Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1889, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: INTHE CITY OF THE SULTAN A Look at Turkish Official Business Life. THIRTY PER CENT FOR TAXES. How tho karmors Are Robbed By the Sultan's Underlings Turkish Nowspapers and the Press Oen- corship—Among the Bazaars, Oonstantinople. (Copyrighted 185 by Frank 6. Carpenter.) (CONSTANTINOPLE, Auust 20, 1880, —| Special Correspondence to Tie Bee.]—I write this lotter in the capital of the Ottoman empire. If Paris is France, Constantnople is Tur- key. Itis hore that the sultan lives. Here aro the headgnarters of the Tarkish army and from the government offices here o out the wires of political appointment which control the lives and property of more than thirty-threo million people. Constantinople is the center of Turkisn business, and it is the pivot aronnd which the wholo Moham- medan world revolves. Situated as it 1s, partly in Asia and partly in Burope, it forms the connecting link of the two great civiliza- tions, and its population is the most cosmo- politan on the face of the globe, ‘iho straits of the Bosphorus, which counect the big Black sea with little sea of Murmora, wind in and out like a wide river betwoen Europe and Asia. They are BORDERED BY BEAUTIFUL MILLS, which slope down in places almost precip- itously to the water, and their natural scen- ery compares very favorably with the best bits along the Rhine and the Danube. At the beginning of these straits there is a lofty peninsula_containing the area of two or three good-sized farms, tho greater part of the northern side of which is separated from the main body of Europe by a long inlet of water which wiods around like a horn, and which is known as the famous Golden Horn of Constantinople. ~ The lower side of the peninsula is washed by the sea of Marmora, and_its upper edge blocks tho waters of the Bosphorus, Stauding upon its shores you can almost throw a stono into Asia, avd by turning around you could, with arevolver, shoot a bullet deep into the body of Europe. It is upon this peninsula that the greatest part of Constantinople is built. This partis known as Stamboul, and it belougs almost exclusively to the Turks. Upon it stand the great bazaars, abovo its thousands of Turkish houses rise the tall minarets of bundreds of Mosques, and the cries of its turbanned peddlers are mixed with the shrill tenor of the Muezzins who five times each day stand upon the balconies of theso towers and sing out the hours of prayers. A bridge of boats about amile long and as wide as Pounsylvania avenue in Washngton con- nects this Turkish quarter of the city with the European shore, and over this bridge there is nonstantly passing a tnrong of Turks and Christians of Jews and Greeks,of brown gowned men from Persia and broad-cloth traders from Europe. An Italjan writer Constantinoplo says that 100,000 men wo over this bridge eyery day, and one new idea CROSSES IT ABOUT EVERY TEN YEARS. This bridge leads to P which is the European quarter of Constantinople. The hiills on'the north side of the Golden Horn are as steep as thoso of San Francisco, or of the bluffon which Kansas City is built. Para lias covered these hills aud the pal- aces of the foreign tion; the Kosks of the sultan and the homes of the swell Turk- ish officials-stand high above Stamboul and command extensive land ;and water views of Asia dnd Burope. Pera itselt is more of a European town than a- Turkish one. It has business buildings like those of Paris, its storea are filled with European goods taste- fully shown behina plate glass windows, and a good street car line carries you from one part of it 10 ancther. It has an under- ground cable railroad. From the shores of the Golden Horn to the top of the bluft, upon which the city is built, and the incline is as steep as that as the bluffs of Kansas City. The road is well patronized, and it ought to ben paying investment. Pera has Ruro- pean hotels, with Swiss scrvants, French cooks and electric bells, in which you can be a8 comfortuble as in any hotel in New York. And THE SOCIAL DINNERS. of its people would compare favorably with those of the other capitals ot Burope. Asa diplomatic post the city of the sultan is one of the most important capitals of Kurope. Tho complications which are at any time lia- ble to arise with Russia leads the Englsh, the French and the German to keep im- mense establishments here, and the expense of the foreign ministers for entertaining runs into the tens of thousands of dollars u year. One of the legations uses at its state dinners gold and silver plate which is worth $100,000, and the sultan feasts the diplomats on gold plate und furnishes them Turkish coffee in gold'cups. During the past four years tho American minister hus entertained very largely, and Mir. Straus has, I doubt, not, spent several times