The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-04

himself. 1t is not with white gloves
ana the German language that Turks
can make war.".'. .''' ,',.',, So
But the world has not forgotten the
gallant stand which your army made
at Plevna against the Russians before
you We're driven back from the Bal
kans."
Haflz Beys one eye flashed eve
were not driven back from the Balkans.
we defeated the Russians in every bat
tie. 1t was our strategy which brought
them down to the walls Of this city; the
lntrlgues Of our strategists.'
Intrigues? What sort of intrigues?'
You could not set your foot on the
ground without being trlpped up by one
or another of their intrigues. Intrlgues
let the Russians fortify Shipka Pass
before any one thought of sending us up
to take it. 1t was intrigue that left
them In the fort of st. Nicholas on the
top of the Pass, when we might have
driven them out. / took the fort my
self with my single troop, and there we
lay under a fire the like of which hope
no friend Of mine may have to endure
in Gehenna. The Pacha who was to
have supported the attack was SO drunk
that he did not know up from down.
He actually marched his brigade down
INTO the plains, looking for the top of
the pass. Then the Russian towards
drove us out, and knocked my eye out
besides; may the whole parcel of them
get their just dues!"
Doubtless your country recognized
the bravery of your attack on Fort st,
Nicholas, all the same?"
Recognized nothing! There is MOI
such plumber for soldier who gets
cornered like a dog In a blind alley and
has to surrender, as we did, when the
Russians came over the mountains"
Then broad smile lighted up the face
of the Bey, and he continued: But l
will tell you how I got my promotion.
1t was long after the war, after these
events had been forgotten. There is one
of the marvels of the earth in little
grove near Bahia Eski, on the Adriano-
pie road. There is no place like it in all
the world. At least l never heard of
such place. You go into that grove
now, and you see nothing. The ground
is as hard as the pavement of a mosque.
But you go there in September, and 1t
shakes when you walk on it as If there
was an earthquake And wherever you
dig in the grove you find soft mud
which has no bottom. The mud Is good
to cure diseases, and people come from .
great distances to be cured. | was
passing through Bahia Eski one day and
heard that my colonel was at the mud
for his health, SO / went there to pay
my respects. You never saw such a
sight as the colonel He was in a hole
in the ground, up to his neck in the
mud, and hanging on to a pole laid
across the mouth OF the hole lest he
should go clean under. He was vexed
at me for catching him in such place.
But there is remedy for everything in
this world except death, and so 1 had
another hole dug near by and into that
got For a week we spent good part
Of every day in our holes, hanging to
our sticks, and getting all the good we
could out of it. The mud was so soft
that when the colonel jumped up and
down in his hole it made the mud in
nine splash up in my face, which anus
I'd the colonel"
Did it cure your"
II had nothing of which to be cured |
After seeing the colonel in the mud it
would not have been polite for me to go
lway as / came. Besides, 1t is only
proper that a subordinate should use
whatever remedy his colonel considers
mud bath I got my commission as lieu