The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-12
LIFE In fHE
YANGSTg VALLEY.
Many Scares But Little Real
Damage, During the
RECENT CHINESE OUTBREAK.
Missionary From CuyahogA Falls Writes
Interestingly of the Anxious Months
That Are Now Almost

Tnat Arc NOW Almost
Past.
The following letter is published by
the Akron Beacon Journal, from Rev. Dr.
E. I. Osgood, for whose safety fears
were so long entertained, to his home
people at Cuyahoga Falls:
Shanghai, China, Aug. is, 1900.
Dear Cuyahoga Falls Home:--Your
loving letter of about July 1, bearing
so many marks of encouragement,
came Saturday, and together with two
| former letters has nearly IL not quite
redeemed the past.
have written Will concerning our
coming to Shanghai and SO will tell you
| our plans for the future. The war news
| you get daily, and 1t is probably now
quite accurate, but some of the June
and July news that reached America
was purely fiction, a product of some
correspondents imagination. Here in
the Yangste valley there have been
many rumors and scares but little else.
The Nankin and Haukow viceroys
| (Chinese) are keeping order splendidly,
much to their praise.
| Just above Wahu, at Tatung, there
has been a little looting by thieves of
mission property. About rs miles from
Kinkiang, a Catholic mission felt the
| effects of a riot and Cheng Teh, $50
miles southwest from Haukow, where
DR.. Kelly, to whom Miss Goodrich Is
engs ged, Is stationed, has been looted.
He got away all right and is now here
at Shanghai. They expected to be mar
ried August 20. He is fine fellow
| and they are we'll suited to each other.
| These three cases are about the only
| ones in this valley. Evangelist Shi,
| who is watching over our Chu Chico
property, wrote the other day that that
city is perfectly peaceful and so we do
not greatly fear any damage to our
property.
ARE WAITING NOW.
Just now we are waiting to see what
effect the fall Of Peking will have upon
the country. If 1t creates no disturb
| ance south of here we may be able to
go back to Nankir in September or
October. From there Brother Hunt and
| will take the trip to Chu Chico anj
later, IL safe, will take Mrs. Hunt.
Frances and the children. We only
fear that along the road the people
may be hostile, but we will ask the
officials to see to that.
So our plans are something like this,
| II God permits us to return. We have
four regions outside of Chu Chico, be-
| sides this city itself, viz: Yu Hotsz and
Kwan Wei; 16 miles northwest; Shi
has been stationed here some years
and we have a church of IS. But
Brother Hunt will now oversee that
provided we can carry out our plans
and rent a building offered to us at
| Wu e, 13 miles southeast, on the road
| to Nankin, a new field in which Shi
desires to work. Last year Brother Ar
rold opened chapel at Tswein Tsiao
Hien. 20 miles southwest, and station
ed an evangelist by the name of Chu
there. This is a new field also and Is
to be given to me to develop in the
years to come. 1t is a walled city of
perhaps 5000 people, surrounded by
a well populated agricultural district.
will probably go down, horseback.
every week or so. May open up q
small dispensary there. The district
north of the city, in which were So
many conversions the past year, will
also be under Brother Hunts care, but
probably our evangelist, WI Ii Kwan.
will do most Of the house to house work
there with the cooperation of the new
christians.
| have already told you that the On
tario, Canada, Christian Endeavorers
have pledged $500 to build a dispen-
sary building at Chu Chico, and so the
building of that will be my first worl,
upon ovr return.
So my work will be itinerating tc
Tswein Tsiao, carrying on the medical
work at Chu Chico and continuing my
study of the language. Brother Hunt
will oversee the evangelistic work al
Yu Hotsz, WI Z, in Chu Chico and
north Of the city, with Shi and WI Al
co-workers.
My teacher, Cheu, will study medi.
cine and work with me In dispensary
Last year we saw in about eight ant
one-half months nearly $500 cases, nl
average of about 12 day.
These plans may come to naugh
but we constantly pray that the wa
will quickly cease, that we may retur,
early to our work. We are in excellen
health, including Russell. and are Il
J very comfortable quarters here a
| OHuh6udis OuT cApcnScb dfc boAicWud
higher but the board Is paying all rent
and 1t will not last much longer, W
trust.
LACK OF VOLUNTEERS. 5
Since no young men seem willing +
come to China we are hoping to ar
range our present force 30 as to cove
all the points and have asked the boar
to send out three young ladies to &C
company various families and assist 4
women's work. 1t seems strange whe
think of the number of the young me
who have been members of the Hirar
volunteer band alone, that none wi
come to the field. It's probable tha
some cannot come and the rest don
{ want to. Just now, when number
: have laid down their lives In the servic
: and when all appearances are tha