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Kicked by ChInu.

The diplomatic places of Japan are gen.
orally esteemed more desirable than those of
China. The Japanese are pleasanter peo-
pie and there is no danger of being mobbed
or stoned. Still, the Chinese Consuls are
better paid, and the Minister gets So, 600 a
year. Colonel Charles DENLY, of Indiana,
is our Minister to China, and he is so we'll
liked that during my stay paper was got
ten up, signed by the missionaries and 9TH
ers, asking the Government at Washington
to continue him in Office. He is a tall, fine
looking man of 60, with a smooth-shaven,
statesmanlike face, a bright blue eye and q
rather judicial aspect. His home at Peking
is in the Legation buildings, consisting of
a number OF one-story brick structures, COW
ering several acres and surrounded by an
imposinq wall of blue brick. The society
of Picking is made up of the missionaries,
the diplomats and the foreigners employed
bv the Emperor. The Minister is shut off
during three OF four months of the year
from visitors, as the river is frozen up, and
during this time he gets his mails about
three weeks after they arrive in China. The
Minister to China gets no favors from the
court he is not received by the better
classes OF the people, and his standing is a
humiliation to the United States. He has
good markets and can live, as far as the
creature comforts are concerned, as well at
Heklng as at home.
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Some Fat Positions.

The Minister to Korea gets 81, 500 year
and Mr.. Dinsmore, the present incumbent.
is one of the most popular of our foreign
Ministers. He was appointed through the
influence Of Attorney General Garland and
others, and he was not an ofice-seeker. He
stands very well with the King and the
Court, and it is due to his' nerve that the
foreign colony escaped so well the mob,
which arose when the missionaries were
charged by the people with killing babies
and grinding them up to make foreign medi-
cines. Mr.. Dinsmore is an Arkansas law
yer of about 35 years, and if he goes back
to America he will probably resume the
practice of the law. There is prospect, in
case Judge Denny should conclude to re-
sign, that Mr.. Dinsmore may succeed him
as advisor to the King.
The climate of Korea is fine, and the lega-
ton establishment is a compound or yard
surrounded by high wall and containing
half a dozen one-storv- Korean buildings.
The residence of the Minister has many
rooms finished with the great vanished
beams of Korean architecture and his parloT
and dining room are so arranged that they
can be thrown together. There is great
house at the back for the use of the Minis
ter's friends, and the ships, which arrive
every ten days or two weeks, bring all sorts
of delicacies from Shanghai, which is the
great foreign residence place OF the Western
Pacific. The Minister to Korea has guard
of II soldiers furnished by the King. When
he goes out to ride through the city he has
eight men in livery to carry him in his sedan
chair, and his soldiers march in front and
behind him.
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NIissionarie. in Japnn.

There are large number of American
missionaries in Japan. These have their
homes all over the country and there are ex-
tensive settlements in the larger cities. Like
all foreigners in the empire, the missiona-
ries have large houses and very comfortable
homes, and wereI going to choose country
in which to do missionary work I would
pick out Japan. The people here are more
clean and friendly than the Chinese and
they are as far above these heather of Siam
as we are above the Indians of our Western
plains. The field is good one, for three
1ourths of the Japanese are infdels and the
other fourth does not more than half believe
in the Buddhist religion. Our missionaries
are, am told, doing good work and they
have churches and schools everywhere. DR..
Hepburn, the author of the only English
Japanese dictionary, is an American, and
now in his seventies he prefers to live in
Japan. He has been here a lifetime and he
now acts as the President of missionary
college at Toxic. He came to Japan long
before the revolution and was me of the
first missionaries here. BE lives VERY nicely
IN Yokohama with his wife, who is, not
withstanding her three-score and odd years,
as spry and as bright as the doctor himself
Another of the pioneer Americans of Japan
is Doctor Simmons, of Toxic, who came out
to Asia as one of the first missionary doc
tors and liked it so well that he has re-
manned here to this day.
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American Merchants in Asia.

