The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-07
PRICE FIVE CKH9A

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arise.
On Saturday Miss Boughton arrived.
and on Sunday We had the usual Chinese
service-fated to be our last at Weihsien
for many day. At daylight on Mon
day Miss Hawes came, having travelled
all night We three then worked hard
to pack the most valuable small belong
ings. and to provide for the various de-
partments of our large mission plant. The
schools-boys' and girls high schools
had already been dismissed Ga thing most
providentiaD. We sent away the few re-
naming school girls TO their homes-these
had stayed over for the vacation BY
this time ugly rumors were afioat and
our Christians and helpers advised US to
leave. This was consoling. for usually
! they are very averse to the foreigners
, all leaving. At p. m. one of our native
pastors. Ii Ping /. came with cart to
| take away some goods of his own and
others. While loading the cart an unruly
crowd pushed in at our gate The gate
man sent for me, saying he could not
restrain them. took a cane and went
up. supposing / could get them to be-
have.
BY that time they had attacked our
waIl and smashed the tile work or coping
thereon. l drove them away-they were
mostly small boys-and held the gateway
till Mr.. LIS cart went out. At once they
attacked the cart, and in moment stole
every lHlIS III IT, L COulQ 10 DOlllnB JUL
SIDE, and so shut the large gate against
the mob's return.
| Meanwhile, seeing the sudden turn in
affairs. L had dispatched letter to the
| Yamen asking for few soldiers to pro-
tect the place. Returning to our houses
/ L advised the women to go to my house.
as the most secure and wait for me. I
ran back to fiEd the dispensary windows
ismashed and howIing mob on the high
er ground to the northwest storming the
place with bricks and tiles. 1 ran back.
took from the safe taels 10 of sycee and
81 in Mcxicans, as provision against flight.
locked the safe and returned to try to
keep back the mob till help should come
from Yamen. The lives of many depend
led upon keeping back the mob. I ran
forward amid shower of bricks and tiles,
and at twenty PAGES warned them back.
They jeered at me. a brick hit my foot,
slightly injuring but not disabling the de-
tfending garrison. The mob fell back, and
y 3lst=then a cayalryman appeared brand.
ishing MS gun. He was from the Yamea.
III saluted him cordially and asked him te
help. / then ofsered the wicket gate and
fosr1arge gate f1aiy iavt.e enough f"rsone
) De - entsr I'D ran Sol 20 the north
wsst ccz. er OF The compound, whence the
moh aad Withdrawn. The horseman
: started around the compound, presumably
! to see If there was an attack on the
other side. He never again appeared. and
soon the crowd, cowed for the while by
e the arrival of the soldier, began to hoot
? at me and say the Yamen would not help
us. L feared the man hap returned. and
! my fears were correct. / afterward learn
4 Ell that be had not been sent out to help.
: but was casually returning from other
business.
: 1t was now about p. m, and being at
; time of longest day the sun was still high.
: My hope and prayer then was to keep
d back the mob until sunset, so that we
n could escape under cover of darkness.
Il took up my position at the corner of the
n compound outside. They stood still, and
o soon said, Lets scatter They were IN
decided what to do, and al this point
,r the presence of one soldier from the
n Yamen would have averted the calamity.
II No human help came. i stood my ground
,r quietly and waited. They sad, Move for
h ward" A few started toward me, bur
!, they skunk back. At 7:45 they made ar
~ onset. Some had crept along the banl
of of the stream near our place and emerged
e behind me. l saw my disadvantage, ant
n warned those to the northwest TO halt
yo They came on. yelling and thro~ins
q stones. / ran for the gate amid fusil
O. lade of missiles There was no ques
ton but that they intended TO kill me
* / got in safely, slammed and barred tn
gate, and ran up the street, to find tn
mob had broken in our unused south gat
and were swarming UP the street.
Going in at Miss Boughton's gate an
around by the east private pathway,
Joined our women We barricaded th
doors and windows with furniture an
clused the large sliding doors between tn
dining room and sitting room and wen
upstairs. Our servants and several Chi
nese women were with US. IL was nov
S O'Clock the exact hour we had previous
ily set for community prayer rneetin
for the safety of our Christians. We ha
& few short, earnest prayers, then th
cry was raised By the Chinese vomer
The chapel is on fret I knew the tim
had come to run fer ii. Going down
stairs we found the front yard free froT
1.-THE mob, but could hear the crash of win
dGws IN the rear OF the house. Here
most remarkable thing came 10 ligh
which saved cur lives. l had had a shol
ladder carried to my front porch for II
purpose Of getting up to inspect the roc
of my porch. which had been leakin,
Hastily placing this ladder On the wa
We climb over. and all got out Every
where else the rioters were doing the
EEefaTious work except in my front var
The chapel. Miss Boughton's house ar
Eother buildings were burning flercely,- ar
the mob was busy piling fuel on E
trent porch of the woms4fs home ju
next to my house. Only one man sa
US. ard crying THE devils are apin
kiilF'. ne threw brick, which passt
over cur heads. No rioters were outsit
at that roint. though many were not Il
distant who might have followed US
We quietly walked through fields to l
Kia-Chwang, 2 friendly village, a
r. Thence turned south II was STowsr
dark Three Chinese servants were "
ius, besides two non-Christiar naan w.
often act as barrowmen foF Us, and
= this CRISIS proved loyal TO US 5he Chr
= tian women took refuge in L-Ki
Chwang Miss BoughtuTi, Miss HAVE
myself and the few men walked o
Miss Bopghton had picked Up hamms
(which was our only weapcE left / oug
- ttossay that during the two hours VIII
ss--- l'zfffstanding the mob had not the lea
fear. This was doubtless due to the
icsGsant prayer for me by our young "
men and Christians. Their party W
& finest noble, for It was easier to be Q
fading the mob than inside under ST
ipeLse They did not know but that I h
j besngs izsitsis leaving the road, we to
al E Z 10 I ne fields, and directed our way to I
German naipes. nine English miles ava
Oh, the refiefs we enjoyed-the God 50
fdsrkness. the1 eonpanionship Of faith
Chinese friends, With the burning bui
Eiags behind us and the stars above