Since Barnard must go, in accordance with the War " Department's way of running things, we Jare more than rejoiced that Mace grader is coming back to carry en with the campaign of relentless sanity. But when we reflect upon what each has done as a soloist, we cannot help wishing that we had them both Here working in duo, Things might then look up a bit.
The writer ig not in the habit Jof gurgling in this fashion over a cHange of Attache in anyone's. Legation and, since he takes the trouble to say so much in this instance, a number of suspicious readers will probably Jeap to. the conclusion that both Col. Joseph Barnard and Col. John Macgruder lave decidedly dangerous persons. This they really ave not. They just happen to share an endowment of Jcommon sense which is the usual thing in almost any part of the world but China, and which dis {tinguishes one in' no profession but that of diplomacy.
Ars, John Macgruder was former ly Miss Helen Schurman, the daughter of the present American Am-lin, latterly in China, ily welcomed back to Peking by the whole community.
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