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gendarmes might enter the room The windows were
barred but the bars set in casing that swung in
ward Hooked out and for little way either side Of
the house there one in the street.
jumped down. Only person saw me-a Turkish
woman who ont Of her gate the opposite side Of
the street For an instant thought would be caught
and 1 grpped the knife, which still kept under my
clothes
But the Turkish woman was kind. She knew Of the
officers treatment of girl prisoners in the house and pd
She stepped back into her gate and motioned to
follow was afraid, yet trusted her. She closed the
gate and took in her She sorry for and
my people, she said and would help But she dared not
take into her house. She told could hide in her
courtyard till night when might slip out Of the city to
where the refugees
During the day she brought bread and rice cakes
At dark she to take leave of and kissed and
gave three ras which all she could spare without
earning seolding from her husband go out by the
north gate, not by the south gate she said to "Al
the refugees who taken around by the south gate
killed. those who camped beyond the north gate may
live. But do not join them while it still is night, you
may be caught Hide at the rocks at the
through the Karaah hills mile from the city. the Ar
menans allowed to pass these rocks when they are
taken away, it they will be allowed to live through
another stage of their journey"
reached the south gate without being stopped, I
was careful to keep in the shadows Gendarmes guarded
the gate but they not very wachful onto the
plain and followed the directions the friendly Turkish lady
had given until came to the rocks which marked the
road through the low hills that skirted the city the
north Along this road the refugees sent to the southern
deserts from Diyarbekir must pass
waited at the rocks through the night In the
morning thought to walk along the road to where
would not be seen by soldiers, Kurks Tchetchens
rowing the plains the city, and where could
wait until company of my people passed.
But while l picking my way through the narrow
pass between the rocks little group of Zapeths
coming toward me along the road beyond. l had not
expected to meet any one. l screamed before could
stop myself The Zapteths saw me. l ran back behind
the rocks and rev out my knife which had kept so
might kill myself rather than be stolen again. But
afraid God would not approve While the Zaptieths
searched the rocks knelt in crevce and asked
God to tell what should do-if He would blame me
if killed myself before the Zaptieths found "Dear
God tell me- shall come to You wait until You
call, asked Of Him.
know He heard me- and I know He answered. For
something told me to throw the knife far away-and
did.
That was Gods will, know, for in just few days
He to lead into the of my mother that
might be with her again before the Turks killed her.
Continued Merit sunday
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In the meantime the Jews of Diarbekr had come out
from the city driven by gendarmes to gather up the
bodies of the slain Armenians They brought carts and
donkeys with bags swung their backs Into the
carts and bags they piled the copses and took them
the banks of the grs where they threw them into the
water
Late in the afternoon the chief of our Tchetchens
out from the city His men drew off to side
and talked with him excitedy When it grew dark they
lifted on their horses and carried us into the city
through the south gate At the gate the Tthechen chief
showed TO the officers of the gendarmes paper he had
brought from the city, and the Tchetchens permitted
to enter We passed through dark streets until
to house which terraced high above the
Others with iron gate leading into courtyard off the
street hamna or Turkish porter, waiting at the
gate and swung it open.
The bandits dismounted outside the gate to the
house and lifted us to the ground The leader waved
inside The leader of the Tchetchens and half dozen of
his entered behind us and the gate was closed Some
of the Tchetchens went into the house. In few min
utes they out followed by foreign man. whose
uniform recognized as that of German soldier.
Servants followed with lighted lamps and the soldier
looked into faces and examined shamefully. Only
eight of the girls pleased him. among these. We
pushed into the house and the door closed be-
hind Then we heard the Tchetchens gather up the
other girls and take them into the street do not know
what became of them.
The soldier and the servants all of whom were foreign
ers whom afterward discovered were German took us
into stone foored which had been used stable
for horses
1t must have been two or three hours afterward-
after midnight, think; could keep track of the
time-when the soldier and the servants came for u.s.
