ect? Even assuming that their
men had merited such treatment, is it right that these women should be
dealt with in a manner from which wild beasts would recoil? God has said
in the Koran: "Do not load one with another's burthens," that is, Let
not one be punished for another.

What had these weak women done, and what had their infants done? Can the
men of the Turkish Government bring forward even a feeble proof to
justify their action and to convince the people of Islam, who hold that
action for unlawful and reject it? No; they can find no word to say
before a people whose usages are founded on justice, and their laws on
wisdom and reason.

Is it right that these imposters, who pretend to be the supports of
Islam and the _Khilafat_, the protectors of the Moslems, should
transgress the command of God, transgress the Koran, the Traditions of
the Prophet, and humanity? Truly, they have committed an act at which
Islam is revolted, as well as all Moslems and all the peoples of the
earth, be they Moslems, Christians, Jews, or idolators. As God lives, it
is a shameful deed, the like of which has not been done by any people
counting themselves as civilised.

THE INFANT IN THE WASTE.--After we had gone a considerable distance we
saw a child of not more than four years old, with a fair complexion,
blue eyes, and golden hair, with all the indications of luxury and
pampering, standing in the sun, motionless and speechless. The officer
told the driver to stop the cart, got out alone, and questioned the
child, who made no reply, and did not utter a word. The officer said:
"If we take this child with us to Diarbekir, the authorities will take
him from us, and he will share the fate of his people in being killed.
It is best that we leave him. Perhaps God will move one of the Kurds to
compassion, that he take him and bring him up." None of us could say
anything to him; he entered the cart and we drove on, leaving the child
as we found him, without speech, tears, or movement. Who knows of what
rich man or Notable of the Armenians he was the son? He had hardly seen
the light when he was orphaned by the slaughter of his parents and
kinsmen. Those who should have carried him were weary of him--for the
women were unable to carry even themselves--so they had abandoned him in
the waste, far from human habitation. Man, who shows kindness to beasts,
and forms societies for their protection, can be merciless to his own
kind, more especially to