Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

the choicest ones, the handsomest
girls, and the best educated ones for
their harems. And let me tell you
that, one of these fiends from hell has
Dragged to me that every night for
year he had sacrificed a Christian
maiden to Mohammedanism and then
killed her. This is the Government
which the people of America are ask
ed to act as foster mother to. If the
stories of Christians in the East can
reach the heart Of America, nothing
would ever be done to save the Turk
from the penalty of his own vile
deeds.
For while i was in Biridjik, on
the banks of the Euphrates river.
There is an old castle there, so old
that no one knows who built it. 1t
dates back to old Roman days. In
this castle thousands and thousands
of Armenian women and children have
gone never to come out alive. Their
bodies have floatcd down the Euph-
rates and on any sand bar can be
found the remains of their bodies.
They were not even decently killed.
The Turk can do nothing decent. He
has nothing decent about him. They
were outraged and tortured and
butchered horribly.
When | reflected the city of Aintab,
which lies at the foot of the Tarus
mountain, it was just beginning to
fill up with refugees and was full OF
hungry, starving, dirty, diseased Ar
menians. I picked up a thousand
boys and girls off the streets in few
weeks and turned them over to an or
phanaae we had established there.
They came from every part of that
section. Some of them had been driv-
| en- 1000 miles. Many came from
homes as good as yours and mine.
Many of the girls had been as tend
erly brought up as yours and mine
and they had been subjected to such
treatment as only the Turk has ever
been able to imagine.
| One day l received two letters from
an Armenian sergeant in the Ameri-
can army, which had been passed up
to me through military channels TO,
for censorship. One was for the
boys father, telling him that he had
been a sergeant in the American
army, that he was out then and was
prospecting and that he was coming
over to get his father and bring him
to America. l found that his father
had been among the first victims of
massacre.
The next letter was to his fiancee.
She was supposed to be one of the
Iprettiest girls in the city. | found
the girl to be one of the wives of
the most notorious Turk official in
that section of the country. His
place was some distance out and ever
the long arm of the British army
had not been able to reach him.
One morning a young American
came to my office and asked me to
help him rescue the girl he intended
to marry. l found she was in the
home of a notorious Turk who brag
ged that he had killed more than 100
Christians. L took it up with the
British officer who had charge of res
cue work and he said we would have
trouble in trying to take that girl
away. "Well," l said, "You know
very we'll l am going to have the girl
and would like for you to send for
her this morning." and he did, She
came in in the course of an hour in
Islam's veil, leading little child two
or three years old and she had baby
in her arms. The officer said the
boy would never marry that girl. l
did not know. said to him, "You
see what has happened. Do you still
want to marry this girl?" He looked
at me almost scornfully, "Of course
want to marry her. Don't you
think l knew her condition? l know
the Turk and l know the Armenian
woman. Yes, I want to marry her."
| asked the girl if she wanted to leave
her Turkish husband and marry this
young man. She threw the veil over
her head and looked upon the young
man whom she hoped to marry and
tears ran down her cheeks. She
said, ooh yes, l want to marry him
if he wants me after all 1 have been
through" and I said, "What about
these children ?" She said she would
like to keep them. I asked the boy.
He said, "They are her children. If
she wants them, will bring them up
like they were my own" This is the