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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1904)
- - - - - . . . . . - . , - . - : . ] : D.llnl1ll < _ ! _ : : : . : : : : : - . - ' : _ : _ ' - - _ - . : . . _ . _ _ _ _ _ - > . < _ . . _ _ _ . . _ _ . . _ 2 THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE April 291 1904 - - J . - Emma Boose Tucker Writes From China. . P'angChuang , TicntsinChina , December 1903-Dcar Friends interested - terested in China-With : the noise of an annual Buddhist mass ringing loud but a few feet away we send you greeting appropriate - ate to the New Year which draws so soon , and in which we know God will bless you and yours. It is a year since we begun our work in China , and the many letters of inquiry lead us to try and give an idea of what we have been doing. Few years of our lives . have passed so quic1dy. , Let us tell you of a single day , characteristic of the rest After private devotions an early morn- , ing . round of the hospital patients is made before breakfast. We thus know : how the sick have fared during the night occasion- ally having been called earlier in any serious case. Breakfast over followed by morning prayer with such of the missionaries of the station as arc not away touring , then comes a half-hour of Bible reading and instruction with the S Chinese. This is conducted usU- ally by Dr A. 1-1. Smith , for the . men , and Mrs. Chapin for the r4 \vomcn. This reminds us to in- t- , . rpolate that Dr. Smith's new ; book . just issued "Rex Christus , " t : is said to be the best small book < on Chinia published. Being sold It ' . at so Iowa figure brings it with- ' I K ! -S . din the reach of all ( Macmillan : i , . " " ' Co , 30 and 50 cents ) On this ! : sample day we again try to follow ? . the rule announced in large Chin- ' t' ese characters on our doors that , ' we see no one from 9 to 12 in f' i order that we may study the lan- t I guage ; ; but every case seem to \t be a special one so there arc interruptions - terruptions inevitable. We hard- ly dare step out of doors for fear of being accosted with this or that one with a "ping" ( pronounced - i pounced binge ) And if one once tells his ailment , how can we ' help doing for him what we can ? On the particular day of which , , ' we write the first operation was ; , the removal of a cataract , the ; patient being an o\d man of 60 , who had not seen for years. 'Ve have recently removed the band- Y'H ages and the joy with which he exclaimed , pointing here and there , Your clothes arc black , " . "You have a hat on , " "That man . has whiskers , " etc. , made coming ; " to China worth while. Our next - effort was to treat a boy into ; , ; ' whom a plow had run tearing open his abdomen. As usual we united with the assistants in prayer before each operation , but in this case , during it as well , for it became necessary to remove several inches of intestine , which most of you know is' a serious " . .e. operation and one which at home we would never dream of attempt- ing. I-Iere we felt that we must try to relieve him , though doubting - ing whether he would recoyer. It is long enough now since the operation to show that God has given him complete recovery de- spite the unfavorable conditions of the operation. The mother and sister who care for him are learning of Christianity while staying with him here. We have no nurses , all care of patients is by relative or friend. Next came a girl with no opening for the nostrils , a heritage of the smallpox - pox hich is so prevalent here. Last we attended to a woman with tuberculosis of the spine. There arc so many in China with tuberculosis in its various forms , that one shudders to even think of the thousands who die daily from this scourge which is so much worse than the plague. ' Operations over , we yet have medical cases to see , many miscellaneous - cellaneous duties , and some time for exercise. On this particular evening there was no meeting , so we were free to see to hospital 6 matters , write letters. attend to records , etc. , and go to bed. We forgot to state that we practically - ly never fail to get our meals in somewhere. Many of the pati- ents have come several day's jour- ney to see the "foreign doctors. " How very sad it is to turn so many away and tell them they have come too late. Here comes a man , the head of a household and a type of many led four days journey by his eight year old son. He is hopelessly blind and will not believe that we cannot cure . him Now comes a woman with an abscess of years standing who can be helped with cure doubtful. Thus it is an endless story of tragedy-but it is too sad to re- cord. The only consolation is found in pointing them to Him who cures all ills in eternity even physical ones. It makes us very glad to see now and then one taking the initial steps to church membership , having learned . thc Truth in the hospital. . After the Chinese new year ( which comes this year on Feb. 16) ) we began a plan of charging 50 coppers "cash" ( about 1 cent ) for every patient seen , though we fear there will be many who cannot pay what to them is quite a sum. : Medicines and other sup- plies arc so expensive and the church in America so poor (7) ( ) that we have no alternative. Te Chou , a large walled city 15 miles from us has at last after many years of prayerful knocking open- W , - . cd , and we hope to have a branch medical work there soon if funds permit and for the present only a few dollars a month will suffice. We