wrote as requested by the grand vizier to Doctor Gilman, and
tendered congratulations. The fact was sent out briefly from
Washington by Associated Press. This official recognition by
the Government and by the newspapers was all and more than
Stetson wanted. He took off his coat and with a megaphone,
rather than a pen, told the people of the United States who
Doctor Gilman was, who the Sultan was, what a Grand Cross
was, and why America's greatest historian was not without
honor save in his own country. Columns of this were paid for
and appeared as "patent insides," with a portrait of Doctor
Gilman taken from the STILLWATER COLLEGE ANNUAL, and a
picture of the Grand Cross drawn from imagination, in eight
hundred newspapers of the Middle, Western, and Eastern
States. special articles, paragraphs, portraits, and pictures
of the Grand Cross followed, and, using Stillwater as his
base, Stetson continued to flood the country. Young Hines,
the local correspondent, acting under instructions by cable
from Peter, introduced him to Doctor Gilman as a traveller
who lectured on Turkey, and one who was a humble admirer of
the author of the "Rise and fall." Stetson, having studied it
as a student crams an examination, begged that he might sit
at the feet of the master. And for several evenings, actually
at his feet, on the steps of the ivy-covered cottage,
the disguised press-agent drew from the unworldly and
unsuspecting scholar the simple story of his life. To this,
still in his character as disciple and student, he added
photographs he himself made of the master, of the master's
ivy-covered cottage, of his favorite walk across the campus,
of the great historian at work at his desk, at work in his
rose garden, at play with his wife on the croquet lawn. These