The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1904, Page 17

. ] SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1904. TURKISH FROM DELIUVERING LECTU Wanted to Tell Terrible Truth Regarding Ottoman Mar- riage Law. Emperor Francis’ Police Censor Cuts Out Most of the Im- portant Facts. §.—Princess Hairle Turkish Princess oud Pasha ssed a crowd MPELLED TO BE IGNORANT. > gloomy a view ry of Turkey omen, and e was ght up in & Turkish But even Three years ® mother, act is made. they withdraw going th even the formality of £ ell, we shall see, we may call A TURKISH WEDDING. en duy of the wedding has been fixed awalt them, and in the wenoe of the invited guests and relatives ed in a room are generally relatives. ot years s. For this is held up other women 8 women try to every means a mer box fam wished to leave scqustinted the an with the fact that his ph) n and confidant possessed notes. to which he deily added observations made con- roing his Majesty’s sickness. There was & { the house by the magistrates, the e seized, and the phygician himself, years of faithful service, fell into he wife of another of the Sultan's physi- n Pasha, who was suspected by his elity, notified the Sultan that her nd was involved in a conspiracy against e of the Padishah. Emin Pasha was d to this very day his where- abouts is unknown. ’ THE SULTAN'S ONE WIFE. According to law slavery no longer exists in rkey, but reality it flourishes there as as it ever did, without any authority t And that is not so sur- ders that the Sultan's pal- laves. The Sultan's all with the exception of exile my fathe the late Sultan, Abdul- one of her sisters, - PRINCESS IS BARRED BY AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES RE ON PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SULTAN The SULTAN S “Buacr W Tlazeu ;*'Dow Duozsc ] b . e ST ather to accept a tabatiere of enormous ue as & token of his deep gratitude. The s were shown to one of e most elegant suite of room surrounded by & staff of female tenda The Sultan con- fided them to the special care of his mother, the Valide-Sultana, and on the spur of the moment declared his love to the older girl, Safi-Nas, saying he would make her his wife. SLAVE WHO REBELLED. With & frankness, T might say a bravery, which caused the other ladies of the imperial harem to stare at her, Safl-Naz rejected the hopor offered her by his Majesty. 1 am not sure of the feelings which the soverelgn har- bored, but he does mot seem to have looked upon the situation in a very tragic way, as he shortly after made Yildiz his wife and later her for the position of s Haznada- that is Treasurer of the Imperial Harem, on whom the duty of supervision of the entire staff of courtiers and domestics de- volves Had Abdul-Aziz examined the case a little closer he might have discovered a romance which was being enacted behind his back. His hew, the present Sultan, Abdul-Hamid, lis- tening and watching everywhere, as was his custom, had discovered Safi-Naz and fallen in out his heart to the ribed his sufferings and not endure life without the divine” Safi-Naz. The Valide-Sultana, who was fond of her nephew, promised to help him one day she told the Sultan, Abdul-Aziz, that Safi-Naz was dangerously ill. From time to time she reported to him about the condi- had almost forgot- s o r death. It I8 Padishah believed all this. = At any rate he took no steps to examine the case 5dul-Hamid married the charming slave. Lis was not to be arranged otherwise. To ossess her without marriage, Abdul-Hamid 1 to buy her from his uncle, uch a proposal to his Majesty n ard of proceeding. at this marriage re- Abdul-Hamid had as- ion of the slave, whom mained a sec cended the throne. DANGEROUS LETTER. Chemseddin Bey, at present Embassador ot the Sublime Porte in Teheran, a descendant of one of the most arlstocratic familles of the Caucasus, was at one time the.Sultan's secre- tary. He enjoyed general esteem and was distinguished for ‘his aristocratic, independent and noble character. Me had a sister who was strikingly beautiful, and staying at the imperial harem as & guest. Abdul-Hamid found her to his taste and made advances to her. The proud Tsherkess ma however, t him back very energetically and made nts to her brother. hemseddin swallowed his afger for the moment and asked some courtlers in high position to plead with Abdul-Hamid. They, however, did not venture to mix in the affair. At last he besought the famous Ghazi-Osman Pa. the hero of Plevna, to advise him t to do. The latter told him simply to e to his Majesty and promised, in bis character of court-marshal, to handéin his missive to the Sultan Chemseddin immediately eat down and wrote & letter to the Sultan which In regard to dis- tinctness loft nothing to be wished for. The purport of the letter w follows: “1 take the liberty of reminding your Ma- jesty that my sister is a free-born woman, and that in this character she