The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-07-19

For the rest. they are generous simple
and sincere, when it was not their inter
est to be otherwise and whcE their child
ish wiles were not called into action b,
having to deal with Greek. Such they
were such they are see no valc
reason to assert that our Eastern allie,
are much changed since Bertezona chas
tised the Khan Of the Geougen. or Dis
abul hurried the unwarlike subjects o.
Byzantine Tiberus. Europe is chang
ed, however. The Emperor of Austria
is no longer the insignificant person h,
was when John Sobioski rescued Vienna
from the Ottoman hordcs and France
is another sort of country than it was
when Charles Martel saved Chris,endom
on the plains of Tours. Russia alsc
could hardly be brought to understand
a joke as well as when Achmct the
Third dictated peace to a snubbed Peter
The Great upon the banks of the Pruth
Four hundred years of oppression have
even united the Greeks, have nerved
their arms, and made them more sharp.
witted and unscrupulous than ever
! Thus, turn which way the Regular Turk
will, he has no elbow room. He would
be delighted to have a quite little game
of conquest and pilloge, or even one
which was not quiet. for the matter Of
that but there is no longer a field for
Turkish talents. and many stiff.hcart-
ed elderly Turkish gentleman believes
firmly that the world is coming to IN
end iu consequence.
Our new acquaintances Il continue to
| call them our new acquaintances, for
really the present generation of Euror-
cans seems almost to have been ignorant
Of their existence until lately have a
great dislike to renegades. They ex-
plain it from an interesting observation
of the Caliph Omar An Arab chief
appeared before him, and desired to re-
nounce the faith of Islam because it did
not allow him to marry two sisters at
the same time The caliph immediate.
ly applied a stout stick with great vivac-
ity to the applicants head ; and, as if
that were not sufficient argument for
such person, the Commander of the
Faithful gave the wretch to understand
that an apostato ought to suffer death
Thus. whatever your worthless advcutur
er now setting to swim in the troubled
waters Of Turkey may think to the con
trary, he will gain nothing but contempt
by turning Turk. ! have seen swsrms
of deluded miscreauts who did so but
they got nothing by it, ard shanble a.
bout Constantiuoplc, haggard, seedy md
despiscd
One Of the questionable things about
the Regular Turk in tho eyes of all Brit
ish gentlemen of honor must be his in
vcterato dislike to duclling; which he
cannot be brought to understand He
supposcs that our dues nre fought BY
command Of our Sultana. and constitute
merely means at the disposal Of that
august poteutate for getting rid Of dis
agreeable people They have an ex-
tremcly convenient custom for quarrel
some folk At the feast of the Bairam,
every Turk is bound to make it up with
his enemy. be that lit what it may
Whether they hate each other more cor
daily afterwards or not, this doponent
knoweth not
They do not appear to object to duel
ling or to danger Of any kind from fear
Of death. Their downright pluck on
all occasions is beyond all question or
dispute. They decline to 90 to lonely
places on cold mornings for the purpose
6 ,,,nr1 amino ~ f,;o,1 .lo H.. t,.,f 1o,
on their toes, because it is not in accord
anco with their principles They avoid
giving people a chance of trcading on
their toes by preserving in the excellent
old system of tucking them out of the
way by sitting down cross-lcgged upon
them; while they carry off all verbal in
tercourse with each other in such flow
cry aud wonderful strain, that cause Of
offence can rarely occur. No doubt. il
cause Of offence 40 occur. they still pre-
fer now and then poisoning to any more
noisy means of quieting a person who
has become obnoxious to them. They
have not. however. attained the elegance
in the art of silent destruction which has
been attributed to the Italians and Rus
slams nor is Tor ever was) the custom
so common among them. \ Turkish
difference, especially with Greek is
often sOttled BY hired servants, whose
chief employment is to shake and thumT
people who cannot be bought to reasor
by other means. The Greek gentlemen
understand this and avoid personal en-
counters, therefore. as much as possible
Regular Turks ara fatalists. They
arc not Of the opinion of Pope and mosl
modern philosophers They think thai
nature is not only held fast in Fate, bur
that Fate holds the human will in it,
tight grasp also. They believe thai
everything, from the growth of little ap
pies to the roasting of Greek rebels wa
pre- ordained Thus, they are not fonC
Of taking useless steps to avert disas
ter, and insurance offices are unknown
among them. They would conside
such an institution as temple Of Nam
mon and unrighteousness. Even th
Quarantine is an institution, new, ant
by no means pleasing among them. TIL,
doctor does not appear to them the pc
: tent parsonage he seems to us The
respect him, indeed, as a soother Of pain
but they hold that no man can aver
that which is written For this reaso
the Regular Turk is not fond of intei
feriug with the proceedings of Fate j
= the case of house on fire, and the bes
exertions of a Bradwood at the receu
catastrophe would have been held b
. them as red-hot blaspbemy, The Tur
would shake hands (if shaking hand
!, were his way) with an individual WI
had the smallpox, with the utmost ga
G lantry and politeness. He is not aver