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Had Six Years of
Stomach Agony
Now She Eats Anything, Sleeps
SoundIy and Gaining Weight.

II had severe stomach and bowel
trouble for over six years. Had
dizzy spells and at times would have
fallen if 1 had not had something to
hold to. Was awfully nervous, had
gas on my stomach most all the
time, severe cramps and agonizing
pains. I felt like L was raw from
the bottom Of my stomach clear up
to my throat, and I had to take soda
all the time. My first and only re-
lief come from Viuna. After the
second dose l could feel it was help
ing me. After the second bottle all
the gas, cramps, ETC., disappeared
for good, and now I can eat any
thing without one bit OF fear. My
appetite is good, my nervousness
gone and / sleep like a, baby at
night. Until I took Viuna | had
never weighed over 10 pounds in
my life, and now I weigh ia pounds,
and am gaining every day. Mrs.
Mike Hennis, F'ortville, Ind.
Viuna acts promptly on sluggish
bowels, lazy liver and weak kidneys. 1t
purifies the blood, clears the skin, re-.
stores appetite and digestion, and brings
new strength and energy to the whole
body. Take bottle on trial. Then if
you're not glad you tried Viuna, your
money will be refunded. 81 at druggists,
or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine
Co., indianapolis, Ind.
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that they could see again, they watched
him placing needles in large piece of
cork in pattern which formed the brand
known all over the desert as his own.
When this was done he had one of his
men heat the needles and plunge their
points into the girls cheeks.
For some reason he ordered the girls
not to be placed in the harem until their
wounds were healed and meanwhile an
unexpected errand called him away far
off over the desert A black female
Numidian slave was warned to watch the
prisoners carefully and she did, but a
camel boy saw a chance to make ten dol
lars and reported to the missionary at
Der-el-zor. The missionary made the
standard deal of five dollars per head
delivered at his headquarters.
The camel boy managed to stick his
head under the tent and whisper what had
been arranged and the two captives
started talking it over in Armenian.
The Numidian slave, though she could
not understand the language, grew sus-
picious, placing them in separate tents
and forbade them to talk on pain of hav-
ing the soles of their feet burned.
Nothing, however, was said against
singing and they began singing back and
forth all the hymns they knew and adding
to each verse a few sentences that were
never in any hymn book, until all was I'M
derstood and agreed. That night they
slipped from their tents and, guided by
the camel boy, made their way to the
missionary. The boy got his ten dollars
and kept right on going. He knew the
sheik would kill him on sight and it
was no time for a good Mohammedan
camel boy to appear before Allah with
the sin on his soul of having liberated
two Christian slaves.
For steady-going, year in and year out,
record of wholesale murder and in
genious atrocities, century after century,
the Turk has no rival. Every few years
the Christian nations have protested and
threatened, but the Ottoman Empire had
gone right ahead in its efforts to extermi-
nate the little Christian communities
within its reach He has been called "the
sick man of Europe" and 'the unspeak-
able Turk" but all the time he has gotten
away with it because European jealousy
would never allow any country to give
Turkey the thrashing it needed.
Many times Russia, in the days of the
Cars, stood ready to push the murderous
fellow out of Europe altogether, but
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smiles on his children again he will
RAID and pillage on a bigger scale
than ever and have plenty of fresh ones
with winch to amuse himself For six
nundred years ne has been doing so and
thinks he always will.
The Moslem is inclined to sell only the
Oldest and sickest of his captives but the
ever present mule driver, who is the ex-
pressman, letter carrier, gossip and all
around handy man, spy and thief of the
desert, will steal a slave the moment her
owner is out of sight and even the sheiks
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in a rug and triumphantly delivered her
to the mission almost but not quite dead.
The missionaries scolded him but they had
to pay, for it would never do to have it
said that sometimes the Christian doesn't
pay.
Agents of Renal Pasha came to the
city of Harpoot and forced most of the
inhabitants to migrate to the town of
Der-el-zor, on the edge of the desert.
