Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-08

al howl OF street dog that some
bitten wetchman had beaten with his
statl; dervishos had ceased their holy
weltzing and their demoninc bowling
priests had left their lofty minarets
for the night; the Sultan had sunk
into a trance; the bRzaars, where no.
tions of all Nations are sold, were
barred and bolted up; the coffee shops
had quenched their charcoal fires; the
beggars on the bridge had dragged
home their stumps and sores, the sol.
diers OF the Porte were in their bar.
racks, dreaming of revolt; yiziers
laid their uneasy heads on silken pill
lows; the "sick mans" dying city
was dead asleep, and it made one
sleepy to feel even near six hundred
thousand sleepers. Human nature is
initiative; when it sees eating it
wants to eat, and when 1t sees sleep,
ing it wants to sleep. BESIDES did [
not know that my couutrymen in
Pera were wayering in their allegiance
to the pleasant king OF midnight, and
were half of them yawning and
stretching over billiards and domiuoos,
and looking with alright at the two
up-litted clock hands. Turks, who
have no amusemcnts, so to bed carly.
was sitting at the window of my
bedroom, meditative- one boot of,
and one boot ou wondering ii there
was ever minute, day or night, since
Constantine was plNccdin his porphyry
tomb, that some wild dog Ind not
barked i'll Pera, when tap came at
my door. L put my boot on, and
bade the visitor open the door.
1t was Antonio, my dragoman or
courier, whom [ had hired that day,
and thus he spoke:
Monsieur, sare, nous avons-we
ave got the fareman for the night"
Firman, you must know, is an Asi.
attic word, signifyiDg, in tins instance,
passport.
"Oh, have you! All right, Antonio
am ready, said |, buttoning up my
coat to the last button, and a liustine
my hat before the mirror.
"Yera good. " returned my Albanian
guide, who, by the way, had the most
viilolnous lace im0gina5le; "como on,
sare.
That frman, Tho $lltau's graciou.
permission -gracioIs, bus expensive
cost mo 25D pia.tcrs, or about
twenty eight dollars
BE 1t known unto Won, rea Ter, thai
ever SO many C,renssiaug, recent,
whipped by tie Russians in spite O
their devoted courage ant the geniu,
OF their leader, Schapyl, had beer
offered lew piusterg per diem to ioiL
the army of the Forte hal acceptc,
the offer readily, knowing that Tur
key was tue natural enemy of the lant
OF vermln ana steppeg, and had beer
appriscd on arriving Mt Stamboul, af
ter many hungry days OF forced march
ing over countries innocent of bridge
and of roads, that the Porte was una
bic to pay the native troops, let alont
foreign ones. That was enough (,
make the hungry Circussiaus angry
was 1t not? A little way beyond tht
Valley of the Sweet Waters, which i,
a place OF fashionable resort, epuiva
lent or thereabouis, to our Contra
Park, those soldiers Of hundred pa
triotic battles had located their camp
and wero muttering discomfort in {
way that was very disagreeable to tht
Turkish Government. IL was in order
to see shem that Antonio aud l lef
the Pera Hotel at eleven o'clock al
night.
Escaping being torn to pieces Ey
the rival boatmen Of Tophana,
tumbled down into the cradle of a neal
caique, which, because it is a pattern
boat, | will describe. 1t is long. and
sharp at both ends, and at both ends il
is boarded over, to prevent shipping
seas, with vGrnished planks, crossed al
the top with little crowning rails OF
gilt carving, very dainty and very
smart. The cradle where I laid my
back against whore the coxswain would
be seated in an American gig, was
lined with red cushions and white
lamb skins.
There were two boatmen, because
the Sweet Waters where we were to
land, was far up the Bosphorus, and
it was tolerablY hard work, evenEfor
them, brawny and accustomed to row.
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