will not be treated as a slave. If your Majesty thinks her worthy of looking upon, there is, In ac- cordance with the laws of the Almighty but one way open and that is that, If my sister consents, your Majesty should marry her. ““These lines T address to your Majesty as the Calif, whose sacred duty it is to respect the commandments of our religion, to protect the weak and guard the virtue of our wives, daughters and sisters from low designs.” That struck home. Abdul-Hamid, wild with fury, had Chemseddin Bey arrested, but he had to send the young girl home. Immegjately after, she was married to protect her from further persecution on the part of the Sultan. Her brother was kept a prisoner two vears and badly treated, but finally Abdul-Hamid— to get him out of the country—gave him a foreign post MAKES THEM GROW BEARDS. One day the Sultan was most attentive to a young Tsherkess girl. His passionate court- ing seemed to make no impreesion upon her and he wauted to know the reason of her cool- ness “I do not like bearded men,"” was the curt reply. The Sultan bit his lip, but said nothing. A short while after this the Tsher- kees malden married & beardless secretary of the Privy Office. On the morning after their wedding ' an order was issued to the effect that all secretaries of that office must let their beards grow. The young wife was highly amused at this peculiar wedding present. from her rejétted lover and on the next opportunity she said to the monarch with her sweetest smile: “Thanks, your Majesty, for your kind intention. Your Majesty has reconciled me completely to the beards of our men. I think his beard is exceedingly becoming to my hus- band This anecdote is personally known to me to be true. To speak of rights in a place where the man’s will holds a woman's fate in his grasp seems nonsensical, .indeed, and yet Turkish women venture to hope for a change. When I succeeded in eluding the watchful- ness of the spies, surrounding me by the Sul- tan's order, hurrying with my children to rope, where my husband was staying, I resolved to give the civilized Western countries an insight Into the domestic conditions of Turkish people and awaken their sympathies for our just endeavors—perhaps even to gain their moral help. The Turkish woman at last is pining for a wider horlzon. We should like to introduce, as much of it as harmonizes with our views all that can add to real progress and improvement. Our desire goes mo further, For we, too, in the land of the East posse much that is good and with that we do not wish to part e e RAISING IMMENSE SU FOR GIFT TO THE KAISER BERLIN, June 19.—Loyal subjects are ralsing $1,250,000 for a silver wed- ding anniversary gift to Emperor Wil- llam and the Empress. The twenty- fifth anniversary of their marriage does not come until the 27th of next February, but the promoters of the scheme deemed it wise to start sub- seriptions now. The money will be put into a vari- ety of things which it is thought their Majesties will appreciate. The fol- lowing items will consume the most of the money: Decoration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with mosaics. The building of a memorial church to the late Empress Augusta. The building of a convalescent home on the Mount of Olives near Jerusa- lem. The purchase of buildings as conval- escent homes for sick officers of the army and navy. Another present probably will be sil- ver models of the leading types of the ships which have belonged to the Ger- man navy since the time of the Great Elector, to be arranged on shelves in the Emperor's working-room. THE HAREM, ITS QUEEN AND A TURKISH BEAU. AMERICAN STUDENTS SWITZERLAND OBJECTS IN SALON TO COMPULSORY BALLOT Four Are Successful Contestauts Exhibition of the “Artistes Francaise. PARIS, June 19.—Four Americans have received medals for exhibits the Salon des Artistes Francaise. They are Seymour Thamas for a portrait of Vignaud; Richard Miller, “Vieilles de Moiselles™ H. S. Hubbell and The latter, Proposed Law Compelling Men to Vote Is Defeated by Majority Switzerland, Grand Council of the Federation hav- ing proposed a law which made it com- pulsory for people to vote at political elections, which so many have neglect- ed to do that only about half of the qualified voters present themselves at the balloting places, called upon last Sunday to sanction the proposed law. The law was disapproved by a ma- jority of 1000. —_—————— Ancient Seal Is Discovered. BERLIN, June 18.—The German ex- cavation expedition in Syria has dis- covered the seal used by King Solo- mon's son at a place called Tell el Multissen. The seal has been taken to Beirut and handed over to the Turkish Pasha, Emin Effendl. his paintings, and “La Crinoline’; Mr. Kohnfeld. only 21 years old, has exhibited for three successive bers of the American Art Association. e American Minister Honored. PARIS, June 4.