Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-20
emmy Won Mayer Won Fame
as Red Cross Nurse lin War.
J NOW PEDOLING BIBLES
combines Religfcus Efforts With
Care for Natives Health.
NATIVES DON'T GET DRUNK
Russia Takes Good Care That Liquor
Does Not Reach Them-Pen-
alties Are Severe.
sY WILLIAM v. CCRTIS.

sY WILLIAM y CCRTIs.
p>cisl Corrssnon6eIice of The star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
OKHARA. Central Asia. July -, 1910.
Going through the bazasrs yesterday
e met a tall young woman. with a
racefuI figure and beautiful face,
ressed in a neat suit Of white pongee
iik. with a PREDETERMINED. Quakerish
al and a red cross upon her breast. We
ad heard Of her and had been on the
bok-ou and as soon as We noticed the
foes ~e called her name.
n %as Stss Jenny Won Mayer of Smol-
eusk. Russia, who made herself famous
a nurse during the Russe-Japanese
var, and is now making tour OF Turkes-
an to investigate the hospitals and pris-
ms in behalf OF the Red Cross Society
4 Russia. %. recommend what steps can
e taken BY that organization 10 improve
hem In the meantime she is distribute
ng Bibles on her own account, and wher-
ver she goes she carries copies or the
Scriptures and sells them TO whoever
wants to buy. She has copies of the gos-
,els published BY the London Bible So
iety in seven different dialects spoken
D. the tribes of Turkestan; copies OF the
md tho entire Bible in Russian
Russia Respects Treaty.
She is doing this work with the permits
ZION of the Russian government in con-
hsction with her Investigations, but is
not allowed 10 sell or give away Bibles
in Bokhars, because that is not strictly
Rassian territory. As I have explained
(h previous letters, Bokhara is an indie
berLdent state under Russian protection
and the oficial5 cf that government are
very scrupulous in observing the spirit
es we'll as the letter OF the treaty they
proselyting and never offers Bibles Tor
Eale. but only sells to those who inquire.
This Is the first time, the Holy Scrip
lures have been introduced into these
rountries The priests Of the Russian
rhurch and che members Of that denom-
Ination have their own Bibles and use
khem Just as they do at home, but no
Evangelical work among the natives Is
permitted by the government oficiais:
Eyho respect the canons and customs OF
the Mosiem fsith with the greatest care.
Miss Won Mayer relates some very In
ieresting experiences with people who
ask for Bibles. Yesterday. she says,
three Afshans upon the railway train
were quite inquisitive concerning the
basket of BOOKS she carried and after she
ad made an" explanation and allowed
them 10 look them over, eAcn OF them
Laaeht eops of the New Testament in
|their native tongue. = - Il.
The ether day an aged sart native Of
samarkandD farmer asked her to give
Ihim d copy Of the New Testament. She
refused TO de- SO, as she never gives any
away. told him to take one home and
rssd II through and IL he cared to keep
III 10 make her an offer of as much
money rs he could AFFORD to pay for It
that's the oriental way. Two days later
he came back with the book and said
hat he was very anxious to keep II,
but was not able to pay as much money
rs he believed 1t to bs worth.
Expects to Get Money.
Sbs iT4uired how much ne was prepar-
ed 70 offer. He replied that il he had
The money. he would pay two roubfes;
which- IL equivalent, to- one Of our dol
lars, but he had only forty kopecs. thar
In. 70 cents-1 II she would take that
amount and let him keep tho book he
would send her 80 cents more as soon
IS he was able to do SO. The bargain
was concluded: she gave HIM her address
and took his name and address. and she
tells me that she will certainly receive
the balance before The year II out.
Miss Won Mayer does this work for the
dove Of IL. 81 am sowing the Master $
seed she said. for some future hand
10 reap" She is not connected with any
missionary society or religious organiza-
ton, but is Young woman OF means.
| 10 entirely independent. She is a men,
Der Of tho Red Cross Sisterhood and her
home Is af slinka. Smolensk. Russia
Miss Won Mayer has done settlement
work in the Sums OF MOSCOW has spent
much time among the exile prisons of
| Siberia: shas travelled extensively i'm
China. and during the war with Japan
was in fhe field hospitals from the be-
ginning 90 the end. Her reports con-
corning the prisons and hospitals of
Turkestanr go TO the Red Cross Society
OF Russia.
She says the military authorities give
her every encouragement and assistance.
EVERY body Is kind TO me. and the Red
Cross Or my breast is an absolute pro-
lection wherever | go. 1t is recognized
even by the ssrsses assacred.
Cook Becomes a Doctor.
There Is only one hospital in Bokhara,
and thsris in a very poor, condition, II
IL supposed 10 be sustained by the emir
but he gives very little money TO 1t. and
that gruAsingly. There are no native
doctors in fhe country; the study 'oi
medical science Is absolutely unkno ~n
A man Sho was employed as cook al
the hospital for three months is now a
prominent practictioner in Bokhafa and
has patients among the. weanhiest classes
of people. He learned the trade durinf
his brief. stay in the kitchen OF the hos
pitai and the people seem TO have conf
dence in him. His practice is becoming
lucrative that competition has com
menced, and two BARRIERS, who have done
surgical work for several years. have now
dropped their raZors and lather brushe.
and have hung out signs az physicians.
In the Russian settlements Throughout
Turkestan are numerous hospitals, OF the
most modern type. managed by military
surgeons and hospital stewards. and at
tended BY trained nurses There are also
private practitioners from the Russian
medical schools. free public hospitals e
which the natives are admitted upon ap
piication, and public dispensaries wher,
patients are treated daily. .wjthou
charge. ~. tt-+ 80 ,v>
The government does not encourag.
foreign physicians TO practice in the ma
settle there. IL a native desires modern
medical treatment he can 90 TO the Office
az a physician in the Russian settlement
or he can send for a Russian physician
20 attend him at his own house. but &C
cordng TO the general policy Of non
Interference in native affairs natives ar,
rot instructed in the advantages of mod
ern medicine and surgery any more thar
in the Russian religion.
In Bokhara. until a few years ago
there was an officer of the law knows
as the reis-i-sbariat. a sort OF genera
INSPECTOR Of public morals. who wen
about the city every morning in hi
ofYicial robes, with a heavy whip IN hi
hand. among the mosques ba zaars ant
other places where the men % the towI
intermingle. TO administer justice and I,
uphold Righteousness. II he saw any
thing wrong he ordered 1t repaired. 4
improvements were suggested he orders