Mrs. H. P. Kimball 

 A NATIVE DOCTOR AT WU HU, CHINA, WITH HIS MEDICINES SPREAD ON A SHEET 



American patients would probably not thrive under Chinese medical treatment ; but at 

 the same time the American drug store would lose some of its best medicinal materials were 

 China cut off from trade with the United States. 



collecting that which he could sell, he 

 found his way back to the ancient city of 

 his birth, sweating beneath a back-load 

 of reeking asafoetida gum, and even his 

 calm Eastern mind was disturbed and 

 rendered uneasy to find the market-place 

 glutted with the ill-smelling stuff he had 

 toiled so hard to obtain. 



Everywhere was merchandise and ev- 

 erywhere profane excitement. Gaunt 

 camel drivers from the across the moun- 

 tains in Turkestan murmured, first spit- 

 ting upon the ground in testimony- of 



their contempt for the Christian dogs ; 

 how the Russian railroad had refused to 

 transport their great bales and boxes ; 

 others told how the boats on the Oxus 

 were already overloaded and left great 

 piles of freight to spoil on the docks. 

 From Kabul came whispers of the Pa- 

 than preparing to war in strange lands 

 and having no time for trade. Certainly 

 ill luck stalked at will throughout the 

 land of his fathers. 



In the cool of the evening, when the 

 sun had set and he and his fellows srath- 



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