Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-05-07
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.-.. slim. ... +. 2ut ..l1~. l6o
..~ ... 300 .t'ra,iu,-. W.1
,...i 80 ..iuo .n..,on~ d..E
..,.e..e H.. ARMY 81 attendants. Il,
is estimated -t... .u,.r. ,n>t a.
tI.. Satan S nc.>. bold ..mrumt"i Ia
81. .op1 p.r moutn. 20 which has
been added fire allowance. 10 tlr heir
.pparrut. Ribbed f.i,rudl. $i5,uut,
and the next L"ir Nus-uI lIlodeh
Sll.cu1 peg month. No department
las been .uc.u..-d c'A"r than the
civil i~' which embraces til" private
re>o0t.-S Of IT." sovereign and Ger
tain H"'ao"rS OF t'.r imperial family.
Any body who has had opportunity
TO visit tie Turkish pa,dr" or resi-
dcnce OF wealthy plSha has IN
variably been struck with the en-
ormous number Of idle persons that
abound Hundreds Of ScrvitOrS are
ready 10 obey he beck Of their prin-
cjpais and transmit the orders Doth
ers for execution, who probably have
some other mental to do the real
work. The multiplication OF these
sinecure positions OF course aug
mcnts the army Of dependents, who
assemble twice a day to partake OF
the generous bounty provided at the
palatial dining-hour, where several
hundred attendants, bearing trays,
or tablas." each containing a dozen
courses, which are distributed to
as many servants. During the hot
season, Ramadan, the ninth month
of the Mohamcdan calendar, poor
people collect in thousands towards
sunset and can account on obtaining
"Iftar," the evening meal, when
good Mohamedans break the fast for
the day, having taking no food since
dawn.
The Sultan's stables have been an.
other item of great extravaganza.
Hundreds of horses and an army of
coachmen. erooms and attendants
have been living upon the fat of the
land. and some of them receiving
salaries that would attempt q bank
President. Immense collections of
birds from all over the world and
cared for by special attendants. have
been another source of ex travagance,
but chief of all. of course. comes the
harem, with its list of luxuries to
deck the GROWING glory of the EN-
pire with transcendant splendor.
This NAV be understood as embrac-
ing as MANY wives as had the great
Solomon, including their sisters and
cousins and aunts," who toll not,
and q thousand or more women at
PENDANTS and servants, who from one
pretext or another have succeeded
in attaching themselves to the pal
ace. They likewise had their rela-
tives, and so this process Of reticula-
ton continued and woman's vanity
and the rulers profigacy have not
served to keep moderate bounds upon
the bu rden that has long been ma
tientlv horne by the shoulders of the
people.
The late revolt is but a natural
sequence of this system of govern
ment. continued the past thirty
three wears. A tyrapt by nature.
and capable of the most fragrant dis
regard Of RIGHTS of his subjects. has
brought about present conditions.
Soon as Abdul Hamid mounted the
400 of his predecessors. composed of
honest and able men. His will was
inexorah,e his word law He ruled
nv fear which in some degree ac-
counts for His craven nature now
that no has realized he is tbrouoblv
and irrevocablv denosed from mower
ALWAYS fearful for his life he has
slain subjects even members of his
harem, without the slightest pretext
II was the slow disintepration of the
ties If racial brotherhood that kent
the truth so long from the outside
world and led to 50 general a belief.
from the first accounts sent ont. that
they imnlied so little anprehension
of the serious nature Of the imnend-
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