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who noticed him. AS late as last Easter
young officer was tried by
court-martial because, on meeting
Rechad's closed carriage in the street, he
saluted him and made his soldiers render
him the honors usual TO the heir ap-
parent.
Though nominally a general in the
Turkish army he was. carefully kept from
serving or commanding. The fact that
he went to parliament. on his accession.
in civil dress, aroused good deal of
comment, some of which was repeated to
him. But his amiable bows and smile
killed criticism and he at once ordered
a black and green uniform of general
of the Macedonian army, which he wore
for his first selamlik. In fact, he does
all he can to make himself as popular
as his brother was hated. Not only has
he given up all his private fortune to
the nation, but everybody who comes
near him receives a gift
1t was Achmed Ria Bey, president OF
the chamber, who announced his acces-
sion. The new sultan offered him the
choice of several beautiful jewels. But
Achmed refused them, asking for the
pen with which the sheikh- -ul-islam. the
head of the Mohammedan religion. after
the. eaiph. signed Abdul Hands resig-
nation. This choice had a saddening ef-
feet upon Rechad Il am sorry te see
that my brother was SO hated he is said
to have remarked. whereat Achmed Bey
tried to--turn il to good account by re
torting: ''fGu forget, my majesty, that
the pen which signed his deposition sign
ed your accession 1t is the relic of the
happiest event in Turkish history
one of the first questions Rechad asked
when the Macedonian army arrived at
Constantinople was about Abdul Hamid' 9
fate. Chevket Pasha told him that he
would he kept a prisoner, but that his
life would be spared. IF he were 10
lose it | would rather not reign. the
new sultan remarked. and pleaded that
his brother might not be sent to Sa-
loniki hut to one of the palaces of his
own choosing. SO urgent was he that
tie Young Turks told him that if lie did
not a"rec to the eX-sultan being sent 10
Saloniki lie should not reign. At this he
save in. remarking Il do not accept
tie task because | like power but be
cause il seems the best way Of serving
my country" B,ft It was he who insisted
that the deposed sultan should be taken
from YildiZ at night. to be spared the
shame Of being stared at by those who
were once his subjects.
!. --NeveIt hplcSs. Mehemed owes all his
troubles Of the past thirty years to the
man he would now spare If possible
Not only did Abdul Hamid make his
daily life dreary possible. but he
interfered in his private matters as we'll
MANY years ago Rechad had a wife of
whom he was extremely fond. She was
very beautiful, and once with her hus-
bands permission went to the town to
have her photograph taken
OF course, ii was known that same
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evening at Yildiz Kiosk that Rechad's
favorite wife had been to a photosra-
Baghtche and scolded his brother Sc
verely. You have offended against the
laws of the prophet he said 1T is
my duty not only to look after my
wives. but after yours as we'll A woman
who uncovers her face to a photographer
is not worthy to be the wife of sultan's
brother" With that he ordered the
woman to be taken by force from
Rechad.s harem. and sent her as a pres
ent to one of his favorites When
Rechad became sultan he inquired after
her. He had not been able to find out
for ten years where she was. and wished
to have her back again. After some
difficulty his secretary found that she
had died some years before in the harem
of the pasha to whom Abdul Hamid had
given her. Rechad was very sad when
he heard she was no longer alive. She
would have been happy to share my
freedom. but Allah gave her her liberty
first was all he said. Her remains are
to be removed to his mausoleum.
Mehemed V has three wives and four
children. Three sons-Zia Eddin. Nedzim
Eddin and Omer Hilmi-and one daugh-
ter. Princess Refa. Zia Eddin is thirty
two, Nedzim Eddn twenty-seveh. and
the youngest seven. Princess Refia has
been married for several years Ii is
proba BILE that the rule of succession will
he changed. The old system, by which
the sultan's eldest male relative, whether
brother or nephew cousin, succeeded,
always led TO intrigue. 1t was only be-
cause Abdul Hamid wished his son to
reign after him that he kept Rechad in
prison for thirty years, hoping to get
together party strong enough to sup
and favorte son. who is twenty-four
Years old and keen soldier. If the
reactionaries made an attempt to de-
throne Rechad. it will he in favor of
Mehmed Rurhan.
