Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-21

GENERAL CIIAI:iES W. IE GENDEE.
 foreigners, n policy that has given Ja- | pan the excellent modern armament and
 navy she now possesses ill her war with 1 China
 For many years General Le Gcndre remained in Tokyo. and, it Is said, plan | ned Japan successful campaign against Formosa. When China began to receive
 foreign embassies and refused that of
 Japan because the Japanese were mot
 men, but descendants of monkeys, 7" the general was hastily sent to Pcking
 While urging Japan's claims on one oc- casion all the general could get from
 the Chinese officials was, We have ex- pressed our masters will" This an gCrcd the general, who cried: Your
 master? Can he do this, your master:"
 And, to the amazement and terror of
 the Chinese officials, he took out one
 eye, tossed it into the air, and deftly
 catching it as it descended thrust it in-
 to its vacant orbit and then turned it
 upon them again in fierce gaze The eye was glass, but the Chinese had never
 heard of such thing, and it is declared
 that they were so afraid of this terrible agent of Japan that the Japanese em-
 bassy was received even before those of England and France.
 Among the other prominent Ameri- cans i'll Korea are Mir. Greenhouse of California, once United States consul general in Yokohama and now legal ad- wiser to the king of Korea; General Dyer and Colonel Nieustead, who com mand the Korean troops armed with modern weapons. and Dr. Allen, now secretary of the United States legation and for a long time the kings physician.
 AnSOn BurlinSamc, who was United States minister to China in 1861, prob ably did more than any other foreigner to alter China's policy toward the civi- lized na ions of tho world For many years China, like the old cove in the swamp. only desired to be let alone She wanted nothing whatever to do with tho foreign devils" as she called all whitc men. Even after England and France had opened her ports with can non ball persuaders China refused to receive the embassies of other countries unless tho members would perform the kotOw, n ceremonial in which the diplo- mats must knock their heads against the floor when presented to the emperor, thus acknowledging that he was greater pOtentate than the one they rep resented This no diplomat would do Lord Amherst, representing England, refused ill 1916 and was denied admis- sion to tho emperor's presence, and in 1859 Minister Ward of the United States also failed to see the son of heav- en because he objected to porilding his head on the floor in front of the dragons throne
 In 1861 Mir. Burlingame, n native of New Berlin, N. Y, one of the founders of the Republican party, an ex-member of the Massachusetts senate and an ex- congressman who had made a reputation as an able antislavery debater, was sent as minister to China By his tact and I diplomacy he won the entire confidence of the Chinese government and negoti- | ated the famous Burlingame treats | with the United States, by which China for the first time in history officially ac- | cepted the principles of international | law and agreed tO treat another nation | as an equal. When in 1867 Minister | Burlingame announced his intention of | returning home, Prince Kung, who ! was then regent of the Chinese empire, | him China's special envoy to | the United States and the great Euro ! pean powers, for the purpose of framing treaties of amity with those nations, an honor never before conferred upon for eigner.
 These treaties Mir. Burlingame ar ranged with the United States, Prussia, England. Denmark and Swe- I den and was negotiating with Russia in | St. Petersburg in 1870 when he died.