The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-17

hates me Greek and otDtrustS the Eur0- pesn. An of the Christian faith he regards Unborn Racial Hatred.
 On the other hand 1t should De said for the Turk that his enemies. excepting those
 residing outside his reaiAi. are, when aroused fully as bloodthirsH. There can be no denying that atrocities fully as bad
 as any ever perpetrated by the most sav- age Kurd have been committed by the
 Bulgarians or to use the more general
 term, Macedonian. The motive. how
 ever, is entirely different In the case
 of the Turk 1t is inborn racial hatred; in
 that of the Macedonian 1t is revenge for
 cruelties already suffered. Many among
 the revolutionists now in the field have seen their homes suddenly burned. wives and daughters violated before their very eyes, their children brutally slain and to end the tragedy have helplessly witnessed the fairest of their women driven away captiye to be sold into the bondage of the harem forever and those remaining maimed or killed outright It is but natur- al therefore, that men thus wronged take revenge on their enemies in manner equally cruel.
 Women Merely c Plaything. Of the social life between men and wo- men as it is known Tn America and in European countries the Turk knows or feels comparatively nothing. This is due entirely to the harem and it's vile infiu- ence. Polygamy with its debasing effects has so depraved the Turkish mind that little is left of the softer ideals. His wife or wives are little more to him than baubies creatsdes solely to satisfy his sen- suaI cravings Woman in his eyes is made solely for his pleasure. not compan- ionship. Held down as she is, but with few exceptions, the inmate of the Turkish hafem Is little more than mere child, | whoce sole aim In life is to win the smile | of her master. Love is excluded, htera- lture is the privilege of the few, science | q mere atom; politics is reduced to Q | question of names, business occupies but | a small part of the day. The Turk looks | on while changes are ordered and are | taking place about him; takes from the l European what may be useful to himself, accepts innovations whose material ad- | vantage he recognizes as immediate' hears without winking the lessons or civ- 1 ilization that are given him. allows him. | self to be improved, embellished and made | to wear a mask; but within he is immu- tabiy, invincibly the same. Only the shell
 is changed, the kernel remains unbroken. l Sultan and subjects. one and all, are
 alike The only difference is in degree Of
 state. The poor man has but one wife by 1 necessity; the Sultan thousand by his
 wealth.
 Army Reflex of Corruption. l Quite naturally the army 1t but the re- | flex of these uncivilized, corrupt condi-
 tions. The soldiers, accustomed to being l cheated out of their pay, do not hesitate
 to steal and pillage. To the victor belongs
 the spoils, both in warfare and in poli-
 tics. Were 1t not for the Turkish soldier s bravery, his fanaticism in battle. his de- light in carnage, the entire army could I ho ell a q
 1t is a fighting force of no mean power.
 Discipline is decidedly a lacking quantity. Valor largely replaces 1t.
 There are abundant traces of Indo-Eu- ropean origin in the Turks features, and
 this,~ added to a knowledge of his charac-
 teristics, love of home and family, dislike of travel, etc., would Incline us to doubt
 his relationship, with the nomadic Arab or
 any other Semitic race As soldier he is, moreover, readily amenable to disct- pline. another Non-Semitic trait While
 the guard the infantry and the marines
 are recruited in Turkey proper from
 among the Mussulman population. where
 the Turkish blood is comparatively un-
 mixed, the zouaves emanate from the riff- raff of Asia Minor. As their faces indi-
 cate, they are of a race of cutthroats and
 bandits, with distinct strain of Semitic
 blood in their veins. Once removed from
 them are the irreguiars or Hamidieh cav.
 alry-the wretches mainly responsible fol
 the horrible massacres in Armenia and
 other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Argan or Semitic.
 At first glance some of the faces sug gest a Celtic, early centuries of the Chris tian erR fierce, others a Germanic, oth
 CTS a Latin origin. Replace the fez witf an English, French or German forage cap and the men might belong to any o . those nations for all their looks woul( show to the contrary. These men, how ever, are the descendants of the Otto
 man Turks. whose empire was founded fl the thirteenth century, on the ruins O the great Mongal dynasty of Centra ' Asia. Their origin Is lost in the mists O l antiquity and students are divided as t whether they should be classed with tn Aryan or the Semitic races. The genera . supposition is that they sprang from tn same source sas the Huns and the Tar tars.
 European travellers the Turk treats witl : utmost disdain or else with servility in tended only for the moment until tn : travellers pockets have been craftily emp tied. Then the Turk retires with the con sciousness of having performed his dut
 to his less enlightened brother, as h
 styles him, and says his prayer to Ala without ado. The Chritian plucked, deed Is nobly done.
 | of the Turkish woman, 1t must be sail that the ideal of the Orient is not tha
 of Europe or America. As the Japanes
 see beauty in slenderness, so the Fur ? finds his tastes in the women of the fish type. True enough there are many beau ! ties who would find favor in America eyes in the harems. These mostly. how ! ever, are slave girls from Persia or o Circassan blood.
 } It is difficult to define the beauty of tn Turkish woman-a fine face, two blac ] eyes, a crimson mouth and an expressio of sweetness-such is the general type . Almost all of them, however, are painted ' They whiten their faces with almond an ! Jasmine paste, they lengthen and darke l their eyebrows with Indian ink, they tin their eyelids. they powder their throati
 they put a dark circle around their eye y and they wear patches on their cheeks But they do it all with rare taste. Nearl e all have a common defect of sligf stoop, and twaddle something Ike that