Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 35

December 2, 1900. Gossip About Sam’s Diplomats THE 1ILLUSTRATED BEEK. Uncle ., CONSUL HUBBARD T. SMITH IN CHINESE DRESS AND HIS CHINESE BOY. (Copyrighted, 1900, by Frank G. Carpenter.) HANGHAI, Oct. 25, 1900.—(Special Correspondence of The Bee.)— Uncle Sam's representatives in China have their hands full. The . war has increased their business a hundredfold. It has multiplied their responsibilities. The consulates are every- where overrun with Americans. Claims for damages of all kinds are coming in, and persecuted missionaries are thicker than blackberries in August. Nearly every one has a valid ground for his claim, and the total damages will form a big bill for China to settle. The busiest post of all 18 here at Shang- hal. This is the center of foreign interests ir China, and it is the cenver or mission interests as well. Since the war began the Americans from the whole Yangtse valley and from the country north and south of it have rushed in, and there is still a steady stream going in and out of the American consul general’s office. The consul general has had charge of the American diplomatic interests during the greater part of this year. Minister Conger has been penned up in the legation at Pekin, the telegraphic lines in the hands of the Chinese have transmitted little else than lies, and the real news of the State department has been supplied from Shanghal. It is ‘a fortunate thing for us that our consul general has risen to the demands of his position.. He has proved himself one of th@ ablest’ of the men who are here repre- se foreign nations, and he has kept the Unjited.Statés at the front. Five years ago he was oomparatively unknown except in the northwest. Today he is an interna- tional character. The great powers of Eu- rope realize his ability and his praises are sounded in half the newspapers of the United States. You have read of him and know that his name {8 John Goodnow, that he comes from Minneapolis, and was ap- pdinted by Mr. McKinley at the first of his term. - You may have heard that he is 42 years of age and that he was a business man, with a political bent, before he en- tered the consular service. These are mat- ters of record, but they give you little idea of the man. You have to live with John Goodnow to know him. I have spent weeks with him, and I like him.. Just before the war I took a ten days' trip with him through the canals a couple of hundred miles back of Shanghal in a house boat, and 1 can tell you he wears. Let me make his pen picture. John Goodnow is a combination of a dip- lomat, a business man and a political striker. He would not be out of place as minister to Pekin, he would fit well into any crowd of New York bankers and brok- ers and he can hold his own among the politicians of a national convention. He is a blonde, about six feet tall, rather slender, but wiry and full of grit. Washington Against MeKinley. One thing I like about John Goodnow is his sturdy Americanism. He has not an English hair’in his head, not a foreign bone in his body. He believes in the living pres- ent and that the United States is a part of it. His American eagle has wings which cover the world and he thinks that Presi- dent McKinley is directing its flight. He honors George Washington, I know, but when he came here an incident occurred which shogwed that he honors Willlam Mec Kinley more. There was at the time an old engraving of Washington hanging near the desk over the mantel in the consul general's office. Goodnow brought with him a fine steel engraving of McKinley and when he moved in he shoved Washington to the back wall of the room and put McKinley in his place. This caused a great outcry among the old American residents. They sald the act was sacrilegious and called upon the new consul general to remonstrate. Mr. Goodnow listened patiently and when they concluded by asking him to pull down William and reinstate old George he re- plied: “I prefer William McKinley to have the place of honor in this consulate. He is as able as any president we have had and I owe to him my presence here. As to George Washington, I am glad to have his face still look down from my walls. You may think his present place a secondary one, but, gentlemen, this is a live consulate. President McKinley is very much alive, and, it I remember correctly, President Wash- ington has been dead some years." President’s Advice as to Misslons, Much of Consul General Goodnow's busi- ness {8 with the missionaries. The United States does more mission work in China than any other nation, and Shanghal is the center of the American movement, Goodnow is a friend of the missionaries and he pushes their iInterests. He recently got a big block of land for one of the stations from the Chinese officials, and he has done much to encourage the missionary hospitals, which he thinks are accomplishing great good. When he leaves Shanghal he often places Rev, Dr. John R. Hykes, the head of the American Bible society, in charge of the consulate, and he makes it his busi- ness to watch the interests of American missions as well as American trade. His action