Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-07

had little trouble as to my clothes, for you
know we have in the Orient gorgeously
dressed draymen called kayasses to go with
US everywhere and clear the way. These
men are as gay as Solomon in his glory.
They have silver-headed staffs, great swords,
and they are pompous as an English beadle.
They ride beside theicoachman of the Minis
ter when he goes out to drive, and they ac-
company him everywhere"
"The Minister'S evening dress suit, " said
Judge Ward, twas fully as much of a
trouble to our diplomats of the past genera
tion AS of the present one. 1t had troubled
our Ministers long before the war, and got
around it in very nicetway. had never
been in the army, but the Chatham Artil-
lery of Chatham, Georgia, had elected me
captain of their company, and, as such, I
had a very dressy captains uniform. Be-
fore leaving for China, 1 had the military
lace taken off of the coat, and the finest of
diplomatic gold lace put on. This trans
formed the uniform into diplomatic uni
form, and the buttons of the uniform were
especially fine. They were labelled C A.
standing for Chatham Artillery, and re-
member when 1 sailed up the Peiho river
on my way to Peking, retinue of manda-
rims accompanied me.
America and Americans were then
newer to the,Chinese than they are now, and
these mandarins were much interested in
my dress. They especially admired the
buttons. and asked me what the characters
on them meant. They were the more de-
lighted when 1 replied:
ARTISTIC PREvARIcATIoN.
"Those characters are the two American
letters G and A. They stand for our two
nations China and America, and our people
have so great an admiration for their friends
of the Celestial Land that they have put
China first
The idea that afar off in America we had
planned such q delicate compliment to
China delighted the mapdarins, and this
story paved my way into their favor. 1t
came all the more pat from the fact that we
had had a discussion as to which of the flags
should have the place of honor on the boat,
the American or Chinese. This had been
arranged according to my suggestion that
the Chinese flag, inasmuch as it was that of
the Mighty Son of Heaven, the Chinese EN-
peror, should be first on the Prov of the boat,
and that the American Stars and Stripes
should go behind it on the topmast. OF
course, this put our flag as the flag of the
boat, but the Chinese did not know it, and
they accepted my solution of the problem
with glee.
~General Wallace was partially indebted
TO his general uniform for his friendship
with the Sultan, said Mr.. Straus. "He is,
you know, a fine looking man, and the
Sultan first saw him when he was attending
Salemlik. He asked who he was, and his
figure made such an impression upon him
that he shortly after gave him private
audience, and the two from that time on
were friends"
DEATH OF BURLINGAME.
Governor Curtin saw Burlingame die.
He was, you know, the Ambassador OF
China, and Russia debated long time be-
fore she would receive him. The Chinese
Emperor would not receive the Russian
Minister in person, and the Gar refused for
a time to receive his representative in Bur-
lingame.
cat last" said the old Governor in tell
ing the story, 81 got letter from Gortcha-
hoff telling me that Burlingame would be
received, and he came. He had grand
retinue of hundreds of Cinnamon, and 1
don't suppose any Minister ever travelled in
greater style or spent more money. He was
received royalty, and there was grand re-
ception given at the palace one night in his
honor.
"In going home from this he wore mag
ni6cent fur cloak, and he was warned by
his friends to wrap this around about him.
He did not do this, and one of the deadly
blasts OF the Russian winter smote his
breast He was taken sick upon his arrival
at his hotel, and a few days later he died by
a simultapeous paralysis of the heart and
liver. He knew his danger and appre-
hended his decease. He had just bade
goodby to his Chinese friends, and said fare
well in kindest manner to his secretaries,
when death struck him as he sat in the chair
and his soul passed away.
I have never seen a woman act nobler
than Mrs. Burlingame did at that time.
She was heartbroken, but she bore up, and
she had the sympathy of all the Russians.
The Gar did an unheard of thing in calling
upon her, and she was honored in this and
in other. ways. Some months later her hus-
bands body was carried back to America.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.