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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08

him till his terrible screams were too
much for his tender, loving sisters
heart, and she gave herself up. Her
doom was a life of degradation worse
than death.
The Imperial government at Con-
stantinople had his case with number
less charges of outrages against him.
pressed upon ii, but instead OF pun
ishing, promoted him. Such Is Mo
halnmedan manhood and mercy, that
they reward such wretches with
honor this being but a common ease
under the regular Turkish rule.
The governments of Europe are
fully aware of this state of affairs, as
their Consular reports contain in
Vulnerable Instances confirming the
fact.
For selfish interests, they have sup
pressed these terrible truths from
their people and are still doing so as
FAR as is i'll their power.
TO prove that this picture is not
over-drawn, and that the statements
herein made are not too strong. The
following facts and figures are taken
from the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Twenty Millions Gone.

Their nation. which has a marvellous
vitality. has been d~eceminated from
twenty-five millions TO only about foui
millions all told today. and ii is likely
TO be exterminated by the present Euro.
pean policy. 1t was in 216 thai the Ar
m"nian nation accepted of Christianity
as the national religion. and cver since il
has stood on guard between the new civ
ilization of the west and eastern heath
enism.
Like a rock. it has remained firm, amid
the shock OF ages. and still stand at the
gateway of the Orient and the occideni
the u~nfailing witness; to the truth sur
rounded by tyranny and falsehood.
The tides of heatlcniam and Moham-
medan fanaticism have broker against
and gone over it, but still it stands storm
swept. blood stained, the home of the
martyrs and the truth. today.
Before Mohammed was born, Turk or
Tartar dreamed of, it fought the battles
OF the truth and turned back the tide of
dirk superstition which threatened to
oVerrun the Western world.
II. II. VAN METER.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08

was attached to 1t. and became a part OF
The Treaty of Paris" between Turkey
and the powers of Europe: MY Sublime
Porte will axe energetic measures to in
sure to Zach sect, whatever be the num-
Der of its adherents, entire freedom in
the exercise of its religion. Every dis
t~inction or designation tending to max.
any class whatever of the subjects of my
empire inferior to another class, on ac-
count of their religion, language or race,
shall he forever e1faeed from the admin
istfation Protocol"
AS all forms of religion are and shall
be freely professed in my domains, no
subject of my empire shall be hindered in
the exercise of the religion that he pro-
fesses, nor shall be in any way annoyed
On this account M one shall be COM
neIled TO nhange th.ir %religion.n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Broken Treaty Of Berlin.

Not only so. but in violation of the
treaty of Berlin of 1878. which is signed
not lone by Turkey. but also by Austria.
England. France. Germany. Italy and
Russia as wen guaranteeing Armenia
protection. The 6lst article of this treaty
reads thus-unequivocally:
The Sublime Porte undertakes to car
rs out. without further delay. the amelio-
~rations and reforms demanded by local
requirements in the various provinces in
habited by the Arinenians. ana to guar
antec their security against the Circas-
slams and the kurds. 1t will make known
periodically the steps taken to this Ell
feet 10 the powers, who will superintend
fh.in LD1finnt ian =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Turkish Statistics For Seven Districts

only, with estimated losses for two
months only from September 80 10
November 30, 1855: Armenian popu-
lation in large towns. III, 200; reduced
to starvation, about 5000; killed, ac-
cording to estimates, 5000; number OF
Armenian villages formerly, 1890;
number OF Armenian villages de-
stroyed. 22.500; Armenians living in
villages formerly 53S. 500. reduced to
starvation. $40. 900. From the above
figures it would appear hat the aver
age number of inhabitants for each
village was 1913.
Allowing for each of the $500 viii
lagos destroyed. only 100 killed, would
make the loss of life from villages
alone, go, 900. Cutting this estimate
in two, would leave $4,000, which is
2a.o0 0 more than has been claimed by
the highest figures. but may fall far
short Of the actual facts in the case
finally.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Properly Rights Protected

I'll shall be lawful for foreigners 10
possess landed property III my domains.
conforming themselves to the laas and
police regulations, and having the same
charges as the native Inhabitants" The
taxes are to be Levied under the Same de-
nomination. from all the subjects Of nay
efHoire. without distinction OF class or re-
~lieion.'
Under this treaty, robbery. outrage and
massacre had known no limit.
Millions OF helpless beings had been at
tis mercy Of tends incarnate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
The Worst OF All.

