The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-09

Europeans. because if it were built by Eu-
ropeans there would be no end TO the com
plfcations which would ensue. and he knew
that America had no designs on any por-
ton of his territory. The railroad, how
ever. has not been built.
One story that has been told as to the
suspicious of the Sultan regarding plots
against him is probably apocryphal, but is
repeated in the European colony in Con-
stantinOple as a matter of truth. One day
The censors of educational looks brought
to the Sultan a work on chemistry, In
which was found the formula "H2 o.
which the wiseacres of the palace took to
mean 'Hamid III is nobody The book was
Immediately banished from the empire.
The Sultan's harem is some distance from
the Yildiz Kiosk, and he seldom visits 1t
now. But one night, about a year ago,
he went there alone in great haste, ringing
bell of the front door. Etiquette requires
that when the Sultan visits the harem he
shall send notice the day before, and shall
not appear until after shutdown. when he is
received in state. On this particular night,
however, he came alone, with a face Dallid
as marble, Immediately demanded admit
lance, and ordered the chief eunuch to sum
mon all the guards. a conspiracy had been
discovered that night among the students
of one Of the chief universities of Constan-
tinople. Bombs had been found in the Yildlz
Kiosk, and ne knew not whom to trust.
WHERE THE STUDENTS WENT.
From the hareu he sent out his orders
right and left, summoning to him all those
upon whom he could rely. The next morn
ing the crisis was over, the plot for his
deposition had failed and the college had
been abolished. A few of the students
were arrested and executed The rest were
supposed to have been sent to their homes.
A week or so after, however, a diver who
descended into the waters of the ~I}osphOrus
signaled hastily to be drawn up. When he
arrived at the surface he was white with
horror. He told that when he had reached
the bottom he had found himself amid
thirty corpses of students, who, with heavy
weights attached to their feet and their
arms bound behind them. were standing
bolt upright and staring TOWARD the sur
lace with CLASSY eyes. l~nyeslgat1on proved
the truth of the divers story. Thus does
Abdul Hamid deal with conspirators.
The entertainments which the Sultan
gives at the Yildiz Kiosk are modelled
strictly after the European formula. He
gives little dinner parties to ambassadors
at the White House or the Elysees. and his
state receptions do not differ materially
from those of any other European monarch.
When old ISmael Pasha. the dethrOned khe-
dive of Egypt, was alive, the Sultan used
to make a point of having him at every re-
ception, 50 as to show hat he had not been
poisoned. But just as regularly there We're
sent out JUNIORS from COnStantinople over
the world that Ismael had died.
These rumors were undoubtedly sent out
how Europe would take it if the useless
Ismael should pass away; but as the ru-
morS were each time received by a storm of
Indignation and charges of murder against
the Sultan, the old man, instead Of getting
the poisoned cup or a "boWstring and a
sack" in the Bosphorus, was invited to an
other court function. The Sultan is GER
tainly diplomatic in many ways.