The Archive · 1896

The American Baptist Mission

has left our portforSuifu. Most of the riot babies" after having been photographed together in Shanghai have returned so rosy and blue-eyed as to make one feel at once what terrible little targets they were to expose to a black-haired yellow-skinned Chinese mob, among whom they could not be concealed for a moment with their fir white flesh, and roguish eyes, But Mr. and Mrs. Wenner have bern unfortunate in bringing one child up river with scarlatina and another ailing, They have, however, g-ne on their way with the Beamans, Mr. Salqui t, ete. The reports at Kuan-hsien still cause much uneasiness among the missionaries there, and the country evidently is in a disturbed state, for gang of thieves there is said to have made off with Tls. 8,000 in silver from a treasure caravan, It can at no time be a light: task to travel about the wild west with silver shoes, but especially just now it must be anxious work.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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