Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27
TURKISH ROYALTY.
Mrs. Lew Wallace Pictures Royal
Life in PARKWAY Turkey.
Turkeys Gracious Sultan - He Has
~ Never Signed a Death Warrant.
Beauty of the Royal Women.
The One Sovereign in Europe Who Can Trace
His Lineage Through Four Centuries
in Unbroken Succession.
For the Gazette.

ASA IAS SSLSbbCs
Copyrighted, 1891
know We the land of the cedar and vine,
Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams
ever shine;
Where the light wings Of Zephyr, opprest with
perfume,
Wax faint Ger the gardens of Gull in her
bloom;
Where the citrOu and olive are fairest Of fruit,
And the voice of the nightingale never is mute;
Where the tints of the earth and the hues Of
the sky
In color though varied, in beauty may vie?''
BYRON.
The stranger entering Constantinople at noon
might think the rushing stream of life on Ga
lata bridge represents 3 people OF industrious
habits and tireless energy. In reality 1t IS one
of the idlest of cities and repose OF mind ana
body-taking kief q. e., lazing) is the Turk s
supreme hRpeinesS-
Time has no value to the Moslem. Immovable
faJalsm makes the future, whatever it be, &C
ceptable, and the ambitions and industries Of
restless Christian nations are unknown TO the
descendants of men who ravaged the earth IN
Ger Genghls Khan and Iameriane.
Friday, the Mohammedan Sunday, is the most
delightful of all the week. 1t is an interruption
TO labor, IL there be any, because then the Sui
tion rouSes and goes to see the one sovereign OF
Europe, who can trace his lineage through four
centuries, an unbroken succession, without the
scepter once declining to the distah, and with
out the accession of 3 collateral branch.
He is thirty-6rst ruler of the house of 9th
man, reaching back to Shelk Ertogrul OF glcrI-
Gus memory, founder of the Ottoman dynasty,
who was buried at Eske Scheher l23S.
About o'clock in the afternoon the command
er of the faithful leaves Yiidiz-pslace of the
star-mounted usually on a mllk-whlte Arabian,
which he manages with delicate and skillful
hand. He wears the uniform OF an army ofhcer
without ornament, except slight dress sword.
His bearing is kingly, his face thin and color
less, eyes black and keen as q falcons; In MS
lofty ease there is mingling OF fercenesS and
gentleness as becomes the descendent OF the
most illustrious warrior of Islam the successful
wooer of the fair MalEhatoon.
II the old Tartar blood is dominant in Abdul
Hsmid Second, one would not suspect IT while
he bows right and left, as though by life ong
CO intact with different races be had caught and
united in himself the graces OF them ali. see
ing him thus we readily believe that the wearer
Of the sword of Gilman, uncontrolled master OF
fifty millions, has so kindly nature ne mas
never signed 8 death warrant. His manner is
always winsome and gracious, in the throne
room the perfection of that subtle attraction
conveyed TO our minds by the word courtly-a
charm far beyond the reach OF mere personal
appearance.
beauty inherited from Circsssian mothers. An
English artist who painted Abdul Medjid, father
TO the present sultan, declared he had never
seen so fine mouth; it was perfect Cupid's
bow. Physically, the house has declined since
Turkish corsairs secured the Mediterranean
countries for women worthy the name Of sui
tana, and stole high-born Venetian ladies TO
adorn the imperial harem.
There must be no umbrellas opened in presence
OF the SHADOW OF zoo upon eArLn. lime Was
when raising parasol in front of majesty would
be the signal and mark for musket shot from a
sentinel. This peaceful furling of parasols is a
far away reminder of the tyranny OF AmuTsth
Fourth (1e23), who opened batteries on boats i'm
peding his view, and sent all on board to the
bottom.
Those were the days of the sword and the
bowstring, when sunrise over the Bosphorus re-
vealed on its shores corpses OF victims nightly
strangled; and so familiar with executions were
the abiect councillors of the divan that, when
summoned 10 appear at the Sublime Porte. they
usually made the death ablEtion before entering
the presence of the despot. He II was who
among small murders. beheaded his chief must
clan for singing Persian air, and decreed:
Those OF my illustrious offspring who. ascend
order TO secure the peace of the world -
We are living in better tunes
Shril and clear the bugle calls; the band dis
courses Wild, parbaric music attuned to fighting
and vFrtoNs which must have been inspired