went north to our annual mission meeting in May and then went to a small English and American settlement on the coast near Manchuria for 'tnree months of study. In other words we ran away from the medical work. We much enjoyed the inspiration and help of the many missionaries who rested there for shorter or longer periods of time during the summer. Even here we were called upon for much medical work , but we found it a special pleasure to minister to fellow missionaries , quite a number of whom we had known or met in America. Doubtless you know a number of them. We grew in weight and tan and returned to P'ang Chuang in October much refreshed While north we visited four of the seven mission stations of our board in North China , and in each saw much and heard much to deepen our faith in missions , in missionaries and in their mission. At Peking there arc new and larger opportunities than ever before , with less opposition ; at Tientsin the foreign nations have encroached upon the site of the native city to such a degree that our mission is moving to the Chinese settlement ; , at 1."ung Chou the splendid college building including their even more splen- did equipment of teachers and students , challenges admiration ; at Paotingfu there is great interest - cst along Christian lines despite the destructive work of the "Boxers" in 1900 when so many missionaries and native Christ- - . I ians were promoted " 'Vhat of , the proposed war ? " some one asks. We reply that it takcf more than newspaper to make war. Here in the interior we hear very little from the peo- ple-.they indeed know almost nothing of he affairs between Russia and China . War may come , but if it docs , China is like- lr to' be a spectator only. Russia is merely carrying out the policy begun a hundred years or more ag-o. We saw a piece of Man- churia when we were north and that portion was well soldiered 'by many nations , but we could see no smoke } : of battle. Let us hope there will be none-despite the somewhat general wish of intelligent - . telligen Chinese that the empire may soon go to pieces , They wish evil conditions bettered , and the ruling Ivlanchus displaced. It was while visiting the Great Wall of China-many hundreds of years older than the oldest reader-that we displayed our knowledge of German and illus- trated how completely the Chinese - ese languag ° may crowd other , . - things out of one's mind. On returning - turning a water flask which we' , " ' 1 : bad found , to some German sol- ' " " dier , we both attempted to tell of . ' : ' ' ! ! ! I. , : the finding , but each unconscious"f ! j 1y used a mixture of Chinese and J German. To add to our discom = : fiture the German replied in good ,1 1 English ; this was most as bad as , -8 I the sentence which one of us manufactured - t ufactured , in Chinese "The cow 4 flew down to the ground. II \ . We are glad to le back at ! P'ang China again and do not _ I find it at all lonesome. During the time that wo have been here ' in the interior we have three times seen others than natives- . ' . events which reminded us that . .j there others in the world besides - ' - " these two millions of Chinese of - . , -1 j our own mission field and the , : , ' ; ; eight missionaries comprising . . . . ' : ' . this section. .1.1' : There arc many things of _ . S which we would like to write- . : . What a Chinese hospital is like ; " house hold matters ; , our visit to the Great Wall ; a big fire in Peking ; costoms of marriage ; of --r burial , of feasts , etc ; but these ' , J and other matters must wait for 'j other general letters. Nothing i has been such a decided uplift to ( us as the letters that come occasionally - casionally from friends at home , telling of interest in , and prayer for , this "greatest work in the . world , and telling of the affairs ' : . , societies and perons. Our work is one and we are all glad to' be a ' ' - 'r ; : : link in the long , strong chain. : As a souvenir of China , a ris- ; : . iting card is enclosed Spelling as . : : . ! t/ l pronounced , the surname coming S . , ' : ; ' first , it reads De Fu Lan-Dr. . r ' , . , . " . " I."J Tucker's Chinese name , and . . - , , . . : : ; . , ' means virtuous , joyous rhododen- . . " ; " , dron flower illustrating how . . : ) . 'fi : - " " "x" Chinese names may . mean much . " : ; or little depending on whatever . ; " the law of opposites should apply. ' : . This is a personal letter to " , . many to whom we cannot otherwise - wise write , though personal let- t . .t tel'S to all would give us pleasure. , . ' We will be glad to send an occas- " ional letter concerning . our work . . , . . - to such as ask us to do so. 1.0 x all , our greetings are cordial , . . ( " ' hearty , and pl'ayerfu1. Come over , - > . , ' ; ; - . . and help in other- ; T. us prayer or - < f W1se. S t- : Emma Boose Tucker , 11. D. . : , Williams Hospital ' : . _ ; ; . . . . . . . . . ! d Nothing Equal Chamberlains . Colic , . ' . : ; I Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. ' fti ; . : We have used Chamberlain's : . . Colic , Cholera and Didrrhoea , ; " Remedy in our family for Years , . . - says vIrs. J. B. Cooke of Jfeder- : , - ' lands , Texas "Vve have given , - it to all of our c111ldren. We have . . used other meaicines for the same t . . ; , ' - - purpose but have never found . ' : ' . ; anything to equal Chamberlain's. - . .I : If you win use . it as directed it - I . will always cure tI For sale bY - . " < A.'G. 'lanner. . . . . , " . . . " r . - . . / J
