Great Falls tribune., 1889-07-06

decency. OF modesty and shame he
has the names only. OF liberty he has
not even the name. mmM. ..@".
1t was severe, but true, and it is more
generally true today, for Europe has i'm
proved, while Persia has retrograded.
The surprising fact, to western people,
about many Orientals is that they do not
regard dirt and deformity. For the
latter they actually have sort of un-
natural affection. Those monstrous dis
tortions of humanity which are kept out
Of sight in Christian countries are made
much of in Turkey and Persia. A man
with one horrible eye in puffed cheek,
man with all his foot mashed into one
revolving and diseased toe, twisted,
distorted, most unhuman looking dwarf
these are in a sense heroes in Persia.
They like to see animals slaughtered and
skinned and dressed; the sight and smell
OF warm, flowing blood and offal is
agreeable to them.
And Nasr-Ed-Deen is in all these re-
spects the most Persian Of Persians. On
his first visit to Europe he had the sheep
for his cookery slaughtered in the recep-
ton halls Of the palaces in which he was
lodged. And this was rather the least
offensive Of his domestic performances.
In England some of the clergy and noble
ladies tried to impress on him their ideas
of the proper dignity of women; he could
not even understand what they were
talking about. When the Princess of
Wales was presented in court dress,
he laid his hand on her bare shoulder
and said she was fit for her place. What
further liberties he might have taken
had not the princess retired can only be
conjectured. At Berlin he asked EN-
peror William why he did not .'cut off
that ugly old womans head and get
young princess to be the mistress of the
harem"
Nasr-Ed-Deen was born in 1880, and
assembled the throne in 1S4S, occupying
by strange train of circumstances
position somewhat similar to that held
BY James I in English history-that is,
all the old royal lines are supposed to
unite in him by descent. But this is not
proved, and the recent claim that he ia
also descendant of Cyrus and Darius
has nothing to support it. The general
statement about the filthiness of Orien-
tails does not apply, Of course, to the vari-
GUS princes and mobiles of India, Siam
and eastern Asia generally who have
visited western Europe; they have gen
orally displayed both elegance and re-
tinement, while that branch Of the Tu-
ranlans which overran Persia and Asia
Minor appear destitute Of both and hu-
manlty as well. The late princes of
Persia are Of the Mongol stock, and the
Persian branch Of it has shown all the
bravery of the race but few of the re-
deemlng qualities of the Mongols in
China and India.
Nasr-E -Ed-Deen has waged three terri
BILE wars, two with Russia and one with
England; in the first two he lost a third
OF his territory, and the latter ended in
1857 by his granting all that England
asked In 1873 he made the grand tour
of Europe, leaving behind him a trail of
stencil and vermin. 1t cost $3.50, 900 to
put buckingham palace in repair after
he left it, His sleeping room had to he
drenched with disinfectants before the
workmen would consent to work in f.:
all the furniture and hangings were
burned and the plaster scraped from the
walls. At Paris he did better, but the
jewelers. and artists levied on his BAG
gage and the government had to pay
them for articles he had bought At
Vienna Emperor William got sick after
the first interview, and thereafter the
courtiers kept the shah "soaked" with
champagne, and therefore comparatively
decent.
And now the poor monarchs of Eurone
have to stand repetition of this thing
because Nasr- Ed-Deen is their royal
brother, and monarchical etiquette de
mands it. How thankful we should feel
as the Sunday school books say, that we
live in a free country and can kick a
shah outdoors if he don't behave himself.
There are two reasons why we don't
rust man. One is because we don't
snow him, and the other because we do