As to American merchants, there are a
number in ASA, though not so many, per-
haps, as there were ten years ago. Walsh,
Hill & Co. is one of the oldest firms in Ja-
pan. 1t does business with all parts of the
world and ships millions worth of goods to
America and Europe every year. 1t has
houses at Kobe and in Yokohama, and its
paper mill at Kobe is one Of the largest in
Japan, and it Will rank among the large
mills of the world. The two Mr.. Walshs, of
Japan, come of Georgia family, which aft
erward moved to New York, and they are
relatives of Congressman George Barnes, of
Georgia. Mr.. c. P. Hall, the young man
of the firm, is from Boston, and he is, like
his partners, good fellow, well read and
cultured.
The American merchants in China are
now to be found chiefly at Shanghai, but the
American firm of Russell & Co. is found
everywhere. 1t has its big houses at Hong
Kong, Canton, Tientsin, Shanghai and on
the island of Formosa, and it is one OF the
largest firms doing business in Asia. 1t had
for years its own ships, and its business
houses are like palaces. It has one at
Shanghai which would be good building
in New York or Boston, and which is point
ed out as one of the sights OF the city.
Smith, Baker & Co. is another American
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firm which does good business in Japan
and the China and Japan Trading Company
have houses in Japan and China, and send
their goods everywhere. found in Yoko-
hama and Toxic the japanese and Ameri-
can Trading Company, headed by typical
American merchant traveller in the person
of a Young man of 80. His name was E. V.
Thorne and he was introducing American
lamps and notions among the japanese, and
shipping goods home to America for sale.
He was advertising as freely as though he
were in big American city and his busi-
ness seemed to be good. l met at Toxic an
American named Clark, who was intro
ducing those globe-like bottles of fire ex-
tinguisher among the japanese and saw
the Waterbury watch wherever went 1t
sold in Japan for less than bought one be-
fore 1 left America and its agent, Mr.
Charles Flint, formerly of Washington, told
me he was selling them to the merchants by
the tens of thousands through his agent and
that he proposed to introduce them in Korea
and China. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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nalmetto ever saw was at Columbia, s. c.,
in November last. It was situated near the
State House and filled me with wonder anc
admiration. The odd endoginous trunk,
with its deep scars, and then above and
crowning all the delicate futed dark green
leaves, through which the gentle breezes
were almost cons tantly engaged in sough-
ing.
looked at it long time in silence, and
wrapped in profound admiration. Then L
went away and got friend to come and as
sist me in admiring the delicate beauty and
subtle perfume of the tree.
Chow wonderful" I said, "are the
works of the Creator. Who could
fashion the fronded palm or paint the
delicate fringe OF foliage that crowns
the graceful palmetto? Man may
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ALL AT REGULAR RATES.
The Queer Demands Made on Hotel Clerks
by Travellers.

The Queer Demands Made on Hotel Clerks
by Travellers.
Chicago Times.1
'You can't imagine the amount of extra
work we do for our regular guests" re-
marked Clerk Wiley at the Grand Pacific
last night, as he finished charging a hungry
looking man with an extra meal. "We re-
ceive kilograms from customers journeying
from East to West and vice versa to buy
them all sorts of things and do all sorts of
queer errands. Any like Communication
received from guest of the house always
receives our best attention. We came near
disappointing man last night, though.
just look at this telegram"
"'Have young, cunning Skye terrier at
hotel tonight; will pass through city
"The signature was unknown to me and I
put the message one side. After while I
picked it up and thought it joke from
some mellow travelling man.
''Then decided I'd have thedog but tell
no one about it in case it turned out game.
sent boy to dog fancier and he brought
back some kind of a purp. He had just
entered the hotel as an Ex-Governor from
Montana arrived and asked if I got his dog.
''It seemed he had promised his little girl
to bring home such pet, but heerrand had
slipped his mind till within few hundred
miles of this city. So he telegraphed u.s.
The operator had caught the name wrong,
and that's what bothered me.
''Our luck in getting the dog saved the
politician quite a few Montana dollars, be-
cause several bottles of champagne were
wagered on the chances of having his terrier
at the hotel when he came.
$50 you never thought hotel clerks had
to supply dogs for guests? Why, expect
someone will wire us to get divorce Tor
him, and have it down to the train when he
passes through"
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at all times. Vituperation, bitter words
and paucity of votes have kept me out of
politics and deprived the country of a man
who would otherwise have shone with a de-
gree of intellectual polish in any position
TO which he might have been called.
1 am indebted to Mr.. Sarenson, of Omaha,
and his justly celebrated history Of Omaha
for the facts given in this letter. The word
painting is my own.
/ may speak further of Nebraska in my
next letter. giving two or three columns Of
thrilling statistics and bright, racy gossip
relative to the crop, acreage and mean tenn
perature.
Imay also speak of the Prohibition move
ment in Iowa, showing how it has embit-
tered the life of the saloon keeper and built
up and fostered the drugstore in its stead,
also showing the great falling off in the con-
sumption of whisky, and so forth, while the
price of liniment has gone up 100 per cent
BILL NYE.
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PopuIar Americans.

