The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-02-13

| ~ smoked mp, sink Mohamme.
u@n'sml Between these outbreaks n,
massacre the Armenians suffer in Al.
renee wrongs that are seldom II ever
reported. They are taxed heavily for
.ne mere privilege Of living, and the tax
Is called THE humiliation tax" Tbev
are compelled TO give three days enter.
'a,n nentto any Mohammedan tramu
VINO may be passing that way. The
must pay blackmail to the assessor.
lest nc report the value OF their prop
erty too highly. Their evidence in
court ls OF no worth, and if SO Armen-
aans saw a wrong committed and one
hohammedan was present. the testi-
mony OF the one Mohammedan would
90 taken and the testimony Of the so
Armenians rejected; in other words.
the solemn oath of 1000 Armenians
would not be strong enough to over
throw the perjury of one Mohamme-
Dan. A professor was condemned to
death for translating the English Book
oil Common Prayer into Turkish. Sew
ehteen Armenians were sentenced to IS
years imprisonment for rescuinp a
Christian bride from the bandits. This
10 the way the Turkish government
amuses itself in time of peace These
are the delights of Turkish civiliza-
alton. But when the days of massacre
come, then deeds are done which NAV
not be unveiled in any refined assem-
blage, and If one speaks of the hor-
rors, be must do so in well.poised and
cautious vocabulary. Hundreds OF
villages destroyed Young men put in
piles OF brushwood, which are satur-
ated with kerosene and set on fire!
Mothers in the most solemn hour that
ever comes In woman's life, hurled
out and bayonetted! Eyes gouged out,
and dead and dying hurled into the
same pit! The slaughter of Lucknow
and Cawnpore, India, in 1857, eclipsed
in ghastliness! The worst scenes of the
French revolution in Paris made more
tolerable in contrast In many reg
ions OF Armenia the only under
mas Many of the chiefs of the massa-
ores were sent straight from Constan-
tinople to do their work, and, having
returned, were decorated by the sultan.
To four of the worst murderers the
sultan sent a silk banner, in delicate
of their services. Five
hundred thousand Armenians put TO
death or dying of starvation! This
while / speak, all up and
down Armenia sit many people freez-
ing in the ashes of their destroyed
homes, bereft Of most of their house
holds, and awaiting the club of assassi-
nation to put them out of their misery.
No wonder that the physicians Of that
region declared that among all the
men and women that were down with
wounds and sickness and under their
care not one wanted to get well. Re-
member that nearly all the reports that
nave come to US of the Turkish out
ages have been manipulated and mod |
fed and softened by the Turks them
selves. The story is not half told, or
/ hundredth part told, or a thousandth |
part told. Not but God and our SUI. |
ering brothers and sisters in that far |
IF land know the whole story, and it |
will not he known until, in the coro-
nations OF Heaven, Christ shall lift to |
special throne of glory these heroes |
nd these heroines, saying: "These
re they who came out of great |
and had their robes |
Washed and made white in the blood |
4 the lamb" My Lord and my |
or them. but Thou, surely, on Christ!
Wilt not forget how much they have
Uttered for Thee! dare not deal an
but / never so much en-
Dyed the inprecatory songs of David
S since ! have heard how those Turks
re treating the Armenians The fact
Turkey has got TO be divided up
mong other nations. OF course the
european nations must take the chief
art, but Turkey ought to be com
elled to pay America for the Amer
AN mission buildings and American
she has destroyed, aud to
lpport the wives and children Of the
mericans ruined by this wholesale
utchery. When the e English lion and
le Russian bear put their paws on
lat Turkey the American eagle ought
j, put in its bill. ~. ~ ..>@5.,.>4 t$sa2.z@
Who are these American and Eng
sh and Scotch missionaries who are
cling bounded among the mountains
| Armenia by the Mohammedans? /
lie noblest men and women this side
Heaven. Some OF them, men who
,ok the highest honors at Yale and
rinceton and Harvard and OXFORD
id Edinburgh. Some Of them women,
,ntlest and most ChristianlilSc, who,
save people they never saw, turned
leir backs on luxurious homes TO
,end their days in self-expatriation,
wing good-by &c father and mother,
I'd afterward good-by to their own