YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SBMX-VEEKLT. l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. } % ^familjj JJeuispper: .Jlj'or (hi {promotion of (hi {political, ?otial, ^jricntiural, and Commturial jnl^ats o{ thi f loglt. {^ ^*oopy!'m*1 cm ?NCE' ESTABLISHED 1855^ YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1903. ISTO. 75. By WILL N. HJ> % Copyright, 1902, by Harper Bros. All i CHAPTER XXVII. A! * T was a cold, dry day about ' SI * tbe m,(*dle January. They KKg were killing bogs at the farm. Sk?J ^even or eight negroes, men and women, had gathered from all about in the neighborhood to assist in the work and get the parts of the meat usually given away in payment for sucn services. Abner Daniel and old man Bishop were superintending these preparations when Alan came from the house to say that Rayburn Miller had just ridden out to see them on business. "I think it's the railroad," Alan informed his father, who always displayed signs of almost childish excitement when the subject came up. They found Miller in the parlor being entertained by Adele, who immediately left the room on their arrival. They all sat down before the cheerful fire. Miller showed certain signs of embarrassment at first, but gradually threw them off and got down to the matter in hand quite with his office manner. "I've got a proposition to make to you, Mr. Bishop," he opened up, with a slight flush on his face. "I've been making some inquiries about Wilson, and 1 am more and more convinced that he intends to freeze us out?or you. rather?by holding off till you are obliged to sell your property for a much lower figure than you now ask him for it." "You think so?" grunted Bishop, pulling a long face. "Yes. But what I now want to do is to show him indirectly that we are independent of him." "Huh!" ejaculated Bishop, even more dejectedly. "Huh! I say!" Alan was looking at Miller eagerly, as if trying to divine the point he was about to make. "I must confess," he smiled, "that I can't well see how we can show Independence right now." "Well, I think I see a way," said Miller, the flush stealing over his face again. "You see, there is no doubt that Wilson is on his high horse simply because he thinks he could call on you for that $25,000 and put you to some trouble raising it without?without. I say, throwing your land on the market. I can't blame him," Miller went on, smiling, "for it's only what any business man would do who is out for profit, but we must not knuckle to him." "Huh, huh!" Bishop grunted in deeper despondency. "How do you propose to get around the knuckling process?" asked Alan, who had caught the depression influencing his parent. "I'd simply take up that note," said the lawyer. "You know under the contract we are privileged to pay it tomorrow if we wish. It would simply paralyze him. He's so confident that you cau't take it up that he has not even written to ask if you want to renew it or not Yes, he's confident that he'll rake in that security?so confident that he has been, as you know, secretly buying land near yours." "But," exclaimed Alan, "Ray. you know we?father has invested that money, and the truth is that he and mother have already had so much worry over the business that they would 4.U 1 n,tn4 luiuei let tue iuuu gu ui n uai nan raised on It than to?to run any more risks." Bishop groaned out his approval of this elucidation of his condition and sat silently nodding his head. The very thought of further risks stunned and chilled him. Miller's embarrassment now descended on him in full force. "I was not thinking of having your father disturb his investments," he aid. "The truth is. I have met with a little financial disappointment in a certain direction. For the last three months 1 have been raking and scrap lug among the dry bones of my investments to get up exactly $25,000 to secure a leading interest in a cotton mill at Darley of which I was to be president. I managed to get the money together, and only yesterday I learned that the northern capital that was to guarantee the thing was o.ily in the corner of a fellow's eye up in Boston? a man that had not a dollar on earth. Well, there you are! I've $25,000 and no place to put it. I thought if you had Just as soon owe me the money as Wilson that you'd really be doing me a favor to let me take up the note. You notllflllv floor him. He means business, and this would show him that we are not asking any favors of him. In fact. I have an idea it would scare him out of his skin. He'd think we had another opportunity of selling. I'm dying to do this, and I hope you'll let me work it. Really I think you ought to consent. I'd never drive you to the wuli and?well?he might." All eyes were on the speak-r. Bishop had the du/.ed expression of a bewildered man trying to believe in sudden good luck. Abner Daniel lowered his head and shook with low. subdued laughter. "You are a jim dandy, young man," he said to Miller. "That's all there is about it. You take the rag off the bush. Oh. my Lord! They say in Alf's meeting house that it's a sin to play poker with no stakes, but Alf's in a game with half the earth put up agin another feller's wad as big as a bale o hay. Play down, Alf. Play down. You've got a full hand an' plenty to draw from." "We couldn't let you do this, Ray," expostulated Alan. "But I assure you It is merely a mat * ? a iRBEN, Au,h%?mrfelt,. J ' r ights reserved. ter of business witn me," declared the ] lawyer. "You know I'm interested myself, and I believe we shall come a out all right. I'm simply itchiDg to do < It" , Bishop's face was ablaze. The as- fi surance that a wise young business jmau would consider a purchase of his j of sufficient value to put a large amount of money on pleased him, ban- t ?