The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-15

ourselves through the crowd that as.
sembled itself more and more to the
place where they put to sell the wo-
men. To every group of women were
many persons who made to understand
that they wished to buy; but greater
than all other groups was one gathered
itself around young woman, half
nude, of fair skin and complexion,
who strove to shrink from the eyes Of
the people surrounding to hide within
herself her shame, and who was al.
ready desired of many at high price.
To my surprise beyond expression, Sir
s. R, of the English Embassy
attache. presents himself, in large
voice, a buyer of the beautiful slave,
and at the same moment, an official,
whom l recognized of the Austrian
Embassy, declares that he has obtain
ed the girl by fair purchase, and de.
mands her for his employer, for whom
he is commissionaire. l demonstrate
with my companion, but he is of the
English obstinate, and declares he will
not allow a woman so beautiful to be.
come slave, he having the intention
to present to her her freedom. For
me, do not believe he will so easily
leave her. and I fear for his own posi-
ton at the Embassy, should Milor the
Earl of c. hear of his subordinate
folly. He continues to offer largely
his money against the Austrian, who,
at the end whispers to us that he buys
for the Czarowitz. Fatal words My
friend declares that he will give his
partrimony for the girl, but that
the Prince shall never succeed to
obtain her. He RACES at this; he
frightens the Austrian official, he pays
the money he has named and causes to
be taken away the girl" The diary
then goes on to deal with other mat.
tiers, but we learn farther on that Sir
S-R--had the girl conveyed to a
cottage, on the Therapia side, where
she lived making many English friends
and where, not many years ago, she
ended her days. The young English
attache, yielding to the spell Of the
Albanian beauty, remained sometime
in the East, and then. returning to
England rose from one post to another,
until he became Ambassador to Con.
stantinople, when the fiery passion of
youth has softened down to an affec.
tionate friendship for the occupant of
the cottage among the fig-trees at
Therapia. But the anger engendered
between the young Englishman and
the Russian Prince by the open antag-
onism displayed by the former in the
slave market, and the disappointment
of the latter, deepened into positive
hatred. The Englishman being named
in after years for the Embassy to St.
Petersburg, the Prince, who had in
the interval become the Gear, refused
to receive him, and in consequence,
during a long series of years, the
personal quarrel between the Emperor
and the diplomatist was fought over
the shoulders of the Turk. In every
trihing wish, as well in every serious
plan bearing upon the policy of the
East, the Gar found the Turk guided
by the advice of his English rival,
while the latter succeeded in creating
in Europe and particularly in En-
gland "a sentiment Of jealousy and dis
trust towards Russia. Fretting under
his diplomatic failures, the Gar de-
termined that by the conquest of Tur.
key, if no other means were sufficient,
should his influence at Constantinople
outweigh that of the man he hated. It
was this that led to the propositions
made by Prince Menchikoff, in 1853
under cover of the squabble about the
keys of the holy places, eventuating in
the Crimean War, the fall of Sevasto.
pol, the death of the Gear, and the re-.
cording of the final triumph of the
former attache. Curiously enough,
the Albanian girl, then an old lady well
known to English travellers in the East
died on the day on which the peace
after the Crimean War was signed,
and her body rests by the waters Of
the Bosphorus in tomb surmounted
by cross placed there by the direct
ions Of her former liberator and lover.
One child of this stolen love remains
alive. He was an officer in the Turk
ish Contingent in the Crimea, and now
commands an Albanian corps operat-
ing on the Drina against the Russian
General Tchernayotf. The now veter-
an diplomatist moves no more on the
scene, but the sentiment of Conserva-
tive English statesmen towards Russia
and her views in Eastern Europe was,
if not created by him, at least so long
and carefully fostered that the atti-
tude assumed by Europe at the present
moment, an attitude that poses these
two great European rivals on the brink
of war, is the natural and inevitable
result of the Englishman's labor and
the outcome Of his fancy for the pref
ty Albanian girl.
How Frederick the Great Cured q Prima
Donna.