The Arizona sentinel., 1886-02-20
GLOBE-TROTTERS.
A Slangy Name That Meets the Travele
 fin the Celestial Empire.

sIangy Name That Meets the Traveller
 in the Celestial Empire.
 In America when a man leaves home for journey around the world he is a person of consequence in his neighbor- hood, and people speak of him with proper respect. When he gets to the Far East, only half way round, he is an insignifcancy, and familiarly spoken of as 'tglobe-trotter, term of as much reproach and contempt as ''tender-foot" in the Far West All of these resident people have made the trip so often that it is the merest 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 state of revolt against the foreign community in Chinese port if he ex- poses his wish to sec 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- s-General upon the Taotai, or Gov ernor of the Shanghai province, and re- turned in state by that worthy. The Tao- toi inhabits 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. preter and as much of suite as he can muster. The British Consul-General has the most imposing train of any oI the foreign representatives that call on the Taotai, and according to the wish of the Congressmen who direct and pro- vide for the foreign service of the United States, the American Consul-General has to go with the most insignificant train. The ceremonies are as formal as a presentation al 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, 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 reminds one of Barnum as the mys- terious closed chairs finally pass. The only other point of contact is at the mixed court in the foreign settlement, where Chinese magistrate tries Chi uese offenders with representative from two of the Consulates sitting 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 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 examination; 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 CT 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 corps of servants the table Is set and served in the same elaborate manner. Sportsmen go off in their house-boats for weeks at tune in the fall and winter, and by short trips in the other seasons the monotony of life is broken. Comparatively near at hand are Nanking, Ningpo, and Sochow to go to, the latter place fa- 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 crapes, the carved ivory, the porcelain, lacquer and trophies of the Chinese jewellers art one must go to Canton, where na- 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 YokohanG Cor. St. Lotus Globs-pen1o- :rdt.