Show sm 4 V ix j ass ae 1 1 pl 7 2 mw f K I 1 i t yali ENTERING lap FORBIDDEN A I 1 crry CITY i dr vallre Wal To Uc lre a german traveler Tra Tm reler veler spends acro W iro donn in chantilis chains chant sha some curious details are given in leters 1 A arnn missionaries in regard to tha tol ot a 4 german traveler dr wolfe to chang J sila sha the capital of hunan HUMM which never eftev er before had bern been 7 entered hy by ia foreigner forel gaer it I 1 seems that the doctor gained his point and entered the forbidden u city but his visit was a mere farce I 1 as he was not permitted Dermit ted to go aboaf arf the city or to see any of its features lie he simply was carried in a closed chair to the prefects room in one of the government halls where he be was entertained with refreshments and IM an hour later was taken back bae swiftly aly in me same way hunan is the province of china which has gained notoriety as aa the most bitterly anti foreign and anti christian of any in the empire for years the mandarin in charge of the telegraph tee graph a race attempted to connect chang sha with the other large cities of china but he was forced to to give up as the people burned his poles and threw the workmen into the e nearest river or pond only three years ye ars ago an effort was made to run the telegraph line to siberia through one corner carner of hunan but native prejudice was still so strong that the wire and poles were destroyed and the workmen were driven beyond the boundary of the province and warned under pain dain of death not to return it is only within the last year that an imperial decree was issued ordering the not to molest the builders of the telegraph it is expected that chang sha in a few months will be connected with the rest of the world by telegraph it was at chang chana sha that hat the atrocious at roc loui books attacking the christian religion were published about eight years ago chou han a literary graduate and a man manof of means was the author of these libels on christianity which were illustrated with pictures too vile to describe dr griffith john a well known missionary exposed the authorship of the he books and described the publisher isher who was sending them out through ll li hung chang an imperial decree was secured prohibiting any further publication of the books and an order was issued for the destruction of the wooden type from which they were printed this order was evaded by chou han removing the type to his country place forty five miles away but a curious feature of the matter was the change chane chan e of heart on the part of chou han dr john sent him letters calling his attention to the injustices of attacking a religion of which he knew nothing personally he also sent chou han the bible in chinese with considerable literature that explained the chief tenets of christianity chou han made no reply but his publisher who is now one of dr johns friends assured the missionary that chou han had ceased to rail against the christian religion though the story of his h is conversion was without foundation chou u han appears to be a man of much nobility of character for he be has given away in charity chanty the greater part of a large fortune retains retaining ing only a small farm sufficient for the support of himself and his bis son for fo merly when he visited chang sha he put nut up at one of the temples now he says stays at a cheap hotel it is the gen eral eral opinion that dr wolfes persistence an fn in entering chang chanc sha has aroused hamod the enmity of the people and that his conduct will 11 make it more difficult for any other traveler to penetrate into the ro interior of hunan dr wolfe waited eaniri fifteen days for permission to enter sard chang sha and on march 19 this was granted in a closed chair he was taken n through the gate at p in st and at 55 P m he was brought out in the same way his chair curtains sine being ie let down all around so that he satan was in absolute darkness unable to see anything any thing after leaving chang sha he went to heng chou where a street mob tea booted at him and pelted belted him with clods ew of earth they tried to pull him down to the water to drown him but he escaped and reached lintang Lyn tang there his three bearers became alarmed at the violente viol e enre of the people and deserted him left alone with no knowledge of the language dr wolfe was forced ae sa to make his way by water baak to hanatow Hand tow new asun sun |