Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-16
A WOMAN ARlTsE-.N CHINA.
She Was Glad to. ,sses a f'Pink" Face
After Anxious Days Among Yellow
s Ones

4 traitor, eagerly seized the opportunity
| to SO to China when the chance came
| her way in the autumn of 1911. Her
| experiences she guessed might be un-
! comfortable. but at ieas she hoped u,
/ get a new sensation. She did
| She went to mission station at Ho-
Chico. seven days beyond the nearest
railway, and hardly had she arrived
| when there came rumors of the reNo-
| luton. the upheaval that was spread
| ing. They We're five women shut up
| there in a girls school, and though the
town was rife with ruInors OF the
danger they could not leave their post
till all those girls were safely in their
far distant homes, and each girl must
be dispatched under the care of male
relative. A white man came in frori
another mission to help the women.
but nothing could hasten the depart
| ure of those girls, and they could not
be abandoned.
At last, when only nine were left, the
great decision was made, the mission,
must be abandoned and the girls must
go with them. And so they started in
mule filters an imposing array, for all
they desired not to call attention to
their presence For there was danger.
| All the desolate country was in the
grip of the iron winter. The thermo-
meter fell to IL degrees below zero,
the sun was eoldly bright. their breath
came in clouds on the air, and the
hoofs of the mules rang like iron on
| the roads.
Imperlalists and revolutionists were
alike pledged to protect them, but they
her hot b1I M
much faith: besides, these could not
protect their own people, and the
country was being secured by bands of
robbers 10 strong.
Form every crossroad the missiona-
ries in the back country were coming
DEMONSTRATIONS. Canadians. Danes
Norwegians, Americans, men and wo
men. all making for the railway. and
all along the roads round by the inns
stood the solid, blue clad. yellow Aface
people Of the country, impassive, show
ing only the emotion of intense curl
osity. THEY are fleeing from DEATH
they said; pointing; they are fleeing
from DEATH It was cold. cold: but
coolest of all was the impassivity of
The people.
They put on all the clothes they pos
sessed. they never changed, and They
never washed for water. except for
drinking was an impossibility. And
when they reached the little single line
railway it was deserted, every official
had fled.
Trollies Law beside the t-no'- ~~s =.
9st a man with more initiative tTaH
the others lifted ono onto tK1 MA
Wed have to push Them sD0wB -
they'd go of their own wsigAf,S SUuq
there isn't much down hMS 9xH
bridgesi" There's an imperial Ex1i4
coming upl" and they feared tAa imp13
riaiists for the soldiers werS tn scum
OF the people, But u w6 stay lzr1-f
and thu peoples muxmuz answered fol
them, sDesthis - \ lethn
"a sksx Piled t6sir goods On to fivd
arplliss and the little company started.
Some walked beside the line; they all
| took it Ia turn 10 push wn~n pe.s.il..a
~ as necessary; they all jumped on
when they came to a down grade or
| bridge, for the bridges were on high
IRON trestles. Far. far below in the
valley through the skeleton permanent
way they could see the frozen water
tsH.> the rocks that guarded it. There
would be no help if the trolly stuck OH
| the bridge. -
There was another ever present dan
ger; it was whispered the line had
oeen mined. Any moment-but there
vas no need to think what might hap
pen. AT last great tunnel gaped be-
sore them. tunnel that was two miles
long and had a turn in the middle. that
could not be seen through.
But they came through into the des
olate country and the cold, hard day
| light again and at last. on the evening
OF the second day, just as they were
| speeding along a down grade just
ahead Of them steaming to meet them
came the imperialist train.
They could not stop. They seemed to
be hurting themselves to certain de-
,.ruc,Ion faster and faster as they
gained momentum, but the train had
he brakes on and came to a standAtili
just as the first troily hit it.
oh" cried Dora Curtis Il see
pink facet" man from northern
Europe looks very pink among tbs
golden Chinese faces. And from that
traindthere stepped q spick and span,
llnglishman, who had come UP to their
rescue. They were saved and looking
at him they realized that they were
grimed with dirt and had not-had their
clothes off for Is days!-London News
and Leader