Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-05-07
The Sultan Of r'urEey-Ets Wives
and Dornestlcs.


Of the New York Eepress, isin Turkey
and has seen the Sultan. An account
Of the adventure is incorporated IN q
letter published il the Express last
"Wednesday evening, and We repro
duce it below:
The Turks Sunday is our Friday
Three Sabbaths Of three strong reiig-
ions here come on three dnIereht days,
one following the other-thc Jews on
Saturday and ours on Sunday-and
they make il business much confusion,
] have just been to the gate Of the
Turks church-(he didn't let Chris
tians in on Friday)-to see the Sultan
enter the Mosque. Kings, Queens,
Empcrors, / have seen often-they are
nothing new-but q Sultan, & live Sui
tan, n Sultan with thee or four h2e}-
dred women, 4 don't know how ma" +,
who does ? the lineal successor Of the
Prophet, 'thc Vicar Of God, " "tho Ref
uge Of the World,;' ''the Shadow Of
God" }" ''the Father all the Sovereigns
Of the Earth" I,72oe3C III Nu85o132ja,-
who would not 60 from New York 70
ConStanti0op]e to see al that? Well,
] have seen hiu1 today. [ have been
within cightfset Of him. Uthcre is any
Inspiration in him, / aca al over per
fumed with Husiern glory.
Tie Sultan is now IS years DID,
and he does not look much older, but
he does look as if he had been wearied,
and worried, and tcasel, and coud5e0
into shadow Of q man by his Harem.
The Sultan only has seven bona tide
wives,-that Is, wives who have the
privilege Of producing an heir to the
throne. (They are called Kadiues,
and when the Sultan dies, can never
re-marry.) But the Sultan has a whole
regiment Of other pretty women, the
prettiest that can be found in Circassia,
or Georgia, Or elSewhere:-and if Perry
gossip be true, his heart is soft, his ma
ture is kind, and they give him : 'Eorl1
of trouble. They run him into debt,
and though he forbid it, and sweaTs be
won't pay, yet pay he does, almost to
his ruin. It is not a wonder, then,
that, with harem Of such women, he
looks wearicd and worried,-fo if one
wife, in our land, employs and occupies
man, what can no better man do here,
with several real wives, and little army
of wives lust as real in point Of fact =?
Nearly the whole haren was out, to-
dav - see him. or to attend him e,s
,.n,,fo floro his Palace on the BosDhorns
- +bn aSona 1Tnaar bv The curiosity
IF NV nr6{assi1n to sav nothing of NV
c,,';cs;Fv IS . man. was pioued to the
,,t,,ost - soa into the cIzr5aired car
,,;ag ofthis thus publicly exposed har-
a,,, wa1ka1 then. and Of course. re-
vall-od IN and down, to steal 3 look Or
= stare wbsreyer It was possible. The
vasllma31 their veil of muslin, leaves
+he;r blark ewes ali ont to human Wis
ion % md thin a. the cauze often is, we
have . GOOD look at the mouth and chin.
tThon T had fhe baaeft Of Some Europ-
can ladieS in NV company, whose bare
boadad m hats a,d annie booDs were as
(rreot q cnriosity to The ladies Of the
Hsran1s os their vas}znaks, and flow
49, 1>r' r,,hos . woro to me. Thus it was
80 ,,$a7r,ar,,s stare a~.;nst vonan's stare.
anJ the natural CURIOSITY Of European
and ASiatic women, cave me as good
on oDnortnni4v to see the pent up Beau
t;ns 10 - # Conatantinor1e IS any Gia0uy
;s ;s0; l;ISaIv -, ever To- have WAS not struck
bl;n5 ,'1e ~ se eev % orpr m dazzling Iuminary.
The T'LI'I avss We wSre often quite killing, but
tha~a NV 2,~,s not hat sonI in them, that
ro5;at;no ro5ia ~ intolI;oanre ~ which can spar.
1'1 ,S1' 's'Si" .,I a,, ,vr' r. nn1t;,.atnd mind
bs,tt' d. oHJ anl1aI let ~ fbor,,1;,r nIavthincs
10y "ol.o '.' ,:i5.7 ,,,9el;nS ot
a. lt1,el.p -a III (io ;aon3s S1,r9 - oftoIconda
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