The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-14
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Noory Bey. the second Turkish dele
gate to that conference. The Sublime
Porte has many able men in her SER
vice, but ! doubt that Sultan Abdul
Hamid and the Ottoman Empire have
an ADLER and more devoted servant
than Noory Bey, or rather now after
his well-merited advancemenD Noory
Pasba. What Lord Sanderson was to
the British Foreign Office, that was
and is still Noory Pasha to the Turkish
ministry of foreign affairs. He is n
peculiar type OK Turk; indeed, he is
an original and most interesting mix
! ture of Frenchman and Old Turk.
| remember always with true delight
hours which we spent together on a
| balcony of certain hotel at Therepia,
watching the glorious illumination of
the mountains of Anadolia by the set
| ting sun. discussing Oriental poetry
and philosophy. the great historical
| events of the Ottoman Empire. and
the uncertainty of all human things of
| empires as well as of individuals. ]
was not surprised to hear from his
! youngest daughter, the sapphire-eyed
| Mihrim. that she and all her sisters
| adore their father, and would consider
it the greatest happiness in life to die
for him, if by their Death they could
increase his happiness.
And yet. the newspapers were in
forming us these last few days that
two of Noory Pasha's daughters have
secretly left their fathers "Knoak" 1T
| Booyookdere. and ms fugtiyes tried to
reach Europe against his will!
From friends in Constantlnople. and
from ladies who visited the two sisters
in Belgrade. l obtained information
which not only places this incident in
its true light. but reveals to us Il little
of that greater of great enigmns-the
soul of a Turkish woman.
The jealous guarding against all out
side Influences, the absence of almost
every distraction. often concentrates
the affections of the young Turkish
woman. deepens and intensihes them.
Behind the barred doors in the high
walls surrounding Turkish house,
behind the latticed windows and thick
curtains there is much more romance
in Turkish family life, than is dreamt
of by us unromantic Gyaoors. The de
votion of Turkish children to their
parents is very great and vepy tender.
but the devotion of the sisters and
brothers to each other can hardly find
its equal anywhere among the Chris
tians. Noory Pasha's daughters fur
nish beautiful illustration of that
fact.
Zeynella Hanum, the eldest daughter
of Noory Pasha. is delicate and
pretty young woman of twenty-five ol
twenty three. After her marriage hel
health began rapidly to deteriorate
The Turkish "Hakims" knew only Sc
much: that she is dying slowly. ant
that they cannot help 1t! Ieynella Ha
1um herself, as a good Turkish woman
seems to have reconcled herself tC
her. fate After all, what is the haren
but sort of grave, with silk and vel
vet tapestries and soft sofas and
cushions, and what is the grave but
for many a woman "a better sort OF
the harem!
But the youngest sister, Nooriya Ha'
> mum. loved her elder sister with q
#. more intense love than Zeynella loved
. her own life. she insisted on hel
father letting Zeynella be examined
by the best European doctors in Con
stantnople. 1t was not difficult tc
persuade NoOry Pasha to do so. The
European doctors saw Zeynella. and
saw that she was suffering from con
sumption in the first stage. They
thought that the only chance Of saving
her life would be to place her in one
of the modern sanatOria for consump
tives in Germany or France. But tC
send a young Turkish woman to Q
modern sanatorium in the cursed
Gyaoor-land, that implied a far greater
reform than the great Powers have
ever dared to demand. If Noory Pashd
had been private Effendi, he might
have done it; but he, the Musteshar OF
the Foreign Office of the Sublime
Porte. n pillar of the Yildiz Kiosk-h'
could never do i'll 1t would have beer
the practical proof of the EXTREMIST lib
eraism; it would have been an limo
walton upon which even the bodies
member of Young Turkey would no
have dared to venture.
The husband of Zeynella Hanum, he
= father, and she herself took it TO
e granted that 1t was the inscr Itabl
/. will of Allah that she should die slow
:. ly on the shores of the Bosphorus
s But the young Nooriya loved her slste
n too much to accept such death with
e out challenge. She determined (
@ fight the giant of the Oriental fatalism
d the "Kismet" She determined I
e take her sister to that strange countr
II OF nfdels, but where science can saw
k people from the clutches of death. o
r, course, they would have to leave tn
r mansion of their father unknown I
IS him. She begged her invalid elder si'
ter to trust to her love and her coul
age. Not that her own plucky heal
did not fail her sometimes when col
10 templatlng the long journey throus
10 the terra incognita to an equally III
i. known country. Fortunately, she m
Is her sister We're good friends with
r, young French lady, Mademolselle Ma
IS celle de Neyssen. Nooriya had full co
+. fidence In Mademoisele Marcelle, to
Sc her Of her burning desire to try
save the life of her sister by taklr
SO her to the best doctors in Europe M