-* a tl- iU.illA^l IBU'JU uis itraib, tutuicu mm. "If you feel that way," he said, smiling at the corners of his mouth, "go ahead. I don't know but what you are plumb right. It will show Wilson that we ain't beholden to him an' will set Mm to work ef anything will." So it was Anally settled, and no one seemed so well pleased with the arrangement as Miller himself. Adele entered the room with the air of one half fearful of intruding, and her three relatives quietly withdrew, leaving her to entertain the guest. "I wonder what's the matter with your brother." Miller remarked as his eyes followed Alan from the room. "Oh, brother?" laughed Adele. "No one tries to keep up with his whims and fancies." ""But really." said Miller in a serious tone, "he has mystiAed me lately. I wonder if he has had bad news from Dolly. I've tried to get into a conAdential chat with him several times of late, but he seems to get around it Really, it seems to me at times that he treats me rather coldly." "Oh. if you waste time noticing A1 you'll become a beggar." And Adele gave auother amused laugh. "Take my advice and let him alone." "I almost believe you know what i ails him." said Miller, eying her closely. "1 know what he thinks ails him." uie gin rcsjMinucu. i "And won't you tell me what?what f he thinks ails him?" d "No. 1 couldn't do that," answered our young lady, with a knowing smile, c "Ah," she Huid seriously, "it you could only do it!" I: "If you are ever any wiser on the sub- ' ject. you will have to get your wisdom 1 from him." She turned to the piano and began to 0 nrrnmrp some scattered Dieees of music. ^ and be remained on the hearth, bis back to the fire, his brow wrinkled in pleased perplexity. "I'll have to get my wisdom from him." repeated Miller, pronouncing each word with separate distinctness, as if one of them might prove the key to the mystery. "Yes, I should think two wise men could settle a little thing like that. If not. you uiay call in the third?you know there were three of you, according to the Bible." "Oh, so there, were," smiled Miller; "but it's hard to tell when we three shall meet again. The last time 1 saw the other two they were having their sandals half soled for a tramp across the desert. 1 came this way to build a railroad, and I believe I'm going to do it. That's linking ancient and modern times together with a coupling pin, isn't It?" She came from the piano and stood by him, looking down into the tire. "Ah," she said seriously, "if you could only do it!" "Would you like it very much?" 4 "Very, very much. It means the tl,,? f.itllnr nilat 1 ? VI IU I yj UJ1 IU .\Ulll, IV ItllUV* IIMV* mother :iml?yes. to me. 1 hunger for 1 Independence." "Then it shall he done," he said fer- * vently. ? CIIAPTER XXVIII. 1 AiS the elevator in the big building was taking Rayburn Milffcjtfl-T? ler up to the otllees of the IjEgsasl Southern Land and Timber company many reflections passed hurriedly through his mind. ( "You are going to get the usual cold * shoulder from Wilson." he mused, "but he'll put it up against something about as warm as he's touched in many a v day. If you don't make him squirm, it I will be only because you don't want to." Wilson was busy at his desk looking a over bills of lading, receipts and other I tapers and now and then giving Intrusions to a typewriter in the corner >f the room. "Ah, how are you, Miller?" he said ndifferently, giving the caller his band vithout rising. "Down to see the city igain, eh?" Rayburn leaned on the top of the Lesk and knocked the ashes from bis :igar with the tip of his little finger. "Partly that and partly business," he eturned carelessly. "Two birds, eh?" "That's about It I concluded you vere not coming up our way buuu, uuu 10 I decided to drop in on you." "Yes; glad you did." Wilson glanced it the papers on his desk and frowned. 