'Through Brigands' Country Lamp of Science While at home London givls are rushing to qualify as doctors, two plucky women graduates of the yndon School of Medicine are Inbouring at the Medical Missiontation in the mountains be-Phibet. and China, the sur-gory being 7000ft, above sen lev hey are Dr. Lilian Watney, who has been there og. member of the China tufand Mission for tone. time, wud Dr. Maud Chidson, who hur just. gone out to repre= sent the "Bible Churehmen's Misry Society.
"ithe difficulties of missionary Wertern China are not the Rev. H. A, by the people the Wace th was the first vice-president, "py. Chidson, who has, reached Ichang, on the Yangtze River, on her way to Kuang-ngan-chow will find a torvible difference in the work which she will be called Upsn, to do from that she experi-fenced in the wards of London hospitals.
"IPhore will be no waiting for ceases. She will find thousands of patients around the hospital ates "She will find dirt and disease, squalor and smell, and she will Ihave to give those people her full attention. "Lepers and beggars 4 with sores will swarm round hei!
"Qvinto maidical science, particularly in this district, is very rude. Whenovor disease, sore cours the Chinese doctor' plunges a needle into the affected part in order to drive out bvil spirits which have caused the trouble Who a patient does reach Chidson she will find him gone. as a result of native Greatmont that he has as much Chane of dying as of recovering, fund if ho dies the blame may very well n laid at her door.
"Another thing she will to watch is when dispensing me rine, because the, tse has as mach idow of Western medical methods as the, man iw the moon. i bottle of pays take small dosey at intervals and will inymediatoly drink the. whol Hottle in order to get well immediately.
"But for all that they are mest lovable race, full of grat tude—simplo, playful and occa AMMONGH TAND OF NIIEANDS, tw got there, Dr. Chidvon has bad to maken 8 voyage of five weeks, a river, trip. OF three weeks amd a rieshue Journey over the rugged moun. fain tracks of Western Ching of Fortnight, and all thw time Drona vigandeintested cote ly hat woukt appeal" probably Sie iw not the sort of journey. the average yang wene, bul Frise Chidson ix hw of the stut of which misiontries remade, fund Tenn sug. with fall assurance that Dr. -Chidson will uphold. the pratertion from days with buyers. getting ready whether he will accept Fae' New Year.
_comeone|the position in. view of Now they haewe started uffie [Temarked there is plenty of cop- [promotion to the post of glee no eet, per onmes cath fey ce on ce eh ureter per cash just now on the street Director of Hai Rail-00 cents Fats been changing for. 1.960 AIL HANDS. REEULSE MANDERS, tountics. Meanwhile the lessees To-d for ce int ax weer care having 913 Nisin here, et gases wee tae have: ho make. periodical fee troops welcome farmers are very grateful, for which the The regard to the Mute Manocent. people (wherever xround i very "dry and the wheat ora squeeze) to search for!
Mare is the least chanes of loot is suffering Dredging has_ begun on the that the bandits are agguin infest-Spium, arms. or ammunition. Canal, the water, having been jing the. former leasel territory Jand it is probable that Major vcmmitted suicide.
Quits" a number of people have diverted by " barrier i vot Reset ete Wong is. mansions to reorganize takes.
The crops good during the this we tion, wer last harvest. and rice has boa exported. At T ported -that 300,000 piculs Tice will be exported this so, The prices howe a anusnally well for good year.
Siangtan county has" been al great price mart for many years. Once Isiho, 15 fi from the city, was the great centre of thi trade and rice from all this district was exported from that one honarr of the Lenten School of Med Women, from which Honan, is again tention of improving near Loyang, his quarters, He has just purchased 120,000 mulberry trees and arge number of other trees, former for the puxposo of giv his people a chanan to, secure pleyiments the latter to beautify the city.
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