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The story briefly told in the press dis- patches recently about four young ladies, who traveled alone across the Indian terri- tory and Oklahoma, of necessity omitted the romantic features of that famous jour- ney. The trip was made in September from Fort Smith, Ark., west to Beaver City, in “No Man’s Land,” on the western border of Oklahoma, by four determined and reso- lute young women of Conway county, Ar- kansas. This party was composed of Misses Aques and Myrtle Stanton, Mary Esterbrook and Nellie Stevens. The trip was suggested by Miss Esterbrook early this year, and it was so novel and romantic that the others quickly consented, and with the consent of their parents, the preparations were made for their journey. The young women were “raised,” as thé vernacular goes, in Conway county, and were accustomed to the care ef horses and outdoor work. The Equipment. They decided to start from Fort Smith on the border of the Indian territory, and early in the month of September the long jour- ney was begun with an ordinary farm ‘wagon and a trusty team of horses. The Wagon was covered with heavy ducking, thick enough to turn the average western rain. Cooking utensils and a supply of provisions sufficient until Guthrie was reached and a sufficiency of bedding were packed into the deep wagon box like sar- dines. The first one hundred miles lay through the beautiful Cherokee nation and the first town of importance was Talhequah, the capital, which is situated on the banks of the Lllinois river, a small, but beautiful clear stream, which empties into the Ar- kansas twenty miles to the south. The two nights out before reaching Tahlequah were without incident, except the visit received from a band of Indians on the second even- ing from the village of Waululah. The young ladies had picketed out their horses for the night and were resting about the cheerful fire, which they had built near the wagon. The evening meal had been served and Miss Stevens was entertaining her compan- fons by picking “Home, Sweet Home,” on the guitar. Music never sounded sweeter and as the strains were wafted down the stream by which they had camped it fell upon the ears of the drowsy red men at the village two hundred yards distant. The daring young heroines were not expecting @ visit from the noble red man, but before they were aware of it four big bucks stood as if thunderstruck within thirty feet of the camp drinking in the melody of the guitar. hen the music died away the Indians simply nodded their approval and returned to their camp. The presence of campers :in that was a common oc- currence, but the four big bucks will never know how badly the young women were frightened nor how happy they were when the red men returned to their wigwams. At Tahlequah the four young lady adven- turers attracted a great deal of attention. Here is the capital of the Cherokee nation, and here are located all of the leading In- dians of the tribe. It is the social center of the nation, and the young men and women, half and quarter breeds, whose skin is whiter than that of the four sunburned young women from Arkansas, eyed them with a degree of disgust which was any- thing but pleasant to the travelers. The campers left Tahlequah the next morning bright and early, glad to get away from the peering eyes of Tahlequah’s society leaders. The journey from Tahlequah to Fort Gib- son was made in one day, and the party went into camp on the banks of the Neosho river, several miles above. They located in @ grove of giant trees, where for the first time during the trip they heard the familiar warble of the Arkansas hoot owl. In speak- ing of this Miss Myrtle Stanton said she felt that they were not beyond the borders of civilization. For Seven Days. For seven days the trip continued in a northwesterly course along the Arkansas river, where they passed many Indian set- tlements and not a few well-cultivated farms. In describing this part of the jour- ney Miss Esterbrook said: “To the person who has not visited this country I cannot adequately describe the many changing scenes to be observed on every side. There is no section of the United States so inter- esting to the lover of nature. The atmos- phere in the sunny month of September is pure and transparent, and seems to bathe the very heart with gladness. Our journey was parallel to the Arkansas river for a distance of nearly 100 miles. The gigantic trees, the dense follage, hanging vines and sluggish brooks, all indicated quiet, peace and contentment. Sometimes we scrambled up broken hills, from the summits of which we had extended views over wide prairies, diversified by groves and forests, and on the other, ranging along a line of blue and shadowy hills to the south, beyond the waters of