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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

Londoa- Aug. SQ.-A jlsCaseh f-rcn
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-02

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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
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AT any other time l might have read
this articIe-if l happened to come across
the Melbourne Age OF last August-wiih a
sort OF un believing, hope-it's-exaggerated
feeling. When one is powerless it is so
comforting TO doubt.
But this mans quiet voice, his COM
men's, his unaffected, simple. despairing
sincerity aud his nationa ality, too, made it
all horribly real l dill not exclaim in
disbelief any more. l sat and istene I, a
sort OF oramped terror taking possession
Of my mind.
The modern American is not very patri-
otto. Perhaps because he has experienced
none of The pains OF political tyranny he
does not value the peace and p'elsu- OF
liberty. We lose our childish tendency to
Zero o-worship early. We have become a
little cynical. We hear disillusionizing
stories which cheaper the names we had
learned TO venerate. And the newspapers
have brought contemporary great men
so near 20 the pu bic that their fol pies and
iailings are like blots which, being close
10 the eye, obscure the glory of the sun on
high.
Country" stands for an aggregation OF
men and man-made laws and customs.
l think ones love for the one is very de-
pendent upon ones respect for tie other.
And OF ali the conventional citadels which
Fin de Steele, that mocking giant, is
threatening with the dynamite of ridicu,e.
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die there!' All The time / was there l had
no food of any kind. and | became uncon-
scious. For the first forty-eight hours
had kept myself up from falling in the
slime and mud, which covere the floor up
to my ankles. But l was starving for a
mouthful OF food. and so weak that at
length l fell down faint. with my head on
the step by the door and my body in the
mud. Thatis all | know or rene m Der of
these sixty hours, and the next thing
was conscious of was a doctor bending
over me in lighted room.
"'After his l was kept in a different
dark cell for some six months. l was I'M
prisoned here alone in the dark, without
any change of clothing and covered with
yermln. They gave me no bed or chair
and only one pound o. black bread
each day and dirty water. \
In the meantime my mother and others
had been ceaselessiy petitioning the EN-
bassadors of the great powers, and they at
length obtained my release. After my
release l was in n hospital till the En- bas-
sador sent me word that must not stay
in Constantinop!e any longer. l was Sc
cretiy taken off in a foreign steamer NY
mother even sold her iewelry and paid
some hundreds of pounds in brl be.; but
the Turks just took the money and said
nothing"
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
FAIR YOUNG ARMENIAN REFUGEE TELLS OF HER TRIALS

throwing at Galata late was a foolish as
well as terrible thing. No good can
come that way. l am no anarch'si. But
do sympathize. with all my soul l SYM
pathize with the Heni cha k istes-and if
nople To-day l should lose liberty and life"
But this girl
Whenever the Turkish Government
wishes to do a cruel thing-when it wishes
TO punish, or steal, or defraud, or re-
venge itself-.t arrests people on suspi-
cion of being revout:oasts. If this girl
speaks TO you and accuses the TUX sh
Government the story you print will be
telegraphed back to Constantinople and
her people there Will suffer for il. II a
man is guilty or is suspected of being
reyolutioDist-to make them confess his
guilt or their own-all his family, his rel
dtives, are arrested and tortured"
"Ohl'
"Gou do not believe it? Look here"
He brought out Melbourne paper and
pointed to an article headed "a Refugee
From Armenia
Now, L know this man Balakan," he
said. "He escaped from Constantinople
and fed 10 Melbourne, where he had just
arrived when this article was written. He
is 25 years old, and was with his father, a
merchant at Tokat. He was accused of
being presiden. of a secret revolutionary
society. See, yourself, what the paper
says. His father paid fine of f70. Then
the son was rearrested, and because he
would not confess he was tortured,
ListenP
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| woman suffrage?"
1t was the hardest tangle of all that
troub ed the Strands of our conversation
yesterday. The more l strove 10 straight
en- things the more intricately did the
strings become twisted. But when at last
the skein was ali straight and smooth
Mademoiselle answered the question in
such matter. of fact way that it seemed
| hardly worth the trouble.
Yes yes" she said seriously. Il
J would vote if l could. Why not?"
| Some people think il immodest, you
know, like wearing bloomers. DO you
! rideP'
81 used TO ride bicycle"
'In bloomers2"
| "No in skirt"
"Have you-you seen the boomer cos
| tume2'
"Oh, yes. In Constants tinople 1t is not
| customary for women 10 wear them. But
| 10 not think bloomers immodest. The
skirt is more app op late, l think, buff
woman is a good woman, wearing
bioomers or voting will not change her.
! \ on understand what 1 mean?"
Eyes. Do Armenian women wear the
national costume?'
In the counsry-in parts of Turkey,
yes. But not in Constantinople."
chow did you dress there?"
"But-but like this" touching her skirt.
"As do here. You know the fashions
come direct from France there"
"Ohl Then You probably find US q bit
behind the style?'' 1 laughed.
''Oh, no. no." she said gently. "All the
world dresses alike now-as you are
dressed
IN "Mademoiselle," asked, ''how will you
communicate with your mother?"
l In moment her face was serious again.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

