A STORY AND ITS APPLICATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5669, 17 August 1905, Page 7

A STORY AND ITS APPLICATION.

(To the Editor "N.Z. Times.”) Sir.—X have been reading in T.P.’a “JEA..P." a highly-appreciative notice of Mr Hay, the late Secretary of State in America, really the Foreign Mniater. After referring bo the many high positions the late accomplished statesman filled with such great credit as his varied ability merited —the highest being Ambassador at Loudon—T.P. tells the following affecting story:—"He was not a man who could take his work lightly; he stuck to his desk for days, and he had nut very strong health. He said to a friend of mine once one of ihe most pathetic and saddening things I have over heard; one of those sayings which reveal what misery there often is behind what the world thinks mighty posit.ons, and successful and glittering careers. This friend of mine was asking Mr Hay to do something which entailed some trouble. Courteously expressing his readiness to oblige—he was always courteous to all comers—he added, wild a look that haunted: ‘ Don’t you know that lam the most tired man in all the world ?' And the wistful look in hifi eyes, the drawn face, the enfeebled walk, above all, the expression of overwhelming weariness in his face, gave but too much emphasis to this sad cry from the heart.” Such is T.P.’s narration, and it awakens in my mind the idea that some such feeling as that descr.bed must at times arise in the mind of onr own over-worked Premier, who, in the fonnn and elsewhere, is being baited and maligned by political opponents, who disregard the heavy responsibilities Mr Seddon’s office enforces, and some of whim are not worthy to unlace his boots. —1 am, etc., SENEX. August ISth.