The Elbert County tribune., 1906-03-22

unG1l Hall y VI lnt Iifit<i aiBf'-
Fos mntists. and at the same
time one OF the hnifdsomest
@ @I members OF the Interna-
l Esu iional Peace Conference Mt
The Hague in 1899. was
Noory Rey. 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 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 10 the Turkish
ministry Of foreign affairs. He is \
peculiar type OF 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 q
balcony Of certain hotel at Thcrepiu.
watching the glorious illumination Of
ihe 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 rs well as OF individuals. !
was not surprised TO hear from his
youngest daughter, the sapphrr-eyed
Mihrim, that she and all her sisters
adore their father. aud would consider
it the greatest happiness in life to die
for him. il by their. death they could
increase his happiness.
And vet. the newspapers We're in.
forming us these last few days that
two OF Noory pasha's daughters have
secretly left their fathers "Knpak" II
Booyookdere and us fuGitives tried to
reach Europe against his will.
From friends in Constantiuoplc. and
from ladies who visited the two sisters
in Belgrade. | obtained information
which not only places this incident In
its true light. but reveals 10 us little
Of that greater of great enigmas-the
soul Of Turkish woman.
Tho jealous guarding against all ont
side Influences. the absence of almost
every distraction, often concentrates
the affections of the young Turkish
woman. deepens aud intensities 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
| IFS equal anywhere among the Chris
tans. Noory Pasha's daughters fur
nlsh a beautiful Illustration of that
ract,s
/ Zeynella Hanum. the eldest daughter
of Noory Pasha. is n delicate and
pretty young woman Of twenty two or
twenty-three. 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 it. Zeynella Ha-
mum herself. as n good Turkish woman.
seems to nave 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 n woman-a better sort of
the harem!
But the youngest sister Nooriya Ha-
mum. loved her elder sister with u
more intense love than Zeynella loved
her own life. She insisted on her
father letting Zeynella be examined
by the fest 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 wor.d be to place her in one
Of the modern sanatoria for consump-
tives in Germany or France. But 10
send 4 young Turkish woman to u
modern sanatorlum in the cursed
Gyaoor-land. that implied far greater
reform than the great Powers have
Pver 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. a pillar of the Ylldiz Kiosk-he
rould never do it, 1t would have been
the practical proof Of the EXTREMIST lib
eralism; it would have been an inno-
vation upon which even the boldest
member of Young Turkey would not
have dared to venture.
The husband of Zeynella Hanum. her
father. and she herself took it for
granted that it was the inscrutable
will of Allah that she should die slow
ly on the shores of the Bosphorus.
too much to accept such a death with
out challenge. She determined to
fight the giant of the Oriental fatalisn.
the "Kismet." She determined tn
take her sister to that strange country