troops quickly to the scene of frequent
disturbances by the turbulent Bedou-
ins. Without it, the control of the
Hejaz region was merely nominal, a
Bowe idan
The average Moslem is appallingly Ig-
norant, generally unable to read or
write, and sure, as they have told me,
that the greatest city in the world is
Setiefugte. Pa., March 29, 1912.
The Awaking of
the Older Nations.
The Recent Uprising in Arabia—At-
tacks on the Mecca Railway Indi-
cate New Unrest—Fresh Hostility
to Christians.
On Mt. Nebo, Land of Moab.—Try-
ing to get to the inwardness of nation-
al currents, which may be seen only
superficially in the cities, I have been
over in Arabia. Here, on the spot
where Moses was given his glimpse of
the Land of Promise, I encamped with
a company of Bedouins, beneath whose
black tents I expected to find the tra-
ditional Arabian hospitality, if re-
“ceived at all. Instead, I have met with
scant couricsy, and that this has not
been open hospility is due to the un-
settled state of mind which does not
know quite how to take the new stren-
uosities of the Young Turk govern-
ment.
.1 did not know, at the moment, the
risk I ran, for the ferment which I
found was but the beginning of open,
armed antagonism to the government
on the part of of the Arabs, who at-
tacked the Hejaz railway, despoiled a
station and a train, robbing the pas-
sengers, killing some of the crew, cut-
ting the telegraph wires, and general
ly bidding defiance to the authorities.
A party of Americans numbering nine,
going over the same route as myself,
and only two days later, were de-
spoiled of all their money and posses-
sions, and saved their lives almost by
a miracle.
The Arabs are out in strength, and
this seems to be more than a raid, in-
dications pointing to a concerted
movement among the tribes, against
whom the government has since sent
out an expedition of large proportions.
The Arabs are still “out,” and Con-
stantinople seems to be afraid of a
general rising of all the Bedouins in
Arabia.
Anti-Christian, Anti-Progress.
A key to the situation was given me
on Mt. Nebo, when a handsome, black-
bearded sheikh asked, naively, yet in
no pleasant spirit, “Why don't all
these Christians go to America, or
somewhere else? We don't want them
here.” The man had not the remotest
idea that the Christians held this re-
gion before Mohammed was born; he
spoke out of the common Moslem ig- |
norance and bigotry. The immediate
cause of his remarks was the fact that
Christians are now being enlisted in
the Turkish army, which used to be’
He was also dis. |
entirely Islamic.
turbed by the fact that the government
is gathering conscripts from the Arabs,
a hitherto unknown procedure.
With more reason than they them-
selves discern, the conservative ele-
ments in Turkey's population are lay-
ing the responsibility for all this re-
cent awakening and progress upon the |
They think that somehow |
Christians.
the infidel dogs are back of this dis-
turbance of the good old days of in- |
action.
For constitutionally, or rather, theo- |
logically, the Moslem is a foe of prog-
ress. He is under the sway of a fatal- |
ism which says, “The old ways are |
best.” Yet under his rule the civiliza- |
tion of this land has not only stood |
still, but it has decidedly retrograded. |
There is a deep element of truth in the |
charge of the faithful, that the pro-
gressive Young Turks are not good |
Moslems.
Changes for the Changeless Desert.
The Arab has never been able to
reason in the abstract or in the large;
he thinks only in terms of the indi-
vidual; therefore he has never created
a civilization, although he has lived |
longer, as a distinct people, than any
other on earth. So he feels only vague-
ly the economic and social changes
that are touching his land, along with |
the rest of the old world. He knows
that he has had to discard, of late, his |
traditional spear, and even his flint-
lock musket, with the }png barrel, is
not equal to his present needs, so that
he must buy an expensive rifle, which
can be had only with difficulty, and for
which it is not easy to secure cart-
ridges. Likewise his tent must now
be lighted with kerosene, rather than
with a tallow dip, and his wife is sug-
gesting other radical household im- |
provements, all of which threaten the
old order.
