Show our correspondent in armenia HE VISITS lucart ancs ici will the kielp them enquirer correspondence not long since I 1 visited the alepio prisons Bons the stones in circulation concerning the bantiles ba stiles generate a desire in foreigners to visit those places anit at the present it is no easy matter tu gain my way from home to the copt office led through the open cobit before the palace on one bide of abia court extends a tuini enodel leading to another court on i lowar plain behind the palace buildings in this latter place elands r homely idle fountain around duster of veiled and unveil eo woman with white heels wrapper around tham from head to foot if on of them should be been walking through a iu our country it would be eaid day blat a bad been there keeping guard at all entrances are shabbily ehab bily dressed turkish eol diera on this occasion the vao contained coata ined many weeping women wh had coico to get a glimpse at and min ieler to the wants of their imprisoned husbands a na or brothers christians and muslims are incarcerated in separate places and still in another part brauda the crumbling walla which surround the imprisoned women my greatest interest was in that portion containing learnine which it waa I 1 proceeded to the little guard house babore the prison proper and through a small hole in the wall requested the guard to call from their dungeons a priest and bishop oi the armenian church jorhom I 1 bad previously were imprisoned he looked at ruo vry critically lor a snort lima he could see that I 1 was a bioti eipur aud probably uro bably looking forward to a tip or in the belief that I 1 had some i authority he ordered the rust doir to swink open I 1 entered and wa given seat the ineat and bilhou c md and gatone on either side my u iodia aai them with much affection it was evident that vary much appreciated a vi ait by a chriatian tiao and were verv liberal in then thauna and praises for having been re me ti bared in their solitude by one from the free land of america conversation naturally drifted into their condition and what led up to it A summary 01 their store WAS afoot BS follone fol lowe about five years ago a muslim committed rape on an armenian lady the friends ot the latter fouad a mob aud frilled the soldier pursued by tt officers the mob fl d to the church 0 the priest and to the mountains the priest failed to detain them till the arrival of the officers he wa arrested and brought to aleppo and his sentence reads la foi otteen years on bread and water and at the end oi the fifteen yeara he had no idea by what mode ha would meet hia death the mob succeeded in gettine away and to eat iffy their auger the soldiers took 40 other armenians Armen ians who bad witnessed killing of the muslim of the 40 boar received sentence of 2 some 4 more years all but ag have bought thir liberty BO that that number now remain imprisoned ii I i reporting ren orting this case the governor of marash acted un justly in the of the bishop and the latter report d accordingly at a latter time the r took revenge by making a false charge of treason the he RSS aleo brought to aleppo and his sentence reads on bread and for years tears welled up in tace e ea of the old when they told their fate and they were durious to know if the outside world ft auld help their downtrodden people the ia a large and stately with a flowing silvery bearo reaching down to hid girdle the bishop is a typical fatherly old senile tobin outside people crowded each biber away from the peepholes peep holes to aee what we were doing they wonderment at the d or being opened and coff served inside to one on whose coat were co brass buttons and at whose side haug no sword leaving thia I 1 bended wended my jrsn through dark alleys and broken into a dark den filled with prisoners some chained and ayme free bithia little compartment here I 1 found two protestant boik agents who were arrested in chelis while bellier the literature ot the bible society all prisoners are allowed three coli biscuits with water each day no bed is furni ened but i a prisoners frienda bring food bed or fuel it is not forbidden for them to mate uee of it one man told me he bad lain on hare for three months without fire or bedding of any kind and had been four days at a time without water he was a russian jew and had no in this land Pria onera say they re not cruelly treated in tha aleppo raaon except through nel act it was to see the poor ladies outside lor the privilege of ith their imprisoned relatives many f them were ruthlessly driven away without a word of consolation or a H at those they had came perhaps from one to ten days journey to sea I 1 then ane homona prison which is across the street this place ia very closely guarded and no men are permitted to enter except officials bui the jailor was lenient and permitted me to stand at the door outside and to the females within he standing in the doorway between ua holding the door partly open one lady had been u only a week she bays abe was re quested to bo tle wife ol 01 a wealthy but being a and having a eh at course refused after she claims they kidnapped her and gave her th choice of becoming his wife and ac capling his faith or of death rhe promised to become his wife after a few davs an opportunity presented itself nd she escaped she rejoined her husband and was immediately arrested 0 o apostasy from the muslim faith she vas sent in company with soldiers to aleppo ten or eleven days travel on was insulted b them cuey threatened if she did not comply their hellish dearrea they would ruin her eight year old daughter who accompanied her with choir promise that they would spare the child she yielded knowing that if sue chose beath she must leave her daughter to mercy another lady came to the door good looking young and cheerful she had just completed a three years term her time had expired 15 daya before but orders having come that she be conducted back to bar native town by soldiers and fearing the same fate that befell her fallow country conr in sha to leave prison she demanded liberty at tha j ill door which thov denied her tomorrow she laid they are going to bend me by orce and if ahe telegram only cornea in time from constantinople I 1 may escape it the telegram caina and sha was permitted to have an of armen ians instead 0 parks just before the massacre of the armenians Armen ians at the village of van some forty families moved from that place to aleppo and alter the perpetration ol 01 that bloody deed the fathers of these families were arrested and sent as back to their native town while on tasir way word came loabe ta miliea that one by one they were dy log in the arisona pr isona it was reported that five had died one night and weilu the nivea and children were almost with grief and anxiety they received the awful news that all were dead aney are here vit bout homes in the depths ol 01 poverty and their griet can better be imagined than described oi course their verdict ie that their were poisoned or suffocated they sent for ma to visit them and report their sorrowful condition to the american people bat I 1 c uld see that any interference on my would result in injury to them and do the cause in which I 1 waa engaged no good because tl ey would the auger of the of ficiala and I 1 hd no authority to report it other than as an in ALEPPO joly there are a great many of the nate ones m this world greater in num her than those who are with hood digestion io some people the area teet misfortune ie not to be able to eat every thine abet before them 1 suffered for years with and I 1 ate with me 1 ws induced to try jimmona liver regulator and fas cured I 1 now eat everything ai bright madison la |