The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-24

Erzeroum, IN the valley once occupied
by lake, the city whoss strsets ran
more than once with the blood of count
less victims; Vagharshahad, built by
King Erovand l., 600 years before our
ira, and now shrunk Up to the dimen
SONS OF the solitary monastery of
Fitch isdzin, the residence Of the Cathu-
cs OF all Armenia; Kemak. whose walls
show the style Of Architecture no, sren
anywhere else in the world; Armavir,
formerly the residence OF Armenian
kines. where the holy plane tree grew,
the rustic OF wncse leaves was the la:-
euag of the COTS of oil to maze known
their behests to men OF goo Twill; ERin,
IN deer valley of the Euphrates sur
rounded by mountains 1000 feet high,
whose Slopes are cover d with gardens of
su h beauty that they would have
R!addened the heart of Hahz himself;
and finally Van amidst a scenery of
grandeur which sent the great Semiranis
into ecstacies. and which she forthwith
EN- bodied in Architectural fancies not de-
ciph red as yet-remainlng there like
awful spells destined perhaps to save the
human race from second deluge or a
universal coIfiagration-that Van, with
its lake OF bitter salt water nearly 5000
feet above the sea level, with its citadel
on a DIZZY summit OF an immense rock
ole OF the wonders in the world, with
Its bursts and groves that subdue into
soit twilight the glare of the m dday sun,
and with rugged Suoban Dagh on whose
crest Noah and his com panic are said
10 have rested after their six-w.eks' So
OF Armenia, and whithersoever We turn
our steps from tito the north, south,
east or west, the ground we tread is holy.
1, is history--strstifed.
4 r 4
seArmenians were an ancient people be-
fore tue Slav or the Engllsbman. the Ger.
man or the French was dresmt OF.
Tn ethnoiogist Is sui in doubt as to
which branch of thu great Indo-Eu.o.
pean family the Armenian people belong:
the phiiploglst has not yet classified
th-ir iangua .e; the antiquarian knows
next to nothing of their early history.
Ihe Amen ans proper call themselves
Haiks, from traditional ancestor, Haic
or Haicus. VIII m they represent as the
son of logurmah, who was great grand
son OF Noah, Through the line of JapGeth
and Conner. from his sou Arm. ensg,
or from Arsm. the seventh son OF the
dynasty, the name OF the county took
place. Before the Persians established
their sovereignty over the conutry 1t
seems certain That from one quarter or
another Armenia had been ArIanized;
tho old luranian charaote, hau passed
away from 1t; immigrants mad Tucked IN,
ana new People had been formeI-thc
real Armerlans of later times, and indeed
OF the present day. for TINS interesting
people has maintained itself uncha nged
from the times of the early Persian kings
till the present day. They raised the
standard OF rebellion gainst Darius Hy-
staspes, and H. himself informs us III
his longest arrow headed ipscripti n
what endless trouble it cost him to drive
them 5sck to their allegiance. Among
the bravest of the troops of Xerxes in
Greece were Armenian warriors who
served faithfully the starred monarch.
They submitted ID Alexander OF Mace
don, and afterwards they fell under the
yoke OF the Sclauoidae nut gained indie
pendercs about 3. q. 100. Under the in
tuence of Parthia, a branch OF the Par
THAN no! family, the Arsaciis, was
ubs' qusntly placed on the throne, and
thus national dynasty established,
which reigned for nearly 600 years. The
fourth and greatest of These kings, Ii
cranes, ruled with a rod or iron over
syria, Phneniuia. Ci!icia. Galatia, etc.
6anspl.atlng whsle esiontss VI Grssh