Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-03
Fcom China,
ARRIVAL IF MINISTER ANGEL. AT rEKIN AN
AMERICAN DoCTREsS.

hhiNr A''P'. AtV''
Leaving Tientsn by river boat on the l6t
inst, the envoy and commissioners appoint
ed by the United States Government TO re
view the Burlingamc treaty arrived in Pekil
four days later. The project was by N
means such a fctc as that made by Mr.. An
gell and his party six weeks previously. Ii
the interval the weather had time and oppor
tunity TO change, and that considerably ant
for the worse. Steady rain, strong adverse
current and raw GOODNESS were the cond
tions under which this later voyage was eff
fected. and the residence on the boats was
ANYTHING but foretaste of paradise. How
ever, tallt 6ien que NAL, the terminus was at
tained, and Their Excellencies, Messrs. An
CELL Swift and Trescot, are all now in the
capital of the Celestial Empire, the scene OF
many diplomatic contest such as that
which awaits them. Prince Kung and the
other members of the foreign office have paid
their respects to the delegates of the United
States, and tomorrow will be formally and
officially requested to appoint plenipotentiar-
| les to treat with the commission.
The potent viceroy, Ii Hung Chang, may
DO willing to sanction a total experimental
and temporary cessation of Chinese immigra-
tion into the territory of the United States,
but in this present mood would certainly not
care to approve any half ,iSaSures Ii the
tenor of the instructions given TO the repre-
sentatives of power at Washington and their
own perception of their duties and of the
desires of the sovereign people leap in the
same direction the matter may be easily and
even rapidly, if contemptuously on the part
of China arranged. Naturally enough the
| Commissioners have not made up their minds
what course they will pursue. They have
| their proposals for the limitation of Chinese
emigration 10 their country, under certain
! conditions of number, pecuniary qualifica-
| tion, female accompaniment aud SO forth.
And now-an unprecedented incident in the
annals of Chinese diplomatic intercourse with
/ Occiden,a!s- they are in possession of a
| tolerable amount Of certainty as to the ma
ture of the countcr-clam with which they
will be met. My impression is that they are
| not altogether easy or sanguine as to the re-
suit, and certainly at first sight their task is
not pleasant one. What have they to ask
/ to abrogate? The Chinese think that 1t is
virtually that pleasant and uninterruptedy
| cordial relation which has long existed be-
tween the two governments
In the Burlngamc treaty, ratified in 1879
We have that nobly wordcd recognition of
the inherent and inalienable right of man to
change his home and allegiance, and also the
| mutual advantage of the free migration and
emigration from the one country
| TO the other for the purpose of curiosity or
trade or as permanent residents. The high
contracting parties, therefore. join in repro
batting any other than an entirely voluntary
emigration" etc. The only negative sen-
tence in the whole document is this: But
/ hovaip contained cbult hn hold
confer naturalization upon citizens Of the
United States in China nor upon the subjects
of China in the United States" Mutual en-
joyment of oil the privileges of public educa-
tional establishments in either countryls con-
ferred and 'thc United States, always dis
claiming and discouraging all practices of
unnecessary dctation and Intervention by
one nation in the affairs or domestic admin
straton of another, 10 hereby freely dis
clam any intention or right to intervene"
etc Now the Chinese mind does not COM
prchend inhcXlons in logic. Here, it is al
most certain to argue, with calm rigidity, no
one part Of such an arrangement US this can
be altered without changing the whole
Denied the right of the Chinese to change
their home and their allegiance, of what use
maintaining the remainder OF this f1owery
compact The argument may, and proba-
bly, will in debate, Ea carried further. ''lf
Chinese may not 90 to America why should
your citizens be allowed to come TO the Celes-
tial land 2:
PRINCE II AND HIS WIFE.
Lii has decided proclivity for Western no
tons and kind of liking for the barbar-
ian, especially the American section of that
class. THIS sentiment has been heightened
in the course of the last twelve months by
an episode which may b. called providential
and the consequences of which are growing
in beneficial iurartta &c 10. III the for
1 ,isn Journals published in China and Japan
it has been mentioned that the assistance OF
n young American lady doctor had been call
ed to the wife of the Niccrov when Chinese
medical art had failed, and that the foreign
practitioner had effected a marvellous cure.
