Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — ALMOST NEXT TO ROYALTY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALMOST NEXT TO ROYALTY.

The New Chinese Minister at Washingtor an Exalted Noble in His Own Land In many respects Yang Yee, the new Chinese minister, is one of the most interesting men to arrive in Washington in many a day. He is a man of great wealth and the highest position in China—a man of such importance, in fact, that he comes very near being a royal personage. About 50 years of age, short and stout, he

moves with an air of self-possession characteristic of the high-bred Chinese. The minister’s wife, who is accompanied by her two daughters and five Oriental ladies of rank, is said by the Star to be decidedly exclusive, and will not be much seen in Washington society. In accordance with Chinese custom she lives a life of the greatest seclusion, dining alone and seeing no one, for visitors are not permitted to enter her apartments.

MINISTER YANG YEE.