Show PICTURES THE battlefields F I 1 THE TURKISH SOLDIER ile lie is a gross stolid smoking brutal untaught fellow in ill made no coloured clothes it is harsh har h language this arid and I 1 am coiry to use it but there are few classes of men perhaps more degraded than that to which he belongs B and wanton bloodshed have fit tit t last wrought their cruel work on him and the Tur kisi ji is scarcely a single grade removed from ilie the beasts of the field ile lie has the same unreasoning instinct instincts and very much the same feelings ile he has a animal pride about him a doged obstinacy borne sometimes times a craven fear at others ile he is clumsy awkward ferocious greedy dirty ile he is an automaton before the powerful a savage before the tiie weak hj ills liis arms are old anif rusty rusts a and rid lid dangerous dan erous to himself they were bought hought with a cargo ortho mora more more of a frencht french merchant who had boom boim bought lit them originally from the tile mad chiefs of some revolutionary ary party whose conspiracy came to nothing and who had of course been cheated by the disreputable manufacturer who made them tile the turkish government bought them by a contract which was in the first instance given agven to bufi ef fendia coffee boy oy and by him sold to a jew squatter in ill the bazaar who had much to do with the franks A to one of the porte hotels got scent scout of the contract while in the jows jews hands arid and there was wag nassome some sharp slurp running between hilp and the head b oatman boatman of the consul of the king of the tope Towe towering riny taxes the outer a liala c IV american would have keell been beaten hollow by the greek if ha he had not bethought him of a worthless old frenchman who prowled about the back stairs of the great pashas house arid and was on confidential terms with the porters of several of the tha embassies and who thus became a sort of smeller out of good things for some of the galata gentry so the end of it was that the boatman the tauter the jew squatter the worthless old frenchman and the dragoman oatlie of the embassies all agreed to share the spoil and offer the contract to tile the french merchant merj shant above mentioned and this is how the turkish soldier came by his arms arid and how many generations of turkish soldiers have come by their arms and how it thus ch chanced arced that in the day of danger hex they hey laid that proverb to heart which assured them that an individual who prefers flight to fighting in presence of an all awkward enemy may live to indemnify himself under more favorable circumstances where whereas is if he stays to do battle especially with worthless ess arms tahereh no do manner by which a reflective person could be induced to answer for ills his ultimate security the tile turkish soldiers clothes were also the subject of another contract given to the stepfather of the first cousin of a dragomanos dragomans drag omans wife as a bribe to induce that remote individual to use his family influence to persuade the dragoman to obtain the interference of sir hector stubble in the case of a connection of the grand third wife which fortunate connection had bad been indulging himself by a little quiet murder and robbery in spirus the tile first holder of the tiie contract tract sold it readily to a traveling copt who took it to egypt and was immediately immedi attly followed by a shrewd little wulla chian lachlan who caught and outbid the agent of diess Aless rs spinner woolley co who not perceiving ct ceiling iving clec clearly irly all that might be made of it in judicious decious s hands ands let it go easily at this stage it was w winded i by a greek banker who swept suddenly down oil on the little Wa llachlan and threatened tu t sell him up but was bought off with tile the contract readily the affairs of the greek banker himself however were in a bad way and he thought just then that a good deal del might t be done in corn so amig lie offered it to an american jeweller jewellen je weller at a small smail advance on the cost price the american jew eller could not conclude till lil lii ill he had negotiated with a young greek renegade in his debt to use the necessary efforts with his uncle the of a Alus chir to secure the payment of the sum contracted for within three years after the delivery of the goods the young greek and aud his uncle receiving a coan commission assion of twenty cent on I 1 each instalment installment I 1 to inake make as urance doubly sure also an athenian greek who had just expended the produce of an adroit robbery atgood interest in inthe the purchase of a pa passport sport as a british subject was easily persuaded to be of nathe the party parly by promise of ten per cent more on all ail al I 1 sums which should be recovered from fromm the turkish sli sll government through the demand of the british