The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25
THE SULTAN OF TURKEY
A Record of Personal ObserpGtions And Of Personal
 Knowledge.
NICHOLAS 6. ADossIDBs in Americas Magazine.

ined the various bric-a-hrac scattered here and there, her attention being particularly attracted by a jeweled pistol which was lying on a table. At this point the Sultan. suddenly open ing his eyes. asked with apparent calm: What are you doingT
 Nothing. your Majesty" replied the giri.
 But you arc looking at something" the Sultan insisted.
 "Yes, sire--it is so pretty--this."
 And what do you call that object,
 "A pistol" answered the favorite.
 And what is a pistol used for?"
 ITO kill. sire" replied the Circassian in low and trembling voice.
 ITO kill?" said the dcspot. ITO kill9'' he repeated Let me sec" and pick ing up another pistol which he had on his person he fred three times, fatally injuring the innocent girl.
 The officer who told me this story was on duty in the corridors as h r body, covered with rug. was silently carried through the doors.
 Words that One Must Not Use In Tuk-
 key
 As for the fate of his subjects the decadence of Turkey, the future of the country--what does Abdul -Hnndd. ca re about that! The empire Is his private property by the right of birth; 1t Is the patrirhony thar he has inherited and which he squanders like a prodigal son. Turkey--it is himself! And so he has forbidden in his estates words such as country" nation," people" "liber- ty" revolution" to be spoken or prin- ted--Yf1ore especially 's1fberty" and revolution" A Turkish friend of mine, an old scholar of the Mulkie sehool, which is a kind of poiitioal-science school. told me the following little anecdote: Iii the French lesson. the professor being a Turk. they were trauslating a page of some French an . thology They came to a passage wherc 1t was said that 'the butterfly flies with freedom" The professor was per. turbed; doubtless he was afraid Of being denounced by spies (who were plentiful in the schools) for allowing the use of so guilty a word as free dom" "Stop." said hn to the scholar pupil he had addressed stopped. tho teacher hastened to translate himself. "the butterfly flies with ease"
 InefEiciency and Laxiness of Public on.
 eanls
 The city of Constantlnople has population of more than one million inhabitants, over whom Adbul Ham d has appointed an army of twenty thousand spies--oficial and secret- who. as they say, watch directly or Indirectly for the preservation of his life. This work costs the Treasury De- pertinent $4,000 900 year; still he al- lows to die of hunger. not the great officials. but all the petty ones too humble for him to fear. and leaves in misery and destitution the army-not of course. his private guards at Yiidiz whom he cherishes and pays highly, but the troops of the provinces.
 The ordinary Turkish official is a curious example of the Oriental char acter. One has only to look at him to feel that he ia born with the soul of an Ottoman official. To rank as a functIonary is. in fact, for a Turk the only honorable career. Commerce, even the liberal professions, are degrading "a very good job for the giaour! That is why, whether he be son of a pasha or son of a cabby. the Turk has only