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Show 6. bright idea, and drove along the embankment that hsd been intended for t i e a Baa r a i ls instead of a driveway. His cart tipped off th© gra*le and injured the amah who was in i t . As if they hai not had calamities enough, the l i t t e r muleteers ©n ahead, not being Taiku men, -&nd so u n f a n i l i a r with the road, mad© a mis-turn to i si:;e read which wouli not f t t HMM to Taiku. The plucky Taiku lady, who had t o aasume aaaNgpMfti of the caravan, §ald* after she rtached home, that the n@xt time aha*I have a<g> c a l l out In th® night to stupid, stabbern muleteers that they wwere Sa l i t t l e off ,M and see that they backed up and turned around with t h e i r awkward " p r a i r i e schooners," she did net wish to do i t ! It resulted in her walking almost the e n t i r e twenty-five miles to p i l o t the party. a*© were surprised enough to hear them a l l entering the compeuai gate about four o'clock i n th© morning. The two disabled Chinese were hurried i n t o the Hospital.for care. The mests were scattered in the homes in the compound la! went to bed. Needless to Bay, we yixi not see them t i l l l a t e in the afternoon. Of course they were a l l gmi sports and laughed about t h e i r experiences. .fas I not fortunate that I had had no mishaps? The Captain (whom I had never seen before, but whose father, uncles, aunts and cousi n s - he had no s i s t e r s , I think s© I cannot say "His s i s t e r s and his cousins and h i s aunts"' 1 had known for years, some i n U.S. and some in China,) and his family l e f t us the next day in t h e i r l i t t e r s for Ytttaiho, t r u s t i n g that no more accidents would b e f a l l them when they had not t h i s fine American woman, who could twist her tongue around th© Shansi d i a l a c t , to get them out of scrapes. ffe toll them to t e l l the friends that we would fellow soon. *fhen w© did s t a r t my friend - a r a r e American woman, widely kno^rn on both side of aha P a c i f i c , who had lived in China many years, a gifted educationalist, and a w r i t e r with more than one degree e n t i t l i n g her to i n i t i a l s a f t e r her name, which she modestly r e f r a i n s from parading, - and I each had our own o u t f i t af cart and driver, Afhen you te to Tarkev vou M** to do as the ^ r k e y s do," ypU *»eW| ttBi i n china we have t o f o l l L the prescribed cust- ZZL**2k Z ^ a frt " ? r @ F e r i y ' * • * * * • **ere i s scant space for two e a s s e n ' e r s! Occasionally .hen we wished to chat, we'd v i s i t one another and r i s e on the d r i v e r < s s l ll In genuine Oriental fashion our hostess said she was'going te "aoang" us (which in c h i l d ' s parlance in t h i s country, would be "go-e;-piece" with u s . ) For four miles she rode on one or the other of our carts* and i t meant such to us te have some one along «¥ho could explain 7. bout places te were seeing. In Chihli th© mass of the people &r® poor and l i v e in mud h u t s , while in Shansi, the Province which for many years has furnished th® whole country with Bankers, there ar© brick houses, remnants of the days when people were more w e l l - t a - l e 1 perhaps, than they are now. One Imposing wailed v i l l a g e ea approached looked as if i t might be a f e r t a a s s . Miss H. told us that i t *ae**he Chang Family V i l l a g e . " There were probably hundreds @f people in i t , but they were a l l of one clan, with many servants, of course. Being well-to**o, they hai circumvented the Government's efforts to rid the land of opium when c u l t i v a t i o n of the poppy aaa prohibited. The heads of t h i s family were their own "Bootleggers'; and purchased 30,000 ounces of opium at AAA Per ounce, |3O,C00 worth of the drug and buried i t in their enclosure before the edict went i n t o e f f e c t . So they f e l t "pretty well fixe*!* To make i t , a p p e a r that they were in sympathy with the Government's endeavor, they offered a building xf Dr. Hemingway would send over on® of his trained Chinese Hospital a l S J l t l n ^ t o conduct an Upium Refuge for those who fished treatment to cure them of this drug habit No one cam© to the Refuge except a few of the poorest servants, who could not afford to indulge t h e i r craving. The Doctor closed that Refuge as he was very busy with others where eeonl© were earnestly desirous of the Cure. (The v i s i t to Shansi now being described was before the San Jose Doctors, Vincent and Grace ffegner, went t o that splendid Hospital in Taiku, but as th© writer has been in I t she e a s i l y v i s u a l i z e s them in t h e i r present surroundings. They were associated a i t a Dr.Hemingway u n t i l h i s death, and are now carrying on.) •*e f e l t that we should turn about and take Miss H. home as i t was raining when she left us, but she said she d talk or hir© a donkey to r i d e , and that i t was so long since thev had had r a i n , she'd be glad to get t e t. |