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Show and notwithstanding their appalling death-rate with which the jealousy of rival mothers has often had something some-thing to do in their youth, and in their maturity the Jealousy of Sultans w,ho will bear "no brother near the throne" it does not often happen that a young man cornea to power. After Rechad In tho succession comes YuBuf, son of the murdered Abdul Aziz, who Is fifty-one; then Suleiman and Vahid ed-Din, brothers of Rechad, forty-nine and forty-eight; then Sala ed-Dln, or Saladln, son of Abdul Hamld's elder brother, Murad V., who was constrained as an Imbecile Im-becile for twenty-eight years. Saladln, Sala-dln, is forty three. Abdul Me'djld, Abdul Ab-dul Hamid's younger cousin, who comes next, is forty. Abdul Hamld's eldest son, Mehmed Selim, at thirty-nine thirty-nine Is only seventh In succession; his favorite son Burhan Is fourteenth. Rcchad's son Zla ed-Din is tenth. Rechad ranks as a general, but for evident reasons has never held very Important command. He Is no doubt sincere In his well-known adhesion" to the Young Turks. Abdul Hamld also was a reformer in 1S76, when the revolutionists revo-lutionists deposed and killed his uncle un-cle Abdul A7.Iz and shut up his brother broth-er Murad, and so cleared for him a way to the throne. - av m NEW SULTAN OF TURKEY A REFORMER. Rechad Effendi "Effendi" being a title is the new Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamld, "the unspeakable butcher," butch-er," having been deposed by the Young Turks after their armed victory of Saturday last As Mehemmod V., Rechad Rech-ad becomes tho thirty-fifth Osmanll ruler, the twenty-ninth Pallshah of the Easterns Emplro and the Caliph of 175,000,000 Moslem worshippers. One of the correspondents says Rechad Is both able and amiable, but he Is sixty-five. It Is a weakness of the Mohammedan Mohamme-dan system that thrones pass to brothers and cousins, not to sons. Not until all the princes of one gftneratlou are exhausted can younger men come in Polygamy produces many princes |