Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-08-24

and charcoal, is more efficaciOuS than
any other proceeding with more mod.
ern disinfectants (3) that the use OF
carbolic vapor for disinfecting pur'
poses should be abandoned, owing to
The relative feebleness and uncertain.
ty of its action.
A Turkish Pasta.
Albert Wolff writes to the Courier
des Etats Unis: To understand the
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
Viceroy of Egypt. He is known to
Parisians. They have seen his High.
ness either upon the Italiens, or at
Baden, or at Hambourg. With us, he
was man of the world, who amused
himself; at home, Nlustapha Fazyl
Pasha is a Grand Seigneur indeed.
His house is much the most notable in
Constantinople. When say his house,
it is a figure of speech, for there is
not upon the two banks of the Bos.
phorus palace vast enough to accom-
modate the suite of this Prince with
out throne, their Minister without a
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 domestics or lnvalided
slaves end their days in pleasant re-
treat.
In all, 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,
I will tell you only of a certain Nezir
Aga. In four years he has won more
than 100000 francs at the races in
Egypt; his stables are a 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 Candilli.
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 Il hundred at.
tatched specially to the service of the
Prince, without counting Jean, his
French valet-de-chambre, fine fell
low, who plays the highest stakes at
Hamburg, as we'll as his master.
What can all these persons do about
a prince, who, of all men on earth, is
the simplest person I know! Go to;
they earn their money we'll. Three
or four attend to carry 4 chibouk and
there are half dozen to bring a glass
of water one finds the silver plate,
another the glass, third the carafe,
a fourth the little silver spoon, a fifth
groans under the burden of the sugar
basin, while the stronger carries all
with bent arm.
You would naturally suppose that
servants thus occupied would relieve
one another many times in the course
of a day. When one of them has borne
a 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 liberalities of the prince.
The married men have their Aarems,
which they support with the princes
They have their horses which
subsist on forage from their masters
All these men live like lords,
and it is always the prince who re.
gales them. There is among them
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 melan.
,holy 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
the best man I know, smiles
md pays the debts of his domestic.
Tomorrow it is the turn of another.
md 50 on with the suite throughout
;he 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
ar companions rather than lackeys,
and one has some respect for them.
If the Prince, in moment of i'll
temper, should turn them out of doors,
all these people would die of hunger
Their master knows this, and, as lie 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, It's 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 MustapLa
Pasha feeds every day.
You see wandering in 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.