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Doctors SdllcVould Die n A Fri-ft iliiica Saws Life I "wish to apeak of the wonderful curs that I have reared from your noted Swamp-Root, the great kidney and blad der cure. Last n miner I was taken with severe' pains in my back and sides. I could not breathe -without difficulty and was nearly wild with the desire to urinate. Was compelled to do bo every ten min utes with the passage of pure blood with the urine. I tried all the different doc tors from far and near, but they said it was no use to doctor as I would die any way1. I, was at tlie end of my rope and was so misesablt with pain and the thought that I most die that words can not tell how I felt. One day a friend told me of the wonderful help she had received from Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. She gavo me one of your pimuphlets which I read and determined to try Swamp-Root. After taking half a bottle .1 felt better. Have now taken tea be tiles and am well as I ever was, thanks to Swamp-Root. I wish to. tell all suffering people that have kid ney, liver or bladder trouble, that Dr. Kil mer s Swamp-Root is the best medicine on the market. All persons doabtingthis statement can write to me and I will answer them di rectly. Tours very truly, CLYDE F. CAMERER, ff Rosalie, Wash. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of Jury, 1909. VERNE TOWNE, Notary Public. Letter to ttmrto I it , a. t. ntv uii Prove What SwaofOtoot Will Do For You Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, N. Y., lor a sample bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling all about the kidaoys and bladder. When writing, be sore a ad mention this paper. For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty cents and one-dollir. Maternal Instinct. Mrs. Rattle 1 am sure that is my baby with the pink ribbon over there. Mr. Cynic-T-How can you tell it so readily? Mrs. Rattle I can recognize it by my pet poodle the Tiurse has with her. THIS UTIM. IKTEItEST MOTHERS. 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Today it is of interest as a feature In the new life of awakened Turkey and as a rare field for the employment of American capital and the sale of American Roods. The commercial opportunities of new Turkey are em. bodied in the situation which is found here. If the new order in the empire is to succeed there will inevitably bo great changes in the life of the peo ple. Broadly speaking, the Asia Minor of today mirrors the times of the Bible There has been little change in two thousand years. Upon great threshing floors, open to the sky, hand-reaped grain is threshed by oxen and flails, and winnowed by 'tossing it into the air. Two women may still be seen grinding at a mill. Instead of hotels the wayside khans are of the type which the beautiful Bethlehem story has made familiar to the world. About the roadside wells the herdsmen still gather their flocks, and women with jars draw the water. It is all primi tive, pastoral, patriarchal. The next twenty-five years will transform the old order here, even as the like period of time has done in Japan. Why Americans Are Favored. Hitherto obligations and finances have gone hand in hand in Turkey's experience with foreigners. Conces sions have had diplomatic significance. Simon-pure business has been kept out of the country to make way for the promoter who is supported by the offi cialdom of some European govern ment. New Turkey is tired f this. She must have money for internal de velopment. Only by the inflow of for eign capital and modern foreign meth ods can the people be helped along the road which the government ha& planned for them. In their hour of need the officials are sincerely turn ing toward America for help. I have been told directly by more than one cabinet minister as well as by minor officials, that since American capital ists are not the forerunners of danger ous governmental policies, they are the most welcome in this country. The Bagdad Railway. ;The Bagdad railway is an illustra tion of how business and diplomacy go hand in hand. The concession- for this great highway has been secured by the Germans. It is a master stroke of policy. There is no exaggeration in declaring that this Bagdad railway is the most important bit of railway con struction now under way anywhere on earth. It may be looked upon from several angles. Some persons see this line stretched from Berlin to Bagdad a3 a .mailed fist shown in the face of India. Others regard it as an out stretched hand for the golden com merce of the far east. Others see in it only peril to the British and Rus sian influence in Persia. The ordinary business man, who does not meddle with politics, is con tent to note that it opens up, the fer tile plains of the Tigris and Euphrates to the German trader. Construction has already proceeded to Burgulu and before this winter is over