The Ordway new era., 1906-03-23


The Hague In 1880. was
Noory hey. the second Turkish dele
gate to that conference. The Sublime
Porte has many able men In her SER
vice. hut ! doubt that Sultan AlnluI
Hamid and the Ottoman Empire have
an ADLER and more devoted servant
than Noory Boy, or rather ,now after
his well-merited udvuncemenn N0ory
Paslia. What Lord Sandcrson wns to
the British Foreign Office. that was
ana is still Noory Pasha 10 the Turkish
ministry Of foreign affairs. He Is
peculiar type OF Turk: indeed. lie Is
| nm original aud most Interesting mix.
ttre of Frenchman and Old Turk.
] remember always with true delight
hours which we spent together on n
balcony of II certain hotel Mt Thrrepin.
watching the s,orious Illumination OF
The mountains OF Anadolin by The set
ting sun. discussing Oriental poetry
and philosophy. the great historical
events of The Ottoman Empire. aud
the uncertainty Of all human ,hing> of
empires rs well as of individuals. ]
was not surprised To hear from his
Youngest daughter. the sapphirc-rych
Milirim. that she ana alI her sisters
adore their father. ana would consider
1t tho greatest happiness In lifc to iii"
for him II hy their death they could
increase his happiness.
And vet. The newspapers were In
forming us these last fcw days that
Two of Noory PHslin'S daughters have
secretly left their fathers 'Ennnk" .t
Eooyookdcrr. aud as fugiiiycs tried 10
reach Europe against his will.
From friends IN cnnsiantinoplr. aud
from lmlicS who visited the Two sisters
In Belgrade. l obtained information
which not on,y p,nccs this incident IN
It's true light. hut reveals TO us n mn"
of tha, greater OF great enigmns-i!'r
soul OF Turkish woman.
Tho Jealous Gunr,lm. against all ont
sid influences. the absence uf almost
every distraction. often concentrates
the affections Of the youu. Turkish
woman. decpens aud intensiiicS them.
Behind III" barred doors in the liiElI
walls surrounding II Turkish hnn-".
behind the lattlccd windows aud ihi"k
curtains tliprr Is much more rnm,rr"
IN Turkish family life. than is draani
nf hy us unromantic Gynoors. Tile de
voiion of Turkish children 10 their
parents is very great and very tender
hut the devotion OF the sisters and
brothers 10 each other can hardly iud
lis equal anywhere among the Chris
iinns. Noory Pasi'a's daughters fmr
nisli beautiful illustration OF iliai
fact.
Icyncl!n Hunum. the eldest Gau@litr"
of Noory PaSlEl. is II delicate AMI
pretty ynun- woman of twenty-iw" ar
twcniy.ilirrr. After her marr,a." her
health liegan rapidly 20 drteriora'e
The Turkish "Hakins" knew only 80
much: that she is dying slowly. ani
that they cannot help il. Icync!ia Ila-
,num herself. as 81 good Turkish w"nn,n.
seems to nave reconciled herself Il"
her fate. After all. what Is the hnrcm
but sort OF grave. with silk and vel
yet tapestries and soft sofas and
cushions. and what is the grave hut
for many a woman-a better sort Of
the liirem:
Bnt the youngest sister. Nooriya la-
mum. loved her elder sister with II
more intense love than Zeynella loved
her owl, life. She insisted on her
Iathpr letting Ieynella be examined
by the Fest European doctors in Con-
s;an,inople 1t was not difficult In
persuade Noory Pasha to do SO. The
European loc,crs saw Zeynella. and
saw that she WAS suffering from con
sumption IN the first stage. The.
thought that the only clmnce of saving
her life w,r.d he to place her in one
Of the modern sanator;i for cOns,inil-
lives in, Gcrmuny or France. But 10
send II young Turkish woman to 1t
modern sanntoriuu In the cursed
Gyaoor-land. that implied Il far greater
reform than the great Powers have
EVER dared TO demand. lf Noory raslla
had been n private Eifendi. lie might
have done II; but he. the Musteshar OF
the Foreign Office of the Sublime
Porte. Il pillar of the Ylldiz Kiosk-he
rould never do 1t. 1t would have been
the practical proof of the EXTREMIST lib
crnlism: it would have been an limo
walton upon which even the bolde>i
member OF Young Turkey would not
have dared tn venture.
The husband of Zeyne!Ia Hanun. her
father. and she herself took 1t fol
granted that it was the inscrutablt
will of Allah that she should die SLOW
lily on the shores OF the Bosphorus.
But the young Nooriya loved her sister
too much to accept such II death with
nut u challenge. She determined to
fight the giMnt OF the Oriental fatalism.
the "Kismet.'' She determined I"
, take her sister to that strange country
OF infidels, but where science can save
I people from the clutches OF deatl'. or
, course, they would have to leave the
, mansion of their father unknown 10
i him., She begged her invalid elder sis