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Show Caa Nol Blame In Turkey. No government, . however, corrupt, aelflsh, venal, extravagant, and exacting, exact-ing, can bring a population to starvation starva-tion In a land like Turkey. Grapevines Grape-vines run oil over the houses. The Turkish vineyards are Incomparable. The poor Turk takea little trouble about bla agricultural Implements. Ilia plow la much like that which Noah must have used, for It la simply a long piece of wood, with a yoke of oxen at one end of It and a single handle at the other. With this the ray ah Just scratches the soil. The crops are usually usu-ally magnificent, but the wuste la Immense. Im-mense. Thousands of sheep flourish on tho vast pasture lamia of the wide valloya In Turkey. Yet the people do not eat voraciously ol animal food. They only need a little lamb or mutton to shred Into fragments, that they may stew It with rice Into the delicious dish called pilaff." The Turks reliah their glorious watermelons. They can contentedly live aa approximate vegetarians. vege-tarians. No nation la at ao little expense ex-pense for dietetic commodltlca. |