it will be in operation well into the foot-hills of the Taurus mountains. There, engineering difficulties will hold it for a few years but the Cilician end of the line is also being built. The maps of tomorrow will not ignore this new route over the most ancient highways of the world. But the railway is practically polit ical, Germany says that if New Tur key increases her taxes, as she means to do, the money must be applied to the building, of the Bagdad railway. Great Britain and Russia declare that" the taxes may not be raised if they are to be used for any such purpose. Between the contending forces of di plomacy, poor Turkey is held at a standstill. Small wonder that she has looked" favorably thus far upon the Chester railway project which is designed to open the eastern end of Asia Minor. This, however, is not yet through, for the sinuosities of diplo macy at Constantinople have twined themselves about many another prom ising enterprise to throttle it to death. Business and Reform. Apart from the question of mines and railways, and these other larger affairs which are roughly grouped as concessions, there remain smaller en terprises which otter no difficulties to the American business man. Perhaps I can best explain these by quoting a long conversation which I had with the Vali of the Vilayet of Adana a pro gressive young Turk who was put in by the Reform government after the massacres to rule this troubled terri tory by an iron hand. Djemal Bey is. an enlightened Turk of the new order, liberal in his opin ions, intensely patriotic yet sensible in the pursuit of reforms. He has re quired compulsory education for all children between 7 and 14 years of age. He has forbidden loafing in the Coffee Houses before the middle of the afternoon and he has undertaken to close out the gambling which has become an increasing menace to the life of Turkey. I freely translate the message which he desired me to con vey to the American business men. A Governor's Invitation. "This district alone, needs an in vestment of fiye hundred million francs of foreign capital. We are now having drawn specifications of a vast irrigation project for this great Cili cian plain. I shall, be glad to let you have, and to send to any interested and responsible persons in America, detailed information such as would be necessary to make bids. Americans are familiar with irrigation work and skilled in this department of engineer ing; so we should be very glad to have responsible firms seek this contract and I could assure them that there will be ho difficulty about the neces sary government concession. "Here in the city of Adana we need to instal an electric lighting plant, a tramway system, a water system, a telephone system, and a sewage sys tem. All these public utilities are open to foreign capital with a good return and abundant security assured. "Not only will Adana, which has sixty thousand inhabitants, grow to a much larger city, with the advent of the Bagdad railway and the develop ment of our agricultural and cotton industry, but to the east of us on the Cilician plain there should be another city. It is bound to come. With it will come all kinds of opportunities for capital. I should be glad if you would extend this invitation to interested Americans. "In the way of general trade, thert is an almost unlimited field here. For a few years past we have imported every year a number of modern agri cultural machines, costing as high as $15,000 a'piece. 'These came from Eng land, yet we know that America is the home of modern harvest machin ery. Why do not your manufacturers send out agents into all this agricul tural country, or secure native agents in order to promote their business." The governor went on to talk of the changed order which brings in the new fashions of the western style, making a market for American shoes, American collars and neckties, Ameri can clothes, American tools and many of the accessories of western life. The general commission merchant should do as thriving a business as the capi talist in these regions where once the Persians and Greeks and Romans and Crusaders and Arabs fought historic battles. . ' Where Americans Blush For the Flag. Levantines are keener to see the advantages of trading out here as Americans than are Americans them selves. There have opened In this country some schemes which Ameri cans resident in this part of the world Type of Train Used think call for vigorous investigation by the 'government The flag is fly ing over enterprises which are not conducted in American fashion, and which bring into disrepute the good name of the nation. Most conspicuous among these, and of especial interest to Americans just now, because of the shipping subsidy agitation is an "American Line" of steamers which run to Mediterranean ports, flying the American flag. It cer tainly looks good to an American to see the Stars and