Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-06-26

Cnlnaman IN onanSl.
"A man just came from a village out
side Of this city, and described the
condition Of the starving people, which
made me feel as though l was among
them. Thirty dollars was the price OF a
bag OF rice. The poor have no rice; !
they killed everything in sight If eat
able, and cooked even leather boxes CT
bags, and stewed tree-bark and grass.
Some of them were SO famished that
they We're even eating earth.
"On the first day, he saw number
OF poor people selling their children
for rice. On the second, he saw the
same party lying starving on the
road, and on the third day about half
of them were dead, and their miserable
bodies were lying at the mercy OF
hungry dogs and wolves.
Nearly every city town or villageI
he passed through was deserted or the
houses occupied by the dead II is said
that in one town the people have open
ed a human flesh market
Another friend told me Of family
Of nine. The mother could not bear tOI
hear the cry of the famished family,
so she hung herself The father be-
came insane and killed all seven chit
dren and finally committed suicide"
The Christian Herald caught up LII
Hung Changes appeal and spread
It broadcast throughout the United
States. The response has been more
quick and generous than TO any previ-
GUS calls on the generosity OF Ameri-
cans. One of the first contributions WIS
from President Mckinley, who, from
his special car on his journey across
the continent, telegraphed his contri-
button along with that OF John Hay,
secretary of State.
Already $4,000 have been cabled to
the Relief Committee of five mission
aries in Tien-Tsin. The obstacles which
led some persons in this country to
fear that the distribution of famine
relief in China would be a difficult
task have melted away.
Shansi's new governor is a very pro-
gressive Chinaman. He is a friend OF
the foreigners. and he recently sent an
Official escort to Pekin to conduct the
missionaries 90 Tai-yuen-Fu Shensi,
too, has been found 10 be quite as ae-
cessible for relief operations as any
other part OF the empire.
These are the days when electricity
and steam are knitting the world to-
gether. Twenty-thousand dollars can
now be sent from New York to China
almost as easily as to Philadelphia
While YOU are reading this, a flo
tilla of small junlIs and river boats Is
| probably well on its way up the Yang
tse river The fotilla is laden with
tons OF rice 1t will follow its windingi
toward the southern borders Of tho
two provinces, and then continue W
the river Han to a point where lis
cargo will be loaded ON wagon trains
and carried far into the interior
/ Thousands of lives will be saved, and
as WI Ting Fang recently put It, "Ths
lrelief will so a long way toward help
ling the Chinese to realize the foreign
ers are not their enemies.
Yes. $4,000 will go a long way II
i Shansi and Shensi, but after all, 1t il
Ionly a beginning. A great deal more
is needed before the shadow can D'
lifted from over the desert valleys. A
fund Is ncW being raised which it il
j hoped may rival the hundreds o
thousands contributed for India.
| Crushed, heartbrOken China to-da.
locks to America as her best friend
There is something pathetic in L
\ Hung Changes selection of this countr.
for his appeal.
Ii Hung Chang was the friend o
n General Grant BY his instructions
the Chinese minister every Memoria
Day lays a wreath on the tomb OF
Riverside Drive. Lii Hung Chang mad
TO us the first admission OF his coun
try's suffering.
Shall his appeal be in vain? VIII
| . - MI rrttr
no heed? No, as DR. Louis Klopscl
, says. in a little pamphlet just issuei
by the Relief Fund:
Il Let the dead past bury its dead
These people, though their skin b
yellow, though their customs b
strange. thOugh they live in a differ
emit cline, though they have erred, anN
n grievously erred, yet are they on
2 brethren, and we will not desert then
in this hour of terrible affliction AM
! distress
"They shall not die if we can pre-
vent IT, Their children shall not b
! sold for food, for to them they are a
3 dear as our own prattling babes are Il
us: they shall not starve, seeing tina
God has given us enough and to spare
Out Of our abundance will we assis
! them, and, God helping us, we will d
to them as we would, under simila
j conditions, have them do to us. an
I thus reducing the golden rule to prac
= tice, we will give Them bread to tn
: full extent of our individual ability.
D Saving lives in North China is no
] an expensive process.
3 Ten American cents will pay tn
3 expenses Of a small family for a day
! and twenty cents will save a life 70
t week A dollar is all that is neede
I Ito maintain a family of five for a week
and one hundred dollars will kee
s alive a good sized village. All cOntri
3 buttons towards this deserving caus
Z should be addressed to the Chin
4 Famine Relief Fund, care the Chris
e tian Herald. Bible House, New YORK.
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