The strangest, saddest thought of all
his is. that such things could happen on
the very threshold of christian Eu-
rope. and under cover of the cannon of
the so called Christian nations of this
the nineteenth century of the Christian
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08

Hon. Llewellyn Powers, Republican
nominee for governor, will be present
and deliver an address at the Repub-
lioan county convention held in Dover,
.J1na II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
REGULAR Turkish Rule.

Before these massacres began it was
the common thing for a kurd or Turk
70 come to a Christian home. take all
that he wanted, including women and
girls. as well as cattle.
A Kurdish chief who was officially
charged by the British Counsel at
t,rzeroum for fiendish cruelty on
helnless victims, was not only I'M
punished. but rewarded by promotion.
1t was proved that in one case, for
instance, he had attacked the home OF
. beautiful young girl whom he was
determined to take,b but she was hidden
from him. Failing to find her, he
seized her little brother and tortured
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
The Cyprus Treaty.

In return for this internal agreement
between the leading nation of Christen-
dom and the head of heathendom. the
Island of Cyprus was ceded to Great
Britain to enable her to fulfil her part OF
the compact, and the Sultan's govern
ment promised Ito introduce necessary
reforms: to be agreed upon later between
the two powers: into the government. and
for the protection of the Christian and
other subjects of the Porte in these ter
ritorieS.'
From that time on. the miseries of the
Arrnenians have been untold, Mohammc-
dan adness knowing no bounds of law
lcssness; robbery, plumber, raplne out
rage, murder. torture and death. being
the rule of the Turk. till finally extermi-
nation seemed determined upon, when Il
thrill of horror aroused Christendom. and
the world aWoke to the fact that Il nine
teenth century Mohammedan was the
most abominable barbarian the world had
ever known.
The reign of horrors under these two
t~reaties is too terrible to really describe.
Not less than 100. 900 human beings at the
least having been numerically mas
sacred, to say nothing of the untold suf-
ferings of all these years of outrage. rob-
berry and persecution, while during the
last winter alone at least half a million
homeless, naked. starving, diseased.
freezing. despairing dying women and
children martyrs were left shelterless.
foodless and friendless, but for the pitt
full ~pittance afforded Il few of them from
foreign relief.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Deeds That Damn.

An Armenian in Trebizond, trying
to get food for his sick wife and
family, was surrounded by Il raging
| crown and stricken down. Pleading
for mercy. they tantalized him with
| mock kindness for a while, till tired OF
| their fun. they tied his feet together
and tainted him.
with pretended tenderness, they
chopped off one hand as they assured
| him Of mercy in jest, shaping his face
| with the bloody wrist and forcing ii
between his quivering lips. They then
hacked off his other hand and ordered
him to make the sign of the cross with
the bleeding stumps and offered him
| pen and paper to write to his wife
upon. Some M then tore off his ears
and thrust them between his lips. then
ftuns them into his face. Then they
| proceeded to knock out his teeth and
cut out his tongue. jokingly remark
ing, He will never blaspheme again.
Then they gouged out n eye at a
| time, cut off his feet, and in the in
t%oxication of furious fanaticism these
Nohammedan demons exhausted their
ingenuity in eX~cruciating tortures be-
fore some one cut his throat to send
his soul to 'Damnation' as they de-
clarcd.
In T.rZeroum 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 mockingly
| promised it by the ringleader.
He was then stripped, and n piece
| of flesh cut from his body and offered
| at auction as Dogs meat Dirt
cheap" to the delight of the crowd,
| and as he writhed and cried in agony,
| some one poured vinegar and acid into
His gaping Wounds.
While he p~iteously plead and prayed
to be put out of his misery, two little
boys came running to him. the elder
crying. Father. Father, Save me-
| as the blood streamed i've his beauti-
full face. and h younger clung to a
little wooden toy.
The father frantically grasped at the
| dagger of q Turk, but this only in
| creased his torments, the bleeding boy
was dashed upon his dying father and
| both pounded to death. before the
little t~hree-year-old brother.
As he sat there daZed. and dabbied
The toy in the blood of his dying father
! and brother. he smiled at their muir
| derels and sobbed owe their mangled
| remains. till a sabre slash cut short
lis little life and the mother was left.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
The Crime Of All Crimes.

