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trouble him & he made some awful confessions. You remem- 

 ber I warned you about inviting him to your house, when he 

 was in Am. It is an awful shock to the Mission. He tried twice 

 to kill himself. 



On Friday the Women's Home Misy Soc is to meet here. 

 We have about 3 5 members. I usually serve tea & doughnuts. 

 We have been giving out money through the Presbyterial 

 Soc'y to help support a Bible Woman at Jagroon, but she has 

 left that work so we will have to decide what our money will 

 be spent for. This morning I was down in the city in my jin 

 & I met a nice phaeton, with a Hindu lady & her little girl 

 beside her riding through the bazaar. Women are coming out 

 more than they used to, and are wanting schools. In our school 

 there are about 8 Mohammedan girls and 3 Hindus. For the 

 latter we have a separate room & a teacher, as they are taught 

 Hindi, while the M's are taught Urdu. They have a Bible lesson 

 every day, and are taught to sew too. We have a Eurasian lady 

 as principal teacher. I visit it as often as I can. 



Sometimes horrible things occur here. One night two weeks 

 ago, the wife of Rev Mr Wood of the Church of England Miss 

 in Lahore was wakened by some one trying to smother her — 

 her husband had gone to Allahabad. She tried to scream & saw 

 a big Pathan standing over her with a knife in his hand. She 

 caught his hand & cut her own terribly, and yelled so that she 

 was heard. He was a young Theological Student in her hus- 

 band's school. He ran & got into his bed, but was arrested. His 

 clothes were covered with blood so it was easy to tell who the 

 guilty one was. He was tried & sentenced to 1 2 years rigorous 

 imprisonment & a fine of Rs 1000 — in default of payment 

 he gets 2 more years of jail. 



"\T7THERRY had bowed into the year with a paper [35]. 

 \ty A four-page account dealt with the killing effects of 

 the alkaloid of ipecac, emetine. Medical men had long used the 

 drug, by mouth or by injection, in their treatment of amoebic 

 dysentery; but no scientific study of the matter had ever been 

 made until an army surgeon (E B Vedder) tried out the mate- 

 rial in test tubes. Emetine had thus been found to be rather 

 good as a strangler of various protozoa; but, what Wherry 



