The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-10
From H. P. CARSON:
On board S. S. Arabic, Cruising
the Mediterranean.

! The city of Constantiuople at
the meeting of two seas and two
continents, has been likened to a
diamond between sapphires and
emeralds. Its history began more
than 600 years B. G. Under Turk
ish control and once called lstam-
bull, its white palaces and many
domes, graceful minarets and
quaint buildings, make it bewilder-
ingly beautiful. Going direct from
Athens, however, one San appre.
ciate Byron's words;
"Though I fly to Istambul
Athens holds my heart and
soul"
We were not favored with sun
shine the two days we saw Con.
stantinople, its environment and
the Bosphorus, hence failed to be-
hold that impressive effect upon
the prevailing white of the build
ings. Its population now num-
bers 100000. It's narrow, dirty
though stone paved streets present
the greatest variety of any town
we have yet visited. While of the
humanity, Armenians with their
red fezes are more numerous than
Tur ks with their turbans and bag
gy trousers, Jews, Greeks, Euro.
peans and other nationalities also
appear, some women with faces
covered but few compared with the
crowds OF men and more women OF
evident European nativity. The
number of men seemingly idle i'm,
pressed us.
The number of dogs, however, is
the specially distinguishing feature
of the streets of Constantinople
Their home is the street, though
they have claim upon only a ser
tain beat on which they allow NJ
other dog, and they belong to no
body. They lie down on the stone
sidewalk and humanity carefully
steps around them. They bark a.
they will and all of them seem well
fed. They seemed quite as numer
GUS on the streets as automobiles
in New York city, and of all agee
from small pups to the traditional
period. There are said to be 3d.
600 of them in the city. The law
protects them for killing a dog
the penalty is three years in prison
while for killing a man the penalty
Is only seven years in prison.
All manner of conveyances from
the most primitive to the automo-
bile, and all manner of dress APP
pears, from the most ancient and /
oriental to the modern and preva-
lent European and American. The
loud speech and varied types min
gled with the barking of the dogs
and noises of vehicles amid SUCH
numerous styles and dress and
transportation fill the visitor with
wonder and confusion.
In the bazaars, arranged like
our expeditions only on a very
much smaller scale, the confusion
is less but different. The Oriental
decides a bargain by what the buy
or will give, always asking from
three to Six or more times what he
expects finally to sell for his lowest
figure. He solicits your trade per-
sistently and if you do not pay
more than the article is worth you
must engage in bargaining. Amer
leans seem to be considered very
desirable victims, free with their
money and rich
Our sightseeing ended with the
bazaars, after having been shown
the most renowned mosque in the
world, the most costly and inter
esting, also the Museum contain
ing the sarcophagus of Alexander
the Great and the national treas.
ures, including the largest emerald
in the world, the Persian throne of
beaten gold, and the figures of the
Sultans from 1857 to 1889 in their
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