. aR Hi Democratic 10a an. "Bellefonte, Pa., February 2, 1912. The Awaking of the Older Nations. ——— A Land of Strange Contrasts Is Tur key in Its State of Transition— Western Styles Crowding Out Old Clistoms, Creating Incongruities. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Constantinople —Standing on the top of one of the ruined towers of the Bosphorus, which Mohammed the Conqueror, built in 1453, when he laid siege to Constantinople, 1 studied the strange city which lay extended be- fore me as a magnificent panorama. viewed from a distance, Constanti- nople is a city of wonderful contrasts. it links the present with the past. | Before these stones were piled, form- ing by the walls of the castle the name of the Prophet, this was the cap ital of a Christian empire, and it still | bears the name of the first Christian Roman Emperor. Many traces of its | ancient splendor abide. The Byzan- | tine glories may still be seen in part | by the tourist, who will also find evi- dences of the Crusaders’ activities here where the two continents im- | pinge. Up these blue waters have sailed | throughout the centuries all kinds of | craft. Now in sight of one are a few, Turkish warships, a small American gun-boat, the darting calques of the turbaned boatmen and freighters of many nations, together with cumber- | some large native crafts with the | hinged masts. This gateway is so im- portant to the world’s pears that by | international agreement no warships | may pass through it. HEuropean poli- | tics are more concerned with Turkish | affairs than with any other single | subject. So the marvelous rejuvena- interest to civilization. | Paradoxes of Progress. The present stage in Turkey's rapid awaking is that of contrast. The palaces along the Bosphorus, practical ly all of them owned, until the Revo- lution, by Abdul Hamid, are rather tawdry cgeations at best, but they are in contrast with the miserable hovels of the people, whose dwellings are ' meager beyond the western compre- hension. The word “home” as a synonym for house can scarcely be used here in Turkey. i | Oriental people. , streets like water stantinople has had the latter for centuries, it is now getting the form- er. The incredible burdens which these Koordish coolies or hamais bear | second-hand.” They tell would seem like fiction to the west- ern world. Frequently | have seen a man carrying a dozen chairs on his back; another bore at one time thirty- six of the big square oll-cans which the Standard Oil Company has made a not uncommon load. I saw a man with a Grand Rapids roll top desk and the office chair fastened to it, on his back. A packing case is one of the ' commonest of loads. I saw a coolie crossing the Galata bridge with a cof- fin on his back. Now if the awaking of Turkey means anything, it must mean the emancipation of the com- mon people from these ancient bur-' dens. Big Hats and Moslem Veils. The advent of the western styles involves unforeseen difficulties for an It is easy for the Turk in haggy trousers and shoes that slip off, to sit crosslegged on the floor; when he dons tle, trousers and | patent leathers he must abandon this fashion. The new furniture of mod- ern style to which Turkey has be- come so devoted postulates home somewhat after the idea of Europe or America. The new food and the new ways, all are insidiously under- cutting the old order. The dress of the women offers per- haps the best illustration of this. Most Moslem women w dle along the birds on land, draped from head to he.l in hideous black ezars. Whether they are old or young, homely or handsome, nobody can tell. This custom involves mys- teries which no mere man can solve How two heavily veiled women can recognize each other on the street is beyond comprehension. Sometimes the veils are getting perilously thin, in the case of the younger women and their wearers do not hesitate to stare at their pleasure on foreign men. Because she is robed so outlandish- ly on the street is no reason why the | late is shown by the lively sale of rat | traps which street venders display as | a sort of cholera cure, explaining that tion of the Ottoman empire is of deep Moslem woman has pot the eternal | si = — | A ft. ter. say that there is now on the Bos- $25,000,00 Gi phorus a new classi”cation of war-' [qn the past year it has cost Dr. Pierce ships—"first class, second class and | over $25,000.00 (exclusive of postage) to u that the a opie 2t His Fea Fok The Young Turks were afraid to trust | People’s Common § ical Adviser. themseives to bring the ships from This book containing 1008 pages and over Germany, so they had German officers | 700 illustrations should be in every family. th i 2 outside the Dar | It answers the unspoken questions of man them until just o a | young men and women. It points the danelles, where they ran up the Tur- nach to healthy, happy life. It is sent kish flag. The German officers de-| free on receipt of stamps to defray ex- manded two hundred ar fifty thous- | pense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent and marks for their services and re-| stamps for book in paper binding, or 31 fused to haul down the Turkish flag |Stamps in cloth. Address Doctor R.V. until the sum was paid. Rumor has it | Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. that one of the ships broke down en | route. At any rate, the Turkish gov-! ernment paid the money and the ships | sailed up the Bosphorus, streaming | bright new crescent flags behind them. | That New Turkey has something to | learn in the way of naval administra. | tion was evident from a little expe- | rience of my own. Late one night 1! had need to cross the Bosphorus in a | small boat and the boatman ran close | to one of the new warships. Instead | of turning a searchlight on to us al dozen men began to yell to warn us | off. For two or three minutes there ! seemed to be a small riot on the ship, but not once was there a light flashed on us though the crew’s fear was that we might be Greeks bearing torpedos. Of a plece with this bit of adminis- tration was the naive remark of an admiral the other day, that he was obliged to surrender his place on a naval board in order to go to the in- terior to take charge of a military | barracks. Cholera, Rat-Traps and Religion. The cholera is raging in Constanti- nople at present and it affords an op- portunity of observing the difference between the old and the new. Lime is sprinkled in the gutters by the city put, for the most part, the people who, so far as the Moslem population are concerned, are arrant fatalists, say “Kismet,” and do not amend their unsanitary ways. That modern scien- tific knowledge is beginning to perco- Flour and Feed. CURTIS Y. WAGNER, BROCKERHOFF MILLS, BELLEFONTE. PA. 