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Show ABDUL RECONCILED r H Now Thinks Rather of Food Than M of His Wives. H B Former Ruler of Turkey Growing Ac- jR -." customed to Surroundings at Sail Sa-il - lonlka Greatly Interested j Jj , ' In Passing Events. Ill ' Salonika. Abdul Ilnmld, the ox-buI II tan of Turkey, is alowly becoming If mono accustomed to his surroundings and "reconciled to his captivity. Ho I linB cast off his morose demeanor, no i longer gives way to outbursts of an ger, and conducts himself In n quiet and retired manner. IRopoatedly ho expresses his satisfaction satis-faction at being kept at Salonika, requests re-quests that ho bo allowed to remajn at tho Villa Allatlnl, nnd prays that he may bo permitted to live thero and nd his days "Hko a good old man." For whatever may be tho opinion of his former subjects, tho ex-Sultan's confidence In his own virtues remains I undiminished. 5 "Why do my pooplo say and write Buch bad things about mo nnd attempt at-tempt to bluckon my character?" ho frequently demands. "Why do they revlvo everything thnt Is bnd nnd never mention all tho good things I havo douo for my country? After all, tho bad things were not due to me; they wero tho works of my councilors. council-ors. Every mnn 1 had round mo was bad absolutely bnd. I had no opportunity oppor-tunity of choosing my advisers." Very early in tho morning Abdul repairs to a small ante-room overlooking over-looking a small portion of tho main road. Mere he takes up his position at the window. Almost his first occupation oc-cupation Is to glvo orders to Emit Boy for his day's food. These orders are handed to nil ngent of tho municipality, munici-pality, who Is detailed off to do the I Abdul Hamld. B necessary marketing. Tho- oulslno is In tho hnnds of ono of Abdul's old cooks, who was specially brought for tho purpose from Yildlz. The dethroned . monnrch's favorlto II delicacy Is Bhrimps, which just now t are In season In Salonika. Ho Is now V being accorded the greatest liberty, 'i with pens nnd paper being supplied y, him, and ho is allowed, if he bo do- ' aires, to walk In tho garden at will. ; Ho has, however, up to the present, j tnken no advantage of this extension tl of liberty, preferring to remain cooped m up In his little ante-chamber. 'I He Bleeps badly and often paces tho jm t floor of IiIb bedroom tho whole night la' through. For this reason every after- ,'i noon he retires for n brief siesta. Ho P takes little plensure In tho society of JJ , his wives and seldom sees them, with tho exception of the mother of his son y Hnmil Effendl, who is hi almost con- P atant attendance upon him. His solo K recreation lies in tho newspapers, jj' a which are liberally supplied, nnd are road to him by his favorlto wife. Ho Eit takes tho greatest possible interest In )& passing events', both at homo and L abroad, but outsldo of this he has no k occupation and passes tho day with It? tho utmost monotony. Of Into, how Ml " ever, ho has had a deslro to employ Ml himsolf with amateur carpentering, &y nnd in accordance with this idea a jfjl full set of joiner's tools has bcou or- J dered from a Paris factory. j Various Interesting conversations i have been tho outcome of Abdul Ha- II . mld's newspaper reading. When ho I f had been road tho account of tho In- I i vestlture of his brother as sultau amid J j the acclamations of the populace, ho I was considerably agitated. H "Why is It," ho demanded, "that the people like my brother when they hate mo?" - "necause," he was told, "tho people V " do not like what you like, and like I what you do not." fl A gruut of disapproval was tho ex- ifl ' sultan's only response. LM i i |