Stripes flying on the stern of a vessel of some kind until he examines the kind of vessel and the story behind it The Ameri can Line has a fleet of nearly a dozen ships, bearing names of states. I know most about the "New Jersey," for on her I made a never-to-be-repeated voy age across the Mediterranean. As far as I can gather from various sources, the company which owns the ships nominally has the ,majority of its stock In the hands of a Greek mer chant of Smyrna, who went to Amer ica and became a naturalized citizen, and returned here for the purpose .of getting the advantages of American citizenship. .He is the nominal chief stockholder in the American Line, in an ice' company and a cinemetograph show, and other enterprises that are opening under the American flag American protection releases them from all obligation? to the Turkish law. By reason of the capitulations in force here every American enterprise is free from Turkish supervision and an unscrupulous person. or persons, as may readily be seen, can greatly abus the rights of American citizenship. What the Flag Covers. In the case of this "American Line," which is a scandal throughout the Le vant, the company ostensibly secured American registration about a year ago in order to escape the Turkish law whereby its ships could be used for the transport of troops. Critics say that this is the same company that previously ran the ships, but simply under another and an American name. They fly the flag over their offices and over the ships; but I venture to say that there are not five persons in the whole outfit who could tell whether Grover Cleveland was a brand of po tato or the president of the United States.. They use the American shield on the dress uniform of the ship's" ofB cers, but they have distorted it so" that the blue field is larger than the red and white stripes and instead of hav ing the field filled with stars, there ap pears upon It the white Greek cross. Most of the men In the company are! Greeks and thus they are flying the Greek flag in defiance of all responsi bility. They escape ail the taxec that they would have to pay to the Turkish government nor are they sub ject to inspection by any Turkish of flcial. Cattle In Passengers' Places. It would be well if they were. When I went aboard the "New Jersey" she was loaded with cargo and well down to the water line. Then there were later taken on 1,500 sheep; and goats, lifted aboard in bunches by their hind legs, and thrown scrambling upon th decks. These were given the space that ordinarily goes to second class and deck passengers. They were crowded in so that there was not room to walk among them. Incidental-, they were not given food or water in the 36 hours that I knew them to be aboard. Thirty-one head of cattle were also driven on to the upper deck. A car load of melons were piled high among the life boats. Over and beyond all these, spraw ling wherever they could make a space, -were two hundred deck passen gers, chiefly pilgrims to Mecca whose prayers and pistols made them even more picturesque than the goats. I could not find a life preserver on the boat, though I searched. As for the life boats, some of them were occu pied by the pilgrims' who conducted their household arrangements therein. Passengers on the Bridge. The advent of a first class passen ger on this line was evidently unusual. Absolutely no space is provided on deck for first class passengers but I was invited to share the captain's bridge. It Is no exaggeration to stat that the filth os deck was from halt an inch to two inches thick. On the bridge I was often left in undisputed possession, no officer being present. A horribly dirty Greek stood at the wheel. I could not find any sign of captain's license, pilot's license or any other of ficial papers on the boat In the cabin there is a handsome ikon before which burns a light. Nobody on the boat speaks English, except one mate who appeared near the end of the voyage and was able to ask to have his pic ture taken. . And that is the "American Line. Its use of the flag could have been made possible only by some sort of official dereliction or connivance. The government cannot too quickly take on Bagdad Railway. cognizance of this shameful condi tion; for, unless I am sadly mistaken, the Plimsoll mark of the boat on which I rode was far under water and one of these fine days there will be a horrible accident to the world wide shame of the American flag. At this critical time there is danger that such abuses of the American name may injure the future of Ameri can capital even as the infamous American railway concession in China brought the nation into a disrepute there from which it has only of late been recovering. America asks noth ing of Turkey except opportunity to do legitimate business, and to be good neighbors. The American government should be at pains to see that all American representatives shall be worthy of the flag that they fly. