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Passing of the Gulf Storm Without Damage Caused Break in Cotton Lower Cables, English Labor Troubles and Favorable Weekly Weather Reports Inspired Liquidaton and Sh&rt Selling NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—The cotton mar ket opened barely steady at 15 points ad vance to 6 points decline. From tue fact that the south was a heavy seller, traders Sained the impression that the tropical storm Which hit the Louisiana coast last night, Was less serious than expected. Fine wcaf •r li eastern sections of the belt, poor ca bles, tne English labor troub.ees, and pros pects for a favorable we-.kiy weather re port at noon all contributed to the/easier feeling which prevailed. October advanced 15 points, to 28.90. at the start on cov ering, but offerings immediately increased pnd January was 5 poln s 'lower at 24.50. Bui.seqtietitly, the yhole list broke 35 to 40 points under the previous 'lose, October teaching 28.40 and January 24.47. More reassuring news regardbig the prog ress of ,tc* storm and a weekly r<>p and weather summary that has sel-iun k > exceeded -for optimism at tins season if the veat caused a renewal of her y s-.ilmg pressure a* midday under winch Hie mar re broke from 00 to 75 irits, letober reacaiur 28 cents and January 21.23. July •old a.t 21 ! 5, represenliu;- a new low record for the season. The arrival of southern advices noting declines of I to 2 cents in spot quotations, and a Liverpool cable to the effect that the coal strike prospects were becoming more gloomy, and that the cotton mill strike is likely to spread further, caused heavy sell ing pressure in the early afternoon that drove October down 145 points under last night to 27.30 c, and other months 93 to 110 points lower, January touching 23.92 c. NEW YORK COTTON The following were the ruling prices in .th. exchange today: Tone, steady; middling, 30.50 c, quiet. Last . Prey. Open High. Low. Sale. Close.‘Close. Jan. .. 24.85 24.55 23.92 24.25 24.20 24.85 Meh. .. 24.00 24.00 23.20 23.70 23.62 24.05 May .. 23.30 23.34 22.60 22.93 22.90 23.38 July .. ..... i.' 22.00 22.46 Sept. 28.30 29.20 * Oct. . . 28.95 28.95 27.35 27.85 27.80 28 75 Dec. ~ 26120 2(W20 25.00 25.3625~.33 26. i0' NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW RLEANS, Sept. 22.—After advanc ing on the first call to the extent -at 1 to 19 points on the more active months. on_ buying stimulated by the movements of rhe hurricane, the cotton market today• fell off because of the absence of any news snow ing that the disturbance uad worked any great damage in the belt. Al the end of the first hour or business prices were-. 30 '•> 3.1 points under the close of yesterday. October Worked up to 27.45 and fell off - io I'7. tip. The forecast of fair weather for practi cally the entire western half of tiie cotton legion and private cablegrams from Liver pool, reporting a serious labor and trade situation, ineeased the selling pressure against the market to such an extent that late in the-morning the active months were 70 to 102 L points under the emse of yester day, with Octqber down to 26.28 and March down to 22.65. Distant months were stead ier than the nears. The weekly crop reports from the govern ment were considered highly favorable and they increased offerings materially. At the lowest of the day October touched 26.00 c •nd the trading months were at net de clines of 81 to 130 points. Toward the elose there were, recoveries of 35 to 40 points from the lowes ton realizing by •horts and reports of a somewhat better feeling in the English coal strike situation. Market closed steady, at net declines of 49 to 100 points. NEW ORLEANS COTTON The following were the ruling prices in the exchange today: Tone, steady; middling, 28c, steady. Last Prev. Open High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.' Jan. .. 24.25 24.25 23.10 23.55 23.52 24.18 Meh. . 