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case, which I cannot say was conducive to respect for the 

 wisdom of those who give laws to our country. 



But, happily, I had insisted on inserting in the lease 

 a clause which seemed to make it doubtful whether the 

 proprietor could turn me out so easily and speedily. Un 

 der German law it was a very precarious reliance, but 

 on this I took my stand, and at last, thanks mainly to the 

 kindness of my colleague who succeeded me as a tenant, 

 made a compromise under which I was enabled to retain 

 the apartment for something over a year longer. 



It may be interesting for an American who has a proper 

 feeling regarding the position of his country abroad to 

 know that the purchaser of the entire house not only of 

 the floor which I had occupied, but of the similar apart 

 ment beneath, as well as that on the ground floor was 

 the little Grand Duchy of Baden, which in this way pro 

 vided for its minister, secretaries, and others connected 

 with its legation in the German capital. 



On the theory of line upon line and precept upon pre 

 cept, I again call attention, not to the wrong done me by 

 this American policy, or rather want of policy, for I 

 knew in coming what I had to expect, but to the injury 

 thus done to the proper standing of our country before the 

 other nations of the world. Again I insist that, in its own 

 interest, a government like ours ought, in every capital 

 where it is represented, to possess or to hold on long lease 

 a house or apartment suitable to its representative and 

 creditable to itself. 



Early in the spring of 1900 came an event of some his 

 torical interest. On the 19th of March and the two days 

 following was celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary 

 of the founding of the Royal Academy of Sciences. The 

 Emperor, as well as the Academy, had determined to make 

 it a great occasion, and the result was a series of very 

 brilliant pageants. These began by a solemn reception 

 of the delegates from all parts of the world in the great 

 hall of the palace, my duty being to represent the Smith 

 sonian Institution at Washington, and my colleagues being 



