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Show THS SULTAN A BAD DEBTOR. flow lie 3Iatlc uti Atiiorlcnn I.unilicr Firm Vkult for ItM luy. A certain lumler llrjii of Uiia city nmre than two years' Hgo shipped to the aultau of .Turkey Bcvcral thouaaiud 'dollara' W0rl& of itiuost valuable gefous) Tlie'.'order included ma.h-uany and eLonyjlogS of itn'UKuul s'ze ni.l vt tho Jmcstvcolprlpg and.gcueral (pudity that tiiild be obtained. The payment, or rat.ier the pi'mise to pay, wiui i.i j tho ithai.o of it draft on the suitan, tiu I ri.oi.jy to be furthcoming upon tin a.rrial of the logs at Cons nuiitiopu NuturaMy tho American ilrm legarilvi the itnpcrlul treasury of '1 urkey as good for the prico of d shipme'tij o' lumber. In due time the. mahogany and the ebony reaehed Ihe (iolden'iloruaud the '.McditcrramciMi Steuniship company sent in to the shippers a gentle remind er that tuo settlcunent ol irc.gni charges was in order. 15:. t meanwhile notlJiuig had been heard from thw sultan sul-tan or ids agents and the .New Yorl lumber deniea did not fancy being held responsible for ehargeu upon goods which were noit yet paid l'or. Cabl" d.'upatchea and letters v.elv aent o the parte, but the "Sick Man of 13u lope" was apparently too busy t ttend-ing ttend-ing to his Anueniaji aubjiw-ts to lx able to lock after Hiich trillea aa Re-ttlin? with American creditors. No satisfactory satisfac-tory response of any sort could be obtained. ob-tained. 'I hen the lumber firm made application applica-tion to Mavroyeni Bey, at that time tiro Turk-'ah minister ut- Washinglc-n. He ptomirtud to Ree that his sovereign paid t.he bill withoat further deny, and the hopes of the dealers were again rahed. L5ut not even Mnvroyeni Hey was able to open the Kidtnn'n purae-stringa. purae-stringa. The Armenian (piestion wt.-ll abQrlvd ids attention. Mavroyeni Bey was refilled without ha.viiif w-eomplished w-eomplished this bif of work. The firm had a lawyer working on the ene, bir lutil for mouths practically abandoned all idea of getting the money. On the Inst day of October, things took a most unexpected and jovful turn, lnfluemvd afar oiT, it may be, by the prevailing American sentiment in favor of paying one's do-bls honestly, hon-estly, about noon on that day word was sent to the firm that tie draft had Wn paid. Since then the actual money . htifl been received. The moral of the transaction would went to be that, if you have bushiest dealings with Abt'.ul llamid II., you must bo contont o wa4t awhile, for your money, lie being a slow debtor. bit one who will come around tit last if you give him plenty of time. N. Y. Tribune. |
