The National tribune., 1908-11-12

sicjxly princes born of SihVo mothers,
whose lives were spent either i'll the
gloom of prison or amid the wanton
luxury of the harem, Is said 10 possess
a valuable weapon in his marvellous
voice which gives the lie to the suspi=
eiens ana fears which his wrinkied, re-
reliant face aE0ites, and which has been
the Uadoing ef many, even those openly
eppeSed TO hila, We are teia that this
voice IS full o. unexpected infectious,
and IS 50 raefedieus IA its moduia=
tioGs, SO snPtle aRd insiauating,
tb3t those Whe listen 10 it are nSpne=
l@qd. as it were, robbed OF their Viii
power, and become his helpless victim
The. face OF this sick old petentate, WITH
its deep bolIQws. beak=hke nese- SO sug-
gestiye Of q bird Of prey the heavy
under lip, the. head covered by the ia
evitable Turkish skull cap, IS familiar
to most Of US but what his pictures. do
not show- IS the eNpressIen of his won-
deFful dark piercing, atmond-shaped
eyes. Ia these. as he talks, cunning,
cruelty, eternal suspicion and cowardice
are most pronounced, but one sees there
also Intelligence and occasionally the
CLEAN of a subtle refinement. Cruelty,
cowardice and suspicion usually go Eand
in hand. and ii is well known that TINS
miserable man has lived in constant
fear of his life for many years, his
cowardice making a willing prisoner of
MIN III Ills pdldCS, Wy
three distinct and different walls and
his suspicion leading to almost fantas-
teal precautions for his personal safety.
Illustrative of this is the story told in
the current number of the American
Magazine by young Greek, for some
years an attache of the Turkish Foreign
Office, of a beautiful Circassian slave
girl of I6, who was added to the Sui
tan's harem Among the hundreds of
women of the Imperial Seraglio she
soon became the favorite of the Sultan,
who for some reason appeared to have
the greatest confidence in her. she
alone was allowed to enter his chamber
at pleasure and unannounced. One day,
entering while he slept, she picked up
a ieweled pistol lying on a table, at
tracted by the glitter of the gems The
Sultan opened his eyes and looked at
her filed at once with cruel suspl-
cion He asked her what she was doing,
and the beautiful girl replied innocently
that she was looking at the pretty pls-
toll "And what is pistol used for
said the Sultan, sitting up on the edge
of the couch where he had been lying.
.'To kill. SIRE tremblingly replied the
now terrified girl. ITO kill?" said he;
"to kill?' he repeated. Let me see"
And taking another pistol from the
pocket of his Jacket he Shot her dead
Alice Thaw has taken the name of
Mrs Copley Thaw, and, they say, is
trying very hard to forget she ever
bore the unfortunate. one of Countess
of Yarmouth. England is full of pain
full memories for her, and SO is Ameri-
ca on account of her brother Harry, so
she has gone TO Paris, where she pro-
poses 10 make her permanent home
She has good many friends there who
are very sorry for her, and think she
has been sufficiently punished for her
foolish ambition. She has aged many
years and bears other marks of the
storm and stress of her titled career
She will probably slip over to this side
occasionally to see her mother, but feels
now that she can never make her nome
in her native land. Life looks rather
gray to her just at present, but Paris
is popularly supposed to be pretty
certain cure for even the worst case OF
the blues. and Alice Thaw will undoubt-
edIy "chirk up under its diverting in
huence.
Libraries and church organs are the
outward expression of much of Mr..
Carnegie's generosity, and of the two
II is said that his heart is really more
concerned in the giving away of the
latter. For it may not be generally
known that music is almost passion
with him, and the man or woman who
can play the organ, even only indiffer-
emily well, comes very close to his heart.
While the Laird of Skibo, for such is
his Scotch title, has enjoyed the repu-
tatLon for many years of being the
great library y-giyer of the world, little
has been said about the numerous con-
gragatfons he has rendered happy by
the gift of an organ. Perhaps he has
been afraid of being criticised for thus
induIging himself in his pet hobby; the
world is ever apt to concern itself in
the spending of the rich mans money.
1t is understood that Mr. Carnegie never
says mo" to an organizes church, but
ne does not give the instrument out
right. He does not believe in that way
of helping people. He tells the con-
gregation that he will give them as
much as they have raised for this pur-
pose. and the kind of an organ they
have depends, therefore, on themselves
alone But to get an organ they must
put half the amount down before the
great steel king does anything. And,
of course. no unquestionably wealthy
church need apply TO him for help in
this respect. 1t is only those churches
which cannot afford TO pay the full
price for an organ that he proposes to
assist. It is said that during the past
Summer, while he has been out of the
country, these applications for organs
have piled up tremendously on his desk
for il has only been quite recently that
people have learned that ne was par
ticularly susceptible TO appeals of this
nature. He has spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars in this way, and
how much more he may spend no one
can tell. Anyone TO look into Mr.. Car
negie's kind, gentle old face and hear
him talk would know that he had a
heart susceptible 10 beauty and har-
moHy, whether il came to him thru his
ears or eyes. Shakspere says:
''The man that hath no music in him
self
Nor is not moved with concord Of sweet
sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems and
spoils''
There's no trace of any tendency of
this kind in AR Carnegie's fine, sturdy.
generous. optimistic. idealistic, we'll
balanced Scotch makeup certainly,
whether due to his love of music or not.
Really it is quite astonishing the way
people have gone crazy over These pic
ture puzzles At first it was Boston,
then cincinnati caught the craze and
now New York has it. The big hotels
have been obliged to keep n stock of
these on hand, for business men, wor-
ried over their affairs, find they sleep
better for working over one of these
puzzles before going to bed. AS they
are quite expensive, for after one has
worked at them a little none but the
difficult. many-pieced ones, which cost
from 81 10 SO. make any appeak and
as after having put one together it
loses its value. bright lady has thought
nf yIoy Of selling S,1ph At cacnn1