the great Arkansas. Who could not enjoy such a trip? “We were in the region of adventure, and while many explorers had gone before, and} the once uninhabitable country was now in the possession of the noble red man, the ab- sence of well cultivated farms, towns and villages invested this part of the trip with special interest. The weather was in its perfection; temperate, genial and enliven- ing, a deep blue sky, an air pure and bland, and a beautiful country stretching out far and wide in the golden sunshine of an autumn day. An occasional band of Indians, now then a camp of hunters and fishers, and a world of birds whose plumage and song attracted and received our complete admiration. At night when we retired for rest from the tedious travel of the day, the whippoorwills and big hoot owls would lull us to sweet slumber by their concerts. In the morning at first peep of dawn the mock- ing bird, the blue jay, the wren and the brown thrush would greet us with their mediey.” None but brave and resolute women would have attempted such a trip as this unac- companied by escorts. But with a firm de- termination to complete the trip and with! confidence in their own courage, these dar- ing young women, undaunted by the dis- couraging obstacles that rise up in the path of the adventurer, pushed ahead, and after the first few nights out did not care for the solitude that surrounded them. Of course they were in several very hard and drench- | ing rains, but they were prepared for such a contingency and were not disturbed. When they reached the mcuth of the Red Fork, twenty miles above the crossing of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad over the Arkansas river, they changed the course of their journey westward along that river, with Guthrie, the capital of Okla- homa territory, as the objective point. For) thirty miles to the west and south until | the eastern border of Oklahoma territory | was reached the journey was a perilous one. A great many Indian habitations were passed, but the country was broken and rough, and for three days the four resolute wanderers longed for another look upon the open prairie. They had passed through forests and over hills and rocky summits covered with scraggy oaks and were fa- tigued and discouraged. Finally they cross- |ed a great divide and came upon a heau- | tiful level country, which stretched out many miles before thera. They could trace the meandering course of numerous small streams skirted with timber and covered with beautiful green foliage. The landscape was delightful to look upon, and scattered over the broad expanse of prairie and along the smiling valleys were many farm houses, the first sign of civilization since they had crossed the eastern borders of the Cherokee nation. They were in Oklahoma and rejoiced thereat. | Under a Roof Again. | Im the evening of the first half day's travel in this new world the four young ladies picked upon a nice grove near the home of Capt. John T. Wilson, whose quarter section of lund adjoins the town site of Cimarron City. Capt. Wilson ob- served their movements in picketing out their horses and prevaring for the camp for the night and noticins; that they had |no gentleman escort walked down to their wagon and introduced Limself and vite them to share Ais home for the riche eke invitation was accepted and the young la- | dies acco ied him to his house, where they met Mrs. Wilson, her daughter and two sons. ‘The evening was passed dis- cussing the perilous journey and during the conversation it was learned that the father of Miss Stevens was a comrade of Capt. Wilson in the confederate army, both hav- ing served under Kirby Smith's command and participated in some of the hardest fought battles of the war. sas heroines == now in the 8, ‘he former reservation of the Iowa and after a day and a half’s travel reach Guthrie, where a new supply of provisions and feed for the team was purchased. ‘The journey was continued in a westerly direction, and after a two-days’ drive they reached Kingfisher, where they remained over night as the guests of the Oklahoma House. They were glad to take this long- needed rest from camp life and in order to Test the team they remained over Sunday. Their presence was the talk of the town and a number of young gentlemen called on them at the hotel and wished them a pleasant journey during the remainder of the trip. They had yet 200 miles to travel before they reached Beaver City, their place of destination, and they started on the lonely journey over the great desert before them with a feeling of regret. However, they had determined to make the trip, and that reso- lution should be carried out. Across the Desert. They followed the Red Fork for a distance of seventy-five miles and the second day out from Kingfisher found them