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The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-10-16

posI, tue arcnuuke constantine, the brother and chief adviser to the Elm peror, handed nm d map wlun lne lines ill our treaty marked upon Il, and told hlln ne might treat Tor the oession. inc minister arrIyed Ill N ashington carry Ill Marcn. A ne gotlation Was opened at once wItn were received by eaDIe rom st. on the 2ytn of March, and at four clock on the morning oI the 3Oth of March this important treaty was signed by MT. Seward on the part of the United States and Mir. de Stoekl on the part of Russia. Few treaties have been conceived, in so simple a manner without pro- tocolS or dispatches.
 Alter the rauncallon oI the treaty, June Svln, IooI, Commls- sioners Tor the formal transler ol the Territory were appoInted:-- General Lowell Il. housseau, repre- sentlng the United states govern menl and CapLaln fesIcnouroII o4
 tain koskul, representing the Rus slan American Company. Inc Com
 mlsloners salIed from New lorK on
 August 31, lo0i, Via the Istnmus oI
 Panama, reaching San Francisco, Cal, on September 2znd.
 On arriving at oan rranclSco, Gen. Rousseau 1ound the prepara- tions tor taking lnInlary possession lof the new Territory completed Dy Major Halleck, who had snlps laden with supplies TOT the troops and transportation all ready tor the |. oops themselves to Silka. Admiral Thatcher had also provided trans- portation tor the Commissioners on
 the propeller man-of-War "Osslppee Captain Emmons, commanding. The steamer John l.. Stevens with Gen. Jeff c. Davis and his command of 275 men rank and file, left San
 Francisco on the 25tn of September
 sailing direct for Sitka, which was reached on the 9th of October.
 In accordance with the instruct, ions from the headquarters, the troops were retained on the vessel until the arrival of the Commission, CTS. However, the animals were landed on a small island upon the arrival of the Stevens at Sitka The "Ossippee, with Commissioners
 on board left San Francisco two days later than the Stevens" The "Ossippee'' was a very slow boat
 making about two knots an hour The ship arrived at Esqulmalt on the 4th of October After taking on a supply of coal it left this port on |the 9th. On a beautiful clear morn ing of October IS, the "Ossippee' reached Sitka at 11:00 o'clock. The Commissioners landed at once. The hour for the transfer was arranged
 to take place at 3:30 p. m. that afternoon. The various commanders
 present were notified: Gen. Jeff c. Davis, commanding the US. troops,
 Captain Emmons of the U. S. Ship
 "Ossippee" Captain McDougal of the US. Ship Jamestown" Captain
 Bradford of the US. Ship "Resaca' r as we'll as the officers of their re- spective commands, as also the Gov ernor of the territory, the Prince Maksoutoff
 The command of Gen. Davis, about two hundred and fifty strong, in full uniform, armed and handsomely equipped, were landed about three o'clock and marched up to the top of eminence on which the Governors house stood and where the official transfer was to be made. At the same time, a company of Russian soldiers were marched to the grouni and took their place upon the left of the flag staff from which the n
Evening star., 1924-05-11

buy. I sat down in a shoe bazaar
and sketched two Turkish girls who
were trying on slippers out in the
street. One of them was a beauty,
but the other was ugly. Women act
as peddlers in the bazaars. and un-
veiled girls of the higher class, with
red ribbons across their breasts.
etand on the corners on tag days for
special charities, asking aims. : If
you give, they will pin a protective
tag on the lapel of your coat Many
of the Turkish women engage in
charitable work.
1t used to be that husband and
wife never appeared together on the
streets and there was law forbid
ding Turkish men and women to
come together to a public entertain
ment, no matter If they were husband
and wife, brother and sister or moth
er and son. Today L saw a dozen
men and women walking together
across the bridge that leads from the
European quarters to STEAMBOAT, and
some went arm in arm Up to six
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from 4 length of wooden stove-pipe
with a dog-skin stretched over its
nose The Peck-Pick are a two
stringed banjo on which any Alger-
ian can play A hot Town in the Old
Time in keys at same time A
Algerian OkesGa sound like a ton
of coal falling across telegraf wire.
= y
A LGIERs were discovered by Jew
ish traders in 1000 BIC, but
they got out soonly because too poor
to stay. In more later years Barbary
Pirates thought of making it their
headqtrs, but the town were too tun
for them. Since then France have
took over the management But how
she make it pay 1 do not know. Per
hapsly she have put a war-tax on
picture postcards. II the Barbary
Pirates had thought Of that they
would be there yet.