'Wish I had more time at my disposal, 'd run up to the club with you and ihow you my Kentucky thoroughbreds, >ut I really am rushed, today partlcuarly." "Oh, I haven't a bit of time to spare nyself! I take the afternoon train tome. The truth is I came to see you or my clients, the Bishops." "Ah, I see." Wilson's face clouded iver by some mechanical arrangement mown only to himself. "Well, I can't eally report any progress in that mater," he said. "All the company think bishop's figures are away out of reaon, and the truth is right now we are iver neaa ana ears in uperuuuun ui ither quarters, and?well, you see how t is?" "Yes, I think I do." Miller smoked a noment. "In fact, I told my clients ast month that the matter was not ablorbing your attention, and so they rave up counting on you." Wilson so far forgot his pose that be ooked up in a startled sort of way and >egan to study Miller's smoke wrapped iroflle. "You say they are not?have not been ounting on my company to?to buy heir land?" "Why, no," said Miller In accents veil resembling those of slow and genilne surprise. "Why, you have not hown the slightest Interest in the mater since the day you made the loan, lid naturally they ceased to think you vanted the land. The only reason I ailed was that the note is payable tolay, and"? "Oh, yes, by Jove! That was careess of me. The Interest is due. I mew it would be all right, and I bad 10 idea you would bother to run down or that. Why. my boy, we could have Irawn for it, you know." Miller smiled inwardly as he looked alinly and tixedly through his smoke ato the unsuspecting visage upturned o him. "But the note itself is payable tolay," he said, closely on the alert for a aclal collapse, "and, while you or I Qight take up a paper for $26,000 hrough a bank, old fashioned people Ike Mr. und Mrs. Bishop would feel afer to have it done by an agent that's why 1 came." Miller in silent satisfaction saw the ace of his antagonist fall to pieces Ike an artificial flower suddenly shatered. "Pay the note?" gasped Wilson. Why"Miller puffed at his cigar and gazed it his victim as if slightly surprised >ver the assumption that his clients tad not all along Intended to avail hemselves of that condition in their ontract. "You mean that the Bishops are eady to"? Wilson began again on another breath?"to pay us the $25,000?" "And the interest for six months," [uletly added Miller, reaching for a natch on the desk. "I reckon you've ;ot the note here. I don't want to miss ny train." Wilson was a good business man, >ut his Puritanical training in New England had not fitted him for wily liploraaey. "Of course they can take up their tote today If they wish," he said, with larmed frankness. "I was not countng on it, though." He rose to hls*feet. timer's watchful eye detected a cerain trembling of his lower lip. He hrust his hands into his pockets nervmsly, and in a tone of open Irritation le said to the young man at the typewriter: "Brown, I wish you'd let up on hat infernal clicking. Sometimes I an stand it, and then again I can't fou can do those letters in the next oom." When the young man had gone out arrying his machine, Wilson turned to ililler. "As I understand It you peronally have no Interest in the Bishop iroperty?" "Oh, not a doHar!" smiled the lawyer. I'm only acting for them." "Then"?Wilson drove his hands ino his pockets again?"perhaps you vouldn't mind telling me if the Bishops ire on trade with other parties. Are hey?" Miller smiled and shook his head. 'As their lawyer, Mr. Wilson, I simply :ouldn't answer that question." The blow was well directed, and It itruck a vulnerable spot. "I beg your pardon," Wilson stamnered. "I did not mean to suggest hat you would betray confidence." He eflected a moment, and then he said n a tlurried tone, "'They have not ac-tuilly sold out, have they?" Miller was silent for a moment, then >a imiivoi )' "T rtnn't see niiv reason vhy I may not answer that question. ! don't think iny clients would object 0 my saying that they have not yet iccepted any offer." A look of relief suffused itself over iVilson's broad face. "Then they are still open to accept iieir offer to me?" TO BE CONTINUED. tr Women don't like surf bathing, be ause they have to be very careful or hey will get wet. JtV It takes a lawyer to estimate that chat he keeps you from paying someiody else you should pay him. % ^ % When a girl refuses a man it is 1 sign she thinks he is going to ask ier again, when she will accept him. gliscfllancous ?taulttt(|. THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK. Disturbing Factor In World's Affairs For 600 Years. For a hundredth time in 600 years the Asiatic interloper in Europe, the Turk holds the centre of the world's stage. This time there are indications that it may be his last stand. A decadent empire, only kept together by the mutual distrust and Jealousy of Christian nations, headed by a ruler who has lost ground steadily since the beginning of his rule, Turkey today is tottering on the brink of a chasm, no one can say how deep. Nor can any one say what the result will he wnen the final crash comes. The crash Is Inevitable; the time alone Is the unknown factor. As to the Turk himself?collectively, individually and as a race?he, too, like his empire. Is tottering. For centuries he has been decaying, his character sapped out by his excesses In living, his sensualism, his lethargy and his unfeigned cruelty. He constitutes the one and only non-Christian nation of Europe. Yet, despite barbaric efforts to foster the; spirit of Mohammed