The broad ax., 1896-11-07

@h NUT IcllOhS nave
SE-- been brought over
to this country by
the Rev. HUE Kin, Chinese mission
airy. to be educated according to West
ern ideas. / made them a visit last
week. Before 1 left they handed me
q message written in Chinese.
This was written by Jeng Seung, a
bright-looking boy OF IL. He is re-
garded as the finest Chinese scholar
among them. He told me that IL he
had remained In China he would be
ready this year to compete in the pub
lie examinations for official honors.
His tutor is said to have strenuously
opposed his coming to America, main
tanning that the boys future prospects
should not be lightly thrown away.
But his father set such a high value
on western education that he let the
boy go.
Chin Sune Wing is another Of the
bright boys. He is 16 years old and
has attended school in China since he
was 6. He was taken from one Of the
mission schools at Canton, to which
he was admitted four years ago. His
father is local Chinese preacher. /
succeeded in getting connected &C
count Of the journey from him. This
is his story, put into English:
MY father and mother are both liv-
ing. / have five brothers. One OF them
is now in Boston. / wrote home as
soon as we landed at San Francisco.
l wrote again after we reached here.
We had a nice time all the way. From
Hong Kong to Nagasaki every one OF
US was seasick. Then at Nagasaki the
Japanese made all the passengers go on
shore and take a bath. We did not
mind that a bit.
From Yokohama to San Francisco
all of us felt well and were not seasick
at all. We had plenty Of good things to
eat on board. The steward often
brought US turkey, beef. lamb and
other things, and we just helped our
selves. We had part Of shipall to our
selves and were allowed to go on the
upper deck and play ball with the Other
passengers. Our steamer stopped al
Honolulu. but we did not go ashore.
When we reached San Francisco We
were kept on board the steamer three
DAYS on account of some trouble with
the customs officials.
I'VE spent three weeks In San Fran
cisco. During that time we did nothing
but 20 sightseeing. We visited the mu-
seums and public parks. We saw many
wonderful things. The merry-go-round
was one Of them. We paid cents and
took a ride on the wooden horses.
There was a machine that puzzles
us a great deal, and we got lots OF fun
out Of it. II you drop a nickel into II
the needle will whirl round few times
and finally come to a standstill, point
ing to a certain figure which indicate;
YOUR weight. But IL you don't put
nickel in 1t you may stand on the plat
form all day and the needle Will mo-
move an inch.
1--WE had heard so much about steam
cars in China that We were quite ex
cited when we got on board the train fol
the first time. We had a special ca
To ourselves. How the train new owe
the track, I tried to count the tele
graph poles but had to give up ate
] awhile.
'sNear Los Angeles We saw numoe
NJ Chinese waving their hands at us
We had to change cars at New orleans
As we passed through Washington on
attention was called to atall monument
We took look at It
"When we were in China we heard
good deal about how Americans III
treated our people. Since our arriVa
kindness has been shown us on ever
side. Heaven must be a place some
thing like this"
The boys still wear their native gar
ments but they are beginning to nm
that these are not suitable to thei
changed surroundings. While wa
there a little fellow had Just bougn
a pair of russell shoes and was SHOWN
them TO his admiring companions
For amusement they played checker
Kicked footballs and picked blaekbei
ries. Once a week an American frien
of theirs calls and gives them lesson
In baseball.
The boys are required to devote Gel
tain hours every day to studying Ell
giish. For this purpose they are q
yided into three classes. They seel
70 pick up English rapidly. Z
september II Is expected that they wi