The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1901-07-03

Lesthern straps and sacks are boiled
and eaten to satisfy the cravings oi
hunger. Some idea of the horror oi
it all can be gathered from the follow.
ing letter received in this city from q
Chinaman in Shsnsi:
"a man just came from q village
outside CT this city, and described the
condition Of the starving people, which
made me feel as though l was amone
them. Thirty dollars was the price OF
bag of rice. 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 fsmished that
they were even eating earth.
"On the first day, he saw a number
of poor people selling their children
for rice. On the second he sew the
same party lying starving on the road,
and on the third day about half oil
them were lead, and their miserable
bodies were lying at the merry oi
hungry dogs and wolves.
Nearly every city, town or village
he paesed through was deserted or the
houses occupied by the dead. 1t il
said that In one town the people have
opened humsn flesh market.
Another friend told me of family
of nine. The mother could not bear tC
near the ory of the fsmished children
and finally committed suicide"
The Christian Herald caught up Ii
Hung Chaugs appeal and spread i,
broadcast throughout the U lit ID
States. The response has been more
quick and genert Us than to any prevl-
| Gus calls on the genero sity of Ameri
cans. One of the first contributions
was from President Mckinley, who,
from his special car on his journey
across the costinent, telegrspned III,
contribution along with that Of Mr..
John Hay, secretary of slate.
Ahead $40, 900 have been cabled to
the Relief committee of five mission
aries in Tientsin. The obstacles W hict
led some persons In this country to
fesr that the distribution Of famine re
lief In China would be difficult ia
have melted away.
Shansi's new governor is q very pro
gressive Chinaman. He is friend Of
the foreigners, and he recently ut an
off oial escort to Pekin to conduct the
missionaries back to Tai Yen-Fu.
Shensi, too, has been found to be quite
as accessible for relief operations az
any other part of the empire.
These are the days when electricity
and steam are knitting the world to
gether. $40, 600 can now be sent from
New York to China almost as easily as
to Philadelphia.
While you are reading this fotillt
of small iunks and river boats is prob
ably we'll on it's way up the Yang-tss
river. The fotilla is laden with tons
of rice. 1t will follow it's winnings to
ward the southern borders of the twt
provinces, and then continue up tn,
river Han to point where it's carg,
will be loaded on wagon trains .nc
carried far into the interior. Thou
sands of lives will be saved, and, a
WI Ting Fang recently put it, 18th,
/, 'ef Will 60 long way toward help
ing tho Chinese to realize the foreign
| ers are not their enemIes.-
Yes, $40, 600 will go long way il
Shsnsi and Shensi, but after all, it il
only beginning. A great deal NOR,
is needed before the shadow can be
lifted from over the desert valleys.
A fund is now being raised which it i,
hoped may rival the hundreds of thous
ands contributed for India.
Crushed, heartbroken China today
looks 10 America as her best friend
There is something pathetic in l.
Hung Chang's selection of this coun
try for his appeal.
III Hung Chang was the friend oil
Gen. Grant. By his instructions, the
Chinese minister every memorial day
lays wreath on the tomb on River
side Drive. LII Hung Chang made tc
US the first admission of his country'l
suffering.
Shall his appel be in vain? VIII
the countrymen of u. s. Grant give
no heed2 No, as DR.. Louis Klopscf
says, In little pamphlet just issued by
the relief fund:
Let the dead past bury its dead.
These people, though their skin be yel
low, though their customs be strange,
though they live in 3 different clime
though they have erred, and griev
ousiy erred, yet are they our brethren
and We will not desert them in thi
hour of terrible atfl !ction and dis
tTess.
They shall not die if we can preven
it. Their children shall not be solC
.or food, for to them they are as dea
as our own rrattiing babes are to US
they shall not stArVe, seeing that G u
has gwen US enough and 10 spare. Ga
OF our abundance will we assist them
aud, God helping US, we will do Il
them as we would, under similar con
d!tlOns, have them do to us, ana thu
reducing ne Golden Rule TO practice
VIC will give them bread 10 the full ex
tent OF Uuf Individual ability"
Saving lives In North China is not al
| expensive process.
Ten American cents will pay the ex
penses of small family for q "a,
aud twenty cents will save life for
week. A dollar is all that is nesdeC
to maintain = family of fVe for 3 weel
and 800 will keep alive a good sizeC
village. All contributions towards TIM
deserving cause should DO addressed
10 the CHINA Famine Relief fund, car
The Christian Herald, Bible House
New y IoIk
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