Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-18

CTS, porters, etc., some lawyers, judges, doe tors, scribes and fast young men by the score, all claiming to be good Aeslsnas.
 Not long ago, meeting friend who is a high Noslem dignitary and regarded with great veneration by all the nsighborhood, I the cause. The old man told me with svt- dent chsgrin and sorrow that two of his dn- gers had been very severely bitten by his youngest son while suffering from deliHium tremens. He begged me to seek some op- portunity of saying something to the youth to try and dissuade him frsm yielding to his appetite for drink.
 Quite recently was called up in the night by . geod hearted Turkish neighbor woman, who begged me-"for the love of God" to come and try to save the life of her son, 6 young married man, who had in . drunken fit, ont of bravaao, swallowed c heavy dose of poison, and was in fearful agony. I went and administered the antidote fn time to save his life. administered also temper. anoe lecture, the effects of which were mani- fest in his conduct for whole month. One evening last winter a well dressed young Turkish woman, whose face was ban daged as we'll as yelled, applied to me at my house for help. Drawing her to the light and removing the bandage, found her eyei almost closed and her face mass of bruises said to her: "Have you fallen end hur yourself2"
 She replied: "No; my husband did i with his fists"
 "What brute be must bel" I exclaimed indignantly.
 Quickly, like many another woman in nk circumstances has deae, she spoke up will an apologetio tone:
 "Do not call him tkas, sir. He is not { ! bad man when he Is sober. Only when he | ! drunk he is like a madman."
 wasked and dressed the poor womani ! wounds. ceuld not.help after all admirinl her womsnly defense of her drunken bus \ band. gave her what consolation I oeuld ! and telling her, just as 1 expect Spsctato
 would have told her, to keep out of her hus
 bands way whsn he was drunk, and, ahov
 all, never on any aceouat to touch liquo
 herself, sent her away.
 The next day after the above occurrence
 young married woman, whom had know
 as girl came to me to get some medicine fo
 her baby. As she went out said to her:
 "You ought to be very thankful to Go
 who has given you a good, sober husband 1 who looks well after you and your little on'
 and does not beat you like some know of.
 The young thing looked up, and smiling
 said, with artful simplicity:
 "Oh! my husband gets drunk too, yer
 often; but when he is drunk he is just like
 lamb. He never makes me afraid of him.
 The above incidents are from my own ps
 sonsl experience. I give them simply
 show that human nature Is the same in Col
 stantinople as in New York, and that whi
 the Turks are certainly no worse than othe' in the matter of drunkenness, they are cs
 tainly not angels, nor need any one think {
 giving up Christianity and trying Islamisl
 to keep men sober could add to these Il
 cidents almost indefinitely. I could tell of
 widowed mother, once wealthy, begging !:
 for advice how to keep her little |remainiz
 property out of the hands of her son, who l squandering 1t in drink. I could tell of
 noble military officer, personally known me, whe, at the risk of his own life, rsfuss
 to hang two innocent men, who without trial mad been condemned by drunken P sha to be hung immediately. And so e through all ranks and conditions of life.
 repeat strong drink Is tho curse to-day the Noslem as well ss the Christian inhat tants of Turkey.