That are all / know about Algiers.
except that 1 almost lost my life on
that strange shoar this am while
getting of goodship "Resolute"
Just when we got on dock what
We see but 200 Pullman porters stand
ing there in red hat and everything
while awaiting to took our baggage.
1t looks 50 Pennsylvania Station that
I nearly wep.
Here, goodman, take my sootcase.
thank you," 1 narrate to one % OF
them.
Then what you think he done. he
pull a militia knife out OF his cos
tune & attemp to stab me in the
albumen.
He are not a Pullman porter ez-
plan Hon Guide, brushing away knife
! with his sleeve. He are one Of those
Soudanese warriors in French uni
form. Next time he will kill you
/ stood ghast. thinking how I
should behave if I meet a Bedowin
Fireman, or something violent BY
nature.
When I got on the Boat this pm.
Lady from Peru, Ind, say she do
not like romantic cities because they
got SO few bathrooms.
"If you travel to find bathrooms,
Mrs Madam l renig. "just wait till
we arrive at Pompeii next Sunday
morning. There are the town where
bathrooms was discovered"
She look hopeless.
Hoping you are the same.
Yours truly,
Hashimura Togo.
,Coprrisbt 1924
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Today the veiled woman is the excep-
tion, and the majority of those on the
street have their faces perfectly bare.
They still cover their hair and wear
unsightly gowns that come up over
their heads, but these are drawn tight
down around the sides of the face, so
that all the features are visible.
Sometimes the veil has an opening in
the form Of an acute angled triangle,
the base OF which is marked by two
pins over the eyes and the APEX by
another pin under the chin. Today
saw a Turkish woman selling sweet
chocolate on the Galata bridge, where
thousands were passing. She sauatted
against the railing, dressed all In
black, with only this triangle show
ing her face.
Five or six years ago the majority
Of high-class Turkish girls wore
wells when out driving and especial
ly when going to such places as the
Sweet Waters of Europe Now they
may be seen with faces as bare as
your hand, Notwithstanding the many
young men riding about in motor
cars or on horseback. l see them
often in the boats on the Golden
Horn, their wells thrown back, and
they do not hesitate to look at the
men and seem to want the men to
notice them. Most OF the women at
receptions Of the higher classes are
now without wells, and at one given
by an official the other day more than
thirty young girls appeared wearing
decollete gowns.
The taking off of the veil was
started during the world war, when
the women went to tho field and
served as nurses Many of them
joined the Red Crescent, which is the
Turkish society Of the Red Cross
and they did all sorts of war and
relief work, Some were employed in
the post office and government de-
partments and they are still holding
their jobs.
CINCE the war the employment Of
- women has been largely extend
ed and unveiled women are clerking
in the stores operating typewriters
and handling the telephone switch
boards. There is a dry goods estab-
women. STEAMBOAT has a department
store where there are many woman
clerks. They are dressed in black,
but their faces are unveiled. There
are unveiled women cierking in the
bazaars, and as pass I have haG
them call out to me to come in and
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COAL FAILING ACROSS TELEcRAF WIRE

But If xxx should get into Algeria,
harems would get pretty darnly ak
pensive because of high price of
dour-sack
Ladies' of Algeria wears wells on
their faces This are law of Moham-
mid, who knew that II he did not do
something about those faces all the
gentlemen in his Congregation would
die batchellors. BY covering a AL
gerian lady with a circilar sheet &
only letting her eyes stick out you
can umagine you are seeing Venus,
all done up in a bundle for shipment.
But when the lady have only one "a
are siprised to think how they can
get job in q Harem, even when good
cooks is so scarce to find. But every
land have its pecultarious customs
(Japan axcepted) & I are quite sure
that Algiers have several
Hon. Guide tell me (price Is extra)
that every gentleman what join thte
Moslam relidgeon are called Faith
full The Mohummidans are tho most
faithful husbands in tho world. Some
Of them are faithful to as many as
19 or 90 wives at time.
If Religion make people good (and
it do. do it not?) Algiers must be
most good place this side of Jerusa-
lem 1t have got more Churches than
Los Angeles has got emotion picture
studios There are "a Muhummadin
Churches in Algiers. There are two
varieties of those. The big ones are
called Mosques.