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There is the ro- mance of the mysterious about these dirty lattices—a western woman would surely keep them clean—and about the iron-barred tunnels that lead un- der the houses to the water. cannot help speculating as to the tragedies that have been enacted along these shores. The system of seclusion for women that Islam or- dains has many disadvantages, one be- ing that it requires a man to build a high wall alongside of his house, to keep his neighbor from overlooking his harem. Schools are beginning to come to their own in Turkey, but the minaret still dominates the landscape, and the wailing cry of the muezzin five times a day is a familiar sound to all parts of the city. An Inadequate Fire Alarm System. On yonder hill a cannon booms when- ever there is a fire in one of the vil-: lages along the Bosphorus. The plan : in the city proper is for a watchman ' on one of the great fire towers to re- port to others who patrol the streets, | and these others go crying, in jackal ! tones that make one think of the souls of the lost, the general vicinity | of the fire. Whosoever will may then | run to the scene of excitement and ' share in the possible loot. A few modern fire engines have been intro- duced into the city, but it has been ! my fortune chiefly to see the inade- One | | Constantinople and feminine interest in dress. One of their sisters came along the other day wearing a “Merry Widow” hat and a hobble skirt and as 1 passed I noticed these queer veiled figures stop and turn and look as long as the new fashions were in sight. What will happen to the economic system in’ Turkey with its low scale of income when husbands have to pay for Paris millinery and their wives have a right to wear them, is more than I can project. Immediately after the revolution many Moslem women took off their veils as they appeared in public places. Such is the state of the Tur- quate box carried on the shoulders of | yish mind, however, to be described runners, who are accustomed to get | to the fire sometime before the whole | city has been burned down, and hire | themselves out to the property own- ers. flagrations, one of them devastating fifty houses. There are no telephones in the city, except between government offices, no public lighting system and no electric cars. The streets are incredibly bag, yet at one corner of the foreign quar- ter of Pera I saw these three won- ders: a Constantinople street being widened, a steam roller at work, and the cypress trees of the Moslem graveyard being cut down! The god of change has certainly come to Tur ! The Coolie and the Automobile. That the old order is passing is patent to everybody who knows how to look at things in the large. People cannot have even a form of Ml io tional government, and yet treat one section of the community as mere beasts of burden. The newspaper, a moving picture show, the automobile and the school book are forerunners of the inevitable new day. Now that Constantinople has reckless red autos driven through its narrow overcrowd- ed streets, it is bound to have also a chariot of progress of which this is a symbol. There is not room on the same high- way of clvilization for a twenty horse- power automobile and a man strug gling under the load of an ox. Coa- 1 have witnessed several con- | to me the reason why he could not by no other words better than by the English phrase “absolutely rotten" — that this could not endure. A Turkish official himself explained | hope for the unveiling of the women | for a generation or two. The men of | today are utterly devoid of western | ideals concerning womanhood. What { western women, who understand the | language, have to endure as they | travel and live in Turkey, has never yet been written. It needs a new i mind in the people before some of the | conditions that are the salt of civiliza- | tion can fully obtain in Turkey. i New Warships and Some Stories. Almost bumping into the ancient na- | tive crafts of the Bosphorus are a | number of new warships of which Tur- key is very proud. The Turk loves weapons, big and little. While the order for disarmament has gone out, it yet remains true that in the cities as well as in the rural parts men “tote a gun” as they say in Texas, and carry a knife stuck into the vol- uminous girdle. I never traveled with a pistol in my belt in plain sight un- til 1 went out into the his own policeman. With this warlike disposition it terested in their fleet. 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A more dia- bolical scheme for inoculating a na- tion with disease can scarcely be con- trived, yet the faithful will not per- mit the government to touch this sacred well. Of course there is modern medicine in Turkey and by a new law nobody is allowed to practice without a di- ploma. None the less the faith in charms abides and I have seen graves and specially sacred trees, covered with rags from the bodies of diseased persons, who hope thereby to obtain a cure in exactly the same fashion as that prevailing in Japan and Corea. Probably the most satisfactory archaeological museum in the world is that at Constantinople, with many priceless treasures. Yet this coilec- ‘tion has been made by taking toll the enterprise and learning of ern nations and educational tions. All archaeologists at wor the Turkish empire are obliged give the government first choice their finds. In sharp contrast this wonderful museum is that all over Asia Minor archaelogical relics in the way scriptions and statues, are to this being broken up and burned to lime for the villagers. New Turkey must go a long way fore she finds herself standing in the equality of fellowship with the wide awake and enlightened nations of the world. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Groceries and Sechler & Bush House Block, - i. er rm— 2 » EsEd iF SEEit Es § imestone and Lime for all purposes. Sechler & Company the Best Work try ARCHIBALD ALLISON, Opposite Bush House " Bellefonte, Pa. Food Products. Coal and Wood. EDWARD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, and Dealer in ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS COALS CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS and other grains. | _ BALED HAY AND STRAW —- Lime and Crushed Limestone. 56-1 - Company, H-0 Increase Your Crops HE Lime is the life of the soil. 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