the amount of his salary in ping up Unclo Sam’s ond of diplomatic entertainment. Ho is one of the most popular ministers America Las over sentto ‘furkey, and his diplomatic carcer has Leen a great success. The Tarks themselves are very hospitable and many of the Turkish officials have n part of their houses furnished in European style. The oetter ciass of them are well ueated, and thereare hundred of clorks in tne employ of the sultan who can speak French, Enelish and German, and who are 80 thoroughly posted outhe leading subjects of the day us the most cultured men of the courts of Burope. I dined last night with Balsamides Bey, who is well known Lo every- one who has read Marion Crawford’s novel, $‘Paul Patoft.” This man is intimately con- nected with the sultan, and he is, 1 judge, not much over thirty years of uge, He was educated in ove of the great Mohammedan schools and Wis lifo bas been spent almost altogether in Constantinople. Nevertheless, he speaks Eng'ish perfectly, can talk French like a Purisian, and is one'of THE BEST POSTED MEN I have ever met on the histery of the world He seews to have every event in our na- tional life at his tongue's end. He knows all of the American authors and can talk by the hour on English literature. He is us well up on public wen as he is ou public matters, and 15 one of the wmost agreeable conversationalists I have met, He is the best type of the advanced Turk of to-day, of his kind, his life is more Europoean than a Turk, All erument officials of Turkey dress in European costume, save that their black broadcioth coats aro cut high at the neck und that their heads are always covered in the house aud out with the red-fezzod, black- tasselled cap. ‘Tho sultan has his great government do- meonts like those we have at Washing- n. Thera is a department of state or foreign ofice, a war department, a depart o ment of public works and department of education, of the interior and of justice. large number of those departments are in the vast building known as the Sublime Porte, which is located near the great pal- ace of the sultan in Stamboul, kuowa as the Id Seraglio. I visited the Sublime Porto R:unlu and met & pumber of the leading rkish ofticials, 1 found that mavy of them 8 Koglish and that all converse in m The seorctary of state asked me o is complunents 1o Mr. Blaine when I rnod to Wushington snd to tell bim that he had a great admiration for his ubility. Auother cabinet minister who has CUAKGE OF THE NEWPAVEL FRESS of theempire und who 18 to a large exteut counceted with the interior, told me that the KOvernment 18 DOW O0vOUraging the news- paper and that the day would come when each city w the Turkish cmpire would have it daily paper. There ure a number of daily newspapars |n Constantivople. Some in sowo in French and some in ‘Turk- Th Poersiuns Lave & paper. The Greeks ,death. havetheir organ, and there are also news- papors for tho Jews and the Ar- menians, A pmissionary pross publishes a Bulgarian newspaper, but under- stand that with all these papers the censor- ship of the press is very strict nnd that tho greater part of the articles published are read over by the government officers beforo thoy are permitted to be printed. This i8 ese pecially so with the Bulgarian newspapers as the turks are much afraid of revolutions among the Bulgarians and they cut out everdylhlnu that relates to liberty or tends to the depreciation of the fovernment of tho sultan. In the Sublime Porte the leading foreign newspapers are taken, and 1spent an hour in a large room in which a dozen clerks were busy translating articles whiocly had been published m Europe and Amerioa upon Turkey, Every:hing that is written about the sultan is TIANSLATED AND PRESENTED TO TIM, and while | was prosent I noted that two of the clerks were working on articles from New York newspapers, The Turks are the governing class in Tur- koy, and it is well for the country that they are 0. . They do not make very good busi- ness mon, and the most of the business of the Ottoman empire is done by the Jews, the Armenians aud the Greeks. The Turks are not accumulative or industrious. Their for- tunes, whon made, seldom pass through more than one generation. The sons live high oft taoir fathers’ wealth, and if they should become bankrupt thoy look upon it as fate rather than as tho result of their own ex- travagance. They are soldiers and agricult- urists rather than business men, and they prefer the covernment service to any other. The better class of government oMcers are well paid. The grand vizier, who_is the sultan’s right-hand man, receives 00 month, and the other cabinet ministers get from #500 to $750 a month. In addition to this they have what they can make by bribes, and in all oriental countries this bribing or squeezing is legitimate. In China an officer receives a salary of $1,000 a year