Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1925 — Page 3

WRtTES 'SOM HUNAN.CHINA — ——• Miss Esther Sellemeyer, ' Missionary, Is Nearing Her Destination MISH Esther Sellemeyer. former De Ull r youg lady who 1H '••’•'irning Ao ‘ missionary work In China after t f'uinylnk 11 furlough with relatives in Ji',',. United State*, ha* written a let- , to her parentH in Los Angeles, , California, and the letter has been for ' to relatives in this nlty. Miss sCllemeyer is nearing her destitution, t or nas on October 22, when the letter u written. Since site has many tela- ( *ves and friends in this city, her let- , tPr 19 printed herewith: Changteh, Hunan, China. , October 22, 1925. pear Folks: So far. so good, but I'm just near enough to my destination that waiting around makes me awfully miserable. I arrived in Changteh last Friday morning. Oct| 16th, after a more or less uneventful trip on the launch from Hankow. I don't know just where I left off in my last letter recounting the details of tny wanderings, but I'll lake up tha story now from the point wh ,.re I think I left off. at least. You will remember that I said I was , trying to get a wire through to Chang-1 ten asking for my cook to come to Hankow to meet me. From the wire that 1 received from Elizabeth. I concluded that he must l>e waiting for me there, but I wasn’t sure. Well, finally after waiting in Hankow for almost a week, I received a wire from the Presbyterians in Changteh saying that my cook had left for Hankow, and sure enough, ho arrived the next day after I received the wire. He had brought all my bedding, cooking utensils. and other journeying necessities, so that all 1 had to do was to make reservation for us on the launch and buy up three weeks food supplies to take along. Accordingly, we left on the launch the very next day, which was Monday. Oct. 12th, and arrived here the following Friday. With the exception that the trip was slow and uncomfortable, I had nothing to complain of. The launch, being fairly clean, I encountered no rats nor bed bugs, al- < though there were quite a few roaches, —and flies and mosquitoes galore. My ,

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latest discomfort was oe™ nn T7~ my Inability to gH off mv “ '. 5 ' SPB out. h wa „ jHSI oner in n dungeon from . P '* 'ernoon until Friday a m y’’ “ ,- I had Riven orders that I wa , .«“»***’ a room with two bedai that m'’'” two rows Os boards instead of oT) Wh>n 1 *o' on the i aunch . found that i hait b a " nch ’ ‘ ... >«. ..‘" LX Hear. eiy no room at (I || ta pi| , ’ The cabins that have two beds in them are a little larger, and we UW)all , to sleep «„o„ ( . bn(l ftnil , * a J " the Other. That way, , noa , 0 , ■ loot apace Is reserved for Mtandl room, and the added cost |„ , 0 I|ttl * , It pays one to |iay the difference ind have a little comfort at least But to resume, there was nothing to be Jone about my room, so 1 proceeded to ararnge myself a nd my belongings. Imagine! The cabin was about 5 x fi and the bed was 3 x fi. That left a floor space of 2 x 6 to put my steamer trunk, two bags, two brief cases, a typewriter, crutches, cane, hat, <-oat. my roll of bedding, the cook’s roll of bedding. a box containing cooking utensils, a large basket of charcoal, and nine boxes of freight containing food supplies and stores. There was not even a foot of standing room left, so my bed was sitting room, standing room, dressing torn, dining room and sleeping room. I never budged from it from Monday afternoon until Friday morning, and by the tune I got Ito Changteh. my legs were so stiff I from being doubled-up all the time that I didn’t know what to do. When it was meal time, I put the box of food supplies and cooking utensils out on the pasage-way, and the cook got my meals out there, and I sat on the bed and ate. While eating. I always had an audience peeping at me thru the window, the door, and along practically every crack in the walls of the cabin. The window and door consisted of two holes up near the ceiling of the room, so I couldn't see out unless I stood up, and I couldn't stand up straight because the ceiling was too low, and therefore, it goes without saying that I didn’t stand up often or very long at a time, and so, didn’t see much along the way. I am waiting here now for an escort, consisting of a fleet of Chinese boats and a convoy of soldiers, to assemble. When they all get together, then eventually we’ll leave for Chenchow, but I don’t kno w how soon that will be. These convoys are such uncertain things that one can't depend

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on what they say when It comes to 'ravelling schedules. They may leave' In a few days, and they may leave ini .i few weeks. We have no control o'er them, so it’s simply a matter of ''•‘lng stuck here until they 50. But with so many bandits along the river, 11 s Impossible to start out without 'hem and they know that. Between bandits, rapid*, and soldiers I may have more interesting material to fill a letter the next time I write. However, they do say that the river is not 'tuite as dangerous now as it was during last winter. The bandits, they claim, have been somewhat starved out. The other day as we were crossing Tung Ting Ixtke. my cook called me to the window to see eight people who were sitting on a plank and floating around In the water. Not far away 1 saw their battered boat still on top of the water, bilt just about to sink Evidently, there had been a collision, and these folks had managed to get onto this plank. Our launch had passed quite close to them, hut. by the time the cook had called me and I got to the window, we were quite a dis-1 tance away. 1 said to the cook, “ Why don e we turn back and try to rescue those folks’” He said, “ Oh 1 guess the captain thinks it would be hard and trobulesome to rescue them.” Then he added, '‘Besides. I guess the Chinese on this launch think that if the river god wants the lives of those people, it would be disaster to them if they would interfere.” And so we went on, and my cook told me that undoubtedly all of those eight people would be drowned. As we continued on our way sweetly indifferent to what was going on about us, I couldn’t help

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thinking of the contrast of the crew I of this boat and the crew of any one | of the foreign ocean-going steamers, j who, at a cost of hundreds of dollars,' stop a vessel going at full speed In mid-ocean to rescue even a baby which 1 accidentally may have fallen overhoard. But it’s just the difference between what Christianity does ami what nnn-Christlan religion does for suffering humanity, I haven’t been able to get the thing off my mind even i now yet. I just, thought we would have to turn back. Well, my cook will soon bn here to take this letter Io the post office, so I must stop. Am getting anxious for home mail, but nobody knows how long it will be until I get to a place where there is some. Hope this finds

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you all well. With ever ho much love, E»th-f' 0 D. C. STEPHENSON BECOMING EXPERT CHAIR • MAKER Michigan City. lud , Dec 10 —(United Preus.) —1) C, StepheitHon,"’tinman who once boasted that he wu "tlie law in Indiana,'* la rapidly de veloplng into an expert eliair iunl..-i This announcement win made by officials nt the Indiana State Prison here after Stephenson hud been al work in tile chair factory for a period of more than three weeks. Stephenson, who was seiiteiu <-i| to life Imprisonment, for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer of Indiaiiapolb

ier regarded a* a model prisoner bv th» officers ai the penal institution Since his arrival at the prison I Stephenson han worked regularly Hi the wicker chair department ot tin prison, with the exception of one day when sore bund 1 , forced him to f.ib> u rest. fndie.itlon" are that Stephen 1011 will be given another re 1 .vtieu b is taken to Noble iv lie under guard . to hear the arguments on his pk-a for a new trial. Warsaw The Konclutko county court has ordered Donald Vanderveer. of Milford, receiver for the Farmers 1 State Bank of that town to sell the ’ building ami fixtures. The bank failed last spring.

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