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X Most Important Happen- ft
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PERSONAL.
President Roosevelt will visit Eng
land after his African trip early in
1910. He will deliver the Romanes
lecture at Oxford and will receive the
honorary degree of D. C. L.
Rev. Francis J. McConnell, Ph. D.,
pastor of the New York Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, N.
Y., has accepted a call to the presi
dency of De Pauw university, Green
castle, Ind.
Dr. Von Tiedmann, ostmaster at
Cortez, Nev., was arrested and
charged with embezzling $4,400 of the
funds of that office.
Clerk James McKenny of the United
States supreme court celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of his entering
itlie clerk's office in Washington.
A message just received from Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, written February
20, says he was making a straight
line for the pole.
David W. Hill of Poplar Bluff, Mo.,
has resigned as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator.
Horace D. Taft, principal of Taft
school at Watertown, Conn., ana
, brother of William H. Taft, refused a
nomination for representative in the
state legislature.
Harry K. Thaw was sent back to
Matteawan Hospital for the Criminal
Insane by order of Justice Mills of the
New York supreme court.
Col. Ike T. Pryor of San Antonio,
Tex., was elected chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the trans-Mississippi
congress.
BULGARIAN SITUATION.
The Bulgarian cabinet decided to re
ject the proposal emanating from Lon
don for the payment of indemnity to
Turkey as a condition of recognizing
Bulgaria's independence.
Turkey fears Bulgaria's military ac
tivity will yet bring on war and de
clines to be responsible for the re
sult. Great Britain, France and Rus
sia agreed on a program to be sub
mitted to the other powers as a basis
for the proposed conference.
Germany has assured Turkey she
will follow the lead of England in the
matter of the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, so that Austria-Hungary
stands alone. The Servian govern
ment believes war will be avoided.
Prince Ferdinand, as the "czar of
the Balkans," made his triumphal en
try into the capital amid scenes of pa
triotic enthusiasm. Great Britain re
ceded from her original position and is
now willing that the proposed confer
ence of the powers to settle the crisis
In the near east shall take under ad
visement other questions In addition to
those involved in the annexation of
Bosnia and Bulgarian independence.
A Turkish cruiser and three torpedo
boats arrived at Saloniki on the way
to the Islasd of Samos.'a Grecian pos
session. This is Turkey's answer to
the proclamation by the Cretans of
union with Greece.
GENERAL NEWS.
Fifteen people lost their lives in the
burning of a Detroit & Mackinaw
railway relief train which was carry
ing inhabitants of the little village of
Metz, 23 miles north of Alpena, Mich.,
to safety from the forest fires which
were sweeping away their homes. The
train was ditched by spreading rails
at Nowlcki Siding, a few miles south
of Metz, and the the cars were burned,
11 women and children and four men
perishing. The forest fires in North
ern Michigan were reported to be
raging with most disastrous results.
The German balloon Plauen, which
left Berlin in an endurance contest,
was picked up in the North sea by a
trawler. Clinging to the balloon were
the two aeronauts, Hackstetter and
Schreider, in an almost exhausted con
dition. One man was drowned and 75 per
sons were thrown into a panic when
the steamer New York of the Albany
Day line was rammed by a tug in the
North river.
Fire destroyed two big salt ware
houses in South Chicago, 111., the loss
being about $150,000.
John and Peter Bohli, brothers, of
Ingalls Crossing, N. Y., were mur
dered by robbers.
In the fourth game of the world's
baseball championship series, Chicago
defeated Detroit. 3 to 0.
Putnam county, Ohio, voted to re
tain saloons.
Louise H. Chamberlin, a sister of
Perry S. Heath, former assistant post
master general and later editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune, was burned to
- death an Albuqueque, N. M.
Thomas Howell, aged 67, shot and
Trilled Mrs. Ben Davis at Drummond,
Mont.