and is expected to make £50.000 a year out of perquisites ot blackmail. I doubt not it 18 much the same hore, It is certainly 8o to a lare tent in the collection of taxes. The sultan is supposed to receive one-tenth of the crop of every farmer in Turkey. The districts are, however, sold out to collectors and the collectors sub-divide their districts and resell them at auction to others. The tax-gatherers look at the crops and estimate Just hosw much their sharo ought to be, and the result 1s that instead of the farmer pay- ing 10 per cent of his crop in taxes, he has to pay ABOUT THIRTY PER CENT. Undersuch conditions it is no wonder that this great Turkish ompire is poorly farmed. Judges in Turkey get about $325a month, oceive from £125 to $200 per d common_soldiers are supposed to grow fat on their board and clothes and 8 Tufkey has a conscript sy 3 nany, and all of t bodied Mohammedan population receive a fair amount of military training. The Turks make magnificent soldiers, and those I see at Constantinople are as _finely formed and well built men as you will find. anywhore. T am told that they will soon be able to put an army of 800,000 trained men in the field, and théy have tho best mounted cavalry that I have ever scen. Poorly as the men are paid they seem to bo habpy, and they have in fighting a courage which other sol- diers have not, which comes from their im- plicit belief thut they WILL GO TO HEAVEN if thoy die fighting for the sultan, It may be this reason that excludes non-believers from the military service. The large num- ber of Turks who are not Mohammedans cannotenter the army if they would, but they hive nevertiieless to pay an exemption tax, amounting to $1.50 4 year per male per- son, and this ax s levied on the baby boy a year old as well as on the old man of seventy- five. When a poor Armenian, Greek or Jew happens to have a family of six or eight boys Lis expenses are materially increased, and and the number of these foreigners in Turkey is 80 large that this species of tax incomo amounts w a great deal. Scattered about the hills of Constantinople are barracks which look like palaces and which are proba- bly built with this tax. "The Turkish people are, 1 fact, taxed to The extont of the taxation and the poor methods of its collection grind the lfe out of the people, and the empire is practi- cally brankrapt. If 1t could be,oroperly man- aged it might yot pay its debts'and prosper, but.1t 18 very doubtful whether it will do this under the present government and people, As 1tis its foreign loans amount to more than amillion dollars, and there are import and export duties on nearly overything, The foreign bondholders control the customs and dues, and though there 1s a big tariff on to- bacco, and the tobacco trade in itself is a monopoly tne Sultan never gets any of its re- ceipts. He hands of the tribute from Egypt to the bondholders without looking at it, and he is 8o surrounded by his creditors’ that he can do nothing without consulting with them. The business of Constantinople, like that of all oriental cities, is done in bazaars, ulnu the buzaars of this eity ure, perhaps, the LARGEST IN THE WORLD, They are all under one roof, and this roof covers acres of narrow streets which wind inand out, cross and one another until in passing through them you lose your- self again and again, as though in tue mazes ot Rosamond's bower. The pavement of these bazaars are cobble stones. The streets are ubout five or six feet wide, and no car- riage or wheeled vehicle can drive to thom. ‘The stores are narrow cells, ranged along the sides of the streets, with wide ledges or divans in front of them, and the merchunts in turbans and gowns squat on rugs cross-legged with their goods hung_up above them and piled all around them. You can buy in these bazaars anything from a clove or u ucedle to a pair of diamond ear- rings, and there are old gold watches by the bushel and ottar of roses by the gallon. JFach bazaur street has its own line of mer- chandise upon it. The Jewelers work side by side, the shoomakers have o street of r own, and the dealers of old arms and clothes each have their own soparate lo- cality. "There is a saddle bazaar, where all kinds of gorgeous suddles wre made and sold in coll ufter cell. ‘Thero is & spico bazaar in which the perfumes of ground cinnamon greet your uostrils, There is a Persian bazaar in which you can buy enough rich shawls to carpet a farm from every long- bearded, richly dressed Mohammedan with- in it, and thoro is a_bazaar where the finost of gold ewbroidered curtains and other rare articles in silk and silver are sold, There are bazaars of all kinds and the Turk- 1sh merchants and tho traders that you find in them are of all classes and sexes and they come from all partsof the Mohammedan world, Here is a veilod lady in a balloon- like sillc @own from