As the present sultan is sixty-four he
has therefore spent Just half his life in
Dclma Ba ghtche. He has never travelled
farther than to his country house out side
Constantinonle, and has never been on
train. Those about the court Sa! he was
made for a man of learning rather than
for a sultan. He diSlikes anything in the
way of ceremony, and has abolished the
kissing of hands when people approach
him, well as the eastern custom of has
servants and subjects falling on their
faces when entering the room he is in.
hand. shaking theirs heartily in European
fashion. He is anxious that the people
should be used to seeing his sons about
on foot. and encourages them to walk
about the town. He would do It himself,
but his advisers tell him that he would
thereby lose prestige, as sultan has
been known to go about like a poor
man"
He is fond of giving presents. When.
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after the selamlik. lie takes a rasha back
in his steamer and talks. the sultan, IL
plea ased invariably takes his watch or
ring and offers it to his guest. He wished
to give some money to the soldiers VINO
were near the chamber of deputies Wheh
he took his walk there and with Whom
he shook hands. But the ministers SAID
he was no, to do SO because such gifts
demoraliZe the mon. Soldiers, too, VIII
have to take an oath to not receive pres
ents of money at all. His eagerness TO
hear something about the country he Is
to reign over is pathetic. During the nrSt
days of his reign he would receive any
journalist who presented himself and ply
him with questions as to what ne thousnt
of Turkey, of Macedonia and OF the state
of the peonle. DO you find a great DIFF
ference between this and Europe?' is one
of his stock questions on such occasions,
or DO you find that there really is SO
much poverty in this country?'
Now he sees fewer visitors Of this
kind. because his tutors, the Young
Turks, put their veto on it. They do not
want the whole world to come and look
at their discovery" But they cannot
prevent his going about his palace and
talking to the workmen, and especially
to any foreign overseers who happen to
be looking after them. 1t is remarkable
that he never asks them about their own
countries. Only his seems to interest
him. One morning he came upon
Austrian who was doing some work i'll
the telegraph bureau. He began to talk
about Macedonia. The Austrian, little
thinking that this stout, whte-haired old
gentleman with the quantity cut clothes
and gentle smile was the sultan, asked
in the heat of argument: Does your
master the sultan ever see you, because
if he does and you can talk to him, tell
him that If he's not careful his neighbors
will take Macedonia away and divide it
between them. Tell him to go and
things for himself" He was immensely
surprised when. on the sultan's going
away, man came up and told him to
whom he had been talking.
Mehmed's youngest son had a French
governess. who was old and fell Ill. As
the doctors said she must have rest
just as the sultan came to the throne.
she left without seeing him. When next
in the harem he asked the prince where
mademoiselle was. and on hearing she
i'll in the town sent message to
ask her if she would like villa and
small piece of land the BoSphorus
The woman sent back word to say
that she could not accept the present
because her mother would not like to
live in Turkey. as she had children in
Marseile. ihen you shall have your
land and villa in Marseille. was the
next message. He was as good as his
word and ordered his secretary to see
that arrangements were made for the
purchase of villa and some land in
Marselle.
Though the new sultan speaks French
and German. he does not care for either
of these languages. His favorite pas
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him in her conscious state. When later
he got the same password from an Ortho-
dox minister's wife who had .also devel-
oped trance mediumship and automatic
writing Prof. Hyslop commenced ex-
perimenting with this new subject. who,
publicity is referred to under the pseudo
nym Mrs. Smead" in the reports of
the new American Society for Psychic
Research, of which Prof. Hyslop is the
founder and head.
She is a woman of mystery, and all
that has been revealed about her of a
personal nature is that she is blue
eyed young woman of modest and re-
firing temperament who lives about twen-
ty-four hours off from New York in a
town which is surrounded by an ever
green forest and in which her husband
enioys good standing as rector OF an
orthodox church surmounted by cross.
While she is in a trance her mead IL
held in a special headrest and her NOV
ing finger writes upon paper spread on
sewing table at her side. She was stud
led also by DR.. Hodgson, and on the
night that he dropped dead while playing
hand ball she is said to have seen MS
apparition. which reported to her; 1t Is
better here than I had hoped for
Across the deep. no less proportion OF
thinking men have turned their thoughts
in the same direction. Caesare Lom-
broso. the great italian eriminologist and
anthropologist after having studied the
medium Eusapia Paladino, has announced
his belief in disembodied spirits, although
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founders of the society. Sir Oliver re-
ceived an alleged message commencing:
Il appear to be standing behind a sheet
of frosted glass which blurs the sight
and deadans sounds. - He claims
to have also heard lately from +. II. W.
