1 i .litliiiiiil liiiulliUc lit iuuiklii : ( ; dy; i:E-:ny f.:onGiriTHAU. ; ' F crmsrly American! Ambassador ta Turkey. r ; (CopyritedO - ' Uf v ' r Another question, which , had been under discussion tor several months, now became Involred in the Turkish international situation. 1 That was the matter of the capitulations. These were the treaty rights which for cen turies had regulated the position of foreigners In the Turkish empire. Tur key had never been admitted to a complete equality with European na tions, -and in reality she had never been an independent sovereignty. The sultan's laws and customs differed so radically" from those of Europe and America that no7 non-Moslem country could think of submitting its clUsens in Turkey to them. - In many mat ters, therefore, the principle of ex territoriality had always prevailed In favor of all eltlsens or subjects of countries' enjoying capitulatory rights. 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Certainly this those wonderful institutions . which humble man of the people had risen American philanthropy has erected on in the world. His house, which was ths Bosporus; as well as hundreds of in one of the quietest and most arts-American..- religious, " charitable . and tocratlo parts of the city, was a splen educatlonal institutions, practically did old building, very large and very stood on American - territory ' and elaborate. I was ushered through a looked upon, the American embassy series of four or five balls, and as I as their guardian. Several nations I'went by one door the Imperial prtn had their own poetofflces, as they did t cess, Enver's wife, slightly opened It not care, to submit their mall to the'"d peeked through at me. Farther Ottoman postal service. - Turkey like-! on another Turkish lady opened, her wise did not have unlimited power of, door and also obtained a fleeting taxation over foreigners. It could not'; (Mmpse of the ambassadorial figure, even increase , their customs taxes 1 1 was finally escorted Into a beautiful without the consent of the - foreign! room In which Enver lay reclining on powers, in 111, it could impose only semi-sofa.1 He had on a long silk 11 per cent in, tariff dues, and was dressing gown and his stockinged feet attempting to secure the .right to ln-;hun languidly over the edge of the crease the amount, to 14. We have S divan. He looked much younger than always regarded England as the only! in his uniform; he wns an extremely iinurrat country, OveriOOKinX tne . ' fact that this limitation In Turkey's customs dues had practically mads the Ottoman empire an unwilling f ol ; lower of Cpbdenv. Turkey was thus promouea oy tne powers from de- jveloping any Industrie of her own;!n was nqt much over that age. He Instead, she was forced to take large1 nd hanA a violin, and a piano near 'quantities of 'Inferior .articles fromD al8 testified to his musical taste. 'Europe. Against these restriction. The room was splendidly tapestried; Turkish statesmen had protested for years, declaring that they constituted en insult to tnsir. pride as a nation i ana aieo mierierea witn tneir prog ress. However, the agreement was a bl-lateral one. and Turkey could not change It without the eoneent of all the contracting powers. , Tet certain ly the present moment, when both the entente and the central powers were cultivating Turkey, served to furnish a valuable opportunity to make the change. And so. as soon as the Ger mans had begun their march toward FORTIFY Tour system against diseases com mon to winter ! months. Purify and enrich your blood. Cleanse your sys tem of impurities by ordering today, Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy, for IS years the greatest blood purifier and ; tonic. Ask your druggist or write Person Remedy Company, Charlotte, N. C Adv. W LIBERTY DAN CE TO BE GIVEN Friday Evening . November 22 k AT THE . . AUDITORIUM Big Jazf ' : Orchestra ; DANCING FROM 8:11 TO 11:S0 2.1 : MUUHUOHT WALTZ a AT :S0 Gentlemen SOo. ; LADIES FREE ALL' MODERN , DANCES. ' " I Finest Dance Floor Im North Carolina iiiisiiiiiaiiiiiTrTO K and Thursday . - very -Going' TO THE THE By BEACH1 1 " ; ! r t t . t r- 1 1 j rt cr t:.e ,V h a 'J i.i the an J had e : reel to : y 1 1 cc ct r .;' in t r : -ur, anl that Lr.g! the abropntlon. as part of her pay- ment for Turkish neutrality. Neither of these reports was true. What was manifest, however,- was the panio which the mese suggestion of abrojry. I tion produced on the foreign poptfta . tlon. The idea of becoming subject to the Turkish laws and perhaps be ing thrown into Turkish prisons made i their flesh creep and with good rea son. . , About this time I had a long con- " nvu-sruuii.su vvjwu wiui pale, smootn face, made even more striking by his black hair, and . with delicate white hands, and long, taper Ing fingers. He might easily haw passed for under thirty, and, in fact. perhaps its most conspicuous feature WM a, dais upon which stood a gold en cnair; mis was tne marriage tnrone of Enver's imperial wife, As I glanced, around