some pasha's harem, a DLACK-FACED BUNUCH WITH A WHIP in his hand stands beside her and watches her closely a8 she buys of a handsome Ar- menian, ‘Near her stands the humel or por- ter with his saddle on his back ready to carry away for her anything she may its weight b 500 pounds. ‘There is'a Ci sian with & high African cap and his bre: covered with cartridge boxes, He is a chief in tis native village and he is muking a trip to Constantivople. Here comes a Greek in red fez cap, gold embroidered waist and skirts which stund out from his body like those of the girl who rides the trick horse in tho circus, and here comes au Abyssinian slave in turban and gown whose fuce is us black as the silk Lat of that European wmer- chant who walks behind him. Here are Persians from Bugdad, Kurds from Asia and Bashi Hazouks from the interior. Here 18 & prett, menian lady and there, flirting with an 0id Turk us she Lries ona vew pair of slippers, is u durk-eyed, rosy-cheeked beauty we g the embroidered dress of Bulgiria. There a groun of Syrians are drinking coffee together and hero comos a lemonade peddler with a four-gallon bottlo on s hm‘l( offering a drink which he claims is sweeter than honey, Commission mer- chants and brokers by the dozens hang round you urging you toaccept their services in purchasing. Your eyes dance in trying to comprehend the colors of the raiubow which you see all around you, and your ears are deafened with a dozen strapge languages. You wander through strect after street, find. ing somethiing new at every step and when you_ think you bave vome to the end your guide tolls you that you are only at. the be- ginniug bave goue again and again to Constantinople bazaurs and I find something new in every strect every time I go. Fraxg G, CarpeNTER. Lafe will acquire new zest, and cheer- fulness roturu, if you wilt imoel your liverand kidneys o the performance of their functions. Dr, J, H, McLean’s liver and kidney balm will stimulate shem to healthful uction, 81 per boule, A COLONEL'S TRUE CHIVALRY He Drank the Whisky for His Wife's Bake. ARABELLA DECIDED TO WAIT, She Was Willing to Live in a Cot- tage But Drew the Line at a Flat — Ourrent Comioalities, How Art Helps Nature. Puck: Miss Violet Wilde (wandering in the Maine woods)-—‘‘How glorious it 18 to gnzo on ethis wild scenery and be- hold nature in all her primitive ma- josty!” Mr. Arden Faxon—‘H'ms--yo-es! Es- pecially when there’s a good comforta- )le hotel only a couple of miles away.” Kentucky Ohivalry. poch: Doctor—Well, how’s the ague this morning? Colonel Bluegrass (on a visit to Ohio) ~—I'm better, but my wife’s worse. “Worse, eh? Did she take that quin- ine and whisky I prescribed?”” ‘*Well—er—you see, doctor, [ thought, beiug only a woman, she might not be able to stand 1t as well as a man, you know. and so she took the quinine and 1 took the whisky." The Popular kavorite, Deutsche Wespen: Mephisto (be- hind the scenes)—Ha! what do I see? Only four wreaths thrown on the stage. and I paid for five? Another Sort of Thing. Puck: Miss Arabolla Liepyer—I do not mind your poverty, George. Until your fortunes mend, I could be happy in your wealth of affection; and in some vineclad cottage—— Mr. Wardofi—Pardon me, dear; you know I am only a poor city clerk, und cottages are out of the question. Do you think you could be happy ina third- floor-buck ‘furnished room, with a sew- ing machine buzzing overhead and some fiend below cooking cabbage? Miss Arabella---Maybe, George, dear, we’d better wait after all. A Promising Pupil. Siftings: Flat—Well, old man, how y daughter progress with her v sons? Sharp (with a tired smile)—Oh, she’s already able to detect the errors in the instruction books. He Was Engaged. Boston Courier: Fond your pa in, Addie? Gentle maiden—Yes, come in. F. L.—T don’t think he likes me, and he might— G. M.—There’s no afraid; he engaged F. E.—Engaged, is he? G. M.—Yes. He staid out until after last night and went off this morning without giving ma a chance to talk to him. She is talking to him now and be won’t be in this part of the house for the next three hours. Come right in. Texas lover—Ts but you may nced of being Almost as Bad. Merchant Traveler: **No doubt you have heard songs without words,” said a young man to Mrs. De Porque. “No,” replied _the lady, “‘but I've heard ‘em sing in_Italian where you couldn’t understand a word, and I don’t doubt that it was almost as bad.” . Oaught Him on a Pair. New York Mercury: Black—Did you ever notice a woman darning a pair of stockings and observe how she— White—I never saw a woman darning a pair of stockings in my life. Biack—Oh! Weil, perhaps your wife doesn’t darn your stockings. ‘White—Yes, she does; keeps them in oxcellent repair. But I never saw her darning a pair. Never saw her darn- ing more than one at a time. Then Black led White around the nearest corner and drew him