in the Cherokee strip. They crossed the Santa Fe railroad at a station called Nimrod, camping there over night. From this point they traveled west a distance of thirty miles, when they touched the Beaver river on the opposite side from Fort Supply. They camped in a beautiful grove on a gently rising knoll where they could overlook the fort and ad- mire the grand prairies that stretched off to the south for many miles. This location was so pleasant that the beng ladies did not break camp for three 3. The journey was resumed and after fi cays’ travel and four nights passed on the lonely prairies, the party reached Beaver City, the capital of No Man’s Land. The news of their coming had preceded them by the stage, and the people of this frontier town were ready to extend to the Arkansas heroines a genuine frontier welcome. They were quartered at the principal hotel and for four days the attentions of the people were showered upon them. Having been on the march for nearly one month the young ladies were anxious to return to their mountain home in Arkansas, and after sell- ing their team and wagon, including their camp supplies, for $240, they employed a liveryman to take them to Liberal, the near- est railroad station, where they purchased tickets for Kansas City and started on their journey home. On their arrival at Fort Muth they were accorded a splendid reception for the cour- age and daring displayed in making the perilous journey. ——---—-+e0__- PRISON LIFE IN ENGLAND. Iron Discipline Universally the Rule Disorder of Any Kind Almost Unknown. A comparison of the rules of an American prison with those of an English prison, made by the Boston Herald, shows that the American prisoner has many more comforts and liberties. A man in an English prison is almost as dead to the outer world as he would be in his tomb. Nothing in the way of food or reading matter can be sent in to him by his friends. He is never permitted to see a newspaper or a magazine. He can write and receive letters only at long in- tervals, and from the time he enters the prigon until he leaves it he is not permitted to speak unless he is addressed by a prison officer. A prisoner sentenced for a term of three years or less may see a visitor once in three months in the presence of a prison officer, and he may write one letter. To men whose terms are longer such privileges are granted less frequently. For the first month the prisoner's bed consists of nothing but a broad board like a table top, three or four inches above the floor of the cell. He has no mattress, and the bed clothing consists of a rug, a blanket, a pillow and two coarse sheets. At the end of a month, if he has earned a sufficient number of good conduct marks, he has a mattress three nights a week. Later he has a mattress five nights a week, d at a still later stage, if his conduct has been unexceptionable, he may have a mattress every night, He has also in his cell a bucket, a water can, a tin washbowl, a towel, a soap dish,a salt cellar, ‘a wooden spoon and a tin plate. He never has a knife or a fork, and he has nothing to eat requiring the use of these imple- ments. He must get up at 6 o'clock, and his breakfast is brought to him at 7:30. He eats every meal in his cell. In the first stage of his imprisonment he has only bread and water for breakfast, and for dinner a pint and a half of “‘stirabout,” a gruel-like mixture of oatmeal and Indian meal. In the fourth and best stage of his imprison- ment he has a pint of porridge with his bread for breakfast, and a better dinner, but even the fourth-stage bill of fare is never changed throughout the year. There are no holiday dinners nor an extra dish on Sundays, as in some of our American pris- ons. Not all the prisons have workshops at- tached to them,and where there is no work- shop a man who has a labor sentence must go on a treadmill for two hours and a half in the morning and for two hours and three-quarters in the afternoon. In some prisons there js a worse kind of labor than even the treadmill. It consists of turning a heavily-weighted crank, which serves no purpose whatever except to record the num- ber of its own revolutions. A day's labor consists of from 8,000 to 10,000 revolutions. In other prisons the prisoners are set to pumping water. As this serves some pur- pose it is not so depressing as the crank movement. The entire system of discipline in English prisons is military in its rigidity, and it is never relaxed. There are no dem- onstrations” of discontent, of delight or of contempt on the part of the prisoners; pan- demonium is never reproduced, as it is in prisons in some of the states; the hooting and whistling, the yelling and “cat-calling” in which American prisoners sometimes in- dulge are never even remotely imitated in an English prison. The