embassy this matter bilig finally arranged arr arged the american african addressed himself to a jew wha had recently purchased a large quantity of damaged dabag cloth loth saved from a wreck and sold to him by I 1 ane L e larantine La vantine cattelier of a mighty young vice consul who ho wast was also hio hlo lloyds ads agent agent 1 at an out of the way port in asid asia where he had been sent because his maternal grandmother giand mother bless the women how bowl they let get their favorites on in life lire had been nursery gover ness to miss trotter of the west riding and street who married the great courtier sir Parl dver Tweed ledu nit rrt and this is how the turkish soldier came by hla hia clothes and how many generations of turkish soldiers have come by their cl clothes how consequently it happens that the turkish soldiers always looks so oddly dressed shall I 1 tell you the tile story now how the turkish soldiers buttons given even by the american Ame j jewellen jeweller je weller weiler as a separate good tili till thing igho to the worthless old frenchman mentioned in the improving tale of the tile turkish soldiers soldier arms arm who poking his nose luto into everything had found fouad out but that the american jeweller jewellen Je weller was in the halat habit of putting false use jewels jewel into the of honor given by the sultan to his chief officers arld and who threatened to betray him film though a drago dragoi matic malic friend unless bought off and arid how the american being unable to persuade himself to part with any money at list last silenced iliin hira with wib wih the ingenious ingen ious ioos device of the he button contract which he hop hoped d to be allowed to tag on as u separate item in his bis bill and how the button contract changed seven times before it was findy finay executed by a chlote hekster huk ster in correspondence with some unknown englishman man who had liar married his sister and set up business business to make them I 1 could tell til anecdotes equally refreshing about the turkish soldiers cap and even about his little bit of brass on top of it a snug thine thing of scruffy EfT effendi endi endl I 1 know of a delightful episode in the history of ills his boots ilis his sword belt is so infinite a jest tome to me that I 1 burst out into gun guf guffaws flaws about it in lonely rides and I 1 cry aloud in hi iho tho gladness of my heart Il lurrah hurrah for his hid magnificence his wonder his hib s glory his hs condescend ion lon his dig deigning g ness his ilia highness his omnipotence sa ilia tile french catl call him his exceeding excel excellence luce sir hector stubble and the fine pure practical system of which ha lie ia 6 the incarnate and august representative I 1 j look took look ye ve vulgar sceptics skeptics and bow down as ye behold but bt part art of IN its perfection and cooj goco ness bess in the pi pleasant vision of a turkish soldier THE frashi he lle Is ise a dark brown wild looking fellow in gold clot clor clothes thes a modern crip czip captain tain of a free company his arms are a 1 I wonder of expensive uselessness the settings of his pistols are perli peril perhaps aps solid silver or silver gilt inlaid with precious stones but their barrels were probably made cyloma by some bome clums alums clumsy Y greek during the war of independence pend pen dence ence their locks are on oil the old flint and steel principe arld and bad of their kind yei the treacherous flint is of course fixed in a s gilver silver I 1 1 iver iyer holder and a worthless lock has veri verb very I 1 likely ikel ikei y a thumping stuck rudely on toil tott the tha fellow is a barbarian and looks like it ile he is tawdry loose arid and dirty beyond belief he is alei fielce ce selfish and greedy to all an equal degree he ile is clumsy and awkward ills his gorgeous clothes seem seem beem to be thrown oil on rather than put on and arid lils ills apparel pre presents sens the same odd contrast as 1113 hia mind he comes from some faraway faraway far fur away country from irom the mountains of caramancia Car amania or albania from syria or where not so that he be does not comply with aith the modern fashion of the turks at constantinople and arid cover his head merely with a red cap but he twines an immense shawl in picturesque folds round and round about it till lie looks when sitting silting dow down like a gigantic mu mushroom sli sil it may be said that the shawl thus apparently misapplied is worth almost as much intrinsically as the useless pistols but wit it is incredibly soiled boiled and dirty and twisted and arid tangled I 1 have used the word apparently bo however bolever wever with intention for though th ough the headdress head dress here described might be as absurd as costly III in england we ave should be sto stow slow V to attach the idea lilea of ridicule to that which is a general