The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-14
TAKES NO STOCK IN STORIES
THAT THE BANK OF ENGLAND HAS
DECLARED IN SILVER'S
FAVOR.
LUMBER CONDITIONS BETTER
Surveyor General Nelson, of Still
water, Says the st. Croix Indus
try Is in Fine Shape.

way home from the East, his family
being at Bar Harbor, Me, for the sum-
mer. In speaking to IL b report
er of the announcement made that the
Bank of England would hereafter i:eep
| one-fffth of it's surplus in silver, to be
| used with gold in taking up its notes,
the senator said:
THAT is only rumor, or at best
premature announcement the ministers
having notified our monetary commits
sion that thy would not state until Oc-
tober what position their government
would take towards restoring silver"
do you think that the general pros
perity the country is apparently enjoy
ing will affect the free silver move
| ment?" was asked.
Il find all through the East and, in
fact, all over the country, that the pee
pie are busy and hopeful; Wholesale
houses are surfeited with orders, and
activity appears everywhere The Eco
pie are conscious of better days and
are thankful for them; the cause IS not
as material as the result. The DISPOSE
ton is to allow the country to regain
its normal condition with out needless
political agitation, which at present
ference with the business affairs Of the
country"
Are the silver mines in Montana now
running?'
''Siiver mining is carried on there only
incident to the mining of copper, lead
and gold. Montana expects Il material
increase in its volume Of business and
has a great variety of resources; its
natural wealth is not surpassed by any
of the other states
A very interesting parsonage is Fan
Fob Kung, OF Pekin, China, who was
registered at the Merchants hotel yes
| terday, leaving last evening for Nash
Vile, Tenn, where he will enter upon
| q course of study at the Vanderbilt
university. He has been in this coun-
try only fifteen days, but speaks Eng
lish excellently, having been a student
for the past six years at St. Johns
| Mission school QGpiscopaD in Pekin. He
was converted to the Christian RI gi n
there and for three years has assisted
in teaching at the school,. Prior to this
he studied three years in Japan. He
will take a general course at the uni
versity and proposes to devote his life
TO the enlightenment CT his country
men. In an interview with a G o b e
reporter he said:
Il don't blame Americans for having
! a very poor opinion of the Chinese, for
it is only the lowest classes who come
arc not always particular 10 tie honest
in acquiring it. The better class stay
at home ard are perfectly content with
|. their lot. ts ds aa-c - Sc
The best thing that ever happened
to China was its recent war with
Japan, and the only fault 1 find with
il, it didn't go far enough Il showed
my people that they were woefully be-
hind the world in civilization. I think
that intellectually and physically the
Chinese are the equals of almost any
nation, but the great fault has been
with our system of education. Our
geriuses do not study mathematics or
the sciences, but the test Of inte!lec-
tuality was the ability to write clas-
steal essays; that was the requisite TO
gain rank. Office or distinction. OF
course these essays were learned by
rote. Now however. there is a move
Eaent to abolish this and make the
examination for government offices
practical.
We expected great things of Ii
Hung Chang on his return, but were
disappointed. He is too far advanced
in years and lacks energy to under
care to oppose the court. Another rea-
sen is that the official circles of China
are a mass O& corruption and no two
officials viii work together. The en-
peror is mere tool in the hands of
the courtiers. end Doesn't dare to sAcW
his face outside his palace for fear of
being assassinated. You see he is
Tartar ard the people of Pekin are
very much opposed 10 the Tartar dy-
nasty.
"Pekin, you know, is in reality three
cities, each within a wall In the in
nermost circle are the members OF the
court; within the next wall are the
Tartars, and in the outside circle is
the mixed population. So long as the
emperor stays at home he is all light.
He is now about thirty years Of age
and has been on the throne twenty
three years, but is under the thumb of
his mother, the dowager empress. He
knows nothing of what is GONG on in
the world: even the newspapers are
edited before reaching him and all
items that would give him an inkling
of what the world is doing are care
fully cut out.
''There will be a terrible revolution
there before many years. In Japan,
enlightenment commenced with the no
biiity and the head of the government,
and by them is being taught to the
masses In China it is the opposite;
the lower classes along the coast are
becoming educated, while the court is
still dreaming of the glory Of thou
sand years ago. When the people rise
to shake off this yoke, there will be
trouble.
MANY of the Chinese are becoming
Christianized At the st. Johns school
there were $50 students and one-third
of them were converted.
"How about the high-binders? Oh,
all 1 know of them is that in the in
terror the robbers band together and
have retreats and hiding places, and
suppose they have agents and members
of their societies all over"
There is an interesting story in con-
nection with Fan Fob Kung, whose
name in English is G. Y. Marshall. His
father formerly lived in America and
was in the South when the Civil war
broke out, and was pressed into the
Confederate service. AS Ian Use Zeh,
or C. K Marshall, he fought in N. B.
Torrester's cavalry. of Tennessee. He
made q number of friends in Tennessee
who extend a cordial welcome to his
son. Fan Fob Kung landed in Tacoma
fifteen days ago, but there was some
thing wrong about his passport and
he was delayed there ten days, tele-
graphing to Washington and having
the matter Strengthened out.
D. B. May, a Seattle real estate man,
same up from Chicago with Senator
Carter. Mr.. May is at the Merchants.
Both will go West this afternoon via
the Northern Pacific.
John G. Nelson, of Saltwater, ex-
surveyor general of logs and lumber,
was seen at . the Merchants by
Globe reporter yesterday, and said
that the loggers of the St CroiX had