into the depths of a subterranean lager beer saloon. Lesson in Pronunciation. New York Times: The correct sound of the vowel u is among the uice- ties of Fnglish pronunciation, but, after all, it is not half so im- portant as politeness, a fact which a rtain small boy seems to have for- gotten, “Mr. Featherly,” said Bobby at the dinner table, “how do you pronounce a-0?” ‘Do, Bobny,” replied Mr. Featherly, indignantly. “How do you pronounce d-o-w?” “Du-u-ew,” and Mr. Featherly put on a genteel air for the benefit of Bobby’s eldest sister. “Well, the nounce the se “Tew n, how would you pro- ond day of the week?” I think.” “You're wrong.”, “Wrong? How would you pronounce 1t Bobby “Monday.” : Liver and Lights. New York Mercury: Two gentlemen, walking along the streets, observed some workmen taking the windows from a house which they were about ]mlliug down, and which the tenant had eft the day before. “What tearing work,” said one, ““that they are making with that house!” *'Yes,” said the other, “‘yesterday the liver went'out and now they are taking out the lights,” '"Twas Not an English Sparrow. Detroit Frae Press: A sparrow was seeking food in a large field when a by d settled down with a great show of indignation and exclaimed: “Isyywhm, right are you trespassing “Why, T supposed this field to be com- mon property,” was the reply. *Ex- cuse my mistake and I will go over on yonder hil),” *But lobjeeu to the dust you may raise over there.” h?n I will look for bugs in the 88. “*But ] won’tallow the grass to be trampled under foot.” « “Then 1 will seek for worms thicket.” 1 But the noise will disturb me. In fact, 10 order to protect mysell I must eat you.” in the MORAL: It ie v easy to pick a fight with a man you know you can lick. Awakening of the Oyster, New York Herald, The oyster, down in his bed of ooze, Waked with a start from his summer snoze, Opened his shell, and said with a yawn : “1 foar that our season of safety is gone, For my pleasant dreams were disturved by the Jar "Lt always is cuused by the lotter It Aud_ 1 know, by the keal of that hideous sloop That some of us shortly will be in the soup!” There Were No Flies.on Him. Boston Courier: They had just begun their courtship and were swinging on the szarden gate, beneath the silent stars; and they were silent, too, for they were yet in the first dawniug of young love, uud scarce kuoew what to say to onch other, The silonce at last became emlm‘fxlvp‘ing, and she said: T must go in.” “What's your hurry?" “Oh, we're- just like fools, swinging here and sayiwg nothing.” “I don’t know what to talk about.” “Well, 1 mqfivms in,” “Wait a morjénlt. Say, you must bo n_wlull’y troubled by flies in the summer 0. ) Sir!™ 1310y “*Because you're so awfully sweet.” Ske didn’t go i Hle Wanted a Correction. Time: Trate ;individual (invading the sanotum)-«I:want to thrash the man that printed that lie about me. Said I was run out of Red Gulch and threat- ened with a dose of tar and feathers if T went back.” itor—‘Tsn’t it right?” ot by along shot. It wasn't tar and feathers at all; they, just threat- ened to shot me.” . An Enviable Record. Chieago Tribune: Manager of large manufactory—The position you ask is one that cails for both honesty and ca- pacity. Can you satisfly us as to those requirements? Applicant (hesitatingly) —I hardly know, I am afraid not. I have been twice defeated for alderman in my ward and been rejested as a juryman not less than eleven times. Manager (to assistant)—Put him on the pay-roll. Ll “LA SAVATE." The French Method of Fighting With Feet, Hands and Head. “Nature has given man hands, feet and head, and according to the rules of la savate you can use any of these as you choose,” said Prof. Trouchet, of the San Francisco fencing school, to an Ex- aminer reporter. ‘*You are at liberty to kick, butt or strike an opponent any- where from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, and ascientific savateur can successfully defend himself aguinst the combined attack of three or four persons. “In practice the hands are encased 1n ordinary boxing gloves, with long, well padded gauntlets to protect the arm in warding off the blows, while light slip- pers, with soles an inch in thickness, made of the softest hemp, are worn on the feet. The only rule in practice 1s that which requires the savateur to ac- knowledge each blow re d from either the hand, foot, or head by the customary touche.” The position differs materially from the pugilistic guard, continues the Ex- aminer. In boxing the left side is pre- sented to an oppounent, with the left hand and foot well to the front, two- thirds of the weight of the budy resting upon the right leg. In lasuvate the. men stand nearly facing each other, the knees well bent, each leg supporting an squal amount of the weight of the body. Sometimes ong side is presented and ometimes the other, the men