The Consul General to Japan is Mr..
Greathouse, a Kentuckian by birth, who
was appointed by President Cleveland from
California, where he has been living for
some wears. He has comfortable home at
Yokohama, and the foreign community
there is the largest in the empire OF the
Mikado. Consul Jernigan, OF North Caro-
lima. has a pleasant station at Kobe, and
his salary is 3d. 500 year. He is tired of
consular work, and is so anxious to get back
to his law practice in the United States
that he told me he intended to resign,
whether President Cleveland was elected or
not. He has made an excellent Consul, and
his reports are among the best that have
come to the State Department.
Consul Birch, at Nagasaki, is another
popular consul. He is young West Vir-
ginian who believes in American rights and
who stands up for them. Not long ago there
was dinner given at Nagasaki and Mr..
Birch asked permission to bring Admiral
Shufeldt with him to the dinner. The En-
glish Consul, who had the dinner in charge,
objected, saying that none but residents Of
Nagasaki were to he invited. Upon coming
to the table Mr.. Birch was surprised to see
this same English Consul bring to the table
a captain from one of the English men-of-
war in the harbor. He at once arose and
left the table, and the other Americans who
were present, as soon as they apprehended
the insult, did likewise. The action SO
alarmed the consul that he apologized to
Mr.. Birch, and since then the Americans
have had things pretty much their own way.
The consular residence in Nagasaki is one
OF the preytiest places in Japan. 1t is a
large cottage on a hillside overlooking a
beautiful harbor, and here Mr.. Birch keeps
bachelors hall and carries on the consular
business.
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moderately well paid, and not few of them
are Republicans, who have been retained
by the present administration. Charles
Seymour, at Canton, is one of the most
valuable men in the service aud he has one
of the most difficult of our consular posi-
tions. He is Republican from Wisconsin
and has served under several Presidents.
Consul General Kennedy lives at Shanghai.
he receives s., 600 year and his reputa-
ton for efficiency is far above par. L am
told that the people of Shanghai will petit
tion his retention, but his place is good
one and the fact that he comes from South
Carolina will operate against him. One of
General Kennedy's secretaries is Mr..
George Shufeldt, the son of Admiral
Shuieldt. He has been connected with the
Shanghai consulate for the past eight years
and understands the consular business of
China. He is a graduate of Cornell and as
he is Republican, it is thought that he
will be given one of the good-paying con-
sulates under the new administration. The
vice consul, Mr.. Emmens, is a fluent
Chinese scholar and like Mr.. Chesire, the
Chinese secretary of the legation at Peking,
he is an appointee who gets his place more
from the necessity of his service than from
any political influence.
Consul Smlthers, of Tientsin, is Della
ware man. He has been in the consular
service at different places for more than a
score of years and is Republican. The
consul at Hong Kong is Virginia Demo
crat, and the consulate at Fuchau will be
vacated by the resignation of Mr.. Charles
Wingate, who, though Republican, is
tired of Office and is going back to his farm
in New England. The Annoy consul will
probably be retired, and all told there will
be half dozen fairly good places in China
and Japan open to the Republicans.
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suit he at once sent in his resignation to
Secretary Bayard to take effect in March
next. and he has just returned to Bangkok
to complete a work which he is preparing
on Siam and the Siamese. He has been
gathering notes for this book during his
four years stay here, and he writes at it
daily, clicking out his poetic opinions of
these strange people upon an American
typewriter. He tells me he has enjoyed his
stay in Siam, but that he is glad to go home
and that he will again take his chair as ed
itorof the Richmond, Mo-, COnserUdtor with
pleasure The nilsson to Siam is worth 5000
gold dollars year, and Bangkok is one of
the few places in the world where Uncle
Sam owns his own house. The legation
building is a big, rambling, twO-story
structure with wide verandas running
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around both stories and with great porches
looking out upon the waters of the busy
Menan river and its thousands of floating
houses. A garden of tropical plants and
great trees surrounds the house, sloping
down to the banks of the river in front
These trees are filled with birds, which
keep up a continuous singing the year
round. Gorgeous flowers bloom in the
gardens, and the verdure is always green.
The minister goes from one part of this city,
of the size of Chicago, to another in his own
gondola, rowed by three dark-skinned men
in livery of colored cotton, and when he
takes drive his carriage is managed by a
Maylay coachman, who drives like Jehu
and cuts the Siamese vagrsnts to make them
keep out of the way. Bangkok has a pleas
ant foreign colony, and the climate though
hot in the summer is on the whole healthy
and pleasant
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GIRLS AS REFORMERS.

