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RECORD OF THE TURK
Has Won and Lost More Land
Than Any Other Nation.
ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR.
Then the Tide Turned, and One Great
Misfortune Followed Another Till
He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu
rope by the T.-eaty of Berlin.
The "Terrible Turlk" who may be
taken as typifying the empire of the
sultans, holds one record at least
which he is not likely to be deprived
of. He has won and lost more terri
tory than any other nation.
There was a time when the sultan
was the bugbear of the world. Even
little children in England shook in
their shoes when they heard his name
mentioned, and those people who lived
anywhere near him dared not call their
lives their own.
But at last tlre tide turned. The
Turk began to lose, and one great mis
fortune followed another.
Spain was the first big bit of the
Turkish empire to break free. The
Moors, who were subject and paid
tribute to the sultan. were driven from
province after province until :ft length
they were cooped up in the solitary
kingdom of Granada.
The last Moorish king to reign in
Spain was Boabdil-el-Chaco, or Boab
dil the Unlucky. In 14S2 Ferdinand
and Isabella, the king and queen of
Aragon and Castile, declared war on
him, and in 1492 he had to surrender
everything.
Hungary. which now forms half of
the dual monarchy of the Emperor
Francis Joseph. was a province of the
suftan for 150 years. Then it was torn
.from him by the sword.
After this came the turn of the
czars. The Russians. whom he once
despised, have been the Turk's worst
enemies. They have either robbed him
themselves or encouraged others to rob
him.
Peter the Great set the example, but
was not, on the whole, very successful
In his wars against the Moslems. At
one time the Tarks could have cap
tured and massacred Peter and his ar
my, but were frustrated by the slave
girl. Catherine, whom Peter had mar
ried.
Catherine the Great tore the Crimea
from the unhappy Turk. together with
thousands of square miles of territory
along the shores of the Caspian.
In 1821 the Greeks, who had been
slaves of the sultans for many centu
ries, rose in rebellion and drove the
Turks out of the country. But then
the Greek leaders began to quarrel
among themselves, and civil war fol
lowed. The Turk took the opportunity
to seize the country once more.
But the massacres and other horrors
which followed aroused Europe. In
1827 the Turkish fleet was destroyed
at Navarino. The combined feets of
Britain. France v:d Russia took part
in the operation.
In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as
a free and independent kingdom, with
a king of its own.
For nearly a century Egypt, which
the Turk conquered in 641, has been
part of the sultan's empire in little
more than name. and.since 1882, when
the English occupied Pharaoh's coun
try after Arabi Pasha's rebellion, the
Turk has had practically nothing to do
with Egypt.
The Moorish corsairs who had their
lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac
knowledged the sultan as their suze
rain, but were deflantly Independent as
regarded all the rest of the world.
Their swift sailing dhows preyed on
the commerce of all Europe. and from
start to fmnish they seized many thou
sands of white captives, many of
whom they ransomed, while others
they doomed to slavery.
When asked to keep his piratical
subjects in order the sultan declared
himself helpless to do anything. The
freebooters went on doing as they
liked for a long time. Then France
became weary of patience and forcibly
took possession of the city in 1830.
Since then she has annexed 307,980
square miles of f~lgerian territory once
subject to the sultan.
Then came the Turk's worst time.
Russia made war on him, and the Bal
kan states, which had been held as
provinces by Turkey for hundreds of
years, revolted, flew to arms and did
everything they could on the side of
Russia. Had the czar been left to him
self the Turkish empire would have
been practically destroyed. The other
great powers, however, were afraid to
see Russia too powerful. They insist
ed on summoning the congress of Ber
lin.
By the terms of the treaty of Berlin
the Turk was almost swept out of Eu
rope. Bosnia and Herzegovina were
handed over to. Austria to keep in or
der. Roumania, Servia and Montene
gro were declared absolutely independ -
ent of him. Bulgaria was created into
a pri'ncipality, nominally under the
sultan's suzerainty, but in reality free.
And then Austria annexed Bosnia and
Herzegovina.-Pearson's Weekly.
The True Bohemian.
"A true bohemian is a man who bor
rows a dollar and then invites you to
lunch with It."
"Wrong again. A true bohemian is
a man who invites himself to lunch
with you and then borrows a d.'llar."
-Kansas City Star.
I think there is success in all honest
endeaeor and that there is some vic
tory gaine'd in every gallant struggle
that is mnade.--Charles Dickens.
