The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30

ocean and coma to st. Paul. Lika st
Paul, but going back to Florence when
| geta more mon'.'
For a ten-year resident in America
1 Tony is by no means an adept in the
/ English language, but what he lacks
/ in this respect he more than makes up
! In sagacity. For a decade Tony has
! been selling fruit and like the majority
of the residents Of little Italy, he has
been frugal, SO it will be safe to say
/ that he will soon be able to visit his
/ own dear Florence. Florence, says
Tony, is everything that tourist and
| history has pictured it. Il used TO
climb it's vine-clad hills" says Tony,
| to put his "reminiscences into Engllsn,
and 1 never felt more happy than
when l was helping mother and father
gather the grapes for the wine watts.
! Those were happy days. But soon
! there came bug that caused the vines
| TO Wlther away and nothing was left
for our people but to go elsewhere.
Father and / came to America, while
mother and sister stayed at home. 1t
. was long voyage, but finally we
reached New York and through the
kindness of friends were made COM
Portable and sent to st. Paul. Mother
and sister came later, and now we are
all. together.
place. People are so free and happy,
but it is not like Florence. l have
| made all the money | have got in ST.
Paul, but some day I shall go back to
see my people and then settle down
here
His Home in China Was Upon Raft.
II remember so much about China
that hardly know what to tell you"
John Lung, the Jackson street laun-
dryman, did not make this statement
in just these words, but they convey
what he meant to say.
II was born in Canton he continued,
in a strange vernacular, land for the
first eight years Of my life never left
the large river raft which was my
fathers home for years and years be-
fore l was born. We were part of the
large river population of the metropolis
Of the Chinese empire.
"On my fathers boat we raised
enough rice to supply our wants, and
the muddy river was well stocked with
fish. The rice and fish were our prin-
cipal food, although when father went
into the main town, he frequently
brought us other eatables.
Besides the rice we grew the poppy
and sold the opium to English and
American trading ships. The first time
left my fathers raft it was to step
onto the deck of one of the merchant
ships. From that day I Ionged to go
with the white faced traders.
Three years later 1 got the oppor-
tunfty. One of the captains employed
me as a cabin boy and body servant.
For seven years 1 served him, and then
when he retired from the seas 1 be-
came a servant in his home at San
Francisco. He died shortly afterward,
and then 1 struck out for myself. That
was fifteen years ago. 1 came to st.
Paul five years later. and since then
have conducted laundry"
And will you some day go back to
Canton?" Lung was asked.
Yes; some day I'll go back. Some
day when 1 have lots of money and
am growing old / will return to my
native land, for every Chinaman loves
China and can be happy in no other
land.'
Came From a Land Of Piety.
''When 1 left my home in Scotland 1
was nineteen years DID," said James
Drummond, chief clerk in the county
auditors office "The country is still
dear to me- and, aside from the United
States, 1 think 1t is ahead of any other
country in the world. The thing which
impresses me most about my native
country is the piety there. There are
no fishpoles to be seen in Scotland on
Sunday. The only thing you hear
there on the Sabbath day is the church
bells. Everything is closed, and even
the street cars stop running. My
greatest surprise on coming to this
country was to see the manner in
which the Sabbath was desecrated.
Scotland, as T remember it, was the
most pious country in the world. AS
much as [ love the country, and while
I have a mother and father and five
brothers there, 1 would not return
there to live. I much prefer the
United States"
Learned Shoennaking in Germany.
Il was born in the north of Ger
many said Henry Gallick, court coP-
missioner of Ramsey county, and I
left there when boy of sixteen. I
had but little opportunity of attending
school, having been placed in a shop
to learn the trade of shoemaking when
a mere lad One of the pleasantest
recollections have is that of stealing
apples with other boys from the large
orchards in the neighborhood of the
town in which I lived"