The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-07

|seventy-fve t. one hundred thousand
native Christians In the empire OF
Turkey. The American m s~sionarias
alone have over 100 schools. with fIya
or six thousand pupils, and the Ems
lish have many more.
Right here in Beirut is the iargezr
and most up-to-date publishing plant
American mission, and it annual
turns out tens of thousands of vol
tunes of the Bible, Of school tex
books and of Others on reLs Gus ana
scientific subjects. Altogether i has
published more than 700 difereHt
works in Arabic. and it is estimate
that it has printed approNimately
billion pages of one kind or other. Il
issues in the ne ghborhood of loo. 0uH
volumes a year containing altogcthe"
something like 80, ooo 600 pages, Its
Bibles published in Arabic are sol.
throughout the Mohammedan world
tuberculosis in Syria.
The medical iSsionar are do
ing a great deal in all parts Of the
Or ent. / have seen their hospital
everywhere on this trip around the
world. They are to be found in al
parts of India. far up the Nile valley
an din the leading centerS OF the HON
Land. One OF the best ] have visited
is situate at liberals. on the Sea o.
0Id1iiee. bEInS Ilttuto ~ ~ ~
renee. who has been treating the
Bedouins and others there Tor the
past thirty years. In talking " IT,
him the question Of tuberculosis
came up, and he described the evils
of the great white plague as the
are found in his region on the Ner>
edge Of the desert. He says tubercu-
losis is rife among the BedouinS. al
though they live put of doors and are
in the pureSt OF air all the time. H
tn iakS that the disease is largely dis
tributed by the cattle. About so per
cent. Of the COWS have tuberculosis,
and the people live chiefly on milk,
Another doctor connected With that
hospital tells me that Syria had no
consumption until about twenty-five
wears ago. when the disease wa
brought in from the United states 10y
natives who had emigrated TO our
country, contracted cOnSum ptio1 ana
brought it back home. The Syrtans
had no idea what it meant. and ii
rapidly spread. The sanitary condi-
tons of this part CT the world are
bad. the bacteria breed rapidly and
the disease is sweeping the country.
An American Hospital For Consuinp-
tiyeS.
And this brings me to a great WORK
which has just been started at juneau
within a few IN les of Beirut. | refer
to the 1uDGfcu1OSlS toSpltd NllCH
is being quilt there by the Church
of the Covenant of Washington City
and which is under the care Of Dr
Mary Eddy. a young ply
stefan. who has become famous for
her work as q medical missionary
throughout the near east. Miss Eddy
is the laughter of the Rev. W liam
w. Eddy, who came 10 Syria about
sixty years ago and remained here
until his death. She is a woman OF
fine education and great medical
skill. and moreover an expert upon
all matters connected with tubercu-
losis and It's treatment.
She is the only woman who has
eve been granted an trade or certifi-
cate of protection from the sultan au-
thoriz. ng her to pract &c his dominion
and directing that all good Turks
give her assistance as h goes
on her way.
Miss Eddy has been working i'll
Syria for years and has beer fighting
she could with no place for her pat
tents. The people have come and
camped in tents near her house wait
ing treatment and the tents Of the
Bedouins may be seer dotting the
pla rs near where the hospital now
is. 1t is only a year or so g that
tn VEN to erect this hospital
and the buildings are now ap-
preaching completion. Among the
largest givers to it have been Mrs.
John Hay, the wife of the late Score
tary of State, and the late Mrs. Gardi-
her Hubbard, the mother-in-law Of
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell. So far
the contributions are not equal to the
needs of the institution, and much
more money could be ErOfitably used
/ do not know any place where char
table contr buttons will bring in q
greater return.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.