No Need of Them Some Day.
At a monthly examination a boy of
fourteen failed to spell 15 per cent of
his words correctly. The tutor told
him this was surprising and must not
happen again. The boy replied that he
thought he had done pretty well on
the whole.
"You must study those words over
and over again." replied the tutor.
'"This must not occur at any future
time. Study themi so that you can re
member them forever."
The boy stood still in silent contem
plation for a few moments and then
remarked:
"-I was just thinking that I wouldn't
live that long."-Harper's Weekly.
Revolts at Cold Steel.
"-Your only hopie.'' said three doctors
to Mrs. M. E. Fisheri. Detroit. Mieb.,
sutfering from severe rectal trouble.
lies in an operation." "then I used Dr.
King's New Life Pills." she writes. "till
wholly cur-ed." They prevent Appendi
citis, cure Constipation, Headache. 25e.
at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co., and J. E.
CAVE HOUSES.
France is Dotted Al Over With These
Curious Habitations.
"There are no fewer than 2.000.000
cave dwellers in France," writes a
traveler. "Whether you travel north.
south, cast or west you fInd these cu
rious imitations of the homes of prim
itive man. They stretch for fully sev
enty miles along the valley of the
Loire, from Blois to Saumur. and as
the train proceeds you can catch a
glimpse from time to time of their pic
turesque entrances, surrounded by
flowers and verdure. As likely as not
you will see the inhabitants standing
or sitting in front of their mysterious
looking caverns. and unless you have
learned the country you will be In
elined to imagine that they possess
some of the characteristics of the
troglodytes of old and that their
homes are mere dens. Not so. as you
will find on visiting them.
"They are nearly all well to do peas
nts. owners perhaps of some of the
vineyards that deck the slopes on all
sides. and their habitations are, as a
rule, both healthy and comfortably
furnished. These singular houses are
remarkably cool in summer without
being in the leat damp. while in win
ter they can be warmed much more
easily and better than ordinary -apart
ments. The health of the modern
troglodyte is. as a rule, excellent. and
It is not uncommon to find centena
rians among them. TlgIs, however. is
by no means surprising when we con
sider that their homes are not only
healthful to live in, but are also com
fortably furnished and fitted up.
"In tha majority of cases these rock
houses were not excavated for the spe
cial purpose of being inhabited. but
with the object of obtaining stone for
the building of houses. At Rochecor
bon there is a rock dwelling carved
out of a single block of stone, and the
Ingenious owner. in addition to making
a two story villa therefrom, has pro
vided himself with a roof garden,
from which a fine view of the valley
can be obtained. A similar house ex
ists in Bourre. in which locality the
disused quarries are said to date back
to the days of the Romans."
WAYS OF THE ARABS.
Dodging 'the Evil Eye and Tests of
Filial Piety.
Very curious to the occidental mind
are some of the ways of Arabia and
other Mohammedan countries. A trav
eler says: "One of the objects of the
most anxious solicitude for Moham
medan parents is the shielding of their
children from the evil eye. Any person
expressing admiration for a child ex
cept by pious ejaculation or the invo
cation of blessings upon the prophet
fills the heart of the parent with ap
prehension. When children are to be
taken into the street their faces are
often even smeared with mud or
greasy substances lest their comeliness
should attract attention. and in order
that the person of the child Itself
should escape attention gaudy and glit
tering ornaments are hung about it
and writteri charms sewed into leather
medallions suspended from its neck.
"One of the best of Arab character
istics Is that of filial piety. Sons and
daughters of deceased parents takE
upon themselves all sorts of irksome
tasks accounted as expiatory of thE
minor faults committed by the depart
ed ones during their lifetime and dis
charging faithfully every payment ox
obligation left unfulfilled by dead par
ents, for has not the prophet said that
martyrdom even will not atone for at
unpaid debt?
"Eloquence is accounted the greatest
of all possibie gifts. According to
Arab tradition. the most superlativE
degree of eloquence was attained by
King David, such being the beauty of
his diction, added to the poetry of his
words, that when he declaimed the
Psalms even birds and wild beasts
were spellbound, while on some occa
sions as many as 400 men died from
the excess of delight induced by his
reading."-Chicago News. -
Fumigating Library Books.
The library subscriber sniffed suspi
ciously at the copy of "The Three
Musketeers" which she was about to
take' home. "Carbolic acid," she said.
"Have you been fumigating the
books?"