THE little ones are called Mosqui-
tos. A Mosque look slightly like
a church with the nunps; the stee-
Piles is all sweIied up into shapes Of
turnipa There is SO much stone lace
all around the windows. doors &
fire escapes that 1t look just like q
bride at a Italian wedding.
Inside the Grand Mosque was sew
eral Moslams saying their prayers by
doing the Daily Dozen. do not know
what are in the Koran, yet feel sure
that it must of been wrote by Hon
Walter Camp.
1 will give you a few more fax
about Algiers which I learn from Hon.
Guide, whose name were Solomon Ep-
stein Pasha and lived in America so
long that he forgot how to tell a lie.
The Algerians has been Prohibi-
tionists for 1000 years. The blame
this condition on Muhammid, who
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establishment OF monogamy as ma
tionaI custom. DR.. Fuad Bey. who
was formerly miDister of health and
child welfare, says that in recent
trip across Turkey he did not find
any man with more than one wife.
and that the time will soon come
when a new law will be passed pro-
hibiting plural marriages. DR.. Fuad's
statement Is ridiculous. There are
still harems all over Turkey, and
especially out in the country, where
the women do the work and are a
labor asset to their husbands. There
are many harems in Constantinople.
The Koran permits a man to have
four wives and as many female slaves
as he can support. With the higher
classes each wife has her separate
establishment
x r Il
WHEN I was here the irst time,
T" away back in 1889. I made some
thing Of an investigation OF the
harem possessed by the sultan. Nah
mud II, an ancestor of the deposed
caliph, who died when Martin Van
Buren was President in order to
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made wine-drinking Illegal because
AS result OF their temperate habits
Algerians looks like small peaces
of sour dough that has been poked
down a drain pipa II America would
send a few Prohibition Omcers to
Algiers bet my bootvare that town
would commence awaking up. end
even Mohummid wouldn't know
where the stuff were coming from.
INHABITANTS of Algiers can sell
anything, If given sufficient time
to cheat you. This morning a m
free & untame Bedowin from the hills
offer to sell Cousin Nogi his
already got more daughters than he
can use this Son OF the Dessert Of
fer to sell his donkey, his Ingersoll
watch and a corner lot in the Sahara.
When a Algerian merchant wish to
sell anything he commence with the
price he do not expect to get & wait
for you to name the price you do not
one wide Lady from our Boat getting
soaked by a Arabian knight with a
rug. Because OF your sweetish face,
Lady" he narrate, II shall sell this
royal Kibosh rug for 5000 franks
why should I come to Algiers to be
cheated when I know so many Arme-
mans in Detroit?" she ask to know.
For that compliment" he say It, T
shall cut my price in Il. This will
make me so bankrupt I must so to
Jail" 81 will pay 2S TO send you
there" she ollicute. Yet that night
when she got to Boat she were carry
ing that Rug and hraging how she
got a curio for 1873. This will save
her the price of the trip, perhapsly.
Citizens OF Algiers lives by cheat
ing each other between Boats &
cheating Travellers when Hon. Boat
are in port. Also they manufacture
Moorish swords (tin) which they
charge .2$ for an sell for lee. If
Mohammid lived by the sword why
should not his followers do so also?
There is no answer to this question.
Although Islam are ON the water
Wagon they are more than egger
to sell Shampain to Unbelievers.
When Unbelievers drinks that Sham
pain they becomes more unbelieving
than before.
The Natives got quaint instru-
ments called the Hum-Drum G. the
Peck-Pick. The Hum-Drum are made
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Gss % Essa boR s fgs y Ns THE TURKISH

make his throne safe, upon his ac-
cession sewed up the 174 wives of
Mustapha " in sacks loaded with
shot and dropped them into the cool
waters Of the Bosporus. Abdul Aziz,
uncle Of Abdul Hamid. was especially
fond of blue-eyed beauties with
golden hair. He had 1900 slaves in
his harem, and it is said that his ex-
penses for presents and dresses were
about 100000 a year.
Abdul Hamid had a big harem, with
scores of eunuchs on watch. His
chief eunuch wore a uniform of scar
let and gold and built a mosque to
serve as his tomb. These eunuchs
formed but small part of the serv-
ants Of the palace. 1t took some
thing like 1000 people to wait upon
Abdul Aziz. His kitchen had 500
servants and there were 100 porters
who did nothing else but carry bur-
dcns for the establishment. All of his
numerous wives had their servants,
hairdressers and dressnakers. and
the most favored had separate estab-
lishments with their own eunuchs,
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ALL, HAVE REACTION FOR
ANOTHER PERSONS MONEY!