unthiDkiug, unreasoning reverence for
great men is most in danger.
I must confess that since l left school I
haven't ed haven't thought of this
word "iberty" seriously. | have heard
it spoken with dramatic fervor upon the
stage, where the theatrical unreality lent
il effectiveness; where from lie and drums
ana flying flags and good acting il bor-
rowed significance.
But one is accustomed, il one i. an
American, to feel the thrill of patriotism m
only once year and at other times in q
sort OF secondhand way-to watch the
glowing :ace.of boy in the ga ~ when
war play is on and enviou>ly borrow
from his emotion or TO | slen h If am used,
half incredulous to the shuddering gasps
of the e1citab'e girl beside one ami to suf
fer and grow calm with her-to be a sa,el-
lite, feeling milder reflected agony.
But sort of comprehension of that TO
which we Americans are so accustomed
that we take it for granted and accep. it
with graceless, animal-like ingratitude,
was borne in upon me yesterday. 1t isn't
the loftlest nature, l suppose, whose
thankiulness for personal favors is awak-
ened by the knowledge OF others misery
But not the longest of long-worded, &C.
static Fourth of July orations, nor the
discordant shrieking and wild-wing flap
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here-I assure you l would tell you will
ingly ALL" she said, when told her how
her story had interest me. why, L
would go belorr The people, would lec-
ture if l could, and tell them how in the
streets of Constaniinople Arme enian men
have been murdered, and women-women
have been Kidnapped AMI never again seen
by their people"
My interview with the Arm Nnian girl
was conduc ed in French; that is, she
poke French. I-weIi this gracious little
Armenian was KIN enough to meet my
STUN bling questions half way and help
them over the threshold OF her con-
sciousness.
AS addres Led her then il is natural now
10 speak of her as Mademoiselle.
Mademoiselie is not tall. She is much
shorter tnsn 1. She is plump, with a
smaller waist than most American women
have in these corsetless days, with small
wrist and pretty hand. Her face is very
pale, heT eyebrows are heavy. her eyes
black and large and unsmiling. The nose
is thin and slightly dropping. The lips
are not full. bat they are red. Her dark
hair is worn pompadoured back from her
forehead and coiled upon her well-poised
head.
Her voice is low, with a plaintive for
eign rising infection, and it comes from
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

II ne wife OF one OF the foreign En- bas-
sadcTs. Such a womanl The finest.
noblest character! She helped me and l
csc ped-in disguis". The captain knew
ah Ut me, of course, bu, none of the pas
sengers did. Still, they were very, verv
kind 10 me-a girl, you know, travelling
alone.
when reached London I was met ~
Minas Tscheraz. Do you know-you do
not know who he is? M:nas Tscheras is
man whom The Turkish Cove nment
would give great deal to get hold Of
He would not be free twenty-four hours
after he arrived In Turkey. But he will
not go back there. He is a profe >sor at
present in an ENGLISH college. He lives
London and publishes L Armenia
there. He is wond 'riul man-such a
great linguist. You know he was in
Chicago during the Worlds Fair, and he
has been interpreter at important inter-
national meetings all over Europe. He
was my brothers professor in Turkey
years ago, and he was very good to me in
London and saw me safely on my way
here"
Made en- oiselle did not laugh once dur
ing our talk. though the intervieweT's s
French was absurd enough. But she
smiled now a; my question.
She seemed surprised that there should
be any question on such point.
Tell me-" asked, curious to know
how girl brou- ht up in com parative Sc.
clusion would think on this topic, ''if you
live here-if you stay in America would
you wish 10 vo;e? Do you approve OF
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

