Show RAILROADS IN THE HOLY LAND Schemes That Will Soon Rob Palestine of Sacred Associations Jerusalem the railroad center of Palestine Pales-tine Tho words have an unnatural sound to most people as with the mention of Jerusalem Jeru-salem and Palestine is generally associated some fact ot sacred history or the events of the crusades in the middle ages But since Baron Rothschild has begun to carry out his gigantic colonization schemes Palestine has experienced an awakening the holy city has found itself moved by tho mighty machine of progress and destiny once predicted for Jerusalem by Napoleon seems not impossible of accomplishment The Corsicans prediction was that Jerusalem Jeru-salem would one day be the capital of the world The last few months have worked a great change in the city so long regarded as having few attractions beyond Its religious reli-gious and historical associations A letter just received by Professor A J Marks of this city from the Rev A E Davis a woman missionary who has spent cloven years of her life in Jerusalem gives a striking picture of the changes now underway under-way says tho Chicago News Palestine says the writer under date otAug 16 will soon assume an appearance appear-ance truly European Its principal cities are fast being connected by modern railroads rail-roads and before long the toot of the American locomotive whistle so familiar to your readers ears and yet so novel to the native Syrian vill be heard every hour in Jerusalem which will be the railroad center PIERCED BT ItAILltOADS OUr Joppa railway is about finished connecting us directly with the Mediterranean Mediterra-nean coast A branch line is contemPlated to Hiafeo and one to tho Jordan The passenger pas-senger depot has just been completed To look at it one hardly realizes that he is stilt in Jerusalemit is so thoroughly modern The freight house is in course of erection In seven days from now the first train will be run from Joppa and we are arranging for a celebration of the event which is of no small import to us kiThe AkkaDamascus railway is pro greasing rapidly Starting atthe great fortress of Aero it will run down the plain of Acre along the coast of the Mediterranean Mediterra-nean and branch out to Hiafee Thence across the fanned plain of Es dracion with tho hills of Galilee to the north and passing near Nazareth the road reaches the Jordan by way of Shunem or Jarred At this points the banks of the Jordan are of solid rock and in the center of the stream stands a natural pier of tho same material From this pier east and west will be erected suspension spans connecting con-necting the west bank of the river with the dopes of the Jaulan plateau on the east The road will extend from the Jordan over I tho slope of this plateau and along the crest I overlooking and inclosing the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee Reaching the plateau proper near Elnll and thence north to Damascus direct it passes through the most fertile and beautiful plains of Palestine Pales-tine WONDERFUL CHANGES An English company has mapped out a road to connect Damascus on the north with Gaza in the extreme southwestern portion of Palestine in tho plain of Phil istria The distance is almost two hundred miles It will be seen that ere long oar little I country will bo covered with a network of railways In the last few months a j wonderful change has been wrought in the city of Jerusalem Several hundred I new buildings have been erected including in-cluding residences shops hotels and I hospitals The old residents are all surprised sur-prised and know not what to think of it because there does not seem bust alias enough to warrant all this expense The reason for this outlay and building activity is to be found In Baron Roth shildf purchase lately of a tract of land comprising some thousands of acres ease of the river Jordan and near the Damascus railway This year ho will send lOUO Jewish families to the traot Near Acre he has also purchased a large tract on which ho will locate three large colonies COLONIZATION BECI0N About three weeks ago the baron gained control of this land by pnyincr what ho calls hand money to the owner of tho plain of Esdraelon By this he has bound himself never to sell the plain to anyone but Jews At present the Turkish government refuses to allow the Jews it deed to the plain However How-ever it is expected tho governments consent con-sent will soon be gainedto the transaction It is only recently that the restrictions preventing the Jews coming to Palestine have been removed A number of his colonists will be located lo-cated in the bouses being built for them in this city A Mr Scheick has been given a contract to build houses along the lino of the Joppa read for some miles A large institution xis under construction which will be dedicated for tho USe of the Jews having no ono to care for them Houses for the accommodation of 100 families will be built on the Bethlehem road near the depot I f jtJ i i 1 Dyspepsia and Heart Disease There are few things in life said an experienced physician to which many men and women cling more persistently than to the Idea that there is something the matter with the heart They have a little palpitation a little fluttering or a little distress and straightway they are frightened fright-ened and imagine that they have some form of heart disease and inninetynine case3 out of a hundred there is no more uso in reasoning with them than there is in whistling at the wind Tell them taat they simply have dyspepsia dys-pepsia or some form of indigestion and they are es indignant as you can imagine The idea that they should have anything so common aa dyspepsia And do you know it took me a good many years to make up my mind why it is that people are so unwilling un-willing to admit that they have indigestion indiges-tion and the most unwilling are those who are very fond of the good things of life It Is the good feeders who think they have heart disease and are angry when they aro contradicted Indigestion suggests a cutting cut-ting off of some of the delicacies of which they are fond and of whatever else you deprive them never meddle with their diet I think it perfectly safe to assert that out of a thousand persons who aro certain that they have an organic disease of the heart nine hundred and ninetynine have some form of gastric difficulty It may be I more or less obscureindeed it often is but all the same its there and that is the cause of the trouble Indigestion or dyspepsia dys-pepsia with Its many variations is an awfully common ordinary disease There isnt anything very highsounding or dignified digni-fied about it I I had a patient once who by no process 1 of reasoning could be made to believe that he had any disturbance of the digestive apparatus ap-paratus As long as I called it by any of tho ordinary names he was irratible and disagreeable about it as a really amiable and goodnatured man could be Ono day ho stumbled across a term in something ho was reading and when next be came to me his face was beaming with delight lie had just found I out what ailed him and when I agreed with him he was simply overjoyed He bad a good deal of sharp pain in the region of I the digestive apparatus and when he made up his mind that he bad pneumogastrlo neuralgia no was perfectly willing to be treated for that or any other disease I saw fit to give him medicine for provided I calledhis trouble by that name So It is with quantities of these heart disease patients They will take anything just as long as they think it is absolutely necessary on account of the condition of their heart and so while it goes very much against the grain to do it I sometimes some-times indulge these whimsical people in the idea that their hearts are out of gear It is the only way I can help them and it doesnt seem to matter after all I suppose we all have our weaknesses and whether we think it heart disease or anything any-thing else we all like to be indulged |