"No. we haven't," said the librarian,
"but some subscribdr has. Many of
our patrons like to do their own fumi
gating. Usually they use carbolic acid.
At times when a good deal of sickness
is reported the fumigating craze is es
pecially severe and one-third of the
books brought into the library smell to
heaven with carbolic acid."-New York
Press.
A Raw Recruit.
Corporal (to town recruit on stable
guard for the first timie)-Now, you've
got to patrol these 'ere lines an' 'am
mer in any pegs that get loose an' gen
erally look after the 'orses.
Recruit (whose knowledge of horses
is of the slightest)-And what time am
I to wake the horses in the mornin'?2
London Tit-Bits.
Off Guard.
"How did it happen that your f'riends
got the best of you?" queried the in
quisitive person.
"They got busy while I was watch
iig my enemies," explained the mat
who had got the short end of it.-Chi
ago News.
Simplified Spelling.
"Write me an example of simnplified
spelling, children," said the teacher,
and Tommie wrote: "The man who
carves monuments urns his living."
New York Times.
Man's great fault Is that he has so
many small ones.-Richter.
An Easy Jiob.
Indifference displayed in the face of
the uncertainties and dangers of 1-ife is
characteristic of the Wessex dwellers
in the "Islands of the Vale.'' according
to Eleanor G. Hayden. the author of
the book of the title, who supports her
statement with a story of humorous
A certain cottage and its old mistress
had improved so greatly in comfort
and appearance that a visitor shrewd
l surmised that the son of the' house,
a lazy ne'er do well, had turned over
a new leaf. He inquired about it.
"Yes, sir, my son's in work now.'
s'id the smiling old mother. "Takes
good money, he does, too. All he has
to do is to go twice a day to the circus
and put his head in the lion's mouth.
The rest of the time he has to him
Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air
assages. stops the irrxitat'on in the
throat, soothes the intlamed membran
es. and the most obstinate cough disap.
pea's. Sore and inflamed lungs are
bealed and strengthened. and the en~lr
i expelled from the system. Refuse anrj
but the genuine in the yellow package,
SPEARING A BEAR.
Bruin's Sharp Teeth Bit Through the
Copper Sheathed Weapon.
"Twice in niy chase of -bruin I have
made use of a bear spear as my weap
on of attack," writes Count Eric von
Rosen. "and I may take this opportu
nity to maintain that the use of a
spear entails no greater cruelty than
any other mode of attack and that
every hunter should be armed with
one in reserve, since these powerful
beasts :ave a vitality that triumphs
over a stray bullet or more unless
lodged in a vital region, and when
wounded their retaliation is redoubta
ble and easily fatal. In Karelia, Fin
land, the bear is yet regarded as a
noxious horror. The great black haired
'slagbjorn,' or killing bear, is still ram
pant there. and a couple of winters
back I was able to wreak justifiable
vengeance on some beasts that had
killed over a score of cows and nine
horses. News had been brought me
that some of these rascals were hiber
nating on a small marsh bound island.
"We found no difficulty in locating
their lair, and I took up my post at
the entrance to it, armed only with my
spear. I mcg explain that a bear spear
consists of an ash staff some two
yards long and about a couple of
inches in diameter. There is a blade
of steel about twelve inches in length,
and the shaft is copper cased as a pre
vention against the teeth of bruin. As
soon as my gentleman appeared I tried
to stick him in the throat, but he par
ried adroitly, and I missed. I made
another lunge and succeeded in driv
ing my spear point through his breast.
"He started roaring furiously and
snapped at my copper cased staff. then
made n- . ttempt to strike at my arm
wit. '. huge fore paw, so that I
m,,_ :?,. drop my weapon. The powerful
brute hung on to my spear at the one
end, while I as grimly held on at the
other end. His bites went through the
copper plate, and he started shredding
the wood beneath. Strenuously I
checked his further advances, and
gradually, for his wounds began to
tell, his resistance weakened, and he
dropped at last over the aperture of
his den.
"I pulled out the spear, but so much
strength still remained in him that he
seized the blade and bit it with a
force that left deep indentations in the
steel. My companion then finished
him off with his own weapon. This
struggle from start to finish covered
five minutes."
QUEER ENGLISH TAXES.
Babies as Well as Windows Used to
Help Swell the Revenues.
