicted on our people, It sent a pa n my hart when I hurt my very being to kill so many of them the last moment of the war thh igi f 1 Its effect "God' I shiU never be able to 'for get "This wn mv. fce'lng from the begin nng to the very end JThls same feel- those six Hours I would be the h man on earth If I could era-- e ing almost rost me my life, but 1 am not sot r) espee'ally because it turned that experience off my mird It whs 'ddt as It did right, it was Jurtbe Xrmri w'a'evei 'i angls you look at it tic "Th lat few hours of battle wer i writ they got, but oh, w .'t ' for me the most sfirring, the most and the mpsl painful of all through my heart. When I was a bov n tie All u rt y l.fe I do not mean pa nful to tha once iinKnowngly on a worm body, because I arn not referring to stepped f th wound I received on my shoulder When I obtetved the one hi of it had not bren which (rushed the iif'erii'g before fighting Jut iwo minutes ceaed. The wound, to be ur. was and struggling aga!nt deih 'I vied much more severe than tne other bitterly. "This absolute aversion to destroy ing three I had reretveJ at different which is so strong in tqy nature, periods In th last two and a half life, yeiiA I was at the front, but th bodily became more Intense after levrning that we had only a few more hours of peijl was' nothing compared with th and 1 must aduTit that It was and heart I fighting, in my experienced pain very bard to keep my tear In check soul. "Every fw minute I looked at m When I htdud that th armlallc s e- e m t't'iniw rr X .an I , v u on.v what I set mv w ttrti forwarl l.ve tnm-uand vi.cd yut to my n rn. Ceas d.d 1 file" w 1 1 ! , dirv s tie from till lai'e no-l , fcom me ,ly for six p i mv hi m.s ohrv 1 ei mve and art which remained u t nn atio-- r ; nt, u' In a daze, f r a men ent leering .n the d ec dn r ' the enemy s in which I had d sebv-er- el All-o- f few r j jtes before a sullen I bear 1, a turohiir s, miter I fooked ii uni t'moi rii the u ai d saw a i iq --dm l ir, - ,nK iohi th gun I shnu 1 towa-- d toy yo-- an That ber of J i have put out of action, t the lux' th ng t rememhave fought. vgit wat we lecovercd mv eti-- e lien I I" found m vie f m a field hospital. As soon a I could e;eak 1 inqutted whether of my men had been Irju'ed by slime she 1. "Hearing that I was the only hurt by it, I thanked God that I not fired my shot." lat any th one bad 4 p |