The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-25
4 Turkish Pa Sha.

Turks it is necessary to see them at
home. The one who has astonished
me most is certainly his HighnesS
Mustapha Fazyl Pasha, brother of the
Yiceroy of Egypt. He is known to
Parisians. They have seen his High
ness either upon the Italiens, or at
Baden, or at Hamburg. With US, he
was a man of the world, who amused
himself at home, Mustapha Fazyl
Pasha is Grand Seigneur indeed.
His house is much the most notable in
Constantinople. When | say his house,
it is figure of speech, for there is
not upon the two banks of the Bos-
phorus a palace vast enough to accom-
mOdate the suite of this Prince with
out throne, their Minister without
portfolio.
At Candilli, on the Asiastic side,
Mustapha Pasha has a palace of forty
windows front, where his HighnesS
lodges and feeds two hundred persons,
men, women. and eunuchs. Three or
four kilometres distant, on the heights
Of Tchamlidja; in another palace, he
has two hundred persons additional,
making four hundred, without taking
into account the Egyptian residence,
where the old d0meStlcS OF invaded
slaves end their days in a pleasant re-
treat.
In al, MuStapha FaZyl PaSha sup
ports five hundred persons every day,
and over and above these five hundred,
three hundred enrich themselves in
his service. To cite but one example,
[ will tell you only of a certain Nezir
Aga. In four years lie has won more
than l00,0 900 francs at the races in
Egypt; his stables are terror to the
sportsmen of the country.
And do you know who this famous
turtle really is? He is merely the
second chief of the eunuchS of the
harem of Caldilli.
Within the veStibule you will find
at all hours of the day twenty or thir-
ty servants, and each day you will per-
ceive figures not seen the day before.
In all there are fully q hundred at
tatched specially to the service Of the
Prince, without counting Jean, his
French valet-de-chambre a fine fell
low, who plays the highest stakes at
Hamburg, as we'll as his master.
What can all these persons do about
q prince, who, of all men on earth, is
the simplest person | know! Go to;
they earn their money well. Three
or four attend to carry a chibouk; and
there are half dozen to bring glass
of water one finds the silver plate,
another the glass, third the carafe,
a fourth the little silver spoon, q fifth
groanS under the burden of the sugar
hGcin xE-lI1n Tho CfrnI all
with bent arm.
You would naturally suppose that
servants thus occupied would relieve
one another many times IN the course
of day. When one of them has borne
pipe, he retires into his family, and
is served in turn by slaves; for all the
Wallets have their own slaves, living
also upon the llberalities of the prince.
The married men have their harems,
which they support with the prince s
money. They have their horses which
subsiSt on forage from their master S
stables. All these men live like lords,
and it is always the prince who re-
gales them. There is among them a
sort of freemasonry; instead of preju-
dicing one another, like European men
servants, they sustain one another.
When one Of the n has need of money,
the others make it evident. For a
week the same one presses the prince
until his Highness eXclaims:
Hold Hold my good fellow
You are indeed, sufficiently Jealous.
Then the servant assumes q melan-
choly air and speaks Of his wife and
children, and of the exceeding dear
ness of provisions for which he does
not pay and the Prince, who is quite
| certainly the best man [ know. smiles
and pays the debts of his domestic.
Tomorrow it is the turn of another,
and 50 on with the suite throughout
the year. In the lot there are men
who receive five or six thousand francs
for carrying glass of water, in the
course Of six months but how dis
miss them! If they are not old ser
wants, they are children born in the
| house; the father has served the faith
| er; the son clingS to the son the
| master does not regard them as domeS-
| tics; he has seen them grow up. They
are companions rather than lackeys,
and one has some respect for them.
| If the Prince, III moment of il
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all these people would die of hunger
Their master knows this, and, as he is
| an excellent man, he protects them
all, feeds them, educates them, buys
them houses when they marry, and
when the servant rejOices in the hap
piness Of paternity, tits still the Prince
who educates the children.
One cannot form an idea of all this
world moving about this great noble.
man Of the Orient. No one knows
| precisely how many persons Mustapha
Pasha feeds every day.
You see wandering III the passage
old servants waited upon by young
| ones, and young ones by little negroes
In the great waiting salon you will
find, at all hours of the day, whole
staff of young lords, each of whom has
his household, his valetS-de-chambre
his stables, and his grooms, and it is
always the Prince who supports them
This household amuses the Prince
who, for his personal service, would
be contented. if need were, with a sin
! gle Valet-de-Chambre Most of these