The herald., 1895-08-12
MISSIONARIES IN CHINA
The Situation Discussed by a
New England Woman
DESCRIPTION OF KU CHENG
A New Hampshire Lady Who Narrowly
Escaped Death
Criticisms on M. Denby Considered Unjust
by Miss Cushman, VINO Saw Pers
sonalIy What He Did
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
BOSTON, Aug. 1.-THE Standard will
tomorrow print an exhaustive interview
with Miss Clarma M. Cushman of Dead
ham concerning the missionary situation
in China. Miss Cushman was for many
years a missionary at Pekin, having been
sent by the same society as that under
whose auspices Miss Hartford has been
working at Ku-Cheng. In this interview
Miss Cushman asserts belief that these
latest massacres are ono of the results of
the recent war between China and Japan.
Ku-Cneng is many hundreds of miles
from the central government at Pekin,
and it is probabls that the people heard
only rumors OF trouble and SO got all
sorts of stories, some Of which may have
started the trouble.
The uninformed Chinese" Miss
Cushman continued. "believcd that the
foreign missionaries cut out the eyes and
hearts of the natives to use for medicine.
They are quick to accept any story that
they hear, SO that the foreigners there
can never tell when q mob will come
upon them"
Miss Cushman thus describes Ku
Cheng:
"Ku Cheng is quite a distance from
Foo Chow up the Min river. 1t is a
walled city of about 10000 inhabitants
and has the reputation Of being very
neat and clean city. Long Bing is still
further inland. Miss Hartford has an
assistant, Miss Wilma H. Rouse of Min
nesota, who was probably not in the mas
sacre, as her name was not mentioned.
THE Missionary society of the M. E.
church has two other missionaries at
Ku Cheng, Rev. NJ. G. Wilcox. presiding
elder of Ku Cheng district. and DR.. J. J.
Gregory, in charge of Wiley hospital.
The only building owned by the Method
lists is a chapel valued at $2500. in which
the average attendance of Sunday worship
last year was 80. The homes, schools
and hospital are in hired houses, which
fact may have saved both buildings and
inmates"
Miss Cushman, being in position to
speak oi Miss -Hartfosd, who 50 narrowly
escaped death at the hands of the Vege-
tarians, through personal acquaintance,
says Of her:
"Miss Hartford was sent to Ku Cheng
in 1887 by the Woman's Foreign Mission
ary society of the NJ. E. church. She was
at that time a very popular teacher in the
public schools of Dover. N. H. She has
no father. mother, brother or sister liv-
ing, but is entirely devoted to her work.
Although the fve-year term for which
she went has expired, she has steadily re-
fused to accept the vacation. with the
privilege of visiting America, saying she
preferred to stay in China with her work
and finally die there. But i'll health and
need of rest almost influenced her to take
the needed vacation when the troubles
came OH. Mrs. Alderman OF Hyde Park,
England branch OF the society, has writ
ten t. her advising her to take this op-
pOrtunity while she country is settling
down again, to come to Ameiica.
Miss Hartford is in charge of the Ku
Cheng and Long Bing districts of the Foo
Chow woman's conference. Her report 10
the last annual conference showed in the
Ku Cheng district one boarding school
with an enrolment of forty-four. fourteen
day schools with an enrolment of two
hundred, one Bible training school with
an enrolment of twenty.
./Miss Althesa NJ. Todd of this city Is
now under appointment to JOIN Miss
Hartford at Ku Cheng and was expected
to leave in about month. That tne
trouble has been long brewing 10 proven
by a letter received by Mrs. Alderman
from Miss Hartford. 1t Is dated Foo
Chow. May Goth, and says:
II was obliged to close the women's
and girls schools April 9th on account of
the fears of local insurrections. The En-
glish mission closed their school two
weeks earlier but l had hoped matters
might clear up and so kept on. At last
l found could not stand out any longer
alone. Everyone thought the schools
ought to be closed, so l closed them. Then
l was sick. so that when DR.. Goody urged
me to come to Foo Chow and have q rest
l came.'
Miss Cushman thinks the criticisms
made of United States Minister DENLY are
unjust, as during her residence in Pekin
he had been very careful to protect the
missionaries rights. was on friendly
him very highly.