Before they took from the stable they took away
what few clothes had. They led us, afraid and
ashamed into where there stood three men in the
uniforms of German officers The soldier Saluted them
The officers seemed very pleased when they had looked
at We tried to ourselves with arms and to
hide behind each other but the soldier roughly drew us
apart The officers laughed at embarrassment and
then dismissed the soldier, saying something to him in
German, which do not understand
The officers talked among themselves, also in Ger
man. They tried to II amused them greatly
when we pleaded with them to spare u.s. to let have
clothes and to have mercy in God s name.
Almost two weeks was prisoner in this house.
The principal officers Captain August Wal
senburg. He was midde-aged, think, and very bald.
After awhile learned many things about him. He had
been connected, somehow, with German trading COM
pany the Oriental Handelsgellschaft, in the city
of Van
He was reserve army officer and had been called
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We them crowd among the refugees and then
away carrying dragging with them all the young
women who were left-maybe fifteen twentyI could
not count them.
u Each girl forced to stand with dsmounted
Tchetchen holding her her feet half way between
swords in the long The captves cried and begged
but the cruel bandits needless of their pleadings
. When the girls had been placed to please them--One
each two sword blades the remaining Tchetchens
mounted their horses and gathered the end Of the
At shouted signal the first galloped down the line
of swords He seized girl, lifted her high in the air
and flung her down upon sword point without slacken
. ing his horse.
] II a game-a contest. Each Tchetchen tried 70
seize many girls he could and fling them upon the
sword points that they killed in the throw
gaop along the line Only the most skful of them
succeeded in impaling than girl Some lifted
the second from the ground but missed the sword in their
speed and the girl with broken bones or bleeding wounds
was held up in the line again to be used in the game
second tme-prayng that this time the Tchetchen's aim
would be and the sword put end to her torture
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third day after the officers left. do not think they
expected to find any in the house. but to look
for things the Germans might have left unpaeked.
We them entering through the courtyard gate.
There place we could hide, the house 50
built that the in tiers each opening onto
terrace We could only climb to the highest and
put off capture till the last minute The gendarmes
from the courtyard and rushed after with
shouts.
When ran through the room that had been occu-
pied by of the officers a knife he had left
behind. seized this and hid it in my clothes It
the first time had held knife in my hands or other
weapon since was taken from my home in Tchemesh
Gedzak
A gendArme eornered me in of the rooms just as
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all the other girls were trapped.
He caught me by the arms and
pushed me down to a lower ter
race. He was taking me into q
room there when the officer Of
the gendarmes saw me. The
officer halted the man, took me
from him and ordered him to
"find another one for himself"
The officer pushed me into the
room.
But when he tried to pinion
my arms I turned on him with
the knife. / know God guided
my hand, for I am sure I killed
him. He fell at my feet-and I.
was freel
In other parts of the house
and in the courtyard the gen.
darmes were giving their atten-
ton to the girls they had found.
l descended to the terrace just
over the street without being
seen. ANY minute, 1 knew, the
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awaiting instructions from General Won der Goltz
They were the only German officers at Diyarbekir.
The Kamaikam and the Vail both were very friendly
with them The Kamakam had set aside for them the
house to which taken captves To this house
brought many pretty Armenian girls stolen by the
Kurds and Tchetchens When they tired of them they
sent them away to the refuge camps outside the city
to be sold to Turks.
The German captain asked me to be submissive. 1
fought him with all my might told him lie might kill me-
This amused him 1t while his prisoner tasted,
afOr the first and only time in my life that which have
learned in America is called whiskey 1t was bitter and
terrible The officers had brought of this and other
liquids which the Turks would not TASTE from Van They
drank much of it, and it made them very brutal well
cruel One night they assembled all the girls in the house
into where they eating and forced them to
sit the table and drink this awful whkey They laughed
when it made ILL.,
One by one the other girls who had been stolen with
from the monastery away after the officers
had weared of them and their places taken by
l think was kept because l fought hard when
of them approached The captain always capped
his hands and laughed aloud when l fought.
There another girl who had been prisoner in the
house longer than ohers-since before taken there
She had especially pleased of the underoicers She
told of night when the officers had taken much of
their whskey and particularly cruel She said they
sent for of the girls then in the house and shot at
them with their pistols using their breasts targets At
terward told this thing done very often by the
Turks in the Vayet OF Van when they maSSacred our
people there and think they must have learned it from
these German officers.
