The Washington herald., 1907-08-28
AT THE HOTELS.

HDeled and deserving Of better treatment
than my native land. Turkey" said
Alum Noricddin Adde's, Of CONSTANT
nople. at the Raleigh last night. Mr..
Adde's was born in this country, but az
the age Of twelve returned 20 the country
Of his parents. and has lived there ever
since. lie is a professor in the Uniyer-
sity Of constantinople. and has Travelled
extensively through Europe.
We Turks are pictured Ia the newspa-
pers as pirates, buccaneers, bloodthirsty
murderers. immoral. indolent. and filthy.
We are represented as being rank polyg-
amists, with no thought OF the stability
OF the marriage ties, and as allowing g
promiscu0us intercourse among the sexes
"Ail this IS untrue. Until the Euro
peans began to come into Turkey. the
country was the most moral In the world.
The women are kept veiled. and never
even show their faces % their husbands
until after the marriage. except in some
cases. and then the face Is uncovered Tor
but a few minutes.
"A married woman never sees any
man but her husband unveiled She lives
in a harem. and the term haren means
the apartments which the wife and
daughters occupy, not, as is generally
understood, where a man keeps his many
wives. Not one man In a thousand has
more than one wife, and even IN these
rare cases he. usually divorces the first
before marrying the second. Marriage
is civil ceremony. and divorce Is easily
h@y oFF
While. OF course, pOIygamy Is allowed
under the civil law. the sentiment OF the
people is against IL. and I venture TO
say that there is less polygamy and d.
vorce In Turkey than there is In the
United States.
The Turks are almost entirely an agri-
cultural people Three-fourths Of rhe
nation is composed OF farmers. There
are many teachers, many engineers and
railway men, but they have no mer-
chants. no vendors The poor are all well
fed and happy; more so than any other
country in the world, with the possible
exception Of Germany They can live
well on so a month. and none OF thsm
receives less than Sc Indeed, I have
known men Of means who have lived on
$50. The country is prosperous, and
building Up all the tine. The advent OF
railroads and the gradual diminution OF
caravans has done much 10 place the
country on a solid footing. We have a
fine army. and are building a navy which
win be well able to guard every inch OF
our seaport.
The Turks like the Americans and
English; they feel them TO be honest and
reliable and just, the Americans even
more than the English. but that is proba-
bly, because America has not made herself
felt politically in Turkey. We realize that
there is lot OF bluster TO Americans, but
that they are square IN their dealings.
We dislike the French and hate the Rus
SLAMS. Another thing that hurts Turkey
is that its commerce Is entirely In the
hands OF the Persians, who are unscrupu-
lous and treacherous. 1t is an old saying
in Turkey that it takes FIVE Jews TO beat
one Armenian and FIVE Armenians 10 beat
one Persian. That is, in a business way,
Of course"
ut is not generally known that al the
minor coins Of base metals, such as scent
pieces and pennies. are made at the Phil
adelphia Mint said James stckney. OF
Philadelphia, at the National Hotel last
night. Nearly 100 eco 600 pennies are coined
there every year. This large number Is
occasioned by the fact that thousands OF
pennies are lost by the government every
year, and the Treasury has difficulty in
maintaining the supply. What may be
surprising to some people is the fact that
the profit on these pennies is very large
and is a source OF income 10 the United
States government. The blanks for max
ing pennies are purchased for about 81 a
thousand from Cincinnati firm which
produces them By contract. Blanks for
nickeis are obtained in the same way. and
they cost the government but little over
/ II cents apiece
Gold is coined only in PHILADELPHIA and
/ San Francisco. Not enough OF il comes
into the mint at New Orleans TO make the
coinage OF it worth while Gold pieces
are the only coins in the country which
are worth their face value intrinsically
A double eagle contains $50 worth OF gold,
not counting the eighteenth part copper"
7 am a devotee of the Turkish bath"
said Edward Thompson. of Chicago, last
night at the Metropolitan Hotel. "and I
have seen many terrible ones. and taken
every degree in all except one that
visited In Atlanta, Ga, not long ago"
Mr.. Thompson Is a travelling man. con-
! nected with a prominent plOw firm
This one vas too horrible. was hot
and dusty after long ride through ths
villages about Atlanta. and Just before
my dinner I conceived the thought OF a
bath, and made inquiries as to the near
/ est location Of a Turkish bath establish
ment II was a strange place, with one
I slab and one attendant. and no pool ex-
cept a cold shower After I had taken
/ the steam I Teclined with my back on
the slab to be rubbed down After a
time the attendant told me TO turn over,
/ and did So
/ I had no sooner changed my position
than my eye was attracted by some let
tering on the surface of the slab I raised
my head and looked at it more closely.
and saw upon it an inscription, which
/ said:
" Sacred to the memory of Mary VII
liams. Born September Il, 1850: died.
August 3, 1874
Il told the attendant I thought there
was no necessity for finishing the job. and
| took my leave as quickly as possible II
appears that the slab had been secured
when an old cemetery was filed up and
some OF the slabs removed. I never go
/ into a Turkish bath now without a grave
yard chill.