23.35 23.35 22.54 22.86 22.86 23.35' May .. 22.80 22.80 22.50 22.38 22.38 22.15 July ' 5... 21.80 22.12 Sept. 27.05 Oct. .. 27.05 27.45,26.06 26.30 26.30 27.30 Dec. .. 24.50 25.40 24.03'24.49 24;47 25.21 NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22.—. spot cotton, Quiet and unchanged. Sales on the spot, 51 bales; to arrive, 100. Low middling, 19.00 c; middling, 28.00 c; good middling, 30.75 c. Re ceipts, 2,652; stock, 200,869. LIVERPOOL^COTTON , Tone, steady; sa.'es, 5,000; good middling, «5.04 d. Open. Close. Close. Prev Jan 18.23 18.28 13.53 Feb 18.02 18.04 la. 23 March 11.82 17.80 18.03 April - ii. 57 17.70 May 17.00 17.34 17.54 J une 17.16 17, $ o July a. .. 16:98 17.17 Aug 16.75 16.9.; Sept. • ••■• .... .... 19.35 19.48 16.69 Oct 19.20 19.16 19.4a Nov 18.79 18.80 19.06 Dec 18.61 18.63 18.88 i SPOT COTTON MARKET Atlanta, sieauy, u2..>oc. New York, quiet, 30.50 c. I New Orleans, steady, 28p._ Philadelphia, steady, 30.75 c. Montgomery, steady (new), 20.75 c. Norfolk, steady. 30c. Sa’.. unah, s.eauy, 30c. St. Louis, steady. 33c. Houston, steady, 28.65 c. Memphis, steady, 31c. Augusta, steady (new). 29.50 c. Little Rock, steady, 28.50 c, Dallas, steady, 27.10 c. Mobile, steady. 28.50 c. Charleston, steady, 30c. Wilmington, steady, 286. Boston, steady. 31c. Galveston, steady, 29c. ATLANTA Sx UT COTTON Atlanta spot cotton 32.50 c Receipts •' _■ Shipments <,'£ Stocks ■■ ■ • 11,4(16 AMERICAN COTTON AND GRAIN EXCHANGE. COTTON QUOTATIONS The following were the opening liiglnsi t’.vist. ilcse sm! previous "lose quota lions on the American Cotton and Grair llxcbauge of New Yore Pre, Upon High Low Close <’:<••<• Jan 24.82 21.8-1 23.95 24.22 24.83 l'.-h .. 24.05 21.05 23.23 23,6. U.o> L-a'y . . 23.33 23.23 22.60 22.90 23.35 et ... 28.90 '28.97 27.30 27.80 28.7a Dec 211.15 2620 25.00 25.33 26.10 COTTON LiA--x~x' OPINIONS Hubbard Bros. A.Co.: "I nless the storm does severe damage, the action of the market in the past few days would hiihate that prices will probable ease off after the storm pass.s. It all depends on how much damage Occurs. ” Hirsch. Lilienthal A Co.: “The forecast 'for generally unsettled wet'tker over tun'll of the belt tomorrow will pro ably result tn a further advance.” Mayse & Holmes: “We believe tins storm •care is or- r.” LrfE A®Iw\XTA TOttnWKEKJA COTTONSEEQ OIL MARKET Opening. Closing. Jan 13.50@13.52 13.54@13.5G Feb. .. ; 13.50@T3.60 13.58@15.65 Meh 13.64@13.65 April 13.65@13.80 Sept 13.50@14.25 13.75 Bid Oct 17.79@17.80 13.77@18.80 Nov 13.47@13.55 13.38@18.67 Dec .13.50@13.51 13.25@18.27 Tone, steady; sales. 10,800. ATLANTA COTTONSEEL PRODUCTS MARKETS (Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Exchange) t rude oil basis prime, tank lots $10.75 $ll.OO C. S. meal. 7 per cent am- monia. 100-ton lots ... .. 51.00 53.00 C. S. meal. . Ga. common rate point. 100-ton lots .■. 50.00 52.00 Cottonseed hulls, sacked, car lots (new) 17.00 18.50 Cottonseed hulls, loose, car lots (new 10.00 12.00 Linters, firs tcut. high-grade lots, 4@6c. Linters, clean, mill run. 2@3c. Linters. No. 3. l@l%c. SHEPARD & GLUCK COTTON LETTER NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 22.—The sudden change of the course of the hurricane from the direction of Texas to the central por tion of the cotton belt and the fact that it wns not as violent a storm as expec.ed caused wide downward reactions in the cotton market today. Longs let go freely and bearish traders replaced short lines which they covered when the storm was In th" gulf. On tou of -this, English labor and •trade reports were extremely unfavorable •and London caUfil that the coal strike seemed certain. * For the time being the market lias few friends, GRAIN CHICAGO, Sept. 22. —Fresh declines in the price of wheat tobk place today owing to downturns in other commodities, but subsequently news of big exports of wheat caused a rally. The opening varied from unchanged figures to 2 cents lower. Whet closed strong, 3%c to net • higher. New low