Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07

He Diets, behaves Himself and Tries 20
become n Man OF the World Generally.
The Sultan of Turkey lives and
thinks pretty much after the fashion OF
other high European sovereigns. He
rises very early and takes cold bath,
something unknown to Turkish Sultans
before his day. At half-past nine
o'clock he enters his study and sits
down between two mountains of paper
one, all Turkish newspapers and
translations from foreign newspapers;
the other, documents of state. BY his
side sits his secretary, Sureya Pasha,
with whose aid he goes through all the
dailies and clippings and reports.
Every state paper is read carefully by
the Sultan himself, who boasts that he
has never affixed his name 10 docu-
ment that he had not first read
through. After having disposed of
both patches of paper, the Sultan
lunches, plainly without wine. When
the Sultan is alone the table service is
china; when guests ore present it is
gold. After luncheon the Sultan
usually drives or takes gymnastic ex-
ercise. Upon his return from his re-
creation he again retires to his study
and works till all the tasks of the day
have been performed.
The home life of the Sultan is
strangely different from the prevalent
ideas of it. According to Vambery,
the Hungarian traveller, who has re-
Gently returned to his home from a
long visit at the Turkish court, the
harem has ceased to have any signifi-
canoe for the life of the Turkish sover-
eign, who lives with and loves his one
chosen wife as would any other Euro
pean sovereign. His affection for this
chosen wife is so strong that during
her recent illness he ate and slept little
and was by her side almost all his
leisure time. His daughter, Maine
Sultana, has been educated in oil Eur o.
pean accomplishments, and is pianist
of rare talents and remarkable execu-
ton. AS an Islamite the Sultan, of
course, allows that female slaves are
presented to him, but he does not take
them into his family in any way, in fact,
never sees their faces. Abdul Hamid
III. is q believing Moslem, Vambery
says, yet never forgets that he rules
over Greeks and ArmeDians as well as
over Mohammedans. Not only the
clergy of his own creed, but also the
Greek and Armenian patriarchs, are
frequently recipients of his presents.
The Sultan is far from being an or
thodox Mohammedan, for he en-
courages the fine arts. and has founded
n museum containing statues, to look
I-wt--vbioi.,- .oooEsl;se, te-tle-l<o-~ss,--is-
deadly sin, and has laid the basis OF
the education of Turkish women, for
which, too, his creed finds no indorse-
ment. Besides the business of live
politics, plans for the introduction of a
constitution in his empire occupy much
of the Sultan's attention. He feels an
obligation to do this for his people, yet
fears they are not ripe for it.
an Europe the ground was pre-
pared for constitutions by centuries OF
liberal government, he said to YAM
berry. "Now you come TO ask me TO
transplant this Western growth to the
stony soil of Asiatic life. Let me first
remove the thistles and stones, let me
turn and water the soil, for we have no
rain here. and then 1 will transplant
the Western product as you wish. Be-
lieve me, no one would be better
pleased than / with the success of the
experiment" Such is the Sultan,
says Vambery, painted without pref.
udice.