Show FOLLOWERS OF THE PROPHET We me mentioned the other day that there were Turks in tl this is country and that now many of S them are going to return to to their r native land since a amnesty annesty was proclaimed in their f favor vor It seems S that of them all were fugitives from justice and an and we we l-we we doubt very much about their all going back They They can can do better in n this country than they can in Constantinople l 1 and then they will keep this thought i v in jn mind while p pardoned ld for their old offenses knowing know know- ing inS themselves s they do not Dot know now how long they c could ld live i in iti native land without repeating them Then it would go Harder h-arder with them than as though they had never run away We Ve think the most of these children of the orient who believe in Allah will will- finally decide that freedom has been tried a good goodS S while with reasonable success in this country and that they will remain hero until they see how i it f I works in their own country A good many foreigners foreign foreign- g I ers era come to this country we mean poor foreigners gand t and md for the first three four or-four 01 four years rears the they are only intent on getting mone money enough to go O back but when permitted to go in about three months they slip quietly back haek to the United States Slates Vc We ofton often hear Irishmen tell teU about the time beauties of t their heir country countr but we can r recall call but two who when they got rich went h hack back lck there them to live livo When the Gorman German first comes here especially if he comes from Prussia there is nothing to compare with what can be found in ill Prussia sin sia hut but of all those who have come we wo have 11 never 11 known of one to go back to settle and to absolve Iii his allegiance to the United States V We c suspect it is a apart apart part port of human nature E rn people como come west sometimes come and settle but for two or three years they will U tell 11 you ou frankly that it is only temporary that they intend to return to their native state but when hn they go back and look around it is not as IS it was t their imaginations have idealized it since they first came away n and they return to the west Ve We believe the only exception e. it is is when an In old girl from Cape Cod marries a good goodfellow fellow and ancl comes west If the of the clams she caught when she was a girl memory I I I of 01 the tIle east wind WIDe that mat assailed ncr Her through her ncr girlhood girlhood girl girl- i hood ever er comes to her mind she keeps kreps quiet about them The rhe west is good good enough for her And so soSe we Se suspect that those children wh who swear b by the prophet will most of them remain that a generation generation gen gen- or two hence their children will cease to vear s swear by Allah and be devoted de subjects of the great republic Speaking of the Turks the Bagdad Railway company com corn pany is to o make ex extensive ensi e additions to its lines aggregating aggregating ag ag- aggregating ag- ag altogether miles Tunnels runnels viaducts and bridges will occupy one eighty-one miles iles and will cost from to a mile The total cost of the miles will be This will make an all rail route for the pilgrims to Mecca lecca It is almost in imperative pe e ati on every good Moslem to make a pilgrimage pilgrimage pil pu- grimage to Mecca l It went vent on by dromedaries and horses for hundreds of years the sufferings on the route were very great thousands and thousands died but hut the enthusiasm never slackened Of late years ears earst t they e have gone most of the way by steamship and now DOW it seems they are going to have a road so the they can cango ean go by rail The memory of and the reverence for the tile great grent camel driver seem to grow with the centuries and of all churchmen possibly the i oham are the most devout The belief is ingrained in them that if they die in battle in the cause of I Allah their then souls w will wil ll immediately be tic passed through the rose door of paradise and that more beautiful beautiful beau bean than titan any earthly imagination can picture will willbe willbe be waiting Availing to receive them There is just enough animalism in their creed t to kindle and hold their faith and anI among all aU creeds they are perhaps the most loyal We Ve say most loyal because they hold themselves themselves themselves them them- selves ready at any moment to die for their faith and to die smiling |