The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-19
French whose soldiers have killed coo

French, whose soldiers have killed COO
lies, women, children and old men with
out mercy. The Japanese captured 3
100000 taels, or about 81, 100000, in the
board OF public works when they came
IN, and little later on the French
russians andJapanese organized otficiai
looting, their Ministers either not car
ing or not attempting to prevent it. The
English troops We're at first forbidden
to loot, but after two days the British
olncerS began systematic collection
OF all kinds of treasures and brought
them to the British legation They sent
out Hindu Sikhs with pack trains and
brought silks, furs, jewels and silver
into the legation, and sold them there
at auction. The proceeds are to be Ill
vlded up among the British soldiers.
Minister Conger and the American
officers have succeeded in holding back
our troops, much to the latter's disgust.
one day the Americans found within
their lines 100000 taels about s425. 900
The French Immediately declared that
the line was wrongly drawn and drew
their guns on the Americans An in
Vestigation was made and the Ameri-
cans gave in and the French got the
money. In the same way our soldiers
allowed the Russians to take the i'm
perfal palace from them after they had
done the fighting and lost eight men in
taxing 1t. The Russians also took the
Empress summer palace, the railway
and arsenal at Tien-Tsin and other
Strategic points along the river It is
q question whether in these cases for
Dearance had not ceased to be virtue
cut at any rate Minister Conger prob
ably carried out the orders of his s,,ne-
rior
The position Of our Minister in the
peace negotiations is a trying one. The
Chinese, the Russians and the British
all seem to be playing the part of the
monkey in attempting to use TIE Amer
lean cat to pull the chestnuts out of the
fire for their respective countries. and
vigilance, backbone and diplomacy are
required in watching that they do not.
Major Conger has had experience as a
diplomat as Minister to Brazil, where
ne succeeded well, and also during the
present administration at Peking. He
mas been popular with the Chinese as
| well as with the Americans, and es-
Iecially the missionaries.
AFFECTING STORY FROM IOWA.
/ There are altogether, not including
the soldiers, something like $500 Amer
leans in China, and of these 1.7OO are
missionaries. Many of them are of
sterling ability and worth, and they
have, | believe, been doing much good
They have colonies at all the ports and
stations at many places in the interior
Minister Conger visits them and aids
them. I have been told that he is a
Unitarian, but his ideas as to missions
are strong enough to please the most
cast-iron Puritan. He makes a good
missionary speech, interspersing his re-
! marks with anecdotes and personal ex-
periences. One of the latter which he
recently told is affecting as showing
the heartfelt interest that some of our
children have in the Chinese when /
left Brazil" said the American Minis
ter, ito come to China, 1 passed
through my old town of Des Moines.
and while there the good people gave
me reception. / shook hands with
them and was hidden 'Godspeed' on my
Way to China. There We're many chill
dren in the crowd that came to say
good-by. and among them sweet lit
tie girl whose earnestnesS / shall never
forget. As she shook my hand she said:
Major Conger, I do hope, when you
! go to China, you will take Jesus with
you to the poor heathens.'
"Ah! my little girl" said I, 'I don't
need to do that. Jesus is there alrea-
dy. He is there in the books your Sun
day school has sent. He Is there in that
noble army of men and women martyrs
the Christian missionaries, who have
gone into that benighted land that the
poor Chinese may have the light of our