with the torch aqd the sword, Christianity has steadily grown within the very heart of his domain. The Turk today holds sway over three continents, his territory covering, beside Europe, Asia and Africa. Its area is 2,530,000 square miles, or about twelv^ times that of Germany. It nearly eqpals the whole of Europe. Of this imm'fense bounds only 1,115,000 square miles Is under the Turk's direct rule. The vast remainder is merely tributary or under nominal suzerainty. So long as the concert of powers cannot reach any satisfactory division of this territory so long will the Turk be left to rule it. The great bulk of the trade is controlled by Greeks, Armenians and Jews, with a few foreigners, who are exempt from taxation. The Turk has but 1,200 miles of railroads?hardly a good system in the United States?and controls 22,400 miles of telegraph lines. Of this population of 50,000,000, but 6,000,000 is In Europe. Such, in brief, is the land of the Turk. Allah's Precepts Supreme. Over all this domain the sultan's will is absolute, except that he cannot contravene the accepted doctrines of Mohammed. ' Thirty vilayets comprise the political divisions. As to the Turk's army, every Musselman is liable for service after his 20th birthday for twenty years. Non-Mohammedans may obtain exemption at a rate of about $1.50 a'head. On a peace footing '* mimKnro in Ann nffi - Irie HUlinii a ai nij iiuiu^o ?... cers and 170,000 men. In war times probably 1,250,000 men could be called to arms. His navy is so obsolete, with few exceptions, as to be hardly worthy of mention. It should be noted, however, that the Dardanelles and Straits of the Bosphorus, the approaches to Constantinople, are well fortified with powerful guns. The Turk is wily, despite his decrepitude. The Turks ancestral home is Central Asia. The easterly tribes early established rule in China, and were closely akin to the Tartars. The earliest historical mention of the Turks was considerably prior to 350 A. D. The position they occupied, however, was of little importance until the time of Othman, the founder of the present dynasty, of which Abdul Hamid II, the present ruler, is the thirty-fourth reigning sovereign; when about 1030 A. D? the Othman Turks took possession of considerable Asiatic territory. By the beginning of the fourteenth century they had made themselves masters of many more provinces, and having captured Nicea, had established their capital at Broussa. Nine Centuries In Europe. It was in 1080 the Turk first appeared in Europe. At that time 2,000 of the best warriors crossed the Bosphorus to assist Emperor Botoniates in one of the petty wars which were then of frequent occurrence. Before the end of the century, however, the Turks had made their name known throughout the world, for they had reduced such countries as Bulgaria, Thessaly and Macedonia, to subjection, and had become rulers over all of western Asia. In 1392 they turned their attention to Europe. In 1453 they captured Constantinople. named after the Roman Emperor Constantine, which has since been their capital. From that day their power was extended with rapidity, until they threatened to gain mastery of the whole of Europe. In 1825. however, Solyman I suffered his first serious defeat, and ever since the glory of the empire has waned. Step by step the Turks have been driven out of their European territories. Upper Hungary and Transylvania were abandoned as early as 1595. In 1769 they were expelled from Crimea, and in 1806 the Russian frontier was further advanced. The success of the Greek war for Independence cost them that country. But the greater blow struck to Turkey was the war of 1876. which cost the empire Bulgaria, Thessaly. Eastern Roumelia and a strip of Armenia, as well as the entire independence of Roumania, Montenegro and Servla. and the loss of administration over Bosnia, Herzegovina and Cyprus. Advance on Europe Checked. Thus was the Turk shorn of the gains of his early victories; thus was his power effectively and peremptorily checked. Yet the rancorous jealousies of the European powers?the fear that one may gain a larger share of the Oriental bird than its rival?has enabled the "sick man of Europe," jus he is termed, to remain quietly on his throne, to witness the slaughter of thousands and to feel secure in his position so long as cupidity and desire for possession inflame the breasts of the Christian nations. To the unfathomable fickleness of nature Is also due a goodly share o the present strife. Macedonia is th( richest possession left to the Sub lime Porte. Her broad fields, includlni the vilayet of Salonica and part o Monastlr, afford splendid ground foi cattle raising and for agriculture. Hei people, a hardy race, have made goot use of them. Natually they rebe against the ever-increasing burden o; taxes imposed upon them by the Con' stantine Turk. While the descendan of the ancient Tartar lolls at ease li his favorite cafe, drinking his narcotlc and pulling lazily upon hi: narghiles, with long, flexible tubes twisted like