English convict is not by nature more respectful or orderly than the American convict, but he knows that disobedience will be immediately pun- ished; he knows that the statutes of parlia- ment have framed the conditions under which he is to serve out his sentence, and that the power and the system of the pris- on are such that he must obey the rules or suffer the consequences. Escapes from English prisons are sc rare that they as- sume the character of marvels. ——___+ e+ RUSINESS IN DISGUISE. Mrs. Tomkyns Gets Some Notes Which Excite Her Disapprobation. When Mr. Snoozleby Tomkyns looked over the mail at breakfast one morning this week, he frowned. Then he looked across the breakfast table at his wife and mildly ejaculated: ‘Cuss it “What is the matter, my dear?” inquired | Mrs. Tomiyns, soothingly. “There isn’t anything for me in the lot,” he replied, handing the whole batch of let- ters over to her. “Only tea cards and such truck, some of them addressed to ‘Mr. and Mrs.’ That is you, of course.” “Iam glad you acknowledge that I am the whole family,” said Mrs. Tomkyns. “How- ever, I have a suspicion of such things as these nowadays. Ah, I thought so! This tea card proves to be our butcher's bill. He sent me one like it last month. It seems to! be the latest style for tradesmen to mail their little accounts in such dainty guise. Permit me to return it to you, darling.” “Thanks!” rejoined the head of the faml- ly. “That one you are opening now is ob- viously a wedding invitaticn.” Mrs. Tomkyns giggled. exactly, my dear,” she said. “The card, which is quite handsomely engraved, informs us that we are invited to inspect a very complete and appetizing assortment of the finest. groceries at the new shop of Blank & Co. Very polite, is it not?” “Awfully so. What's the next one? “I guess this is a real invitation Mrs. Tomkyns. “I think I recognize the gular handwriting. No, I declare! It is from Clumps, the shoe man. He wishes to call our attention to his unequaled line of foot- wear of every description, particularly ladies’ slippers.” What infernal nonsense. “Snoozleby, your language is unnecessari- ly strong. This sort of thing is the latest feshion. I got an advertisement yesterday that wes scented with Jockey Club. With your approval, I will leave the rest of these invitations to be examined after breakfast.” “By all means,” said Mr. Tomkyns. “But I would like to know what is the use of sending business notifications in such disguise?” “Why. you goose, the object is to make sure that they will be examined, instead of being thrown away without perusal. Kindly help me to another of those sausages.” said a AR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1893-TWENTY PAGES. A VERY CURIOUS MAN He Seemed Able to Take Himself to Pieces With Ease. HIS HEART HID {N HIS STOMACH Shifting His Anatomy About at Will. HIS KNEE CAP WAS LOST “Is this a medical college?” asked a good- looking young man of stout build, a some- what florid face and musical voice one night last week at the door of one of the Wash- ington schools of medicine. A student told the young fellow he tad made no mistake in the character of the place. “I want to see the perfesser,” continued the visitor. He was shown in to the doctor who was to lecture that night and at once proceeded to tell his errand in a low voice. The stu- dents took their seats, the professor rapped for order, and the stranger began to dis- robe. The audience, expecting a clinic, was dumb with curiosity. The customary quips and cranks and wanton wiles of the hour were forgotten. In a moment the “subject” stood before them, wearing nothing but a smile. Evidently he was in good health and it did not appear that any part of his auat- omy needed amputation. The interest of the students became breathless. What could this stout, vigorous young man be doing in such a place. Suddenly he gave a peculiar tossing con- vulsion of the muscles of the forearm and his wrist was thrown out of joint. Another convulsion of the muscles of the upper arm followed and his elbow was dislocated. Still a third twist of his muscular shoulder and he had thrown the ball and socket joint of the shoulder out of joint and stood there with the entire articulation of the arm dis- arranged. Such a sight not even medical students had ever seen before. But the prodigy had hardly begun on his repertoire. He told the boys to look sharp, and in a twinkling had shifted the triceps and biceps, or the large muscles of the upper arm, into each other's places. The big biceps’ muscle, the one every athlete likes to show by doubling up his arm, was on the under side of the arm, and the small- er muscle, the triceps, was above in the pre- cise position of the biceps. Without putting anything back in its place, this very disorderly and disorganizing young