costume in any country if therefore most lost of or the oriental nations keep their shaved heads warm we may conclude with tolerable certainty that the tile practice is approved and that they do so wisely it is at least positive that a thick covering will foil the tile rays of the sun much more successfully than a thin one and to do 1 llis this is an object of or paramount importance in a country where ilie llie inhabitants pass most of their time in the open air and sun strokes are frequent fre quilt and dangerous the rest of the bashi bouzoukes dress is cos con probably for reasons equally prudent it if one could betat get at the bottom of them A an n immense sash of thick ilk filk is wound many times round his loins and above it is girded a broad thick red leather belt with wilh pockets and arid receptacles for arms this makes a capital support for a maii mail who wiio sometimes passes twenty hours on horseback at a time lime and who never saw a chair with a back to it ills his pistols and silver sheathed sword as splendid and untrustworthy as esthe the pistols stick out so far both before and behind that he could hardly wear a long coat or button even a short ohe obe his waistcoat waist coat therefore Is one birly i blaze of bad embroidery in front and he lie has al also alro iso embroidered sleeves to it while his jacket is made mada something on oil the principle of all an hussars hussary hus sars save that it covers both shoulders that is to say the tho large open fantastic sleeves han ban hang down behind like a fanciful pair of golden wing wings s his breeches are also embroidered and they appear at first sight right too short for they fasten far above the knee and leave the hinges of the leg as free as a Hi High gillanders landers and probably for the same reason A man had llad better not coh con confine filie fille or of cramp ills his knees who is always scrambling up and down mountains arid and who must be always ready for a dashing leap across some yawning chasm from the commencement of the calf ol 01 the leg down to the ankle the limb is bandaged as tightly as strength can call bandage it it is bandaged till the leg becomes as hard as shapeless and almost as thin as A a broomstick over the bandages ha he wears legain leggings le gyin of the same sam gold egold tinsel confined by long gay flaunting garters of scarlet silk his shoes slices ahro curiously old and foul lie he kecks them off therefore at every opportunity and curls his legs under him ile he has none of the virtues or vices of a soldier he avoids fighting whenever it is possible and will wiil think it an extremely proper thin thing to io decamp oil on the ap ampro approach ch of or danger his idea of oaths the duties of the military profession is birin firing plon mon shots with a long rusty gun guu from a rockton rock on the seacoast sea coast or a tree by the wayside his glory is ii to surprise and butcher the de fenceless as they tiley wind through some lonely mountain gerge gorge to totor tolor torture lure luro his prisoners for sport to rob his friends adroitly ile he is a mere merr in marauder arander a bandit a ruflin ru flun ills his savage heart would make a monster of him liim jf if it were not so often palsied by a dastard fear his ilia love of money is a passion he clutches it with a repa rapacity city and hoards it with a secrecy quite quits wonderful ile he would not give lve ive a pla pia piastre tre to suvo save bid hid comrade from frem bein being clayed flayed alive he would rather even suffer torture tortu are jre than part with it for any pur par purpose pose save that on oil which his foolish heart is set perhaps he covets some same glittering ring in which 1 i C I 1 i lie he has spen in the bazaar and cannoa cannot ezi IMI 1 perhaps r h aps he wants a watch or a more ma magnificent ent pair of pistols pi or a new pair of silver silve rh cited pincers to take little bits of ardent charcoal out of the fire arid and light liis his pipe ile he plucks out his beird to look young ile he waxes li s tac tach ligis olg oia and arches his eyebrows with his dan dag danger dagger oceh oget yet this tins love of fine appearance seems beems strange in a man who always alwa a leads a solitary roving life who will never marry arid and who wiio lives unloved mi loved who would as soon rend the coins from the 1 li I rgina hair as ease a rayah navah merchant of his ducass ducats ile he is M ab abstemious u s almost to contempt of dainty food a few grate grapes s cr or olives accor according to the season a lump of coarse black bread a few onions and a little unsweetened coffee 1 is 13 3 all lie cares for ile he ims i is a great fear of disease disease and death ile he wears charms and talismans talis mans to protect him from harm he ile believes lye lie lieres in omens and magicians but he has no real religion y creed CREEO mind your own lusins f i |