St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-11

with his household to Naples, any and
all ofphiS wives had liberal opportunity
| to desert their husband. Only one is
| known to have taken advantage of the
privilege, and she was an Arab, now
married to merchant of Gaeta. IsmaifS
| polygamous mode of life. it may be men
| toned here, caused no end of trouble in
| Naples. and it was in Difference to ltal-
ian public opinion that the sultan re-
| Quired the eX-khedive to take up his
| abode under the shadow of the Porte.
The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid,
| although admittedly man of unusual
| intelligence, anG, for Turk, enlight
ened ideas as to his imperial duties,
! continues TO he eminently Turkish in
his domestic circle. White, or, 10 speak
more correctly, European women
form the majority in his mar
| rage list, and quite scan-
dial was OccaSioned not long
ago when an appeal was made to friends
| in England by well-known English
actress of the lower grade who il tried
| life in the harem and got tired of it.
| The sultan does not keep his wives
| prisoners. The influence of Western
| civilization is felt in the reeesses OF the
| imperial palace, and the women enjoy
| liberty at which twenty years ago the
| chief of the faithful would have stood
| aghast. Each lady has her day for re-
| ceiving friends, and her name appears
| on the outer door of the apartments re-
served for her special use. She goes
| abroad in the streets, attended, of
course, but not without the chance of
| admiring and being admired. More
| than one tragedy in Constantinople in
recent years has testified to the truth OF
the latter part of the above sentence.
Abdul Hamid had no fairer inmate of
his harem than the mother of the Prin-
cess Saline. OF Bulgarian origin, this
lady attracted the attention of a Turkish
| paSha, who took her by force from her
| parents and made her birthday gift to
| his imperial master. Her original name
is not known, but her Turkish name
signified the Pearl of Light, or some
! thing to that effect. The intrigue that
led to her fate has been clearly told,
| but general gossip in Constantinople is
| that she smiled on young Hungarian
officer then i'll the service of the sultan,
and who had exchange his ancestral re-
| ligIon from that of Monammed. 1t also
| appears that for six months the couple
| met at intervals outside of the palace.
| a rash remark of the young officer
aroused suspicion, and he was arrested
without ceremony and compelled to
confess, Turkish fashion, while two
eXecuiiOners each held one end of
a bOwstring which passed around his
| neck. When no more admissions were
to be eXtOrted from HIM the bowstring
completed lis work, and the remains of
the victim were thrown to the dogs in a
secluded suburb of Constantinople. AS
he had long before abjured his Christian
allegiance. nothing could have been
done for him in the way of Intervention
even had warning been received of his
intended fate. As for the Pearl of
Light, men whispered to one another
with pale lips that About midnight Oh
the day that her lover met his doom a
boat shot out into the Bosphorus from
the water gate OF the sultan's gardens.
and sack containing a burden and
heavily weighted was dropped into the
moonlit waters. The Pearl of Light
was never seen again among the female
conSOrtS Of Abdul Hamid.
The Persian shah, lNassr-ed-dine,
created amusement during his first En-
ropean tour by his readiness to marry
any good-looking woman to whom he
was introduced. from the Princess of
Wales to chorus girl. When he at
tended the theater in London he eX-
pressed his desire 10 transfer whole
troop of lightly-clad dancers to his pre-
serves at Teheran, although after using
an opera glass he was willing 70 leave
several at home. The shah did not
sprightly French girl, Charlotte DupreZ,
whom he saw in Paris, is said to have
followed him at Persia at his personal
request. Nominally she was engaged
as tutor for the shah's favorite
daughter, Tadjes-Saltaneb. Really she
was added to the list of wives.
After years stay in the Persian capt.
tai, Charlotte returned to France and
went back to her native village in Maine
with good sum of money to her
account. According to her story,
NaSsred-dine treated her well, indeed
too well for the peace of mind of the
senior wife, a lady with difficult name,
who recently became blind and travelled
to Vienna with the vain purpose of hay
ing her sight restored.
This lady, by all sorts of petty tricks
and prosecutions, made life unbearable
for the French woman, who at last
secured q leave of absence from her
reluctant lord on the pretense of visiting
her aged parents, promising to return
after seeing them. Charlotte had seen
enough of life in Persia. Nassr-ed-dine's
generosity made her independent, as
fortunes go in rural France, and she
settled down to the quiet village life
tate of necessity. During his recent
visit to Europe the shah made many in
quiries for his French wife, for whom
he evidently still entertained a sincere
attachment, but the inquiries met with
no satisfactory response.
The case of Marie Marillier, before
alluded to, shows what a woman will
dare for liberty and honor, and also
illustrates how harems are recruited
with European as well as other victims.
Marie'S father is a respectable French
settler near the borders of Western AL
geria. The notorious robber tribe
called the Hissams made raid
| from the desert about q year ago
into the territories of Morocco.
| They also swept the Algerian frontier
| and carried Off several captives. includ-
ing Marie. girl of sixteen. The troops
| of Sultan Muley-Hassan were for once
swiftly on the trail, perhaps because a
caravan bearing tribute to the Moorish
| treasury was among the spells of the
raiders. The robber tribe was defeated
| with slaughter, and nearly ali the cap
tives recovered. including Marie. But
| instead of restoring her to the French.
Scharaf, the Moorish commander, car
ried her to his own home and kept her
| in cOncealment, no doubt debating in
his own mind whether to win favor at
court by presenting her to the sultan,
to sell her at high price, or keep her
himself. He seem, to have determined
on the aforementioned course, and, OBJ
tanning an audience with the sultan.
begged him to accept the gift of beau
titul Frank slave.
The sultan of Morocco is not by any
means reformer; but he is one of the
shrewdest politicians in Africa, and,
while Keeping European powers at
arms length, he has no desire to give
any of them-especially France-an ex-
cuse for hostility. Scharaf Pasha was
much astoniShed when his majesty, in
stead of extending the foot of good will.
ordered him placed under arrest. Marie
was restored to her father. who, sup
posing she had been carried into the
desert. had given up all thought of see
ing her again. and Scharaf only saved
Inv no