War's Horrors

fErzercmm Oor. Tyimlnn Daily News.] As regards tlio Christians of the province oL Van, every day brings us fresh details of atrocities wiiich rival if they do not surpass tho doings in Bulgaria. Violation of fomalc children of a tender aero, wholesole pillage of villages, delibérate torture and mutilation of botli sexos, are talos which havo beootae hideously familiar to our ears. Did I not fenr to exposé to the wrath of the misdoers thé persons who have furnished me with tho details, I would givo authority for my worst statements that unprejuilicrd persons oould not hesitate to believe. Perhiips one of the most eloquent facts I oould adduce as to the terrorisin wrought by the irrogulars is that the authorities counsel every stranger to tako with him on the shortest journoy a sruard of zaptiehs, lest the Kurds or the Circassians should moet him on the road. Of one thing the Ottoman Government may rest assured, a Russian invader will ie welcome to the population of Armeuia, f rom Kars to Trebizond. I don't pretend for a moment that among the Circassians themselves there aro not some of the botter classes, who deplore the excesses of the great bulk of their companions, and who would, if possible, rostrain their misdoings; but their wishes aro in vain. Even tho military anthority is unable to effect this, if it tried to do so. By nature the Circassian is a hardy and audacious soldier. Years of strife in the Cauensus have inured him to a lifo and deeds scarcely compatible with civilized usages. In exile, along the frontier of Greece and the p] iins of the Danube, he has been the ["tted protege of th. Ottoman Government, and the habits, excusable perhaps in his own country whilo fighting an invixder, he has begun to consider as his inalienable riglit to praetice. In his capacity as voluntecr in the Turkish army he 1,akes fresh liberties, and the result ís sad to contémplate. Still, tLere is some germ of good underlying all this ; and though the Ciroassian is no match for the, more disciplined Cossack, at bottom he is brave enough, and in other hands and unüor different management would be a capital soldier. With tho Kurd it is different. A troop of Kurd horsemen, with their barbarous horse trapping.y, hair-tufted lances, and wild gestures, might easily pe mistaken for a detachment of Comanche or Sioux Indians. The sausage nose and crocodilo eye, the bloated face seamed with lines of brutal sensuality, bespeak the utimitigatcd savage, without a single grace of tliose barbarous virtues which often more than half redee.m the child of nature in his wildest extravagances. There is a chivalry which naturally belongs to most savage raoes ; it is totally absent in the hordes thut dweil beyond the Araxes, and the unhappy Arnienian Christians of the province of Van can testify by their hacker! limbs and ïowder-biown ehreks that to be a fellow-subjeet of the Sultan is no proteetion from such nourhbors when atrocities can be practiced with impunity. The Ottoman Government has armed and cominissioned tribes whose ordinary avocation is plunder. The suromer months permit a scantv existence among tho mountains while thé pasturage is green. The remainder of the year blaekmail exaeted from tho villagers of the plains and from the Perdían caravans affords subsistenee to the robbers by nature. The cause of "Islam in Janger" may excuse many extreme mensures in the oyes that tura toward Mocea, but at a juncture like this, while Turkey seeks to rodeem a pust forfeited before civilized Europe, it has dono ill to let loose upon her most peaceful and industrious subjects a race whose very existence is a blot upon the escutcheon of the empire. I M'iidi.ih llarbaritlet in Hulearla. Mme. H. P. Blavalsky, a Russian lady resident in New York, writes to the World of that city : Permit one who is, perhaps, in a botter position than any otlier private person here to kuow what is t.'iking place at the front, to inform yon of certain facts derivod from autheutic sources. Beeiiles receiving daily papers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tiilis, and Odessa, I have an únele, a cousin, and a nephew iu active service, and nearly every stenmer brings me accounts of military movemeiits from eycwitne8ses. My cousin and nephew have tak'pn part in all the bioody engagement in Turkish Armenia up to the present lime, and were at the siege and capture of Ardahan. Nowspapers may suppress, color, or exaggantte faots; the private letters of brave soldiers to their families rarely do. Let me say then that during this campaign the Turkisli troops have heen guilty of such üendish acts as to make me pray that my relativos may be killed rather than fall into tlieir hands. In a letter from the Danube, corrobórate! by several correspondents of Germán and Austri m papers, tho writer says : " On .rune 20 we entered Kozlovetz, a Bulgariau town of about two hundred honses, whieh was three or four hours distnnt from Sistova. Tlie sight which met our eyes made the blood of every Ilussian soldier run cold, Inirdened though lic i to such soenes. On the principal sfreet of the town were placed in rows one hundrod nnd