serpents' colls, or inhaling fragrance from the chibouks of earthenware, with cherrywood stems, th< Macedonian, part Greek, part Hebrew part, in fact, of almost every race, toil! In the eastern sun to keep himself anc family from want. Naturally his spirit In time rebels. Then revolution anc freedom from the hated domlnior arises in his breast. Secret bands ar< formed, and a revolution Is but a sequence. These minor revolution have taught the Macedonian the valu< of organization and the revolution ol today Is being operated on an organized scale. Greatest Oread Moslem Revolt. But there is still a more potent factoi behind the revolutionary spirit of th? Macedonian. While the sultan fears t revolution of the Christian element ol his people,- what he dreads far worse li a revolt among those of his own creed the Moslems. Should the latter occui his power would be Instantly gone anc his own life would be the forfeit. Ir much the same way that Russia permits the overflow passions of her native peasantry to cool off by occasionally permitting a slaughter of ews, s( the sultan to keep his wild and savage soldiery and disciples of Allah in checi allows them to prey unhindered upor the Christians. The sultan cheats the government bj his autocratic and high-handed use ol power and wealth, his officials cheal the vails or governors, and the governors cheat the "Christian dogs." St the corruption extends throughout the entire ramifications of the government This practice leads to the frequenl wiping out of a Macedonian village The fighting men are killed or put tc flight, the women dishonored, or carried off, if of sufficient beauty, to b( sold as adornments of the harems ol wealthy Pashas, children's brains are dashed out against the doors sills ol their homes. When a sufficiently large slaughter occurs to be known as t massacre the powers protest to the sultan, who orders an investigation The governor of the vilayet report! that the assassins are unknown anc the sultan makes promises of reforms and the affair Is repeated at the nexi opportune moment. How Revolts Are Fostered. Such savagery as this makes fighting demons of men formerly living placlc and peaceful lives. Families anc homes gone, there Is nothing else thought of but revenge. So revolutions are fostered against the Tartar. It Is an old saw that the Turk h mild In nature w^n not cutting of! heads. The Tartar is sleeping in him Accustomed to a life of indolence anc ease, silent, sphynx-like, imperturbable ?when fully aroused he Is the barbarian of the ancient days. Then It h that his fanaticism, born of the teachings of Mohammed, crops out. Death is not only not feared, but courted. Tc kill a "Christian dog" Is glory. The life of every infidel adds to his own lustre In the Moslem heaven. Thus It is that the Turk has won his sobriquet "unspeakable." His cruelties are unequalled the world around Ferocity is the only word approaching a description of his temper. Fires ol hatred and passion, untamed for ages but merely held In cheek, are evei ready to glow to white heat. Such Is the contestant the patient, peace-loving Armenian, the ambitious Bulgarian the Warlike Macedonian has to combat. In this respect the Turk's positior relative to his neighbors upon eartl might be stated. The Turk tolerate.* the Armenian, despises the Jew, hate; the Greek and distrusts the European All of the Christian faith he regards as enemies fit only for annihilation. Inborn Racial Hatred. On the other hand It should be salt for the Turk that his enemies, excepting those residing outside his realm are. when aroused, fully as bloodthirsty. There can be no denying thai atrocities fully as bad as any ever perpetrated by the most savage Kurc have been committed by the Bulgarians, or to use the more general term Macedonians. The motive, however, is entirely different. In the case of th< Turk it is inborn racial hatred; In tha of the Macedonian It is revenge foi cruelties already suffered. Manj among the revolutionists now in th< field have seen their homes suddenly burned, wives and daughters violate before their very eyes, their childrer brutally slain and to end the tragedj nave neipiessiy wnnesseu me Laires of their women driven away captive t< be sold Into the bondage of the harerr forever and those remaining maimec or killed outright. It Is but natural therefore, that men thus wronged tak< revenge on their enemies in a mannei equally cruel. Women Merely a Plaything. Of the social life between men ant women as it is known in America ant in European countries the Turk know; or feels comparatively nothing. Thh is due entirely to the harem and its vih influence. Polygamy with its debasinj effects has so depraved the Turklsl mind that little is left of the softei ideals. His wife or wives are lltth more to him than baubles created solely to satisfy his sensual cravings Women in his eyes is made solely foi his pleasure, not companionship. Helt down as she is, with but few exceptions. the Inmate of the Turkish haren is little more than a mere child. whos< sole aim in