The War Cry . friends are all in-vited. These friends usually come,and a great many others besides, fora lunch. Is served, and no one who buy these little girls in order to makemoney. They know that after a fewyears]! if they are taken good care of,and It they are attractive, they maybe sold to some wealthy woman for avery high price. An Unusual Race. There is very little music inTurkey, for their tunes are very un-like ours. They are usually eitherverv wild or very sad airs, and arepitched in a high, unusual, key. Ifone ihould meet on the street orroad, or in a cafe, any one who ishumming or
The War Cry . friends are all in-vited. These friends usually come,and a great many others besides, fora lunch. Is served, and no one who buy these little girls in order to makemoney. They know that after a fewyears]! if they are taken good care of,and It they are attractive, they maybe sold to some wealthy woman for avery high price. An Unusual Race. There is very little music inTurkey, for their tunes are very un-like ours. They are usually eitherverv wild or very sad airs, and arepitched in a high, unusual, key. Ifone ihould meet on the street orroad, or in a cafe, any one who ishumming or singing softly to him-self, he will nsually be repeating theword, Aman, Aman! which meansOh, dear! And he will run up anddown the scale repeating that oneexpression in a sad Bondage of Kismet. The Moslem regards calamitieswith stoical indifference. He firmlybelieves that God has planned theway all things are to go, and that wecannot do anything to remedy misfortune overtakes him, he *$&if:-. - Promoted to Glory, mrs. a. Mcdonald, of new ABERDEEN. u New Aberdeen.—Mrs. Archie Mc-Donald has gone to her reward. The A Turkish Pedlar. comes is turned away. None of thevisitors, however, take the leastnotice of the baby, and are not sup-posed to steal more than a glance atit. If some of the ladies do notice thelittle one, they throw up their handsand say, Nasty, ugly little thing!or some other similar expression. Thereason for this Is that the Turks be-lieve that certain people have anevil-eye which brings ralsfortuue,failure, and death to any one theymay envy or be displeased with, soto show they do not envy the baby,or are not jealous of the mother, theycall the youngster ugly names. Afterthis, they cannot he accused of caus-ing the little ones death, In case Slaves. Tn T-irkcy 2re sasy ^a »iiu arelargely girls. Some years ago, theSultan tried to destroy the slavetrade In the country, but to day, littlegirls of other nationalities, and evenof Turk
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