Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-09-23

WHICH are Qelu at luloTfdlS WSIo CSl-
tainly the effect of Christian Preach
ing. 1t is very large, seating about
three thousand.
We left by train at seven o'clock
Monday morning, with nineteen pie
ces of baggage checked and eighteen
carried onto the train by coolies be-
! sides innumerable smaller ones
which the eight of us carried. eve
! had acquired Chinese girl nurse
whom l was to bring with me and
send on to Tsinan) The trip to
| Shih CHA Chuang where we arrived
at four in the afternoon was pleasant
and uneventful. We were second
class and not crowded. Arrived, we
moved our baggage to the other sta
ton and settled ourselves to wait for
the midnight train which we were
J assured would be late. We put up
several of our cots for there was not
sign of a chair or bench in the
little porch-like place which served
as waiting room, then l went with
the chinese girl to an inn for her sup
per and made some purchases for
ours which we ate on the station !
platform. When dark came on some
tried to sleep and succeeded more
or less, for we were dubious about |
being able to get berths on the train.
1t was too public a place with too
much going on for me to sleep any |
tho 1 did get a little rest. About
midnight other passengers arrived, |
among them some soldiers who had |
two Misunderstanding soldiers
who were being taken to Paotigfu
for execution-who created some
excitement by trying to escape at
about two A. M, one succeeded.
The train finally came at three but
the ticket office opened only about
twenty minutes before, so there was
a great rush and the train was fin
ally held while the checking of our
baggage was attended to. The bag
gage car was damned full, so our
things had to wait for the next train.
There was no place for us either ex-
cept in the dining car and any one
not accustomed to trains in China
would have called that full, but we
crowded in, piled baggage high in
one corner, then looked about for
places to sit The osldiers and others
who were asleep on the floor, tables,
and chairs, wakened and a few made
room for us, so we finally had seats
three of us on the floor in the cor
almost fell asleep for a
few minutes.
Dawn soon came and after the SOL
diers cleared out at Paotinfu, we
had breakfast. We reached Picking at
one P. M. and had good dinner at
the Women's College. My sleepiness
had disappeared by this time but
when I finally lay down I slept
'oundly for two hours and then had
% be wakened for dinner I stayed
over the night in Picking waiting
or the baggage to catch up, then
vent on to Tientsin, had one night
here then came on here. The last
'art was easy with only myself and
he chinese girl to look after. You
ee, I was general manager of the
rip because I have been in China a
ear longer than any of the Others
h0f to Dol |
ientsin so 1 was agreeably sur
rised to find it much cooler here
think the difference is chiefly that
eing in the country, we always have
little breeze and it cools off more
night than a city does.
There has been only little rain
lost a complete failure. Especially
'om Tsangchow down to Techow, it
a most distressing sight Corn
My about six inches high, or tassel-
ng at a foot and half; millet three
lches high, and in some places the
round is bare showing that the seed
ever sprouted. 1t all means so much
asted seed. Millet is four or five
mes as expensive as a year ago;
heat more than twice. Already a
.mily to the south of US is said to
ave taken poison to avoid starva-
On; and we are being importuned by ,
cry one who ever worked for for
gners and some others, for Jobs
is not that there is no food to be
I'd. Rice can be brot in from the
nth; it is just that the people have
} money with which to buy. Condi- 4
ons may not get bad enough to at 4
act the Red Cross but a lot of peo- .
e will starve any way.
Frieda and were talking today
out starting some sort of industry,
1broidery perhaps, for women who
n sew. 1t would be better to do