Photo by Stephen Van R. Trowbridge 

 ROILING OUT BREAD AS THIN AS BLOTTING-PAPER AND BAKING IT ON A DISC OF 



SHEET-IRON 



This is the universal custom of baking- unleavened bread in Turkish homes 



out in Turkey a revolution, in which all 

 the revolutionary societies of the country 

 joined with the Young Turk party to 

 overthrow Abdul Hamid and establish a 

 constitution. 



A TOUCHING EAITH 



The enthusiastic belief of the Arme- 

 nians in this movement was very touch- 

 ing. In the halcyon days that followed 

 the announcement of the constitution, 

 priest and imam went together to place 

 flowers on the graves of massacred Ar- 

 menians. One of the illustrious exiles 

 who returned to Constantinople was the 

 venerable Armenian patriarch Ismirlian. 

 As his boat came through the Marmora 

 it was met by thousands of little boats 

 coming out to welcome him. When they 

 drew in sight of Seraglio Point, where 

 the waters of the Bosphorus meet the 

 Marmora, Ismirlian said solemnly : "Let 



us kneel and pray over the graves of our 

 dead. Here below us in the Marmora 

 lie thousands. Let us pray God for their 

 souls !" and, kneeling, he led his sobbing 

 people in prayer. 



Many an intelligent Armenian went 

 eagerly to the new Turkish parliament as 

 delegate from his hopeful people. It was 

 an Armenian who wrote the song of 

 freedom called "Fatherland." One of 

 the most moving sights of that wonder- 

 ful day when the first parliament met 

 was a body of several hundreds of Ar- 

 menians marching through the streets of 

 Stamboul singing this song of "Father- 

 land ;" they who for a thousand years 

 had not been allowed to feel that they 

 had any fatherland. 



An attempt to break down the civil 

 inequalities of the population of the em- 

 pire was made. All citizens henceforth 

 were to take the name of Ottomans, and 



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