The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-02-01
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Terrible News From China Told in Let
iers From That Land.
PEOPLE ARE STARVING

Famine Conditions Described by q
Minister Who l. Out There.-A
Pathetic Story OF Starving Men
and Women and Little Children
The Crops Failed
Probably not in several years mas
there passed through the mails o..
this section of the country letters
bearing more distressing news than
communication. which have been re-
ce!red oy the Rev. ?. D. jenkins.
paste. Of he Piedmont Presbyterian
Church. from HI. brother. d.. ". F.
jenkins. who is missionary TO
China. says the G-eenv.ile News,
Floods las; summer and fail near
Suchien. China. DESTROYED crops and
the gaunt spectre OF famine Is now
stalking through the land. The Jet
;e.s receive! By the Rev. Mr. Jenkins
tell Of the most terrible conditions
which eXis; in the famine stricken
district. The Piedmont pastor has
yer! kindly consented TO allow the
publication Of extracts from some Of
the letters he has received from his
brother. They are as follows:
an away from home-out in a
Chinese house-,hat means IN the
cold. have 3 small! charcoal sre
n little furnace beside me hu;
that don't begin TO warm room.
Ny bones are so near my skin these
days that I feel the cold more than
ever and always was coward
about it.
have on :or outer clothing now
= heavy overcoat lined with sheep
skin NTH the wool on. my hat q
don't take it OF except TO pray or
sing or sleep. and heavy wadded
Chinese shoes with two pair OF wool
en- socks 20 keep my feet warm.
Don't pity me. I'm not suffering
physically. but Oh It DOES hurt me
20 see the famine sights and hear
;he fam!C. cries.
just hsd TO buy pair OF pants
the other day for = fellow. he kept
coming 10 the ;nGuirera Bible class
these freezing days with only one
garment on his lower limbs and that
vas thinner than my summer under
clothes and he had no socks At all.
He had pawaed everything heavier.
1t is freezing cold day and night
and this poor fellow like raft OF
others has no sign OF quilt at night
pae7s6 or sold for food you know.
Ills face is swollen from the food
he has been eating-utteTly iadigeS-
t!ble stun and Tot nour!shins-
weeds. greens. bark. ground up with
7 little ha-lAv or potatoes and made
into thin Cruel to fl up the stom-
ach.
He has little boy in the hu: '!th
him clothed no better than h. ,nd
his wife. carrying : baby. Is out 5eS-
ging. gone week now. Who knows
but that she and the baby are deau
on the ways!de. stared or frozs n
20 de.th. Alas. alas. the sufe-inss
CT these Door people. A young man
IL the Village mile from here where
we have a Christian mission. sta7v-
ed TO death the other day and an old
lady near. o. :he same disease. lately.
He WAS thrown out OF work by
hard t!mes-beSsed. but few could
.tre-no work 70 be had-pawned
his only thick clothing. got so weak
and stiff he could not get about. His
s!s;er-!n-law gave him fir. cents IN
gold. lie sen, by friend for to5G.
ate It al, at one meal and died. too
much for his wasted stomach.
In that same village there are 90
odd families and only three Of them
are now eating dry" food. the res:
are eating ,hin Cruel made OF a lit
tie coarse Gouc or beans mixed with
much greens CD really just almost
any weeds. srasS. etc. because cruel
!llls mp better.
And this is only December. VIA;
will things be like in the ear, :,
,2r!n=c Other Villages are better
III but they say tha; half the people
through this section are now eating
cruel and much OF that exceedingly
thin. II it should snow and so. smut
the people OF from gathering greens
weeds in the fields may will just
have TO die.
Some OF our Christians have al
ready changed color. sign OF ad-
y..acec starvation. have been eating
cruel some time Christians and
friends look a; me with longing eyes
Il gave out so much famine rel:e:
Jour years AGO They dog my steps
~ seek a private Interview TO tel
.ae their troubles And wha; can l
do?
Already I've given ont more mon
e. than possess OF my own and be-
sides one he's 20 re yer" careful hos,
hc gives or NJ Will BE utterly swamp
cd by crowds begging. don't see
.o.,,n h,, ha-. i.fnr.