Putnam patriot., 1921-07-15

nofsefaQfsa, Fn4bAfot EfapeFtass, | sage. mint. fruit trees. other berries, rabbits. a pet monkey, Shure. pig cen and one hen,-so We mean to be farmers. All fruit and garden ter races have Co be hand-watered. With Ms Giebel away SO much We have Chinese gardener. Lao Go. Ills head is closely shayen tmany eoolies still wear the dirty queue wound around their heaa1 and best Of all he wears a new. clean. white. large. American. straw farm hat. so that can easily see him anywhere and thus keep track of him. He Is my Jaeb-of-ail trades. carries ail our water long distance. runs errands. digs up and makes new terraces. plants. hoes. tansnlauts. nil for less thau Sl gold Der moush. He begins work. as de Che masans and carpenters on the house. about q. m. and does not leave ef till after ?. III. They have no clocks nor watch es Sd follow daylight saving with out further discussion. No eight hour day for China yet. Every few hours all sit down in clusters for a brief smoke. chat. or maybe a bowl of rice. bur soon all are busy as ever.
 Lois is gaining splendidly and true to her own appellation Is Lois Vivian Lively again Her daily prayer sel- dom varies: Let papa feed those poor people; let us feed ourselves Amen" And that reminds ne must tell you about NJ Giebel's work. Ap- ri 5th he took a twenty-four hour steamer ride to Tientsin where he re- eeiyed orders from famine relief headquarters to proceed Co Hung Shui He greatly surprised his old college roommate. who Is chaplain in Tientsin. by calling on him The next day whole day's journey by railway brought him Co TeehoW The day following was weary cart ride from early morning till 730 D. m. to Hsiao Chang where Dr PeiIl of the London Mission IS stationed The next day he took Mir C in his Ford over bad roads 30 lee or 10 miles to Hung Shui where a grain dump WIS located at the chapel There was uo other foreigner there. For two weeks he was most busy receiving carloads of grain that had been pushed overland from Techow, in- speeting it. weighing, storing it and then certain hours distributing i ta about 5000 people day Each head of family with a grain ticket receiv- ed about two peck of milIet for the coming months supply There were thirteen loads of small beans came in that were considered such treat the poor women crowded into the chapel yard to pick up each bean if perehanee any fell from the carts. Those beans were toe great a temptation b one of the cartmen. His load weighed cor reetly but on inspection it WAS found that several pounds or eatty of beans had been replaced with roadside dirt.
 He had dollar and half deducted
 from his wages, They are up to all
 sorts of tricks to steal grain. After the villages about Hung Shui had been
 fed up. da c. returned by cart =to ! feehow and making that his head.
 quarters hc goes euH 70 different
 dumps for about four days feeding
 on aa average 2508 day Some days the dust storms have been so
 bad he has had to wear a handner- 1 chief over his nase aa1 glasses Co be able Co work at al These storms come from the Gob desert and ex- tend way out at sen. as dangerous to vessels as a fog One passed over Chefoo recently and to not care for another after housekeeping Storm windows could not keep it out. Te- chow is in the western part of this | province The winter wheat crops there are promising good yield about June lst The papers say that in Chihli, to the north. the wheat crop is again total failure and 1t is SO dry that no wheat is being planted for fall reaping
 Even where the spring crops are good can you conceive of what life must still be for the masses of these poor who have been kept just alive? Their homes are only mud novels. no white plaster without or within. They have no money. no tools. no animals. few clothes and little strength The aged and the small children are gone. At Hsaio Chang Dr. Peill has gather ed the girls, who would have been sold into city brothris that their fam
 flies have money to buy food. into the London Mission Compound where they have been fed and taught Co sew and read the new phonetic script. On June lst these girls will go back to their homes. Famine relief will cease but mission work goes on. Will the tired, overWorked missionary reap any harvest from his iabors? How grateful have these masses of starv- ing humanity been? There are al- ways few bright ones who are not rice Christians, seeking only the 'loaves and fishes. but desiring something higher But too often the spirit of the ten =lepers is repeated. Were there not ten cleansed? Where ar the nine2"
 Our work here in eastern Shan tune will not be affected by the fam inc. Our problems include hair nets" plus indifference All available women and girls seem to be at work