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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1896)
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Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State of Oregon. Postofficc address: " Medford, Oregon. TM. S. CROWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. y Jacksonville. Oregon. YVH- PARKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . Hamlin Block. Mediord. Ore. J J H. WHITMAN, ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY AT LAW. . DfKce in bank bnlldinr. Medford. Or Have the most complete and reliable abstracts ' of title in xackson county. : JfAMMOND & VAWTER, Aastin S. Hammond. Wm.LVawter. ATTORNEYS AT LAW vOffcce i-O.O. F. building, ' Medford, Or (-.B.COLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Chronic diseases, ' and diseases peculiar to women a specialty. -Office Opera Block. Medford, Oregon. T. B. OFFICER, - PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,' ' -' 'j" "r ' Eagie Poiat, Oregon. Ofte Iatow residence. J.B. WAIT, i. HHYSICIAN AND SCRGEON. Oftce in Cailders BIoc, Medford, Or PKYSICIAK3 AND SURGEONS. Office hoars 10 to 12 a. ml. and 2to4 p. m. Sundays 12 to L Medford, Or Office: Haskin Block. ' J W. ODGERS, ,. A . , . 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Horses boarded by the day, week or month at reas onable rates. Satisfaction guaranteed.... Prescriptions Carefullv ":" Compounded. Main Street, - - Medford Oregon. III (III k HlltlL saw mill is located, and it is by E been written, but is on a of much 5 worlc R. W. GRAY 1 work ia store, hotel sod office fixtures." Salesrooms at Hedford, Oregon Factory at Phoenix, Oregon Talt - peuel Block' Medford. Oregon Rustic Work , stairs, newels, balusters, ceder posts, 5 and fruit boxes. They also do all kinds I have work In nearly every cemetery In the county. 1 Special attention given to building trimmings for J specimens see L-indley building. Estimates furnished jl my line, x ara on u street, meaiora THE MORTAR D$UG STOE, G. II. 1IASKIXS, Prop'r. Has anvthino in thc line or Pure Dings, Tutout Medicines, Books, Stationery, PAINTS and Oils, Tobaccoes.Clfrnrs, Perfumery, Toilet Articles and uveryuunir tnat is currica in a arm- class DKUU SIUKK 'TWO CHRISTMAS EVES. - n Its Happy Sequel. Christmas amid the mointafns of Armenia. The sceae of our i alory i a little oriental village, in 189 , nestled, amid the rugged cliffs at the head of a smiling valley. The trite of the hamlet was a ravine running up the mountain side into a rocky pass, as though the great valley opening beyond baxl been whittled to a narrow point that it might penetrate the hills. Great precipices yawned on either side, aod towering cliffs which set-med to have grown gray with age, even aa the snow on the higher peaks of the mountains seemed the hoary lock of those nncients, which there had for centuries watched over 'the old world." Near by Mount Ararat, where ret?d the fk after the flood. It was here Noah tilled his vineyards and the human rare be- HE LEAPED FROM THE PRECIPICE. gun anew after the floods subsided, for Armenia is one of the oldest lands and its people trace their lineage direct to that Biblical emigrant ship which colonised it when the world was young. From many a quaint, flat-roofed dwell ing arose Curistmas carols to which soft-voiced echoes sang responsive choruses among the cliffs, and at least one church bell tried bravely,' singly and alone, to supply an imitation of Chris Uu as chime. It was a peaceful picture, upon which the stars twinkled approvingly as they bespangled the lopes with frosV-diamood and coated countless sparkle from the pallid snow. 1 ; 1 ylw . " v. v."m.TV Tin if ii - THE SUMMER GIRL WHO" STAYED UNTIL- CHRISTMAS TIME. The Armenians are adivout4eople, and make much of the Christ mus festival. This little hamlet was in many respects not unlike Hethlehcni, and nonr it were many shepherds who gunded their flocks by night, as did those of Juden when iie angels sang of peuVv on earth, good. will to men. At the home of Abnnaar, the head man of the vilj.ige, there were quiet festivities, decorations of holly und other evergreens, &ongs of praise ami stories which for generations had hand ed down cherished traditious and legends of 'Armenia. There were the aged grandfather and grandmother, Abnnazer and his good wife, three little girls ranging from six to twelve years old, and Zillab, the 16-year-old daugh ter, with her affianced lover Akthar, the stalwart young herdsman. She was a beautiful maiden, with regular features, large eyea aglow with love, the small but symmetrical form char acteristic of so many women of her race. In her picturesque costume she was marvellously haadaome, and her tones were as musical as the tinkle of silvery bells or the low notes of Ak thar 's flute, to which she sometimes' sang a soft accompaniment. The pleas ant scene in this home was duplicated in many others that starlit Christmas eve. Suddenly the scene changed. The church bell rang in sharp, short strokes, a spirited alarm, confusion succeeded calm, and there were excited exclama tions and hurrying in hot haste as a riderdashed madly down the one central street, shouting: "Save yourselves. Christians, the Kurds are coming!" But there was no time. Close upon his tracks came hundreds of swalby hoiwmrn, turbaned and fierce, with loud Mohammedan maledictions shouted in deep-voiced hate, and yes which gleamed like live coals from be neath bwtling brows. In a moirent pandemonium seemed to have broken loose, the guns spoke sharply, scime tara flashed ir. silver mid turtrcd crim son, ami soon the flames from burning buildings cast their lurid glare over nn earthly hell wherein firmls held high carnival in shedding iiiiiin-ent b'ooil. Abnnaar ami his