In 1695 a tax of 2 shillings had to be
paid by the parents of every "little
stranger" born in England except by
people in receipt of alms. Curiously
enough, a measure proposing a tax on
babies was introduced some time ago
in the local parliament of the German
princedom of Reuss by which it was
proposed that the parents or mother
when registering the birth of a child
should in each case contribute c. sum
amounting to 10 cents.
Some time ago a good deal of merri
anient was aroused by a measure in
troduced in the legislature of New
Jersey by which it was proposed to
tax beards, but even this is not an
original proposal. Queen Elizabeth put
a tax on every beard of a fortnight's
growth, while a couple of centuries
ago Peter the Great insisted that all
nobles who wore beards should pay
100 rubles for the privilege.
As chancellor of the English ex
chequer Pitt rendered himself -ery uin
popular by the extraordinary means
to which he resorted in order to im
prove the state, of the country's ex
chequer. He it was who first intro
duced the income tax, and he also
levied a tax upon horses, which caused
a certain farmer to use a cow for the
purpose of riding to and from market]
Even more dissatisfaction, however,]
was caused by Pitt's increase of the
window tax, first imposed in the year
that the tax on babies was enforced.
This window tax caused property own
ers to wall up as many windows as
possible, in order to reduce the amount
for which they were liable.-Philadel
phia Ledger.
Buddhist Ceremonies.
Some Buddhist ceremonies present a
striking analogy to certain Christian
rites. An old missionary says: "The
very titles of their intercessions, such
as -goddess of mercy,' 'holy mother,'
'queen of heaven,' with an image of
the virgin having a child in her arms
holding a crescent, are all such strik
lug coincidences that the Catholic mis
sionaries were greatly stumbled at the
resemblances between Chinese wor
ship and their own when they came
over to convert the natives to Chris
tianity."-London Standard.
Despite the Jokesmniths
Groeers never put sand in sugar.
Architects often build houses within
the original estimates.
Coal dealers usually give a little
overweight.
Telephone girls are nearly always
courteous.
Salesladies ditto.-Washinxgton Her
ald.
A Recommendatio.
5Sver been in jail?"
"Countless times. But that's no det
riment to a man in my business."
"And what is your business?"
"I'm a chauffeur."-Louisville Cou
rier .Tournal.
Like a Streak.
"Was his auto going so very fast?"
"Your honor, it was going so fast
that the bulldog on the seat beside him
looked like a dachshund. -Houston
Post ___
A Diffieult Task.
One of the greatest puzzles. said a
member of parliament, is how to con
cede the most worthy and honorable
intentions to an opponent, how to pro
fess an unswerving and unfading be
lief in his uncompromising veracity
and bona fides and at the same time
to convey a distinct conviction that he
is an impostor and a humbug of the~
first water and an accomplished Ana
nias carrying a welter of thirteen stone
seven pounds in the mendacity handi
cap.-London Opinion.
His Reasoning.
Bobby-I believe you are engaged to
Mr. Snooks at last, sis: Sis-What
makes you think so? Bobby-Because
he's stopped giving me pennies!-Lon-]
dou Opinion.
Foley's Orino Laxative cures consti
padon and liver trouble and mnakes the
bowls healthy and regular. Orino is
superior to pills and tablets as it does
nogripe or nauseate. Why take any
EXPLOSIVES.
How They Are "Set Off" and How
They May Be Handled.
There are two ways in which an ex
plosive may be set off-by burning and
by detonation. The burning process is
progressive from oue parUicle to an
other, as of fire in a grate, only Infinite
ly.more rapid. This process is adapted
to gunpowder, requiring, as it does, a
very short time for the burning up of
the explosive body. The other form of
explosion, the detonative, being at
once throughout the mass, is unfitted
for use in guns, which would be smash
ed to pieces, but i4nadapted to shat
tering or breaking purposes, such as
blasting rocks in mining operations and
bursting charges in shells, torpedoes
and submarine mines. Substances of
the latter sort are termed high explo
sives. Some examples may be given
of the safety with which the most dan
gerous explosives may ordinarily be
handled. For instance, a considerable
quantity of gun cotton, such as pure
cotton treated with nitric acid, may be
set afire and will burn quietly, but if a
sufficient mass be set afire the heat and
pressure on the surface of the burning
body will cause the whole to be ex
ploded. A torpedo filled with wet com
pressed. gun cotton will not explode If a
shell from a cannon should penetrate it
and burst in the mass of gun cotton.
Even nitroglycerin will burn like oil in
small quantities, and a stick of nitro
glycerin -ay be set on fire without dan
ger of harm.-St Nicholas.
