El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-04


such as we farmers have in Virginia
The people come together and gossip
They discuss the crops and ask one
another how they are getting along
Hassan Ali, of Egypt, says to Moham-
med. of Turkey How is businessE
Are you making money, and how does
your government treat you? MO-
manned replies that the Turks are
taxed to death. but they hope Tor
much under the new sultan. There
upon Hassan says that the English
have cut down the taxes and that the
church has plenty of money in its
treasury. He tells how he has been
able to send his boy to college, and
that he hopes he win some day be an
official. The Turk thereupon longs for
a better government. At the same time
the college students tell what they
have learned and as a result the 20th
century spirit of modern progress IS
stirring the Mohammedan world
The Work of the Missions.
In addition TO the collegiate work
great advances in our civilization are
being made by the Protestant missions
There are now thousands OF native
Christians in Syria, and from $4,000 TO
100 600 native Christians in the empire
of Turkey. The American missionaries
alone have over $50 schools, with five
or six thousand pupils, and the Eng
lish have many more
Right here in Beirut is the largest
and most uptodate publishing plant in
the orient It belongs to the American
mission, and it annually. turns out tens
of thousands Of volumes of the Bible,
of school text books and of others on
religious scientific subjects. Altogether
it has published more than 700 differ
ent works in Arabic, and it is esu-
mated that it has printed approximate
" a billion pages Of one kind or other
1t issues in the neighborhood Of 100000
volumes a year, containing, altogether
something like 30,000.0 900 pages It's b.
bles published in Arabic are sold
throughout the Mohammedan world
Tuberculosis m Syria.
The medical missionaries are doing
a great deal in all parts of the orient
1 have seen their hospitals everywhere
on this trip around the world. They
are to be found in all parts Of India,
far up the Nile valley and in the lead
ing centers of the Holy Land. One or
the best 1 have visited is situated at
liberals on the Sea Of Galilee, being
headed by DR.. Terrence, who has been
treating the Bedoains and others there
for the past so years. In talking with
him the question OF tuberculosis came
great white plague as they are found
in his region on the very edge OF the
desert He says tuberculosis is rife
among the Bedouins, although they live
out of doors and are in the purest OF
air all the time. He thinks that the
disease is largely distributed by the
cattle. About so percent 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 % years ago,
when the disease was brought in from
the United States by natives who had
emigrated. to our country, contracted
consumption and brought it back home.
The Syrians had no idea what 1T meant,
and il rapidly spread. The sanitary
conditions of this part Of the world are
bad. the bacteria breed rapidly ana
the disease is sweeping the country.
An American Hospital for COnsumptfVes
And this brings me to a great work
which has Just been started at Juneau
within a few miles of Beirut 1 REFER
to the tuberculosis hospital, which is
being built there by the Church of the
Covenant of Washington City, and
which is under the care of DR.. Mary
! Eddy, a young woman physician, who
has become famous for her work as a
medical missionary throughout the near
east. Miss Eddy is the daughter of the
Rev. William w. Eddy, who came to
Syria about so years ago and remained
here until his death. She is woman
/ of fine education and great medical
| skill, and moreover an expert upon all
matters connected with tuberculosis
and its treatment.
She is the only woman who has ever
been granted an trade or certificate OF
protection from the sultan authorizing
her to practice as a doctor everywhere
throughout his dominion and directing
| that all good Turks shall give her as
| sistance as she goes on her way.
Miss Eddy has been working in Syria
| for years and has been fighting the
| spread of consumption as best she
| could with no place for her patients.
| The people have come and camped In
tents near her house waiting treatment
and the tents of the Bedouins may be
seen dotting the plains near where the
hospital now is. 1t is only year or