The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-26

had been offered for I cent a share. !
the par value being a hundred dollars, |
so man who got share for q cent |
would, when the mine got to paying. |
get a hundred dollars for every cent !
he invested.
Dad filled out one of the stock GER
tificates for 1000 OO0 shares which J
would represent a capital equal 70
all the debts OF Turkey, and we went
before the sultan, and we couldn't have
been better treated If we had owned a
brewery. Dad told his story to the
sultan, through an interpreter, while
l looked around at the gorgeous sur
roundings and tried to think of some
thing to do to wake them up.
Dad said he came right fresh from
the American people, and was author
lied by his mining company to present
the sultan with untold millions. for
pure love of the Turkish people, whom
they had seen riding and leading camels
at the Chicago worlds fair, and dad
produced the stock certificate for 1.0O0.-
600 shares of stock in the Golden Horn
Gold Mining * Smelling company. and
took out handful of $50 gold pieces
and showed them to the crowd as spe-
cimens Of gold that came from our
mine.
He said our people did not expect
anything in return. but just desired the
good viii of the Turkish empire. He
said that President Roosevelt desired
linn to present his warmest regards TO
the sultan, and to invite him to visit
America. and if he would consent to do
SO. an American war vessel would be
furnished for him and the White House
would be turned over TO him for his
harem. and dad said the president
wanted him particularly to impress
upon the sultan that if he came he
must bring his folks. all his wives that
would size up for beauty with our
American women.
Well, you ought to have seen that
Sickly looking sultan brace up when
dad handed him the millions of mining
stock, and he grabbed the paper like
an old clothes buyer would grab dress
suit that a wife had sold for 50 cents.
belonging TO to her husband. He also
wanted TO see the gold that dad had
shown as coming from the mine, and
when dad showed him the yellow boys
he took them as souvenirs and put
them in his girdle. and then I thought
dad would faint. but he kept his nerve
Ike poker player betting on a bob
tail flush.
The sultan asked so many questions
about America. that L was afraid dad
would get All baIled up. but he kept his
nerve and lied as though he was on the
witness stand, trying TO save his life,
Dad told the sultan he was authorized
by the American people to inquire into
the industries of Turkey. and what he
particularly desired was an insight into
the haTemS, as a national institution.
because many American people were
gradually adopting the customs of the
Orient. and he desired TO report TO con-
EI'esS as TO whether We should adopt
the customs of Turkey, with her dried
pruneS and dates with worms in. and
her altar of roses made of pigs lard:
her fez, to cure badness. and her out
landish pants and peaked red Morocco
shoes. and her harems.
The sultan said he would like to show
US a little bunch Of the cream of the
haTem. who would do a stunt in the
way OF dancing. to celebrate the good
feeling of the American people. and the
visit OF the distinguished statesman
and gold miner to his realm, and dad
said the sultan couldn't turn his stOm-
ach with no cream of the harem. only
they must keep their hands off him.
and the sultan promised he should be
as safe as unique" whatever that
is.
Dad and I had hired knee breaches
and things Of a masquerade ball store.
and we didn't look half bad when the
crowd of shieks and things formed n
crescent around the sultan. who sat in
n sort of BARRIERS chair with an avn
ing over II, and they sounded a hew-
gag or something. and about a dozen
pretty fine looking females, dressed
like the ballet in n vaudeville show,
came in and began to dance before the
sultan.
Dad stood II first rate until a girl got
on the carpet barefooted and began
one Of those willowy sort OF dances
that nearly broke up the Chicago fair.
when people left the buildings filed
with the work OF the worlds artists
in all lines OF progress and went to
the Midway in a body to see Little
Egypt" but when this dancer Waltzed
up to dad and wiggled in a foreign Ian
guage, dad Sashayed up TO her and
couldn't hold him back
He was just getting warmed up to
balance to partners" when a frown
came over the sultan's face, and he
looked cross at dad, and then the
hewgag sounded, and the girl scat
tered out OF side door, and dad want
ed to follow, but I held him by the
coat, and 10 was over. I think those
girls were the only ones in the whole
harern that were good looking.
Dad breathed hard a little from his
exercise. and said he was ready to in
spect the stock. and the sultan de-
tailed a tall negro, with a face dried
up like a mummy. and we started out
through the harem, dad pulling the
long hair on the side of his head over
his bald spot. and throwing his Shout
ders back and drawing in his stomach,
to make him look young.
Well, say, there is nothing about a
harem much different from keeping
house at home, except that there is