Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1909, Page 15

n e e e THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 18, 1909. NENDING TURKISH MANNERS Christians Are Better Treated Now in | Constantinople, | | | TURKS SELF-SBATISFIED PEOPLE Soldiers No Longer Permitted to Mo lest Women in the Streets as of 014, but Fanaticism in Army in Very Strong. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—1t used 1o be necessary for a Christian woman here in the Ottoman capital to step off the narrow sidewalk Into the street whenever she had to pass a Turkish sol- dler. If she did not give the Moham- medsn he right-of-way he seemed to be bound by some barrack regulation to go 88 far as he dared toward throwing her on her face, and it happened daily that some luck Christian girl or old | woman In a quarter where no one dared to Interfers was shoved headlong into the filthy slush of the roadway. No matter how inuch room. the woman gave the roldier on the sidewalk, there was never enough for him to pass with- out lunging his heavy shoulder into her. Not a few women have been injured for life by such assauits, from which there geemed to me no recourse. The native Christian, the subject of the sultan, of course had none, while for the foreigner it was practically impossible to identify the offend It was, therefore, unsafo for Christian women to walk alone any- where but along the Grand Rue de Pera— & filthy street, but the best Constantino- ple affords—and even thers covort shoulder blows or pinches were not in- frequent. Embassy or consular women generally drove, or iIf they went out afoot they took with them a kavass, an armed pro- téctor, usually a Montenegrin, carry'ng A his hand a stout stick and in his waist belt prominently a huge revolver. For an Buropean It is often most un- ple: nt to accompany a woman on a walk through the streets of Canstantino- ple, where fanaticism against infidels has Been cultivated to a degree which does not exist in most parts of the country. This s the city which the Kuropean countries want to take from the padisha; this Is the imperial city which held out longest agalnst the Moslem, which was the world capital, the gem for which he paid a river of blood; this is the city of the khallf, Fanatics Recraited for Army. When the sultan's authority was un- challenged he made up his Constntinople garrison of the most fanatical elemonts in his dominions, sending every officer sducated at the military college to serve n Macedonla, Mesopotamia or «ven the sest-laden Yemen and keeping here only 74 men mad with religlous ze.l and gnorant young men promoted frow® ihe -anks. The Influence of these soldiers, who, tin- \lke regiments away from the capital, were well fed, well clad and well cared for, told upon the populatioon, and even the ham- mals, or porters of the street, were rude to Christian women. If one understood their language there was but pne thing to do when walking along the street with a lady—io close one's ears, for unspeakable remarks were directed at her, Eyen today' the lower class Moslem objects to yleld an | Inch of ground to let an unvelled woman pass. Army officers an’ the better class Turks are generally polite in this respect as well as In many others. Whereas under the old regime officers and most civillans dared pot be seen showing deference to Chris- tlans and generally bore themselves of- fensively against their own Inclinations, today any man is at liberty even to associ- ate with ron-Moslems, and many young ofticers are seeking to be taken into Christian families In order to learn foreign languages and western Waye. But things have not changed to a large extent among the soldiers, as is indicated by the curlous lesson which 1 am told is Deing taught in the barracks. Privates are being Informed that for the mement absolute equality must be given to infidels, especlally to forelgners. Of course the of- ficers cannot tell the ignorant soldlers to forget in & day what tradition has taught for centuries, that infidels are but thelr “rayah,” thelr cattle, The soldiers are made to think that the courtesy now demanded for subject races |s due to pressure from Europe, the infidel world, which is powerful and threatening. By this deception the officers hope, it seems, to get falr treatment started, and it s noticeable everywhers how much room the soldlers, espectally the khaki clad men from Salonica who launched the revo- lution, give to women as well as men along the streets. il i hy, 1 { U”x | ! i | i i i !jh l Il i il BIDDER. our regular monthly payments. PIANO AUCTION ALE BY MAIL It is our intention to prove to the purchasing public that it is a: easy to buy a piane from HAYDEN BROS, BY MAIL as it is.to call at our wares rooms and select it in person. 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No preference will be shown and it makes no difference whether your bid is all cash or if you want to buy this piano on We will publish the name and address of the HIGHEST BIDDER, BIDS ARE OPEN TO ALL AND YOU CAN BID AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT, just so you fill out one of the Coupons and ‘address it to HAYDEN BROS. AUCTION COMMITTEE, CARE OF HAYDEN BROS., OMAHA, NEB. Be sure and give your full name, street number and postoffice, so there will be no mistake in the selection of the HIGHEST MAIL YOUR BID TODAY. It will cost you nothing but a two-cent stamp to bid and if your bid is the HIGHEST, you will get a High Standard Make Piano at your own price. No matter how low your bid is it will be considered, for, as we have an- nounced—thi§ is a legitimate, Square and Fair Piano Auction Sale. HAYDEN BROS. 