The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-06

your employ he will come to you some day and say, I'm going away for three months, but my nephew will take my place." The director of a well-knoWn insurance company was murdered owing to @ misunderstanding which arose from this cause; During cer- tain Greats absence it was found that the branch where his substitute was employed could not be made to pay It was therefore closed and the employees dismissed, The original Croat came back and went to the director. I've come back" Very sorry. but the bus mess has been closed" q can't help that; I want my place." You can't have it." Then I'll shoot you" And he did. The police came to the house where the murderer was known to be in hiding, but twelve Greats stepped out in line across the street. We are all armed to the teeth, and will kill every man of you. Is 1t worth while for one man?" The police concluded
 that 1t was not, and went home again.
 Some years ago, an English resident
 was attacked by scoundrel at the Sweet Waters of Asia, and nearly mur- dered The would-be murderer was at
 last sentenced to imprisonment for life. A week later the wife of the injured man received a salute from the the ruff fan as he passed her in the Grand Rue de Pera.
 It,is we'll never to be in a hurry when making purchases in Constantinople,
 for the simple reason that no one seems to attach any value whatever to the flight of time. You may spend all day in the bazars chaffering for one partic-
 ular article. If a thing is worth three
 pounds the vendor wants twelve. When you get up to go, after some hours of patient waiting, if the mer- chant hands you cigarette, at the same time giving you his own to light it from, tlie bargain is concluded, but 1t is seldom verbal one. And he never
 has any change; you must get 1t from the money changers, who sit about the streets with their money before them in little glass cases. A gold lira is worth about one hundred and eight pi- astres. The money changers will prob ably give you five twenty-piastre pieces and six and one-half piastres,
 making one hundred and six and one half. If you then want to change two of the twenty piastre pieces you will have to pay him a penny. He will also charge you halfpenny for changing each five-piastre piece into smaller money.
 We have recently had ample evidence of the Turks bad qualities. Fatalism
 and a complete lack of energy entirely negative his good ones This remark
 applies to all the minor as well as the
 greater evils of life. Your horse, for instance, is never at the door at the ap-
 pointed hour. When 1t does come, the girths are not properly fastened, the throat lash is too tight, the curb too loose, your man will insist upon your
 mounting Ca Ia Winkle) on the wrong side, and you ride off not at all molli- l fled by the grave chorus of idlers at the | door: "Ah, he knows how to get upon
 horse, he does; the Effendi will soon cease to ride like a Glaour ginpek (inff- l del dog).''
 I Bakshish is the first and last word
 the traveller hears in Turkey. The cor
 ruption so appalling to the western
 mind which exists in high places, is l the method of the country. The aver
 age salary of a. minister amounts to l about one thousand piastres per month 1 Chine pounds English). He is bound to
 keep up a very good appearance, and
 in order to do this it Is absolutely ne-
 cessary that he should have bakshish.
 The bribe is administered in various
 ways. Say, for instance, that couple
 of boats are going to be built and you
 want to send i'll tenders and plans.
 The question of bakshish is never men,
 toned to the minister, but If he sees
 you don't understand about it he will l casually remark that his secretary will I talk over the details with you. What l is your price?" asks the secretary. Fifty thousand pounds" "Oh, better
 make it sixty thousand and the extra
 ten thousand pounds is handed over to l him.--Pall Mall Gazette.