price levels for the season were reached in the corn market. After opening unchanged to 1 eent lower ,th emaraet broke all around, but'.then recovered somew hat. Corn closed nervous at the same as yes 'terday s finish to 13%c higher. Oats, like corn, dropped to lowest quota tions yet on the crop. Setbacks in the price of bog* and cor" had a depressing, effect, qn provj-sluns. s CHICAGO QUOTATIONS Tbe following were the ruling prices Hi the exebauge today: Pre, _ .. Open. High. Low. Close. Close wheat— Dec 2.32 2.37 2.28 2.36& 2.32 ' Mar 2.24% 2.30 2.23 2.30 2.26% CORN— Sept 1.23 1.37 . 1.22% 1.85% 1.23% Dec 1.04 1.06 1.03% 1.05% 1.05% May ....1.0-1% 1.06%.1104% -.65% 1.05% OATS— Sept 55% 57 5.5% 56% 56% Dec 59 60 58%’ 59% 59% May .... 63% 63% 62% 63% 63 PORK— Sept 24.75 25.00 Oct 24.75 24.75 24.25 24.75 25.00 LARD— Sept 19.95 19.95 Oct 19.80 20.20 1937 19.95 19.97 Jan 18.00 18.32 17.90 18.20 17.90 Sept lßS ~ 17. W 17-20 Oct 17.10 17.30 16.90 17.10 17.20 RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO Today. Wheat 64 cars Corn ...... 344 cars Oats 84 cars Hogs 11,000 head CHICAGO C/U3.X uuQTATIONS CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Cash 'wheat: No. 1 rod, $2.56; No. 2 red, $2.55; No. 1 hard, 45m 2.50. Corn—No. 2 mixed, $1.24@1.29%; No. 2 yellow, $1.28@1.31. Oats—No. 2 white, 58@59c; No. 3 white, 57@55%c. Eve—No. 2, $1.92@1.95. Barley—Bo@99c. Timolhv Seed —$6.00(7?7.50. Clover Seed —$18.00@25.00. Pork—Nam inal. I.'irrl—-119,95. Ribs—sl7.l2@l7.B7. “ ' GRAIN MARKET OPINIONS Bartlett. Frazier & Co.: Commitments in September corn should be closed up and a interest is yet to be settled. The oats market shows little or no buying power ex cept that cmoing from shorts, who are •bearish and see nothing to disturb their position. • , Clement-Curtis: Believe all grains should be sold on the advance. Harris. Winthrop & Co.:, We look for lower prices for all grains. ST. LOUIS - QUOTATIONS ■ ST LOUIS, Sept. 22.—Cash: Wheat—No. 2 red winter. $2.60; No. 3,. $2.59; Decern/ bcr. $2.37% bid: 'March, $2.30% bid. ( >rn- -No. 1 yellow, $1 26; No. 2, $1.26; December, $1.05%; ’May, $1.05% bid. Cots —No. 2 white, 60c: No. 3, 59@59%c; December, 59%'c bid. NAVAL STORES SAVANNAH. Ga.. Sept. 22.—Turpentine sthatiy. $1.36%; sales none; receipts 695: shipments 60; stock 14,110, . Rosin firm; sales 777: receipt! 1.931; shipments 442;* stock 47.61 Q. tjuote: B, D. E. F/ G, H, I, K, M, N, WG., $11.60@ 11.70; WW.. $11.70, ■ LIVE STOCK BY WIRE CHICAGO. Sept., 22;-r-Cattle —Receipts, 11,000; market very dull; opening sales best steers and yearlings about steady, $16.00@ 17. "0; grassy kinds-weak and uneven, most ly $9,004, !4.50: bologna bulls, $6,0(>@6.75; cannera, $4.25@4.75: steady; ' other she stock, $16.75@17.50; grassy calves draggy, $6.50(7?J1.50: Stockers, and feeders about steady; western receipts, 3.000; market opened .weak. Higs—Receipts, 11,000: uneven, 35c to Yoe lower than yesterday’s average; top earlv. .<1.7.65;. .bulk light and butchers, <1(;.'0@17.50: bulk packing sows, $l5.GO@ 15.90: pigs.- 25c lower. Sheep—-Receipts. z 23j000; very slow; pack ers bidding nneveifljv,. lower;, good native limbs sold $23.50: medium. sll .<lo@i2.oft: best range lambs held .around $13.75; feed ers ’steady: good lambs sold 13.40. EAST ,<T. lOT’TS. Sept. 22. Cattle: Re ceipts 7.000: Oklahoma steers 25c. lower.: top steers. $15.50: bulk. $9.50(7? 13.50- year ling steers and heifers steady: Conner tows steady, at $3.75(7?4.25: bulls steady; calves 70c higher: good and choice yealers, $16.75' @17.50; feeder steers'srtbadj. Ilogs—Receipts 7.500: 20c to 80c lower; top. $17.50; bulk light and medium, $17.35@ 17.65: bulk heavies. $16.50(7?’17 25. Sheep—Receipts 3. “00: 50c lower: ton Iqnibs. $12.00: bulk. $5.50: bulk. $5.00@5.50. T.O ISVILLE. Ky.. Sept. 22.—Cattle: Re prints 350. dull. Heavy steers.. $12.50@ 14.00: beef steers, $7.00(7,12.00;- heifers:, c0.50(7? 11.00: cows. $4.00(7?10.50; feeders, S7 50(7? 