How the DamseIs Can Succeed EfFecfually
as Temperance Workers.
Punxsutawney Spirit.1
Girls, you have it in your power to make
every young man in this country who is
worth picayune,- temperate and indus
trious. Simply refuse to recognize the youth
who gets drunk and the youth who shows a
disposition to live on the labor of others.
That will fetch them to time blamed quick,
and you can bet your hustle on it. There
isn't young man in America to-day who
amounts to shucks that could stand it to be
boycotted by the girls. Not one.
Those who haven't sense enough to like
the girls, and a disposition to be spooney at
times, are too totally depraved to be taken
into the account, and they might as well
make beer tanks of themselves as anything
else. They are no good nohow.
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and rigid integrity. Manly beauty charac-
terized the males, and female beauty seemed
to eonfne itself mainly to the women and
girls of the ribe.
In 1904 Messrs. Lewis & Clarke, who
were doing a general discovery business,
camped at what is now Council Bluffs.
They held a treaty with hostile Indians at
this point, under the provisions of which
the Indians were firmly bound by those
present to avoid killing the Messrs. Lewis &
Clarke. They also decided few counties to
the white man in consideration Of 20 cents
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Influential Americana.

The foreign adviser of the State Depart
ment at Toxic is Mr.. Henry Denison, a
young New Englander, of about So. He has
fine house furnished him by the Mikado
and has received rank from the Emperor,
He gets high salary and he is esteemed
one of the most valuable of the foreigners
connected with the Japanese Government.
He has more influence than any other Amer
ican in Japan. and he is constantly dealing
with matters connected with America.
Another American connected in re-
sponsible way with the government of the
Mikado is a tall, fne-looking, gray-mus-
tached gentleman, who has been in Japan for
a quarter of a century. This is Mr.. Peyton
Joudan, of Baltimore, who went there as
boy and has been employed there ever since.
In the educational branches of the Jap
anese kingdom, Americans hold high rank.
There are not SO many connected with the
imperial university as there were a few
years ago, owing to the principle adopted
by the Japanese of not allowing foreigners
to do for them anything that they can get or
teach the japanese to do. Still Prof Fen
alossa, of Salem, Mass, is now the great art
critic of japan, and he is, 1 am told, to have
the charge OF the old art works of the en-
pire, which largely through his efforts are
now being collected by the Government
and preserved. Prof. Fenalossa looks upon
Japanese art as the great art development
of the world, and he says that Europeans
and Americans have as much to learn in art
from Japan as Japan can learn from them.
He has made study of Japanese art since
he came to Japan. decade ago, to take a
place in the university, and he is an en-
thusiast upon the subject. During my stay
in Japan he was travelling over the empire
Al L. =
ter, Mr.. Kuki, collecting the art works
about Kioto, and having some of the most
noted of these photographed by the court
photographer. Mr.. Fenalossa is married,
and his wife, New England lady, is one
of the court circle of Toxic.
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A Lawyers LIBERALITY.
He Collects n Bill For Widow and Takes
All the Money for His Fee,