The floor was carpeted in red, and there
were no seats of any kind save a few
chairs for Nine. Bashkirtseff and hel
friends. The latter had already arrived
and Marie's mother was to be seen sittin g
alone under the middle dome, while ten
or fifteen friends sat some d stance away
against the wall. AS for the spectators, oi
whom there were about thirty, mostly
French, Americans and Russians, we were
only allowed to stand near the door at ;he
outer edge of the great dome.
Suddenly music was heard. and leaving
her seat Nine. Bashkirtseff knelt and
prayed with her face to the altar, remain.
ing so throughout the service-a truly
pathetic figure clad all in deepest mourn.
ing with long Grape veil. Meanwhile
the strains of music from the hidden
singeIs-an unaccompan.ed choir of men
and roys-which had been waited 10 us at
first 50 soft and sweet and low, now
gait cred in volume until they became a
magnificent caant which rolled sonorously
through the church, laundering and
vibrating back and forth, until il finally
softened again and as gently ebbed away
into husned, weird tones. of tenderest
melancholy. The whole effect was
superb, awe-inspIring, heavenly
Presently a door IN the screen opened,
admitting three priests. and the service be
gan, the solemn chanting with lis rise and
fall Continuing all the while. All three
were clad in garments stiff with gold and
NEST delicately embroidered in red and
pink and green flowers. In addition the
principal priest wore high, square cap,
also OF gold. The whole eff ct was not in
the least tawdry, but rich and harmonious
in the extreme.
As to the meaning of the service that
was quite beyond my comprehension.
There was great deal of opening and
closing the doors in the iconostase, and
little professions of the three priests pass
ing In and out, bowing to the altar and
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lips that are not we'll opened when she
speaks. But she speaks with decision ;
she moves about in quick, capable way
that tells of a resolute spirit
Armenian girls in Constantinople,
where lived, have net the privileges you
American WON n have. We go about
from house % house, or short distance
to shop, but no girl would cross ferry
alone-like from San Francisco to Oak
land, and of course girls do not go out
alone in the evening. even two of them
you understand"
And yet you travelled, and quite alone,
from Constantinople to San Francisco.
Why. it's half way around the worldi'
She nodded her head grayeIy.
81 had TO. l was in-in personal danger
there. L knew that must leave or-you
underestimate was not safe there. l had
to leave my mother, my old mother.
Would l be here and she there-but had
10 eave."
You tried to get passport2"
II applied for passport; yes. But they
would not give me one. They wanted to
know why l wished to leave. They put
me Off-postpOned giving me the passpor,
from day to day, from week to week.
l told them then they were deceiving
me-that they did not intend to give me
a passport. Finally 1 dared not wait
longer, and friend"
"a woman?'
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each other. Also a certain stand covered
with an embroidered cloth and bearing a
heavy gilt Bible was brought out some ten
different times. and, after a short reading,
as often removed. Presently a man in
citizens dress - probabv a friend of
Marie's mother-gave a Lighted candle to
each person present, and a fow minutes
later gathered them all up again.
Finally the priest with the cap appeared
with tray bearing mum Der of curious
little two-story loaves of bread, one loaf
above the other. These were passed to
Marie's mother, who took one, and then
all three priests in a procession disap-
peared through the gates and the service
was at an end. Mime. Bashklrtseff rose
and her friends flocked TO her size to ten
derly embrace her and kiss her on both
cheeks, a:ter the Russian fashion.
Then they all stood aside and she pass ed
slowly on down the church and out the
door and drove away. But what a disap-
pointment her face was since Marie her
self in the famous Journal had led us to
expect something quite different But
these features, althou n red and swollen
with weeping, were in themselves decid-
ediy heavy, even to coarseness, so that
Nine. Bashkirtseff was In appearance an
extremely plain, common-l looking person.
Was this the woman, then, with whose
blind, self-abnegating idoIlzation OF her
child the whole world is familiar2 Was
it possible that this short, dumpy little
lady with most unromantic face could
have written the pitiful letter / read so
full of alteration for that cold natured
girl, so encrusted in her astounding ego.
tism, who accepted everything as her en-
tire due-when she did not heartlessly
repel it2 Here is the letter:
MY adored angel. my cherished child
Moussia. If you but knew how unhappy [
am without you, especially as l am un-
easy on account OF your health, and how
long TO so to you at the earliest possible
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