COMPARE with this the operation
~ of the trained, keened mind such
as is being fashioned by the new
psychology.
l questioned a man OF this sort
the other day. said, You have been
in such and such an apartment build
ing. have you not?" He answered.
with characteristic activity OF mind,
Yes" And did you, on entering
such and such hall in the building,
observe such and such a goldfish in
such and such bowl?" He told me
that he had not only observed it, but
had counted its scales and given
1t peanut. My readers, moreover,
will readily believe me when I say
that the man in question is the head
of one of the biggest corporations in
the city.
But for persons who lack the
proper training and habits of OBJ
servation an intelligence test acts
as a ruthless exterminator of incom-
petence.
Here are few little samples OF
what 1 mean, taken from the actual
test questions used by one of our
leading practical psychologists:
Intelligence Test for Bank Managers.
1. Can you knit"
.. Name your favorite flower.
g. Which is the larger end of
safety pin?
4. How many wheels has a Pull
man car?
8. If a spider wants to walk from
the top corner of a room TO the
bottom corner farthest away, will he
follow the angular diameter OF the
floor, or will his path be an obese
tabloid?
1t is the last question, l may say,
which generally gets them. Already
four of the principal bank executives
in New York have lost their positions
over it.
Let US put beside this, from the
same source, another interesting set
eral reserve bank note.
Intelligence Test for Hospital Nurses.
1. What is the difference between
federal reserve note and a fed
eral Reserve Bank note.
2. Suppose that general bouy-
ancy had let you to expand what
you considered prudent, and you felt
that you must debate, what would
you take in first?
T MAY say that of seventeen trained
l. nurss only one was able to an
Swer these questions, especially No. ,,
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Turkey Demands Equal Rights With Men, Says Carpenter

nople. This institution was founded
by Americans more than a generation
ago. and it has been supported b.
generous gifts from many of the well
known people of the United States
Among these are Helen Gould, after
whom Gould Hall, one of the fine
buildings of the institution, is named
Another is Mrs. Russell Sage, who
has given her name to Sage Hall, and
other gifts were from John D. Rookie
feller, Mrs. Henry Woods of Boston.
Miss Grace Dodge and many others.
THE college has a large faculty.
= including many graduates of our
best colleges and universities. It is com
posed of both women and men. The
president OF the college is DR.. Mary
Mills Patrick, who has received degrees
from the University of Bern. Switzer-
land, and from Columbia University
and Smith College in the United States
She has been head of the institution for
many years and is considered one of
the great educators of her sex. She
finds that the Mohammedan women are
mothers want their daughters to share
in the new life that is now open to the
women Of Turkey. A change has taken
place in Turkish homes. In the past
lady of the harem was expected to
know little more than the Koran, and
perhaps her cook book. Today she is
becoming interested in all sorts of pub
lie matters.
Within the past year or so the girls
Of this college have been studying
citizenship and political science Tho
students are governing themselves
and their meetings are regulated by
parliamentary law. They elect their
own rulers, and this to the disgust of
some of the students. Among the
new arrivals OF last year were some
prtncesses from Russia and the eau
casus. One of these, a Georgian -,
who had been accustomed to the
homage of all about her. told one of
the officers of the student govern
ment that she was a princess and not
Obliged to keep the rules The officer
replied, I'VE have no princesses here,
and everybody must keep the rules"
The girls keep track OF the women's
movement in other countries. They
are watching woman suffrage as it
has been established in Rumania and
Bulgaria, and they would like to have
it for Turkey. They have their own
debating society, where national af-
fairs are freely discussed. Among
recent debates were some on The
Best Form of Government" Free
Trade and Protection, The Best
Profession for Women.
lcop!rish, 1924, Carpenters World TraveamS
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slaves, doctors and cooks. Abdul
Hamid did not eat with his harem, as
it is a custom here for the sexes to
eat separately.
saw about a hundred of Abdul
Hamids s wives when during my STAY
he crossed Constantinople to kiss the
cloak of Prophet Mohammed, which is
kept in Stamboul. The women were
in closed carriages with eunuchs be-
side the drivers, but their lace wells
were so thin we could almost count
the strata Of rouge on their checks.
