The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-03

hunger. Some idea Of the horror o.
it all can be gathered from the follow
ing letter received in this city from {
Chinamsn in Shansi:
ga man just came from a village
outside Of this city, and described the
condition Of the starving people, which
made me feel as though [ was among
them. Thirty dollars was the price OF
a bag Of rica. The poor have no rice
they killed everything in sigh, if eat
able, and cooked even leather boxes Of
bags, and steWed tree-bark and grass
Some Of them were so famisheo thai
they were 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 village
he passed through was deserted or the
houses occupied by the dead. It il
said that in one town the people have
opened human flesh market.
Another friend told me Of a family
Of nine. The mother could not bear tc
hear the cry Of the famished children
and finally committed suicide"
The Christian Herald caught up Ii
Hung Chsng's appeal and spread il
broadcast throughout the Uniteo
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
was from President Mckinley, who,
from his special car On his journey
across the continent, telegrapaed hi:
contribution along with that Of Nh.
John Hay, secretary Of state.
Ahead $780, have been cabled to
the Rslief committee Of five mission,
aries in Tienisin. The obstacles which
led some persons in this country to
fesr that the distribution Of famine re.
lief in China would be q difficult task
have melted away.
Shsnsi's new governor is very pro
gressive Chinaman. He is friend ol
the foreigners, aud he recently sent an
official escort to Pekin to conduct the
missionaries back to Tsi-Yen-Fu.
Shensi, toe, has been found to be quite
as accessible for relief operations as
any other part Of the empire.
These are the days when electricity
and steam are knitting the world to
gether. $4,000 can nov be sent from
New York to China almost as easily as
to Philadelphia.
While you are reading this aoiills
of small junks and river boats is prcb
ably we'll on its way up the Ysng-tse
river. The hotilla is laden With tons
Of rice. It will follow its windings to-
ward the southern borders OF the two
provinces, and then continue up the
river Han to a point where its cargo
will be loaded on wagon trains and
carried far into the interior. Thou
SANDS Of lives will be saved, and, a:
WI Ting Fang recently put it, The
relief Will go long way toward help
irg the Chinese to realize the foreign
ers are not their enemies.
Yes, $4,000 will go a long Wa7 in
Shansi and Shensi, but after all, it is
only beginning. A great deal more
is needed before the shadow can be
lifted from over the desert valleys.
A fund is now being raised which it is
hoped may rival the huodreds Of thous.
ands contributed for India.
Crushed, heartbroken China today
looks to America as her best friend,
There is something pathetic in L;
Hung Chang's selection Of this coun
try for his appeal.
Ii Hung Chang was the friend oi
Gen. Grant. By his instructions, the
Chinese minister every memorial day
lays a wreath on the tomb on Ri7er
side Drive. Ii Hung Chang made tt
Us the first admission Of his country!
suffering.
Shall his appel be in vain? VIII
the countrymen Of U. 8. Grant giVs
no heed? No, as DR.. Louis Klopscl
says, in a little pamphlet just issued b!
the relief fund:
':'Let the dead past bury its dead.
These people, though their skin be vel
low, though their customs be strange,
though they live in a different CLINE
though they have erred, and grie7
ously erred, yet are they our brethren
and We will not desert them in thi
hour Of terrible affection and dis
tress.
They shall not die if We can pre7en
it. Their children shall not be sol
for food, for to them they are as dea
as our own rrsttling babes are to US
they shall not star7e, seeing that CO.
has given Us enough and to spare. Ou
Of our abundance will we assist them
and, God helping US, We will do t
them as We would, under similar COZ
ditions, have them do to US, and thu
reducing the Golden Rule to practice
We will give them bread to the full ez
tent Of our individual ability"
Saving lives in North China is not a.
expensive process.
Ten American cents will pay the ez
penses Of small family for a d.
and twenty cents will save life for
week. A dollar is all that is needet
to maintain family Of five for Weel
and 500 will keep sli7e a good size
village. All contributions towards thi
deserving cause should be sddresse'
to the China Famine Relief fund, car
The Christian Herald, Bible House
New York.
A Fatal Collision.
A collision occurred on one Of tt,
streets of Montgomery, Ala, Wednes
day afternoon between trolley car snt
hose cart caused the death Of one mai
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