The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

knew he was wrong in the head, and
they yelled for the police, and we
were pulled for fast driving, and
taken before a Turkish justice of the
peace, followed by the whole crowd.
The justice did not wear a fez, but
had on turban, SO dad did not give
him any signs, but after jabbering a
while they sent for an interpreter
who could talk pigeon English, and
then dad had a trial, and / acted as
his lawyer. / told about how dad
had tried to be kind and genial to
another mans wife, and how, in his
hurry to get away from the muir
derous husband he fell over mess of
dogs, and that he was a distinguish
ed American, who was in Turkey to
negotiate a loan to the Sultan.
Say, that fixed them and they all
made salams to dad. and bowed ell
over themselves, and the Justice of
the peace prayed to Allah, and the
be careful about touching a Turkish
woman or a dog, particularly dog,
as the Turks were very sensitive on
the question:. So we went out of the
courtroom, and wandered around the
town, and you can bet that dad didn't
look at any more women, though
they were everywhere with wells that
covered their faces SO nothing but
their eyes could be seen.
Gee, but you never saw such eyes
as these Turkish women have. They
are big and black, and they go right
through you, and clinch on the other
side. Dad says the facilities for get
ting into trouble are better in Con-
lstantinople than any place we have
been, as the men look like bandits
and the. women look like execution
ers. Dad thanked me for helping
him out of that scrape by claiming he
was the agent of a financial syndi-
cate that wanted to lend money to
| the Sultan. If I had said dad was
collecting agency, to make the Sui
tan pay up, they would have sem
| fenced him to be boiled in oil.
| Well, we thought we had been in
| trouble before, but we are in it now
worse than ever. We heard at the
| hotel that at IL o'clock in the morn
| ing the Sultan would pass by in a
carriage, with an escort, on the way
to a mosque, to pray to Allah, and
everybody could see the Sultan So we
got a place on a balcony, and at the
appointed time the procession came
! in sight. 1t was imposing, but
| solemn, and the people on both sides
of the street acted like they do in
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man Is passing. No man spoke, and
all looked as though they expected,
if they moved, to be arrested, and have
a stone tied to their feet, and thrown
into the Bosphorus, the way they kill
one of the Sultan's wives when she
Airts with a stranger.
! We watched the soldiers, and fin
ally the carriage of the Sultan came
and in it was dried up man, with
| liver complaint, with a nose like an
| eagle, and eyes like shoe buttons. He
| looked as though death would be a
relief, and yet he seemed afraid of it,
and there was no sound of welcome,
such as there would be if Roosevelt
was riding down Michigan avenue at
Chicago, on the way to the stock
yards to Armour, instead of to Allah
You coud have heard a pin drop.
/ said: Dad, this is too solemn. even
for a. Sultan. Let's give him the uni
versity yell, and show that mummy
that he has got two friends in Con-
stantinople, anyway" "Here she
goes" says dad, and we leaned over
the railing, just as the Sultan's car
riage was right in front of us, and
not ten feet away, and in that oppres-