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Novertheless it Is still advisable for women to give a wide berth te Albanians and Arabs in zouave costumes and to Kurds in ordinary uniforms of dark blue, for these men are likely to be soldlers of the impe- rial guard, who have thelr barracks within a stone's throw of the palace, The palace guard has no liking for the new movement and several times already sections of it have caused small mutinies which have resutled in kililng Desperately Mean, Along the main streets, where they are likely to be seen by officers who are pledged to the new movement, reactionary troopers are careful not to be seen shoul- dering women, though they make up for such compulsory decency when they en- counter & Christian woman in the sub- urbs or In unfrequented streets. An Amer- ifcan woman of my acquaintance recently saw & burly soldler cross one of the few broad sidewalks of the city and throw a young woman flat ugon her face in the roadway simply because she was a Chris- tian. A gentleman out with his wife com- ing upon three Turks who were standing upon tho sidewalk, taking up un: rily all avallable space, asked them politely to let his wife and himself pass and the reply, with insulting gestures, was that people like him could pass by In the street. It is not difficult to understand the extent of the bitter hatred between Moslems and non-Moslems in a country where such abuses prevail, nor is it easy to become optimistic about the future of the Turk as Gross assaults are a thing of the past, a ruler of many conquered races who have 20% DISCOUNT REMOVAL SALE On account of movin g to a new location we are selling our entire stock of men’s clothing and furnishing goods at 20% discount. We will present stock into ou Remember this is take none of our r new location. an absolutely bona tide sale, nothing reserved, everything in the store goes at 20% discount. neglect this bargain Do not buying opportunity. BOURKE’S CLOTHES SHOP. 319 South 16th Streer iother occupation, suffered many centuries under his unjust creed. The faults of the Turkish soldjer are those of a religion which has every- or exterminaticn of men who would not conform to its tenets, and his virtues like- wise are those of the creed of Mohammed. been willing to suffer anything, to die in the cause of the prophet, at the command of the sultan, his calif. “It is the will of Allah” was sufficient to make him stand in the forefront of battle, as brave a man as the world has ever known. With the rew order of things the character of this | soldler must necessarily undergo materlal change, and it is a question what the re- sult will be Will Enpervation Result? At any rate he will be no longer the blood- thirsty fanatic which he is now. A shaking of his blind belief by officers and reform- ers, young Turks as they are called, who from western teachings have come to be sceptics, is as likely to destroy the race as to revive it. circumstances and while I cannot admire them In the abstract because of thelr unfalr attitude toward mortals not of their grand traternity, 1 cannot fall to like certain individuals with whom I have traveled, sometimes against my will. On one occasion, like every other corre- | spondent, I had a spy attached to me fcr awhile. He was a most gentlemanly young man, who would rather havé had some | Of course he knew that 1 knew his mission, and so whenever he wanted to know anything about my move- ments he would ask me and I told him everything I could except the names of | men 1 Interviewed, whom he might heve denounced. In traveling [ used him often as gulde and interpreter, and while with | him I always got the best that the poorest | towns and villages afforded. | When & stranger penetrates this country beyond the few rallways soldlers always accompany him to protect him from | brigands and highwaymen. ‘Under the old regime the object of attaching an escort to a forelgner was also to spy upon him and to prevent him from conversing with revo- lutionary Christians who would tell the tale of government extortions and outrages. Treacherous Killings. Under these clrcumstances it was alwa: pecullarly interesting to travel with a Turkish escort, who while generally faith- ful to & degree, have once or twice been known to shoot thelr charge. At the little town of Mitroyitza, where I went once to investigate the killing of a Russlan consul, prudence kept me almost constantly con- fined to the consulate, where I was a guest. for we could go out only with & guard, who walked behind us; and this guard lending to us an official air sed every sentry we passed to salute us, and it was by one of these sentries guarding the con- sul's house that he had been shot. The killing had taken place in a curlous manner, and is worth reteling. The Al- banians had declared when the consulate | where until this day taught the subjection | Until this time the Turkish soldler has | I have seen Turkish soldlers under many | was established that they would have no Russian in thelr country. But the consul | came with a guard of several Cogsack | servants and an escort of Turks who did | not relish their task; and the Albanians | let him stay for several months. But when | ting thelr valds upon un fan villages and bringing pres- | sure to bear 7 have them stopped, there | was serious trouble, One night at a cafe a fanatical dervish after working his hearers up to a frenzied pitch, finished & long tirade by exclaiming “And is there not a single Mohammedan who will rid us of this glaour?” “I will,” said & piping little volce. “You! Oh, no, you will not,” sald the dervish with mock contempt intended to provoke the fellow. “I will," he repeated He was a soldler, a slim, sickly fellow with & sad visage. I saw him tried later at Uskub. Consul Shet by Sentry. The next morning the consul, attired in an uniform, followed by a Cossack, heavily armed kavasse= and a troop rkish soldiers, officers and officials, WeRt put to inspect the fortifications adbout * | There few officers krow the town deslgned by the Turks to