1t was occasionally subsequently, mentioned
that the circumstance had caused the prac-
tice of Western science to come into special
favor with the inhabitants of this portion of
China and that more extensive develop
ments might occur This conveyed a very
feeble outline of what Eas really been ac-
complishcd. Lady Ii, an amiable and ac-
complished Chinese lady ot about forty years
of age, was suffering from local complaint
which often yields 10 the treatment OF Occi-
dental experience aud skill. bat which, 1t
appears has thoroughly haiici the most pro
found attanments Of Chinese prescribers and
operators. Many large spectacled, long nail
ed and prctcntious Galens had been consult
/ ed At last the care of the maady was in
| trusted to
AN AMERICAN DoCrEEss.
/ Miss L. A. Howard, VI. D., attached TO the
/ American Methodist Episcopal Mission i'll
| Pcking, had already effected some unexpect-
ed cures among the poorer classes. l need
hardly explain that for a foreign male rrac-
| ttioner to be allowed access to a Chinese
lady of rank under similar circumstances
would be concession that the certainty oi
her dying many times would not elicit. For
| Western woman to be 50 employed was
something extraordinary, hat not of lnsuper-
| able diihculty-at least To- IA man with the
advanced ideas of the Guvtrncr-General oi
Pechili. The blow must have been not the
employment of II foreigner of whichever sex,
I but the implied admission of the superiority
of Western ability in medical lore, and the
consequent induction Of II stranger, not into
camp, mart, Il mine. or an arsenal but
into occupacy OF Il Chinese palace and IN
timacy with all its rou'ine, It's seclusion anc
its secrets. When called upon Miss DIR. How
ard was by no means delighted with the pros
pect. Only when the fine opportunity whlcl
successful treatment Ot an illnstriou:
patient might afford for future work OF
healing and mercy was represented 10 hel
did she consent IL leave her few destitute
patients in Pekin, bcta,e herself to the pro
vincial capital and hazard the new cxperl
cnce of life in n viceregal yamen. Her lie
csion was rewarded with the fullest measure
of success. Apartments close 10 those o
Lady Ii were assigned to her, and ior ST.
weeks sheoccupied them, curing her patient
to whom and to whose following she greatly
endeared herself, and creating an ineradica
BILE respect for the profession which sl
aderns, and its impersona,ion in herself. Is,
the help of Lady Lis grateful bounty Mis-
Howard has been enabled to establish sur
gerry and dispcnsary for women-a kind o
out hospital, in fact in Iicntsin, near the vice
regal residence Her daily roll in this plac
has attained AN average of over two hundre
patients, and she has much mission wor
in Tientsin as well so tha, there is one nc
bic young American woman doing ut leas
her share toward the advancement Of en-
lightened civilization and practical Chris
tianity in China.
1t happens that Dr. Howard graduate
from Ann Arbor Mich University, and tla
her diploma bears the signature of -. i
Angell," so that she and the present Unite
States ambassador To China have that kin
of acquaintance which may subsist betwee
/ the student and the principal of a college |
. this instance fancy cx pupil and ex mast,
have an equal pride and interest in each oil
er. The Niccroy's wife asked her adviser
with true Oriental Hatttte, whether M
/ Angel is good man. On receiving d'
cidedly affirmative reply Her Ladyship sal,
warmly, Il am 50 glad. If you say he
good we know he must be good" Mere il
significant incident, all this, perhaps. but
. me significant as showing. like the win,
a waited feather, the direclionoi the breeze.
!. Never has the capital been ST. full of fo
t eigners. Our commissioners are not y,
! housed they are inmates of the Amcrica
!, Legation, which is thus crowded To owe
!, flowing, and the new minister las not bee
: able to complete his furnishing. Sur Thom'
Wade, the British envoy, has kindly come
/ the rescue and rendered To the new come
Il one of his houses.
Il OVER TIE LAKE An old man nam,
: Wcathcrwax, residing ut Port Douglas, w
A Instantly killed Friday morning by the MOI