Show I SNODGRASS ON TRIAL CHATTANOOGA Tenn May 20 < I The trial of Chief Justice Snodgrass on charges of felonious assault Is in progress Last December Attorney John A Beasley published a card in a local paper reflecting upon the integrity in-tegrity of the chief justice as a judge Judge Snodgrass met Beasley in an office building and a altercation about the trial ensued resulting in Beasley being shot In the arm Beasley ha been since an invalid1 from the wound ever SLEEPY CHINA AWAKES AT LAST Recognizes the Superiority of Foreign For-eign Training 2 TAUGHT BY THE LATE WAR WILL SEND THEIR YOUTHS TO AMERICA FOR TJDUCATIOX First Installment of the Lads to Arrive In Jieiv York About the First of June and They will Re inalii Until They Have Achieved a Liberal Mechanical and Scientific Scien-tific Education NEW YORK May 20The Chinese government gov-ernment has awakened to the fact that the recent defeat by japan was due entirely entire-ly to the inculcation in the latter nation of western methods In view of possible future complications complica-tions the Chinese government has decided to recognize the superiority of foreign training I As a result twenty Chinese boys ranging rang-ing in age from 10 to 1 years will soon make their appearance in this country Unlike their predecessors these visitors come as children to become bkilled in mechanical arts The youngsters will come In care of Rev hut Kin superintendent of the Presbyterian church mission who Is a graduate of an American college and the third Chinaman to be ordained in this country Hev Kin left for Japan in January Jan-uary and accoraing 10 his reports prsacn ed the gospel with success in Toklo Thence he went to China He found tnat government busy with the problem of the advanced education of its young men Three thousand of Its young men were being sent at government expense to Germahy and others to France Mr Kin saw what the Chinese officials had not seenthat to properly educate the orientals in western methods they must be brought here while young Finally as an experiment it was decided to experment I deCded to permit per-mit the minister to bring back with him to America twenty boys He selected the sons of farmers n being better fitted physically to enter into mechanical training train-ing The expenses of the pupils are paid by their fathers The party will arrive in San Francisco next week reaching this city early in June The boys will be Immediately taken to some nearby country place where they will remain during the summer under the watchful ejje of Rev Kin During the summer they will be taught the rudiments of the English language as well as the tenets of Christianity and In the fall they will take up their mechanical studies stud-ies in this city Mr Kins plans are not yet known to tha people in charge of the mission but i is understood the lads are to remain here for some years and return to China with a liberal mechanical and scientific education China it Is believed will also apply soon to this government the privilege of send ing one or more of its youths to West Point and Annapolis Other nations have enjoyed this privilege for many years but China had not awakened to the advantages vantages to be derived from that courtesy until the recent disastrous war I The twenty youngsters who will arrive soon will remain here under bonds to re turn to their native country and every precaution will be taken against the violation vio-lation of our antiChinese laws |