proteet the consulate from the Albanians. As the coneul passed the sentinels each presented arms, but one man refjuired to degrade himself in this way lowered his gun quick- ly us the consul passed before him at three yards distance and without aiming put a bullet Into his body. Dropping his gun the little soldier then took to his heels as fast as he could go over the rocks down the Metrovitza slopes into the Albanian valley. The consul's retinue were surprised for a moment, but were soon atter the soldier, firing rapidly. Either the consul's Turkish guards were very bad shots or else thelr sympathy with thelr brave comrade influenced thelr aim, for it was the Russian Cossack who brought the fugitive down, wounding him, it T remember rightly, In the leg. The Turks, contrary tp prevailing opin- fon, are not generally very good horse- men. The men we had with us on a jour- ney In Macedonia seemed to understand their animals very little, for though the ponles we rode could have been managed wittout a bit at all, yet they kept a heavy hand always on the curh. The ponies were | small and had none but natural gaits, and the short trot was most uncomfortable un- less one rose in the saddle. This the zap- tiehs were unable to do, and In conse- quence the horse suffered. Two at a time they took turns riding with us at a steady trot, while the others galloped or walked alternately, thereby covering the same dis- tances as we by leaving us behind and then allowing us to overtake them. Ruling Race Brings Blight. Our route the first day lay through open country and our escort was therefore small. We traversed the length of the Monastir valley and stayed the night at Prelip. It should be & happy prosperous valley, for nature smiles on it, but the blight of the race that rules is visible here as elsewhere throughout the empire. The corntields, small and poor, cling close about the towns and the villages seem to hide themselves in obscure corners of tha mountains in order to be as little as pos- sible attractive to the marauder. The high road, & wagon track, which we followed, skirted one village and passed through another, but they were made of such huts as only Macedonlan brigands would demean themselves to roh, A sheep dog, blg framed and thick coated, but & bread fed, skinny animal with au uncer- taln lope and a bollow bark, came upon us. One of the Zaptiehs drew his sword and gave it a trial swing at a low bush near his horse's feet, but a peasant came crylng after the dog and called it off be- fore It came within reach of the Moslem's blade. This was a Turk who 4id not re- spect the life of a dog In the same way as most of his fellows. e Zaptiehs smoked continually as they rode and rolled cigarettes for us. They gave us lights from their cigarettes, hut only the irreligious fellow would ace pt the same favor from us, for which 1 asked the reason “The will tian,” he sald It s rather a bore to dine with Turkish ofticer thing ore seldom kad an op- portunity to do In the days of spies. In Constantinople the table manners of Eu- rope are closely imitated, and the most conspicuous differences that strike one are the presence of eunuchs, or ordinary blick boys, the absence of Turkish women, though European women may be present, and the general wearing of the fes. But In the interior many things are different the ways of Europe and almost none follows them. Cucer Table Manners. If a Turk is to be your guest, say at 7 o'clock, he will probably arrive at 5 in the afternocn and he will stay on after dinner till 12 or 1 o'clock. It is polite of him to glve you demonstrations of the estent to which he appreclates your food, and this| he does by making &» much noise as possi- ble in eating. If he is & resl old Turk he laps the soup frcm his spoon audily and smacks his lips; he aighs over his coffee and sucks his teeth At his own home towels, soap and @ basin of water are pro- vided after the meal The Turk is & seif-satisfied being. He is 1 not take fire from a Chris- R A B W - quite certain that his ways of doing things are best. He believes today, in spitc of his apparent turn for the better, that his knowledge and intellect are superior to those of Europeans. Fcr many years for- elgn officers from European states, chiefly Germans, have been employed to give in- structions in the army, but the army has not been brought up to en effective stand- | ard, largely because the officers gencrally belleve that their little knowledge is suffi- cient and their natural skill and bravery beyond that of the European. Today the new government is proving to the army that the old regime robbed the soldier of his pay and proper focd und clothing. It is accomplishing this by de- priving other departments of the govern. ment cf much needed funds. The army s the mainstay of the new regime and the army must be paid and fed and clad. It would not be well, I ven- ture to say, to put tpo much confidence in the success of a movement conducted by young men of very little knowledge yet permeated with the Mohammedan convie- tion of superfority, These are the officers cf the Turkish army who are staving tu break down in the ignorant masses of their troops a scrlous contempt for the infidel. A Bachelor's Reflections. The more daring a man has on the bat- tlefield the less courage he Las in e The comfort a woman can find in grow- BULLETI sick | {ing stout is it's because of . e ' & happy | nature she has. | The meanest trick a man can play on a |&irl 18 to believe her when she says she | won't marry him. | "An engaged man l& a terrible llar to |make out he doesn't mind being stuck with pins evezy time he shows her how mueh he loves her. There's nothing makes a man growl so |much about at home and brag so much about downtown as_what an expens.vc family he supports.—New York Presa. 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