chuuging sheir guard continually. The arms are keptfwell bent and drawn closely to the body. every blow being struck from the waist. In retreating or advancing the kneos are kept?well bent, the savateur maintaining a érouching attitude, The two men’ ook their positions with the left hand and foot forward. Prof- Trouchet immediately commenced oper- ations by a feint at a lead with the left, but instead his right foot flew forward and landed on:Amnsot’s left shin. The blow if well delivered with an ordinary walking shoe will break the tibia or lacerate the 1eg. The professor’s next attempt to lapd this biow was neatly parried by Ansot by simply bending his knee and raising his shin out of reach. After the touche had been acknowl- edged the men again assumed their po- sitions. Anmsot feinted with his left hand, and then brought his right foot forward as if to land a blow on his ad- shin, Prof. Trouchet parried by bending the knee, but, quick as a flash, his opponent pivoted on his left foot and kicked the professor in the stomach with the bottom of his right. After the touche the professor made @ left-handed lead for Ansot’s face, hit the latter threw uphis left arm to catch the blow, at the same time planting the toe of his slipper directly on the pro- fessors’ belt. This blow is one seldom given 1n practice, as it is very danger- ous on aceount of the difficulty in guag- ing the force of the kick and the move- ments of the opponent, but it is most af- fective in a street fight. In the next bout Ansot attempted a lead with his left hand, but instead of countering as a boxer would, Trouchet planted his toe with the greatest pre- cision over his opponent’s heart. Prof. Trouchet then made another left-handed feint, butinstead of kicking Ansot on the shin orswinging his right fist for a knock-out, he swung his right foot directly for his opponent’s chi but it was cleverly parried w. wrist, and the professor received a kick on the belt, fmmediately upon taking their posi- tions for the uext bout Trouchet made achange of guard, throwing his right foot and hand to the fronv. When An- sot attempted to change likewise his forward movement was stopped by the sole of Trouchet’s shoe being planted squarely in his throat. After sparring for & moment Trouchet sprang forward quick as a flash, and throwing Ansot’s arms aside but edhim squarely in the abdomen. Ansot didn’t have breath enough left him to touche, but he acknowledged that he hud been touched by sitting down suddenly and forcibly. Upon recovering himself he attempled to retaliate, but Trouchet’s right knee flew up and caught Ansot squarely on the forehead, On taking their positions again Trouchet aimed a straight blow at his opponent’s chin, but it fell short by an inch, and A\msnl';il'nsl)lsll his ankle with both hands. It logked as if Trochet must fall to the ground at the merey of his opponent, butdike a flash he turned and landed on his hands. Before An- sot could take advantage of the profes- sor’s position uup Kick him in the stom- ach Trouchet’s ¥ight leg shot out and landed first on Kis opponent’s chin and then on his belt. Ansot let goof the professor’s foot. When they squared off again Ansot sprang lightiy into the air. Out went both feet and biff! biff! they landed, one on Trouchet’s #tomiach and the other squarely between his eyes. But, not to be outdone, the “urgtessor feinted with his left hand aud Sppang into the air, at the same time m‘ndtpg both heels simul- taneously upon Angot’s chest. Every blow during the whole exhibi tion was delivered with the greatest precision, and at the same time nearly every one was as light as the pat of a chil(f. The accuracy in gauging the distance of an opponent was remarka- ble, even when kicking backward, **On more than one occasion,” said Prof. Trouchet, ‘‘have I been able to defend myself against great odds by my knowledge of la savate, While passing through Whitechapel, London, one night, I and my three friends were at- tacked by a couple of dozen hoodlums. By placing our backs together we were able to kick them over as fast as they could ¢ome up. *Ionce suw s man attempt to shoot one of the best Parisian savateurs, but almost as soon as his pistol was out of his ‘)uokul,il was sent whirling in the air by a kick on the elbow.” THE PALMY DAYS OF FARO. A Green Oloth Knight Indulges in Some Reminiscences. THERE WAS NO LIMIT THEN, One Point in Which Ploneer Omaha Was Distinguished Above Every Other City 1n the Country— O1d Time Games. Followers of Fortune, “Twenty-nins in the black, high and even,” remarked the game keeper at the roulette table in a well known Omaha gambling house a fow nights 0go, and as no one had bet on twenty- nine as a mattor of course the bank raked in the “chips.” One more turn and the few dry goods clerks who were playing were *“broke,” and sadly wended their way overto the faro