The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-28
Rev ]. v. Mooshy, Gave Several
Interesting Talks
ONHlsNATlvELANDYEsTERDAY
A Fraltfai Country, bat the Psori. are
= Kept Poor, owlnE To- EItortion.ts
rsIs,-Mr. Mooshy Sang .'iloms. sweet
Home, In the Armenian Language. and
Iiis Lecture at the y. ". c. A. was
Thrilling In Many Respects.

J. g. II .
Isaac B. aIooshy, a native OF Armenia,
a young man now student OF the Lane
Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati.
yesterday save several talks on Armen-
ia. and the prosecutions Christians OF
that country. have suffered at the hands
OF the cruel Turk. In the morning he
spoke at Zane Street II. IL. church. and
last night at the United Presbyterian
church. Yesterday afternoon he spoke
at the Young Mems Christian Assocla-
tion. and his audience enjoyed the In
teresting facts he related pertaining to
the habits and customs OF the Armen-
ians. -. Il f
Armenia, he. said, contained about
100000 people, divided into twelve
states, governed by the sultan OF Tur-
key. The land Is fertile. and the ell
mate resembles ohios, Ten TO sixty
bushels OF wheat TO the acre may be
raised. Two thirds of the product OF the
soil goes TO the sultan and OF the one
third must come other taxes People in
America grumble about hard times, but
they don't know what hard times is.
compared with Armenia. Grapes grow
In abundance, bunch OF which Is as
much as two men can eat and be salts
fed. The same Is true OF watermelons.
which growsto large size. &,
The people sleep on the ,rooVes of the
houses, and leave the country for the
city In the winter time. to prevent Turk
fish raids, and walls ten feet high sur
rounded the cities. Everybody must be
inside the house before 10 o'clock, and
the speaker said young people couldn't
walk the streets at night. as in the Uni
ted States. Armenians never taste
pork, and Mr.. Mooshv amusingly de-
scribed the first time he saw pig in
this country.
q. Women get fifteen cents a day for
j their work. but are compelled to work
for five cents for the Turkish governors.
a carpenter gets twenty-five cents a
day, q mason thirty-five cents. The
people don't make a good living. and
get meat only seldom. Pears, applesr
grapes and other fruits are remarkably
cheap. Chickens cost from three 20 five
cents, Shes fi.ty cents. suit OF clothes
50 so, a good hat twenty-five cents. The
clothing wears good. and Mr.. Mooshy
displayed several articles he had
brought from his native land. The
speaker said the world needed more to
do business with God. and then, there
would be less cries Of hard times. Econ
omy was needed, also.
The houses In Armenia are made OF
burnt brick and mud. The people are
generous and hospItable, and the Ar
Ia mill Shor fe a tl,o
poor traveller. In winter little but feed
ing OF stock is done. This season Is one
for marriages and joyous occasions.
The Armenians are not Catholics, some
of the differences being that Armenians
have no Pope, and do not offer up wine.
They differ from Professionals in making
fasts. which they do that poor people
may be given the food they would 9TH
crwise have been deprived OF. Mr..
Mooshy. spoke OF his conversion by an
American missionary. and related the
happiness in his home on. that occasion,
his parents and brothers and sisters also
being Christians. Around the family
hearth theS often sang Home, Sweet
Home. and Mr.. Mooshy sang it in his
own language. He affectingly told OF the
letter he received from his mother. tell
Ing him a few years ago that there was
no home. sweet home. The Turks had
RACED It 20 the ground.
The speaker said he had never met n
girl until he was twenty-five years old,
and he was as bashful as a kitten. 1t Is
the custom to marry young in Armen-
la. but he was introduced to his first
girl by the superintendent OF Sunday
school. He denounced the custom
which allowed the sultan SO many
wives. 1t was the gospel which had
made America such grand country.
Turkey was without Sunday, schools, Y.
VI. e. AS or similar organizations. and
In the empire were found the priest, the
sword, the mosque, and prosecutions of
the people. Mr.. Mooshy related expert
ences OF the Armenian massacres, de-
failing the frightful horrors that at
tended the slaughter OF his relatives and
friends in general, who had espoused
Christianity. -
The fortunes used were awful. Chill
dren were disemboweled, and their
mothers murdered after them on the
same spot. Forks were run through the
victims noses, burning brands applied
to- their feet. Girls as young as ten
years OF age were dishonored previous
to their death. The Turks spared the
Armenian Christians, no shame, no dis.
honor, before putting them to death.
After further remarks, on this line,
Mr.. Mooshy said he was going back to
Armenia as missionary this summer,
and he asked for the prayers OF his au-
ditors for his success. He prayed that
the time might come when prosecutions
to his fellow countrrmen would cease,
and for relief to them now from starva-
tion.T