11.00: stoeknrs, $6.00@9.75. Hogs—Receipts 600. 25c lower; 250 pounds up. slfi.oo; 105 to 250 pounds. $17.50: 120 to 165 pounds. $17.00: pigs. 120 pounds down, $11.25(7712.75: throwouts, $12.50, down. Sheep —Receipts 70, steady. Lambs, $13.00; sheep,' $6.00, down. Brutal Turkish Cruelties Told by Armenian Girl Flsiting Her Bro th er Here i MMB l wir Ww 7 W • ‘ was MARYAM OURFALYAN, the Armenian girl, whose story of Turkish brutality, appearing in today’s Journal, is one of the most terrible ever told. She is in Atlanta now, staying with her brother at 88 Hood street. NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET NEW YORK, -’Sept. 22.—Law sugar, steady; contrifual, 16.78; sales 7,000 bags I’erus, 5,000 bags, Cubas and 8,000 bags Fortn. Bi eqs. Refined, steady; fine granu lated, 14.50. Close. Jan. ......................9.14@9.20 Feb ;..9.05@9.06 April 9.00@9.05 May 9.1ft@9.15 Sept 9.60@9.70 Oet. ... .. .... .... .9.55@9.65 Nov. ........ ... .x ........ ... .9.55@9.67 Dec ... ... 9.50@9.60 NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET Close. Jan ..... ...8.07@8.08 Feb 8.25@8.26 Meh 8.44@8.45 April 8.56@8.57 May 8.68(08.70 June 8.76@8.8d July 8.70@8.80 •Aug; ~ .... .' 8.88@8.90 Sept. ... ...I t.40@7.45 Oct. .A... ... ... ... .-.7.50@7.75 Nov. 7.65@7.70 Nov 7.89@7.90 NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Coffee, B%C. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Butter, creamery, extra, 57,@5J%c; creamery, standards, 53% @53%c; ■firsts, 48@55%5-; seconds, .43@47c. Eggs, ordinaries, 48@50c: firsts/ 53%@ 64 %e. Cheese, twins, 24%c; Young Americas, 26c. Live poultry, fowls, 34c; ducks, 28c; geese. 23c; springs, 31%c; turkeys, 45c. Potatoes, 69 cars: Jersey cobblers, $2.25. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Flour dull and easy. . Park—Steady; mess, $31.60@32.00. Lard—Easier; middle west spot, $20.60@ 2Q.70. Sugar—Raw, dull; centrifugal, 96-t'3St, 10.76; refined, dull: granulated, 14.50(013.00. Coffee:—Rio No. 7, on spot, B@B%c; No. 4 Santos, 13@13%c. Tallow—Dull: specials, 11c; city, 10c. Hay—Easy; No. 1, $2.35(02.40; No. 3, $2.05@2.15: clover, $1.90(32.30. Dressed Poultry—Quiet; chickens. 37@51c; fowls, 26@42c; dubks, Long Island. 88c. Live Poultry—lrregular; geese, 20e; ducks, 35@38c; fowls. 67@43c; turkeys. 40c; roost ers. '23c; chickens, broilers, 87@40c. Cheese—Firm; state milk, common to spe cials, 20@29%c; skims, common to specials, 5@17%c. Butter, firm; receipts, 8.705; cream try, extra. 61c.; do. special market, 61%@02c; state dairy; tubs; imitation creamery, firsts, 46(0600. nominal.- Eggs, firm: receipts. 17,389; near-by white fancy, 83@85c; near-by mixed fancy, 54@ 56c: fresh firsts, 57065 c; Pacific coast, 60@85c. Liberty Bonds NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Liberty bonds closed: 3%s .™ ~..590.26 First 4s 85.62 Second 4s ... 85.56 First 4%s 86.82 Second 4%s 85.78 Third 4:%S 88.8(1 Fourth 4’'|S 85.90 Victory 3%s 95 “o Victory 4%s 95.54 Money and Exchange NEW YORK. Sept. 22.—Prime mercantile paper 8. Exchange irregular. Sterling 60- day bills. 8.42%; commercial 60-day bills on banks, 3.42%: commercial 60-day bills, 3.42; demand. .3.47%; cablese, 3.48. Francs, de mand, 6.68; cables, 6.70. Belgian francs, demand. 7.05; cables, 7.07. Guilders, de mand 80.87; cables, 31.00. Llrese, demand, 4.30; cables. 4.32. Marks, demand, 1.63; cables, 1.64. , New York exchange on Montreal 9% per cent- discount. Government bonds irregular; railroad bonds irregular. Time loans strong; 60 days, 90 days and six months, B@B% per cent. BY WARD GREENE Five of us sat in the front room of a house on South Gordon street, listening to a story of the most hor rible brutalities any of us had ever heard. Four of us were newspaper men, the fifth. wa£ an interpreter. The only other person in the room was Maryam Ourfalyan. Maryam Ourfalyan is a little, brown-eyed woman, in years, but lit tle older than the average baby vamp of Peachtree, in