Arriving there after 80 days travel on
foot in all sorts of weather under the
lash of the Turks, the aging parents of
Elmas and Marian Azarian died and left
the girls alone in the@world. An Arabian
sheik caught sight of the maturing form
of eghteen-year-ol Elmas and her
twelve-year-old sister as they wept over
their parents remains. Making sure that
there were no men to protect them, the
sheik seized the girls and rode away to
his tents in the desert.
There he gave them the usual option
of worshipping Allah and becoming a
couple of extra wives or being a Christian
slave. They were allowed the entire night
to think it over and in the morning their
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steal from each other. There seems to
be no honor among these thieves.
One muleteer, for paltry five dollars,
went so far as to kidnap Christian slave
against her will. She did not want to be
brought back disfgured, broken and
Inundated, an object of pity to her family
and neighbors. The mule driver did not
know how to meet these arguments but
he was a practical man and he needed
that five dollars. Therefore he knocked
her down, bound, gagged her, rolled her
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TOR five dollars a
r head an English mis-
sionary society is
buying back from the
"Unspeakable Turk,
Arab and Kurd, the Chris
ian girls which these Mos
lens have stolen and en-
shaved.
These wretched white
slaves, degraded, tortured
and many of them brand
ed, like cattle, with their
masters branding iron,
are being brought in from
all parts of the Arabian
Desert.
It seems miraculous
that the Bible Lands Mis-
sion, with its British gold
is succeeding where for
600 years all the diplomats
and armies of Europe
have failed. According to
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Several weeks ago evidence was laid
before the League of Nations of recent
Turkish atrocities. The report prepared
by General Laidoner is filled with such
fiendish details that to the ordinary per
son it suggests the acts of madmen. II
was, however, the work of Turkish regu-
lars, acting under orders, the same sort
of orders that Turkish officers have been
giving to Turkish soldiers for many hun
dred years.
The Sixty-second Regiment of Turkish
Infantry, in time of peace and under
orders, went from village to village, plum
dering, violating women, killing men and
children. In the village of Baiio. re-
Gently, the Turks marched in and sum-
moned the priest. When he had appeared
and had been seized they threatened to
burn him alive unless all the weapons in
the village were surrendered within two
hours. Having done this and made them
selves defenseless the village expected to
be left in peace. Five days later the
same regiment came back and, after Sc
curing the forty prettieSt women fol
their own use, masSacred their husbands.
From the village of Merga, the Turks
made the inhabitants start on one of those
sudden forced emigrations of men, women
and children, sick and well, which so de-
light the Moslem'S cruel humor During
that migration five women were buried
alive under huge stones because they be-
came exhausted and fell by the wayside
Three girls were killed and several chill
dren abandoned because their mothers
were too weak to carry them.
The result of these and many other
examples was that the government of the
Mosul District has been taken from Turk
ey and given to England, and now, at
last, with France and Italy, it is planned
to tell Turkey that she must behave like
a civilized nation and they are going to
say it in the only way the Turk under
stands with bayonets. Frantically
Turkey looked around for help, but hasn't
a friend in the world but Soviet Russia,
who is another sick man.
The refinement of cruelty to which
only the mind of Turk can reach, is re-
vealed in the case of rescued girl de-
scribed by the Rev. Mabel Elliott in her
book, Beginning Again at Ararat," pub
lishhed by the f. H. Revell Company.
with eyelids closed" remarks DR..
Elliott, "she was the most beautiful girl
l had seen among a people renowned for
feminine beauty. Her features were like
those preserved for us from antiquity by
the chisels of great artists; her skin was
like child's, and her body was rhythm of
life. But when she opened her eyes, it
became painful to look at her. One eye
ball swung in its socket so grotesquely
that the observer thought of gargoyle.
"Her story was the usual one During
deportation she had been sold into a
Turkish house. Then they said that they
had no peace since came; must have
an evil eye, and they would fix it. My
eyes we're perfectly straight but they took
