Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-06

holes are marked with the names Of the diff
ferent positions. and IL John Smiths peg
is in the Shanghai hole 1t shows that John
Smith is in charge of the customs at Shans-
hal. Now and then the inspector general
comes home very late. He may have been
out to dinner. He may have taken little
champagne, and upon getting into his own
hall he may bun glingly use this board as
hat rack. In doing so he may knock down
number of pegs, which his Chinese boy
sticks back at random before his imperial
highness gets up. When he comes out in
the morning-so the story goes-he looks
with little surprise at the appointment
board.
"Ahr says he John Smith has been
changed from Shanghai to Hankow. I had
forgotten all about that. 1 must send off
the order at or CO..
And off 1T goes. Tom Jones. who was
getting 5000 a year at Tien-TSn, is like
as not put off to Annoy, where the salary is
half that, and all sorts of queer changes
occur.
1 don't know whether this story is true
I imagine it is not. But l know Sir Robert
Hart could make the changes If he would,
and he does make any changes he feels
like doing, and that with no computations
whatever
Our COnsuls In China.
The head of our consular service in China
is Mr.. Thomas R. Jernigan, the consul
general at Shanghai. He is straight
slender. North Cerolinan. of about forty
ence as consul to Kobe. Japan. He is a
gentleman, and he has proved himself to
be a much better diplomat than those who
have given him orders. He held on to the
two japanese students who were after
ward tortured to death until he received
positive orders from Secretary of State
Gresham to give them up. and he then
acauiesced almost under protest. The
consul at Tien-Tsin is Sheridan r.
Read. who was for some time con-
Eected with Russell & Co, and who is
related to ex-Secretary Foster and Josiah
Quincy, some time since Secretary Of
State. He makes very good consul. Con-
nected also with the consulate at Tien-Tsn
is Mr.. c. d. Tenney, who was for a long
time connected with Ii Hung Chang, and
who the head of Chinese school at
Tien-Tsin. He is very bright man. and
knows as much about China and the Chi
nese as any other man in the country.
The consulate at Tien-Tsin Is a big two
story building. situated on the edge Of the
foreign concession, and Mr.. Read has
ample quarters for the entertainment of
his friends. Nearly all of our consuls in
the east have fine establishments and at
Hankow. seven hundred miles in the in
terror, 1 found an establishment which
would do credit to Washington. 1t was
that Of Jacob T. Childs. better known
throughout the west as genial Jake
Childs." He was, you know, minister
to SIAM and he is now taking care of the
interests of the United States and of Jacob
ChildS in the heart OF China.
Our Consular Dean.
The dean of the Chinese consular corps is
Mr.. Charles Seymour of Canton. He has
been in Office for about twelve years, and
he is one of the most efficient men in our
diplomatic service. He comes from Wis
consin. and he has time and again saved
the foreigners of Canton from riots. He is
SO well liked by the Chinese that he can
go anywhere among them, and he has the
universal respect of the Chinese officials
and of the foreign residents. He has a
beautiful home on an island in the Pearl