To break the record of barbarity for all
the ages. and to cap the climax of de-
moniacal badness which has eliminated
in this closing decade of the nineteenth
century OF the Christian era. the detest-
able Turk undertook to steal or destroy
the relief sent, and shelter afforded by
foreign aid to these helpless victims of
Mohammedan diabolism. For this. alone,
leaving out of account all the robbery.
outrage, torture and massacres of all
these age he has forfeited his right to
desecratc the earth any longer by his ex-
eerable existence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
Tco Terrible To Tell.

Here. again. we must halt. and
leave such stories for the fiends OF
he'll to gloat Owe and to tell. but
present one picture as a type of many,
tlough it may not be so pitiful or
awful as thousands Of others are.
An Armenian family of wealth and
refinement, residing in Khort. had been
robbed of all and their horne de-
stroyed. The father was working in
the fields to keep his family from
furnishing. 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 officials, she
was brutally beaten, knocked down
ard kicked out. Then her husband
vas killed, and the mother was a
homeless, friendless wanderer with
her sick and dying child clinging to
her haggard form, a CHASTITY glimpse OF
Armenia today.
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 ust of Kurd and
Turk. till at last blooming into the
beauty of a pure, Christian woman
hood one after the other is taken till
thousands upon thousands are torn
from fathers and mothers and friends.
being violated frequently before their
ewes. Their carried away captive to live
as slaves of lust, till the Turk tires of
Them. and then slain or sold, or dis
eased. turned loose to live, or driven
out +o die and be damned"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-08
The Treaty Of Paris.

In 1856, after the close of the Crimean
war, the following Firman Of the Sultan
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
A habouchere Story.

When Mr.. Labouchere was at Cambridge
he played cunning trick on the exam
iners. One of them, enthroned upon his
dais, observed that the young man was
constantly taking stealtby glances at some
document concealed beneath his blotting-
paper. He jumped at the conclusion that
be must be referring to some notes which
he had surreptitiously introduced. He
walked over to him and said, sternly,
Lift up that blottlng-paper." Mr. La
bouchere pleaded and protested, with the
result that the examiner was more con-
vinced than ever that he had discovered a
genuine case of cribbing. He insisted.
therefore, and the undergraduate had to
obey, and then the examiner discovered
that the only object concealed beneath
Mr.. Labouchere's blotting-p paper was the
photograph of an exceedingly beautiful
young woman, whose bright ey es, he de-
clared, inspired him with right answers
to the perplexing questions which the ex-
aminers had propounded.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Changing the Face of Time.

"The latest in clocks and watches is
distinctly original. 1t comes from France.
The sug estion is that the decimal system
should be adopted for clocks and watches,
bidding good-by to our old friends IL and
II o'clock entirely, and to divide the face
of the clock into ten instead of twelve Sec
tions. This system is now, used by the
Geographical Bureau of the French army,
and it is urged that it diminishes the
labor of calculation by two-thirds and les
sens the chances of mathematical error
from four to one. The following is an
outline of the rules of the decimal system
as applied to timepieces:
1.-The day, from midnight to the mid
night following is TO De divided into 100
equal parts, known as 'ces.'
..The subdivisions, according to the deci-
NAL plan, are 'decices, or tenths, CEN
tees or hundredths, 'millices,' or thou
sandths.
"One.of the main divisions, the 'ces, is
equal to fourteen minutes and twenty-four
seconds, or almost quarter OF an hour"
This, say the scien lists. is the easiest
possible system, but the poor lay mind
may not quite agree with such a eonclu-
sion. and 6 A. NJ. sounds as yet far more ac-
cepIable than 25 ces, It's decimal equivalent.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25

