The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-03-28
Our japanese students.


Side by side with what has been mag
nifed into the "Oh:nese INVASION" another
immigration of Orientals has been going
on. 1t has awakened no fear among us
it need not do 80. The Chinese are
coming to learn our handicrafts, to build
our railroads, do our farm labor, be our
servants indoor and get and keep what is
paid them for their work. They may
stay in this country for life, they may re-
turn to China to live and to die. They
have swarmed out of the home hive into
California, and are making their way
rapidly to the Atlantic coast. They are
of the lowest class, and have no ambition
to rise higher. They come to be our
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
THE IMMIGRATION FROM JAPAN
is for another purpose, and by another
kind Of people. Young men are coming
over, not to learn our trades and earn q
livelihood thereby, but to study our Ian.
guage, our literature. the sciences, our
laws, our polity, social, commercial and
governmental-in q word, as, and all
that appertains to us as people.
OF TIE CHINESE IT Is ASKED
with apprehension, How will their com.
ing affect us?" Will they cheaper labor
and 50 disquiet the competing Irish and
German Will they be disturbing ele.
ment IN our politics, to be knocked down
to the highest bidder? Will they vitiatc
our religion or in any way lower the tone
of our civilization
OF the Japanese the only pertinent
question to ask is, How shall we affect
them, and, through them, their country
to which they are to return so soon as
they have learned their lesson Perhaps
four or five hundred japanese students
have gone out from home since the Com.
modore Perry expedition to study the
civilization Of foreign nations.
OVER ONE HUNDRED OF THESE STUDENTS
are now in this country, scattered largely
through the Eastern and Middle States
They are mostly young men of rank, O
unusual ability, and are selected and SEN
by the home government on account o
this, the government allowing them each
$500 or $1,000 per aunum for expenses
And recently Charge d'Affaires from
the Empire of Japan has been sent to u.
"A gentleman whom we should name
the Hon. j, A. Mort -one of whose chic
duties it is to look after his student coun
trymen here, and send back any who
may not be doing well.
Their instruction is necessarily private
at first, but so soon as their knowledge O
our tongue enables them to appropriate
the general instruction of tho school room
they will enter the public school.
Many of these students come with 0
considerable stock Of English already &C
quircd. English, as well as Japanes'
and Chinese, is taught in the government
schools established in the several provin
ccs, the teachers being missionaries o
professors that have gone out from thi
country and England.
SIX JAPANESE NOW IN BROOKLYN.
Some six of these students are now il
Brooklyn. Five have been here sine
November last, one has just arrived, an,
another is expected in the next steamer
They came with letters from Rev. Mr.
Ferveck, of Yokohama, to DIR. Ferris
office 81 Vesey street, New York, Score
tary of the Missionary Society of TIN
Dutch Reformed Church. One Of thes
six is Of the Royal Family of Japan, S,
that we have real
LIVE PRINCE AMONG Us.
His grandfather, fifteen generations back
and that Of the present Micado, were thu
same man, so that by blood he is dis
tant cousin but about ten years ago h,
was publicly accepted and adopted as thu
Brother Of His Royal Highness, so tina
he stands nearer to the throne and crown
than any other Japanese living. lie il
of the same age as the Micado, abou
twenty.
HE HAS TWO BROTHERS.
The younger, a youth Of twenty -four
was recently here, coming the usual way
now, ria San Francisco. He was present
ed to President Grant, made in japanese
the reported speech, and ON Saturday, thu
4th instant, sailed in the Europa for Der
lin, where he is to spend some years il
study. The elder, twenty-six years old
has now probably reached London, where
he is to study. Only the one with us
the youngest Of the three, has been nc
cepted as brother by the Micado. Hi
travelling name is Azumah, his real name
QUAcMo-NO-MIyA.
The next older is Mitzu-no. miya-th,
eldest, Higashi-F ooshimi-no-miya. "No
miya," the common suffxes, means 80
the Kings family" or, in higher signifi
canoe { suggesting the supposed origin o
the Micado), "temple of God" Tit
Prince and Yangimoto-who in 1885,
spent about year in New York and Sal
Francisco, and was and is in some sens,
the interpretcr-are at GA Livingston
street, and with Foozimori, are recitinl
to Professor b. Kellogg, of the Polytech'
mic; the others to Mr.. Young, teacher il
the same institution.
MARVELLOUS PROGRESS IN STUDY.
They will all enter the Polytechnic
when ready. The progress they all arr
making is truly wonderful. Prince Azu
nah and his attendant Foozimori die
not know letter of our alphabet in No
vember lost. They are now reading il
the middle of Hillard's Third Reader
pronouncing and spelling with ease, words
Of four or five syllables. They under
stand what they read, patiently translat
ing it into Japanese by means Of thei
dictionaries. They knew nothing at al
of numbers. Both have been drilled il
Mental Arithmetic, and one is now
RAPIDLY MASTERING FRACTIONS
in Davies written Arithmetic. Ant
this has been done in spite of week.
of sickness, lost in acclimating dur
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