Connecticut western news., 1896-11-05
FROM CLARA BARTON.
SHE WRITES OF THE GOOD DONE BY
 THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.
Ph hysfcians Have Saved Thousands of Sick Armenians From Epidemics-The Poor Put In Position to Help Themselves by Means of Seed, Farming Tools, Etc.

Armenians From Epidemics-The Poor by Means of Seed, Farming Tools, Etc. Mrs. Eldridge Smith of Washington mas received letter, under date of June 1 23, from Constantinople, which gives a review of Clara Barton's work in Ar menia. The letter is as follows:
 "Almost six months have gone since I held your hand in mine and said the i hurried goodby that gave hardly time | to realize what was said. The surround ings have been all strange and new, and yet not hard to accommodate oneself to. We separated very soon after reaching | Constantinople, and l have only seen MT. Pullman, of my brave band of men, since they went out from me for the in- terior of Asia Minor so long sgo that l they climbed the mountains Of snow to get there. Now the hot sun of summer is scorching them, and they are trying to set poor, hungry people to work getting seed into the ground and ward off the worst hunger of another winter. They 1 have native men With them as inter preters, dragomans and general help Four expeditions of this kind have been in the field most of the time. Before the sickness was overcome there were five, two of them being medical.
 "I know you will be glad such good medical work has been done by us here. At one time we had from 12 to 15 doc tors, druggists and assistants in the field, where there were from s, 900 to 10, 900 people suffering and dying of four distinct epidemics - dysentery, smallpox, typhus and typhoid levers. When our physicians first entered the smitten cities of Zeitun and Marash, they reported to me 100 deaths per day. In six weeks those same physicians re- ported to me the sickness overcome and can be left safely in the hands of the two or three local doctors, who have re- covered from the levers and can take charge of all the sick, if we give them nourishment. You may be sure that VIC have done that, and there is no more sickness In those places than ordinary. They were so near starvation that the doctors had to feed them before they could keep any medicines upon thei1 stomachs, and after they really got hold of them and could separate them and get them into the air and give them some beds and make them clean they lost but one patient.
 ''It was the most marvellous case had ever heard of. I believe the record of our surgeon in charge there, Dr. Ira Harris of Tripoli, will become one o1 the most remarkable in the pages o. medical history. Dr. Hubbell tool charge of smaller field of epidemic' , in the city of Arabkir, where typhu' and dysentery were raging, with some typhoid. He went in when 80 a day were dying, with physician, nurse ant assistants. I think they lost but two O
 three patients, got the disease overcom' in few weeks, and the doctor and hi [ nurse and physician left their hospital 5 in charge of other people and went ol to new fields of agricultural help. The. are now in Malatia, providing seed , farming tools, clothing, food and sucl , medicine as is needed, trying to get tn
 people into a way of raising something
 for themselves before the winter. The,
 had ordered made and given hundred of spinning wheels and looms, bough l the raw cotton and given it to the wo r men, who have spun 1t into yarn, whicl
 they have passed over to the womel
 with their new looms, who have mad it into cloth and in turn given it to tn ' women who could cut it into garment s and make it up for the people, who ha ]. not seen a new article of clothing sine
 they went through their terrible scourg
 of last autumn. These wheels and loom
 will remain the property of these pee
 pie and be their means of livelihood an
 provide cloth for all the villages aroun
 them, as they used to do before they los their implements. This, my preciou
 sister, is just little sample of some c a the work that our men-my men an
 your men-are doing out ill Asia M
 nor.
 "They ought, in all humanity to tn @ sufferers, to remain with them. The a ought, ill humanity to themselves,
 come away. You see what terrible labc
 it is for them-labor not only for hand x and feet, but heads and hearts as wei ,. I cannot tell you when can draw thel
 off, but one day trust l can take thei
 across the great water again, back
 you and your glorious husband, who's II hearts I know wait and yearn to gree Is them. MT. Pullman is at this momeI
 far across town in old Stamboul, toilin
 over the rocky streets, wiping the pc l. spiration from his face, getting frol bank to Bible house and legation an :, consulate, with half dozen erranc y and a world of business that never le ]; him up for single hour. I will sen his love to you both, for great share