Arizona republican., 1910-09-20

It is mot that he needs the money but he longs to convince himself tha the work of his hands is of monetary value. He begs his warders for leave to send the wardrobe away from tho villa to be sold, but his request is refused invariably. The Turkish gov. ernment fears that within the wood work there may be concealed some message to his friends.
 Abdul Hamid knows nothing of the outside world. Neither he nor the two wives and the servants who followed him into captivity are allowed tC read any newspaper. Once his keen desire to learn what was happening led him to attempt to bribe one Of his warders, to whom he offered $50C for the latest newspapers.
 Whenever an officer or a warder speaks to him the eX-Sultan tries to start a conversation, but orders are stringent. Only the most indefinite answers must be given to any ques- tion which Abdul Hamid may put His first question is invariably What do people say and think about me?" He has also repeatedly in quired whether the monarchs of Flu rope have expressed opinions about him, and if so what they were. He clamors for details of the revolution which ended his reign.
 Sometimes he sits hour after hour deep in melancholy meditations. Re gently when the officers on duty con graduated him on his birthday Abdul Hamid wept and said: "I was once a great Sultan, and therefore you can only mock me when you congratulate me in my humiliation"
 Abdul Hamid is intensely lonely Abdul Rachim, the only son who fol- lowed him into captivity, has de serted him, declaring that his father was so petulant and nervous that nc one could endure life in his vicinity Burhann ed Din, his favorite son, to whom he desired to leave his crOwn has repudiated his father, accus- ing him of having caused the death of his mother because Abdul Hamid re- fused to summon competent medical man to attend her in her illness.
 On the other hand, Mrs. Archibald Little, who recently paid a visit tO Salonica. could find no trace of the eX-Sultan'S presence in the town. She attributes an article to a London newspaper on the subject, in which she says that everybody in Salonica is convinced that Abdul Hamid is no longer a prisoner in the Villa Allatini Nobody could offer any explanation regarding his mysterious disappear ance until Mrs. Little chanced upon a Macedonian patriot who pretended to know the true facts of the case.
 Do you not remember" he said "how the ladies of the harem went away a few months ago on the pre- text that daughter of the Sultan was about to be married? You know of course that there was no wedding They went away by night.
 Well. they were counted. and there were thirteen of them. Only twelve came in and thirteen went away, and one of them stopped very much and had very faltering step. It was thought this was the Sultan.
 Do you think l have no relations with the shopkeepers and others here, no means of getting at facts? Of course I have. I know no provisions are delivered to the Villa Allatini since that night departure. and three days afterward the German bank handed over to the Young Turk party that large sum of money it had in de- posit. and which it had always re- fused to hand over without the Sul- tan's signature.
 "He had said he would rather die than give his signature; yet he gave it That sum of money was the price the Sultan Abdul Hamid paid in order to be removed from Salonica to Constantinople or wherever he wanted to go"
 The story. says Mrs. Little. seemed to explain everything. and she adds:
 Cautiously enough even those most uncertain as to his whereabouts do not seem to think that Abdul Hamid is dead While in Constantinople one of the most expert of guides calmly indicated his whereabouts to a travel ing party of Americans, calling atten- tion to the number of sentries around certain palace in Stamboul and say ing, There is the Sultan Abdul Ham id Can it possibly be that he was right, and if so would not that eX- plain the unpopularity of the English of late and the nominally Young Turkish government. also possibly the break up or break down of the AL banian rising?"