Show oriental traits from ong one of f the admirable letters written by sir mr williams from asia minor to the utica f Y YI herald lerald we cut the following hospitality fude F ude poets and romancers may go into hrics epics over the ahe hospitable practices of the east but it is all none sense no sue such h thing in the broadest most comprehensive sense of the term exists nominally you may be the guest gilea of some scamp or other of a sheik A certain traditional custom may prevent his making his formal levy upon your purse but what then thea does he not keep a sel ser seri i vant especially for the purpose of dunning guests who forget to pay their hoir reck and wili not the flunky id dog og you until you are glad to get off at any price hospitality forsooth the east is the most inhospitable region on the face of the earth the very erk v 1 name has become ec ome a byword by word and reproach nowhere from alexandria Alexandri 4 to the con conn finess ness of nubia from jerusalem to damascus can you get 4 a drop of water walet ftp ip sol 00 your parched marched tongue without paying roundly I 1 have sted shopped in the heart of the syrian desert worn weak and exhauster w mth ith the hot sun burning into into rily my brain and I 1 have asked women with jars of water upon their heads to give gi ve me a drop and they have refused refused used unless aples s I 1 gave them a backs hees in in advance I 1 have been nearly five months in in the east I 1 have cave traveled tra traveled velea I 1 in ll 11 egypt in nubia in palestine in upper syria among moslems among christians among rn lorig copts coats and marosites Maro deases and 4 creeks reeks and 1 I never obtained a in mouthful ou ahful to eat never obtained pl a drop to drink drin k wi with th ope one exception without lit pay there is s no hospitality h asp it lity in 0 the east ITT IS IN THE tast EAST the casual observer who saw only veiled women and solemn men would pronounce the last east the most moral d country on earth but he who has seen below the surface has r studied mu much c h and its people arid and its institutions has seen how much of may lurk beneath a silken silk e h veil vand anda saint saintly y beard will vill pronounce the east the most licentious land the sun shines on and I 1 believe bele justly the r e has no idea lea of virture ture in in its higher more exalted sense ense his mind his heart his whole soul is baptized in in vileness he lives in no region abdye that of tle he senses his heaven is s only ane brothel broth elj his dreams of the life to come arp are blend edof lascivious airs dad a fad dark eyed houns how should this ibis creature then whose highest conception of heaven is that of unrestrained congress of the sexes have an any y exalted notions notion of morality on earth ile he has none ile he is a humanized brute he lives in in a world of degraded s sense ense he looks upon the world as simply y a theatre upon which the passions are to run rtin a at I 1 riot liot he looks upon woman not as his companion and helpmate help 4 e but as the minister te r of his best bestial la pleasures pl e ures nor is this the worst he is is not c content on tent with the hannel channel by which nature designed the fruition of animal propensities among this degraded dp graded people licentiousness li c s assumes certain unnatural forms form s forms for M so horrible hoi and beastly that I 1 dare not allude to them in ill these lines and these revolting practices are not only common but almost universal unive asal even nominal christians are ar e not exempt exe m t froni from them as was seen in in 4 a case vh R has fos just transpired at beirouty Bei rout atell I 1 tel you there are depths 0 of f ini clity yn ill thin world of w which we fortunate for t denizens of the west have not eyen a conception OF THE alii tast it is impossible to respect the orien atals as a people we may pity p ity but we j must despise despi them ethera as among a ong the most degraded of the human race race As a peo ale ale they are without veracity and without au t honor to lie when the truth will wil serve almost as well to restora 16 to the roost degrading devices to insure a few paras to deceive and equivocate in ahe he simplest transactions to endeavor to io sneak and lie themselves out on of obligations oblige eions into which they have solemnly spi emly entered to practice duplicity in all their dealings both public and private are traits unfortunately so nearly universal that the exceptions are quite phenomenal phen ohi during the five months that I 1 chave have been in the east I 1 have not met one ne straightforward turk or br arab those who have spent years in hi orient confess that it is never safe cafe to trust to the word n ord or good faith of lof A moslem no transact tr ansac lion betwee i a frink fral ac and an i ever considered fixed until the latter has been tonyi top yi hisle his pledge dg yf good faith t in truth the east i is s rotten td to tile the core it is dottl rotten socially morally politically itis it is rotten w jtb the individual vidual it is is rotten in in the aggregate jre gre long this cru bruml ml ii ling rig fabric of irl mut tat fall to pieces the orie Orien talt themselves i know this they feel themselves elfei to be a doomed people and await ily their fate they know canno cope with ilef western mind and western muscle and th aaa t they will iv ill soon sooil b be driven to the anil the woner moner some acone power assumes the rule of the eat the better 17 T |