Show I J WOES OF A DESPOT t ING SKETCH and Dd description de of ot the ff 11 Mf m of the sultan of Turkey Tarkey te It printed p ta la tile the current number of Every livery Magazine The information te It obtained from esl exiled ed members of S he the young Turks party and from a book bok bc k by A Ado Adossides If t the picture is lot overdrawn the most moat absolute ab monarch and ami greatest t despot of the pres presS mt tnt day a more miserable existence I A ence than the be meanest beggar fr in the theS S I f IThe S The pei personal sonai appearance of Abdul Hamd Is te not such Heh as an would draw even 5 consolation prize prise in a It beauty show Though but W III i years of DC age ae e be look Mu l 1 ai ani 1 ft fehlE eble a d his hi face is seamed with lines expressing the abject teror ter tor teor or ir in n hub he lives He H has th t the nose DO e of a vulture and aad heavy brutal tal jaws jaw c heft ere with ith Is s tiry iry beard heard of mottled red Ted and brown due dae fl to dyeing His Eta H t e aze are mf hidden by shaggy brows brow The rhe family taint oC of insanity shows itself in his morbid fear of death B s i in m 1 b b blond hI d ci and ana Yi hH hi palace is ib a ft monument to fear It Is te bomb bombIS IS proof root roof rt reproof and act It 1 t is surrounded by Ds a wall thirty t fet fee f oy by y TOvO imperial troops Five thousand d people live within S an all ut t ou Un vi and soldiers ers Between this domain sad aad the st std suk sukan I feet thick with gates tes of fill son n The TiM ans an s r ite tt t P evidence i it is a wull w I welve e I II lJ tails vails all i i f hs 1 s own palace are filled tilled wit with h armor or plate in case projectiles s u I 5 a is is L said s ld to LU have bave J V ten WU secret reached by Db U but his hIt attendant att knows in ID which he te Is IsS H c i and rl no rio one DU body S I ip pm nd lin n the night He ha electric lights and but ut forbids for ld their C ISO lS in it t S on because he fears an electric explosion Balloons are act zu 1 S U 5 lest J be b used to drop explosives oil eM his hI hIj palace j I Ai Al ul begins h hi hl his da day at 5 in the morning when wit wb he be arises aeB and d takes a cold coldi 5 i j 1 ath Then Th come orne t ff c and cigarettes both made mMe in his Ms presence pre A good ocl I C portion n of his time is i taken up with ith the perusal pen al of ef f spies apis reports rep Official I r busti s r very vry Other ether sort sor Is allowed to drag dr o fearful te is he of omit conta omitS IOL tha c will t uch no document until it bus passed pa through a dun dl S stove stoe He Hes s distrustful of physicians and acts as his own doctor ae as iJ 4 much nu h possible 1 1 his tailor U 11 not Det allowed to t approach lim l m dooc eIo ea a 1 to 1 him The sultan nulti w before hm lum aad and he list has to te take take his bis hisS bisT ci T n e with his hi e eye e eThe 1 S t t I The Tho t trials rials of nt a queen of nf the ha may h be 15 ba enough eu e h but compared I i K n h b the he t lot of a Turkish despot presiding pre i over a street fair Is te one long I t tA 4 of delight and nd just being inC a plain nobody oio y te is exalted into the segI seventh seg i J I I eaven of ot supernal happiness 1 |