Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-25
Dear Bread in COnstantinOple.

We are in the midst of money panic.
The theory Of a paternal Government is
that it should act on communistic princi.
plies to the extent of providing bread for
the people at reasonable price. The
production of bread is under severe re.
strictions, and the Government daily
pouhces on ambulant brcad-men to weigh
their loaves and to confscate the stock
if one loaf is under weight. But gold
has gone up 30 per cent. in twenty-four
hours, and the wisest precautions Of the
fathers Of the faithful have failed. Men
went hungry to bed last night because
the bakers will not take paper money,
whose value will shrink 10 per cent. while
the bread is baking. I saw a Turkish
girl Of nineteen or twenty, standing near
bakers shop yesterday with wrath in
her eye. Her veil had fallen, and SO, in
fact, had her outer mantle. Her face was
finely moulded, her eye black as jet. Her
checks were flushed with excitement, and
her rostrils were dilated. The trouble
was that she has been able to earn five
piastres day with which to buy bread
tor her mother, two small children and
herself. At the beginning Of the war
bread was one and three quarter piastres
per oke, and it required two okes of
bread every day for the family. As the
paper deprecated, the price of bread was
increased, but her wages remained five
piastres a day, as before. Yesterday the
poor girl was informed by the baker that
the price of bread had been raised to five
piastrcs the oke. Still she earns only five
piastres per day. Unfortunately she is
not the only victim to 1.-THE times" The
suffering In the city has become very
great, and fear that in the country it
may be much worse, even in regions dis
tant from the seat Of war. At Erzeroum
the people are almost starving. Flour is
five times the ordinary price, and the
poor suffer doubly because no fuel is to
be had. Many have fed, but the COM
mon people cannot ee.-Constantinople
Letter in the N. Y. Tribune.
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speeches OF Bonaparte were lucid and
sparkling; they were concise, vigorous,
full Of power and sense, but wanting in
feeling. The impression excited by this
young man was painful admiration: the
mind was dazzled by the superiority Of
his talents, but the heart felt oppressed.
There was not to be found in him spy
trace OF that generous magnanimity that
forestalls confidence, and forms the moot
besatiful feature in the character Of he
roes. Among the personages
met In the different scenes Just described.
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