At last orders to the officers to leave Diyar.
bekir. heard them say they would have to go to Har
pout They prepared to leave Immediately and set out
the next morning They had in the house many rugs and
articles of valuable ewery they had bought from the
KurdS and Tchetchens who had stolen them from Arme
mans, and all of this booty they carefully packed in
boxes to be kept for them by the Kamaikam until
van bound for the railway at Rasul-ain through
They hurried they paid little attention to
When they left all their servants accompanied them,
riding dOnkeys behind their masters horses So were
alone in the house
We would have been happy in deverance had it
been for the danger which threatened at the hands
of the Turkish gendarmes who would be discover
u.s. We searched until found where the servants had
hidden clothes in dark ROOM into which the clothes
of all Armenian girls who had been brought to the house
had been thrown We each took something with which
to ourselves.
We spent day aud night in constant terror of dis
covery We afraid to venture into the and
afraid to stay where The gendarmes the
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" Dear God, tell me- I
asked of Him, shall I
come to You now. or wait
until You calI?'
Aurora's prayer while
the TchetchenS were
searching the rocks for
her, when she wondered
whether to take her own
life. She thinks God
told her to live, and after
wards she was glad she
threw the knife away.
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INTO service. He helped the Turkish officials
at Van mobilize an army there and had taken
part in the Armenian massacres at that city.
He had been ordered to report to General Won
der Goltz at Aleppo, where the German COM
mander was organizing Turkish soldiers for
the Mesopotamian armies. But when he
reached Diyarbekir there was news of the
Russian advance toward the Caucasus, and he
had been ordered, by telegraph, to wait at
Diyarbekir for instructions The two other
officers were ieutenants, who had accom-.
panied him from Van, and they, too, were
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The Only Christian Armenian Girl to Escape at Last
from the Numbering Turks and Kurds and the
Wicked Harems Of the Sultan BloOdthirsty Officials
Reveals, for the First Time. Details Of the
Wholesale Massacres and Seizure of Thousands Of
Young Women, Which She Witnessed
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Continued Merit Sunday
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CAUSA SORPRESA LA......
Niene de la 3a.l

mazda por Ia Supreme Corte de JUS
ticia de California, en- ell case de
Mooney, Sc sabe que muchos de ellos
Sc muestran disgustados por ell efccto
que Ell case del citado %anaruuista ha
estado teniendo en- Russia, en- donde
no ha dejado de influenciar a Ia
opinion pdblica de csc pals, respccto
a los sentimientos de j~usticia en- los
Estados Unidos.
Sc ha informado al Presidente VIII
son que Ia acci6n de los Estados Uni
dos en- Russia Sc ha visto grandemen-
te embarazada por los relatos de a.
gunos rusos que han regresaGo a s.;
pals, ~procedentes de los Estados Uni
dos. Y quienes han aprovechado 81
case del anarquista dicho para hacer
yer a Il paisanos la falta de sinceri-
dad en- la politica democratica de los
Estados Unidos.
FL elemento Official opina que la Uni
ca esperanto que lie queda d Mooney
ahora, es Ia elemental del g~obernador
del Estado de California.
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Bryan disgusf2do per ST.
ffaCasO en- Toronto

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Mario 2.-William
Jennings Bryan, el lider prohibicionis-
ia Y ey-candidato por infinidad de
veces a Ia ~presidencia de Ia RepIbli-
ca, dijo esta noche que antes de 81
arribo a Toronto, a donde fue recien-
temSnte a hacer propaganda prohibi-
cionisCa, So habia organizado una cam
pana en- su contra, para c~rearle enc
mistakes e impopularidad entire los
cansdienses Y atribuye a estos esther
EOS de determinadas personals, 10 CUE
le ocurri0 en- Toronto cuando trat6 De
hablar en- IN mitin prohibicionista.
Agrego el lider americana que err
IN peri6dicc de Ia mencionada ciuiad
Sc habia publicado un editorial CUE 70
era mas cue n ~incitaci0n a. motin,
Y que en- los articulos de fondo de
otras muchas ~publicaciones, Sc de-
claraba que las personals responsabIes
de su ida . Toronto, merecian TN pro-
ceso sumarisimo. "Es indudable. agre-
go Mr.. Bryan, que estos editcriales
contribuyeron muchisimo q que Sc me
impidiera hablar. Los ~peri6dicos Tue
me atacaron, r los dnicos que en-
Toronto tenian ~anuncios de escshleci-
mientos de bebidas.
