The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-22
GENERAL LEW WALLACE
LECTURES AT THE THEATRE on
TURKEY AND THE TURKS.
The Author of Ben Hur Draws a
Large and Cultured Audience
The Kendall Three Nights Engage
ment Begins Tonight.

The coming of so distinguished an
American as General Lew Wallace,
brought out a number OF people to see
him last evening, the lower part of the
house being we'll filled with an audi
ence that included many of our bright
est and most cultivated citizens. Cen
eral Wallace was introduced by Judge
Goodwin. He is a soldierly man of i'm
pressive appearance, still in good Wig
or, but growing gray. His manner is
courtly, but he is an American, every
inch of him. in appearance. style ard
in pronunciation. His residence abroad
and his contact, officially and in pri-
vate, with men of all nations, have
not taken even the keen edge from
his Americanism. He read from notes,
which deprived his lecture of all sug
gestion of spontaneity, but all was
soon atoned by the charm of mis- die
ton and the mastery way in which ne
massed his subject. The lecturer him
self was forgotten as his hearers Iol-
lowed him into the unique region of
the Turks, and learned of Turkish
scenes and Turkish ways. Herein was
seen the power of the author Of Ben
Hur'' for in the lecture, as in the TO-
nance, the author is forgotten and the
scenes themselves are presented to the
mind. We have no space to make any
thing like a complete synopsis of the
lecture. Only a few of the most strik-
ing features can be referred to-
After brief word-painting of the
beauties of the Bosphorus and the ap-
proach to Constantinople-the ancient
Byzantiunl-which the lecturer likened
TO phantom city in the skies, an am
phitheatre of cities, he destroyed the
Illusion by describing the i'll smells
that make you dread the streets.
There are two guilds urging fmpera-
tive demand upon everybody, the dogs
and the beggars. Yet this city is
grand in many features, especially in
it's imperial history. For 1,500 years,
ii has been the seat of empire. In this
eulogiWn, he reminded his hearers of
the glory that he throws around the
old city in 1.-THE Prince of India" The
Turks do not hate Protestant Chris
tians; on the contrary, they treat them
with consideration and hospitality. We
know little of the real Turk, and are
disposed to believe every red
fezzed man we meet to be such.
But few of them are. A true
Turk may be known by his light com
plexion, dark eyes. round face and
something of a Hebrew nose. Those
that we generally see are likely to be
y
character and great religious feeling.
There are numbers of so-called Chris
tians who would find it profitable to
study them and their customs. No
writer has ever impeached the bravery
of the Turks in battle. Much interest
is felt in their domestic and marital re-
lations. Like the tourists who Wis
tied Salt Lake city in times gone by.
many who went 70 Turkey We're much
exercised as to the private lives Of the
Turks. From what General Wallace
learned through ladies who were per-
mitted to enter certain parts of the
harems, the facts were vastly different
from the pictures that had been
drawn, and from what he himself saw
the Turkish household was conducted
with more decorum than is generally
supposed.
The ruling Sultan. Abdul Hamed, is
a man of rare tact and diplomatic
power He is also enlightened and lib
eral minded. For example, if a Chris
tan school house is destroyed, the
sultan is the first with a liberal sub
scription toward it's reerection. True
his pashas stand in dread of him, es-
pecially at time of audience. This is
partially owing to the glory that
hedges him about, but the court is a
dread place of suspicion, where every
man is a, suspect, from the court ply
stefan to the cook. The sultan re-
allies that his realm is in danger of
absorption from the nations that sur
round him. The head Of every nation
in Europe is ready to grasp his nation
| by the throat, but each is afraid of