A mob of many thousands of per
sons, called together by the suffra
gettes, besieged parliament and kept
6,000 London police busy 'for hours.
James S. Kennedy, a New York
banker, has given $1,000,000 to the
Presbyterian hospital of that city of
which he is president.
Harry CahiU, alias James Cole, said
to be the son of an Alaskan delegate
in congress, was arrested by the Chi
cago police on a charge of robbing a
bank at Ladysmith. 'Wis., of $3,000.
Government chemists were said to
have solved the problem of making
paper from cornstalks.
I Tiro caused S500.000 dunue In the
yards of the Rock Island (111.) Lumber
Company and the Rock Island Sash
and Door works.
Clara Watland, 15 years old, com
mitted suicide at New Sharon, la.,
because her mother scolded her, it is
said, for tardiness in returning home
from school.
It is feared there will be an out
break of the Sioux Indians at Fort
Yates, S. D., if the government order
providing for the removal of the In
dian graves in the military cemetery
there be carried out.
The Union National bank of Sum
merville, Pa., was closed by the bank
examiner.
William Randolph Hearst was
served with papers notifying him that
suit for $600,000 had been brought
against him for slander and libel by
Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma
in the Douglas county (Nebraska) dis
trict court
The German balloon Busley came
down in the North sea. The two men
on board were rescued by a passing
steamer. This is the fourth air craft
in the international race to fall into
the sea.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at southeastern Japan but bad
weather delayed its entry into Yoko
hama harbor.
Forest fires broke out again in
northern Michigan, the towns of Metz
and La Rocque being burned and
others threatened.
John Cook, aged 78 years, in jail at
Champaign, 111., awaiting trial for the
murder of Mrs. Edna McLennan, com
mitted suicide by hanging.
Reports of the murder of J. O. Cur
wood of Detroit by Indians in north
ern Canada were untrue.
The Hindu colony in British Colum
bia, 2,000 persons, will be moved to
British Honduras.
About 140 of the students and teach
ers of the South Lancaster academy at
South Lancaster, Mass., are suffering
from ptomaine poisoning, believed to
have resulted from eating some canned
corn.
The Christian Science Publishing so
ciety at Boston will publish a daily
paper called the Christian Science
Monitor.
Capt William Tretheway, a veteran
mine official, was killed by accident in
the Calumet and Hecla mine.
The fortieth annual convention of
the National American Woman Suf
frage association opened in Buffalo,
N. Y.
Seven men were killed and 23 others
injured, some fatally, by a premature
explosion. at the Ingleslde lime quarry,
near Fort Collins, Col.
Dr. Angel Ugarte, minister from
Honduras, announced that he was to
be transferred to Mexico. Dr. Lazo
Arriaga succeeds him.
The plants of the Barber Asphalt
Company and the Barber Roofing Com
pany at North Venice, III., were de
stroyed by fire. The loss is about
$50,000.
Frederick S. Baird, a Chicago law
yer, was found guilty by a jury at
Omaha of conspiracy to defraud the
government of public lands in Ne
braska. A memorial tablet to mark the
place where the debate between Abra
ham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
occurred on October 15, 1858, was un
veiled at Alton, III.
Gov. Deneen appointed John R. Mar
shall of Chicago commanding the
Eighth infantry, Illinois National
Guard, as commissioner to the na
tional negro fair at Mobile, Ala,, in
1909.
Two more of the balloons in the in
ternational race for the James Gordon
Bennett trophy have descended in the
North sea, and one, the German entry
Busley, manned by Dr. Niemeyer and
Hans Hiedemann, has not yet been
heard from.
Chicago's National league team
the Cubs are still champions of the
world. They captured the fifth game
of the series from the Detroit Tigers
by a score of 2 to 0, thus winning four
games, to one for the Detroits.
Col. William F. Tucker, assistant
paymaster of the United States army,
on whom a warrant was served at De
catur, 111., early Tuesday, charging
wife desertion, left St. Louis for Hot
Springs, Ark. He is a very sick man
and may not survive long.