ping of the American eagle nor the burn
iDS OF unlimited quantities of powder and
the firing of innumerab,e crackers has
taught me what l learned from the quiet
tones of mans voice yesterday. For
this - merci monsieur lie correspondent
Armenien.
When L left the little house which hides
such sore, sore hearts-such troubled.
fearful sou!s-and stepped out into the
street could have saluted our flag had it
been flying in sight-humbiy and apollo
getical!y, as beti s one whose faith has not
always been strong. but in all gravity and
sincerity and patriotic exaltation.
And a passing policeman would prob
ably have thought me mad.
/ have promised the Armenian girl
with whom l talked yesterday that l
would not mention her name, that
would elm mate from my story any detail
which mie hit identity this as the recital of
her case.
The fac: that such promise is necec-
sary Is sign: :fcant. When the oppre, sed
dare not even complain of opp.e sion,
when girl thousands of miles from Con-
stantino ople dares not speak her mind for
fear ot the loved ones she has been COM
PEELED to leave behind, even the most
cynical must believe that Armenian perse-
cution is not all a myth.
''If it we're not for them-if they were
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ing yourself, half in terror, "Is that what
life is like?"
'At Is there was childlike expression
in my face that was not there before and
has not been since, and this is the most
captivating of all expressions"
While again in Paris a year ago this
month l read in the papers notice OF the
solemn REQUIEM mass which is annually
sung in commemorstion of the death of
Marie Bashkirtseff on the 3lst of October.
1884 l determined TO attend, as l was in
formed that the music alone would be
worth going many miles to hear, ana
was, besides, curious to learn whether or
not Marie's wish expressed in her Journal
had been carried out: "And my will {?
All shall ask in it will be statue and
picture, the one by Saint-Marceau. the
other by Jules Bastien-Lepage, placed in
conspicuous position In chapel in Paris
and surrounded by flowers; and on each
anniversary of my death that a mass of
Verdi or PergoIesi and other music NAV
be sung by the most celebrated singers in
rem m brance OF me-"
The Russian church, in which the ami
versary services were held, was situated
on the Rue Daru, near the Champs Elys-
ses in the residence portion of the CITY.
1t is comparatively new church, not
large, but very beautiful, built in the
shape OF Gre~k cross with in,ersecting
domes meeting in the middle in one
immense dome. The light all came from
windows in the domes above, the latter
being most beautifully gilded and deco
rated with frescoes OF saints. The icono-
stase or screen that hides the altar, whose
top ony could be seen glittering afar
from the main body of the church, was
about twelve feet high, most gorgeously
carved ane gilded and containing three
gates of scrollwork. In the panels of the
screen ware small portraits of the Virgin
and the saints either painted or inlaid
with silver and gold.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
CALIFORNIA GIRL IN THE OLD STUDIO OF MARIE BASEIKRTSEF

Seven years ago while in Paris l went
to visit the studio OF Marie Bashkistseff-
that wonderful young girl who shot like
meteor across the literature of the last
decade. The hotel of Nine. Bashki-tseff
In the Rue Ampere was large four-story
building OF plain appearance. Here is
Marle's own description of it: 1T con-
slsts OF basement with a kitchen and
bIliard-room. The ground fl1or, to which
one asceEds by flight OF ten steps. has a
vestibule; then there is a pretty glass
door opening on an ante-cham ber from
which the staircase to the other stories
ascends; 10 the right is room which
they have converted into O parlor bv
making an entrance from it into a little
am Der which opens on the garden: a
dining-room and courtyard where car
riages can enter, and into which one de
scenos by steps from The drawing-room
and from the dining-room.
"On the first story there are five bed
rooms, with dressing-rooms ad joining.
and hall with baths. As for the second
or top story il belongs to me, and consists
Ct an antecham Der, two bedrooms, n
library, a studio and e storeroom. The
library and studio open into each other.
forming large apartment nearly 36 feet
long and 81 ieet wide. The light is superb.
entering on three sides as we'll as from
above. In short, for hired house there
could be nothing that would suit me bet.
ter. 1t is 30 Rue Ampere, on the corner
OF the Rue Bremontlsr, and may be seen
from the Avenue de ViIliers"
On ringing the bell at the Hotel Bash.
k!rtseff solemn butler appeared to take
our cards, and, our errand beng made
known, be conducted Us without a word
through large hail carpeted in red, from
which we caught rlimpses of elegantly
furnished apartments opening on either
side, up several flights of stairs and
through long passage to the studio oi
the young artist.