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Show ABDUL HAiVIlP STltL ALIVE Abdul Hamid is alive! The former sultan is in Salonica and has not been secretly conveyed to Constantinople. Those are the replies to two recently recent-ly circulated reports which have told of the former sultan's demise and of his having been spirited away during the night to the capital. The latter report was merely founded upon the passage of a train full of munitions, concerning which quits special precautions precau-tions were taken. If you want to set yourself a difficult diffi-cult task it is in going to Salonica and trying there to find out some details de-tails concerning the physical condition condi-tion and mode of life of the deposed Bultan, who for so many years was the political chess player who kept the diplomatists of Europe busy, and who was so skilled in the game that he usually us-ually saw 20 moves ahead, while the ambassadors at Constantinople saw but two or three. Abdul Hamid in his confinement as the prisoner of his people is enveloped in much the same mystery as he was In Yildiz Kiosk at Constantinople, and rumors and reports unlimited circulate concerning him most of them inventions, a very few approaching the truth |