The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-25


ers were confined with murderers,
and so with forgers, counterfeiters,
robbers, and the rest. The prisons
were thereby prevented from being
the schools of crime that similar
places arc elsewhere. Instead of
cells the prisoners were put to sleep
in large dormitories. Prison labor
was utilized to good purpose in a
variety of manufacturing industry.
After describing his inspection of
the troops and the navy of nineteen
iron-clads, performed in company
with Osman Pasha, the hero of
Plevna, and the English Hobart
Pasha, admiral, Major Dane came
to the objects of greatest grandeur
and magnificence to be found at the
Golden Horn. 1t was very interest
ing to have him tell how he gained
access, with distinguished escort
and other imperial favors, to all the
grandest palaces and churches.
Other respectable tourists, who had
waited round for years and used all
the arts they deemed available for
the purpose, were astonished at his
success in this respect. In the
grand palace of the emperors, the
residence of the Sultan, the Major
was surprised to find picture gal
lery containing likenesses of the
human form and of horses. AS the
literal rendering of the second COM
mandment of the decalogue is part
of the moral code of the Mussul-
mans, this display of pictures was in
truth glaring innovation.
1t would be impossible in mere
summary to follow the lecturer
through the stupendous mazes and
magnificences of the Seraglio Palace,
largest of all the st. Irene Church,
the Treasury, and the Church of st.
Sophia. A column would not give
an adequate idea of the vast luxuri-
BUSINESS of the first named alone. In
the basement of st. Irene Major
Dane met with the most novel spec
tacle he had ever seen in church
225,000 of the best pattern of
American rifles, snugly stacked.
The Treasury, guarded with sedu-
lous care and secured with an intri-
cate system of doors and locks, is
stored with a fabulous wealth of
trophies won from times immemorial
in the national wars. Gold, silver
and precious stones, besides almost
every conceivable sort of portable
wealth, were slowed away. Held
as sacred-and the speaker was
glad one nation held anything sacred
even the severest financial straits,
with which the Turk is chemically
afflicted, would not be adopted as
sufficient reason for disposing of
any of this vast treasured wealth.
St. Sophia seemed to have struck
the Major as the perfection, COM
paratively, of all the ecclesiastical
architecture he had seen in Europe
and Asia. st. Paul was little cold.
Cologne seemed compressed. Stras-
burg made one ask for more light.
st. Peters gave the feeling of want
ing to widen your eyes still more to
comprehend it's expanse. A tradi-
ton is enshrined in this church that
when Christ comes forth for the
third time, the Mussulman must go
forth as he entered 55S years ago.
Discussing the Turk, the lecturer
gave an estimate of him that must
have been a revelation to most Of his
auditors. Jointly with DR.. Thomp-
son he declared that, "The true
Turk will not lie, steal, swear or
drink" He will, however, have his
backsheesh, as well as the Arab.
The Arab is the Indian of the East ;
the Armenian is the money-usurer ;
the Greek is the keen politician. .,
In fine peroration the Major
eulogized the influence of the
English people and language upon
the Turkish Empire of to-day.
Wherever the English language OBJ
tanned sway, it elevated whatever
people was operated upon. He
spoke of the great effects apparent
from the English naval and military
schools. Anxious seekers after
knowledge could only go certain
distance in their Investigations, when
they were confronted with problems
that only measure of Acquaintance
with the religion of the English
would enable them to solve. Some
of the rising young Turkish officers
had come to this point, and had not
allowed the obstacle to prevent their
progress, their thirst for information
being more potent than the terrors
of their own faith. The present
Sultan was more progressive than
his predecessors, and at the peril OF
his head had resisted the tyrannical
domination of the Grand Vizier, who
hitherto held absolute sway over the
temporal as well as spiritual affairs
of the Empire. When the inevitable
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