Henry Standing Bear, a full-blooded
Sioux Indian, who is a graduate of the
Carlisle Indian school and formerly
was a fullback on the Carlisle football
eleven, was accused of bigamy by
Hazel M. Moran of St; Louis, a gradu
ate of Smith college.
The twelfth annual convention of
the National Grain Dealers' associa
tion opened in St. Louis.
Fire in Davenport, la., destroyed a
grain elevator and other property, the
loss being $150,000.
Owing to the pacific condition of
the country, full martial law has been
raised in all the provinces of Poland
with the exception of Pietrkow, in
which the great industrial center of
Lodz is located.
A ten-pound note of the English col
ony of New York, Issued February 16,
1771, has been presented to Comp
troller Metz of New York with a re
quest for payment. Its redemption.
with interest, would cost the city about
$39,000.
Mrs. George Collier of Occidental,
Cal., fell into a vat of wine and was
drowned.
William Wirt, aged S3, a well-known
resident of Youngstown, O., was bun
koed out of $5,000 by two swindlers.
Two Chicago men fought a duel with
knives for a woman's love and both
were fatally wounded.
-Capt. Monroe and five of the crew
of the British schooner Sirocco, who
were supposed to have been lost when
their vessel was wrecked off the Flori
da coast on October 1, were landed at
Boston by the fruit steamer Hora
tius. OBITUARY.
Dr. William McKnight, one of the
best known physicians of Illinois and
for 30 years a resident of Putnam
county, died at his home in Blooming-
ton, aged S5.
Maj. Gen. Richard Coulter, 81 years
old, a veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, a lawyer and prominent business
man, is dead at Greensburg, Pa.
Ex-Congressman Joseph A. Scranton
died at Scranton, Pa. He had been
editor of the Scranton Republican
since 1867.
! ACTIVE CANDIDATES
TAFT AND BRYAN WILL
STRENUOUS WORK.
DO
A BI6 WEEK BEFORE THEM
oth of the Presidential Candidates
Will Make Speeches in a
Number of States.
New York Putting forth their
greatest efforts in the states that are
called doubtful and pivotal, now that
the presidential campaign is in the
last week but one, the various party
managers unfold multiplicity of plans
for the week that are well calculated
to keep politics in the forefront of the
news.
For Taft as well as for Bryan, the
activity is to be well night ceaseless,
and for Sherman and for Kern and so
on down the line. Coming up from
his Invasion of the south the repub
lican candidate for the presidency
will speak in New Jersey in the fore
part of the wek and then return to
-his own state of Ohio for a day, there
upon making another flight to Indi
ana, the cities of importance to be
visited in the Hoosier state being
Evansville, Indianapolis and Fort
Wayne.
Bryan will have traveled in five
states before the week ends Indi
ana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia
and New Jersey, finishing in New
York, where he will spend the Sunday
in rest.
His itinerary in Ohio was arranged
with the special aim of enabling him
to reach with his arguments practic
ally the same people who heard Mr.
Taft in his tour there.
Treasurer Ridder of the democratic
national committee will make public
on Tuesday an aditional list of sub
scriptions to the fund of the party's
campaign expenses.
The Carnegie hall meeting in New
York City on Tuesday, at which for
mer members of Cleveland's cabinets,
including Richard Olney of Boston
and Judson Harmon of Ohio will
speak, and the mass meting, also in
New York City on Thursday night,
of southern democrats, which is to
be addressed by Governor Swanson
of Virginia, are other democratic fix
tures for the week of national im
portance. The week will be rich in speeches
by members of Mr. Roosevelt's cab
inet. Secretary of War Wright will
be heard in New York City and other
places, and Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Straus will spend the en
tire week on the stump, visiting Cleve
land, Chicago, St. Louis and Louis
ville. I EXPECT TO BE ELECTED.'