The noble Bedouin cannot grasp the -
larger meaning of the railway that
runs down through the desert from
Damascus to Medina, with Mecca for
its ultimate goal; but he can see that
it has deprived him of the profitable
employment of transporting and prey-
ing upon the pilgrim caravans. The
lack of a sale for camels, for instance,
touches him. I met a string of more
than one hundred and thirty camels,
going south, unladen. The answer I
got when | inquired the reason was,
“The railroad has taken our business.
Now, for most of the year, the ani-
mals eat out of our pockets, so we are
taking them down to Egypt to sell
government by entreaty and bribes to
the lawless tribes.
And Hejaz province, so little known
to the world, and a mere desert waste, |
is the most important of the Turkish
possessions. This anomaly is ex- |
plained by the statement that the two |
holy cities of Islam, Mecca and Me-
dina, are within the Hejaz. By virtue
of the possession of these Turkey
holds the Caliphate, and is regarded
as the great Moslem power. Actually,
Great Britain rules several times as
many Moslems as Turkey. But it is
Turkey's hold upon the followers of
the prophet that enables this queerly
assorted empire to hang together. If
she loses the Hejaz, it will be shortly
all up with her. None the less, there
are many students of the situation, 1
myself among the number, who look
to see Great Britain in control of all
of Arabia before many years.
Two years ago the Hejaz railway
was completed as far as Medina,
amid great jubilations. It is doubtful
if it will be pushed through to Mecca
for a long time to come; at least, not
until this question of the turbulent
Bedouins is settled. For nearly its
whole length the road runs through
absolute desert. Special cars were
built to carry water. The fear of the
Arabs is so great that some of the
passenger coaches are armored—and
noisy, rattly boxes they are, not to
speak of their filth. The schedule, and
general management, would be count-
ed farcical by American railroad
men; even certain roads in the scuth-
! ern states are punctuality itself, as
| compared with this single train a day.
Most of the cars are third class, a
first-class coach being run once a
week. In the transportation of sol-
diers and pilgrims, freight cars are
employed. 1 have seen sheep cars,
with slat sides and two floors, filled
with passengers, each of whom car-
ries his own bedding and cocking ar-
rangements with him. Still, this is a
great improvement over the three-mile
an hour camel caravan.
The High Tide of Pilgrims.
It has been the government's prac-
tico to distribute enormous sums of
money annually among the Bedouins,
that wherein the Caliph has his
throne, Constantinople. They verily
believe—that is, those in interior Tur-
key—that the other nations are incon-
! siderable. At Mecca they are learn-
ing otherwise, to the real peril of
Turkey's power.
A Menace to Turkey's Power.
This is one explanation of the some-
what reactionary policy which has
been noted of late on the part of the
Young Turks: They are deliberately |
on the part of the more rigid Mos-
nation, the religion of Islam. If the
Bedouins, who never have thought
much of the Turk's
then indeed will hard
dawned for Constantinople.
Even the new movement of troops,
Turkey, and mans the Yrmen bar
racks and expeditions
spreading discontent. All of these
men, wittingly or not, are propagand-
ists of the new order. It was a mo- |
mentous day for civilization, and for
to enlist followers of the Prince of
Peace in the army of the prophet.
(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
TO THE NEW MARRIED MAN
Things He Should Practice to Learn
How to Button a Dress in
the Back.
You may not have noticed it, but
they button in the back.
Life is a discipline, and so you had
better take time by the forelock and
be prepared.
Purchase from some large dressma-
king establishment one of those bulgy
ladies who have neither head mor
legs, known as dummies or dress-
forms. Procure an old gown of your
mother's or sister's, and each morning
Building the Hajaz Railroad.
as blackmail, to insure some degree |
of immunity for the pilgrim caravans. | back.
| Not until this vear did Constantinople | Set it in a rocking-chair, so that it
! eel strong enough to dispense with | will wiggle, and see whether you can
| this disgraceful tribute. This is one | get the right button or hook into the
reason for the present uprising of the | right buttonhole or eye. When you
| Arabs. Another is that this is the first | can do this, say once out of four
| time the immemorial Damascus cara- | times, have the buttons changed to
vans have ceased altogether to go by | a size just too large for the button-
i
|
practice fastening it down or up the
| camels. The road is in complete | holes, and begin all over again. If
working order and news of its opera- | fairly clever at this, try a row of
| tion seems to have penetrated to the | hooks and eyes invisible to the naked
remotest corners of the Moslem | oye
| world. Then substitute for the metal eyes
| In consequence, there has been an | 5 fow loops of thread, well lost in the
influx of pilgrims beyond all prece: | meghes of a jungle of lace.