man then stuck out his foot and one after another disjointed his toes. After that he unhinged his knee and lifted the femur, or thigh bone, out of its very nicely fitted socket in the pelvis. It verily seemed as if the visitor was coming all to pieces, like a sawdust doll. All this, however, was merely a prelude to what followed. The boys by this time had crowded down in front, and amid many “Oh’s!” and “Ah’s!” had felt the freak’s muscles and bones over pretty thoroughly, to be sure he was flesh and blood and that what they saw was not the superinduced unreality of a hypnotic experiment by their professor. His Knee Cap Loni While they stood discussing the perform- ances of their strange visitor they suddenly observed that he was scratching his shoul- der with the toes of one foot. “I wish, perfesser, ye would jist find my knee cap?” ‘This very useful little bone, which the doctors call the patella, is fixed in the large tendon which passes over the knee joint ana acts as a fulcrum for the muscles of the thigh. Without it our walking would be neither graceful nor comfortable, al- though quite possible in a stiff-legged fash- fon. " “perfessor’” bent down and gave the 's knee a very careful examination. it isn't here!” he declared.“*You haven't any patella in that leg.” “Yes, I have,” said the freak; “look again.’ “Oh, here it is,” said the professor, as he pinched the joint harder than before. “Phat ain't no knee cap, sir,” said the subject, very positively. “If it is I'll eat it.” ‘fhe professor gave it up and one after another the boys began to hunt for the missing bone. At last, one more persistent than the rest, found it imbedded in the re- cess benind the knee, where several tendons from the muscles of the thigh are bunched together like the telegraph cables in an un- derground conduit. The freak had thrown the whole sartorial muscle, the largest in the human body, together with the tendon and patella, off the knee joint ani down under the limb. Expert anatomists will 1.ot belleve this until they have the good luck to see it done, as these Washington medical students did. 5 ‘The man now began to put his disjecta membra back in place. The joints of the toes and arm he threw back easily with the muscles attached to them. But to replace his thigh and knee cap he used his hands. Yet he restored them easily without special effort or any evidence of pain. “Now, feel my pulse,” demanded the sub- ject. A student took out his watch and counted the man’s pulse, holding his fingers, as cus- tomary, on the wrist. It beat about 80, an acceleration due to the exertion he had made in collecting himself together. “Now, what ts it? iked the man sud- denty. ‘The student felt again and looked annoy- ed. He pressed the tips of his fingers deep into the wrist and put on the solemn, verted e€pression that every stoctor w: when “taking” the pulse. “Well, I be »" exclaimed the young medic. He seemed to be baffled entirely in finding the man’s pulse. The professor tried it, and several of the students, all with like failure. “Well, perhaps,” said =te freak, with an apparent desire to help them out if he could, “perhaps you can hear my heart heat, and count that.” Down bent the professor head at she man’s thorax ind ne pressed his ear ciuse to the white warm ilesn of the subject. “1 can’t hear it at all,” 2c sati rt last, as he raised his face ftushed red with exertion. i Looking for His Heart. Volunteers tried it over and over, but the man seemingly had no heart, not a sound of it could be heard. In fact it was not there. Then began a protracted game of hide- and-seek between two-score much mysti- fled young medical students and the stran- ger’s cardiac organ. They thumped his ribs, felt him all over, and one zealous in- dividual went and looked in the freak’s vest pockets. But nowhere did they find it. It was not in front or behind and yet the man stood there alive, well and smiling at their chagrin. At length they gave it up, as boys and girls will a conundrum, and he told them. He had not put it in his pockets, nor hid it in his mouth. It was down close to the dia- phragm im the cardiac region over the stomach. Apparently he had partial, if not full control over the muscles of the heart. Whether he could stop its beating or not he did not say and he was not very anx- fous to try that experiment. Restoring his organ of affection to its proper place, somewhere in, and among his lungs, the strange Master of Himself whirled around and quick as a flash threw both his scapular or shoulder blades out of joint with the clavicles, or shoulder bones, and the humerus of each arm. “Hev ye a callin’ kyard?” he asked. A swell looking young med. accommo- dated him. “Just hand it to me back, sir.” The student held it out toward the man’s back and the two scapulars