at all this luxury, I must admit that a few uncharitable thoughts came to mind and that I could not help pondering a question which, was then being generally asked In Constantinople. Where- did Enver !et the money for this expensive es tabllshment? He had ho fortune of his own his parents had been wretchedly poor, and his salary as a cabinet minister was only about $8, 000. .His-wife had a moderate' allow ance as an imperial princess, but she had no private resources. Enver had never engaged in business, he had been a revolutionist, military leader, abd politician all his life. But here he was' living at a rate that demand- ed a very large Income. In other ways Enver was giving evidences of great and sudden prosperity and al ready I had heard much of his in vestments in real estate, which were the talk jbf the town. Enver wished to discuss the capsu lations, He practically said that the cabinet had decided on the abroga tion, and he wished to know the atti tude of the United States. , He added that certainly a country which had fought for its independence as we had would sympathize with Turkey's at tempt to shake off these shackles. We , had helped Japan free herself from similar burdens and wouldn't we now help Turkey? ; Certainly Turkey was as civilised a nation as Japan? 4 , 1 answered , that I thought that the United States might consent to aban don the capitulations in so far as they were economic, It was my opinion that Turkey should control her -cus- toms duties and be permitted to levy' ' the same taxes on foreigners as on j her own eltlsens. So long as the Turkish courts and Turkish prisons : maintained their present standards, however, we oould never agree to give ip the judicial capitulations. Turkey should reform the abuses of her wants; then, after they had estab lished TCurnnaan Mali In thk iitixln: titration of Justice, the matter could be discussed., Enver replied that Tur-j key would be willing to have mixed tribunals and to have the United States designate some of the judges, but I suggested that, inasmuch as American judges did not know the Turkish language or Turkish law, his scheme involved great practical diffi culties. I also told htm that- the American schools and colleges were very dear to Americans, and that we would never consent to subjecting them to Turkish Jurisdiction. Despite the protests of all the am bassadors, the cabinet issued its no tification that the capitulations would be abrogated on Ootober 1. This ab rogation was all a part of ths Young Turks' plan to free themselves from foreign tutelage and to create a new oountry on the basis of "Turkey for the Turks." It represented, as I shall show, what was the central point of Turkish policy, not only In the em pire's relations to foreign powers, but to her subject peoples. v England's po sition on this question was about the same as our own:-the British govern ment would consent to the modifica tion, of the economiq restrictions, but not the others. Wangenheim was greatly disturbed, and I think that his foreign office' reprimanded htm for letting the abrogation take place, be cause he blandly asked me to an nounce that I was the responsible per son! As October 1 approached, the foreigners in Turkey were lit a high Btate of apprehension. - The Darda nelles had been elosed, shutting them off from Europe; and now they felt that they were to be left to the mercy of Turkish courts and Turkish prisons. Inasmuch as It was the habit in Turk; ieh prisons to herd ' the Innocent with the' guilty, and to place in the same room with murderers, people who had been charged, but not convicted, of minor .offenses, and' to bastinado re calcitrant witnesses, the fears of ths foreign residents may - well be Imag tned. The educational institutions were also apprehensive, and in their interest I now appealed to Enver. He assured me that tne Turks had no hostile intention toward Americans. I replied that he should show in un mistakable fashion , thai , . Americans would not he harmea.v 5 "All right,"; lie answered. :;Tjrhat would you suggest T" ;, h-i.f vt5' "Why not ostentatiously visit Rob , ert college on October 1, the day the capitulations are abrogated?" I said. r- The Idea , was rather a unique one, for. in all the history of this institu tion an important Turkish official had Mia -""""ifiinij. Cn, Vendor fire-racf sweet Jterfey ..flavor . I t I i --v l . . I I t c in, ceremonious v. .i ly : . r t w'. i cause a pub'.ic sensation. ?.s of it would reach the farthest limits of the Turkish em pire, and It was . certain that the I Turks would Interpret it as meaning tnai one or me iwo mon poweriui men in Turkey had taken this and other American-Institutions under his patronage. Such a visit would exer cise a greater protective influence over American colleges and schools in Turkey than an army corps,- I was therefore greatly pleased when Enver promptly adopted my suggestion. On the day that the capitulations were abrogated, Enver appeared at the'American embassy with two autos, one for himself and me, and the other for his adjutants, all of whom were dressed in full uniform, I was pleased that Enver had made the proceeding, so spectacular for I wished it to have the widest publicity. On the ride up to the college I told Enver all about these American institutions and what they were doing for Turkey. He real aSout them., and?! iv Knew very utue like moat Turks, he half suspected that they concealed a political pur pose. !