Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-11

an nour later was taken back swiftly
in the same way.
Human is the province of China
which has gained notoriety as the most
bitterly anti-forejgn andsanti-Christian
OF any In the empire. For years the
mandarin in charge of the telegraph
service attempted to connect Chang
Sha with the other large cities of Chi
ma. but he was forced to give up, as
the people burned his poles and threw
his workmen into the nearest river or
pond. Only three years ago an effort
was made to run the telegraph line to
Siberia through one corner of Human,
but native prejudice was still SO strong
that the wire and poles were destroy
ed and the workmen were driven be-
yond the boundary of the province and
warned under pain of death not to re-
turn. 1t is only within the last year
that an imperial decree was issued or
dering the Hunanese not to modest the
builders of the telegraph. 1t is expect
ed that Chang-Sha in few months
will be connected with the rest of the
world by telegraph. "a
1t was at Chang-Sha that the afro
cious books attacking the Christian re-
ligion were published about eight years
| ago. Chou Han, literary graduate
and man of means, was the author
of these libels on Christianity, which
were illustrated with pictures too vile
to describe. DR.. Griffith John, a we'll
| known missionary, exposed the author
ship of the books and described the
publisher who was sending them. out.
| Through Lii Hung Chang an imperial
decree was secured prohibiting any fur
| Their publication of the books, aud an
| order was issued for the destruction Of
the wooden type from which they We're
| printed. This order was evaded by
CDou Han removing the type to his
country place, forty-five miles away,
| but a curious feature of the matter was
the change of heart on the part of
Chou Han. DR.. John sent him letters
calling his attention to the injustice of
attacking religion of which he knew
nothing personally. He also sent to
Chou Han the Bible in Chinese, with
!. considerable literature that explained
the chief tenets of Christianity. Chou
Han made no reply, but his publisher,
) who is now one of DR.. Johns friends,
} assured the missionary that Chou Han
had ceased to rail against the Chris
, tian religion, though the story of his
| L..
Chou Han appears to be a man of
much nobility of character, for he has
given away in charity the greater part
of a large fortune, retaining only a
5 small farm sufficient for the support
of himself and his son. Formerly,
; when he visited Chang-Sha, he put up
; at one of the temples; now he stays
: at cheap hotel.
, 1t is the general opinion that Dr.
2 Wolfe's persistence in entering Chang
Sha has aroused the enmity of the
2 people. and that his conduct will make
it more difficult for any other traveller
. to penetrate into the interior of Human
: DR.. Wolfe waited fifteen days for per
: mission to enter Chan Sha, and or
March 10 this was granted. In a closed
v chair he was taken through the gate a
: 3:45 P. M, and at 5:45 P. NJ, he wa;
brought out in the same way, his chail
curtain being let down all round, 81
that he was in absolute darkness, I'M
: able to see anything. After leaving
G ChangSha he went to Heng- Chou
$ where street mob booted at him an;
: palted him with clods of earth. They
3 tried to pull him down to the water tt
: drown him, but he escaped and reach
] ed Lyntang. There his three bearers
became alarmed at the violence Of the
people and deserted him. Left alone,
/ with no knowledge Of the language,
D DR.. Wolfe was forced to make his way
by water back to Handtow.-New York
b Sun. ~