Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-04
coNsTANTlNoPLE's NEW LIFE.
Freedom and Justice Now Shouted in

the Streets-violent Retributions.
AS my train entered the first sta
tion across the frontier before Adrian
ople an hour before midnight it was
surrounded by a motley crowd with
torches and lanterns escorting a num-
Der Of officers on their way to attend
today's Selemlik. Hitherto Turkish
railway stations have presented inva-
riably the same picture Of apathetic
indifference to what went on in the
capital, or for that matter anywhere
else in the world. The passengers,
few and far between made their way
cautiously to their carriages after
running the gantlet Of uniformed po-
lice and plain clothes spies, and those
who could get away were watched
with envious eyes by their neighbors,
who for want of permission were not
allowed to stir. Such a scene as this
had never before been enacted in that
quiet little station, where, after cheer
ing the officers to the echo, one ora
tor after another, mounting a chair
or bench, called for execrations on
the heads of the objects Of popular
hatred says a special Constantinople
correspondent of the London Standard,
the names Izzet, Malhame, Hassan,
Rami, Tahsin, and a dozen other
pashas were announced to be greeted
with a triple howl Of "You-ha! YOU
ha! You-ha!" and as we rolled away
into the night the hoarse curses of the
crowd followed like the voices Of a
pack of wolves in cry.
This morning Stamboul and Galata
are alive with life entirely new, for
the population has been born again,
within the last fortnight. Little chill
dren are running about shouting
"Hurriette-adalette," Freedom and
Justice" two words that even old men
dared not utter in their own homes
before. They existed in the language
as abstract ideas, but were far less
real than heaven and hell. Soldiers
and sailors, tradesmen and custom
ers, even down to the beggars, were
wearing the red and white rosettes
that were being hawked at every few
them to the hoods Of the babies in
their arms. Flaming caricatures and
postcards were being cried with ex-
ultant vehemence by Armenians and
Greeks, who shouted to one to buy
and read, for everybody now could
and should speak. The most in re-
quest of these was a huge engraving
of Izzet Pasha in his former and pres
ent state, the one representing him as
smoking his cigarette before a lovely
odalisque, and the other as fleeing up
the companion ladder Of the Mariana
with a mob at his heels. Another
showed Zeki Pasha, who recently re-
fused to give water to 5000 demon
strators at the palace, being pitch
forked into the flames by a pair OF
devils, and there were many others
of similar character, while on the
other hand a postcard was freely Of
fered with the portrait Of the sultan
between two flags and the words eli
berte, Egalite, Fraternite," in French
and Turkish.
Apropos of the flight Of Izzet Pa
sha, It Is now known that he pur-
chased two ships to be held in readi-
ness. With great astuteness he paid
only half the price of the vessel Mar
lana on which he escaped, so that
she still carried the British flag as
long as he was in Turkish waters. The
purchase has been since completed,
but under what colors or what name
the steamer will henceforth cruise no
man knows. 1t will possibly be some
time before the fugitive lands In any
infrequented port. He and Selim
Meihame proved their wisdom in es-
GAPING the wrath Of Constantinople,
for the fate that has befallen several
Of their former companions Is likely
long to remain warning aginst fol-
lowing in their footsteps. The ruth
less ClTCdSSldH dluC uC SoAiPb N--A->..'
Bey, who was expelled from Constan-
tinople at the demand Of the German
embassy, has been torn literally limb
from limb at Brussa (or Yenishehir),
and the scarcely less notorious tyrant
of Yildiz and the Asiatic villages of
the Bosphorus and Marmora, Cherkez
Mehemed Pasha, though still alive,
has had u fearful experience. He was
seized by the people, who tied rope
around his neck and smeared his face
with paint and tar. Some say his IA
nous flowing beard was cut Off, 9TH
ers that il was merely painted. In this
guise he was led through the streets OF
Rrussa and subjected to every indig-
nity in spite of his entreaties to be
killed at once-a punishment his In
ordinate pride would probably have
preferred. After hours Of this physi-
al and mental torture he was releas-
ed with the remark that nobody would
soil his sword with the blood of such
.oo+;Io Daado lika these cannot be