förty beheaded bódies of men, women, and children. The heads of these unfortunates were tasti-iully pilad in a pyramiil in the middle of the st (t. Among tho smoking ruins of every house we fouud lialf-burnt corpses, fearfüUy mutilated. We caught a Turkish soldier, and to our questions ho rej luctantly confes8ed that their chiefs h:ul giVën orders not to leave a Christian place, however pmall, before burning it and putting to death every man, wonian, and child." On the first day that the Danube wns crossod some foroign correspondents, among tliem that of tho Oologue Gazetfe, mw soveral bodies of Itussian soMiei-s whoso noses, ear1, haads, etc, had b'Son out off. Later three bodies of Christian women were fouud- a mother and two dmifrhters - whoso condition make ono almost drop tho pen in horror at the thought. Èntirely nude, split opeu from below to the uavel, their heads cut all'; the wrists of each corpse were tied together with strips of skin an flesh ilayed from tho shoulders dowu, and the ciu-pses ot' tlie three martyrs weiv siüiil nly biniinl x) each otlier by long ribbons of flesh from their thighs. It is a (íommon thing for wouiuLnl Turks to allure Russian soldiers and mombers of the Sanitary Corps to their assistanee, and, as they bend over thèm, to bilí with a revolver or dagger thoso Who would relieve thèm. A case like this oocurred under the eye of ono of my correspondents in Turkish Armenia, and was iu ill the RussilUi papers. A sergeon's assistant (a semita?) was dispük'hed under such circumstanoes : (licronpon a soldier standing by killed the iissüssin. A. Baby's Stnvnge Travels. Quite an exeitemont was ereatod on Capitol hill,"yosterlay, snys u Wiishiugton i:ii'-, iii;ir Six'th and A streets, uorthëast, by the südden disappearance of a b:iby 8 monthé old, the child of Mr. ftnd Mis. Allen Loroh. It appears that ■ni eccentric tellow 1 y the name of John Robërt ("Bob") llorrcll, who lias liecu on a druuken sprée for some time past, took it Into luw head to ahduct the baby. li' piekèd the ohild up, it having on no clothing bnt a littlogowM, witlmut luit or bonnet, took it awuy about 3 o'olbcí: l. in., visited several saloons on the hill, then meandered down town to Kintli street by the market, took in all the beer saloons there, the liabyin the meanwhile lying aoross his shoulders, y$lUug itself lioarse. Then hc made r bee-liiio fpj the Smithsonian grounds, drunk as a lnnatie, ioUowed b,y ft irqml of boys, it being nrasic day by the Marine band, he attended, creating a great deal of excitement and sympathy for the poor littlo frightencd baby, with ite heal uneovered umi uuproteoted from the broiling sim. Aiterward he staggered across on B strect, opposite the Smithsonian, between Teuth and Eleventh streets, where he was discovered by Capt. Josiah Lerch, aa ex-sea Captain and tmcïe of the fathcr of the cliild, and tlie poor little thing was taken in and cai-ed for. In the meimtinii! the distracted parents were almost cruzy with fear, tho mother going into spasms. Seareh was made overywhere until 9 o'elock last night, when it was returned to its niother's arms. Mr. Lerch, the fatlier, then hunted up tho drunken Bob Herrell, found him on B street, and went for him, when Herrell, in great fear, ran through several houses, fleeing from the infuriated parent, and as he was running from Virginia avenue a pistol aeeidentally went off in the hands of a small boy, and Bob was so frightened that he literally jumped over an expresa wagon in Lis way and rnn howling murder, and as his white coat tail streamed out in the moonlight it was so straight that the aforesaid small boy could have played marbles on it. He tinuliy disappeared, and has not been seen since. Miners Preparing for a Long Strike. The miuers are vigorously preparing for a long strike. Experience has taught them that to achievo any success in a strike they must be able to make it last for a time, and in order to do that they must see that the more destitute of their numbers have their pressing wants supplied. With this aim in view the miners of Hyde Park have opened an ext-oimive store, whioh is splendidly supplied with ílour, potatoes, corn and vegetables of all kinds. The sympathios of the merchants and farmers are with then), and they not only give their Rympathies but their sabstantial support. Fifteen teams have been placed at their disposal by the business men for thö purpose of dietributing and oollecting supplies, nnd these ure kept busily at work by gnngs of trustwoithy men, who continue to keep the supply store a well-stocked hive from whieh free-handed bounty administers unsparingly to the poor. ' Some ui the farmers in the neighborhood have devoted whole patches of potatoes to the cause, and they are dug up and conveyed to the hive, and in many instances men go anti work in the country and take their pay in potatoes, corn and provisions of any kind. A committee has been appointed to seek out the homes of those in want, and in a short time a well-filled wagon follows with a plentiful supply of the necessaries of life. The men are all températe, orderly, peaceable, and intelligent. The conimunistic spirit