A Visitor's Return to the Mr. Joseph Mannix, State Printer for Minnesota for 10 years, State Legislator, and newspaperman, who visited the 'North China Daily News' offices more of the world, called again last Fri-than 26 years ago on his first tour
day to renew old acquaintances, but failed to find anyone among the foreign staff who were here then. Mr. Mannix, claiming no relationship to his illustrious namesake, left America in October, 1917, for a round-the-world tour,—''just fooling round, loafing, and having 2 harmless indifferent jamboree, lolling for a while here and going there when my feet begin to itch.'? After leaving Seattle with a communication from the Seattle Press Club, he ultima-rely got to the Dutch East Indies and from there proceeded south to Australia and New Zealand. After crossing the Trans-Australia Railway he went to South Africa, and spent much time in the four southern parts of the British Empire, as well as some time in Kimberley. After steaming up the east coast and visiting Mozambique, the traveller reenved Africa through Tanganyika, remained for a period in the Lake Victoria Nyanz region and continued through Uganda, the big game country, and Kenya Colony.
Mr. Mannix got _to Luxor while the Carnarvon Expedition was digging, but did not linger until the big finds were made, going on to the Pyramids and thence to Cairo and Alexandria. He continued his itinerary through the East Indies and the Federated Malay States, to the Philippine Islands, Hongkong to Shanghai.
The wanderer proposes to visit Peking en route to Mongolia and Siberia, before taking the Trans-Siberia Railway to Europe, where he will remain through the most of his seventh year of travel, after which his schemes, if successful, will bring him home to "Minneapolis about this time next year, Many tales have sprung up about him, and Mr. Mannix wishes it known that he was not.killed by wild elephants in Central Africa, nor did he marry a_ wealthy Filipino widow in the Islands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.