table to wateh a few “rounders” “‘buck the tiger” in his lair, wishing the while for only a dollar more that they might win back what they had lost. *Gambling in Omaha is'nt what it was in the early days, or even a foew years ago,” sadly remarked the dealer as he gave the marble a vicious flirt, ‘‘Far from it. Then you wouldn’t see me idle like this. Even if roulotte is what people term a ‘sucker’s game,’ I would have all I could attend to, you may depend upon that. In the good old days we could gamble to our heart’s con- tent without any fear of molestation from any one, and one didn’t have to have any watchword in order to get into a gambling house, because the doors were open. Where to-day there is but one game of faro and this roulette table in Omaha, then you could find a dozen games of faro, half as many of roulette, keno, stud poker, crack-a-loo and any thing you wanted. As a rule all games were run on the square, but then there were one or two places where the tenderfoot could “drop his cash without much trouble, and even in the first-class houses the dealer wouldn’t hesitate to run in a ‘sanded’ deck if business hap- pened to be a little dull. “The first gambling house in Omaha was started long before 1 came hore, and I guess it would puzzle even the oldest inhabitant to tell who was first. I understand that the people awoke one morning and everybody was gambling. ‘‘The best houses in the city were Juck Morrison’s, Higgins’ and Bruck- er’s, The former was located over Hornberger's, Higgins did business at Twelfth and Douglas, while Brucker held open house to gentlemen only over the Palace saloon. a ruie the vis- itor was treated nicely at all these places, although I have heard that Higgins had a dealer or two who would not hesitate at. pulling a green man’s boot strap for what he had, -on the quiet. There used to be a place over the Turf Exchange where the gang used to try to make a winning to no purpose, and they finally gave it out that the deal wasn’t on the square. “There was a great crowd in Omaha in the early days---Bat Masterson, Pres Duval, Sherm Thurston, Doc Middle- ton, Charlie Pie Sam Murray, and a dozen other prominent characters that I could mention. None of them are. here wmow. Bat is in Colorado. poor old Sherm is dead, - Pierce and Murray are in busiu in Cheyenne and Doc Middle ton is running a saloon 1n the western part of the state. In addition to those were a hall-hundred other fellows, reg- ular rounders, who have iikewiso disap- peared. There were some protty stiff games then and it was no uncommon thing to hear that some one had won or lost from 5,000 to $10,000 in a night or two of play. Bat Masterson lost and won about $18,000 in two weeks, and at one time Charlie Pierce touched Morri- son’s bank for $22.000 in only three nights’ work. Why, Babe Barnes won about 815,000 in two or three weeis about eight years ago. He took $5,200 from Higgins at one sitting and would I vot_ more next night only he was barred from playing. t that time Omaha had a national reputation among gamblers, because it was the only town in the country where a man could play without a limit. You could play the four open for $500 as eas- ily as for 81 and if you lost could double up as long as your money lasted. I saw one man play the six one night for $100 lose, double and lose again until the card had gone back on him three times. He hesitated a moment, but finally planked down his $800 and the six won. That’s what 1 call nerve. You don’t see any bets like that over there now,do you? Well, you won’t for n while. The class of men playing here aro not those of the old days. That fellow on the corner with a big stack of reds is a vartender in a leading hotel, He is the luckiest man in the business now and usually *cops’ off from $25 to $100 per night.” Once in a.while he loses, but not often. “*Who come here now to play? Oh, everybody—clerks, merchants, second- rata spors and, once in a while, a news- paper man. The latter seldom have any money and ave no good to us only when they keep still about us. Oc- casionally we catch an actor. We had Mr. Dixey here at one time and played him until he dropped #1,800. Then he he wanted to give his check but I said no and stopped the wheel. He lost it on this table, ‘“‘Hello, here comos a couple of fel- lows who want to play. Double O wins, sir. No, you lose that bet, Here we go again; 18'in the red, low and odd,” and and the gamblor resumed his occupa~ tion of relieving two young men of their weok’s salaries on the latest improved plan, —_— ‘Among the Best Proofs Of the real value and efficiency of the proprictary medicines, of their purity and careful manufacture, is, when the wanufacturers, together with their as- sistants, use them in their own homes and recommend them to their relatives and triends. 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