Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-24
THE CASE OF A PIPE.

20, Katey the idea Of keeping a
pipe on your drawing-room table ~
The speaker was a bright-eyed girl
of seventeen, who was enjoying that
great delight of looking over her
married cousins pretty things ; and
the lady, who had the greater one
of showing them-a bride of two
months, just installed III her new
home-replied, with happy dignity
worthy of the situation,
1T is not pipe, May-only pipe
case
sBut,n persisted tine first speaker,
"the idea Of keeping the nasty thing
IL such lovely crystal casket, and
among all your wedding presents ~
.'Ifit had not been for it | should
never have been married, May,
and consequently should have had
no wedding presents. There is no.
thing in the house, until Fred comes
home, that 1 prize SO much as that
old broken pipe-case."
20, katey, do tell why"
"Well,. dear, take of your bonnet
and ring for tea, and if have time
before Fred returns, | will tell you
the story.
w men YOU W tEt dbFbdd, utdI,
the year before last, papa was oblig-
ed 10 go to ConstantinOple to make
the Turks pay some money they
owed him. They had hired one OF
his steamers to carry soldiers and
stores to Crete, and after knocking
hcr about, and half-spoiling her, they
said she was not what they wanted,
aud refused To pay, and this after
ha2 / nnnft lrlsnYx- hos
much in fitting her up according to
their orders. 1t was horribly I'M
just, Of course but then | think il
served papa quite right for helping
to Cypress those poor Cretans.
After good deal OF persuasion
| got papa To take me with him, and
o, it was so delightfully."- strange aad
new Our room at Missierl's Hotel
had bay-window looking out into
The Grande Pera, and when paps
was away on business | have sat
there for hours watching the people
people, as ii seemed, of every nation
III the world, and every class o
every nation-as they passed by il
their picturesque dresses. If were
to talk for an hour | could not Civ.
you list, much less 4 description. o
the queer living flood which flow ul
and down that narrow street. Their,
j. only one better place for gape-seed
aud that is on the bridge over the
Golden Horn but there a lady can.
not stop to look about her, the
tlIrong is so great.
1T was at Missieri's Hotel that
first met my husband He sat mex
10 papa at the tablC d'hotC, and. be
ing able To speak little Turkish
went with us sometimes To the ba.
zaar, and to see the mosques, unit
we became quite intimate. Paps
used 10 go down To the Porte, ttht
government oilicesl twice a week
until the hot season came, and w,
mIgrated-as all who can do-to the
Bnsphorus. May, dear, 1 have reat
almost all the books about Constant
nople, and rs eleveTer people than
nave tried and failed To do Justice {,
That lovely Strait, | will not attempt
To picture il for you. We came bach
tf0 Trieste, saw Naples, the best o.
the Swiss lakes, and the Rhine but
the Bosphorus, the beautiful blu,
Bosphorus, when the Judas-tree i.
nfull bloom among the dark cypress
and Mount Olympus has not yet los
ms crown of snow, is, To my mind, tn,
gem of all, although associated Will
the terrible adventure l ann going Il
tell YOU
I'VE put up ut the Therapia Hotel
II the Black Sea end, near Bayak
dcrlc, where most of the European
ambassadors have summer-houses
and nearly opposite a place on tn,
A-siactic shore called tnkiar Eskeli
;tsle, tthe Sultan's valley, a favorit,
spot for picnics. There * no villag,
there, only prcposterous, marbl,
kiosk, built bya viceroy of Egypt,
principally, / believe, 10 show
how much money he could waste
tut the valley is very pretty, Will
turf almost like an English lawn
shaded 10y great trees, and watere,
~ little tinkling stream full @
hame-like ferns and water-fiow erS.
We went To the picnic-rather Al
oxer-grown atiair-and when we ha,
done dinner, the English division
went wandering about into the coun
try. At siX O'Clock Fred and | foun.
ourselves alone, somehow or other
on the banks Of the little rivulet
cannot think how Il was that W
Gid not notice the disappearance q
papa and the rest OF our party, am,
that il was growing dark. There /
no twilight on the EoSphoruS. 1t i
broad daylight now and night in tel
minutes. Time passed on rapidly
and yet we We're not talking abou
anything very PARTICULAR ut least
not thca q May, how shocked "
were when we returned To th
ianding-place and found all the boat
gone !'
at was shocking Of them To leav
sau behind. said little May, wit
Indignation.
They did not mean any harm ;
MAS one OF those mistakes which :
often make big picnics end badly
fapa-who was nearly left" benin
himself through hunting after US
Vas told that | had gone off in tn
FIRST boat with the Cousul-genera
and his wife and SO he took a pas
sage with the captain of the Station
naire, who was going 10 land ffien
1T Behet, and then return u las shi
II Therapia.
Every boat had left; there wa
not even caique,.m sight. There Wa
nothing To be done but In walk {
the nearest village distance I
two miles-and hire one.
Ion the road we met two Arnauts
<sicketi-Iooking creatures as ever
saw and Fred, not feeling sure &
dis way, asked them five were goin
eight. f.yet, etfendi, Yes, gentl,
man, said the smaller and better
iookin. Of the two sad SO we hurr
al on. We had not gone more tina
three or four hundred yards ghe
We heard some one running after Ii:
and shouting for Us IL stop. Ii wa
the other man, who, half in word:
haifin gestures, told Us that hi
friend had not understood Fred