, 1886-07-04

bnth, or next year, according to
circtfhstances-never at once. To dispatch
a thing and be done with 1t, TO "hurry up"
seems to be utterly impossible to the
Persian, who is lavish Of nothing so much
as OF time. You give your servant, for in
stance, a tchibouk TO be mended, and tell
him you must have it back
repaired next morning. Your servant
knows he will "get fits" II he does not at
tend to it at once, and that he will proba-
bly, get q little present If he does. The
pipemaker across the street keeps a little
shop, and has a large aud hungry family
at home to keep out of the very slender
profits of his trade. He knows, too, he
will be paid thrice the ordinary price II he
does the job at once-enough to keep the
pot bling for his entire family for one
day Vt least. Still, SO ingrained is the
policy of tarliness with both these gentle
men hat you are mighty lucky If you get
your tchibouk back in a week
ALEssoN IN PATIENCE.
The other day l had business at the cen
trail postotfice here. l wanted to register
five letters and buy postage stamps for
eight other oneN entered the little office
eight feet by TENN which the registra-
ton Of letters is performed. Four pstive
gentlemen, seated around a huge table, on
which stood a clumsy scale, were extremely
busy doing nothing; or, rather, they chat
ted and took pulls by rotation from a COM
mon ghatyan. The chief came in at this
5uncture-a very handsome but somewhat
foppish-looking man-tow whom | was intro
duced. The chief sat down and made the
fifth in this happy gathering. l told them
l was in a hurry and wished to have my
letters registered and to buy l6 kerauns'
worth of stamps. They could not under
stand how | could be in a hurry. They
were very polite and amiable, and talked
pleasantly, but it took ten minutes OF my
%eloquence to induce one of the quartette
to let up on his ghatyan and tend to bust
ness, and it took me just forty minutes to
have my letters registered and to buy
those stamps. The latter he counted over
at least a score of times, very slowly and
delib -ately, before he consented to release
his hoii on them. 1t was not cussedness
on his part it was just his natural love
of doing things slowly. His chief sat
there and evidently thought his clerk a
very rash and suspiciously active young
man. And for a Persian the young fellow
had really been quick about 1t.
Many observant Europeans whom ]
have met here nave assured me that the
Persian is capable of assimilating western
culture and ideas. They tell me they com
prehend things very quickly and learn
faster than an average American would.
They believe that Persia is destined to
form the entering wedge in Central Ash.
attic barbarism and to transform the face
Of this part of the globe SO it will look
again what 1t must lave looked like at
the til V OF which Xenophon wrote ia his
Anaba j. But in my humble judgment
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character OF the people here change mate.
rally. For no nation which is so intern.
ally slow, which luxuriates In studying
the science of show not to do it, will ever
succeed in this quickly moving world Of
ours. They'd be left leagues and leagues
behind fll the times.-Teheran Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.