Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-21


General Kennedy lives at Shanghai. He re-
ceives IS 900 year and his reputation for
efficiency Is far above par. l am told that
the people OF Shanghai will petition hrs re-
tention, but his place is good one and the
fact that he comes from South Carolina will
operate against him. One OF General Ken
nedy's secretaries is MIR. George Shufeldt,
the son OF Admiral Shufeldt. 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 Repub-
lican, it is thought that he will be
given one OF the gcod-paying con-
sulates under the new administration. The
vice consul, MIR. Emmens, is a fluent Chinese
scholar, and, like MIR. Cheshire, the Chinese
secretary of tho legation at Pekng, he Is an
appointee who gets his place more from
the necessity OF his services than from any
political influence.
Consul Smithers Of Tientsin is Delaware
man. He has been In the consular service
at different places for more than a score OF
years, and is a republican. The consul at
Hong Kong is Virginia democrat, and the
consulate at F'uchau will be vacated by the
resignation of MIR. Charles Wingate, who,
though a 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 a dozen fairly
good places in China and japan open to the
republicans.
visited which has not large foreign col
ony. There are thousands of men and wo-
men from England and America in China
and japan, and there is colony of hun
dred or so in Korea. The foreigners have
the control of the customs service IN China.
The head Of the Chinese navy Is an English
naval officer, and Americans act as the
foreign advisers to the governments of
Japan and Korea. Judge Denny, the foreign
adviser to the king of Korea, met at Seoul,
the capital. He is an Oregon man. who was
Judge before he entered our consular ser
vice and who served for number of years
as consul to Tientsin, and also as consul gem
eral at Shanghai. He is acknowledged to be
one of the bright men on the Asiatic coasts.
He is perhaps the only foreigner who has
been able TO carry on long fight with Ii
Hdng Chang, and that with success. Ii
Hung Chang is the secretary of state to the
emperor of China. He is the strongest man
in the empire, and it was through his in
fuence that Judge Denny was appointed to
his present position. Az this time Ii Hung
Chang was IN favor of the Independence of
Korea, but he has since changed his mind
and he wants it to be looked upon
as subordinate to China. Judge Denny,
as the adviser of the king, refuses
to advise his majesty to acknowledge
the claim and hence the quarrel. Now Ii is
doing all in his power to oust Judge Denny,
but so far his attempts have been in vain.
Judge Denny lives at the capital of Korea
and he has there as nice home as one could
wish OF one story, 1t extends over several
acres and it is q 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 a Korean as has been stated, presdes
over it, am told that Judge Denny has n
salary of S12, 900 year from the king, and
and he ought to be worth at least that to
Korea. He is q fine lawyer, a man of cul-
ture and through long training, added to
natural ability, one of
THE sHREwDEsT DIPLOMATS OF THE EAST.
The foreign adviser OF the state depart
ment at Toxic is Mr.. Henry Denison,
young New EnglanGer, of about thirty-five.
He has fine house furnished to him by the
mkado and has received a rank from the
emperor. He gets high salary and he is es-
teemed one of the most valuable of the for
eigners connected with the Japanese govern
ment. He has more influence than any other
American In Japan, and he is constantly
dealing with matters connected with Amer
lea.
Another American connected in RESPONSE
BILE way with the government of the Mikddo
is tall, finelooking, gray mouEtached gen
tlemen, who has been in Japan for u quarter
of a century. This is Mr.. Peyton Joudan, of
Baltimore, who came there as boy and has
been there ever since.
In the educational branches of the Japan
ese kingdom, Americans hold high rank.
There are not so many connected with tho
imperial university as there were few
the Japanese OF not allowing foreigners to
do for them anything that they can got or
teach the Japanese to do. Still Prof.
Fenalossa, of Salem, Mass, is now
is, l am told, to have the charge of
the old art works of the empire, 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 the Europeans and Americans
have as much to learn in art from Japan as
Japan can learn from them He has made
a study of Japanese art since he came to
Japan, decade ago,to take place in the uni
versity, and he is an enthusiast upon the sub
ject. During my stay in Japan he was tray
cling over the empire in company with our
late Japanese minister, MIR. Kuki, collecting
the art works about kioto, and having some
OF the most noted Of these photographed by
the court photographers. MIR. Fenalossa is
married, and his wife, n New England lady,
is one of the conrt circle of Toxic.
The head of the agricultural college Of
Japan is an American who is also married
and who has family here with him Prof.
Georgeson was connected with several of
the leading agricultural colleges of the
United States before he came to Japan.
His last position was IN the agricultural uni
versity of Texas. He now has a fine posi-
tiOn here and is aiding the mlkado to intro
duce improved methods into Japanese farm
ing and stOck-raising. A large part of
Japan is uneultivated, and the people, owing
to their Buddhist religion not having been
nation of meat-eater5 in the past, have
never paid much attention TO the raising Of
cattle or sheep. Prof. Georgeson believes
that this will in time change, and that vast
areas which are not now farmed will be
eventually brought under cultivation.
There are a large number of American
missionaries in Japan. These have their
homes ali over the country, and there are
extensive settlements In the larger cities.
Lake all foreigners in tho empire, the mis-
sionaries have large houses and very com
Portable homes, and were l going to choose
a country in which to do missionary work,
1 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-fourths of the Japanese are
intidels 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 q lifetime and he now acts as the
president of a missionary college al Toxic.
He came to Japan long before the revolution
and was one OF the first missionaries here.
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