ne COHectS n Dill rOr u WIDOW uuu Aakeb
All the Money for His Fee,
Boston Courier.1
1t was in the town of Stoneham that there
abode lawyer thrifty and keen in his pur-
suit of the root of all evil. And of him it
is told that on one occasion he was employed
by poor widow to collect debt OF S23 AZ
which was due her.
The lawyer succeeded with little difficulty
in securing the money, the person who owed
it being ready enough to defraud the poor
widow, but having wholesome fear of the
law before his eyes. The LAWYER sent forthe
widow to tell her Of his success, and great
was her joy, since sorely did she need it.
II Isuppose," she said, with hesitation,
after he had related his success, that I owe
you something for your work.
"Well," he replied, with an air Of the
greatest magnanimitY, Il ought to charge
you $25; but know you are poor, and you
need not bother about the other 81 53."
And the widow went home sorrowful, but
wiser than she had been before.
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to the purchasing value of our consular and
diplomatic salaries all through the east, A
salary of So, 800 out here becomes about
81, 500, and salary of $4,000 in gold is
$15,0 900 in silver. Servants are cheaper IN
the East than in America and the diplomats
have, as a rule, three servants here where
they have one at home. In Korea, CHINA
and Siam Chinese servants are used and all
ministers and consuls use Chinese cooks.
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Gala Premium.

This matter of living well is the same in
Japan. Our minister has as good markets
as those of Washington or New York to
supply his table and he has big house,
rent tree. Minister Hubbard receives S12,-
OO0 year and this it must be remembered,
is in gold. Silver is current in Japan and
the rate OF exchange adds at least oneTourth
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NYE AS A BOTANIST.
he is Impressed by the Beauty Of
Natures Handiwork as Shown in
A PALMETTO TREE MADE OF IRON.
Bill Does Some Eloquent but HySterical
Word Painting.
LEGENDS OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
WEST OF THE MISSOURI,
AND STILL DOING THE
WESTWARD HOI ACT.

THERE are
no palmettos in
the = State of
Nebraska, but
there are other
fora, such as
corn, b e a n 8,
s u C c o tas h,
wood, ,cordwood
and live stock
in great profu-
sion. The first
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claim and hence the quarrel. Now Ii is
doing all in his power to oust Judge Denny,
Judge Denny lives at the capital of Korea
and he has there as nice home as one
could wish. OF one story, it extends over
several acres and it is sort of mixture of
Korean architecture and American comfort.
1t is one of the finest places in Seoul, and
Mrs. Denny, an accomplished American
lady, and not Korean as has been stated,
presides over it. I am told that Judge
Denny has salary of $12, 900 year from
the King, and he ought to be worth at least
that to Korea. he is a fine lawyer, man
of culture, and through long training, added
to natural ability, one of the shrewdest
diplomates of the East.
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AMERICANS IN ASIA.
How Many of Our Citizens Live in
Japan, Korea, Siam and China.
SOME OF OUR ASIATIC DIPLOMATS
Who They Are, What They Get, and Some
thing About Their Homes.
AMERICANS WHO ADVISE MONARCHS
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1spArcz.1

BANGKOK,
SIAM, March 10.
The Hon. Ja-
cob T. Child, our
Minister to the
court of Siam,
was in tn e
United States at
the time of the
Presi d e n tt al
election. Upon
til e announce
ment of the re-
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Whr thc I.lon. pidn,. Es. paniel.

Baltimore American
A Kentucky authority asserts that Daniel
wasa lawyer. If this is true, it explains
why the lions refused to institute habeas
corpus proceedings. They preferred hunger
to the risk of a long speech from the de-
fense.