opened and shut on the card like a pair of pincers, For several minutes the man stood there holding the calling “kyard” firmly in the middle of bis back as if he had created a new prehensile organ where nature had intended nothing of the kind. The students broke into a cheer, some ‘wags remarked that this scapula perform- ance would become a fad with society la- dies this winter. and the Master of Him- self pushed his bones hack to their accus- tomed position and turned to thrust him- self into his trousers in the same matter-of- fact way in which he had taken himself apart and put himself together. To their questions the strange visitor told the students that he was not a nat- ural freak, but what he did was all 2 mat- ter of training. He beean when he was nine years old to practice disjointing his fingers, found he could unhinge his elbow and so went on doing more and more dif- ficult feats until he had control of almost every muscle in his boty. tncluding those usnally regarded »s involuntary. A student asked him to disjoint his jaw, ars but this he asked to be excused from doing. “I’ve done it,” he said. “Yes, sir, seven- teen times. [ can tell you every time and place. But it pains me bad and I won't do it ordinarily. it takes a good deal of power to put my jaw back in place again and I can't do it myself alone. “I make my living by this,” he said after awhile, as he buttoned his vest and slicked hic_necktie into place on his shirt bosom. “Yes,” replied a student, “we thought so,” and a derby not exactly brim full of jing- pias coins came from hand to hand toward im. “In the summer,” continued the Master of Himself. “I travels with a circus an’ in winter I am part of the apparatus in a medical college in Philadelphia. I much obleeged to ye for this little demonetized token ye give me. It'll take me over to Philadelfy—an’ evenin’, gents, evenin’ ‘As the professor announced that the lec- ture would be omitted the footfalls of the Master of Himself were heard echoing down the hall, Philadelphiaward. ———_ Written for The Evening Star. , TURKS AND ARMENIANS. ‘The Horrors of the Ottoman Rule Over a Christi: People. The Armenians at present are suffering dreadfully under the brutalizing yoke of the Turks. Every day poor and innocent Armenians are being arrested on the ground that they belong to secret societies and are revolutionary conspirators. Turkey is now persecuting her Armenian subjects on this pretext, so as not to arouse the indignation of Christian nations. But as in former years, these unfortunate people are now persecuted and oppressed solely for their Christian religion. Turkey’s complaint thar her Armenian subjects obtain citizenship in this country, not to identify themselves in good faith with the American people, but with the intention of returning to Armenia and there engage in sedition, is another Turkish fabrication. Educated men and women, through the false and absurd accu- sations of unscrupulous spies, and in de- fiance of all justice, morality and civiliza- tion, are thrown into dungeons of the vilest description and tortured most cruelly; live coals are put in the palms of their hands, ice cold water poured upon their body. The New York Press published the fol- lowing horrifying news on the 17th of. Oc- tober, 1893: “The captain of a Russian merchantman makes a startling discovery in the harbor of Constantinople. They were about to start home with return cargoes. Something very heavy caught the anchor. The cap- {taia at once thought he had discovered a new smuggling scheme. After considerable work the anchor was pulled off. It brought with it a number of large bags tied to- gether, such as used by Turkish merchants for shipping goods. They were filled with murdered human bodies, Further investiga- tion proved that they were the bodies of nearly three hundred Armenian political prisoners. Another horrible discovery simi- lar to this was made a year ago, in the harbor of Salonica.” When will this lamentable state of per- secution cease? Such a terrible state of affairs should at once arouse the Christian powers and in- duce them to address severe remonstrances to the Ottoman government for the amelior- ation of the conditions of our opp! people. We are a civilized people. Many of our countrymen are highly educated and long for education. A civilized people ought to be governed in a civilized manner; for such government the Turkish administration machinery is totally unfit, as all the world knows. We therefore hold that in justice we are entitled to home rule, but for the present we propose to bend our efforts merely to the attainment of that to which we are entitled in law, namely, the enforce- ment of article 61 of the treaty of Berlin: “The sublime porte undertakes to carry out, without further delay, the