Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27

violin in obscure fairs The vengers hot
uopn his track, Ziem disappeared with
the girl in lost villages of the Bursun-
dian hills. among his people. To this
day. in unknown inns, farm par!ors ana
ba rber shops of sleeping Burgundy, they
pick up aquarelles of Liem worth 20
1000 francs apiece. He had given them
for a lodging and a breakfast for his
gypsy girl.
How he was reconciled with Romany,
became an ominous gypsy of the tough
Dalmatian, Albanian, Turkish coast
brood, till he turned an actual brlSand
will probably never be known in detail.
Tneophile Gautier. in 1S49. knew as
much about it as We do at this hour.
There is Gauter's authority-and he
was Ziems admirer and close friend
that the adventurous paintervioinist
rose TO the rank of full pirate, the last
of the east Mediterranean terrors; lie
ran cargoes of African slaves to STAN
holI: and once. with twelve CircasSian
and Georgian hours TO deliver back in
Ttnis. his gorge rose al hancdng over
such white roses to dark man
So. he stunned and tied his mate and
sailing master. terroriZed tine little crew
with pistols: and 50 ran the beauteouS
cargo into Naples-where he took villa
for them So they lived in happiness six
months, while learning French, Italian,
music and Delsarte from the capable
young Frenchman. When his money ran
out the girls had him sell their jewels to
keep the villa running
Nevertheless, Ziem was troubled. lie
felt his responsibility for the young
things, whom he could neither fit for
European life nor marry off, with proper
dots. to brave and honest men. When
he explained the situation to them, they
felt they were homesick. So he sent Il
letter to the Sultan. by way of the
French ambassador. showing how he, IL
Frenchman, had rescued twelve lovely
subjects of the sultan from the clandes-
tine slave trade.
Possibly the sultan was against the
white slave trade to Africa. Probably
he was also shamed by the French am
bassador. Thus. he welcomed the twelve
doves. returned them with gifts to thelr
families, and begged ELENA seeming
hopeful case for Islam, reading Arabic
with unction-to accept a jeweled, gold
bound illuminated-velum copy of the
Koran. all but contemporaneous with the
prophet.
This Ziem Koran-for which the pres
ent sultan has frequently offered Liem
LOCO 600 francs cash-iS still among the
treasures of the, Rue LEIPZIG, among jewel
studded Byzantine reliquarles In MASSIVE
gold mosaics that go back LOCO years,
ancient gold plate and ecclesiastical YES
sells, unset precious stones, Greek manu-
script unknown to libraries.
= X
Where were you in 1S49? Zem was in
Paris, slipping back to civilization long
enough to send three paintings to the
salon, create an artistic furore and buy d
house in the Rue LEIPZIG and tear 1t out
and build it up inside for an ultra-lux-
urious villa studio.
They say that in those early days he
set fire and burglar proof safes into the
walls that are there yet. Decades ago
the treasures overrun them Doors and
windows were of such heavy oak and
steel that Ziem could lock the place up
and HE off to Venice or his wild haunts
of the Adriatic. Also, the mans Paris
life was hidden. None knew of the treas
ures of the lone house.
With years they grew, because gold
flowed to Ziem as flows steady river
With the years he turned out Items,
never-changing gems of dazzling light
THE Coup de Calon,' The Rialto
Bridge THE Slave Quai." st. Sophia
by Sunrise" Moonlight on Venice" iris
reflects quivering topazes. yellow wells
upon the Adriatic, rose wells on the Golden
Horn, horizons of living blue that burst
into white spendor.
AS the world grew sure there was but
one Ziem only, subtle business men Of