St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-06
WITH THE TRAVELLERS.

and natty attire, but more because of his
genial manner of meeting people and
inQulring into the habits and affairs of
this country. His coat, vest and trous-
ers were of a white fabric, which short
distance away resembled crash towel
goods, but upon closer inspection proved
to be composed of wooden. His neck
scarf and shirt front were bedecked
with heavy gold ornaments. The whole
combination looked odd enough to a
Staid American, but was, no doubt, in
keeping with the latest London fashion
plate. Mr.. Hollinsworth's manner and
speech stamps him Enthusiastically as a
deep-dyed Britisher; in fact, he is frank
to confess that he is BritiSher, and
proud of it. At the same time he says
this America is a wonderful country,
don't you know, and he is going 10 take
goOd look at il before he goes home.
~ am not here altogether for pleas
ure, nor my health" said he, but the
real nature OF my business | am not at
liberty to state at present. L go from
here to North Dakota to look over the
Dalrymple, Larimore and other great
wheat farms OF that state. | shall visit
Texas and all the Western states before
L L
several months. Do you know, L left
London at 10:45 a. IN. Aug. 20, and ar
rived in st. Paul Monday night at 1880,
after having missed my connection at
Chicago, and stayed there over night. L
made 1900 miles by land and water in
about eight days. [ arrived On the
Umbria. and am here in st. Paul ahead
of the European mails she brought
over"
MI. Hollinsworth left the impression
that he is here i'll the interest of English
capital which is seeking investment.
~
Col. William ID. O'Toole, now of
Seattle, but we'll known for years back
to st. Paul people, among whom he
lived when he was judge advocate Oh
the staff of Gen. Terry. was at the Mer
chants yesterday, very happy man;
for he had with him his commission
from President Cleveand as register of
the Seattle land Office, the most inn
portant land office in the country. Col.
O'TOole received his appointment over
week ago, while visiting in Washing
ton with his wife. She was with him at
the Merchants, and the two left last
evening for Seattle. After Gen. Terry
was transferred from the department of
Dakota, Col. O'Toole became post
trader at Fort Keogh. He has lived in
Seattle about seven years, and asserts
that that city is destined TO be one of
the great cities of America. He said Of
| Seattle and Tacoma that they are very
| substantial cities and have suffered very
| little from the stringent times.
1.-The masses OF the people of Wash
| ington state" said he, 'are bimetallists; ;
but at the same time they wish bimet-
| allism to be established upon basis
| which will work for the best interests
| of the country at large. They, of course.
| favor free silver, and firmly believe that
wise system Of free coinage would
| state in the Union. l do not believe our
people would insist upon free coinage if
| its effect would be to weaken the inter-
| ests OF the states east of the Rockies"
Col. O'Toole was just admitted to
| West Point as the war broke out, hence
could not take part i'll the great conflict.
| He was born at st. Joseph, Mo-, i'll 1912.
| ~
| Rev. Hunter Corbett, thirty years a
missionary at Cheefoo, 800 miles north
of Shanghai. China, was yesterday the
| guest of his cousin, q. NJ. Orr, of ST.
| Paul. Mr.. Corbett has been visiting his
aged mother in Western Pennsylvania,
| and on his way back to China stopped
| in st. Paul. He continued his Journey
last evening. He has now under his
charge forty mission schools. He says
| the Chinese, though still adherlng TO a
| wide extent to their old prejudice
| against foreigners, are gradually giving
| way to the Christian religion, the arts
| and sciences which white people have
| introd uced among them having a great
deal to do with it. He has long been OH
very friendly terms with the governor
of mis- province. Before he came TO
! America the governor sent for him and
had long consultation, in which he re-
| quested him to bring back specimens of
all the electrical appliances of this coun-
try by which light and power are made.
| Mr.. Hunter is well loaded with APP
planes of various makes, and it is very
probable that the governor will soon
send large orders to this country for the
! articles, and establish electrical light
| plants, street railways, etc.
The Chinese believe that the golden
age of China was in the time of Con-
fucius, and it is their general hope to be
able to get back to those times. They
believe if they succeed they will have
attained perfection. But 1t is now only
a question Of comparatively few years
until the Old feeling will be pretty
nearly out of existence by the rapid adj
vance of the Improvements OF the Chris
tian world.
A peculiar feature Of the Chinese
social existence is that the father is the
governor of all his household as long as
he lives. For instance, when a son
marrIes, he takes his wife to his fathers
house, and she becomes as much subject
to the control of her father-in-law as
though she we're his minor daughter. Ii
| the son comes to America he cannot
take his wife with him. for she must
remain under the control of his father
When the father dies, then the sons
establish households of their own.
Mr.. Corbett says the Chinese are very
much astoniShed at this government
for having enacted the Geary law. This
is the first CriStian country. they say,
is now only waiting to see whether this
country will enforce the law. Ii it Is
enforced Mr.. Corbett says China will
surely retaliate by sending all Amer
leans out of that country.
"Ihey have US all enrolled" said he
land for no other purpose than to be
prepared to throw US out as soon as The
Chinese are thrown out of America
, This government is to pay the expense:
| VI pOlLlnS LllC hlIlJC
| Chinese government will not pay tht
expense of our deportation. The only
way we can avoid deportation will bt
by becoming British subjects. China il
willing that America shall restrict thei
people to certain districts of this coun
try, as their government restricts Amer
leans to certain districts of China. Tn
Chinese hold treaty sacred, and all TIT
Intelligent people of that country arr
perfectly familiar with the treaty o
1869. which was again ratified III 1880
1t is the common query among them
: why their people should be singled GU
of all other nationalities for such treat
ment?
: "Ileft America for China the day tn,
; battle of Gettysburg was fought, Coins
, via the cape, the shortest route then il
r existence. 1t took me log days to reacl
Shanghai. A few days ago [ received
cablegram from Cheefoo, which
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