The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-21

'"rhen the Chinese government Or
dered us to leave Pekin and go to Tsin
Tsn. To go was to go outside of the
gates to be maSsacred. The Chinese
VGirls who had been carefully nurtured
and guarded by Christian mission
aries were called together, to be sent
out to find refuge for themselves. They
knelt and consecrated themselves to
God, and We're about to leave when the
command came to go into the British
legation and take the Chinese with
them"
A description of the siege followed.
Mrs. Gamewell said:
'"rhe order was that when the church
bell tolled we We're to gather in the
centre of the legation and meet our
end together. We fought fire. dug
countermines and did all we could do.
Then we saw Gods hand. When we
We're almost exhausted with fighting
the conhagration which would soon
have destroyed us. the wind changed
and burned the hiding places of the
Chinese ritlemen.
about 100000 sand bags We're made.
That was a lot of bags" interpolated
Mrs. Gamewell I'VE used beautiful
upholstering material which the lega-
tion ladies had thought too expensive
for their parlor furniture. These We're
made up to hold earth. Rare silks,
embroideries and draperies We're en-
ployed. We never dreamed that any
body in America would object to our
making bags of anything we could find
We would have bought the material if
there had been anybody to sell, but the
shopkeepers had run away. and we
never thought that Mark Twain or any
body else would have called it looting.
We found rice and wheat this way. 1t
was tribute wheat brought to the Chi
nese government. We We're to be de-
stoyed by the Chinese, and we We're
-'lad to use the Chinese food.
Way They Existed.
"A Presbyterian missionary did the
milling. He did not know how to grind
wheat, but he was an American and
Americans will try to do anything. n
Congregational minister undertook to
make bread. He didn't know how. but
he was an American, too. 1t was sour,
that bread, sour and half-baked, but it
wasn't worse than the meat, which was
horse and mule. We didn't eat ii be-
cause we liked it, but for conscience 8
sake, that we could keep strong, for
everybody wanted to help somebody
else.
"But there came time when some
Of us could no longer digest the coarse
food, and we would have done any
thing to get eggs But the eggs came
as provdentially as everything else
seemed 10 come, for someone outside
the lines sent them up in basket"
Her description of the relief by the
allies was vividly fine. The climax was
when she saw the United States army
wagon under the Stars and Stripes,
which had never been hauled down
through the siege.
Saturday night was devoted TO the
anniversary of the Preachers Aid soci-
ety, 1T is always an interesting occa-
sion, for the sorrows of the sick and
the aged appeal to the normal heart.
and the spectacle of falling powers is
very evident at n conference where
superannuated ministers are more or
less i'm attendance.
Dr. l.. l.. Sprague presided, and Rev
DIR. Tuckley offered prayer. Hon. A. l.
Decker read the report of Hon. WILL
lam Connell, who was absent 1t fol-
lows:
PREACHERS AID SOCIETY.
Account OF William connell, treasurer, for the
gear ending April 10. 1909:
RECEIVED.
Balance from last year ...;.............Sl07 070 0j
Mortgages paid OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, l,sO0 W