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Another Blow at the Novelist. Is it' well to marry the woman you rescue from drowning? the New York Evening Mail asks. The suit for di vorce for "incompatibility of tempera ment," mea at Keno oy a woman whom her husband had plucked from the sea at Asbury Park six years be fore, intimates that it is not well, But wnereiorer me reasons are I triple: (1) People do not like to live in constant presence of some one to whom they are under so heavy debt. (2) Lifelong content in double har ness should rest on congenial tem peraments, not on some romantic stunt. (3) Such marriages are usual ly between the summer man and the summer girl, and therefore do not envisage life's realities. Then Pa Grew Reflective. The Smiths had Invited a guest to dinner. As the last course was reached little Willie, who had been closely watching the guest almost con tinually during the meal, looked over at him once more and said: You haven't changed a bit since you started eating, have you, Mr. Cur tis?" "Why, no," laughed the visitor. "Why do you ask that question?" "Because," .blurted out Willie, con fused by a pair of eyes focused on him, "because I heard pa say you'd make a big hog of yourself as soon as you got your eyes on the beef. SI Types of the GhritianLife By Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, Chicago TEXT-r-Jesus loved Martha and her sis ter and Lazarus. John 11:5. Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved them all. Yet he loved each of them, Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Each of them has a place in his heart. Yet they are so different. Jesus does not ask for monotony, but variety in -his kingdom. The kingdom of grace is like the king dom of nature. No two varieties are alike. In my Father's-, house are many mansions. One family, but many mem bers. One home, but many hearts. That was the revelation of God's character in the Old Testament. He was the son ot Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob. How different they were. Abraham the faithful, the consecra ted, the pathfinder. Isaac the lacka daisical, the indifferent, the father of an illustrious son, the son of an illus trious father. Jacob the Jew crafty and cunning, yet tender-hearted and visionary, and God was the father of each and yet loved them all. The fault with us is we want reli gion to level human nature at a dead uniformity, and we think Christians should all be conformed to our type, forgetting that Christ is the universal type so universal that we may all be unike each other and yet all be like him. It is the fault that belongs to our education. We grind all our chil dren through the same mill. Black and white," delicate and robust, bril liant and dunderhead, they must all submit to the same polishing process. It is the fault of our church system. also. We want to level down the whole congregation to our own miserable level. We think Christ has conceived in us the true conception of the saint. There is the Sunday school type and the Christian Endeavor type and the prayer meeting type. There is the el der type and the trustee type. The W. C. T. U. type and the Y. M. C. A. type. The temperance type and the mission ary type. Therejs" the Presbyterian and the Methodist. 'and' the Baptist type. The Mary and the Martha and the Lazarus type. But the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind, and all may be included in his all embracing love. Let us remember that Jesus loved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Mary the passive, Martha the active, and Lazarus the patient. Mary satisfied to be. Martha to do. Lazarus to do without. Mary the waiter. Martha the worker. Lazarus the watcher. Mary content to sit. Martha content to serve. Lazarus content to suffer. And Jesus loved each and he loved all. Jesus loved Martha. That is what ; . the record says. The active, busy servy ing Christian Martha. She is in tip majority today and is greatly in je mand. Sometimes she is apt to think she Is the only one whom the Lord loves. She has much Scrinture to quote in favor of her disposition and she has the authority of great men who favor the strenuous life. What doth, the Lord require of thee but to dp justly and to love mercy. