Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-01

She ministered to the sick; and, cheereu by her example, her missionary asso- ciates took heart of grace and joined Tn the work Again and again the Turkish pashas and valis insisted that the re- lief be stopped; the Armenians were "dors,' s'better let them die;" but the greater the opposition, the higher rose the courage of the American girl. Her first step was to hire a small bakery with her own personal funds; then small remittance came and second bakery was added to the facilities, aiia on New Years day, just when the wofK seemed about to drop, she received the first remittance of $5,000 from Df. Klopsch, who also cabled that sufficient funds would be supplied to meet gil the necessities of tic work. One can inn agine the spirit of joy and gratitude m which she wrote a week later: HOW sorely we needed the money! haps you may be able to dimly imagine what a tremendous relief we experienced when your telegram came on New Years day. Many and many poor Villager has said to me: You have saved thls province from a terrible famine. The praise belongs not to me, but to the gen erous men and women in America who have opened their hearts and purses.
 eve are, indeed, the only hope of this people for the winter"
 After awhile, the Turkish efforts to stop the work were relaxed. \ very large bakery was hired, and now Dr. Kimball is fairly able to cope with the demand for bread, at least. As far as known, there have been no deaths from actual starvation within the gates of Van.
 Relief stations have now been estab- lished at the following places by the Christian Herald, which has supplied each with the funds to the extent indi- cated:
 Van, $t5.500, Dr. Grace N. Kimbal1, MT. and Mrs. Reynolds and others.
 Erzeroum, s1,O00; ErzinJian, $1,000, Rev w N. Chambers and Mrs. Chambers.
 Harpoot, 1000; Diarbekir. s2,O00, Rev. H. N. Barnum, Rev. c. F. Gates, Rev. Egg bert S. Ellis.
 Gemarek. $500, Rev. J. L. FoWle, of Kaesarea.
 Aintab $1, GOO Rev. Americus Fuller.
 Sivas, $1 GOO, Rev. H. F. Perry.
 Arabixir, $500, Rev. H. N. Barnum, Of Harpoot.
 Kaesarea, $1, 1000, Rev. J. L, Fowle.
 Ourfa, $1000, Corrina Shattuck.
 Hadjin. $500, Rev. E. c. Bates and Res. J. c. Martin.
 Marash, $1 ,000, Rev L. O. Lee.
 Malatia, $1,oOO, distributed from Har- poot.
 Urumia Persia), s1,ooo Rev. J. P. Coch- ran, M. D.
 All these stations, with single excep- tion, are conducted by missionaries of the American board, Urumia alone be- ing managed by missionary of the Presbyterian board. Thousands of Ar menian fugitives have arrived there destitute. All the missionaries have sent in reports of the progress of their work from time to time, through the missionary boards, and congratulate the people of America upon the facs that they are able, by these generous means, to save thousands of lives; for had it not been for American relief, the winter deathroll in Armenia from hun ger and cold would have been quite as apalling as that of the massacres. 1sh"s this may be better understood, it should be stated that Turkish estimates of the situation in Armenia give the follow ing:
 Number of Armenian villages........ $500 Number of villages destroyed. 2,500 Number reduced to starvation in
 Villages 366, GOO Number reduced to starvation in the
 towns ........................... 75,0 ,000
 tT,n nf o0T evxyfN1> Ic n. ffAf off a,-lx GOO souls are in imminent danger of starvation, and apparently have been deliberately placed in that perilous po- sition by the Turkish government, in furtherance of its policy of extermina- ton.
 There are serious difficulties to con- tend with in the management of the re- lief work at every point. Harpoot, for instance, is a city surrounded by sev- eral hundred small villages. The town itself has been wasted by the Kurds, and it's Armenian population reduced al- most to beggary; but the villages have met q severer fate, a large proportion of them having been literally wiped out of existence. Such of the survivors as can reach Harpoot have gone there in the hope of being fed, but the missionaries have to reach. out in every direction, in order to succor those who still finger about the ruins of their desolated homes. This description applies to all the cities and their surroundings. There are hundreds of villages that will not be reached by the present relief move ment, and in these the mortality must necessarily be something frightful, for the Armenian winter is usually severe. and cold and exposure must already have done their fatal work among the women and children. When the winter deathroll from these causes is approxi- mately ascertained, it will be found to be appalling.
 The centers of greatest destitution at the present time are undoubtedly these four: Harpoot, where the slaughter and destruction have been greatly un- derestimated; Malatia, where 5000 are said to have perished; Van, which is a focus for fugitives from everywhere, a1a1 IAsa1.l .lN01rs .4