Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-26

him of me1oyN In .os,, -----1l --. next with the bloody wrist and forcing it be- tween his quivering lips. They then hacked off his other hand and ordered him to make the sign of the cross with the bleeding stunps and offered him pen and paper to write to his wife upon Some of them tore off his ears and thrust them between his lips, then flung them into his face. Then they proceeded to knock out his teeth and cut out his tongue, jokingly remarking, "He will never blaspheme againl' Then they gouged out one eye at a time, cut off his feet, and in the intoxication of furious fanaticism these Momhammedan demons exhausted their ingenuity ill excruciat- ing tortures before some one cut his throat to send his soul to damnation, ;" as they declared.
 In Erzefum an Armenian father, fearing for his children playing in the street, tried to rescue them, but was borne down by the mob, and pleading for mercy was mockingIy promised it by the ringleader.
 He was then stripped and 8 piece of flesh cut from his body and offered at auction as dog meat!7 dirt cheapt" to the delight of the crowd, and as he writhed and cried ill agony some one poured vinegar and acid into his gaping wounds.
 While he piteously pleaded and prayed to be put out of his misery, two little boys came running to him, the elder crying, "Father, father save mel" as the blood streamed over his beautiful face, and the younger clung to q little wooden icy.
 The father frantically grasped at the dagger of a Turk, but this only increased his to11nents The bleeding boy was dashed upon his dying father and both pounded to death before the little Swear old brother
 As he sat there dazed and dabbled the toy i'll the blood of his dying father and brother lie smiled at their murderers and sobbed over their mangled remains till a saber slash cut short his little life and the mother was left
 Here, again, we must halt and leave such stories for the fiends of hell to gloat over and 10 tell, but present one picture as a type of many, though 1t may not be so pitiful or awful as thou sands of others are.
 An Armenian family of wealth and refinement, residing ill Khort, had been robbed of all and their home destroyed. The father was working ill the fields to keep his family from famishing. One day the mother was taking bread to him at midday with the child The Kurds caught her and outraged her before her boy. When she complained to the off cials, she was brutally beaten, knocked down and kicked out. Then her husband was killed, and the mother was a home less, friendless wanderer, with her sick and dying child clinging to her haggard form, ghastly glimpse of Armenia to- day.
 But it is utterly impossible to picture such scenes as have been the common lot of the girls of Armenia, guarded as carefully as they could be from the brutal lust of Kurd and Turk, till, at last blooming into the beauty of pure, Christian womanhood, one after the other is taken till thousands upon thou sands are torn from fathers and mothers and friends, being violated frequently before their eyes, then carried away captive to live as slaves of lust till the Turk tires of them, and then slain or sold, or, diseased, turned loose to live or driven out to die and be damned. y
 Before these massacres began it was the common thing for Kurd or Turk to go to Christian home and take all that he wanted including women and girls, as well as cattle.
 A Kurdish chief who was officially charged by the British consul at Er- zerum for fiendish cruelty on helpless victims was not only unpunished, but rewarded by promotion.
 It was proved that in one case, for in- stance, he had attacked the home of beautiful girl whom he was determined to take, but she was hidden from him. Failing to find her, he seized her little brother and tortured him till his terrible screams were too much for the tender, loving sisters heart, and she gave her. felf up Her doom was a life of degra- Sation worse than death.
 The imperial government at Constan-