family, v. it ho! her?, gained the church which stood on he edge of a precipice, and there m.i le a brave stand, but it. was useless. Breaches were made in the walls, the place carried l.y storm, and hundreds slain before the altar dedicated to jK-are and decorated with Christinas syn.'xds in readiness for the morrow. The i'oor literally ran in Mood, and Zillnli it. speechless anguish beheld the men of her family and her lover cut down, and women subjected to tortures which chilled her to the soul. Yith oilier women ami girls she fought heroically, but finally found herself brcathle.aod disarmed in the embrace, of Rustcm. the huge leader of the Kurds. wh- had often in days of peace paid her atten tions n often repelled. Suddenly she drew the steel bodkin from her hair, plunged it with unerrirg aim nd the strength born of despera tion Into the giant's heart, and nS he sank to he .floor she bounded to the side of the ehnrch. seized ii lighted 2-S taper, opened a trap door in the :loor, hurled the light into a supply of powder stored there, and springing through a sidt door hyped from the precipice as semvs or other voeicr. V.:! dove w'thin the horrible half hour preceding. There was a flash, a thunderous roar, and the solid church seemed to be. heaved high in air, while in the lurid light of the ex plosion dead bodies of mon and women with aching vqids in so many stricken hearts and the' toslews still oppressing the Christisjji among the far-otf Ar menian hil$. 'They sang, however, Christmas 'Cipfels strangely sweet which recalled pictures of unforgotten homes, and hymns in which sad minor chords -seemed to vibrate with unshed tears. What wonder that real tears welled np from tortured hearts, and that they sparkled in pretty Zillah's mournful eyes? Good will to men these exiles could kaow and feel, but peace on eartb was not for them, even at Christmas, while Turkish scimetars still flashed forth the lightnings of fanatic hates, and innocent blood reddened the soil of fsr Armenia. , There was to be a nevr arrival of Armenians to-night, and they were to recite at this gathering of their . compatriot the story of their ad Ten -turea and their wrongs. Similar tales had been . often repeated by similar refugees, but the stories had a tragic interest CTer new, while they recounted renewed horrors and the constantly re curring tragedies which added to the list of the lost, and the grand army of sorrowing aurrivors. As the coming of the visitors was announced the music ceased and all arose to receive them, the bum of the great city without faint- ' ly heard in the hush of expectancy with in, and the Christmas chimes from an American church near by ringing cheer ily, though soft and subdued, through the frosty air. Tlie door opened and there marched in the little band who came from the' valley of the shndow of death, and first among thorn Abanazar and Akthar, thi ' lather and lover so long listed among the dead. Vou should have seen Zil lah's beautiful face, transfigured, tie love-light in her large brown eyes, and heard the musically glad little cry with which she sprang into their arms, snug--gling close at last with ber plump arms about Akthar's neck and his stalwart was wet with the tears of sorrow ara ber heart bled under the stabs of piere ir.g grief. Brave and noble girl! How , many like her, pieces of driftwood from lw wrecks wrought by Turkish cruelty and fanaticism, have been stranded upon our kindlier shores. Zillah turned :n prayer toward the God of her fa thers, and sought at His feet rfce con solation earth denied. Even prayer cannot heal a broken heart; it can but console and slightly assuage such grief " as hers. Christ mas eve in the little Armeniaa eolony occupying a corner of a foreign. THE REUNION IN AMERICA. sect ion of the great western city. The hall was decorated for the occasion with the usual evergreens, and oriental hang- " ings served to recall in thismodern land the familiar belongings of lost homes rmong the Armenian mountains. There ; was a subdued cheerfulness among the people present, a tribute to Christ mas, but they could not rejoice loudly could be seen among the living flag- ' inens. and with them scores of live Kurds struggling as they scorched and blackened, toward the sky. The fragments, human and other-, wise, came down again and darkness succeeded. The surviving Kurds butch- -ered all who survived, of the villagers, except the women they bore off as cap- , tives, but at the foot of the cliff they found but the mangled remains of scores of brave women who had pre ferred death to slow torture and devil ish indignities. ' An hour later all was strangely still, burning ruins smoldering with the dull glow of expiring embers marked the graves of hundreds, and the spot on which but a short time before smiled happiness and home. Hut beautiful Zillah was not dead. She had fallen or the spft bodies of the slain, had much to her surprise found herself but little hurt., and had crawled off into the nar row wooded paths which threaded the mountain fastenesses near, all familiar to ,hjr. She sought refuge in a moun tain shepherd's cave, who at morn vis iuil'the villasre in search for survivors. int 'found none. The fierce Kurds " had made sure work of their bloody task. A few weeks later Zillah, through many hardships, found her way to the seaside, and thence to America, coming to a great western metropolis with other Armenian refugees, where she found shelter with the Armenian col ony, which did what it could for these unfortunates, human remnants saved from the furnaces of affliction which consumed so many noble lives in dark ened Armenia. Mourning for those she loved, almost despairing, she struggled bravely with her lot, and the sweet faced girl found friends and favor (Continued on Fifth page) Li