The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-05
easus to trouble her, without counting new rows with

casus, to trouble her. without counting new with
ruInbustcal Turks
Is ON too uneasy terms with Hungary Croatia and Bo-
hemato ovc the notion OF adding lot Of Monteregrns
and Hcrzegovinans to her indictments They would
pay no taxes save compusion and would be always
making u noise In tho English newspapers. What Rus
sian or Austrian would be tho better the break
up or annexation OF Turkey 10 either powers The
Car or the Kaiser? Not they Who. then. would profit
by such events? The answer Is, nobody:
out many good things might DO got out Of tho
ELrvArIox KnxDlvE
and many moro out oil tho Improvement in Turkish
trade and international communication which would
result from IT, For instance Count Lambert, one OF
the most intimate personal friends, fayoritss and
cronies Of tho Russian Cnsar. has an estate which
would DO quadruped in value by the permanent pacid-
cation OF tho Lower Danube, and there is many chum
OF the Kaiser aud fellow countryman OF Count
Andrassy IN exactly tho position Emperors and
their ministers very like other psoplehey usually
act upon the advice Of their friends and these friends
seldom wanting IN careful consideration their
own intcres.
rnE DESTRUCTION OTTOMAN EMPIRE
would ruin Tostoy and Manoukbey. Lambert and
SlrosonoG Pswlowski aud Moller, Brodsky and wo-
rouzow with all the great Southern Russian
landowners. II would bring nothing but It'd
ing Of disaster TO Estcrhazy and the magnates
Of Hungary Everything is possible, and it is there
iore impossible that Russia and Austria may be
forced by the march of take part in the dis
memborment OF European Turkey ana the creation Of
Turkish EMPIRE with Bagdad for its capital
but they VIII assuredly not do SO it they avoid It,
rHA EVENTS
There is older story in the Levant
than the cock andbull tale about Christian virgin
who has been either orciby made Mohammedan or
who has been induced by some gay Mussulman de-
ceiver to orswcar her religion The money which able
Athcnian editors have mado out OF reprints of
this sensational fiction sometimes illustrated, some
tmcs plain) would foot up to sum-
Gent to mako important reduction IN
the Turkish national dobt Tho facts or such
cases, however. when Invested OF imaginative
coorng generally resolve themselves into
these:-l Nine times in ten il turns out that there
is no Christian maid, no iorcible conversion, no
tory Turk. and tho whole business - invented to I'LL
spare column in sheet when politics arc dull
. 1t sometincs happens that a Greek or Armenian
woman has been halr beaten death by her family or
Christian friends, and has sought refuge in the house
OF hosptable Mussunan. g. 1t now ana then
chances that Greek or Armenian female OF char
acter visits Turkish gentleman with strictly COM
mercal views, aud IL she does realize tho trade
profits which she and her have anticipated
suo makes ''suinuy' ana declines 10 90 nome.
LEARNED MAS,
Of the Greeks since tho time OF Percles students OF
history who have CLEANED their intelligence from the
poetry OF Lord Byron, will not readily admit that the
which they have been taught to admire
unct The ancient Greek. indeed, queer fellow
He what his climate na!o nina gossip, who
lived chiefly the Sir and found HIS
teri Heut IL poisoning Socrates ban.shng
-.rlsl q as tn, numor suited him. Tne modern Crock
the CAD about. laxative qualities OF che contem.
poraies o st Paul and only differs from him respect
70 this incident in his biography viz, that he is not
Greek at ALL He will call himself Epsm,nondas
Sophoces look at you, and his wife. though
Aerce bigos religion, will vehomently assert that
her Christian name Is Aphrodc, which Is not Chris
tan name Ut ALL but the actual dwelers Thesssly,
Thraco Eprus and those both shores Of tho Euxnc
mixed breed Of Genoese venetians aud Asatics,
further aduteraied with tho worthless Northern and
Western adventures among the camp follow
OF tho Crusaders and remained behind the East
when men Of means and responsibility went home.
COMMERCIAL rSrEREsra
What happened at Saonica probably originated IN >
commercial enterprise. II is alleged that tho
Bulgarian girl Of Avzct Hissar WAS constrained by
violence to embrace Isainsn. and, IL shc did so ut
all, there is doubt that she acted OF her
Will There are, however, circumstances which render
her conversion more than problematca, and the only
alleged proof OF it is which would satisfy none of
the laws of evidence. 1t stated that she the
Turkish mantle and veiL' That is to say she was
hidden IN linen cloak and bandasc which left no part
Of her face figure visible, and which caused her to
resemble walking bundle of clothes, a Turkish
woman IN tho ordinary costume OF her
country. Now, supposing 1t possible that she had
an eye to business rather than religion,
and that sho was about to treat question OF sale or
h.r fho Nu Ian If.f4 DALI
She certainly could have visited His Exceliencys
house In any other dress but that which she
IL at her request, moreover that three
cavasses guards OF honor in the pcrnona OF
the Governor General, accompanied her TO his
understand or sanction such doings that there
nothing in such event 10 call for consular interior
Perhaps the girl wanted
HER FATHER OR HER BROTHER
The Bulgarian Christians, ike many Of their corcli
gioniss in other countries, are extraordinarily
alter public cmploymenls aud Pasha with three tails
has much patronage. Perhaps She wanted beg her
family or some arrears OF taxes. Porhaps-but tnere
is no end to concsture and therefore tho less SAID
about the object Of her visit 10 our acquaintance
Mehcmet Reject Pasha, the better.
LOCAL CHRISTIANITY
Hero IL must DC observed that violent
hrst taken by the Turks but by the local Christ
ians About $50 OF them got together, as idle vaga-
bonds Will at times. and, having nothing else 10 to DO
began the clothes OF the Pasha's visitor her
back. A crowd Of Mussunians then intericrcd and
cuGcd their heads as a crowd Of Now Workers might
have done II they woman mishandlcd by reason
OF her Chinese dress Tho next step the affair only
brings into tho domain or international law. Some
foreign consils busted themselves ovcrmuch In IT,
Now, the capitulations Of Turkey with the Christian
States give foreign consus much authority that II
often makes them tipsy. There VAS long ago, a.
Consul who had his dinner served 10 the sound or
trumpcts and Consular freaks have long
been scandal throughout the Ottoman
Empire. Yet many foreign nations still % on
appointing namccss Levahiincs to the great Judicial
consuiates OF the Icvant and youths with tho know
ledge and appearance oil laquas de place at Italian ho
tells constantly invested with more than preoc
tor.a power considerable population. 1t Is TO be
remarked that Mr.. Blunt, the English Consul VIII
father Saonicn before him. resoutcy re-
fused to interfere. The French and German consuis
INTERFERE and thcir deaths the they thus
provoked
There IL strong reason to believe that the Khcdve
has been jnbblng freely in his bonds ana that Is
bad lnancicrng for the public credit of Egypt how
ever profitable IL msy have bccn him The creditors
Egypt, however, have for alarm VI.
Ferdinand de Icsscps aud every other statesman who
possesses competent knowledge OF the resources OF
Egypt would promptly any one who might