Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-12-02

The Ottoman government had never
forgiven us for the occupation OF
Egypt, although Turkeys predomi4
nance was recognized, her suzerainty
upheld, and an annual tribute of 3d.
500, 900 was paid her for her shadowy
claims upon the land Of the pyramids.
Fehmet Effendi was a Copt, one Of
the same race that fiourished in the
days of Rameses and proliferated I'M
der the whip. It was not until Eng
land laid hands upon Egypt that the
harassed Egyptian knew the meaning
of liberty and education. Having ac-
CURED these advantages, he naturally
looked longingly back upon the days
when the Turk scourged him and
harassed him with taxes. A whole
generation of educated men had grown
up, native Egyptians whose hatred
of their British benefactors was great
er than their hate of anything else.
Take one of the lower races, edu-
cate 1t. place in its hands all the ad-
vantages OF modern science, and you
have raised up a power for evil that
you-win have great difficulty in subdu-
ing again. =, The case Of Fehmet Ef-
fendi is an Apostle one. He had been
trained at the medical department Of
the Constantlnople university, which
was created by British enterprise and
for a Tong time,subsidized by men and
women eager to bring the knowledge
of medical science to the Turkish en-
-pirB and to promote the development
of hygiene among the people of that
nation.
After the Balkan war, when the
rumbles of the coming storm in Eu-
rope began to raise hopes in Con-
stantinople that the restoration of
Turkish predominance was approach
ing, Fehmet Effendi received a mis-
sion from the Ottoman government.
L had known of him as a dangerous
man; he had been forbidden to re-
turn to Egypt, and he was one Of the
suspects on whom the eyes OF
number of secret service men were
directed.
It was quite by chance / learned
that he was going to the Island of
Socotra, wild, barren, and barbar-
GUS British dependency off the east
coast of Africa. Nominally under
British control, actually Socotra is
inhabited by a mongrel race of Arabs,
who live under their own laws, or
lack of laws, and are kept in whole
some restraint only by the periodical
visits of British warships.
My informant was a colleague of
nh ~ hod frn0unnf1Ny
formed valuable services for my gov
eminent. He confided to me that Doc
tor Fehmet's mission was for the pur-
pose of making certain experiments
which, If successful, were to be re-
peated in Great Britain or India; and
that these experiments were to be
of startling character.
telegraphed at once in cipher to
the foreign office in London, and,
within a few hours, received instruc-
lions to follow Fehmet to Socotra on
board the 'Nymph," which would
touch at that island on her way to
India and would sail from Southamp-
ton in couple of weeks.
This gave Fehmet plenty of leeway;
nevertheless, as he was to travel by
private yacht, and the British gov
eminent did not attach sufficient i'm
portance to the matter to supply me-
with similar means of making the
Journey, / was forced to wait patient
ly. In due course we sailed, and the
@'Nymph" dropped me at Mussuk, the
little port of call, with the promise
of picking me up in a months time
when she returned from Calcutta with
a battalion of British regulars.
had thought out my plans during
the voyage. Whatever the doctors in
teptions might be, it was necessary
to win his confidence in order to ob-
tain information. l had assured my
self that the German government was
backing him in his enterprise, and
had provided myself with certain
forged credentials purporting to enan-
ate from Herr Won Martin, one of the
permanent under-secretaries for for
eign affairs. On reaching Mussuk l
installed myself in the local hotel, as
IL can be called in courtesy, and then
set forth to gain the acquaintance of
Doctor Fehmet in his small house on
the hill. which he had rented from a
EUropeanized sheik.
II was hot walk up the hill, and
my first view of the man, as he stood
In his tropical uniform at the door
OF his cottage, was by no means an
inviting one. The mans face was fas-
cinating in its brutality. 1t was TIE
face that appears so constantly on the
old Egyptian monuments, the face not
of the slave but of the slave-driver.
Enormously strong, with a sensual
and repulsiVe physiognomy, a bald
head. and a corpulent frame which
seemed TO how-there is no other
wOrd-within the limitations of his
silk tussOre coat and trousers, Feb
met Effendi seemed to be the incarna-
tion of the basest qualities dominated
by what was undoubtedly high In
telIectuaIity. ] even felt certain
fear as remembered that we two