They were clad in silks of all colors
of the rainbow. Many of them wore
kid gloves and several had spread
handkerchiefs over their knees to
keep their gloves clean. Some had
their eyebrows painted and their
great soulful eyes showed out over
their wells. Among them were a half
dozen red-haired circassians, who
would have passed for bellies in
Cleveland, New York or Chicago.
A that time the buying and selling
of women was secretly done and
the sultan's establishment was aften
added to by girls from the Caucasus.
The price depended somewhat on
their beauty and accomplishments.
brought the best prices Then an or
dinary slave girl of from twelve to
sixteen years of age sold for $500,
and If very beautiful she might bring
as much as $4,000. If, in addition,
she was good musician. the sultan
sometimes paid as much as $4,000.
All of this I learned from the drago-
was going on at the Yildiz palace.
Today the officials of the new re-
public will tell you that there Is no
buying and selling of women in Tur-
key, but this is denied. and I am told
it still goes on under the rose The
chief objection to the increase of the
harem is not due to conscientious
scruples. It is the additional expense
that each new wife entails in these
days of the high cost of living, and
also the additional disquiet which
comes from the many warning ele-
ments Of a household.
One of the greatest influences for
the advancement of women. not only
in Turkey. but in Rumania, Bulgaria
and other parts of the near east, is
the Constantinople College for
Women, located on the Bosporus
about five miles from the Golden Horn
and within easy access Of CONSTANT
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years ago there was a law against
a man and woman riding together in
the same automobile or other ve-
hicle-now both sexes arc often to
be seen in the same motor car. The
street cars still have separate com
partments in front reserved for
Turkish women.
The Mohammedan women not only
attend the movies, but some OF the
educated girls are going into acting
for the screen and several are making
success by posing in all sorts OF
costumes
Constantinople now has a wonan's
paper, which is published by women
The language is Arabic. and among
the pictures are women with bare
faces and half-clad legs advertising
silk stockings and lingerie. The pa
per contains political articles, poetry
and fiction, and its chief end is the
Of women. 1t is issued
weekly and has a very large circu-
lation.
I hear all sorts OF stories about
doing away with the harem and the
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without wandering from the essential
meaning: even the odd one hardly
counted, as she turned out to be en-
gagged to bank teller.
Still more striking is the applica-
ton OF the intelligence test to the
plain manual occupation. I give an
example:
!. Are you inclined to sympathize
with Schiaparellrs estimate OF
Dante's "Divina Comedia"?
2. Luigi Pulci. it has been said.
voices the last strains of the age of
the troubadours. Do you get this?
3. Alferi must always be regarded
rather as the last OF the cinQue-
CENTS than as the first OF the
moderns. How do you stand on that?
Let US put beside this as an inter
esting parallel the following:
Intelligence Test for Professors Of
Comparative Literature.
/. How much pressure per
square inch OF surface do you think
a safe load to carry?
>. Suppose that, just as you were
getting to work. you got trouble
somewhere in your flow Of gas, so
that that set up a back-fring in
your tubes, would you attribute this
20 defect il your feed.
3. Suppose that you were going
along late at night at moderate speed.
and properly lighted up. and you saw
red light directly in front Of you,-
would you stop or go right on?
From all OF which it appears that
by means of the intelligence test we
have now an infallible means of
knowing just what man amounts
to. If we want to know whether or
not an applicant is suited for a job
we have only TO send him to tho
laboratory of d practicing psyoholo-
gist and we can find out in Is min
utes AL about him. How vastly supe-
rior this is to the old and cumbrous
methods. Let me quote as a typical
example the case of letters Of recon-
mendation. Compare the old style
and the new.
Old-Fashioned Letter OF Recommen-
dation Given to Young Man
Seeking d Position in the
Milling Business
To Messrs. Smith, Brown & Co.
Dear Sirs:
l should like to recommend to
you very cordially my young friend
Mr.. O'Hagan. l have known him
since his boyhood, and can assure
you that he is an estimable young
man who has had a good schooling
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News by Wireless.

LEW college papers can afford to
pay for telegraphic news services
from other colleges. and so the cleo
trical engineering department of one
university some time ago organized
a college press service to exchange
the news OF all the universities by
wireisss
The engineering department of
each college is to erect its own sta
ton and by a system of relaying the
messages to provide a medium for the
free exchange of news for the benefit
OF the student publications from coast
to coast