the larger cruisers of the regular navyi
with somewhat similar batteries. The
Newark. for example, carries twelve T.
inch rifles and an assorted secondary bat
terry of and 8 Founders and machine
guns; the continued sea-speed would not
exceed II knots and her bunker capacity
is only 800 tons.
The four liners, on the other hand. will
carry battery equal to that of the New
ark. Their c pntinued sea- speed for an in
definite period, or so long as the coal holds
out, is 20 knots III all kinds of weather,
and they can stow 5000 tons of coal. suf-
ficient for run of 5000 miles at 20 knots
an hour. As commerce-destroyers ana
fighters of vessels not heavier armed nor
better protected than themselves they are
unsurpassed. The only real advantage
which regularly built war vessels possess
over the ocean-liner pressed into service
as an auxiliary war vessel lies in the pro-
lection of the machinery and boilers, over
which an arm red deck miminizes the
danger from shot and shell; IN other re-
spects the ocean-liner has the advantage,
and Congress drove very clever bargain
in thus securing from its private citizens
a navy which the Government, it seems,
cannot afford to MAINTAIN.
In July last Congress made an appropri-
alton of $5Oo,o0o toward beginning
the work of making and pnrchas-
ing guns for the auxiliary cruisers, and
the work has just begun at the Wash
ington gun-foundry. 1t will require about
40 6-inch, It's 5-inch, 175 4-inch rifles and
nearly 4U0 secondary battery guns, con-
sising OF 6, and Founders and machine
guns. AS fast as completed these guns
will be forwarded to the different navy
yards. to be ready when wanted.
England deals more literally with its
private ship-owners, and paid to eleven
steamers $243, 900 during the present year
for the privilege of reserving them for war
purposes; it pays 81, 100 600 yearly in sup
port of naval reserve, and i'll addition
paws liberal subsidies for ocean mail SER
vice. Other countries have been equally
far-sighted, and it is this liberal policy
which explains why the number OF our
ocean steamships is so few in compari-
son with European countries.
Taking the steamers of speeds ranging
from twenty to twelve knots, inclusive,
England comes first with 725; France,
I25; Germany, 92, and United States so
Spain has 80, and Japan, nation OF only
recent creation, has %, which in couple
of wears is likely to exceed our auxiliary
navy in point of number and. quality.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Optician and Oculist.

The London Lancet has taken up the
subject of the proper relations that should
exist between the optician and the eye
doctor. 1t, is precisely because the ad-
vsnces of our knowledge during the last
few years have lifted the whole matter
into the professional sphere, says the
journal, that it behooves opticians to be
chary OF prescribing glasses, however
competent they may be to determine
the precise lens or com mbination of
lenses required. Even in this re-
spect there are limitations to their
powers, for the optician would not be iusti-
fed in employing atropine, without the use
of which in many cases the appropriate
glasses cannot be ascertained. Ophthal-
mic surgeons have reason to be grateful to
the opticians for the beauty and perfec-
ton of the lenses they supply and for
many useful suggestions they have made
in regard to mounting, and we ere sure
that in the long run those opticians will
thrive best who will devote their energies
to the resources of their art. Though
they may be thoroughly competent to
deal with the physical aspect of the ques-
ton, additional and special medical
knowledge is required to determine
whether it is advisable to adopt those very
measures which, from a physical point OF
view. leave nothing to be desired.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Natures Paper FACTORY.

