The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-09
FAIRFIELD
A Chinese Clergyman-Desire for an Ed. ncation-Lighting Stock All Taken = Too Much Beer - The Annexation Pr0blem-Pushing Circulation.

Interest in town on Sunday center
 ed in discourse delivered at the First
 Church of Christ by a Chinese stu
 dent from Yale. There was a large
 congregation to hear him and all were
 delighted with his fluent English and
 his scholarly attachments, for it was
 plain to be seen that he was a man
 of wide reading. He was dressed in
 American clothes, of course, and did
 not wear a que, for he told his au-
 dience that this pig tail appendage to
 ones head has been abolished. He
 spoke of the educational, religious, so-
 cial and commercial conditions in Chi
 na, and said that everywhere there is
 a strong desire for reform, and an al-
 most universal wish for education As
 an illustration of this latter statement
 he instanced the fact that in one of
 the provinces of China the people had
 built 5000 school houses but they had
 no teachers. At one time the empire
 sent 14,000 pupils to Japan to be edu- cated, and Tokyo was fairly swamped.
 New school houses and colleges had to
 be built. But, said the speaker, yhe Japanese got their education from the
 United States and finally the Chinese decided they would not take theirs sec ond hand but would come to head quarters. He stated, as an illustra- ton of the wide spread desire there is for an education in this country, the fact that when eXamina tiOnS were to be held for 14 scholarships in America, 10 for men and 4 for women, there were 800 applicants for the masculine scholarships and 50 for the feminine. And some of the applicants travelled 800 miles that they might take the ex- aminations. Speaking of the fact that the women of China no longer bind their feet he said that now they seem ed anxious to get shoes size larger than the foot. while he understood that in America the women wanted shoes one size smaller! He had a good deal to say of Confucius and his teachings and pointed out the many resemblan- ces there are with the doctrines of Christ. Altogether the speaker was a to those who heard him. While it takes long time for a Chinaman to learn English, he said Japanese could be learned in three months, it so closely resembles Chinese.
 It will be gratifying to the public to know that all of the stock for the Fair field Lighting and Power Co.,. has been and that according to the provisions of the charter, the lights n1u st be furnished inside of year. The of stock taken was by no means small, and it is understood the public will not be asked to subscribe All the public will have to do is to take the light when it is offered. Mr. Charles A. Paul. treasurer of the new company. says the people may expect lights within ten months. As between gas and electricity; the latter is likely to come out on top.
 A little wedding jOllification a week ago Sunday night, held in one of the tenements in the Lespinasse block, to celebrate the marriage of a young wo- man who used to be employed on FL iOtt street. and a young man employ sd in the wire works, degenerated into sort of q mix up, supposed to be the | result of too much Hungarian beer. At | lll events ore HarOn Mills was accus. d of having committed an assault not l )f 8 very serious nature, although the 1 young lady had a pretty black eye and | he case was tried out yesterday before | Mr. Wakeman. Attorney Clitus King | he prosecutor, and Attorney James | Cummings appeared for the defence. l As a technical assault was admitted. | he defendant was advised to plead | guilty, and judgment was suspended. ;.
 After interviewing a godly number If gentlemen yesterday about the pro- posed annexation of a portion of | Greens Farms to this town, the con-
 luSion was reached that there would | ,e little if any opposition on the part if the citizens of Fairfield. Some |