El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-15

would come recommended through the
proper authorities in India fear
: England will have to whip the Afghans
! once more or permit hussia to do 1t
right
After bribing several TurcOmans, 1
was finally escorted to place where
I met three Afghan soldiers, all or
/ whom were from Kabul, and by spend
I ing my money very literally, was per-
| mitted to take in the sights Of a very
small Afghan Pueblo, consisting Of but
| few families, all in the employ Of the
emir. I must say that never have 1
heard the slightest Of attempt at hOr-
mony in music among the Tadjils,
Uzbeks and Sarts of Bokhara, but 1
could not say this about the three
soldiers, who belonged to the Kabull
| Shamshori class, and who sang the
favOrite song, sultan AzisdjOn-" 1 was
made to understand that no KesheWar,
Dagha or Barbado Cvarious 4-atiOnal-
tiles inhabiting Afghanistan) could be
expected to sing this wonderful song,
composed by an Afghan proper, Of the
true Iran origin. The song i5 as fol-
lows:
'Jaram Dahargas
Gulet sad bargas
Satsol boshi Ochir ka-margas
Raftius bOlojoi
Moran djoch shbui
Jeram konadhui
Sultan AZisrjan."
The hero of this song is AHsdian,
who was a good carpenter but fell in
love with a woman whose face he had
seen secretly. This reached the ears
Of the bek tgOvernor) who had him
executed for daring TO look at an IN
yelled woman
Trusting a TureOman.
made the mistake OF trusting sew
eral Turcomans, who were represented
TO me as being engaged in karakul
sheep raising near kabul, and who had
agreed for sum Of several thousand
rubbles to deliver three rams and six
ewes to me Of the Gadir class, who are
not found anywhere in the world eN-
cept Afghantstan- I waited for weeks
but the only answer which reached me,
once after I left that country was that
if wanted anything from my Turco-
man friends, / was at liberty to come
and see them They knew only too
well that it was impossible for me to
get farther than merely a few miles
into the interior Of Afghanistan, the
home Of the most desperate -urcoman
desert robbers who have had TO leave
Transcaspia as the result Of COssack
influence, which rid that country of
the very worst element, after the fall
Of the fort Of Cock Tepee when the
Russians conquered that section Of
Turkestan.
1t must be remembered that a arge
proportion Of the Afghan and Turkes-
tan population are Sheits and as Turkey
there is great enmity between these
two branches Of the Mohammedan re-
hgion, the sultan's influence is con-
fined TO the Sunite Moslems~ only.
The Shelf Country.
The great Shelf country is Persia,
whose people are nearly all Sheits and
her influence over a large proportion
OF Afghanistan is certainly worth men
tioning, due to many AfghaLs being
Shelts. but Persia is in the iron grip
Of Russia and England. and has no
especial reverence for the sultan who
Is considered by most Sunites as the
spiritual as well as temporal defender
OF the Mohammedan faith ANY at
tempt, however, on the part Of the
Persians TO influence the Sunite No
hammedans Of Turkestan meets with
bitter resentment and only three years
ago, a frightful massacre lasting for
three days took place in old BOkhara
city, where hundreds Of Persians were
killed by the injured, Sarts-
As the emir's soldiers seemed power
less to stop the butchery Of Persians,
the Russian ambassador at new Box
hara city, some 10 miles distant from
old BOkhara city, Capital Of the emir
Of BOkhara) dispatched a regiment of
Cossacks, who quickly terminated the
revolution by literally applying the
''nagaika" as their knuts (whips) are
called.
Russia Buys the Rulers.
The influence Of the sultan would
be great in Turkestan, and a source OF
grave concern now were il not for the
fact that for years Russia has kept the
enlirs of BOkhara and khiVa on the
payroll as well as the leading. mullahs
and Kazis of these countries and she
has seen to It, that the medresas
Ecclesiastical schools( taught every
thing that could be construed as being
holy" in connection with the old
temples Shir Dor. Tilia Kori and
Shach linda of old Samarkant, where
as already stated are buried the great
Mongols, Timurlan, SchachrOck and
Uluk Bek, who have thus been taught
to consider as the great saints Of the
of Turkestan.
The p1lgrlmageS to Mekka have for
years been discouraged, on the con-
trary those to old Samarkant and old
Bokhara city have been ENCOURAGED
by the Russian aovernment- that is
not supposed to interfere in any way
with the internal administration of the
khOnates of BOkhara and Khiva, (Rus-
sia has never permitted the natives 10
purchase arms) but nevertheless keeps
enough Cossacks near those countries
TO enforce their demands and as for the
other provinces Of Turkestan, Samar-
kant, Sir Daria, Fergana, Semiret-
chinsk and Anu Daria, they are in the I
absolute control Of the Russians and I
as soon as war was declared, regiments I
after regiments of Mohammedans who |
volunteered were sent to the German
front and when the declaration of holy
war reached the natives the effect was |
already successfully combatted.
Where MOhnmmedism Differs.
As regards the difference between
Sunite and Sheit Mohammedans. I will
say that it began as the result of the !
tragedy Of Kerbala in the 61st year /
gidgery (Mohammedan calendar) at
Niniveh in the village Of -Aerbala, /
where the Kufinites killed Hussan. the
nephew OF Mohammed, who had every |
right to the leadership of all Mohafn- 1
which was denied him by the I
jealous Ezid of Damascus. The fol-
lowers of the murderOus Hussan are I
the Sunites and those that favored I
Ezid and Omai are the Sheits.
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