Such is the Language Used by Taft to
Washington Correspondents.
Washington. "I expect to be elect
ed to the presidency," said Judge Taft,
standing in the East room of the
White House facing thirty or forty
newspapermen who had congregated
to congratulate him after he had spent
the day as President Roosevelt's guest.
The answer was in response to a
question after a brief discussion of
Mr. Taft's recent tour through the
southern states, of which he had spok
en as a pleasing experience. With re
ference to that tour he would only
say he thought it would open the way
for improved republican conditions in
future campaigns. Judge Taft ex
pressed a delicacy in revealing the is
sues which he and the president had
discussed, and when pressed for a
statement as to the president's view
of the situation he would only say
that "The president Is not a pessi
mist." "Nor am I, ' he added.
Kaiser Approves Annexation.
Budapest. The emperor gave an
audience on Friday to the German am
bassador, Herr von Thchirsky, who
presented a letter from Emperor Wil
liam expressing his approval of the an
nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and assuring the Austrian emperor of
Germany's support in the present situ
ation. Emperor William thus is the
first sovereign to reply to Emperor
Francis Joseph's letter announcing
the annexation of the provinces and
his decided attitude gives great satis
faction in may quarters.
FOOT BALL PLAYER IS KILLED.
Will Smith of Eagle Grove, Iowa,
Meets Death in Game.
Clarion, la. What was expected to
have been the decisive foot ball game
between Eagle Grove and Clarion
Saturday afternoon resulted in a
tragedy, when Will Smith, one of the
players in the Eagle Grove team, met
with an accident during the ordinary
plays of the game which resulted in
his death. Smith was the son of ex
Senator Smith of Eagle Grove and
nephew of the present representative
of Wright county.
Light Sentence for Evans.
Yokohama Lieutenant Frank
Evans of the battleship Louisiana, who
recently was court-martialed on a
charge of absenting himself from his
post while officer of the deck, disre
spect to his superior officer and intox
ication, has been found guilty of the
two former charges. Rear Admiral
Sperry received the papers while the
battleships were at Manila and has
just announced his verdict. The sen
tence provides that Lieutenant shall
lose 150 numbers and shall be pub
licly reprimanded.
Thaw Disaopointed.
Fishkill Landing, N. Y. Harry K.
Thaw fully counted on being taken
from Matteawan asylum Sunday for
his appearance in bankruptcy proceed
Ings at Pittsburg, but no move was
made in the case.
Over Fifty Burn to Death.
Detroit, Mich. Despatches from Al
pena, Mich., indicate that the num
ber of deaths in -the forest fires of
Presque Isle and Alpena county will
surely exceed fifty, and may run well
up towards 100.
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State.
Roy Hickman, aged 27 years, was
accidentally shot by the discharge of
his Winchester shotgun half a mile
east of Max, and died from the effects
of the wound an hour later.
The Seven Valleys bank of Calla
way, which is the oldest institution of
its kind in Custer county, is soon to
change its name to that of the First
National bank of Callaway,, with a
capital stock of $25,000.
Fanners should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the
Bell."
County Attorney Rawls of Cass
county filed a complaint in Justice
Archer's court charging Matt Bozarth
with murder in the first degree for
the killing of James Byer, October
6, at Greenwood.
The attorneys for James Lillle. re
cently convicted of robbing Thomas
Martin, an old soldier who resides
near Rockford, have prepared a bill
of exceptions and will carry the case
to the supreme court.
N. C. Peterson, a Danish farmer,
living northeast of Friend, committed
suicide, by shooting himself through
the head. Despondency is given as
the cause. Peterson was unmarried
and lived alone on his farm.
For the second time this year the
lumber office of S. D. Ayers at Central
City was broken into and the safe
opened and robbed, and just as it hap
pened the time before, there was no
money in the safe.
