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Show d thousand others -physicians," 'clergymen, merchants, bankers and professional men, some who knew him only by sight, who rushed up to grip his hand and tell him how they valued what he had done to stamp graft into the earth and ring the doom of lawlessness and band violence. vio-lence. Some of them told him that they had prayed for him and righteousness in his glorious undertakings. Their pious thanksgiving was one extreme of the result of Becker's conviction which spread through the whole city, touching every walk of life. In the haunts of crime the effect was most notable. In the prisons the criminals were struck with terror. The cheers they had prepared to greet Becker's acquittal turned to the frightened chatter of the thugs in the Tombs, some of them awaiting a similar fate for playing the part of tools in the murder plot which Becker conceived and directed. ' T"t The thugs knew best of all perhaps how great were the difficulties that f Mr. Whitman faced and overcame almost single-handed in his battle to re- if. deem New York from the stigma cast upon her throughout the world by- the"" ; marvelous story of the murder of Rosenthal." j NAZIM PASHA, TURKEY'S GENERALISSIMO It .Y, & At the outbreak of the Turko-Balkan Turko-Balkan war there was some uncer- talnty as to the precise commands of the various Turkish generals. The chief command of the Ottoman forces . in Europe was assumed by Nazim Pasha, the minister of war. He received re-ceived his early training at St. Cyr, the famous French military school. He is now sixty-four years old, hi A L full of vigor and considered an ahj soldier. All Riza Pasha, according the best sources of information made commander of the Jr western army He was trair German school. Mahmuj Pasha was put in comml Turkish forces opeiatint Servia. ", Nazim Pasha was spoken oTav "the Turkish Kitchener." 1 He was one of the most brilliant pupiis at St. Cyr. From time to time ho has visited vis-ited France, and on more than one occasion was an interested spectator of the grand autumn maneuvers. He has often expressed his gratitude for the teaching he received at the great French school, and, Indeed, attributes to it the high rank to which he was advanced. HI EH ED V. IS A MOST KINDLY MONARCH With his empire apparently tottering totter-ing about his ears and his entourage preparing to flee across the Bosporus to escape the vengeance of Bulgarian swords, it is interesting to note the personality of Sultan Mehmed V, who will likely go down into history as the last Turkish monarch to reign in Europe. Probably no more kindly monarch exists anywhere in Europe, none who thinks more of his subjects' welfare and less of himself. The sultan is remembered re-membered by those who have met him by his benign smile, with which he favors all, from the highest to the lowest. He has a melancholy, meditative medi-tative face, but those who attend him hear no harsh words, shrink from no sullen commands, as did those who attended his predecessors. The sultan rises soon after dawn, and when his attendants bring him the habitual cup of delicious Arabian mocha he smiles to them and whis- - 4 I ' "- ; V; 1 s&f&l I pers: "Allah be praised for his gifts." His bearing Is at all times affable. There Is something of the nature of Oriental fatalistic kismet In his I smile, since it Beems to betray a profound sense of acquiescence in the divtno 1 coaT33 of things. Perhaps today. In the most serious of all crises wh'c-h h.-ivo 1 ever come upon the Ottoman empire, he still pinles. and n-)ii'..r |