The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-03
WINNING THEIR WAY.

The Work Of Christian Relief In rIosIeu
Territory Performed by toe Noble Bes
er"ss Interesting Extracts from u Let
ter from Mtss Clara carton Tho Worl
OF the society aud the Lattcr's CordiA
Reception.
WASHINGTON, June IS. Miss Glars
Barton, who has charge of the Red
Cross relief work in Armenia. write,
an interesting letter 10 a friend in thi,
city under date Of Coustantinople
June 10. from which the following ex
cer-'s are taken:
we hear either by letter or dis
patch nearly every day from one or
the other Of our expeditions in the in
terror, and the news they send in Is
always good. No i'll fortune has be-
fallen any of them and they are sue
ceeding in all they attempt A dis
patch in Turkish received ten minutes
ago from DIR. Hubbell, at Arabkir states
that the fevers are disappearing day by
day, which means that he has sue
ceeded in bringing to a successful
close a field of contagious fevers that
gave hundred cases a day for treat
meht and Ave to twenty deaths at the
time of his taking it up. There are
no deaths now and few or no cases.
A. l have stated before. the other
great field of sickness, Zeitoun and
Marash, has been successfully closed,
the physicians released and gone To
their homes, and it only remains for
us to feed the convalescents. have
never known in all my experience
with places where contagious diseases
had settled in, so radical and success
ful treatment and termination as
these fields have presented.
I'VE heard from Mr. Wood dav or
TWO ago the most successful and
cheering notes. He is buying cattle,
plows, farming tools of various kinds;
having spinning wheels and looms
manufactured, providing cotton to be
spun into thread, woven into cloth,
cut and made intogarments, and when
hnsshed, given to the sick and, needy.
Mr.. Wistar has been doing the same
with marked success. DR.. Hubbell
will leave Arabkir in few days to re-
turn to Malatia. where, il you remem-
Der, he passed few days on his way |
to Harpoot, and left with the inten-
lion OF returning. The need was too
Imperative and the conditions too
dreadful to admit of his leaving it
without further help.
II can imagine something of the
'hange that will take place in that
iesolate city If Dr. Hubbell and his
rained corps of assistants STAY there
or eight or ten days.
Mr. Wood thinks that I. 900 oxen
re needed in the 40 northern villages
4 Harpoot. We hope to he able TO
ouble this number. to make ready for
he fall sowing of grain and the yege.
ables needed for next winter.
Il am glad to report that no oh.
tructions are placed in the way of
ur men and that they are regarded ,
ith favor and respect bv all parties
nd persons wirh whom they come in /,
,ntact. Physicians are few in these
,gions and medical skill at very
wv ebb. and DIR. Hubbell aud his ,
'edical assistants have been called
pom to treat in the families of
ost of the officials since leav.
" Alexandrctta. Their presence
as been great comfort to the mis-
stationed at the various
'ints, most of whom had seen no Wis
ors since the massacres. The CO.
'eration and assistance has been /.
utual and most heartily We hear
lily kind words and blessings on every
lie. The government has neglected
opportunity of doing favors which /
as asked of it, both kindly and n
omptly. With the exception OF poor n
RS. Mason, the health of every one d
us has been excellent Z,
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