Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-01-27

nice chairman with more Mormon
like mental dimensions.
To one not familiar with foreign
customs and Languages II u Ike get
ting "a Job on the Tower OF babel 10
live among such chattcring 81
tongues. The people nearly an speak
from three 20 six languages. TURKISH
French. German. Arabic, Greek lial-
ian. Armenian and English. The
Turks have u very commercial trait
among them Of always asking for more
than they want and are more satisfied
II they don't get " than " you give
them all they ask.
ON my way 60 Aicxandretta ! went
ashore In Mersina few hours and on
the streets there 7 was accostrd by a
hnwker who asked about ten francs
q OaD for some little trinket when he
saw I ala not want II h. allowed ne 10
put the price only asking In broken
igltah How much give. In "a sort
~ n Joke answered In broken Turkish
Der kiroofh" u cents. ana to my
great surprise the bargain was closed.
but a friend ~ mine made the purchase
ava saved my caHn
I'm travclllnn through syria one nee .
both a passport from his own govern
ment and q "Tcskufa" from the Turk
i'm officials when ! landed ~ Alex.
nndrcttR, ~ course my Teskcra was
asked FOR mud Immediately given over
10 be kept by the officers until ! left
the city again. In the afternoon ! went
FOR II and found that some one else had
called and taken II ON 10 Aleppo. where
I wished 10 go. kilograms were sent
lnstfuciing the inland police to stop
the man aud take the paper from him.
but was permlttcd 10 resume my
Journey NV companions were three
TURKS who spoke Arabic and the trip
" ono hundred miles 10 this city with
such fellow passengers was Ike being
cngnged In o foreign. policy.
our carriage looked no " u might
have been what was left 81 the one IN
which Philip and the .unuch rode to-
rethnr on the way to GAIA. We were
drawn by four. abreast team ~ ewe-
nrcked boys far beyond their years of
cnitho0d. hut still carrying their ancient
sire, being unable TO carry anything
cifc. For refreshments the animals
were served with n muse bag ~ chopped
straw. and between resting places they
received buckskin stimulus With a
continual stream ~ Arabic urging.
We arrived In AlcppU after dark ana
was driven 10 the hotel wherc ! could
rest my ears In listening to French or
Turkish for n change. Scarcely hnh
settled In my room whom grun bur
IS policeman entered and asked fc- my
lie could not understand English and
my teskcra was gone. began To
think that perhaps another bedroom
would be provided at the expense "
tho government. but after great ok
element aud large gathering Of pco-
pie. | gave him my passport ana OF he
went. II took me nearly two days 10
get straight with everybody but the
cost was very little,
ono evening last week ! was Invited
with one ~ my American friends TO
take runper az the house 81 some
American residents. There were six
~ ~ In alt. No ladies present.
young man named jeremiah was there
and he had recently decided to Ert
married. ITO desired two or three ~
the crowd tu wall upon the young
iady'a parents and make intcrccrsion
fof him. Jeremiah wnr No. ! ana with
No. 2 could speak Turkish and Ar
menian. Nos. and could each
rpenk Turkish. Armenian and English
NV friend No. could converse IN Eng
Itch and Turkish. while I spoke only
English. Nos I. 2. . and I would talk
In Armenian when No. and were not
10 understand. when No. ! was 10 be
kept IN Ignorance. English was used,
aud NJ the question turned TO mo buHl-
ness ~ No. and In which Nos, !, 2.
Z. I and Q were concerned" the Turkish
language was employed. I viii toll
". BOOTH.