The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-12

BOSTON, Aug. 1.-THE Standard viii
tomorrow print an exhaustive interview
with Miss Clara NJ. Cushman, CT 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 a belief that these
latest massacres are one of the results
of the recent war between China and ia
pan. Ku Cheng is many hundreds OF
miles from the central government al
Pekin, and it is probable that the people
had only rumors of the trouble and 50
got all sorts of STORIES some of which
may have started the trouble.
The uniformed Chinese Miss Cush-
man continued, "believe 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 d mob will come upon
them"
ENu ChcnG Described.
''Ku Cheng is quite distance from Foo
Chow up the Min river. 1t is walled
city of about 10000 inhabitants, and has
the reputation of being d very neat and
clean city. Long Bling is still further IN
land. Miss Hartford has an assistant.
Miss Wilma II. Rouse. of Minnesota, who
was probably not in the massacre, as her
name was not mentioned.
The missionary society of the NJ. T.
church has two other missionaries at Ku
Cheng, Rev. NJ. c. Wilcox. presiding elder
of Ku Cheng district, and DR.. J. J. Greg
DRY, in charge of Wiley hospital. The
only building owned by the MethodistS
is a chapel valued at $500, in which the
average attendance of Sunday worship
last year was go. The homes, schools
and hospital are IN hired houses which
fact may have saved both buildings and
inmates from the fate of the English
missionaries and their buildings"
A Popular Teacher.
Miss Cushman being in a position to
speak of Miss Hartford. who so narrowly
escaped death al the hands of the vege-
tarians, through personal acquaintance,
says of her:
Miss Hartford was sent to Ku Cheng
in 1887 by the women,s foreign mission
airy society of the NJ. z. church. She was
at that time very popular teacher in the
public schools of Dover, y. II. She has
no ia Their, mother, brother or sister liv-
Ing. but is entirely devoted to her work,
Although the five years 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 the work
and finally die there. But iii health and
need of rest almost Influenced her to take
TIE utcQSu VACATION when the IIOuDleS
came on. Mrs. Alderman, of Hyde Park.
the corresponding secretary of the New
England branch of the society. has writ
ten to her. advising her to take this op-
portunity while the country is settling
down again, to come to America. Miss
Hartford is in charge of the Ku Cheng
and Long Bing districts of Foo Chow WO-
mans conference. Her report to the last
annual conference showed in the Ku
Cheng district one boarding school with
an enrolment of "A; fourteen day schools
with an enrolment of 200; one bible train
ing school with an enrolment of 20"
Criticisms Unjust.
Miss Althea NJ Todd, of this city. il
now under appointment to join Miss
Hartford 1t Ku Cheng, and was expected
10 leave in about a month. That the
trouble has been long brewing is proven
by a letter received by Mrs. Alderman
from Miss Hartford 1t was dated Foo
Chow. May 20. and says: II was obliged
to close the women'S and girls schools
April on account of fears of local in
surrectiOns. The English mission closed
their schools two weeks earlier, but 7
had hoped matters might clear up and so
held on. AT last I found 1 could not
stand out any longer alone. Every one
so [ closed them. Then I was sick. so
when DR.. Gregory urged me TO come to
FOO Chow and have rest / came
Miss CuShman thinks the criticisms
made of United States Minister DENLY
are unjust, as during her residence in
Pehin he had been very careful to protect
the missionaries rights. was on friendly
terms with them all and they esteemed
him very highly.