Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-06-01

1CAAH VI HIhhlHH AnhHhAAAf W ~
tle the question, when the wager wa
paid, while babe and mother suifere,
so and died. because she bore tn
name OF Christ.
SLAUGHTER or iSsocENTs.
Another scene at SassOun whlcl
gives us glimpse of that awful car
niyal Of hclIish cruelty shows the sol.
diers drunken with their bloody de-
bauch, betting on how many helpless
Christian children they could XIII Ht
one stroke OF the sword.
~ bet you ten tshireks ] eau cut
clean through the necks Of four
Christian puppies at one stroke Of my
sclmltar," cried one.
"Done" shouted crowd of Turkish
regulars as they snatched four ten
der children from the arms OF their
frantic mothers and bound them
amid heart-rendering screams, .one
neck above another.
The braYe Turk, who had made the
bet, touched the neck OF the nearest
babe with his steel, 10 measure his
stroke. Ills bright sclmItar flashed
for an Instant above them aud four
little lifeless forms qulyercd in the
blood-stalned dust, before their
mothers eyes, TO whom such a death
itself would have been most unspeak-
ably merciful than such an agonlzlng
sight.
Turkish soldiers took delight In
placing leng lines Of Christian chill
dren In files TO be fred at as. targets
10 zee how many little helpless, home
less, hungry Innocents they could kill
or wound or cripple for life with one
cruel shot, while Others were torn
apart by their limbs, and Others had
their Jaws wrenched asunder, and
still Others were held up by their hair
10 be decapitated or deformed for life,
before their broken hearted mothers.
Many women, with babes unborn
were ripped open and their babes car
rIed about upon spear points In sport.
UNUTTERABLE SHAME.
In one village about sixty young
brides with the most beautiful girls
were crowded into their Christian
church and kept there for days TO
satiate the lust OF their tormentors,
till they were done 10 death, and their
blood streamed from the doorway into
the street.
In another the most attractive
women OF the place were promised to
BE- spared II they would deny their
faith, but pointing TO the dead bodies
OF their fathers, husbands and broth.
ers before them, they replied; "why
should We deny Christ ? We are no
better than they XIII us, too.'
SO they shared the same shameful
fate Of thousands OF Christian women
and girls OF Armenia.
Their natural defenders having
been treacherously dlsarmed by the
Imperial Government In preparation
for this wholesale robbery, outrage
and slaughter, Christian women and
children were hunted like Wild beasts,
after the loss Of their fathers, hus.
bands aud brothers, 10 be turned over
by thousands In obedience 10 Imper-
ial orders, 10 serve the brutal lust OF
their Mohamnedan prosecutors TN
these were tired OF them, when those
who had survived were hacked TO
death by swords and bayonets, OF left
10 llnger and die.
Bands OF hundreds OF starving,
nearly naked, terrorized women, whose
husbands, fathers and brothers had
been imprisoned or slaughtered, aud
homes destroyed, sought mercy OF
commanding Officers OF troops OF the
the sultan IN yaln. In answer 10
their tears and entreaties, they were
ordered 20 be outraged and then
IN droyes, by the demons
who had deiiled them, when wearied
Df their deyillsh debaueh.