life is to win the smile o: f her master. Love Is excluded, llterae ture is the privilege of the few, science - a mere atom; politics is reduced to a i question of names, business occupies f but a small part of the day. The Turk r looks on while changes are ordered r and are taking place about him; takes 1 from the European what may be usual 1 to himself, accepts innovations whose f material advantage he recognizes as immediate: hears without winking the t lessons of civilization that are given ) him, allows himself to be Improved, embellished and made to wear a mask; i but within he is immutably, invincibly , the same. Only the shell is changed, T the kernel remains unbroken. Sultan and subjects, one and all, are alike. ? The only difference Is In decree of , state. The poor man has but one wife j by necessity; the sultan a thousand by I his wealth. Army Reflex of Corruption. 1 Quite naturally the army Is but the 1 reflex of these uncivilized, corrupt con; dltions. The soldiers, accustomed to - being: cheated out of their pay, do not j hesitate to steal and pillage. To the ; victor belongs the spoils, both in warf fare and in politics. Were it not for the Turkish soldier's bravery, his fanaticism in battle, his delight in carnage, the entire army could be easily r overwhelmed. As it is, however, it is i a fighting force of no mean power. l Discipline is decidedly a lacking quanf tity. Valor largely replaces It. j There are abundant traces of Indo, European origin in the Turk's features r and this, added to a knowledge of his 1 characteristics, love of home and fam> ily, dislike of travel, etc., would In cline us to doubt his relationship with the nomadic Arab or any other Semitic race. As a soldier he Is, moreover, > readily amenable to discipline, another ? non-Semitic trait. While the guard, i the Infantry and the marines are rei crulted in Turkey proper from among the Mussulman population, where the r Turkish blood is comparatively unmlxf ed, the zouaves emanate from the rifft raff of Asia Minor. As their faces in dlcate, they are of a race of cutthroats ) and bandits, with a distinct strain of ; Semitic blood in their veins. Once re. moved from them are the irregrulars or t Hamidleh cavalry?the wretches maln. ly responsible for the horrible massa> cres In Armenia and other parts of the Ottaman empire. i Aryan or Somite, f At the first glance some of the faces ; suggest a Celtic, early centuries of the t Christian era a French, other a Geri manic, others a Latin origin. Replace i the fez with an English, French or i German forage cap and the men might . belong to any of those nations for all } their looks would show to the contrary. I These men. however, are the . deacenr , dants of the Ottoman Turks, whose t empire was founded in the thirteenth century, on the ruins of the great Mongal dynasty of Central Asia. Their ; origin is lost in the mists of antiquity 1 and students are divided as to whether I they should be classed with the Aryan i or the Semitic races. The general supi position la that they sprang from the same sources as the Huns and the j Tartars. t European travelers the Turk treats . with utmost disdain or else with a serl vlllty Intended only for the moment uni tir the traveler's pockets have been . craftily emptied. Then the Turk rei tires with the consciousness of having . performed his duty to his less enllght, ened brother, as he styles him, and says , his prayers to Allah with ado. The ? Christian plucked, a deed is nobly > done. Much as has been said about the ] beauty of the Turkish women, it must . be said that the ideal of the Orient is not that of Europe or America. As the Japanese see beauty in slenderness, so the Turk finds his tastes in the women of the fleshy type. True enough there are many beauties who would find favor in American eyes in the harems. These mostly, however, are slave girls from Persia or of Clrcas . sian Diooa. , Beauty of the Turkish Woman. , It Is difficult to define the beauty of , the Turkish woman?a fine face two , black eyes, a crimson mouth and an expression of sweetness?such is the 3 general type. Almost all of them, however, are painted. They whiten their faces with almond and jasmine j paste, they lengthen and darken their eyebrows with Indian Ink, they tint their eyelids, they powder their throats, * they put a dark circle around their ' eyes and they wear patches on their cheeks. But they do it all with rare taste. Nearly all have a common defect of a slight stoop, and twaddle something like that of a big baby sud' denly grown up, which comes from a 3 weariness of limb caused by an abuse of the bath, and also from their awkward, ill-fitting slippers. But even r with this ugly walking there is a girl' Ish air that is not displeasing. Intellectually the average Turkish j woman is of a low degree. Her mind is continually turned to her physical 1 charms. Knowing that her husband r has other wives, she must ever be alert ' to keep herself beautiful to retain his 3 favor. Consquently she practices arts I /IamaUm nl<1(n