The following little ar tele was written by "Chinese pupil in an American school and is interesting as showing the trend of the young idea in China, "Ihave heard that the Americans have treated some Chinese badly, and that some Chinese who lived in North merica been killed. Other Chinese who lived there sent " letter to China aad told all Ohinese pupils not to buy anything from Americans and not to sell anything to them either. So there are many scholars leaving their schools and not learning their lessons. Some of thei? teachers are Americans. They thought their teachers should be treated cruelly. So xema schools have shut up These scholar who lete their schools thought they wore faithful to their country and loving towards their brethren. But they made a great mistake. We must not be unfaithful to our country and we mast not be unloving towards our brethren, But we cannot be faithful and love our country in this way. Even though there have been some Chinese killed by Americans I am sure they were not killed by the President of the United States or the good men and officials of America. They were killed by bad men or robbers or they broke me laws. In that event they should be killed. I am not in Awerica I am a Chinese. Tam also a little scholar in our school. My teachers are also Auwericans. Tam like you. But why did we not leave our school ant go out to play? Was it because we did not live our brethren and country? No! Ir ix because we want to do the wisest thing If it is true that these Chinese were killed for no reason and under no mistake, and killed by Ame must revenge them. are learning thi lessons more tian over, because we know if we go Tmok home our paren! be unhappy und if they want us to go back to school again then we shall be much ashamed. Our tonchers will punish us and other men will down on us. Please tell me which is more beneficial, o waste our time or lo study? By studying we can become
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