me to hospital and had this done to me-
She pointed to the crooked eye, where
microscopic cuts in the minute muscles re-
vealed how a skillful Turkish surgeon had
used his ability to make this girl hid
eous." N
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answer was no. The
sheik did not argue
but laid a knife on
the open fire of a
brazier until it was
hot and covered with
SCOT. With this he
burned and black
ened the foreheads,
cheeks and lips of
the girls.
After the tears of
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estimates. there a4e still about $4,000
more of these pitiful prisoners, and If the
missions money holds out, most of them
will be freed. Some of the girls, especi-
ally those from educated and well-to-do
Syrian and Armenian families, do not wish
to be rescued and resist until promised
that arrangements will be made so that
they need not suffer the shame of facing
their relatives and friends.
The girls are as truly martyrs to the
Christian faith as those that Nero butch
cred to please the Roman mob, for they
might have entered the harems as wives
of their Moslem captors by becoming
Mobammedans. Remaining Christians
caused most of them to be thrown into
the harem any way but as mere concu-
bines and slaves of the real wives. The
tortures, disfgurements and other atroci-
ties that are practiced on them are done
for the glory of Allah because they are
"infidels."
The length to which the fanatical
Moslem will go in trying to convert a
Christian girl to the true faith" is shown
by the case of Nouritsa Kardoshian,
young Armenian girl, stolen in night
raid by Kurdish bandits. She became the
property of sheik, the real thing, whose
imitation the moving pictures represent
as such a romantic figure. This sheik on
his horse a quarter of mile away was
romantic looking enough but close up In
his tent he was not so fascinating.
For one thing, he had never taken
bath with water and never intended to.
Water is scarce in the desert and needed
in cooking and drinking, for the Moslem
lis an ardent prohibitionist. Whenever
the sheik fancied that he needed cleans
| ing he disrobed and rubbed his sallow
body with the dry sands of the desert.
After this he considered himself as pure
as any other follower of the Prophet and
much cleaner than any "dog of Chris
|tian."
Nouritsa had the choice of turning
Moslem and becoming fourth wife of this
|unwashed sheik or remaining a Christian
land being kicked about as slave, whom
liz was a pious act for any true believer
| to mutilate and abuse until she saw the
Terror of her ways. When the girl refused,
the sheik stripped her and laid hot poker
against her bare back. She screamed and
tainted but still declined the Mohamme-
| dan salvation. Every day for five days
the girl was brought before her master
stripped and burned with that poker.
Seeing that she valued the cross so
much, the sheik thought it appropriate to
make the burns in the form of crucifx
on her back. While his men held her
face down on prayer rug, he scared the
symbol of the faith he hated as carefully
las though he were working on wood in
stead of quivering flesh. She was warned
that if she did not recant before the pious
mans patience wore out, he would end
by heating the poker white hot in his
little charcoal brazier and push it straight
Through to her heart. 1t is hard to under
stand where these young and tender
women get such courage and why they do
not pretend to worship Allah, for who
would know what is really in their
hearts?
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"honest Mohamme-
dams" enough Chris
tan girls to NOR
than square himself
Times are hard
and money very
scarce in the Mo-
hammedan world
since the war. The
caravan trade across
the deserts is almost
dead and littl c
money is to be earn
ed either by carry
ing freight or by
robbing caravans.
Many Turks, Arabs
and Kurds are so
hard up that they
can no longer feed
their slaves. Rather
than let them starve
to death or cut their
Threats it seems
wiser to take five
dollars, for five dol
lars will buy a mule
or enough pila1f to
feed a family a long
time.
So the willy Mo
hammedan is sur
rendering his Chris
tian girls and pock-
citing the Christians
gold and he smiles
sardonically. Most
of the girls he de-
livers are m ere
wrecks of humanity
whose beauty and
health have been de-
stroyed by his
abuse. They are no
more value to him
now than a worm
out horse. Let the
foolish Christian
take this old stock
off his hands during
these hard times.
As soon as Allah
smiles IN HE oL1,
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NrdSp
of Their
Moslen
Masters

