Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-05-05

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w and one of the school teachers, and
searched the servants quarters, and then
the entire compound. By this time was
feeling pretty cross with the night watch
man as this was the second bad theft re-
Gently. But it was Sunday School time,
SO away had to 60. In the afternoon
told - but nothing was done because
it was Sunday.
In church this morning we had such a
mob of children and it was such hard
work to discipline them. One little boy
was SO naughty that took him outside
and gave him little extemporaneous
speech, the gist of which was "either re-
ceive spanking and go home or 60 back
with me and behave for the rest of the
service He preferred the service to the
spanking and behaved pretty we'll.
In four months shall be sailing from
Shanghai on the Empress of Asia |
ought to reach Vancouver on or about
August 9th, which means that by Aug
ust 18th l will be IN Burkittsville, and
then your misery begins.
AS yet haven't told you about the ex-
citing time we had around Chinese New
Year On Big Cloud mountain, sacred
mountain to which thousands of pilgrims
travel every year and near Tao Lin, were
gathered band of people numbering
over ten thousand. They were Boxers
and their plan was to sWoop down on the
surrounding churches, rob and kill the
Christians, then rush into Yochow, from
thence to Peking and straight on to the
highest peaks of the highest mountains
in the world Their hands were to be
filled with gold and their way paved with
coppers that would turn into gold as they
went along. Each was to become king
and live indefinitely. They ate nothing
but black beans for long time as these
were supposed to give them special
strength, and the water they drank was
supposed to have power to make them
in nune from bullets.
Men and women alike went half naked,
and expos, themselves to many hard
ships preparing for the grand victory.
For nights and nights the people in many
villages waited in terror. If anyone was
known to be against then his house was
robbed, the people killed, then the house
set on fire. Anyone aiding or abetting
him was treated likewise. In one house
there was woman, a widow, who want
ed to join the band and her people for
babe her TO do it. Some how she got word
to the Society and they attacked that
night, killed all of them, and destroyed
the property. Several people, badly in
jured, were brought to the hospital here.
On the 18th of the first month they
were due in Yochow and the people here
were very uneasy. especially as some OF
the society had arrived and were staying
at different inns about the city. But an
appeal to the Governor had already been
made by our Consul and soldiers were
dispatched from here and from Changsha.
The first few hundred who went were
surrounded. number of them killed, but
somehow someone managed to get to the
nea est station where telegram was
sent and Immediately more soldiers were
sent to the rescue.
On the fourth of March | went to Sin
Tsiang to open the Girls School there and
as was leaving l suddenly ran into a
crowd of soldiers. The crowd seemed to
grow longer and longer until finally | re-
allied that there were hundreds of them,
and my coolie on inquiring, found they
were from the fighting district, and were
on their way back to Changsha. So all
the way from Sin Tsiang to Yung- gia-wou
l walked with an escort of seven hundred
soldiers. Such picture. Winding along
these narrow, crooked little country roads
over hills and through valleys as far as
you could see in either direction, were
these gray coated figures, some with
towels wrapped around their heads and
some with caps, most of them very torn
and ragged as if they'd been through
thickets all of them with big shield hats
hanging down their backs, their guns
slung over their shoulders at any angle,
and many of them barefooted and many
wearing straw sandals. Some had such
sore feet they could scarcely get along,
and surely did pity them.
But now comes the funny part. He
asked them, Ibid you scatter the robber
bands?'
"Oh, yes" one looney fellow who had
attached himself to me said. 1--WE drove
them all up to the very top of the noun
tain
But didn't you rout them, didn't you
do them up properly" l asked.
mo, we just chased them up to the
top and left them there. They were too
many for US. We couldn't do anything
against them. They might have cut
down the trees and rolled them on us. "
Then he began quizzing the servant
about me. The servant told him l was
preacher so he began calling me "Fei
mu si'-Fei-preacher. After jabbering
for while he asked the servant again,
as it preacher?" and when the SER
vent said yes" the noble (?) soldier re-
marked s'Well, it's manner seems just
little bit different-a little bit differ
ent." In Chinese this remark is killing
ly funny.
Then he finally discovered that it was
a woman and then he began having fits
over my peripatetic capacity from which
snhiect he launched forth onto Christian