200 HENRY HILL GOODELL 



As a rule, the Turk will be found to be honest and truth- 

 ful, and living up to the command laid down by Mahomet 

 in the earlier days of his inspiration : " When thou hast given 

 thy word, stand fast by it, and let the words of thy mouth 

 be even as thy written agreement." Of the other races we 

 cannot say as much. The Jews, as in all ages, are the 

 money-getters, and live and thrive in their quarters, as in 

 the Ghetto of Rome, in a squalor and filth that would 

 quickly exterminate any other race. The Greeks are shrewd 

 and enterprising, but the characterization of the Cretans by 

 St. Paul is no inapt description of their character: "The 

 Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." Their 

 own countryman, Euripides, even before the time of the 

 apostle, wrote: "Greece never had the least spark of hon- 

 esty"; and Lord Byron, twenty centuries after, one of the 

 most enthusiastic in their cause, exclaims: "I am of St. 

 Paul's opinion, that there is no difference between Jews and 

 Greeks — the character of both being equally vile." 



The Armenians, on the other hand, are a purer, simpler 

 race, retaining much of that individual nationality which 

 made them formidable in the days of the Romans. But 

 contact with the outer world — with the foreigners pouring 

 into Turkey — is changing their character for the worse. 

 It need hardly be said that the farther you go from the capi- 

 tal and the large cities, the simpler and more innocent the 

 lives of the people. 



In nothing is this difference of nationality so strikingly 

 manifested as in the cemeteries. The Turks plant theirs 

 with the cypress, and at the head of a grave where a man is 

 buried, a stone is erected crowned with a turban, or, in more 

 recent times, with the national emblem — the fez. At the 



