The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-19

Nothing Is sold without much har.
angue and loss Of time in fixing the
price. On passing the vendor Of nuts
we observed three Turkish women
bargaining with them. Ten nut kerr
nels for a penny said the vendor.
No. protested the ladies. we a get
eleven kernels for a penny. Ten kerr
The ladies demurred, and after about
fifteen minutes Of bargaining they re-
tired with the eleven kernels.
II and my friend proceeded to a
bazaar where we inquired the price
Of slippers. Twenty piastres.' said
the shopkeeper for those we had Sc
lected. That being an exorbitant
price we %bargained with him for a
time. Finally he offered them for
seventeen piastres and then for If
teen. The price being still too high
We wearied of the bargaining and de-
parted .
I'VE had gone some distance and
turned a corner when. to u great
to face with our friend and shop
keeper. Producing the slippers from
under his packet he said, 'Effend. you
may have them for five piastres.'
Short Changed.
Upon making any purchase
would invariably receive less change
than was due. Upon inquiring the
reason the answer would be, 'Effendi,
that is the amount due me o chang.
ing your money!"
Before stating his personal reasons
for the pessimistic opinions he form.
ed as to conditions and the outlook
in Turkey, Mr.. Keljik related to an
Evening Times reporter what DR.,
Ria Tewflk. member of parliament
for Adrianople, with whom he trav.
eled from Munich to Constantinople
confided to him.
According to DR.. Tewik, who was
~incarcerated and even assaulted and
beaten by members of the committee
Of union and progress about sis
months ago. the difficulties of the new
regime were due to the non-existence
of political parties in Turkey. TIL
committee of union. and progress
would not brook an opposition party
So there was only the "Ittihad.'
which looked to the army for its sup
port, but a government that Is prop.
ped merely by the army cannot be
stable. The Ittihad fell.
THE Ittihads made another mis-.
take" DR.. Tewfk told Mr.. Keijik
when they tried forcibly to Turkify
IlO tdAiOuS AaSCo y !
the population of Turkey. This was
not only a mistake but an anarchism
A similar attempt might have sue.
ceeded seventy years ago. but at tina,
time the Christian races were COM
PEELED to remain isolated. For in.
stance, they were not allowed to veal
certain clothing like that of the Mo-
hammedans.
The 'Itilafs,' who are now in pow.
err, will undoubtedly succeed in re.
storing peace and order If they do not
discriminate against the Christian
subjects of the empire and II they
can improve the country's financia
condition by securing loans from Eu'
pacity of Turkey Is at present Sc
riously. impaired, asI the powers: hav,
lost hope in the possible regeneration
of Turkey. Besides. the Turkish
government must reconcile the con
ficting interests-English and Ger
man. .
1.-THE whole sentiment of the liberia
movement is pro-English, but Turke,
Is commercially strangled by Ger
many. The Anatolian railway con
cession. to German capitalists Is thu
greatest concession ever granted by
Turkey to any foreign syndicate
Ninety per cen Of laws and pre-
cepts must be copied from the Eng
fish government. But the tolerance
which elevated Disraeli to the Office
of prime minister of England is en-
abled to govern a heterogeneous en-
pire. The English officers r splen'
did in their intelligence and efficiency
Unless the Itilafs justify the hopes re
posed in them the disintegration Of
| Turkey Is imminent"