The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-27
FAMINE WORST KNOWN OF POSED TO EMPRESS
Lady Missionary Tells of Feel.
ing Of the Chinese.
BOXERS ENCOURAGED
STORIES OF TERRIBLE SUFFER.
ING IN INDIA.

among the guests at the Walker House
mat came in from San Francisco yester-
day We're Mrs. BradOck. missionary Of
the American Presbyterian society, and
her l4-year-old son. For the past seven
ana a half years Mrs. BradOck has been
laboring in Umballa Cantonment. Pun
Jduo' Inoia, but is now returning to Pitts
purS on account of the loss of her hus-
band The lady missionary three weeks
ago was in Hang Chow, China, visiting
with her brother. who is also a mission
airy IN the Orient. In speaking i'm re-
S4Ir4- 70 the situation in China she said:
hen 1 left China the powers had not
tdhen q hand in affairs, but even then
they were In very bad shape in the
horth. The general opinion there was
Inat the empress dOWager was in hand
and glove with the Boxers Ii nav NOT 10
generally known here, but neyertheIesSs
It IS a. fact, that the better class of the
Chlnese are opposed to the empress and
want 10 see the emperor installed in his
flgntIul place. So much is this a fact
that several mandarins who We're called
20 Pekin threw down their caps and said
that they would prefer to lose the buttons
OF ONCE IN the same rather than serve
under such a ruler"
Mrs BTadock is further of the opinion
that half has not been told in regard to
Ine appalling situation of affairs in China
Upon the subject OF the famine in India
she tells a terrible story of suffering.
Famine in India.
The famine. she said. els caused from
the Iact that the regular mOns0Ons that
blow up the rains did not appear this last
season when they ought to have done,
with the consequence that the crOns have
universally been a failure 1t is an awful
sight to see these Door creatures tOflings
along, Veritable living skeletons to the
nearest government relief stations. 1t was
no uncommon thing for Us to see them
drop to die by the Wayside.
just before left India, / was talking
to young doctor who had been up to
one OF these RELIEF stations and to add to
the troubles OF the famine he had cholera.
the plague and smallpox to combat amOne
the sufferers. Parties. he said would ar
rive in the night and by the time morning
udWneu, the dead cart would pick uD on
occasions as many as forty or fifty bodies,
The government is doing all in its
pc<,er to relieve the suffering by estab-
fishing relief stations and giving the ma
tives work on irrigation bitches and rail-
roads at plce a day, which is equivalent
TO + cents, and which gives them the
means to buy enough to live upon. The
women get and the boys pice each for
a days work. There is an Englishman as
oVerSeer at each station with Babu as
sistants to help him. These natives cheat
the sufferers out of their earnings and the
situation everywhere is deplOTable.
Ignorance of Natives.
The ignorance of the natives is ap-
palling, and the English carry their lives
In their hands when they try to assist
those stricken on account of a story that
has been industriOusly circulated by tho
Brahms for some time past. According
to the story Lord Elgin, the late viceroy
of India, when he was out hunting three
years ago met a Jogi, or sacred hermit,
who prOphesied that the British rule in
India would come to an end in 1899 The
vicerOy was Mortified and asked what he
could do to divert such a calamity, when
the Jogi told him that providing that
100000 victims could be sacrificed to Kali,
the goddess of the Thugs, that the British
rule would prevail Accordingly Lord
Elgin imported a shiplOad of infected rats
into Bombay with the result that the
plague was turned loose upon the ma
tiVes.
Mrs. Bradock says that the HindOos to
a man believe this story, ana that when
any doctor comes to their relief they im-
mediately think that he IS going to sac
rificq them TO Kali, and as q, consequence
the instrusiOn OF any white man upon
their misery is resented with physical
force.