Daily Republican., 1882-09-19
ACIrCasAI0n Beauty.

| n OHNOeoHh~AA DD0uNys
The Sultan of Turkey has presented
General Lew Wallace, the American
Minister, with beautiful Circassian
girl-Press dispatch.
Tui5 Is all that the modest telegraph
consented to say about the occurrence,
the San Francisco Wasp found ever 40
much more to be told. Tue fact Is that
Mrs. Wallace was sitting at the front
window Of her Constantinople house,
on the verge of going down to tle
baZ4r for some embroidered stutf4 TO
send home, when q cavalcade drew up
before the door, huge ernuch, array
cd in the Saltan's livery, knocked at
the door aud slam med, and then two
eunuchs size smaller brought in and
deposited upon the inside doormat a
big-eyed, beautiful Circ Assian girl,
whose lustrous Orbs and sparkling
jewels were but little obscured by the
tlmy gauze yelling that covered hor
from head tu foot. Mrs. Wallace stared
at the girl in dumb astonishment.
"What do you want?" she said.
The girl shook her head.
"Mustaby, Mustaby?" cried Mrs.
Wallace sharply. "What does this
mean"
Mustaby came from the floor below,
where he had been polishing some
knives with Bristol brick. He dropped
knife and brick when he caught sight
of the visitor.
"Ab, Ah," he calculated with salts
/ c TO-, as he saw the imperial insignia;
".J is a present. 1t is magnificent
present. His highness has smiled upon
my master and has sent him his choic
est slave"
"And what is bis choicest slave 60
ing to do In this house, would like to
know" continued Mrs. Wallace, with
vinegary gleam Of sarcasm.
She will bring my masters coffee to
him when he awakes in the morning
and affectiOnately suDerintend his
mornings ablutiOns."
"She will, will sho?" remarked Mrs.
Wallace, as she gifted her teeth very
hard. "She will aft ctionately superin.
tend his morning ablutions, will she?"
and she stealthily ingured brio "a brac
cimetar and glared at the offending
Present.
Then she walked straight up to the
beauty on the door-nat, pointed her
index finger out the front door and re-
marked: go 'wayP
The Present stared at her stupidity.
"Go way, I tell you. You're a
a respectable family in this way"
The Present did not look as though
she had done anything particularly in
famous, and showed no disposition to
move.
Mrs. Wallace could contain herself
no longer. she few at the Present,
grabbed it by the shoulder, aud was
hustling it down the stairs when Cen
eral Wallace came around the corner
rather flushed from rapid walking.
He took in the situation at q glance.
ooh Lewis!" cried his wife, with a
accumulated horror; did You ever hear
of such thing?"
Lewis did not look horrifed though
he evidently was. He evidently had
heard of such things, for there was
doubtful look on his face. Finally he
said:
l don't think, Maria, that 1 would
put it out into the street. It's not to
blame you know.
There was faint snap in Mrs. Wal.
lace's eyes, but she nodded and lured
him on further.
"You see it's present, and you
cant give away q present you know. If
we could send 1t back, saying we had
no use for it, or that we had one al
ready and couldn't he make it some
thing else, it would be the best way.
You have to consult custom and ed-
quette in these things you know, my
dear"
"Y.e s." said Mrs. W, with sin.
lister sW eetness in her compliance.
"Besides," he continued as he care.
lessly took hold of the Presents hand
and began stroking the Presents brow
in a gentle and fatherly way. 81 don't
really know if it would be safe to send
it back at all. You see thee foreign
Powers are mighty touchy, and don't
know but If was to send this Present
back and turn up my nose at 1t in such
way they might be mad enough to
declare war on the United States right
off and massacre US all"
"You would, would you," remarked
mrb. WAllaC0 IN d VOICE llho bno uISb
rumblings of rising typhoon. "Fraid
to send it back are you, you bald. head
cd old fraud | 'Fraid of international
complications are you, you salacious
old wretch Now you can just under
stand this, sir, and right now. If that
Present does not go back to that old
beast that sent it in less than ten min-
utes I'll show you what kind of a Bull
garian atroc!ty you're married to. I'll
show yCu," she Missed as she flew at
the Present and inaugurated panic in
dry goods and hair pins and Circassian
squeals that made protests, and finally
Mysteries, az General Wallace called
cab, and packed the girl off at hot
speed.
Then he went in and caught it,
caught it so hot that he remarked to
the Vice Consul that sooner than 60
through the like again no would see |
the whole continent bathed in blood |
and the American eagle bombarded un-
til it hadn't pin feather to its name.