Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-21

are relatives OF Congressman George Barnes,
of Georgia. MIR. @. p. Hall, the yo IN 3 an
of the firm, Is from Bos ton, and he Is, like
his partners, a good fellow, well read and
cultured.
II is a surpries of travellers to find that
Americans abroad are In nearly all cases.
college bred men, and that their contact with
the sociely Of the east has rather polished,
them than anything else. The socie ty of
Asia, as far as tho foreigners are con-
cerned, is as good as you will find anywhere
and the several capitals have a coterie of as
elegant people as you will see in New York
or Washington. In Korea there is a very
pleasant foreign colony, consisting Of the
foreign ministers and consuls, the employees
under the king, and the missionaries. They
have their social dinners, their literary and
musical clubs and their lawn tie nnis ground
They have comfortable homes furnished in
American styles and the latest of the
magazines and papers are sent to them
by fortnightly mails from America. The
head Of the kings school Is Prof
Bunker, an American, who graduated at
Oberlin college not many years ago, and his
wife, who came out here as medical mis-
sionary, is physician to the queen and is
very popular at court. General Dye and
the American officers who came out to reor-
ganize the Korean army, are another ele-
ment of Seoul society, and the only foreign
mercantile firm in Korea is that of More &
Townsend, of Chemulpo, two young Ameri-
cans oil perhaps JnlfGy-llVe VINO come orig
inally from Boston and who have an exte n
siv business here and In japan.
MISSIONARIES MoBDED.
There are missionaries scattered all over
China They are earnest conscientious
workers as 2 rule, and wrapped up ln
their work. They live in large compounds
or in yards surrounded by walls, and their
lives are sometimes in danger. l met at
Canton a Mr. Fulton, of Ashland, o., who
was broken in health and was about TO
hpmp fDr vacation. He had hnpn
working IN the interior OF China, and his
sister, who was doctor, was with him.
They had under them q young Chinese
medical student, and this young celestial
had in some way gotten hold of a skeleton
which he hid in his room. Mr.. Fulton,
finding soap scarce, had made a barrel of
soft soap, and this was standing outside the
house. AT this time the cry was raised that
the missionaries were killing Cinnamon and
were using their bodies to make medicine.
They mobbed the missionary's house, and
when they found the skeleton and this soft
soap they looked upon these as prima facie
evidence of the CRIME. There is no soft soap
in China and they know nothing of dissection
or of study of anatomy by skeleton. The
result was that they burned down the house
and the missionary and his family narrowly
escaped with their lives.
Speaking of bright American girls, a grad
uate of Vassar, Miss Bacon, has recently ar
rived in japan and she is now teaching in the
empress school for girls at Toxic. One of
IuG VI BTCuJ ulSSlOU-
ary hospital of Canton, China, is Miss Doctor
Niles, the sister of one of the editors of THE
OMAHA BEE, and there is a lad" now married
and living at Tientsin who came out here as
a n edical missionary ana who, when LII Hung
Changs wife was in danger of dying, per-
formed what was thought by the Chinese an
almost miraculous cure A brother of the
great preacher, DIR. Il. Dewitt Talmage, of
Brooklyn, has been forty years a missionary
at Annoy, China and his gray-hared wife
and young daughter still assist him in his
work.
The head of the imperial college at Pek-
ing, where the noble young Cinnamon are
taught the western sciences is DIR. w. Z.
Martin, who was for years missionary
and it was an American missionary,
Mr.. Williams, who wrote the best book on
China. Willlams middle Kingdom is
conceded by all to be the most exhaustive
and best work ever published on China and
the Chinese. 1t is of two large volumes and
it is the authority of the English as we'll as
the Americans. Mr.. Williams was for years
located at Picking and he many times acted
as minister and charge d'affairs of the United
States legation there. Our legation build
ings are, think still owned by his estate
and his name is SO highly respected il the
east that l am glad to add this testimonial to
those daily hear. Dr. Happer, another of
the old missionaries, who came OUT to China
in the forties, as far back as the days of
President Tyler, is now at seventy five,
founding college at Canton; and DIR.
daughter is married to the English consul at
Canton, is now connected with the govern
ment Of China in his professional capacity
and is one of the leading scholars of the east.
AMERICAN MERCHANTS IN CHINA.
The American merchants in China are now
to be found chiefly at Shanghai, but the
American firm of Russell IL Co. is to be
found everywhere. 1t has its big houses at
Hong Kong, Canton, Tientsin, Shanghal and
on the island of Formosa, ana it is one of
the largest firms doing business in Asia. 1t
had for years its own ships and its business
houses are like palaces. 1t has one at Shang-
hal, which would be good building in New
York or Boston, and which is pointed out rs
one of the sights OF The city Russell a. Co.
are nearly as old as the century, They do
business with all parts of the world, and they
have houses in New York and Roston and
also in Lyons, France. They ship every
thing from mating to silk, and they have
factories which make silk in Shanghai and
elsewhere. The head of the firm is Mr..
Forbes, of Hong Kong, and noted member
of it is Mr.. Vincent Smith. Many of their
employees are now Englishmem, though the
house is strictly American, yet here and
there you find true Yankee among them,
and met at Tientsin MIR. Robert Brown,
the head of the firm there, and found an ex-
union soldier Of about forty who had lived
in New Jersey, and who was proud In being
one of the nephews of our Uncle Sam.
Smith, Baker & Co. is another American
firm which does a good business in Japan
have houses in Japan and China, and send
their goods everywhere. / found in YokO-
hama and Toxic the Japanese and Amer,c IN
Trading company, headed by a typical
American merchant traveller in the person
of young man of thirty. His name was E.
V. Thorne and he was introducing American
lamps and notions among the Japanese, and
shipping goods home to America for sale.
He was advertising as freely as though he
were in big American city and his business
seemed to be good. l met at Toxic an
American named Clarke, who was
introducing these globe.like bottles of
fre.extinguisher among the Japanese and
/ saw the Waterbury watch wherever
went. 1t sold in Japan for less than /
bought one before / left America and it's
agent, Mr. Charles Flint, formerly of Wash
ington told me he was selling them to the
merchants by the tens of thousands through
his agent, and that he proposed to Introduce
them in Korea and China
We have some American lawyers in Asia
outside of those acting as advisers to the
rulers, and at Shanghai there is an Ameri-
can broker, MIR. B. ID. Rice, who comes. /
think from Boston. At Annoy took tiffin
with Californian who was there as marine
surveyor, and here at Bangkok, Mr. Jessie
Childs, the nephew OF the minister. and
graduate Of Amherst of only four years ago,
is making good living as an attorney at
law. / have met several sea captains ON