has no place in their hearts, and their only aim in the present struggle is to eeck to ohfcvin someüiing like a just remuneration for their perilous toil. The dangers of the mine form no iaconsiderablc feature of the hardships with whioh the minor's lot ík fraught, yet this is an item invariiibly overlooked in calculating the cost of mining. The grim record of this small district alone for the past month, as shown by the report of Mine Inspector Jones, tells nu that scven men have been kille il and twenty-eight badly injured in the mines, anti this is but a fair specimen of the monthly average of men killed and maimed at the work of " (ligging dusky diamonds" in this vicinity. - Xcranton {Pa.) Cor. l'hüadelphia Times. Worliingmeu's Platform. The following platform was adopted by the State Convention of the Ohio Workingmen, recently held at Cincinnati : 1. The pavment of wagen to the laborerin the lawful money of the country, and at intervals of time not greater thaii onc week, and that snitablo penaltie bo provided for failurcs to do so. 2. Eight hours for the presont. as a normal worlÖDg-day, and legal punishnient of all violatorö. 3. Strict laws making employerís Hable for all accidenta to tho injnry of their employés. 4. Prohibitory laws" against the employment of children uiider 11 years of age iu the industrial establishment. " 5. Abolition of eoiifipiracy laws. G. Prohibition of tho usëof pr3on labor bv private employers. 7. Gratuitous administralion of jnstice iu all (rcint-i of law. S. Saiiitary ins)ioction of all conditions of )bor, means of subsi-steueo and dwellings inclnded. 0. Oratnitous instru:tion iiï all edueatioiiiil iiisl lUtioilH. in. Labor Rtatisties in all States au well as by the National Government : the ofticors of Öjese bureaus to be tsken fiom tbenmkaof the labor organimioiiH and etected by them. 11. The repeal of the patent and all otlirr law Or privileges to individúala or eompauios to the detriment f labor. 12. Tlie repsa) of all tariff and other aots which provide for the collection of the public révënue by indirect methods, and the substitution thereforof a Bystem of direct taxation guarimloed in proportion to the amotint ol pioperty or iucome to be taxed. 13. Railruads, tcUgraphs, and all means of UanSportatiOn to be controlled by the ftovcviinicnt for the pui'pose of abolishing the wages systoni. 14. All industrial onternrisca to be placed undcr the control of the Government as fast as practicable, and operated by free co-operative unions tor the good of the wholo people. A Kemarkable Case. The Journal des Debata tells of some singular experimenta made byProf. Vërneuil and others, of Paris, tipon a patiënt who had swallowed a qunntity of acid, and whose esophngus was cntirely 0ÍOWM in consequence. To snpply him witli food they were forced to cut an aperture directly into Iiíh stomaeh. The operntion was successfully made, and the patiënt, who is otherwise entirely well, has ever since beeu receiving nutriinent through i mb'v r tube fitted into the opening, The food is reduced to an easily-digestible form, t,vA as Virotli or liiioly-rhopped meat atfcl yégëtóbles, and is forced through t!i tnBé with ii small pump. All comminiii'Htion between the niouth auii the stomach has oeaeécK Tho opportunity preisented by tliit reiimrkable case lor scientitic investigation and expeiimcnt has been tumed to account. l'ro.1'. Charles Kichet atetes that ho has fouLd that meat, fat, and vegetables were digested by the patiënt in three to four houra. The digestión of milk w:is complete within two hours, wliile water and alcohol disappeared in less than three-quarters of an honr. Food is not taken up by degrees, the volume of the meal remaiuiug in the stonanch without materinl ulteration until ncarthe close of t!n digestive oporation, and then disappenring entirely in a few minutes, leaving only i few UJjdigested morselH visible, valuable nnd inlerestïng jnformatiun is expeeted from the observations yct to be made in this case. Rustían Scrls. In Russia tho serf , bf ire the emanoipation, was the absolute property of his. niaster; il' he obtained a pieoo of laud in uommuue, the commune could at any time deprive him of it, and he could' neither aliénate it nor leave it to his children after his dcivth. When the emancipation took place many of the peasante w)ld their plots of land, btilievUlg that the old commuual system would be retained and tiiot they nnd their children would continue to be provided tor by the commune as lnuvtotore. The land-owners and their ngents dw their best to encourage this delupion, and the consequence was tbat iu maiiv ';i.sk they boURfti buck the land at nominal pnces, while the peasants, lifter having run throiTgla the money whieh tliey thus obtained, find that 'they hiive to work harder for their living than ever. This state of things kas produeed n feeling of disconteut amoug the 10,000,000 . coancipated sérfs of Ilussia, whieh maj at any moment break out in a terrible agrarian revulution. WitKN a dog burks at night in Japan the owner is arrestod aud sentenced to work a year for the neighbors tliat were distm-bëd, ind Uie dog is killed,