The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
LOSSES OF MISSIONARIES.
One American Missionary in Turkey
Loses 81 900 Worth of ClothingI

To the Editor of the State Journal:
If the press of the land may be credited
poor old Turkey to obtain payment for
damages suffered by American missionar-
damages are fixed at ST., 1885, of this sum
$43,T00 consists in injuries to missionary
missionaries and 81. COS, the loss on stocks
and apparatus.
Every reader would like to know what
style of buildings these missionaries occu-
pied, damages to which mot their destruc-
tion) amounted to $43, 700? If the loss COW
cred one-half the value of those build
ings the dimes and pennies of our Sunday
school children and the donations Of zeal
Gus, women have been used in erecting
The phrase Gloss on stock and appar2-
tus may have a meaning, but it is too
competent man would examine it with
Crookes Tube and Roentgen rays. In what
stocks were these servants of God specu-
require for teaching Christianity?
But the personal losses of these poor
thies With P oSer-mastering power
That devoted disciple, Rev c. H. Wheeler,
b Sat s s6d Do wSFt9 for Of oR VIII $500 Of
crued interest. He had clothing and ma
terials which were damaged mot de-
stroyed) to the amount of $1,342- For lost
furniture he claims $1,000, for lost bedding
S2Se for lost provisions, fuel and medi-
wish ne had separated the lost clothing
from the lost materials" (whatever that
may mean so that we could indulge in a
crying spell over each Some inquiring
minds would like to know what property
was disguised under the name of ma
| terials % In the absence of further infor-
nation we have right to presume it was
trinl1ets for commerce with the heather.
Rev c. F. Gates is a conspicuous SUI
| ferer. He lost clothing valued at SSlS, sad
| dlery $l45, bedding 1878 and boots and
| Miss e. c. Wheeler who appears to be
the only member of the sisterhood at that
station, seems to have been almost finan-
/ cially ruined. She lost clothing valued at
SLICES, pictures at $500, bedding SID and
| boots and shoes at $40
/ When Jesus sent his disciples on mis-
/ Sionary enterprise he charged them to
| not even directed to pull weeds or split
/ wood for cold suppers like our American
| trampS. The three Self-sa crifcing mission
! aries at HarpOOt probably did not take
/ kindly to the begging industry and there
( stomach and bodies Brother Wheeler
alone had $3.50 of food and medicines
! Brother Gates had a wardrobe that would
| have astonished Beau Brummei but ht
! was out-done by Sister Wheeler His out
! fit Of clothing and foot-gear was yaluee
at Ss51, while hers was placed at S12,019-0 90
| John the Baptist sat down to his din
! ner of sweetened bugs dressed in gar
| ment of camels hair held In place by
| leather strap-and he was a missionary
| His followers, Wheeler, Gates anS
| Wheeler, are rivals of Lucullus in styi'
glory was not arrayed like unto one o
I have lived more than a third of a cen
fury in the city, of Washington, D c.
amidst Jobs" log rollings" and genera
-duggery-where populations AM
treasury lootings are common as microbe
in fever, but 1 have never witnessed
parallel to this attempt at larceny On
thing is certain. If those claimants actual
ly possessed the equipments they CLAIM
TO have lost they were living lives o
duplicity and meanness uniting them 70
missionary duties. and if they have lie
about their possessions, they are not de
serving of any recompense, In elthe
event their claim against Turkey instea
of being enforced by war should be is
| nored and the claimants Stunned by ever
lover of truth and justice.
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