Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26
oLoeE-TRoTTERs.
A SlaMgy Name That Meets the fravsl>
in the Celestial Empfre.

EopIOdcil anu contempt DIS "IenueF.IOOG
in the Far West. All of these resident
people have made the trip so often that
it is the mcrest incident to them, and
the enthusiasm of a tourist amuses them
immensely. It shocks the ''globe-trot-
ter to hear that rude, slangy name so
universally used, and he finds himself
in a state of revolt against the foreign
community in a Chinese port if he ex-
poses his wish to see something Of the
Chinese and have experiences wholly
Celestial. Shanghai's Importance is
purely commercial, and the social life
and features are conventional and Euro
pean to the last degree. There are no
social relations with the upper-class
Chinese or officials there beyond the for
NAL calls made by newly arrived Con-
suls-General upon the Taotai, or Gov
ernor of the Shanghai province, and re-
turned in state by that worthy. The Tao
tot inhabits a large yaamen inside the
walled city, and the consular dignitary
rides there in a sedan chair, pre-
ceded. by servants in red tas-
seled hats, accompanied by an inter-
prefer and as much of a suite as he can
muster. The British Consul-Genera
has the most imposing train of any of
the foreign representatives that call on
the Taotai, and according to the wish
of the Congressman who direct and pro-
vide for the foreign service of the United
States, the American Consul General
has to 60 with the most insignificant
train. The ceremonies are as formal as a
presentation at court. and, regulated by,
centuries of observance, move like
clockwork. A body of musicians blow
long archangel trumpets, and guns are
fired at the first gate, and then the chair
is carried through gateway after gate
way and across courts filled with SOL
diers to the innermost court, where the
Taotoi receives them. When the Taotoi
returns the call all Shanghai knows it.
Outrunners on horseback precede him,
a rabble of red-gowned soldiers in
peaked circus-clown hats, carrying ban
ners and high mandarin umbrellas,
march in the suite, and the whole thing
FERROUS closed chairs finally pass. The
only other point of contact is at the
mixed court in the foreign settlement,
where a Chinese magistrate tries Chi
nese offenders with a representative
from two of the Consulates sitting
with him. The different Consulates
take turns in the duty at the
mixed court, the offenders being
''bambooed" in the presence of the
court or locked into the uncomfortable
cangue collar and exposed to all the
world in the large grated recesses at
either side of the entrance to the mixed
court yaamen. Foreign law-breakers
are tried in their respective consular
courts, and each consulate has its jail,
and does a good police court business.
Every ''globe-trotter'' goes once to the
mixed court and sees a culprit dragged
in by the runners, thrown on his knees
before the Judge, and put through an
examinations; but he never wants to see
a second time the whacking of bare
backs with bamboos until the blood
flows.
After this the globe-trotter has ex-
hausted the sights of Shanghai, and even
a survey from the top of the water tow
er or the top of the pagoda shows only
the far-stretch of flat country set with
villages, scanned with waterways and
dotted everywhere closely with the
mounds of graves. If he wishes to see
rural China, he takes a house boat, a
luxurious floating home, which the in
genuity of the foreigner has developed
from the primitive Chinese house boat,
and is sculled away with a favoring tide
up the river or down the river and into
the network of creeks and canals by
which he can GO from end to end of the
empire. The house-boat, which is large
and of light draught, has cabins where
one sleeps and dresses as comfortably as
in his own room on shore, and with
a cook and a corps of servants the table
is set and served in the same elaborate
manner. Sportsmen 60 off in their
households for weeks at a time in the
fall and winter, and by short trips in
the other seasons the monotony of
life is broken. Comparatively near
at hand are Marking, Ningpo, and
Sochow to go to, the latter place IA
nous for the silks, satins and brocades
woven there, and the fine embroi-
deries executed by the needle-workers
of the old city. Yet for the fin
est embroideries, the best grapes, the
carved ivory, the porcelain, lacquer
and trophies of the Chinese jewelers.
art one must go to Canton, where ma
tive wealth and luxury are greatest,
and all the art manufactures flourish.
Canton is the commercial capital Of
South China, as Shanghai is The me-
tropolis of North China, and the peo-
pie and their products are as diverse
as is possible in the one nation. There
are "Canton stores in Shanghai and
the other cities, where the choice
souvenirs are found, but the ''globe-
trotter" reserves his purchasing for
Canton, where there are whole streets Of
jade-workers, embroiderers, porcelain
painters and other art manufacturers
Yokohama Cor. ST. LOUIS Globe-Demo-
crut.
"A recent published statement Of
Rev. DR.. BarroWs, of Reading, has been
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