experience about a thousand and two. Her brown eyes have seen— All her husband’s finger nails torn out by the roots; babies left to die by mothers too weary to carry them farther; other babies decapi tated when mothers refused to leave them; three girls tied together and killed by a single shot; an old blind man fastened to a donkey and then, beginning at his toes and going up to his eyes, sliced into little bits the size of sandwiches, a girl of eighteen stripped; naked, bound to a stake and split open from skull to feet by the single blow of a shovel. These are only a few of the things she has seen—mere incidents. She remembers more vividly the twenty four hours she stayed buried to her temples in manure, to keep tht Turks from getting her. It is one thing to read of Turk ish atrocities in Armenia, to hear of them, to become so bored with the thing that one makes crude jests about it, and laughs at cruder tests by the smart paragraphers. It is another thing to sit in the parlor of an Atlanta home, such a happy home as this very girl may have had once, and hear her tell with her own lips how four hundred men were half-buried in a trench at her front door so the Kurdish marks r. en might have their sport as you and I would go out to shoot clay pigeons. This girl is in Atlanta now. She is not the fictitious heroine of a movie, nor the paid writer for a magazine. You can find her any time out at 88 Hood street, the home of her brother, K. Garabed yan, a tailor in the Connally build ing, and, with the aid of an inter preter, she will tell her story to you. Our Interpreter was Stephen E. Phllibosian, head of the Oriental rug department of the Chamberlin .Tohnson-Dußose company. For our benefit he took Maryam Ourfalyan to his home on South Gordon street for the Interview. She sat in one chair, he sat in another, we four reporters lined up on the couch. It was just the setting needed to create the contrast—a phonograph over In one corner, a rose pillow on the floor, the hum of street cars in the distance, the noises of the sum mer night, children playing “I spy” in the front yard, a couple strolling by on their way to the drug store for ice cream. Her Story in English Then Maryam Ourfalyan began to talk. She spoke quietly, her brown eyes fixed on us, gesturing every now and then—as when she illus trated the method of slitting a throat —and weeping just a little, laughing once. This, in English, was what she said: “My name in your tongue is Mary. I am twenty-five years old. All my life I lived in the town of Pery, near Harpou, Turkey. I am an Ar menian, a Christian like all my peo ple. “When I was eighteen I married. My husband was an American citi zen. He had gone from Armenia when a boy to the United States, and worked In New York state for fourteen years. He came back to. me. and we were very happy. After awhile we had a little baby. “In the year 1914, when the war broke out. our little town was star tled by an order from the Turkish government. They, demanded all firearms from Armenians, all weap ons. even swords. The failure to comnly was the death penalty. “The arms were seized, but that did not satisfy them. A few days later orders were issued for the Im prisonment of every Armenian man. My husband, my two brothers-in-law, my father-in-law, my first cousins, all my male relatives, were taken with the rest. Some of the men were old and bed-ridden. They were dragged from their couches to the bastile. “After eight days in prison, my husband came home. Rather, we brought him home. He was so weak he had to be carried on a mule. All his finger nails had been torn out by the roots. The soles of his feet were burned off. Thus had the Turks tortured every man, yelling at them, ’Where is your God? Where is your Christ? Why doesn’t He save you?’ Some of them died in prison. “One month later, every man was seized again. We were told they were needed to build roads for the Turkish government. They were dragged away, beaten by the Turks as they went. Every day we sent meals to the men. One day the meals were sent back to me. I was told my husband was not at the prison any longer. Her Husband Shot “Twenty-four hours later I heard what had happened. The men were taken to the banks of a river, lined up and shot, every one. My hus band was among them. A young Turk who had worked in our house hold was there, and saw him die. He told me about it. He recognized my husband, he said, after the shoot ing, and went to him. My husband raised up on one elbow. He was about to speak his last words. At that moment a Turk passed down the line armed with a sword. He hacked every body as he passed, dead or not. My husband’s head was sliced off as he was about to speak. His body was thrown in the river. “Another month passed. Then or ders were issued for deportation of all women. We went to the gov ernor, we begged and cried on our knees to be allowed to remain. We tore our clothes, we told him he had taken our men, to let us stay or we die. “It was useless. We were told that if we refused to go we would be killed. When we knew that, I dressed my three brothers-in-law, young boys of fifteen or sixteen, in girls’ clothes. Orders were issued for the wealthiest and most influ ential women to be taken first. I was one of these. “The soldiers came to my door. I was on the step. ‘Come,’ they said, ‘You must go first!’ I pro tested. I asked them to let me get some clothes, at least to go and get my baby. They would not wait. They seized me and dragged me away. My little baby was lying on the bed in the back room. I could not see him. I could not even tell him good-bye. “I struggled to be free. I tried to escape. They slapped me and beat me and said, ’Why not come? You are all going to die, anyway! Not a single Armenian is to be left alive! It is the orders of the Ger man kaiser!' All I could do was to cry to a woman who was not taken to go back and ask my next-door neighbor, a Turkish woman to whom I had been kind, to look after my little baby. I did not know then whether the message was ever de livered. Babies Left to Die “So we began our march —400 wom en, many of them burdened with children, walking barefoot beside 400 Turkish soldiers, the jandarma, who rode horseback. As day after day passed, many women were worn out. The children were worn out, too. A mother would carry her child until the burden was too great. She would kiss it good-bye and leave it to die. Some mothers had three or four chil dren. They would carry one a block, then run back for another. But it was too much for them. “The jandarma were cruel. They took all our clothes except one long garment for every woman, like a nightshirt They took our shoes, they tore the jewels from our Angers, the rings from our ears. They would slap the women, and when they refused to leave the children, they would cut off the babies’ “So we went over heavy mountain paths, rocky and hard. On every side we passed corpses—here a trunkless head and there just a leg or a foot. Many dead babies strewed the roadside. We were never out of sight of them. “Finally a halt was called. Twen ty of the best looking women among the four hundred were singled out by the jandarma. We were told we were going to be taken to Turkish harems. Another girl, the daughter' of a minister, and myself, ran back into the crowd to hide oursel es. We preferred death to the Turks. “Among the jandarma was a Turk we had known, a man who had been a guest frequently at our house, who had eaten our bread and salt. He sought us out. Hp told us that un less we went with the Turks, he would reveal the identity of the three boys, my brothers-in-law, we had dressed in women’s clothes and who was with us. “To save the boys, we agreed to go. There were twenty of us all under eighteen and the’boys. The jandarma put us all on horses, and we set out. We knew it meant we were to become the wives of Turks and