dent. It has completely swamped the | Do not use a strong light, for you
| railway’s facilities. Pilgrims from the | wy) often have to perform in the twi-
ing months, have been obliged to wait quisite, and therc should be a few
days and weeks at Damascus, at the | ping ang needles thrust into the gown
imminent risk of missing the cere- | oo unexpected points.
monies at Mecca, which, occwring but | 44 frst you can use the language
‘once a year, give the participant the that comes naturally; but gradually
right to the coveted title of “bajl.” | pig ghould be discontinued, and re-
The best estimates obtainable, place placed by something less offensive.
| the number of pilgrims who kept Bal- | q,00¢ tan before you really express
| ram this December at Mecca at more your be y y exp
| than a quarter of a million. It you are able to pass through
have always
These pilgrims, who this course successfully, fastening
‘been regarded as a potent unifying | oo wn straight in three minutes
! factor in the Turkish empire, are also without profanity, you may proceed
| a means of spreading the world’s un- 2
| rest, even as they are the greatest fouthe next lesson.—Success Maga
i | single factor in the spread of cholera.
| They carry to the remotest bounds of
Turkey's territory the disintegrating
| news of the changes that have come
to pass, so that an infidel Christian is
| proclaimed as the equal of a faithful
: follower of the prophet. They repeat
the stories of the Young Turk’'s re-
| ligious laxity, and of the serious con-
| sequences involved in the enrollment
| of Christians in that army which be-
| levers have regarded as the modern
| sword of the prophet.
The Most Cosmopolitan City on Earth.
There are other grave consequences |
involved in this wonderful coming to-
| gether of multitudes from many lands; |
‘for be it remembered that the most | ©
' cosmopolitan city on earth is not New
Yor: or London or Paris, but this
| preductless city of Mecca, in the ster-
The Light That Failed.
Jones was at the theater, and behind
him sat a lady with a child on her lap
which was crying unceasingly.
Unable to stand it any longer, Jones
turned smilingly to the lady and
asked: “Has that infant of yours been
chirstened yet, ma'am?”
“No, sir,” replied the lady.
“If I were yon I would call it ‘Good
Idea,’ ” said Jones.
“And why ‘Good Idea?” sald the
lady, indignantly.
“Because,” said Jones, “it should be
carried out.”
It was Jones who had to be carried
Clotles Baskets.
One of the largest imports {rom
trying to allay the feeling of distrust |
lems. They see that they must con- |
serve the one tie that makes them a
religion, follow |
the more orthodox Wahabis, in their |
crusade for an Islam truer to type, |
times have |
which sends men from Syria and Kur- |
distan and Asia Minor into European |
into Arabia |
with Christians and Jews from Mace- |
donia and the coast, i8 a factor in |
Turkey, when the authorities decided |
them.”
The Meoca Railway's Meaning.
Everybody has heard of the Mecca
railway—the Hejaz railway is the
ile desert of Arabia. However neg-
'ligible the pilgrims may be individual-
ly, and the trainmen trest them with
utmost contempt, they are scattering
proper name—but comparatively few seeds of national unrest. Ottoman
know its real significance. Advocated, | Moslems hear how justice cannot be
if not originally suggested, by Emperor | bought, but is freely given to high and
William, to his good friend Abdul | low, in the Moslem ruled by Great
Hamid, it is ostensibly a pious enter- i Britain and the United States.
prise, to facilitate the annual pilgrim- | They exchange news of the world's
age to Mecca, the birthplace of Mo- ' progress and politics; and who can
hammed and the place of thegsacred ' wonder if some well-informed pilgrim
Kaaba, or shrine; toward which all from India or Egypt puts forth the
Moslems turn when they pray; and ' prophecy that soon airships will be
to Medina, the prophet’'s tomb. It is ' flying over the desert, setting at
also of immense strategic value. It | naught the remoteness which has
enables the government to convey ; been the Arab's imm-morial defense?
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