in this respect was probably stimulated by a remark which Fresident McKinley made when Goodnow visited him at the White House just before he left for China. As the president bade him go-d- bye he shook his hand and said: “Now, John, there is one thing I want you to especially remember. This is that you are going out to China as the rep- Tleutenant Rust. Paymaster Dyer. Captain Cox. Minister Conger. Chinese assistant Secretary Cheshire. GROUP OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATS—TA KEN BEFORE CONSULATE AT CANTON. CONSUL GENERAL WILDMAN resentative of the American people, not simply as the representative of American trade, 1 want you to push our trade in- terests in every possible way, but I want you also to keep your eye on the missions and do what you can for them, for, remem- ber, that for every man who is interested to the extent of a dollar in trade there are a thousand who are dropping their nickels Into the missionary plate."” Queer Consular Experiences, John Goodnow is full of stories of his queer consular experiences. His position is a curious one. He is the judge of the mixed court of Shanghai, and as such has jurisdic- tion of all Americans in his consular dis- trict. As to some cases he is practically the supreme judge for the whole of China. He has to deal with the Chinese officials and he is one of the executives who rule the foreigners of Shanghal. As to the Americans, they use him for everything. Stranded sailors come to him for money to get home, and American women and men bring their troubles to him. Not long ago a very pretty young woman, who frequently grows desperate over her quarrels with her husband, called at the consulate. She came into Goodnow's office, which, by the way, is a very handsome one. It has the most beautiful desk 1 have ever seen, and the carpet is a velvet rug. Goodnow was sitting at his desk when the woman came in. He looked as he always does, just as cool as the center seed of a well-lced cucumber, while she spluttered like a dough- nut when first dropped into the boiling grease of the skillet. She almost screamed: “Mr. Goodnow, 1 am going to kill myself! 1 am going to kill myself right here!" “What!” sald the consul general. L) | don't think you mean it! 1 don't think you would be so impolite as to kill yourself here and spoil my new carpet.” This made the woman more angry than ever, but her anger was turned from her husband to the consul general. The cur- rent of her mind was changed by the re- United Atates Marshal Mowrer Consul Smith, Ensign veigh. AND HIS PET TIGER CAT. mark, and Goodnow soon got her to tell him her troubles. He persuaded her to give up all idea of suicide and to go back to her husband as though nothing had happened. She did so, and a few days later Goodnow saw the two walking along the Shanghal Bund arm-in-arm,, cooing and chortling like turtle doves in the spring. One of the queer features of the consulate is the jail. This is necessary, for the con- sul general has to punish the criminals of his own nationality. The jall is in the con- sulate, and the prisoners are fed by the consul general at a cost of 60 cents each per day. The fact that they always come out fat 18 an evidence that the allowance is plenty, and the consul general’s cook, 1 suppose, makes a profit off the feeding. One of the curious characters in the jail at present {8 a murderer. He is a very de- cent fellow, who killed a Chinese half in self-defense, but in such a way that he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. 1 think Consul General Goodnow imposed the sentence. The man is very kindly treated. He spends much of his time in the consul general's office, some in taking strolls about Shanghal, and another part in his cell, where he goes to sleep. He {8 really a bright fellow, and he 1s glad to do such work as he can. First I thought that if I were he I would run away, but upon second reflection concluded that I should be surely arrested if I salled to any other port upon telegraphic notice from here, and that if I took my chances among the Chinese I should be either killed or starved. Our Minister to Pekin. One of the most influential of all the diplomats here is our minister to Pekin. The important part which America holds in the settlement of the war gives Major Con- ger to a certain extent the balance of power in the negotiations. He Is, if anything, too diplomatic and too little aggressive, but (Continued on Eighth Page.) 7 DON'T BE SO THIN FREE REMEDY Many ladies and gentlemen who cannot complain of any kind of sickness are ab- normally thin and cannot find any medical treatment which will ccrreet this condition. Dr. Whitney's Nerve and Flesh Builder is not alone intended for those who are sick, but also for those who appear well and hearty, but cannot acquire sufficient flesh to round out the form. In dyspspsia, indi- gestion, all stomach troubles, debility and nervous diseases no remedy is so prompt and powerful, In order to demonstrate the wonderful merits of Dr. Whitney's Nerve and Flesh Builder every person who will address the C. O. Jones Co., Elmira, N. 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