The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
THE FATAL MONEY BELT.
Morals of the End of the Career of
the Terrible Turk.

From the New York Tribune.
A story which carried it's morals with
the impact of 13-inch shells was printed
in some of the papers recently. The rea-
son why the Tribune did not print it ex-
actly Ike some Of the others was that
the Tribune did not believe all the har-
rowing details which the others accepted.
Nor does il believe them now, but the NOR
ais shine out now, so that anybody who
looks at them is not likely to care about
such little things as facts. The story
was that Youssouf, "the Terrible Turk,
had lost his life through sheer cupidity
He went down with La Burgogne and the
reason, according TO the stories, why he
did not pull somebody out of a boat and
thrust himself in and so save himself was
hhat he had so much gold in his belt that
1t sank him.
The sum which he was said to have in
his belt was $500 The Tribune
said that he had 5000. That odd IS, 500.
according to the stories, made just the
difference between life and death He car
ried the whole sum, it was said. In belt,
$500 in god. That amount of gold weighs
something over thirty pounds, and that
stories laid awful stress on the bad life
of the Terrible Turk. All that he ever
did, 1t appears, was to eat, to drink Turk
ish coffee, to smoke Turkish cigarettes, to
hoard gold and TO wrestle, or rather, to
advertise that he would wreste 1t was
10y advertising that he would wrestle that
he got his food, his coffee, his cigarettes
and whatever gold he had He was on his
way home, with the intention of starting
safe with his boarded gold when fate
overlook him and punished him for his
wickedness. His idea was that if he could
Start cafe of his own, he could get all
| he wanted to eat, sdrlnk and smoke al
| cost, and at the same time enlarge mis-
| girth and the belt that measured it,
There were some reason why this seemed
| improbable or at least not proved AS
! for, instance: (a) 1t was understood that
! his managers, when he was fooling the
| public Of this town with the specious prom
| ises of wrestling matches which never
came off, were not the men to let anybody
| get away from them with $500 in his
| belt. 90 1t was understood at that same
| period that he took the most of his pay
IN Turkish coffee, which always leaves
! enough grounds to be used over again
| Turkish cigarettes, which leave such a
| smell behind them that the sea woull
! probably refuse TO receive him; wheat
| cakes, which might indeed do their part
| toward weighing him down, glory, 81
which he never got enough TO sink him
! Co He went in the Storage Of La Bour.
| gogne, whereas any prudent miser would
| so i'm cabin which he could lock al
night. so that his belt might not lie taker
off while he slept (d) Yousouf was such
a big and strong man that a trihe oil
thirty pounds OF gold strung about hin
would not make any difference TO him
anyway (e) There is no proof that he ever
got near enough to the surface after tn,
ship was struck to run any chance of os.
Gaping, with or without letter Of credit
70 say nothing Of a belt fun of gold.
But there is the story, and, whether n
IS true or not il is good for the sake Of
its morals, which are Ga few of them
(a) DO not be a glutton, 90 a miser Co
drinker. cd a smoker, (e) do not carry
gold In a belt, leave il with the pursor
so that It win go down with the ship ant
not be a temptations (O take all yonl
pay in cigarettes, a sufficient quantity OF
which. if carried in a belt. would act a,
a life preserver; and (g)-this moral is fol
managers-do not pay the people whom
you hire; the money does them nothina
but harm, and 1t would do you nothins
but good.