ngary. When the Magyars proclaimed
Arpad their first King, the Turul perched upon his forehead. Two of
these low value stamps have been, with modifications and overprint,
adapted for selling as war charity postage stamps (_Fig._ 261) at 5 +
2 filler, and 10 + 2 filler. The war inscriptions read "HADI SEGELY"
(War Relief) and on label at the foot, obliterating the original
inscription, "OZVEGYEKNEK ES ARVAKNAK KET (2) FILLER" (for the widows
and orphans two filler). The next illustration (_Fig._ 262) is a
charity postcard from Hungary bearing one of the war relief stamps.

[Illustration: 260 261]

TURKEY. The coming of the Young Turk has completely changed the aspect
of Turkish stamps. They have robbed the collector of a rare illusion,
and we owe them a grudge for it. The picturesque fancies which we
treasure in our memories as the children store up the fables of the
nursery, are dear to us children of a larger growth. But our love of
fantastic lore suffers many a shock. Ever since the first stamps of
the Sublime Empire appeared in the reign of Abdul Aziz, on whom be
Peace, we collectors of stamps (on whom there can be no Peace, for in
stamps there is constancy but in change) have nourished a fond fancy
that pictures and portraits are forbidden to the Muslim, and that
Allah, who is great, and his prophet, Muhammed, have set the Curse
upon such works of Satan.

[Illustration: 262]

Much has been written by philatelists, as well as by Muhammedan
scholars, upon the subject, and the continued philatelic fidelity to
the _Thoughra_ (the Sultan's sign manual) on the Turkish stamps has
ingrained into collectors the belief that the Turks would never
depart from their reading of the law as set forth by Muhammed in this
particular. The verse which, in the Koran, sets forth the alleged
prohibition is transcribed:--

O believers! surely wine and games of chance, and statues, and
the divining arrows are an abomination of Satan's work! Avoid
them that ye may prosper.

The wise men of the East, who have drunk deep of the streams of wisdom
that flow from the Book of Warnings, have read many different
meanings into the verse, and in Turkey it has been taken to imply the
forbidding of all figures, and even the ruminative game of chess is
barred by the strict Muslim. We, of Christian faith, would appear to
have a more emphatic prohibition of the making of pictures in the
translation of the Mosaic law:--

And God sp