Myers. author of Human Personality
Our Mrs. Piper also helped To convert
Sir Oliver. He got her to come 10 his
Liverpool residence, where. in the pres
ence of a committee. she is reported 10
have told just what two women. utter
strangers to her We're doing minute hy
minute in their London home.
Sir divers brother knight. the cello
brated chemist and inventor of the "
ray tube Sir William Crookes. has too
occult sciences to elicit surprise hv
any new theory that he might now an
nounce in this line. But probably few
American readers know that some time
ago Sir William risked his scientific repu-
tation by reporting to exalted body
how he had known the materialized spirit
Katie King. how lie had had crystals
paced in his palm by hands not belong
ing to any persons in the room with him.
and how in broad daylight he had seen
a cloud condensa into a hand. which ear
ried objects about. This exalted body 10
which he reported these alleged phenom-
ena less than the British Royal
Society.
His paper was ANONYMOUSLY thrown
out. the great society's outraged secretary
refusing to so much as enter Ii upon the
files And we. too, most of us. this quar-
ter hour have been sticking up our noses
and smiling skeptically at these won
drous doings here and abroad. But we
mus. ever bear in mind that the orthodox
of today were yesterdays heretics,
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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This will cover all the expenses Of his
court and household.
The only really beautiful items of his
furnishments are some vases from the
china potteries at YidiZ. These potter
ies which were closed last year, when
the constitution was proclaimed. were
quite a hobby of the ex-sultan's, who
used to pass a great deal of his time
there. The WOrkmen were French, and
when the sultan was taken pris-
oner, the vases found at the pot
teries were worth upward Of 100000.
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DAUL MORTON'S Cir
l Gle for Study of An
cient Wisdom IL y MAJ n
Gage and the Theosophists-
photographer Funk and the
widows Mite = Hamlin
Garland Believes in Astral
Bodies-Prof. Dolbear Sees
Ghost of Moses Farmer
Prof. William James Dis
covery of Great Medium
Prof. Hyslop's New Wom-
an of Mystery-Lombroso
and Flammarion Converted
-Ex-Prime Minister Bal
four a Devotee-Editor Stead
Blossoms Forth as a Writing
Medium-Sir Oliver Lodge,
Now a Spiritist-Sir William
Crookes' Spiritism Squelched
by Royal Society.
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time is the composition of Persian poems.
with which he used to enliven the long
days of his Imprisonment. Now, when
he can spare an hotIr, he writes them
still. But he is most anxious to do all
that his counselors tell him, and has
long consultations with them. But,
though gentle and willing to do all they
wish, he has fought hard for one thing,
and that is the royal privilege of par
doning prisoners condemned to death. He
wished to exert it in favor of those
hanged on the Galata bridge and argued
long with Chavket Pasha. But the gem
eral was firm and he had the chamber be-
hind HIM They wish 10 be feared.
whereas the new sultan wished to oe
loved So far, this is the only point upon
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perhaps whetted by his having tried.
since early youth, to make head or tail
of the writings of his brother, Henry
James. which doubtless he had to peruse
to keep peace in the family. Be this as
it may. Prof. James psychical research
has forced him to admit that there are
supernormal phenomena for which our
natural sense Impressions cannot account.
Prof. James was the real discoverer of
Mrs LeOnore E. Piper, the now famous
Boston medium. 1t was twenty years
ago that he found out the peculiar pow
ers of this remarkable woman. who has
since been. tested by the trained psychic
researchers of two continents and who
lately surrendered herself completely to
the British Society for Psychical Re-
search. During these latter experiments
this trance medium, although isolated.
guarded and subjected to the severest OF
tests by committee of trained skeptics,
is reported to have, described what other
persons were doing and saying hundreds
of miles away.
Nine. Blavatsky was exposed in India
by a strenuous Australian investigator,
Richard HOdgson, who afterward settled
down in Boston, where he became head of
the old American branch of the British
Society for Psychical Research and where
also he met Prof. James. who took him
to see Mrs. Piper. DR.. Hodgson studied
this woman for eighteen years and she
convinced him that telepathy, automatic
writing and communication with the dead
were bona fide phenomena. To give her a
special test DIR. Hodgson arranged
unique course of experiments. in which he
was aided by DR.. James H. Hyslop, pro-
fessor of logic and ethics at Columbia.
