Show RETURNING FROM CHINA account of education in the celestial kingdom george B smythe lie principal of the european college at china was among the passengers on the southern pacific last night he ile arrived in san francisco on the steamer last week the gentleman went from front I 1 new york to china eleven years ago ngo as a missionary of tho the methodist church and soon after his hi arrival was placed in ill charge of the college seen on tho the depot platform last night air smythe gave nil all account of bisworm his work ill in the celestial kingdom when I 1 went to iu in 1882 lie eaid said there were nvere no schools there where the tetter letter class of chinese chine be youth could geta get a european education a and my church had not the necessary funds to erect one A generous chinese came forward and donated tow toward ar d the tile expenses and with this we were enabled to build a very fair edifice to which wo we have since beon been able to make considerable additions the stu indents average an attendance of ninety and they are extremely apt before a boy is eligible for admission lie must have read certain of the chinese clas classic sice and anti have passed some examinations this alone is a fairly good course to go through and we then arrange matters so that the student keeps up his chinese Chine studies between the intervals of reccie sei ing a european education lawe if wo conj fined them to an english education they would not be com competent detent to hold any position in the tile chinese government which requires them to pus in the higher brandies branches of chinese literature I 1 ev every e r y boy bov leaves us with a thorough k knowledge of the english language thus oms enabling him to fill positions in 0 the I 1 e cue CUB or to act as interpreters and clerk at the ports life at ie is very dull there is bothin nothing thero but tea and the s sole 0 le topic of conversation is tile prospect of the crop the chinese are very conservative utterly unlike the japanese and conversion to christianity is a slow a and nd tedious process tile chinese have such a vast amount of histo history and traditions dit ions all interwoven with their pagan agan faith diat that it ie is extremely difficult for them to throw over everything and grasp a new feitli then again the an ti foreign feeling which breaks brest 8 out dut in occasional riots and demon demonstrations strat ious i against european residents resi dente ie is mud much increased by chinese registration liere and the exclusion act the tile educated clu CIA nese who live in tile cities and read the papers do not fail to repeat the news to the tile outside people and tills thi s keeps up a lot of bad feeling outbreaks are never general however a di disturbance co in in one Mo town seldom om if ever spreading to an other |