The evening times., 1900-09-10

BALTIMORE, Sept. 10.-Letters just re-
eefyed in Baltimore by friends OF Ameri-
can missionaries who have been stationed
in Southern China, and who have taken
refuge at treaty ports show that the mis-
sionaries are as completely at sea as 10
where trouble is going to break out next
in China as are the people who are thou
sands OF miles away.
Mrs. Edith CaTawelI Patton, the daugh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs. Z. s CarsweIl, of 423
Gorsuch Avenue, in letter mailed July IS
from Macao, the Portuguese port between
Honglong and Canton, writes: Politics
here is uncertain. The wall Of the Hong
kong paper Of last night was Where can
truth be found? One thing only is GER
tain, and that is that Ii Hung Chang has
left Canton ard started for the north.
When he left Canton ne went on board
his steamer at night, avoiding q disturb
ance- 4 delegation Of merchants went to
his yamer q daybTeak to persuade him
to stay, but found that he had already
gone The 500 soldiers who constitute his
guard are foreign drilled. They look
very soldier-like IN their tight coats and
little straw hats
After speaking Of Ii Hung Chang's ef-
fective suppression of piracy, theft. and
disorder IN Canton Mrs. Patton gives an
instance of the quickpess and despatch
with which Lis spies and followers were
trained to deal with disturbances The
attention of q number of Cinnamon was
called, she said, TO an EHgIishnan who
started TO walk across one of the bridges
near Canton. One of the Cinnamon said
XIII but one CT Lis spies who was
standing near had overheard and the man
who had made The suggestion was hanged
without ceremony
Mrs. Patton writes that the missionaries
who have taken refuge at Macao form
quite a goCd-sized colony. She and her
husband she adds, are continuing their
study of the dialect spoken in Keung
kong-the settlement about 250 miles
south Of Canton to which they have been
assigned by the Presbyterian Board, and
10 which they hope to so as soon as 1t
viii be safe for them to do so.
Owing to the fact that there was 10
house in keung Kong for them TO live in
AIr. and Mrs. Patton have spent the great
er part of The past year in Canton The
Mission Board has III the meanwhile beeh
negotiating for property en which to
build. The section is one which not more
than half dozen foreigners have ever
visited, and yet, Mrs. Patton tells that as
soen as the Chinese discovered that the
ground was wanted by foreigners they i'm
mediately increased the price
One effect which the war viii have on
the mission station at Keung Kong, if the
missionaries are ever allowed to occupy
it, will be noticeable in the kind of house
that viii be built. Because of the ty-
phoons the houses cannot be built 10 any
considerable height. Plans had been made
for two-story dwelling, but Shese have
been changed to plans for one-stos'y
bungalow. This has been done out Of con-
sideration for the superstition of The ma
tives that tall houses are obnoxious to
the spirits of the elements.
OF the life at Mac0a Mrs Patton
writes: 1T is fun to watch the natives
go out off the Prya tthe water 'front.' and
duck for oysters. They have a small box
or watertight basket tied to their shouI-
ders by a rope about five or six feet
long, which floats out behind them. then
they shut their eyes and mouth and go
dovsa on their knees and crawl and grope
around with their hands. All you see
sometimes for such a long time that you
think they are drowned are the baskets
bobhing on the waves. The oysters are
very queer kind. We use regular Bal
them to us was much pleased when he
found they came from our own home.
They are canned. of course
In another part of her letter Mrs. Pat
ton describes a trip in a jinrikisha on a
rainy day. 4 wish you could see our
SteerS IN a ralDSiCfI- Sue AIlt6S- ne
men have bare feet and legs. Their bod
les are enyeloped in a queer coat. reach
ing to their knees and made of palm
leaves of the kind used fer fans, split
SO that they can conform somewhat to
the shape Of the body. Then they wear
great round fat coolies hats, some al
NEST as large as a small umbrella. made
of bamboo and l don't know what else
it is too fearful and wonderful for me.
They serve fer hats and for umbrellas.
too. They look like miniature husk
stacks trotting along above a pair of
brown feet and legs
I'VE get in the little carriages, and,
after the curtain is fastened in the front.
away we go, snug and dry to our desti-
nation. The only thing seemingly wrong
is that these little steeds are men 1
cannot get used to having a man do
what we are accustomed to have animals
do at home. I feel at times IS though
he were the Christian and l the heath
en-
every Tuesday and Thursday the band
plays in the park at the end of the Prya
Hay Fever, Summer Colds, and