The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20
I la MAnouIsE DE FONrENOY.

cession to the throne OF George
". that the very serious illness of the
| Sultan of Turkey has been allowed to
| pass relatively unnoticed. Yet he has
! been at the point of death and al
| though there has been some improve
ment in his condition. yet IT is very
evident that his reign, which only
commenced year ago. is rapidly draw
ing to close. True, the disease Of
measles. which was officially designated
But 1t is quite alarming in a rather
stout and prcmaturely aged man OF
sixty-siS. who is afflicted with hard
ening OF the arteries and with Brights
disease, in very advanced degree.
The combination of Bright's disease
and measles led for time TO a temper
allure of los and pulse OF Ito. from
which II VIII be seen that his life may
be said to have hung for a time in the
balance. The affection of the kidneys,
as we'll as his obesity, have their orr
gin in the fact that during the greater
part of the over thirty years reign
of his brother. ex-sultan Abdul Hamid.
he was kept strict prisoner in his
palace. and never permitted to wander
beyond the precincts of the very small
park by which 1t was surrounded.
The next heir to the throne. Yussuff
Cor Joseph Izzedine, was 10 have re-
presented the Sublime Porte at the
funeral of King Edward to-day, but
may not have been able to leave, on ac-
count of the Sultan's illness. He liz
the eldest son Of the late Sultan Abdul
Aziz, who was deposed in 1875. and
Immediately afterwards driven TO sui
of the present Pad!shah The fact
that he, rather than the sons OF Abdul
Hamid or the reigning Sultan. should
be next in the line for the throne. Is
due TO the religious and civil laws
which for hundreds of years have de-
tcrmincd tho succession of the reign
Ing house of Osman. The Padishah's
own son, Iia Eddinc, a man now thir-
" years of age. is only ninth in the
line of succession.
man. His stature Is extremely abbre-
Waited In fact he is not as tall as
King Victor Emmanuel. and when he
ascends the throne, Will enjoy the dis
in Europe. He is over fifty years of
age, but. unlike the present Sultan, is
in excellent health and condition. He
is on very good terms with the Sultan.
in Turkish history. Heretofore the
heir apparent has always been treat
ed by the occupant of the throne as
an object of grave suspicion, and has
frequently been kept in close captlvi-
~ and not allowed to see anybody,
and especially barred from intercourse
with foreigners. During the recent
visits of the Kings of Bulgaria and of
Servia to Constantinople. the Turkish
heir apparent took a prominent part
in all the festivities, and in ev-
cry important ceremony invariably oc-
cupics position on the steps OF the
throne by the Padishah's side.
He, is also on very friendly. terms
with the Young Turks. and while talk
ing English, French and German nu-
entity, nearly all his knowledge Of
foreign languages, foreign countries
and foreign affairs has been derived
from books. For long time he con-
tented himself with one wife, but oW-
ing to her childlessness, subsequently,
took three others The fourth one
alone has presented him with any is
sue. namely. little girl, who is his
only child. Ee is extremely fond of mu
sic and of flowers, especially roses, and
both his residence and the gardens by
which it is surrounded show clean,
Illness and care and an orderliness.
Which are altogether un-O Oriental.
CAPTAIN the. Hon. Frederick Guests
disqualification from occupying the
seat in the House of Commons to which
he had been elected by the Eastern
Division of the County OF Dorset,
serves TO call attention to the oddities
of English election laws Captain
Guest, who is younger. son OF LORD
Wimbornc, and who married the daush-
ter Of Henry Phipps, Of New 1ork.
was unseuted owing to the fact that
con,o of r,eriran re1ativeS instead |