The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15
KAISER AND SULTAN,
Edgar SaItus on the German EN-
perOr's Eastern Visit.
Golfers Weekly

Golfers Weekly
Caesar Germanicus entered the Byzance in
galley of the Empress of the Gauls fioated
up to the Golden Horn. it was raining also
But it was raining roses. For hours the
BoSphOruS rolled flowers and perfumes in
greeting. The welcome Of Wilhelm was less
poetic. In lieu of bouquets there was the
dread of bombs. But in the palace built on
through which he strolled. in the vision of
power absolute which he beheld. there
were flowers in plenty-bombs. too, no
doubt-yet only Of the variety which Tor
toni confectoned and which some people
still eat with spoon. OF the pilgrimage to
Palestine that follow ed we know all about
Entirely UP to date it is well worth APP
plauding it for no other reason than that it
succeeded in being at once imperial, COM
mercial and piOuS. Jerusalem has seen
many strange things but never any as &C.
centric as that. In days less unitarian the
scarp Of Moriah would have crumbled and
the veil Of the temple been rent at the spec
tacle presented by this sceptered drummer
who entered there. a New Testament in one
hand and a bag of samples in the other. 1t
was not in Jerusalem that he could have felt
at ease. nor should he pass that way, will
he be better off in the gloom and grandeur
OF the EscoriaL sites more baroaric and by
the same token more business-like are best
suited to him.
The Yildiz-Kiosk, in which he stopped
when at Constantinople must have suited
him perfectly. Laid out in three concen-
trio Enclosures, it is the one modern model
of a camp of the Huns. In the first in
arsenals. The second, composed Of stables
and department stores, is a city Of butchers
and bakers hOstlers and lackeys, servants
civil and otherwise, jewellers and pastry
cooks, officials and parasites, tOWnful of
people whom the Sultan supports without
being quite sure that they exist. For their
amusement there are menageries. booths,
bastinadoes and decapitations Within the
third Enclosure. walled and fortified is the
palace of Abdul the Damned. 1t is there
Wilhelm lodged Less attractive than the
enchanted residence of the Caliphs of Cor
dOVa. what 1t lacks in beauty Ii makes up
in size. The throneroom is really majestic
Yet though the rug which covers the floor
ing is one of the most perfect and certainly
the largest ever made, there stand on 1t
plain tables of plain pine and with them
the frippery of tawdgy French salons. But
on the walls there Is cOmpenSatiOn-tapes
tries done by Carlo Dolcis of the needle.
mural decorations by native VaasqueZ in
thread Adjoining Is the hammam. and next
door. in a building which looks like a Swiss
chalet is the haremlik, the seraglio which,
barring Caesar Germanicus. no male Eu-
ropean has entered. except indeed. 1t is ru-
mOred. Mr.. Ruskin, who for reasons purely
literary of coufse-the better, perhaps, to
describe that which he afterward catalogued
as the unspeakable empires of Mammon and
Belal-effeeted an entrance through the
back door. But that is gossip. In the ham
mann Sultan and Kaiser, it may be assumed,
found relaxation from each others conser-
vation, while in the throneroom the latter,
1t may be also assumed, must have inter-
cepted the vision, by no means common
place OF absolute might.