The Dodge county poultry associa
tion at a meeting held at the court
house voted to hang up a big list of
prizes for the show this year. The
show will be held at Fremont Decem
ber 12 to 19.
A child of August Kempf. living on
East Eleventh street, Columbus, was
drowned by accidentally falling into a
barrel of water. The child was about
1-year-old, and just commenceinug to
walk.
The new Burlington depot at Al
liance, which has been more than a
year in building, was thrown open to
the Dublic last week and in its com
pleted condition is at once the most
handsome and substantial de;:ot build
in in the state outside of Omaha.
Hog cholera is rapidly decreasing
the herds of hogs in and around Brad
shaw and Hampton. Hundreds upon
hundreds of hegs have died and theh
seems to be no stop. Farmers are
selling their hogs, no matter what ags
or weight, fearing the disease.
Alfred Harmsen, aged fifteen, son
of Henry Harmsen. a farmer, dropped
dead at his home, four miles north
east of Fremont. Young Harmsen.
when he went home from school com
plained that he had a sore throat. He
was an exceptionally strong boy.
The barn on the farm of Worthy
Luce in Todd creek precinct. JohnFon
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county, was burned together wit a its
contents. There were 300 bushels of
corn, four tons of hay. farm imrle
ments, harness, etc.. in the barn aid
they were lost. The ccrn belonged to
Mr. Luce.
From reports ccniing in. York coun
ty will have one of tho largest ami
best corn crops raised in many ypars.
The quality is extra good and already
reports are coming in where corn has
been shucked yielding fiom fifty-five
to seventy-five bushels to the are. At
the price received corn land will pro
duce from $25 to I$45 per acre, tlrt
can be bought for $85 to $120 per aero.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wil
son, while in Nebraska City person
ally inspected the packing plant of
Morton-Gregson and the Union stock
yards and found them in fine condi
tion, and paid the firm a big com pi !
ment for the way in which they had
overhauled and fitted up the plant
and yards during the time they have
been shut down.
The largest corn ever exhibited in
Jefferson county is being shown in
the windows of Goodrich Bros.' bank
at Fairbury. It came from the farm
of H. J. Cook, who lives five milts
north of Fairbury. The largest ear
measures sixteen inches long. There
are about a dozen ears in the display,
and nearly all of them crowd the six-teen-inch
mark closely.
The new city directory just pub
lished shows a large increase in the
population of York. According to the
last United States census York made
the largest growth of any city in Ne
braska excepting South Omaha, and at
the present and past rate of growth
York will maintain its position of
making the most rapid and greatest
growth of any city in Nebraska.
B. L. Sheppard. traveling salesman
for the Marshall Pennyweight Scales
company and Mrs. Leona Bruner.
stewardess at the Lincoln Commercial
club, were found dead in the apart
ments of the man in a business block
on North Eleventh street. Gas pour
ing from the room caused an inquiry
by occupants of the block, and when
the door was broken down the room
was so filled with gas it was impos
sible to remain in it.
Vital statistics on file in the city
clerk's office show that during the
past three years C37 deaths have oc
curred in Fairbury and immediate vi
cinity. The birth record shows the
stork has visited 005 homes within the
same length of time.
Uebel Bros.' store at Oxford was
entered some time during the night.
Money and trading chacks to the value
of $9 or $10 was secured, and this
was all that was supposed at first to
have been taken. Later it was dis
covered that the entire line of silk j
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carried In stock had also been made
away with.
The Lincoln paper mill plant, lo
cated between the city and the state
penitentiary, was totally destroyed by
fire with the stock on hand. George
E. Haskell, president.of the company,
says the loss is between $50,000 and
$60,000, with insurance of but $13,000.
The second disastrous prairie fire in
this locality this fall says a Dickens
dispatch, swept over a strip two miles
miles east of here from one to three
miles wide and about five miles long,
destroying several tons of hay besides
the burning of the range. The fire
was started by sparks from a passing
train on the Burlington.
THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
QUMUNTiNE ORDER MODIFIED
Gov. Sheldon Makes Some Changes
After Advising With State Veteri
narian and Other Parties.
Governor Sheldon, after advising
with State Veterinarian Charles A.
McKIn, has issued notice of modifica
tion of his recent quarantine against
anthrax among cattle in Wyoming and
South Dakota counties, bordering, on
Nebraska, and Sioux county, Neb. He
has modified the former proclamation
by raising the quarantine against
Laramie county, Wyo., and by raising
it as to a part of Converse county,
Wyo., and provides for terminating
the quarantine against South Dakota
counties and Sioux county, Neb., when
ever it shall be shown that death loss
has decreased and carcasses of all
animals which have died have been
burned. The modification may be en
forced any time after October 12. The
governer's new proclamation is as iol
lows: "That part of quarantine order, un
der date of October 2, 1908, placing a
quarantine against Laramie and Con
verse counties, of the state of Wyom
ing, is hereby changed to read as fol
lows: "That portion of Converse county,
Wyoming, north of the Chicago and
North-Western railroad, and that por
tion that lies east of the line drawn
from Lusk. due north of Weston coun
ty line, thence east to Wyoming and
Dakota line.
"The quarantine order of October 2.
against all portions of Converse coun
ty not mentioned and included in the
above description, and all of Laramie
count", Wyoming, is hereby raised.
"The quarantine now existing
against Fall River, Clay and that por
tion of Yankton county, lying east of
the James river, in South Dakota, and
that portion of Sioux county, Nebras
ka, lying north of the Chicago and
Norfh-Western railroad and west cf
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad will be raised or terminated
when it shall be determined that the
death loss from anthrax among the
live stock has ceased, and the car
casses of all animals which have died
therefrom have been burned.
"This modification of quarantine
shall take effect and be in force from
and after October 12, 1908. to such
time as its conditions have been ful
filled." A Present to Mr. Bryan.
Among the most ardent of the ad
mirers of Mr. Bryan is Frank Hihbard.
the sage of Irvington. and he has just
sent a testimonial of his regard ror
the Bryan family Mr. and Mrs. H b
bard selected in their early youth what
are now two large, fine silver sruco
trees from the arboreal treasures on
his evergreen farm, which he l
termined, as far back as 18. slnuid
adorn the home grounds of the deiro
pratic leader.
A few days ago he concluded t"-:it
now was the time as the trees Iit'
grown to the height of sixteen feot.
and to move them safely was sorr"
thing of a problem. He had hem
sarefully dug and the dirt undisturbed
around the roots, walled in with wood
and cemented. Then he secured a
driver and had them taken overland to
Lincoln from his nlace west of 0?"n
ha. The tree planting is in prog
ress to the delight of Mrs. Bryan and
the family.
Appeals to Supreme Court.
James Lillle, sentenced to e"bt
years for robbing an old soldier
named Thomas M. Martin of Ga?e
county, has anpeIed hip case to t'to
supreme court. The robbery occured
October 11. 1900. but I ittle left and
traveled over a large nart of the elc')e.
including Alaska, before he was ar
rested. He was convicted of beating
and robbins Martin of $70. Martin
had just cashed a pension warrant for
$72. He visited Beatrice and started
home with a half trallon of whiskey
in his possession. He stopped at the
home of the Lillics, where two :mth
ers took a few drinks and invited "Mar
tin to stav for supper. Later on he
was robbed.
A Valuable Acquisition.
The state historical society has re
cently obtained from W. Jackson Bell
of Mt. Ayr. la., four bound volumes
of the New York Tribune, covering
the period from January 2. 1858. to
and including December 18, 18G7. This
gives the society nearly a complete
file of the Tribune, from its beginning
down to the close of the civil war.
These files mav be used by the public
at the rooms of the society.
State Teachers' Banquet.