improve- ments and reforms demanded by local re- quirements in the provinces inhabited by the Americans and to guarantee their se- curity against the Circassians and Kurds. It will periodically make known the steps taken to this effect to the powers who su- perintend their application.” The fulfillment of this treaty has been shamefully neglected by the sublime porte at Constantinople. Tiridates the Great, the heroic king of our dear country, Armenia, may divide with Constantine the honor of being the first sovereign who embraced the Christian religion. About A. D. 276 the king Tirldates, of the race of Arsacidae, was converted by St. Gregory the li- luminator, like of of Arsacidae, Jateral branch of that family, which had long occupied the throne of Persia. In the year 311 A. D. Tirldates had to sustain a war against the Roman emperor Maxi- minus, in consequence of the hatred of the latter against Christianity. Armenia, by its industry, resources and genius, once supported a population of near- ly 35,000,000 souls; embraced a vast space of fertile and mountainous land in western Asia, bounded by the Black sea, the Cau- casus, the Caspian sea, the Persian gulf, Syria, the Mediterranean on the northeast and south sides, while Byzantium has twice in history formed the western limits of our ancient monarchy. Since it was brought under Turkish rule its natural re- sources have remained undeveloped, pasture and arable lands have been abandoned and are fast falling out of cultivation; rivers choked up, roads are broken, so that the country is now but sparsely inhabited and become almost a dreary waste. Armenia today is the helpless victim of oppression and robbery. There is neither protection for life nor security for property nor respect for honor. The Turks, Kurds and Circassians of the fiercest passion are free to roam about unbridled and uncheck- ed. The fortunes of the Christian Armen- fans are in the hands of these ferocious brutes, who are perfectly free to carry arms, while Christians are forbidden to do so. Fraud, trickery, gun and yatagan are all permitted to them by the Turkish gov- ernment for the furtherance of lustful and corrupt ends. The Mahommedan dynasty has Mved on to give an example of corruption and evil of every kind for which it would be hard to find a parallel among the worst of earlier dynasties. The Ottoman Turks have never been in any strict sense a nation. They be- gan as a band of robbers and such they have remained ever since. To a great part of their history, especially to their position in the present time, that description would apply in its fullness. The settied and self- styled civilized Turk is really more of a robber than the wandering barbarian. Others among the great empires of the world have done much wrong and caused much suffering, but they have for the most part done something else besides doing wrong and causing suffering. ‘The rule of the Turk, by whatever euphe- misms it may be called, means bondage and degradation. It is not an incidental evil which should be reformed, it is the essence of the whole system, the groundwork on which the Turkish power is built. D. K. VARZHABEDIAN. —- > Christmas Chimes. The following will be played upon the bells of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, cor- ner of 4 1-2 and C streets northwest, on Christmas day morning, commencing at 9:30 o'clock, by Mr. James R. Gibson: 1. “Christ- mas Chimes” changes, upon ten bells; 2. “Ring Out, Wild Bells!” Mrs. Abby Hutchin- gon Patton; 3. Old “Coronation; 4. “God 5 ‘he Blue Bells of Scotlan 6. dding March, “Lohengrin,” Wagner; 7. a, “Monastery Bells; b, “Ave Maria Stella,” Stoffel; 8. “Guide Me, Oh, Thou Great Jeho- vah,” Von Flotow; 9. “Ave Maria,” Schu- bert; 10. “Creation,” Haydn; 11. “Le Ca- rillon,” Streabog; 12. “Old Hundred.” ——_— Christmas Hymn. Written for The Evening Star. Long, long ago, in a country far away, Upon His mother’s knee the infant Jesus lay. Bright was the star that led the wise men on To find the sacred spot where Jesus Christ was born. Lowly was His lot, riches had He none, But a miehty love for every little one. ‘These blessed words He taught when He to manbood grew, “*Do unto others ever as rou'd have them do toyou." Years have passed away, He lives no more on earth And yet we keep the day of His most glorious birth, Dear children heed His words. be always kind and true, **Do unto others ever as you'd have them do to you.” THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFP’S cxtaicr THE HIGHEST AWARD MEDAL AN AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN D DIPLOMA EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1693. ‘One dozen bottles give as much strength and nourishment as = cask of ale intoxicating. It exalts the energies, stimulates nutri = ray oy eS SS nee