"Se ha exagerado g~randemente Ell
incidente en- muchos ~lugares, V Sc ha
tratado de demostrar que ell Canada
me rechaza. En- realidad solo IN dos
por ciento de los concurrentes al mi
tin Sc mostro hostil Y este dos por
ciento, que Sc dijo estaba tornado Dor
soldados procedentes del frente, pero
que no llevaban ell uniforme. habria
sido expulsado del local, 81 yo no hu-
biese intervenido."
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Fox-Trot,-Netcalf, Arz.-CnanN
do fue derrocado Luis NFl. Sc al2o
ergo del gobie.no de Francia IA
Convention Nacional; despues Sc or
o6niz6s el Directorio que goberno a
7~,anc;a hasta Ell Consulate. SiSndo
N,apoleon 3onaparte Primer Consul
. MO coronar Emperador Y con
ste caracter gobern6 q Francla mas
"a one, desoues de Ia derrota &c
L.ainzig V habiendo sido depuesto
nor 81 Senado, sali5 para Ia Isl" de
E,ha. Inmediatamente, en- virtud del
rra1ado de Paris, fac resta|rad" en-
a trono Luis NVIII, hermano del que
muri6 en- el p~atibllo. Y cuanao Ma
pSle6n vo.vi6 de ia isla y Sc Hzo
cargo nuavamente del gobierno por
espaeio de Glen diaS. Luis AFlll 3
Vii obligado a salir de FrancIa. bes-
mics de IA derrota lie Waterloo, Ma
pvle5n abGic6 y volvi6 a hacerse GA
90 ae, goaierno LUIS XVIII mast"
81 muerte ha5iendo sido sucedld' en-
81 trono por 81 Aermano que Iena'
con Ell nombre de Carlos :, Fue su-
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Duscan en- yano dos
majeres que Sc
. a%hogaron

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Mario 1.
Durante TODD ell dia de aver, la poll
cia V varios soldados estuvieron prac-
ticando trabajos de draga en- las
aguas de la bahia de este puerto, con
ell obieto de yer ST Sc podian recobrar
los cuerpos de dos muieres, Miss Ma
RE Mauer Y Mrs. Veryl Nellinger,
que, segIn sc sabe, perecieron aho-
gadas el martes en- Ia noche, mientras
cruzaban el estrecho para dirigirsc
al Fuerte Siocum en- una canoa, en-
compania de dos soldados.
Un manguito, que Sc cree era de Ia
propiedad de Miss Mauer, fue recogido
aver en- Ia manana 4 primeras horas,
en- ia playa de Glen Island, por 10
que Sc tienen sospechas de que las 81
sodichas mujeres hayan sido victimas
de algun otro accidente.
Por de pronto, los dos soldado5 que
las acompanaban, Charles Petit y RI
chard Lamb, han sido ~detenidos ! Sc
italian presses en- ell hospital del iuer-
tie mencionado, pendie1tes de una IN
vestigaci01n por parte del coroner John
Stella.
La c~reencia del coron-r ez c@e G
~accidente no pudo haber sido causada
por una via alberta en- el bote como
10 explicaron los soldados y para in
vestigar bien Ia question, Sc proce-
do a hacer IN dragado, cuyo r~esulta.
do ha sido infructuosc, pues nj los
cuerpos de las mujeres, pero nj ell botc
Sc logr0 ]encontrar.
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LAS IRONIAS DEL DESTINO.
Nlene de la 2a.l

clo. In el Canada estuvo emp,eado
como Instructor de aviaci6n, en- 81
campamento de Mohawk cerca de
Toronto. En- este periodic estuvo ex-
puesto a morir por un accidente. FL
tanque de gasolina de IN ae~roplano,
plioteado por un estudiante, al cual
estaba instrayendo, tomo fuego Y Ia
nave Sc incendio. Ell estudiante fue
encontrado carbonizado y ell captain
Castle herido. A commences de este
lnvlerno el c%ontingente de aviadoras
DEL Canada fue enviado a Texas, o
el captain Castle entire los i~nstruc-
torres, y en- uno de los vuelos en-
la muerte.
