Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-23
CHINA MUST BE CHRISTIANIZED

The people IN the smaller places are
rebels against this government. They
say that Yuan shi Kai is not true to
the principles of republic.
The fact is, they want a country
in which they will have no taxes and
no laws that win still protect them
and their property no effort on their
part and all effort on the part Of the
country.
They do not realize that they are.
the country and that, as they are, so3
is the country.
What China Needs.
China needs men who are willing
to sink self for the sake Of the public
good She has not that sort except
very rarely and the few there are
are not appreciated. Christianity is
what she must have before she can
be country at all,
Personally we do not know that
we are in danger. sent you a report
of the time we had before and that
is rare exception, We travel
whereYer we need to and have as yet
met with no resistance Occasional
ly we cross the path Of robber gangs,
but do not run into them.
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White Wolf Pillages.
'As yet up here, there is no anti
foreign movement that will tend to
exterminate the whole lot OF us.
White Wolf is a man or band Of men
who claims to be independent of the
government. He is that, for he is an
outlaw and the government is doing
its best to get. troops enough against
him to quell his insurrections. He
pillages the country and kills many
people wherever he goes. He is in
the north Shensi as vet and has
not crossed the border Of this PROV
Iince. II he does he is a long ways
from us. He would come in from the
north.
Engaged in School Work.
My work this year is school work.
/ have charge of twenty schools scat
Itered all over three districts. It is
nice work and think would like 1t
| if Iaflid not have to be from home Sc
much Of the time, However, 1t is bet
ter than the school where / was be-
fore, rfor 1t is less confining and cas-
ier on my health. / may have to take
over that school in another year, for
the man in charge is to have fur
Tough and there doesn't seem as yet
to be any other man for the work
there .gg
Has Built a Dove-cote.
I'VE have built new bungalow In
the hills 81 900, which we could not
really afford, but we have to pay
about 800 rent every year for one
and have the prospect OF not getting
a place. SO we bought and have been
building, 1t is quite doye,cote only
it viii be rather crowded if we have
to live indoors. There are two rooms
upstairs and one down, and they are
small. But we have great big veran-
das-14 feet on two sides and 4 feet
,on two sides. upstairs and Gown and
we expect to live outdoors when we
are at the hills where we go about
the middle OF June 1t is two hours
from our house here in the city. We,
go to the hills, but work does not
stop for we take that time to write
letters and get in the study on the
language and literature that every
man must do il he is up with the
times.
Mabel keeps well and she does the
sewing for the children and herself
and that takes most OF her, time. she
does not do any Chinese work now.
Lives in a eWeiI.
~ w e ~ y I'LL y lfOuSS IL Liz Clty 8tldtt
Is good ehongh. but it is enclosed by
four white walls about the yard that
make us live in a well, and all the
sky we can see Is a small patch right
over our heads unless we go outside
the compound The neighbors are sol
close that we have to keep our win
dows shut TO keep out the smoke from
their kitchen stoves. But we might
havesit far worse. We like this house
and hope We won't have to move for d
while.
Plenty 81 Germs
Paul our second boy, had an In
Iected foot 1--WE are oyersupplied with
germs here in China, you know and
here was danger that we might lose
lot only the foot but the boy, Butt