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the father less and widows in their affliction. "Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only." Martha is everywhere respected and honored today because she does things. She Is the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the church services, the missionary society, the ladies' aid. She is cooking, praying, sewing, visit ing, collecting for the kingdom of God, until when night comes she falls asleep too tired to say, her prayers Avid Tahmh 1 . a " r i i ... nuu .ics us loveu manna. And we must love her too. A religion that finds its joy in service and in conse crated activity is apt to be a moral power. A religion, that finds God nearer in moments of sentiment . or musical ecstasy, instead of in mo ments of moral endeavor, is extreme ly dangerous. Jesus loved Martha. Jesus loved Mary. Mary the quiet. retiring sister who sut at his feet Mary's claim to recognition came, from being willing to wait upon his words. sne is iiKe tne beautiful picture through which you look, into the great far beyond. She Is like whispering music singing comfort into troubled hearts. , In a world of sin and turmoil Mary sat In the confidence of a beautiful trust. She was like . another beauti ful girl upon whose tombstone her friends carved the words: "It was easier to be good when she was with us." That was Mary's tribute. "What Interests the world in Mr. Gladstone, writes John Morley, "is even more what he was than what he did." What Interests the world in Jesus is not so much his beautiful teaching as his more, beautiful life. . It was a hard' lesson for Elijah to learn. He was the child of the storm and the tempest. He l'4 In veforaa tlons and revolutions "Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake m pieces the racks before Je hovah." . My dear friends, lot us not take away from the boundless power the love of God. He leved Mary and Martha and Lazarus. AH with their differences. And they all loved him. Mary sits . at his feel.. Martha" hur ries to supply his wants. And Lazarus 13 content to glorify him with his radiant resurrection glory. Yith all our differences and misunderstand ings and selfishness w love him End acn in turn is loved by him. YEAISOF MISERY All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Sikeston, Mo. "For seven? years I suffered everything, l .was in bed ror iour or iiv aays at a tin every month, ana so weak: I could hardly walk. I cramped and had backache and head ache, and was so nervous and weak that I dreaded to see anyone or liave anyone move in the room. The doctors gave me medicine to ease me at those imes. and said that I ought to have an operation. I would not listen to tht, and when a friend of my husband told him about Lydia E. Pmkham's Vege table Compouna ana wnat it naa aone for his wife, I was willing to take it. Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do my own house-' work, hoe my garden, and milk a co w. can entertain company ana enjoy them. I can visit when I choose, and walk as far as any ordinary woman, any day in the month. I wish I could talk toevery sufferingwoman andgirl." Mrs. Dema Bethitne, Sikeston, Mo.' The most successful remedy m this cormtrv for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Pink- ham's vegetable Compouna. Itis more widely and successfully used than any other remedy. It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, in flammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had failed. Why don't you try it? I Care Dropsy of Any Kind Curable Address DR. JOHN T. PATTERSON Dropsy Specialist 18 Waddell Street, Atlanta, Ga. Settled Them. "I've a sight o' sons thirteen alto gether," remarked a prosperous old farmer, "and all of 'em's done me credit save the three eldest, who sowed wild oats at a pretty rapid rate, and then came home and saddled my shoulders with the harvest. "Well, I own I was glad to see 'em back, and I feasted 'em, and petted 'em, and set 'em on their legs again, only to see 'em skedaddle off afresh . when things had slowed down, with 1 the cash they could lay hands on. JfThat . thereabouts sickened me, so I ailed the rest of 'em together and Sd: " 'There's ten of youfleft, and if any of you 'ud like to follow t'other, three I won't try to stop you. But, under- ' stand thisthough there may be a few more prodigal sons, there'll be no more fatted calves. I've killed the last of 'em!' ... : "AndY' continued the old man, tri umphantly, "I've had trouble wi' none of 'em since!" Exactly. ' ' Noting that another piece of valu able china has been broken. Sena tor Allen asked his housekeeper how the breakage occurred, and she hast ily replied: . "It fell down and just broke itself."" "Merely an automatic brake," quiet ly commented the senator. Sensitive. "You don't like educated Indians!" "Oh, yes, I like them Well enough, but I always feel a sense of shame when I meet one. He knows that my an cestors cheated his ancestors out of their land, and he knows that I know he knows it." . Extravagant. Ada Cholly Saphedde was in a brown study the other day, and I of fered him a penny for his thoughts. Edith You spendthrift! You never did know the value of money! To The Last Mouthful one , enjoys a bowl of crisp, delightful with cream or stewed fruit or both. Some people make an entire breakfast out of this combination. Try it! The Memory Lingers Sold by Grocers Postum Cereal Company, Ltd. Battle CreekV NfichrU sX Post ' Toasties