- .:' ;-.:.V. ' "We Americans are not looking for material sid vantages in Turkey," I said. "We merely demand that you treat kindly our children, these col leges, for which all the people in the United States have the warmest affec tion. -' . v-..- . . I told him that Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, president of the trustees of Robert college, and Mr. Charles R. Crane, president of the trustees of the Womens college,, were Intimate friends of President Wilson. "These," I added, "represent, what is best in America and the fine altruistic Spirit which in ouf country accumulates wealth and then uses, it to found col leges and schools, In establishing these institutions in Turkey they are trying, not to convert your people to Christianity, but to help train them in the sciences and arts and so pre pare to make them better eltlsens. Americans feel that the Bible land have given them their religion and they wish to'repay with the best thing America has Its education." I then told him about Mrs- Russell. Sage and Miss Helen Gould, who had made large gifts to the Women's college. "But where 'do these people get all the money for such benefactions?" Enver asked. I then entertained him for an hour or so with a few pages from our own '-'American Nights." I told him how Jay Gould- had arrived In New Tork, a penniless and ragged boy, with a mousetrap which he had. invented and how he had died, almost SO yeara af terward, leaving a fortune of about $100,000,000. I told him how Com modore Vanderbllt had started life as a ferryman and had become Ameri ca's greatest railroad "magnate;" how Rockefeller had) begun his career sit ting on a high stool in a Cleveland commission house, earning $8 a week, and had created the greatest fortune that had ever been accumulated by a single man In the world's history. I told him how the Dodges had become our great "copper kings" and the Cranes our great manufacturers ' of iron pipe. Enver found these stories more thrilling than any that had ever oome out of Bagdad, and I found af terward that he had retold them so frequently that they had reached al most all the important people in Con stantinople, v Enver was immensely impressed also by what I said about the Ameri can institutions. He went, through all the buildings and expressed his en thusiasm at everything he saw, and he even suggested: that he would like to send his brother there. He took tea with Mra Gates, wife of President Gates, discussed most intelligently the courses, and asked If we could not Introduce the' study of agriculture. The teachers he met seemed to be a great revelation. "I expected to find the mission aries as they are pictured in the Ber Hn newspapers," he said, "with long hair and hanging jaws, and hands clasped constantly in a prayerful at- tltude. But here is Dr. dates, talking Turkish like a native and acting like a man of the world. I am more than pleased,, and thank you for bringing me." We all saw Enver that, afternoon in his most delightful aspect My idea that this visit in itself would protect the colleges from disturbance proved to have been a happy one. The Turk ish empire has been a tumultuous place In the last four, years, but the American colleges have had ho diffi culties, either with the Turkish gov eminent or with the Turkish popu lace. . This visit was only an agreeable interlude in events of the most excit ing character. Enver. amiable as he could be on occasion, had deliberately determined to. put Turkey in the war on Germany's side. Germany had now reached the point where she no longer concealed her intentions. Once be fore, when I had interfered In the In terest of peace, Wangenheim had en couraged my action. The reason, as I have Indicated, was that, at that time, Germany bad wished Turkey to keep out of the war, for the German general staff expected to win without her help. But now Wangenheim wanted Turkey in. As I was not work ing in Germany's Interest,-but as I was anxious to protect American In stitutions I still kept urging Enver and Talaat to keep out. This made Wangenheim angry. "I thought that you were, a- neutral?" he; now ex claimed. ', ' ' ' t thought that you were in Tur key,'VI answered. -y,-J. ,-.. Toward - the end of October. Wan genheim was leaving nothing undone, to start hostilities;, all he needed now Was a favorable occasion.' v ' ' Even after Germany had closed the Dardanelles, the German ambassa dor's task Was not an easy. one. v Ta laat ;was not yet entirely 'convinced that his best policy wss war, and, as I have already iald,1 there :;was still plenty of