Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-03-16


EOS matists, and at the same
Ill time one Of the handsomest
O members Of the Interna-
Ell EU tional Peace Conference at
The Hague in 1899. was
Noory Bey, the second Turkish dele
gate to that conference. The Sublime
Porte has many able men in her SER
vice, but l doubt that Sultan Abdul
Hamid and the Ottoman Empire have
an abler and more devoted servant
than NOory Bey, or rather (now after
his well-merited Advancement Noory
Pasha. 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 a
peculiar type OF Turk indeed, he is
an original aud most interesting mix
ture Of Frenchman and Old Turk
| remember always with true delight
hours which We spent together on a
balcony Of a 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. 1
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
ft fIta oraatact bannfuose 10, ne 90 ,Ifo
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 "Kn0ak" at
Booyookdere, and as fugitives tried TO
reach Europe against his will!
From friends in Constantinople, and
from ladies who visited the two sisters
in Belgrade | obtained information
which not only places this incident in
its true light bat reveals to us a little
of that greater of great enigmas-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 intensifes 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 very tender.
but the devotion Of the sisters and
brothers to each other can hardly find
its equal anywhere among the Chris
tians. Ncory Pasha's daughters fur
nish a beautiful illustration of that
fact.
Zeynella Hanum, the eldest daughter
of Noory Pasha, is delicate and
pretty young woman Of twenty-five or
twenty-thret. After her marriage her
health began rapidly to deteriorate
The Turkish "Hakims" knew only so
much: that she is dying slowly, and
that they cannot help i'll Zeynella Ha-
lum herself, as a good Turkish woman,
seems to have reconciled herself to
her fate. After all, what is the harem
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 a
more intense love than Zeynella loved
her own life. She insisted on her
father letting Zeynella be examined
by the best European doctors In Con-
stantinople. 1t was not difficult to
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 to
send a young Turkish woman to
modern sanatorium in the cursed
Gyaoor-land, that implied a far greater
reform than the great Powers have
ever dared TO demand. If Noory Pasha
had been private Effendi, he might
have done it; but he, the Musteshar of
the Foreign Office of the Sublime
Porte. 2 pillar of the Yildiz Kiosk-he
could never do it, 1t would have been
the practical proof of the EXTREMIST lib
eralism; it would have been an inno-
yation upon which even the boldest
member of Young Turkey would not
have dared to venture.
The husband of ZeynelIa Hanum, her
father, and she herself took it for
granted that it was the inserutable
will of Allah that she should die slow
ly on the shores of the Bosphorus.
But the young Nooriya loved her sister
too much to accept such a death with
out challenge. She determined to
fight the giant of the Oriental fatallsm,
the "Kismet" She determined to
take her sister to that strange country
of infdels, but where science can save
people from the clutches Of death. OF
course, they would have to leave the
mansion Of their father unknown to
him. She begged her invalid elder sis
ter to trust to her love and her cour-
age. Not that her own plucky heart
did not fail her sometimes when CON
templating the long journey through
the terra incogniia to an equally un-
known country. Fortunately, she and
her sister were good friends with
young French lady, Mademoiselle Mar
celle de Veyssen. Noorlya had full con-
iidence in Mademoiselle Marcelle, told
her of her turning desire TO try to
save the life of her sister by taking
her to the best doctors in Europe and
70 the best place for her recovery. She
appealed to the young French girl to
help her. Mademoiselle Marcelle, with
the ehiyalrous spirit of her nation.
agreed to once to place herself entirely
at the service of Nooriya.
As the Turkish frontier at Musiapha
Pasha could not be passed without a
passport, the most important task for
the young ladies was how to get
pass. After some difficulty and delay
Mademolselle Marcelle induced an
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