Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09
YANsPOU LEE.
His Experience and Those of other Yale
Students with the Chinese An4hnrities.

IAN POO LEE.
His Experience and Those of other Yale
Students with the Chinese Authorities.
Yam Pou Lee, one of the forty-eight
Chinese students who were studying in
American schools and colleges, when re-
called in July, 81, BY the Chinese govern
ment, on account Of reports that the stu
dents were losing all sympathy with their
native land, cutting off their queues,
marrying American wives, ETC., says the
New Haven Palladium, hiss returned to
America, and is now in New Haven. Lee
was a member of the present senior class
and always regarded as the brightest one
of the Yale delegation. As a writer and
speaker he gave much promise, taking
high rank as a scholar and winning the
defamation prize in Gamma M society.
On Lees return to China the students
were inVeigled into dark, damp section
of the city, where they Jared rather i'll. A
deputy was appointed over them aud ais
duty was to prevent them from escaping.
The general opinion Of the natives. con-
corning the students and American
education was thas of disappointment.
After being detained in confinement tor a
month they We're taken to TieRtsin for
examination in oae of the departments of
the government The examination was
a farce and Increased the officials disgust
of our much-baasted educational system
The officials had an idea tzat the boys
were well prepared IN the different. pro-
fessiOns they started to America to learn,
whereas they had been studying up
mathematics, Homer and Virgil in a gen
eral way as a preparation for special
studies. so great was she belief in China
that the students had adopted American
manners that the deputy who had them in
charge gave each ones queue personal
inspection, lest, after the manner of some
ladies, the attachment were only temper
AIRY.
Lee, with twenty-five others (among
whom was Pom Cilm, another 81 man
was assigned to the naval department,
where he remained nine months. After a
vacation of six months, an American inno-
walton and obtained only after continued
application, Lee took "Freneh leave''
and entered a lawyers office in Hong
Kong. He Occasionally yisiteG his home
in Canton, where his people were delight
ed to see him, although of course his
American customs and ways seemed
queer, and they, like a great many Ameri.
can parents, thought it strange that a
! college education failed to receive the
best positions in tn6 land. DIR. Hcnper,
the well-known missionary, procured en-
plOyment for Lee in the translation Of the
laws of the Sandwich Islands. Lee also
supported himself by teaching evening
school, and was always stimulated by an
intense desire to return to America.
OF the relations of China to England,
Lee says that the latter is jealous of her
interests and intends that they shall be
paramount. England would like to see
France take TOnquin, as that would open
III, hnr l.,
British minister promises Lehung Chang
to mediate between France and China,
although the Chinese forces are in prepar-
alton for war, and should the French
forces attack Bacninh, about which in
creasing numbers are gathering, all China
will go to arms. Chinese railroads, Lee
says, are rather quiet at present. The
foreign residents gotpermission to put up
ten miles OfhOrse-car line between Shang-
hal and Woosung, but there must have
been some tricky Yankees among them,
for soon the mandarins saw that instead
of a couple of inoffensive donkeys, drag
ging a gaily painted hOrse-car through
streets at a.harmless rate Of SIeeG, real
oinder factory locomotive, baggage ear,
ETC., with a genuine brakeman, VINO mpsi
have jumbled the names of those Chinese
towns in a way to make his American
| colleague blush. At first the officials
were too much daZed by the presumption
of the foreigners to make any decided Op-
position, but soon a Chinaman was acct
dentally killed by the road, and the
authorities bought it in at three times the
price and tore up every rail. Donkey
travel has resumed its popularity, and
those whose resources do not admit the
luxury of sedan chair lament the sudden
demise of cheap transportation and walk.
or the 'S4 men, Pom is studying for the
second literary degree among the iterdti.
and the strictness of the exaIninaUlUn il
evident from the fact that only about ten
per cent. of the applicants are successful.
Nun Yea Chung, the popular little cox
swain of the Yale crew, has been in the
cOnsulate's Office. but is now teaching and
engaged on translation. Chin is the son
of a wealthy farmer, and deciding that
China is big enough for him, has taken
unto himself better half with very small
feet, and is happy.
Tong, who was fitted for college at
Exeter, and was prominent as a Greek
student, has laid aside his medical a5pira-
tiOns and is shipping clerk. Rumor
says that Tong is meditatiAg the wisdom
Of Chin's matrimonial example. Leeis as
yet ignorant what the future has in store
for him. He is'as yet exceedingly anxious
to complete his education at ale, but the
way has not yet opened. He brought a
letter from DR.. Hopper to DIR. Wells Will
liams, but tAat good friend of China and
her people had gone before his arrival.