Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — Diplomacy and Chinaware. [ARTICLE]

Diplomacy and Chinaware.

M. Henan, in introducing De Lesseps to the French Academy, told a little story illustrative of the childish jealousy of the barbarian against which the wise diplomat has so carefully to guard. It was of Said Pasha and the Suez Canal matter that Renan was speaking; “The barbarian is always a child, and this friendship might have been broken like a goblet. This you knew; and in the whole relationship your rich and supple readiness appears. It is only the strongest natures which know how to deal with barbarians. Said had in this journey a service of Sevres china, and you had another. In spite of all precautions, the service of the Viceroy was broken to atoms, while yours was complete. This would never answer, and so, one day, the well-trained camel who carried your equipments was replaced by one almost wild, and specially lively. Nor did you care to change back again. It was hut a few minutes before your Sevres service also flew in pieces. The Viceroy broke out into laughter, and the enterprise of the Isthmus was saved.”