England would never per-
nit it, for she was afraid
to have Russia hold Con-
stantinople. Strangely
enough, today Soviet Rus
STA is the only European
friend and ally the I'M
speakable Turk has. As
it was England in the old
days that prevented Rus
STA from making Turkey
behave, it is fitting that
British money should now
be buying back girls who
would never have been
molcsted if England had
minded her business.
Though he Turk
has been getting away
with murder all these CEN
turtles, it is quite probable
that at last he has gone
too far and that the end
is in sight. 1t is not that
his murders of inoffen-
sive people have been any
more numerous or out
rageous than usual but
the times are different.
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But no, this tortured soul endured it
five consecutive days without weakening
and then the missionaries, through con-
nivance of a mule driver, spirited the
girl away to the hospital at Mardih. In
this case the fendish sheik got no money,
for the five dollars went to the mule
driver, who was also Moslem and there
fore did an unholy thing when he rescued
her. This will count against him, he
knows, in the next world, but meanwhile
he has the money and before he dies he
hopes and expects to steal and sell to
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Branded
Victims
of the
Turks and
Kurds

TOR five dollars a
r. head an English mis-
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PLANS STAY
IN JAIL AS
DRINK CURE
Brothers Decide on Course
for Younger of Two After
Discussion.

My brother wants a policeman to
come out home and arrest him."
A 32-year-old man stated to Police
Lieutenant Leonard Forsythe at po-
lice headquarters, tears streaming
down his cheeks as he continued his
story.
1--WE talked it over-brother and l
and he decided that he wants to be
put in Jail for awhile so he can cure
himself Of the drink habit.
He is % years old and is a metal
flnisher. When he is sober he makes
from So to $12 a day. but he spends
it all on liquor. 1t seems that there
is no other way except this-to put
him In Jail, where he can't get it."
Lieutenant Forsythe advised the
man TO apply for an affidavit for
the brothers arrest, as police cannot
arrest a man drunk in his own home
unless he causes a disturbance.
Questioning disclosed the brother
had become addicted to liquor about
six years ago. He is single.
Visibly affected by the tangle of
emotions between brotherly love and
brotherly advice and duty. the
older man left police headquarters.
II come back tomorrow and get
the affidavit" he said. So far he has
not reappeared, however.
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FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY
John II. Evard, Head of Local
JeweIry Store, Died in Florida.

Funeral services for John r.
Evard, president of the John r.
Evard diamond and jewelry store,
here who died Monday at Miami,
Fla, will be held at II o'clock
Friday morning at the home Of his
son, Charles Richard f. Evard, 4351
Carrollton Ave, with burial in
Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr.. Evard for twenty-five years
was an employee Of julius C. Walk &
Son, jewellers, but had operated his
own business the last nineteen
years.
Surviving are the widow and IT, rec
daughters, Misses Josephine and
Stella Evard, and Mrs. Maurice
Jensen, all Of Indianapolis; four
sons, Harry w, George E. and
Richard F., OF this city and Thomas
G. Evard, Canton, Ohio, and a
brother, Charles A. Evard, Wash.
ington.
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the shoulder, with large open
sleeves. The collar Is plain, and on
it. The First Lady frequently pins
white rose, or a brilliantly con-
trastinR red one.
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such serious crimes as murder, arson
and attacks on women.
Is Well Armed