A CHARMED KEY.
Its Refusal to Work and What Might
Have Happened.
You may be interested to hear of a
thing which happened to me In Brit
tany last summer. I had to sign some
railway transfers before the nearest
British consul, who was at Brest. I
locked up the papers and railway
stock In a Breton cupboard as high as
the ceiling and very solid. I kept the
key in my pocket.
When my cousin and I were ready
to start, I took out the key, and it
would not open its own cupboard. The
servants came in turn and tried in
vain. We had to miss our train to
Quimper, which was our first stage to
Brest. Now, our village locksmith was
very rough and ready, so the next
morning I said I would try the key
myself once more before he perhaps
ruined my lock.
'The key fitted perfectly, the cup
board opened easily, we got the pa
pers, and we went But, imagine, we
found at the station placards posted
up telling of the awful wreck of the
Brest train the day before, and it was
the train in which we should have
been but for the olstinacy of the key.
We saw the carrizges all fallen into
the river, and the dead and dying were
In the hospital at Quimper. We feel
this to be a preservation wrought
from the next world that is so near.
Mrs. Hodgson Pratt in Light.
Savage Crabs.
The most savage specimen of the
crab species is founad in Japan, seem
ing to dream of nothing but fighting.
to delight in nothing half so much.
The minute he spies another of his
kind he scrapes his claws together in
rage, challenging him to the combat.
Not a moment is wasted in prelimina
ries, but at it they go, hammer and
tongs. It sounds like two rocks grind
ing against one another. The sand
flies as the warricors push each other
hither and thither until at lr -t one of
them stretches himself out in the sun.
tired to death. But he does not beg
for mercy or attempt to run away.
only feebly rubbing his claws together
in defiance of the foe. That foe comes
closer, and, with his claws trembling
with joy at his victory, the conqueror
catches hold of one claw of the van
quished crab, twists it until it comes
off and bears away the palpitating
limb as a trophy of his prowess. Such
is a battle between warrior crabs.
Arctic Dog Life.
Nowhere in the world has the dog
such unrestricted right of way as in
our most northerly possession-Alaska.
In winter, when the more than 600,000
square miles of terribory are sealed up
in solid ice, dogs are almost the sole
means of getting from place to place
in fact, they seem necessary to life It
self.
The aristocrats of arctic dog life are
the mall teams in.-the service of the
United States government. They are
today a superior breed to the dogs em
ployed some half dozen years ago be
fore great gold discoveries demanded
increased mail service.-Lida Rlose Mc
Cabe in St. Nicholas.
A Useful Tree.
The carnahuba palm of Brazil may
be said to be the world's most useful
tree. Its roots make a very valuable
drug, a blood purifier. Its timber will
take a high polish and is in demand
among cabinetmakers for fine work.
Te sap becomes wine or vinegar. ac
coding to the way it is prepared. and
starch and sugar are also obtained
from this sap.
The fruit of the tree is a cattle food,
the nut is a good coffee substitute, and
the pith makes corks.
Sarcastie.
Mr. Smith (after ill tempered speecli
by Brown)-Mr. Chairman and gentle
men, following the example of Mr.
Brown's luncheon, I shall venture to
disagree with him.-Punch.
A Logical Conclusion.
"The old time sailors do not seem to
think much of steam vessels."~
"Well, it is only natural for an old
sea dog to stick to his bark."-Balti
more American.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of
every virtue.-Confucius.
A Surprise For the Thief.
Herr Hager. a rich and influential
iner. frequently had watches picked
from his pocket. At first he had re
course to all kinds of safety chains;
then one morning he took no precau
tion whatever and quietly allowed
himself to be robbed. At night, on
returning from his business, he took
up the evening paper: he uttered an
exclamation of delight. A watch had
eploded in a man's hands. The vic
tm's hands were shattered and the
lft eye destroyed. The crafty bank
er had filled the watch case with dy
namite, which exploded In the opera
t~ion of winding.-London Telegraph.
C R. Kluaer, the Jeweler. 1060 Vir
~inia Ave., Indianapolis. Ind., writes:
I was so weak from kidney trouble that
I coud walk a hundred feet. Four bot
ties of Foley's Kidney Remedy cleared
my complexion, cured my backache and
the irregularities disappeared. and I
can now attend to busmness every day,
and recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy
to all sufferers, as it cured me after the
doctors and other remedies had failed."
W. E rown & Co.
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