pro-ally sympathy in offi cial quarters. It was Talaat's " plan hot to seUe all ths cabinet offices at once, but gradually to elbow his way into, undisputed control At this Crisis the most popularly respected mem bers of the ministry were DJavid, the minister of finance, a man who was Jewish by race, tnit a Mohammedan by religion; Mhmoud Pasha, minis ter ot public works, a Circassian,: Bu stany Effendl, : minister of commerce and agriculture, a Christian' Arab, and Oskan Effendi, minister of posts and telegraphs, , an Armenlan--and ' a Christian, of course. All these lead ers, as well as the grand vizier, openly opposed war and ' all now Informed Talaat and Enver. that they would', re sign If Germany succeeded In her. in trigues. Thus the- atmosphere was exciting; how tense the situation was a single episode will show; Sir Louis Mallet, - the British 1 ambassador, ' had acoepted an invitation to fline at . the American embassy on October 20, but he sent word at' the last moment that he t was. ill and could -not come, ; called on the ambassador an hour "or two afterward and found him, in his garden, apparently in the- best of 'health, v Sir : Louis smiled "and said that his Illness had been purely po litical. He' had received a letter tell, in a hint that he was to be asnassl- tutted, that eyenlrisVJhJ-.l-tterjnfprrn. t : : 1 i.-o, ar.J t: . ; '..t t'...t he As I hal na 1 1 s I i t:., oors. e. 11 t: 1 tr.i.r s doubt that some such crime had been planned, I oSerei Sir Loul3 the pro tection of our embawsy. I gave him the key to the back ftate of the gar den; and, with Lord Wellesley, one of his secretaries a descendant of the Duke of Wellingtons made all ar rangements for , his escape to our quarters In' case a flight became nec essary. Our twoeiabasstes were so located that, in the event of an at tack, he might go unMfvel from the back gate of his to the fcack gate of ours. ."These people(ar relapsing into the middle ages," sajji Sir Louis, "when it was quite the thing to throw ambassadors into dungeons," and I think that he anticipated that the present Turks might treat him In the same way.. I at ionce went to the grsTnd visler and informed him of the situation, insisting that nothing -less than a visit from Talaat to Sir Louis, assuring him' of his safety, would un- An tha harm aJraadV done.' I COUld t !5? JSglJZ w nau aircaaiy rami to take over British interests when the break came. . Within two hours Talaat made such a visit Though one of the Turkish newspapers .was printing scurrilous attacks on Sir Louis ha was nersonally very popular wlthT ths Turks, and the grand vliier expressed his amassment and regret r and he was entirely sincerethat such threats had been made. v (To b continued.) : ArShowhous ) Rex Beach at the Broadway. It is hard to know Just whsn the Broadway will reach the pinnacle, in its drive for big pictures. The man . ..m.ni announces that it has the best pictures on the market now under hi fnr this nonular photoplay-house, Today and Thursday it is showing a nicture which the larger cities pre- antait nt nrlces rancknK up to 11.60, at the regular Broadway prices, ' The Barrier," from the famous American torv hv Rex Beach. "The Barrier" bears the reputation of being the most dramatic picture ever shown on the ftrean ...The director of the picture hi tnit n treat care to sea that every n-ioh in 'he story by Mr. seacn nas c-m .ii , .va with such strength that the photop'ny is ven a bigger attrac tion, th. n the book itself, which has been mo-e widely read thn any other) of this author's works. The players in ; "The Barrier" were picked by Rex Beach himself, so , that even the, smallest parts are played by artists especially suited. At the Academy. This afternoon at S o'clock and to night at 7:45 and o'clock are tho only remaining opportunities to see the amusing program of Keith vaude ville and excellent pictures that Man ager Schofleld provided at the Acad emy of Music for the first half of the week. Those who have already seen this program and laughed at the ex traordinary funny antics of some of the performers, admired the clever-ness-and skill of others and enjoyed the grace and elegance displayed In the joy dance of Burns ft Jose, will know what to expect at the final three pref romances and all who like good vaudeville should see the . pro gram. ' Having said that much for the pres ent p u"i am, it is not amiss to look forward to the program Which Is to-be presented the last hair of the week. In order to celebrate the return of peace and the resumption of height-, of- the- season'' conditions at the Academy Manager Schofleld has pro vided a special program, which will have four -regulation" acts of Keith vaudeville and a musical comedy com pany. This company will, be headed CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends for the kindness shown us in the sickness and death of our dear mother, and for the beautiful flowers sent us. (Adv) THE QR1CB CHILDREN. Scalp Broke Out. 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