j. M. Johnson of Fresno Flats, Cal,
recently sent to the Office of The CALL
what at first sight would appear to be
sheet of machine-made paper, similar to
that out of which Japanese napkins are
made. In Mr.. Johnson's letter, he states:
Enclosed is a sheet of paper, made in
considerable quantities here by the hand
of nature. in the springs, ponds and water
tanks, wherever the water is comparatively
quiet.
SAT first, it is q grass-green scum; but
as IT dries out it bleaches to a whitish
color-a sort of cream white, like the
sample l have mailed TO you.
"When / saw it first, really thought it
was some kind of Japanese paper; but it
proved to be q product of nature, and
human ingenuity had nothing to do with
its composition. / would like to know,
through THE CALL, the opinion of some of
your scientists in regard to this rather
interesting matter"
The sample and the facts in regard to it
are certainly interesting. DR.. Gustave
Eisen of the Academy of Sciences, when
shown the specimen in question, observed
that the strip of paper was remarkabl for
its evepness and closely knitted parts.
"Of course" said he, "all paper is made
out of vegetable fiber-grass aud plants.
This paper is composed of green alg@. and
is found in still ponds. 1t is not strong
enough, however, to be of any value"
Professor w. A. Setchell of the depart
ment of botany at the University OF Cali
fornla examined the paper, and the result
is thus given in his own words:
1.-The specimen is the so-called water
flannel 1t is com posed of the matted fla
ments of Cladophora. one of the grass
green alg@. Professor Hilgard says that
it is fairly characteristic of alkai streams"
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Had Struck Another Match.

Bishop Wilmer of Alabama was not in
attendance upon the late convention, but
he was well represented by his anecdotes,
which are related by churchmen much as
Lincoln's stories are by the general public.
Here is one of them:
One of the Bishops friends lost dearly
beloved wife, and in his sorrow caused
these words to be inscribed on her tom D.
stone: "The light of mine eyes has gone
out"
The bereaved husband married within a
year. Shortly afierward the Bishop was
walking through the graveyard with an
other gentleman. When they arrived at
the tomb the latter asked the Bishop what
he would say of the present state of affairs
in view of the words on tue tom bstone.
II think" said the Bishop, ''the words
But have struck another match should
be added. Minneapolis Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
Fiction Ahead Of
Date by Ten
Days
Airline Love Story
That Ends on
November the
Fourth

''It's too bad about that young Metcalf,"
said old Judge Merrill, settling back in his
chair in that comfortable fashion acquired
only by age and long practice.
"Why?" asked Mrs. Merrill anxiously,
lifting her eyes toward her eldest daugh-
ter, who, with scarlet face, had listened to
her father.
He's lost his mind-studied too hard
or some thing-and is doing the most
ridiculous things. No use listening to
him. His father said he talked to him for
an hour the other evening. Gave him a
real going over. Told him he would have
no more nonsense. The young chap lis
tened to him attentively until he had fin
ished, and then with composure asked
his father to give one good reason for be-
ing a goldbug; and so it is with every
body. No matter what subject they bring
up he replies with an encomium of Bryan
or plea for free silver. He is as crazy as
loon, and crazier. Why, even a loon
woulon't advocate Bryan's election.
met him this morning on Washington
street and he wore q huge Bryan badge. /
felt awfully sorry for the poor boy and lis
family, but then every family is bound at
one time or another TO have its SORROW"
Bessie Merrill. with filling eyes and
dropping, heard the sad story. 1t did
not seem credible, she thought. that he
who had been so good, so manly, and so
kind, could be stricken in the fullness OF
his youth, yet the facts were indisputable.
Her fathers testimony only verified the
many rumors she had heard. And would
it all end thus? Would the love she had
given to young Metcalf never sift through
his beclouded brain and bring him light?
For weeks after, her mind was filled
with thoughts of the convent and the
grave.
The night efter Mckinley was elected,
Bessie met bowling. hooting crowd of
jubilants. burning red lire and carrying
brooms. She recognized, before she could
read the transpar enoies, the long-drawn-
out Harvard yell. The banners were all
for Mckinley, and bearing the largest was
the big square, e-shouldered form she knew
so we'll. He saw her Immediately, and,
handing the transparency to comrade,
he pushed his way to her.
s'Oh, Harry" she said, '1 am SO glad.
am really SO glad. After all every body
said about you and that horrid old Bryan.
ar Mt you glad he was defeated7'
eGIad. Never so glad of anything in
my lite. Every one had me down as a
lunatic. My own folks cut me, and the
Kids used to laugh at me on my way to
lectures"
Then he explained to her all about it;
how he was elected member of the
Dicky Club, and to prove his worth as
member his courage was tested in the
way which caused all to think he had
lost his mind. He was to wear Bryan
badge and advocate Bryan sentiments at
all times and in all places. 1t was a terri
BILE ordeal for him. but he had borne 1t