embrace the Mohammedan re ligion, but we went for the sake of the boys. “One day we came to a river. There they refused to let the boys go further. They were going to shoot them, they said. We begged and pleaded. The captain said he ?L oUld , , the two youngest go on: the third would have to die or go back, he said. The Turk who had been our friend i n the past agreed to take him back. I consented to go on, but my eyes were turned t 0 the rear. Saw the Sword Fall “Up a mountain trail we went. I looked bavk. At the river’s edge, I saw the boy with his hands clasped about the Turk’s waist, evidently begging for life. I saw the Turk's arm raised, I saw the sword fall, I saw my brother-in-law slain. 1 screamed and fell from the horse. “They put me back, and swore to kill the other boys, too, if I did not get quiet and go on with them. There was nothing else to do. I went. “Well, the boys finally were sold TtfVßktiAY, 2&, 1920. into slavery, and we, the girls, were scattered among different Turkish We were told the German government had issued orders tj spare no Armenians, and they should kill us, only they wanted us for wives and were coming back after us later. "I was in a town with four other girls. The minister’s daughter and I were put with a Kurdish family. Before long the women were ordered deported. There was weeping and wailing. All over the town, you could hear nothing but that—the weeping and wailing of women and children. ; “1 did not know what to do. I told the Kurdish woman at this home I would give her all my money and jewels I had secreted in my own home, if she would hide me. She agreed to do it. But the Bev of the town heard we five girls were in the town. He ordered us brought to him for himself. “The bey, the governor and sol diers began to search the town. The Kurdish woman took the minister’s daughter and me to the cellar, where they kept the cows. It was yards deep in manure. She dug two holes put us in them, covered us up over our heads with manure, except for two holes to breathe through. When the soldiers came, we were invisible. We stayed in the manure twenty four hours, and when wh were re leased, we were safe for he time being. We found that all the men had been killed and their heads cut off, and all the women deported. Her Baby Restored 'I lived in the town for months, the slave of the Kurdish familv During this time, I managed to send word to my own town by a Turkish boy, found my baby had been cared tor by my neighbor, the Turkish w °J” an -. an d had him brought to me. Again orders came to find Ar menian girls hiding the town and de port them. Again I did not know what to do. Before there was only one of me. Now, with the baby, there were two. I appealed to the Kurdish woman again. This time she hid the minister’s daughter and me in a pile of hay in front of the house, and kept the baby, telling the soldiers it was hers. They searched high and low for us. They ran their swords and their bayonets through the hay stack. If we had not hidden near the top, we would have been killed. But again we were saved. “On this occasion, the Turks de ported every one from the town but one blind man, the richest Armenian in the town, and three of the best looking women. With my own eyes, from the top of this house, I saw the three women tied together and killed with one shot, and I saw the blind man, who was very old, tied ! to a donkey and cut into little pieces, beginning as his toes and going up. “During the eight months I was I in the town, I preserved my safety and my life by being kind to every body, sewing for them, washing for them, slaving for them. I was so useful to the town that nobody re vealed my whereabouts to the gov ernor, not even the Bey. “From the housetop I saw many terrible sights'. I. saw two women, a mother and daughter, brought into the town. The mother was hanged. I saw it. The girl was stripped, tied to a stake and cleft open from skull to feet by a