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LAQUEBRADURA
CURADA
I've V. a este albanil cerran-
no la abertura en- esa pared?

ESa eS
"a forna
en- que
yC euro
II que
bradura.
Relic
nanao "a
abertura
con nue.
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cedido en- el trono por Luis Felipe
de Orleans que goberno hasta 1S4S
en- que fue ~proclamada Ia RepubIca.
NAPOLEON III goberno a Francia con
el cardcter de Presidente, primero,
pero ell . de Diciembre de 1852 do
81 golpe de Estado y Sc proclamo
Emperador habiendolo sido hasta
que cay6 ~prisionero de los alemanes
en- 1871, ano Ell que abdico Y fue
proclama por segunda vez Ia Re-
publica que u subsis;e.
Napoleon Ill era sobrino de M
poie6n |. pues era hijo de Luis b.
naparte hermano de este y de Hor-
sencia de Beauharais hija del pri-
mcr matrimonio de IA esposa de Ma
poie6n el Grande, que s~e.naron en-
Holanda.
Napoleon | case en- primeras nup-
ciaS CON JoSeiina cue Sc l!am0 an
.tes Maria Tascher de "A Pagerie Y
que era viuda del Condo de 6e2uhar-
luais. Repud;&G~ por esteril, Il case
, en- segundas nIpciaS con Ia princssa
2ustriaca Maria Luisa Y de este ma,
trimonic fgt hijo ell que recibi0, a.
nactr. cl titulo dc Rey de Roma, que
Is considerable en- IL historic como
Il Napoleon II Y Que murio el anc
de 1882 4 la edad de veintiun amos
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vo Y mas fuerte material.

vo Y mas fuerte material.
Una queDradura Is Simplemente
una abertura en- una pared-!a pa
red De musculo que proteje los m
testi1os V otros organos internos.
Is cast tan facil curar una he
rida o rotaIa en- este muScuIo CO.
NO una en- IN br2Zo 0 manO.
Sin embargo eita rotrra tai Vez
no ea mas g-ande qae Ia yema de
IN dedo.
Pe1o es 10 suficien:e grande pa
r. ugrmitir que parte de los inteS-
tines oasen 4 traves. Por SupUeS-
to e4to 10 puede cicatrizar 4 me-
nos que Ia naturaleza sea asisiida.
y ESQ es preciSamente 10 que nj
Me;odo hace. lie fermite a '. re-
tene- Ia protusi0n ae2tro de II pa
red en- su propio s:tio-
DesYuts doy . V. el D~esa-rol!an-
te LymphO para aplicar sobre ~
abertura de IA quebradura- Este
penetra 4 traves de IA piel hasta
los 5ordes de Ia abertura ' remue-
We ol anil!o calIcso Que Sc ha for
mado alrededor de Ia rOtura.
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z. T. de A.-Courtney, Mo.-Para
10 primero es bueno que lc de a IA
ming unos banos de asiento en- aqua
de salvado cae Sc prepare poniendo
q hervir aqua V colocando c. ella m
co:taliro pequeno conteniendo saliva
do y bien cosido para que no Sc
saga; despues de hervir IN ratio Ell
aqua Sc pone de I'm color lechoso.
Estos banos Sc les debe dar dos o
t"es vece: diariamente hasta que le
deSaparezca la molestia que nos in
dic2. Para el estrenimiento ruede
usar las pildoras universities del Dr..
Nc L2&n de 2cuerdo con las instruc
clones que aconpanan a cada fras-
cviso. 7 por 10 que hace a la cnfer-
medal de los ojos. sobre Ia ne nos
corsulta, nos a5stenemos DE- darla
el remedio que desea por ser suma-
mente delicados. Pero en- Gambia, le
dam2s e, ~consejo de que yea a III
ocnlista cuanto antes para que rsro-
noZca a la nina, Y lie Olga que es
10 que tiene Y que es 10 que Sc dHbe
nacer,