The committee on the union school
banquet to be held the evening of the
first day of the Nebraska Teachers'
association, Wednesday, Nov. 4. have
held several meetings lately in the
offices of The Nebraska Teacher ro
perfect plans and arrangements. It is
proposed to make this event the great
est social and fraternal gathering in
the educational history of Nebraska.
All details' will be arranged before
hand and the great task of feeding
1.100 persons in a single room in one
hour will be carefully planned.
Grand Assessment Roll.
The grand assessment roll of Ne
braska, which is now being compiled
by the secretary of the Board of Equal
ization and Assessment, shows that
personal property other than railroad
property was assessed at $83,186,740 in
1907 and in 1908 it was assessed at
$82,51,3,691, a decrease of $598,049.
Railroad and car company property
was assessed at $53,293,692 in 1907
and $53,657,152 in 1908. This is a de
crease of $227,698 in the assessed
valuation of personal property. The
increase is $64,318,115.
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and of the Turk, and is now living In
Snglaml. Her highness, who was the
jvife of Trince Samy, the sultan's neph
?w, tells an interesting story of her life
n one of the most exclusive houses In
Turkey the royal harem.
Life in a Turkish harem is an at
tractive theme to all except those who
have to endure it. The whispers of
fancy have made free with what is,
after all, a very wonderful institution.
In the popular imagination, it is the ori
ental home of those who only know
the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and
repose, whose every sense of enjoy
ment Is lavishly catered for by beau
tiful slaves, skillful to delight. There
is, however, another and more truly
realistic, more tragic, side of the pic
ture; and it has been my lot to learn
that the life of a prisoner is none the
less irksome because one's captivity
is associated with a gorgeous palace,
or a fragrant and beautiful garden.
I spent many years in a harem in
Constantinople. My father was the
late Gluridi-Zade Hilmay Pasha, aide-de-camp
to the sultan, and a general
in the Turkish army. Although a close
student of western civilization, he, of
course, had, in a measure, to comply
with the custom of the country, more
especially in a country where every
insignificant innovation is gravely re
garded as helping to undermine the
dynasty. His house accordingly con
tained its selamlik and its harem.
The selamlik is that section set aside
for the men, and is entirely staffed by
male servants; while the harem is re
served exclusively for women, and
none but the master, the women and
the eunuchs are permitted to enter it.
When once a girl reaches her teens
in Turkey she is required by the in
exorable laws of the land to "take, the
veil;" and from that moment her per
sonal liberty is at an end.
Having gained some insight in west
era civilization from my family, whose
views were also shared by my Eng
lish governess, I dreaded the taking
of the veil long before the fateful day
was reached. However, as I have al
ready explained, there was no possi
bility of escape; and so at 13 I found
myself involuntarily cloistered in a
convent.
Mine was not the feeling of the nun
who lays the cross to her bosom,
spurning the pain and welcoming with
joy her functions as a bride of heaven.
Mine was the shrinking of a pure girl
soul from a horrible sense of impend
ing evil. The future had an inde
scribable terror. I was well clothed,
well fed, incarcerated amidst surround
ings of silk, satin and jewels, and
waited on day and night by slaves
whose position in life only differed
from my own in a small degree; for
while the slaves were recognized as
such, I became a slave in all but name.
The women of the harem, other
than slaves, have no influence over
their lord and master. Their sole oc
cupation lies In an unceasing a'ttempt
to outrival each other. They pass
their languid time in dressing, paint
ing their complexions a bewitching
hue, perfuming, and receiving visits
from female friends or professional
buffoons. The later, with their coarse
jests, their coarser anecdotes and gen- j
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The average man would sooner face
a 200-pound human antagonist than a
50-pound dog which he could choke to
death in three minutes. I have seen
a charging ra'Ji scatter half a dozen
men, any one of whom could have
mastered the brute in a moment, and
not one of whom was, in ordinary mat
ters, a coward. There are Instances
on record of men who with their bare
hands have held and baffled an ugly
bull; but It was only the pressure of
grim necessity that taught them their
powers. Put a man against an animal,
and the man looks around for weap
ons or support, whether he needs
them or not. There was a time when
he did.
