Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-10
BELIEVE KAISER IS
TO BECOME MOSLEM
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(the only one we could secure in the
village) when the door opened and a
very gorgeously dressed young man
entered, and at once expressed his
pleasure that he had found us alone
and the hope that we would never tell
others what he had to say. He in
formed us that he was engaged to a
young girl by the usual arrangement
with the parents of the girl; and that
he had already spent several hundred
tomans on his tiance; but that alas,
she had taken q great dislike to him
and refused absolutely to marry him.
He had been to all the mullahs and
had had charms from all his sacred
books written. in order to win her ar
fection, many of which he had buried
underneath the door of her house, etc,
but none of them had done any good,
and he had lost faith in the worth of
his Koran. sNow could we give him
some charms from our Bible that
would do the work. a much disap-
pointed young fellow he was, | as
sure you, when we informed him that
our Scriptures were not given to us
for such purposes and in spite of what
we told him about the real value of
Gods Word, I fear that he went away
feeling that our Bible was as good for
nothing as his Koran.
Soaked to the Skin
We entered a large village on foot
for the roads had been too dreadful
for horseback riding. and as it was
raining we were wet to the skin. We
were wondering where we could get
place to dry ourselves and our bed
clothes before night, when a man
leaned out of a window and insisted
upon our coming in. He soon had
blazing fire started for us on the hearth
and fine warm dinner brought to us,
and very soon our troubles were all
in the past. Or again, the day that
we entered the town of Herov, a
terrific thunder storm caught us just
before we arrived, and with water
pouring off of us no Moslem in that
fanatical town would have received
us into his house; so that we had to
go to the Armenian saloonkeeper of
the place for refuge. 1t was as mean
a hovel and as vile a smelling rum
hole as l was ever in: but we were
thankful enough for that refuge from
the storm; and the Armenian who
as a small boy had been in our school
did us all the courtesy he could.
Germans Invulnerable
One thing which would have anus
ed YOU immensely If you had been with
us was the war news that we got on
our journey. All the Persians side in
tensely with the Germans and will be-
lieve no stories that do not proclaim
them the winners of every battle.
Geography, history, present political
conditions, never troubled the news
monger as he told his tales. In one
place l was asked from what country
came I replied somewhat proudly
that was an American. II am very
sorry to inform YOU" said my new ac-
quaintance. that your country has
been utterly destroyed by the Ger
mans; nor could l persuade him that
that was utterly impossible. Another
told me of the capture of Paris, that
it had been decreed that the city
should be given over to eight hours
of indiscriminate slaughter, but that
at the earnest intercession of the Per-
sian Minister the time of bloodshed
was reduced to four hours. How
helpless one felt, when an intelF-
gent man (for Persia) insisted that
up to the present not one German
had been killed, owing to the mar
veIous devices for self protection; or
another declared that the German em-
peror had announced that he would
become q Moslem as soon as the war
was over.