Show o TURKISH DELICACY rOE rr WASHINGTON r POST reprints the following 1 I extract from rom a 8 London paper which illustrates with what remarkable delicacy Turkish writers handle a distressing subject Ulie Il polite olite euphemisms of the cast east have hare ever eor been boon boona beena a R model medal for the rude ruder west but there arc are occasions on which this th politeness can be stretched too far Here is istha the tha report of ot Mr tr r s death says sas M A P in the tho Sabah the appeared sultans official or organ organ orI I gan gsa a Mr McKinley who has been suffering in in health for fr 1 sorno time tim past has not recovered from his malady and according to telegrams which we have received ha has hag jut just away wa The rho delicacy in neglecting to give g e any hint that th the malady from rem which t Mr McKinley was suffer ing in was caused by an assassins bullet is scarcely likely to have ave b Mon beau on prompted by any desire not to shock the tho feelings fellings of Americans who might happen to be in the Turkish empire onlie at the time It is probable that the feelings of the ibe sultan alone were ere considered That most of lives lies in constant fear of assas ion his majest s official organ would be bo loath not only to unnecessarily force PO s p die dis disagreeable di agreeable a subject on the sultans eyes oyes but hut would also be bG b desirous d of keeping from calling his subjects atten tion to t such 1 a matter as ns the successful success ul attempt on the tho life of a ruler |