"74 More satisfying to his soul were perhaps the more distinctly 

 family reports. John was doing well in Illinois. From Lud- 

 hiana, his mother wrote (December 7, 1904) : 



Those collars and cuffs you sent me are lovely. Nellie's, too, 

 have come and she is delighted. She will let Aunt Sarah have 

 the handkerchiefs. ... I went into camp [meaning a camp- 

 meeting trip] with Miss Morris and your Aunt Sarah [over 

 sixty]. We were out 2 weeks and visited 17 villages. Miss M 

 spoke in one 4 times, in others 3 times & so on. I don't know 

 Panjabi so she had to do all the talking. I could help her sing, 

 as I can read it from the book. I just went as a companion 

 as she could not go alone. Your aunt & Miss Jenks had gone 

 in another direction. Of course curiosity was at the bottom of 

 it. . . . We gave away a good many tracts & portions of the 

 Scriptures. We didn't see one woman who could read & very 

 few men. We gave to everyone who could show that he could 

 read. . . . 



Your papa came out to Jagroon one day in a dak gari 24 

 ms, got some chhota hozari & then took another dak gari & 

 drove 1 8 ms, then in an oxcart 1 ms over kaeha roads — all 

 in one day to Dharmkote where a Christian Pandit lives who 

 was anxious to have your papa visit him. He stayed there one 

 day, slept 2 nights or parts of nights in a Hindu house and 

 ate native food that the Pandit fed him. He got up at 3 o'ck 

 one morning, drove in an oxcart 11 ms to a place where he 

 got an ekka in which he rode 11 ms to Jagroon. After eating 

 breakfast we drove to Ludhiana 24 ms in a dak gari. The 

 consequence was that your papa was very ill all night with 

 diarrhoea. . . . 



Hektoen wrote him by hand — it was his custom whenever 

 really interested in the content of one of his letters or its 

 recipient — December 17, 1904: "Your photograph of filaria 

 in blood looks like a bird's-eye view of a winding river sur- 

 rounded by clumps of trees." After some general advice to the 

 Manila workers that they shorten their contributions to his 

 newly established Journal of infectious diseases, he continued: 



I hope that our editing will not make any of these gentlemen 

 our enemies for life. Let them lay stress upon our intentions 



