Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-30

AMI her lovely, lustrous eyes. She was
picked up at eleven by a slave dealer
from the Turkish capital, WHO paid for
her the unusually high price of 100 pias-
tres. lie took her to ConstantlnOple
aud put her on exhibition after the fash
ion still prevalent in that city, although
no LANCER couutenuuced 10y law. The
dealer does not 30 INTO open market and
he does rot call in tbs public Like
dealer in high class paintings or statuqry
he has his line of customers and extends
10 them u special invitation. They come
and view the human chatiel aud the
highest bidder
CARRIES OFF THE PRIZE.
These sales are going on all the time in
COustantinople, aud the government
wiuks ut them, while TO Western ears
protesting horror Of slavery.
DraZ Pacha, at that time governor of
KArpoot, in Asia Minor, was on visit
to ConstantiuopIe on summons from
the sultun. 10 explain some discrepgn-
cies in the revenue returns from his pro-
vince. the discrepancies being that Dlraz
w8s waxing rich ami the returns in the
way of revenue 10 the imperin! treasury
were getting poor. Such condition of
affairs was all sufficient fer the sultan
examination of accounts and details.
the Turkish ruler had no objection TO
DiraZ Pacha robbing somebody; but II
must not be the sultan. Consequently
Diraz was in disgrace, and appreheusive
of something worse, when he had the
good fortune to be invited to see young
Circassian slave. Her rare beauty i'm
pressed DiraZ, as it impressed every body
else. He bid an eXtravagaut price and won
the girl. That same AFTERNOON she WAS
on the way TO the sultan $ palace, n gift
of the delinquent governor of karpoot.
Diraz Pacha went tack 10 his post u week
later with clean biil of health. From
The first the fair CirCassian fascinated
Abdul axe, and from an artless child of
the mountains she became as active an
intriguer as any inmate of the harPm.
Powerful officers feared her influence,
and former favorites learned TO hate
her. She used her power not always
discreetlv, and it was obvious that it
weakened the sultan in the opinion of
his subjects; for
TIE TURK Is EMINENTLY JEALOUS
Hs well Us contemptuous of feminine in
terferauce i'll state affairs. the over
throw of Abdul Aziz and his untimely
death are matters of history, aud ii is
well Known III siam DOul tnat woman
was chiefly responsible Sultuneh dissp-
peared about the time that the unhappy
Sultan persisted. Her fate is q matter Of
conjecture.
However the countries formerly known
rs Circassia and Georgia have not ceased
altogether 10 be sources of supply for
Turkish harems, although now the bus
mess is simply one of decoying or kidnap-
ing. Only few weeks ago poor
woman entered Baroum and told a sad
story TO the Russian authorities She had
been carried OF from her home near
AkhaltZig while working in the fields By
two men who suddenly approached and
overpowered her, promising TO spare her
maltreatment IL she male no cutlery.
The men proved to be slave dealers from
RIzah, maritime village of Asiatic
Turkey, thrty-fve miles east of Trebi-
Zoun. The woman was consigned to
harem In that town. She was
at first kept close prisoner, but
after several mouths was allowed to go
out without an attendant. it beng
supposed that she was reconciled
to her new existence. She took the first
opportunity TO escape aud the statement
that she made 10 the Batoum authorities
was &c rtsinly startling. apart from aud
in addition to her own adventures. She