San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-30
IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
SOME OF THE STRANGE SIGHTS
SEEN IN ITS STREETS.

The TurI.'s Fee and Funny Trousers.
Crooked Streets and the Dogs Thereof
Shops and Peddlers of All Sorts-Driv-
ing a Bargain.
One of the first things you will notice is
the fez, worn by all the Turks 1t is a red
felt cap with no visor, with a fiat top and
black silk tasseL Turkish law requires every
male subject Of the sultan to wear this kind
of a. cap. The men wear very funny trousers.
Tbsre are no close fitting pantaloons, such as
men wear in America; but loose, baggy con-
trivances, which look Like two large bags
fastened together at the top. These are
gathered around the waist with colored
girdle, which is sometimes very handsome.
The streets are not much better than our
narTowest alleys, and so crooked and dirty!
We such not enjoy living in such streets, and
business would be quite impossible. You
never met 50 many dogs before They are
big, yellow animals, and live in the streets.
They have no owners but shift for them
selves as well as Bhey can You will STUN
bic over them if you are not careful, for they
seem to think that the street belongs to them
selves They lie down anywhere, before a
shop or in the middle of the street, and evil
IDENTIFY expect US to turn out for them. These
dogs organize themselves into bands, and
zach company has its own district. 1t is dan
gorous for a dog TO lsave his proper territory,
and he is likely TO pay dearly for trespaSsinS
within his noighborS limits
CASDE GENEROSITY.
Tho dogs are generous TO each other. At
the soldisrs' barracks tie dogs receive tho
Fragments Atss every neal One day when
the food was brought ouS only two dogs were
in kght Thses might have had grand
feast by shsInsslvss They did not take a
nouihfnl, but started OF nj full speed in op-
posiss directions. Soon their barking sum-
noaed the whole pack, and they ste their
dinner together.
know you will laugh Al Sha shops IN Con-
s:an.inople. They are net like the beautiful
stores you have seen ia our cities, with large
plate glass show windows and long rows Of
elegant souatexs. In Constananople the
principal stores are in bazaars. Those
bazaars are large ono story buildings, with
streets running through them in every direo-
ton. On each sids Of these ssresss are the
little shops. Tho floor is about two feet
above tbs street, and the owner usually sits
Oh the floor with his logs crossed under him.
ne room Is sulal, 70 InSS no can reach
many OF his goods without rising. As we
pass along we can look in at ths various
shops and examine their goods.
Let Us stop at this dry goods store. As
soon as the man sees US looking as his goods,
he takes his pipe from his mouth and begins
to chatter away in vary Gvsly fashion,
showing uS some piece Of goods. II YOU show
any desire to make purchase, he will name
a high price, and pretend he Is giving you
tho artistic II you offer a much smaller sum
he will fold up the cloth and put it away
with gesture Of horror. Whsn you turn
away, however, be will call you back and
take your own price or else make a new of1eS
much below TIE first
TIE cARPBSrE1S SHOP.
One OF the stranssst places is the carpenter
shop. Here You will see . man seated on tho
floor behind a turning lSthA Instead Of
using a trSaGls as our workman do, be hGs q
bow and string which he draws back and
forth with his right hand, and 50 makes the
wheel rsvolvs. He holds tho ehissl in his
left hand aud presses it against the wood with
his bare toes. Is that not strange way to
use a turning lathei
You might think. whore the stores ara sa