The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-26

above the eyebrows. hollow at the tenn
pies and wrinkled all over. The lines
running down to the base OF the nose.
which Indicate profound and medita-
tive thought. are accumulated The
eye is dark gray, large. well formed.
pensive, slightly yelled, penetrating,
The eye is that of a thinker, of sus-
picious mediator, with a subjective
will power. The nose Is long and thin
at its base. bony and strong at the
nostrils. The mouth is large, and the
teeth, rather yellow than white. are
widely separated. The lower lip is
stronger and thicker than the upper
one. The expression Is energetic and
reveals a mixture of pronounced sem
sualism and real kindness. The SUI
tan's hair is black and cut short. The
skull recedes toward the top; the little
brain Is strongly marked. The ears
are long and vigorously cut. The COM
plexion Is a darkish brown. The hands
are fine and nervous; the finger nails
rosy and cut short The feet are arch
ed and slender. Abdul Hands voice
is sympathetic and sonorous. He
speaks lower than his subjects, and
smiles but little in the presence of
strangers. He has an excellent MEM
DRY of faces, but recalls names with
difficulty.
The sultan's moral qualities are an
excessive prudence, a great love OF
work, q sort of characteristic lucidty,
a rapid penetration of the ensemble of
things, a very marked desire to do gen.
erous deeds. a love of the beautiful
and of the flesh. of luxury and COM
fort in all its degrees. a strong con-
Germ of what people say about him,
an aversion ito war and blood, sin
gular generosity allied to lively de-
sire for possession and command, a
seeking after the just and true in acts
and conduct, and an aptitude for the
occult and vulgar sciences. His de-
fects are a too great activity OF
thought, the sadness of the melancholy
man, a m<strust carried to extremes,
the want of manly energy. an avari-
ciousness always struggling against
generosity, and the intellectual and
physical troubles resulting from the
want OF harmony of the functions of
the nervous system. In short, Abdul
Hamfd Is "a cerebral-that is to say,
one OF those men of a somber and mel
ancholic temperament who owes his
extraordinary penetration-which con-
ducts him now to wild and now to
sublime ideas-only TO sion as q re-
former and regenerator of his brain.
If Abdul Hlamid had the courage of a
Mohammed, Cromwell OF a Napoleon,
his reign would become one of the
most remarkable of the Ottoman en-
pire. 1t might be a bloody reign, but
Il would certainly be a great one.
However, the melarcholic element
with Its constant nervousness and in
termittent madness, dominates his
idiosyncrasies; the unreasonable ankle
ties. chimerical fears. organic frights
and cerebral prostrations, carefully
fostered by the most influential per-
sons surrounding him, restrain his in
stincts of greatness and confine his
courageous dnclinations. Abdul Hamid
believes in the power of lucky or I'M
lucky fatality and in his mission as a
reformer and regeneration of his peo-
pie; but this belief often gives way to
a despair which, during long hours,
makes him one of the most unhappy
men or his vast empire. Then he shuts
himself up and refuses to see any one.
AS soon as the crisis is over he re-
turns to his ordinary life, more lucid.
more active and more industrious than
ever. OF feverish energy and a ner-
vous obstinacy, he has succeeded in
successfully combating the careless in
dolence which results from the ener-
waiting life of the harem. He finds in
his sovereign duties strength to par
alyze partly his distrustful weaknesses.
his timorous lassitudes and his nerv-
Gus crises.
The sultan's daily life is said to be
one Of endless activity. He rises early
and spends the morning in reading
newspapers, letters and dispatches. His
first meal Is a very light one and after
IL he works unremftringly with his sec
retaries about him In the palace until
noon when the more elaborate break
fast is served. In the afternoon he
sometimes rides or walks about the
grounds surrounding the palace. These
grounds are very extensive, and IL he
chooses to ride horseback or indulge in
the hunt. accompanied by some OF his
subordinates, he may do so. Some
times he takes his little daughters for
row on the lake, sometimes he en-
joys himself at the theater in the pal
ace.
This theater is so arranged that sew
eral parties may occupy distinct por-
lions or II. and thus the sultan and
members OF his family enjoy the per-
Torrance. while others of the house
hold or of the ruling class may have
been invited by him to occupy an ad-
Joining apartment. OF course he or his
family never go to the playhouse of
the city, but when they desire to wit
ness a performance have the players
come 10 Vne p3lace. lie Us fond of
horses. and keeps some 200 OF the finest
that the markets of the East afford in
his magnificent stables. The sultan is
especially fond OF music, and is him
self an excellent performer on the
piano. At his dinners there is music
by the finest organization known to
and he entertains dip
lomats and friends royalty. One feat
ure OF his own life. in this particular.
is that while he supplies his guests
with the finest and most costly wines
and liquors, he drinks only water him
self
The sultan has the fairest palaces
that men have ever raised. Inconceiv-
able money and treasure have been
lavished on the magnificent piles that
tower by the blue Bosphorus. The sui
tan has never dweH within the walls
of one great palace. For only one night
has the head OF a sultan rested there.
Yet this. one OF the vastest palaces in
the Ottoman empire. was reared at a
cost OF $30.000.O00 by the late sultan,
Abdul Medjid. He slept one night un-
der its roof. An evil dream, or an I'M
IN V,ora HE oman nlraaaUad HE daJi.-h.