The professor masked himself and dis
gused his voice during his visits to her
and while she lay unconscious. with her
head upon a pillow resting on a table.
her hand wrote out messages alleged to
come from his father. She converted
Hyslop to the spiritistic hypothesis. and
his announcement of the fact made a
stir in the scientific world. He and
Iodgson' formed a compact that who
ever died first would communicate with
the other, and Prof. Hyslop expressed to
me some time ago his satisfaction that
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hunters, the Society for Psychical Re-
search and recently he built himself a
cottage near to Nine. Katherine Ting
ley's temple within the Theosophist col
ony at Point Iona, Cal. where the much
discussed Raja Yoga School is located
and where A. G. Spalding, the eX-base
ball star and sporting goods man. also
went into retirement lately. Upon its
being announced that Mr. Gage had join
ed the theosophists in response to a dream
suggestion. he gave out the statement
that he had not been invited to join the
society hut would consider ii an honor
to he. Here are two noted financiers with
established regulations leaders of men
captains of industry, if you like.
A no less solid man who is now an en-
thusiastic devotee of the mystic sciences
is Dr. Isaak X. Funk, the head of the
great publishing firm of Funk & Wag-
nails. and the editor of the Standard Die
tionary. Some time ago it was announced
that DR. Funk had been the principal in
most interesting psychic experiment.
He shut himself in a room in Brooklyn at
the same witching hour when by prear-
rangement, a group of people in room
at Lyons. n. Y. We're hypnotized and
commanded to concentrate on DR.. Funk.
a fish. tits said. the hypnotiZed ones at
Lyons said fish" while when he raised
his arm toward the ceiling they exclaim
ed. "He points upward.
When DIR. Funk was compiling the
Standard Dictionary he wished to use a
dra wing of the widows mite"-an an
cient coin worth hundreds of dollars. A
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he received notice the dav before To pre-
pare his mind for the great change IN his
life. Mohammed Y had been too long a
prisoner to throw off all his old ways as
soon as ne became sultan and caliph.
The habits of thirty years die hatd. II
want To live in my old home AT Dolma-
Raghtche." he said on his way back from
the chamber of deputies. whittier he at
once drove 10 take the oath Of obedience
10 the constitution.
Give Yildz Kiosk Ia the nation. he
vent on. II will not live in it-it must
be turned into q museum and the people
must be allowed to visit it The grand
vizier suggested that new palace might
he built for his ma jeSty. or that ne could
cloose one OF the many which tn. "N-
sultan rad built and cmbelvshed. Pat
he would not hear of il.
As the new sultan said he wanted
Dolma Baghtche TO be moderniZcd, people
were sent there. The sultan himself re-
cefvad them. Il have heard and r'rC
that there are machines you put into III
houses by means of which You can tal'z
TO people at great distances without SEE
ing them" ne said to his secretary. he
sultan. of course. meant telephones. when
he had never seen in his life and which
were generally forbidden in Constantine
PIE under the old regime. So several '"'e
phones are being set up In the pait =.
Besides those in connection with The town
one will enable the sultan to commuii-
cate with his harem without leaving his
own apartments ana others are to run -
his sccre tarieS' apartments.
x
Hitherto the palace has been Lighted H..
oil lamps and candles. The rev ruiat
delighted with the idea of electric lGET
and goes into the various apartmt n Is
where the work Is being done choosing
the lamps and giving advice But - i
chiefly engaged in asking questions of
the workmen about the way the i1stalla- :
fion is done. Another innovation y tho
telegraph office now being set up in IN"
palace itself.
Dolma- Baghtche Is handsome enoJTh
palace of white wood and marble, orrf-
looking the Bosphorus. Put during AbfJ'
Hamid's reign the royal inmate was f''t-
hidden to use the rooms overlooking ;i;''
sea lest he should thereby he tempted 10
escane He and his household were cor
fnei 10 the other side. which opens on 10
rhe avenue of Rechitach Here Abdul
Hamid erected an enormously high wall.
20 whose height ne added from time To
time as his suspicious Increased. OF
course this wall Will now he con sderaaly
lowered The sultans private apartments
are TO overlook the sea. Furniture has
been brought from Yildz Kiosk. not be-
cause OF its beauty bat in order In save
expense so Mehmed v. in view of The
great poverty prevailing in the '~uhtrS
and also in order TO set a good example
to extravagant pashas, has deci'ti -
fix his private income at $4,000 month.
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WILL Sacrltice my
whole life 10 the
people and the CON
stitution. L h G 5 e
We're Rechad Me-
hemed's first words
when the Young
Turks sent meSScn-
gers to say he had d
succeeded 10 his de-
posed bro I h e +.
