The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-03

Eyes, think converted him. said McSimmins; ebut
only this afternoon About month ago he sent mes
sddsd e & askg me- h e to-, Gns my papers t. HIM and
OF the scheme had in hand he inclined believe
in It and wished for more information
That's what he told me, remarked the consul 'and
he expressed his regret at your early departure"
very we'll l called him at the hour named which
Consult
yes; have visited him somewhat frequently He is as
have said the most intelligent Turkish official have
yet met and seems to have sincere desire elevate the
people"
delights in the elevation Of the people, and very
full at it too"
7 shouldn't go so far as to say that" denurred the
consul Il have never observed any practical results from
AAh, there you do him wrong pleaded Mcsimnins
earnestly You see know the pasha better than you do,
for have been his guest for month But to go with
my story On entering led past the serni-public
room in which the paha ansac his business taken
the first court, i'll which the palm grow smaller
beyond along the three Sides of which were
dyans covered with rich Oriental rugs, and here asking
be seated the attendant disappeared between the
heavy curtains which hung the doorway Presently
that obsequious secretary of the pasta in followed
BY servant bearing tray on which were two tiny
of coffee The secretary sauted with that groveling
difference of which he is the crngng MASTER and asked
to be good enough to give him all my papers, that
the pasha might scrutnize them The pasha he added
would have pleasure in meeting socially after the bust
ness transacted had my passport and other papers
envelope handed to the secretary He then bade me
in his masters regale myself with the coffee which
did imagine the coffee drugged for shortly after
taking it becamesseepy, and remembered until
found myself securely pnioned in the Court Of the Great
Fountain Have you seen the Court Of the Great Foun
fain?"
NO." replied the consul Il have never been admitted
further INTO the residence Of the paa than the Court Of
the Palms"
THE pasha's house is an enormous congomeration Of
buildings somewhat resembling stone-waed city Beau
tiful the Court Of Palms is il does compare with
the magnihcence of the Court Of the Great Fountain The
pavement is mosaic OF various colored marbles all the
is Of the purest white Arabic arches supported
by slender glistening pillars which seemed to to be
made of ory or some rare white stone The arches them
selves Of marble looking like carved virgin snow:
these form broad cool veranda that completely surrounds
the court The floor Of the veranda is elevated perhaps
six inches above the tesseaed pavement and almost
covered with rich Persian rugs But the striking feature
of the Is the fountain The water, imagine Is OBJ
tanned from stream lake in the neighboring
tals and the fountain consists of huge jet thick
mans thigh, which shoots straight up into the air like
liquid palm tree. II falls back musicaiy into deep
broad pond which borderd by heavy coping Of marble
The convolons of this coping form margin to this pond
that is amazingly irregular and which, the pasha tnld me-
spells in Arabic his favorite text from the Koran"
what an excellent idea" interrupted the consul.
isn't IL" agreed his visitor Perhaps didn't appre-
cats Il al the moment Is much as should have done for
found myself in most cranped and uncomfortable peal
ton stout stick had been thrust under my knees and
my arms had been drawn under the projecting ends of
this stick until my knees struck against my breast My
wrists strapped together and the strap fastened In
some way behind my back Ny ankles were united BY fe-
ters and lay thus in helpless heap like trussed fowl
under the veranda peacefully smoking wster-pipe OF
which the hubble bubble was drowned BY the musical
spashng Of the great fountain He slipped and then
some coffee from little cup On tapls ~ hs SIDE and
which you may have noticed il his dreamy eyes when he
Is inclined to phlosophic subjects Standing
near him four stalwaTt Nubians. black as ebony
bxeu compelled to order removed, irresponsible gossip
lmong hie menlals was r<some e him