Turk with a shovel. I saw that, too. I suppose she would not become a Mohammedan wife. “I saw a mother and her two chil dren shot at the same time. I saw this —an Armenian girl, good-looking, had become the wife of a Turk, • one of his many wives. One day he told her to go into the front yard and pick Cantaloupes. As she stooped down, her husband shot her from the doorway and then went out and hacked her to pieces. I was passing by and satf it. But God struck him down for his crime. He went crazy and died six months later. So it often happened. Used Boys for Targets “I saw 400 boys brought in front of our house one day and placed in a shallow trench. The trench was half filled with dirt, so they could not move. The Turks shot at them as targets. The Turks killed them all. ‘Hurrah for Turkey!’ they yell ed, and I was told it was the orders of the German government.” That is only one year of Maryam Ourfalyan’s story. She told it all, but that is enough to show you what the rest was—three more years of horror. She almost starved to death at one time. Finally she returned to her old home, to find it laid in ashes and her people gone. The only Armenians in the town were 300, lit tle children, and while she was th'ere, they were driven out by Turkish sol diers on horseback. “I saw with my own eyes the Turks gathering little children anl putting three or five of them into a big sack, and tieing the top to gether and dragging them to the river, where the sacks were thrown in,” she sa'id. “I saw another Turk take three children, saying, ‘I am • going to have a good time with them.’ The Tiext day he took them down to the river and killed them in three different ways.” Maryam was spared often because she was supposed to have embraced the Mohammedan religion. But al ways, she said, she had her Bible and hymn book secreted with her. Her baby, which she was carrying around with her, died from lack of f °She finally went to Harpoot, where the American consul helped her, she said. For three years she lived on his charity. On her way to Harpoot, she said, she crossed the River Eu phrates twice, and both times it ran red with the blood of Armenians. Her description of life in Harpoot, the people skeletons, typhus-ridden, dying on every street corner, was terrible. , . . „ She finally escaped by crossing the Turkish boundary into Arabia, where she and another woman man aged to get passage for America. She had not heard from her brother in | America for eight years, but she , located him through Armenian friends, and reached Atlanta about a month ago. Maryan Ourfalyan concluded her story with the following appeal to the 'American people: “Today there are hundreds of Ar menian woAen and thousands of children in the possesion of Turks. I appeal to you, the American public, will you not help us m getting our freedom and liberty like you pos tress? We need your help like you did years back. You, the mighty na tion, there was a time when you had to fight for your freedom, and you received it, but you were help ed by a bigger nation. Will you not help us to get these young wom en and children away from the cruel Turks? They are nothing but slaves for them. You can help them in many ways. There are today hun dreds of Armenians that are fight ing to maintain their recogi ized na tion. If you wish to help you may get In touch with me at 88 Hood street.” Special Dixie Leader Here s a wonderful Combination Subscription Offer that will guarantee GOOD READING for ALL THE FAMILY the WHOLE YEAR at EXTREMELY LOW COST. SIX GREAT PUBLICATIONS One Year Each—24o Issues THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Southern Ruralist Inland Farmer Better Farming Parks’ Floral Magazine The Gentlewoman ALL SIX FOR ONLY $1.65 ■■ s SPECIAL NOTICE! No agent’s commission is allowed on this combination offer. That is why you get the absolute rock bottom price. Think this over. 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