—Dispatches to the Paris Press from Belgrade this week have contained no end of comment on King Peter’s Jackson, the American Minister. American * diplomat dined and treated by the royal family with the greatest ceremony. conducted to the King’s palace in the state coach under a guard of honor, the people were All are mem- was wined and Title Prevents Her Marriage to a Commoner. King of England’s Niece Loves Unuwisely. LONDON, May 28. — Probably Princess Louise Augusta of Schleswig- Holstein, King Edward’s nilece, wishes heartily that she were not a woman of the blood royal. Or perhaps it would be better to say wishes that she were not the bearer of a “courtesy title, for the rank thus conferred is prevent- ing the Princess from following the dictates of her heart. Her mother is Princess Christian, one of the daugh- ters of Queen Victoria, and by royal warrant her father was granted the prefix of “H. R. H."” and permission given that his children should be highnesses. As the bearer of this royal title, Princess Louise Augusta cannot marry a commoner—which is exactly what she wants to do. The man who has won her heart is E lish and well known in society here, but at present his name cannot be divulged It is not that marriage once tried proved such a happiness to her that this royal woman would wish to marry again, for those who have been in a po- sition to know say that no ordeal in history surpasses in refinement of cruelty and brutality the married life of Princess Louise. UNHAPPY AS A WIFE. Some years ago this daughter Princess Christian was given in mar- riage to Prince Aribert of Anhalt, a German princeling who, after heap t miseries upon her did place upon her the ignomi of divorce. His excuse for this action wz had borne him no heir, at she and by availing himself of an old feudal law, which holds in all the little German me atized states, giving divorce on suc grounds, he was able to push his claim successfully. The whole scandal was rigorously hushed up from the English side, and his wife in name only was not even permitted by her relatives to appeal or Pprotest against such an un- warrantable excuse. As the result of this outrageous case the Princess is extremely shy and, al- though tall and slight and most charm- ing to those whom she knows w carries in her face a touch of sadne: that appeals mightily to every one who knows of the almost inhuman crueity to which she has been subjected. Her health-has been so impaired that she has been spending the winter with the Gov- ernor of Ceylon, accompanied by Miss Hughes, who is always in attendance on royalty, gnd in dn unofficial way by the Hon. Alec Yorke, the late Queen's equerry So pleased was Princess Louise with her tour in the East and her stay in Ceylon that the Governor and Lady Blake induced her to spend three months with them But the Princess has now returned to London and, being royalty, is obliged to keep up a certain amount of state, and this on the merest pittance, for her income of $10,000 a year is hardly a munificent sum for a royal personage to live upon. She does not make her home in May- fair, but has a small house in Queens- borough Terrace, Bayswater, which is anything but a fashionable district. DUCHESS FOREGOES DOGS. Lily, Duchess of Mariborough, must be known no longer as a “doggie” woman. Her kennels have been for years represented at every impertant dog show in the country and she in- variably carried away some of the most valuable prizes. The absence of her dogs from the recent show held at the Crystal Palace, near London, was one of the most discussed features of the whole exhibition. Fanciers were puzzled over such a notabdle absentee, especially those who had no hint that she was about to abandon dog breeding for exhibition purposes. The recent edict of Queen Alexandra that it would be no longer in good taste for society women to carry their “toys” while pay- ing visits is one of the reasons that has prompted the Dowager Duchess in her action. Lady Grey Egerton, who formerly was Miss May Cuyler, has joined the ranks of American women who are go- ing in for lavish entertaining this sea- son. Her husband is an enthusiastic sportsman, much given to horse racing, which, however, Lady Grey Egerton abhors. Larz Anderson and Mrs. Anderson of Boston are among the most prominent American society people in London at present. They are enjoying a perfect round of entertaining and they them- selves will entertain on a lavish scal later on. In the Duke or Sutherland yacht, Catania, which they chartered recently, the Andersons also purpo: to take a party of friends for a cruis in the Mediterranean before they turn to the United States. They ¢ with the Duke and Duchess of Rox- ‘burghe at one of the West nd hotels on three oc jions during the last week and now spend much of their time motoring in the neighborhood of Hampton Court and Windsor. Before they go cruising they propose to ex- plore the Scottish highlands, when they will stay with the Bradley-Martins.