Though not alto.
gether unexpected, !,
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x
::
When he has time Mehmed drives
about the city and it's envrons. Il have
seen neither since | was a Young man
of thirty" he said to a foreign G:p o.
mat. Il like to renew the impressions
many changes. The place las grown
much bisger-and noisier. Another
thing he likes TO do is to make the ac
quaintance of his relatives. So isolated
was he that he knew none Of his
nephews and Cousins. and had not seen
either of his sisters for years. But this
policy was followed with all the princes
of the imperial family. When. at the
new sultan's invitation they met at the
theater at a representation Of drama
entitled ''Vatan' CThe Native LandD,
which had been forbidden for thirty
five years, each prince, as he entered the
imperial box. had to he introduced to the
rest Though cousins they We're COM
plete strangers. Men who had lived for
years in the same quarter of the city,
who had in many cases, married each
others sisters. almost ignored one an
others existence The street was, 10
them, "a preclplce. lheE We're not al
lowed to leave their conaks. The sultan
has already repaired this by giving small
dinner parties to the men of his family.
In his harem his wives invite their
relatives. Another point of etiquette
which has been done away with is that
by which minister, when INVITED to a
dinner party by foreign diplomat, had
to ask his imperial masters leave to ac-
cept the invitation. Sometimes the re-
quest was refused: a others the per-
mission arrived when the party was over;
at others again the unhappy man would
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NEW Sultan of Turkey
4NOrders Telephone Placed
in His Palace = Hopes to
Alter Succession Law So
Eldest Son May Succeed
Him-Tried to Save Abdul
Hamid From Banishment-
Is Almost Helpless in Iron
Hand of Chevket Pasha-
Gives Home to Tutor OF His
Children.
Special Correspondence If III. Star.
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TIN. new Sultan Of Turkey. This photograph is
said be of the best ever taken of him. :
Some Of them have been taken to Dolma-
Ra Slltche and the others will remain in
the Iildiz museum, that is to be formed
The sultan's private study is furnished in
the simplest possible fashion, with a
large writing table he has used for thirty
!ears and will not part with: a, few up
hclsiered chairs and many books.
MI this is very different from YildiZ
Aith its hundred paviions. huge armnry
and magnificent park. Mehmed him
self is different Al first sight, with his
blue eyes kind smile. olive complexion
aud heavy figure and walk. he makes the
impression Of a good hearted professor
whose mind : wrapped up in books. AT
hanc lie sttl dresses as Il civilian, III
tie fashion affected -hy Europeans some
twelve wears back. His shoulders are
high and little hent. as with much por-
ing over books. iiitherto he has only
worn n.ustache. as according 10 Gus
tom. only the sultan of all the imperial
family is allowed to- wear a beard. He
does not wish To have one now, but
il is feared that religious susceptihilities
Will he hurt and people will ask what
SORT of a caliph is il who wears. d mus
tache.
8
So accustomed has Rechad become to
being surrounded by spies that during
the first few days of his reign he spoke
low and .hesdt atinSly, often lowering his
voice when speaking of politics. and look
ing furtively around him, as if lie feared
spies. Little lay little he l. getting rid
Of this. But the thirty years cf prison
have told upon him. II is not many
weeks since 4 bdul Hands servants tor
tured him by sticking pins into, his body
because lie was suspected OF holding COM
munication with the Young Turks. AS a
matte, of fact he did all he could to
escaue notice, as il was better Tor those
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that no less light than Paul Morton.
ex-Secretary Of the Navy. and now one
OF the leading financiers Of New York.
had been the president of The Association
Tor the Study OF Ancient Wisdom, or
.Eanized by the followers of Sri Agumya
Guru Paramhamsa, the dread tiger Ma
/ hatma of India" lately condemned TO
four months in London prison for in
sulting women who had responded to his
/ advertisements for a typewritist. Mr..
FNforton lad subscribed 500 TO the cause
ssnd another disciple OF the seer had been
tNme Emma Eames. the diva. Abroad
this tiger Mahatma had found disciples
equally exalted. He was introduced in
aI.ngIand by the famed Prof. Max Null
Ter of oxford upon whose recommends
.1ion London received him with open
arms, and in his life and Letters YOU
Will find Prof Muller calling the Ma
hatma the only real saint or yogi who
has ever come To England 1t was after
making this splash in London that the
yogi came to New York pfoclaimins: Il
am god: l know everything.
Another cX-cabinet officer who has for