For man, to-day the most lordly of
animals, was once well nigh the most
humble of them all. He has come
up out of a state in which fear was the
normal condition of existence; fear
of violence, of the dark that gave op
portunity for violence; fear of falling,
of animals, of being alone. And Into
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ment for some; but it is all very nau
seating to an educated woman.
When the master resolves to pay
the harem a visit, it is the duty of the
chief eunuch in some cases to make
an official announcement, and the"
favorite wife arranges the program for
her lord's delectation. To please him
is her highest ambition; she has noth
ing else to live for. She cannot play
Vashti, for Esther is ever ready to
take her place.
It is the custom in Turkey for mothers
with eligible sons to call upon those
who have daughters. The girls are
ushered into the reception room and
paraded for inspection. While drink
ing a cup of coffee, the maternal eye
passes them In critical review.
It is the husband's special privilege
to be able to divorce his wife twice.
If he does it a third'time she is really
free. Should he have exhausted his
stock of legal indulgences, however,
he can hire someone else to go through
the form of marriage with his divorced
wife; and the newly wedded husband
with all expedition that is to say. at
once revokes the marital compact,
and the first husband is thereby ab
solved from the divorce disabilities
previously incurred, is entitled to re
marry his former wife, and divorce
her again twice or thrice if he de
sires it.
By this device he can avail himself
of unlimited divorces. The most
trifling matter, even the spoiling of a
meal, is sufficient to warrant a decree
absolute. I remember a delightful
bride being instantly divorced because
the husband, on lifting her veil for th
first time, found that she had a smalt
flesh-mark on the face.
On becoming Prince Samy's wife J
went to live in the palace of the sul
tana, who is sister of the sultan. The
palace is one of the finest on the banks
of the Bosphorus. Its exquisite suite:
of apartments were furnished with
every modern luxury and comfort, but,,
in spite of all, it yet remained a ver
itable dungeon. Grilles (cafess) were
fitted to every window; and each night
the keys were turned in the locks by
huge eunuchs, as if they were gaolers
as, indeed, they were.
To speak above a whisper was dan
gerous, for it was impossible to know
what spies were lurking behind the
arras, ready to pour reports into the
ear of the master, in order to obtain
some little remuneration as u reward
for treachery.
Why, I wonder, do Turkish men
persistently blind themselves to the
fact that underneath the calm exterior
which a woman has to assume there
reigns a passionate discontent? The
harem is based on unreality, and
Its entire superstructure is a fabric of
make-belief. Was there ever anything
so flagrantly fallacious as the theory
that it is possible to develop and con
serve the best qualities of a woman's
nature by literally tethering her to a
group of slaves and guardians? The
attempt to make a woman lovable and
loyal by penning her up in an atmos
phere of suspicion, and subjecting her
every movement to an outrageous
form of espionage, is predestined to
failure; and fail it undoubtedly does.
of Fear.
are stamped these ancient terrors; a
living record of the upward climb
of man.
The baby shows this record most
clearly. In him the prints of heredity
are not yet overlaid by the tracks of
use and custom and therefore in him
we may most easily reacLour past his
tory. He is our ancestor as truly as
he is our reincarnation; and his every
shrinking gesture and frightened cry
are chronicles of the Younger World,
tales of the Age of Fear. They tell
of the days when man was not the
master of the earth, nor even a highly
considered citizen of the same; but a
runaway subject of the neat-eating
monarchs whose scepter was tooth
and claw; a humble plebeian in the
presence of the horned and hoofed
aristocrats of woods and fields. They
speak of the nights when our hairy
sires crouched In the forks of trees
and whimpered softly at the dark;
whimpered because t'te dark held so
many enemies; whimpered softly lest
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