such serious crimes as murder, arson
and attacks on women.
Is Well Armed
The Russian gangster, If he doesn't
carry a revolver, is usually armed
with long knife or a club; and Is a
distinctly ugly customer to deal with,
especially If he is under the influence
Of the very strong brand of f1rewater
known as forty per cent vodka.
Two extreme cases of rowdyism
have aroused wide attention recent
ly. In Qharkov a drunken hoodlum
shot and killed a worker who triec
to put him out Of a club. And in
Leningrad, a gang of rowdies Grim
inally assaulted a girl student. The
Kharbov murderer was sentenced to
be shot and all appeals for clemency
were rejected The workers and en-
ployes In q number Of factories and
other institutions have signed petit
lions demanding the severest posi-
BILE punishment for the twenty mem
bers of the Leningrad gang who
have been arrested.
Mr.. A. Byelobrodov. Soviet Com
misar for Internal Affairs, produced
the following statistics to illustrate
the growth of disorderly conduct. In
Tver Province, there were LII cases
Of rowdyism during the last six
months, as against 327 during the
preceding period Of three months.
The figures for the same periods
show an increase from 251 to 754
cases in Voronezh Province and from
1854 to LA cases in Vladimir. One
hundred and seventy killed and 1872
wounded represent the casulty list
for nine months Of drunken holiday
celebrations in Cherepovetz Pro-
vince.
Drunkenness Is Cause
1.-THE root of hooliganism lies 80
per cent in drunkenness" declares
Mr.. Byelobodov, who urges the
Communist Youth, the association OF
two million young Communists In
Russia, to take a stronger stand
against drinking and especially to
combat the tendency which some Of
it's own members show to yield to the
temptations of alcohol. While there
seems to be no immediate prospect
of a repeal Of the decree which re-
stored the state sale and manufac-
ture Of the 40 per cent vodka, Bye
lobrodov recommends no stronger
measures against the sale Of liquor
outside the legal hours and also
against the manufacturers Of peas
ant homebrew or "samogon," which
continues to flourish in spite Of the
competition of the government
vodka
Byelobrodov, together with the
Russian chief of police. Mr.. Ser
gievsky, has worked out a series Of
legal and police measures which will,
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1t is hoped, put curb on the rowdies
and their activities. Stricter punish
ments are to be inflicted and the
courts are to be empowered to inflict
the death penalty in cases Of MUIR
der, arson and rape. Criminals are
not to be let off on suspended SEN
fences, except in very exceptional
cases.
In view Of the fact that the police
man often hesitates to shoot in en-
counters with lawbreakers because
he may injure the innocent bystand-
or, the police are to be armed with
Yabres. Citizens are also placed un-
der a legal obligation to come to the
assistance Of a policeman who may
need their aid in subduing criminals
With the adoption Of these and other
measures it is hoped to root out the
increasing rowdyism which has been
an unpleasant feature OF Russian
city and village life during the last
year.
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PLAN BENEFIT CONCERT
Presents for Children OF Sunday
School to Be Purchased.

Christmas presents for the 600
children who attend the Hassler Sun
day school will be purchased from
the proceeds Of a benefit concert to
be given next Saturday evening at
Cadle Tabernacle.
The E. V. Hoover orchestra, as
sisted by Mrs. William E. Duthie at
the pipe organ, will give the pro-
gram. The Rev. A. S. Hassler, who
conducts the school at 312 Z. WASH
ington St., points out that, children
attending 1t are outside the scope Of
agencies bringing Christmas cheer to
others and for that reason the con-
cert is most important to them.
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Nurses Advice
Rid Her of Pimples

~ Mrs. Minnie Fensterer, Brooklyn,
writes: my pimples and black
heads got. SO bad I feared it was
eczema. 1 confided in a nurse friend
Of mine. 1 had been troubled with
constipation and indigestion for
some time. She advised me to try
Carriers Little Liver Pills. You can
see by my picture that the treatment
has done wonders and 1 an now
free from constipation.
Chronic constipation many times
causes pimples. Carriers Little
Liver Pills encourage the bowels to
eliminate the poisons.
Druggists, 25 and 75c red packages.
Advertisement.
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SOVIET LAUNCHES
POLICE DRIVE TO
END CR|ME WAVE
D
Years RoWdyism Includes
Murder, Arson, Attacks
on Women.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MOSCOW, Nov. 3.-The rowdy
and the roughpeck will have harder
shedding in the future in Soviet
Russia If the far-reaching campaign
which is being launched against them
by the police authorities achieves the
desired results.
Rowdyism has been distinctly on
the increase in Russia during the
last year and has sometimes led to
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COOLIDGE RETIRES AT IL p. NJ.

WASHINGTON; Nov. 3.-Presi-
dent Coolidge went to bed at 1880
p. M, Tuesday night, after spend.
ing the first two hours after his
return from Northampton reading
United Press dispatches indicating
probably losses by his party.
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SHE GETS SMALLER HATS
Mrs. Coolidge Abandons Large Be
coming Headgear.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. a. Mrs.
Coolidge, known to women Of the
country for her large becoming hats.
has taken kindly to the small-hat
mode. She has several with high
full crowns.
One of her latest dresses is white
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A railway tunnel will be built soon
to connect the main island of Japan
with the southern island, Kyushui.
involving an undersea length Of
more than two miles,
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ensemble of fiat crepe and broadcloth.
The gown, which has a long bloused
bodice and a gathered short skirt is
made of the crepe, banded in the
broadcloth. Her coat Is full from