Beware of imitations. ‘The “Genuine” has the Signature of “Johann Hoff” on the neck label of every bottle. EISNER & MENDELSON CO., Sole Agents, 162 & 154 FRANKLIN ST., NEW YORK. NEWS FROM GEORGETOWN Several Improvement Projects Being Talked About. The Dance Last Evening at Linthi. Hall—Various Matters That Are of Interest. Many influential owners of property in the western part of the town have begun to bestir themselves with the object in view of bringing that section prominently before the public through the making of extensive improvements immediately on the recovery of the financial market. Among the pro- posed projects are the extension of the Falls Church electric railroad and the Washing- ton and Great Falls route, the establish- ment of a line of electric launches on the canal, similar to those used at the world's fair, with @ capacity of about eighty each, and the erection of a number of business and private houses. The launches will con- nect with the Little Falls, Gien Echo, High Island, Sycamore Island, Great Falls, Cabin John bridge and other pleasure resorts on the upper Potomac and canal. Over $9,000 worth of West End property changed hands yesterday. C. P. Stone yes- terday bought of H. L. Irvine for $5,250 sub lot 184, square 40, Beall’s Addition, and J. D. Croissant sold to T. J. Staley for $3,000 lots 37 to 46, block 9, of Rosedale, on the Tenleytéwn road. A Successful Dance. One of the most charming and successful dances ever given at Linthicum Hall came off last night under the auspices of the 1 K. T., @ newly formed social organization. Those present were: Miss Agnes Peter, Miss Caroline Rittenhouse, Miss Lillie Cox, Miss Mary Wheatley, Miss Emma Casey, Miss Laura Wheatley, Miss Anna Dodge, Miss Josephine Davis, Mr. Duncan Bradley, Miss Violet Fassett, Mr. Freeland Peter, Mr. Carl Cooke, Mr. Geo. Duniop, Laird Blunt, Mr. Willie Dodge, Mr. E. Talcott, ae Dodge, Miss Sneed, Miss Gordon, Esi Miss H. Ingersoll, Miss Esther Dodge, Miss Belle Willet, Miss Lucy Heath, Miss Mabel Moffatt, Miss May | muscular, Bigsbee, Miss Mary Bradley, Miss Sallie Sigsbee, Miss Lucy Cox, Miss Landon Casey, . Harry Blunt, Mr. Boyd Matthews, Mr. Bradley and Mr. Gordon Sowers. Notes of Iuterest. = In a week or but little more the old choir at Christ Church will be supplanted by a quartet composed of Miss Doe, soprano; Miss Ross, alto; Mr. R. C. Balinger, tenor, and Mr. Watkins, basso. About the middie of February these will step out and the surpliced choir now being organized will thereafter furnish the vocal music. ‘The voices that have been selected are all excel- lent ones and promise to sound well in unison. A civil engineer who has studied the pro- posed Falls Church railroad routes states that over 75 per cent of the cost of con- struction can be saved by bringing the road to Georgetown and connecting on M street with the Washington and Georgetown route. The windows of the Tenleytown cars are kept so dirty that people on the sidewalks are unable to the color of the passengers, and the passengers experience difficulty in telling when they have arrived at their destination. “The grip is gradually disappearing for the present,” said a prominent physician this morning. “The ground and atmos- phere have become more equal in tempera- ture, and the upper and lower parts of the body In consequence so. All over a large Portion of the world it is sai@ this rather = condition of things has existed of e.”" Wm. 8. Jackson has begun to mend efter four weeks of close confinement. Mr. Benj. J. Darneiile, who is now study- ing at the Alexandria Theological Seminary, —— & reputation for himself as a de- r. Ol has been struck on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal a few miles from Cumberland and it promises to pay. Wells that were dug a few days ago have filled up several feet while lying idle. _ THE MOST STUBBORN Skin and Scalp Diseases, the worst forms of Scrofula, all blood - taints and poisons of every name and nat- ure, are utterly rooted out by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. For every disease caused by a torpid liver or impure blood, it is the only remed; 80 certain and effective that it can be guaranteed. If it fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. Eczema, Tetter, Salt-rheum, Ery- cual kindred ailment, are com- and permanently cured by it. Can this disease be cured? Most physicians say No—I say Yes; all forms and the worst cases. After 30 years’ study and experiment I have found the remedy.—Epllepsy is cured by it; cured, pot subdued by oplates—the old, treacherous, quack treatment. Do wot despair. Forget past Impositions om your purse, past outrages on your confidence, past failures. Look forward, not back- ward. My remedy is of today. 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