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RECORD IIP THE TURK
Has Won and Lost More Land
Than Any Other Nation.
ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR.
Then the Tide Turntd, end One Great
Misfortune Followed Another Till
He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu
rope by the Treaty of Berlin. '
The “Terrible Turk," who may be
taken ns typifying the empire of the
Miltons, 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 Ihe sultan
was I lie buffliear of Ihe world. Even
llllle children In England shook in
their siioes when tbeg heard his name
mentioned, and those |s*ople who lived
anywhere near him dared not call their
lives their own.
But at last the tide turned. The
Turk began to lose, and one groat mis
fortune followed another.
Spain was the tirst big lilt of the
Turkish empire to break free. The
Moors, who were subject ami paid
tribute to the sultan, were driven from
province after province until at length
lliey w'ere cooped up iu t tie solitary
kingdom of Granada.
The last Moorish king to reign in
Spain was Boabdil-el-Cbueo, or Boab
<lll the Unlucky. In 1-182 Ferdinand
and Isabella, the king and queen of
Aragon and Castile, declared war on
film, and In 1402 lit- had to surrender
everything.
Hungary, which now forms half of
the dual monarchy of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, was a province of ihe
sultan for 150 years. Then it was torn
from him by the sword.
After this euine the turn of the
c/.nrs. The Hessians, whom he once
despised, have been tlie Turk’s worst
enemies. They have either robbed him
themselves or encouraged others to rob
him.
Holer the Croat set the example, but
was not. on the whole, very successful
in his wars against the Moslems. At
one time the Turks could have cap
lured and massacred Peter and his ar
my, but were frustrated by tlie 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 hud 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 begun to quarrel
among themselves, and civil war fol
lowed. The Turk took t lie 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 fleets of
Britain, France and Russia took part
in the operation.
In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as
a free and independent kingdom, with
n 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 Arab! 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 defiantly independent as
regarded all the rest of the world.
Their swift sailing dhows preyed on
the commerce of all Europe, and from
start to finish 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 loug 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 Algerian 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
banded over to Austria to keep in or
der. Roumania, Servla and Montene
gro wore declared absolutely independ
ent of him. Bulgaria was created into
a principality, nominally under the
sultan’s suzerainty, hut in reality free.
And then Austria annexed Bosnia and
Hercegovina.—Pearson’s Weekly.
aW. E. Young.
LUMBER.
YO U KX< >\V HIM.
Warehouse on Candler Street.
RULE OF THE ROAD.
A London Policeman Explained the
Matter Very Clearly.
“The first day in England,” says an
American traveler, “my heart jumped
Into my throat several times. Biding
on top of a bus, the driver‘would al
ways turn toward the left when we
were about to pass another vehicle,
and, although I knew that that was
the English custom, I held on tight
and got shivers anticipating a collision
every time. One morning I stepped
up to a policeman at King's Cross to
get my hearings, and, as lie was dis
posed to be talkative, I kept him com
pany.
“Among other things, I asked him
whether there was any rule requiring
pedestrians to keep to the left. No, he
told me; it was only for the roadway
that the rule held.
“I then asked him why It was that
in England they always turned to the
left, whereas in all other countries the
rule w'us to turn to the right.
“‘Oh, it’s very important to keep to
the left,’ he said seriously. I knew it
was very important to observe the
rule af the road, but why turn to the
left ?
“‘We]),’ he said, ‘l’ll show you. Now
you come here,’ and he led me to the
middie of the roadway. ‘You see.’ he
continued, ‘how tlie traffic moves along
the two sides of the road?’
“Yes, 1 saw, and a pretty sight it
was, too—a string of al! sorts of con
veyances coming toward us on our
right and another moving away from
us on the left as far as the eye could
see.
“ ‘Well, now’—and he was very irn
pressive—‘suppose you were driving
along in the middle here and another
kerrige was coming tlie other w’y, and
suppose you turned to the right, don't
you see you would be getting iu the
w’y of all those vehicles?’
“Yes, Isaw 7 that.
“ ‘Well, that's why we always turn
1o (he left.’
“1 learned afterward that the ‘bobby’
expected a tip for all the information
he laid given me.”—Youth’s Compan
ion.
A ROYAL DESPOT.
Wurttembcrg Prince Who Sold His
Subjects Like Cattle.
Cruel and despotic were some of the
petty princes who ruled the father
land before the Napoleonic wars swept
them away. Charles Eugene of Wurt
temburg, born in 1728, died in 1793
and during his sixty-five years of life
tormented his parents, his wives and
ills subjects. His'first consort. Fred
ericka of Beyrouth, was worthy of
him. When entering Wurttembcrg
soon after their marriage the girls
threw masses of flowers in front of
them. “What do those dogs want?"
the princess asked her husband. They
were always quarreling and never
spoke to each other without snarling.
The i>rince was always short of money
and sold 0.000 of his subjects to Eng
land to raise the wind. He took the
poor wretches from the fields, clapped
a uniform on them and sent them to
their destination as if they were cattle.
Once he called all the young men of a
certain district before him and made
the following speech: “My brave boys,
do you want to go to fight in the ranks
of the English heroes against the sav
ages of the continent?” No reply was
made for the moment. Then a number
of tlie youths stepped forward, and
one of them said, “We do not want to
be sold like sheep.” The prince prompt
ly gave orders for two of them to be
seized, put against a wall and shot at
once. Then while the blood was run
ning from the mutilated bodies of the
two unfortunates the prince by divine
right said: “Run away. You see I do
not want to impose my will on you. I
think of your welfare like a father
does of his children. You want to j
fight by the side of the valorous Eng- J
lisb.” All consented. Schiller heard his j
father tell this story, and he himself
related it in a scene of one of his ,
plays.
Phil May’s Drawings.
The late Phil May was popularly
supposed to be the "lightning artist"
par excellence-of England, it is quite
true that he could draw many wonder
ful things "straight off." But when a
subject had been chosen for a Punch
illustration many drawings were made
from a model or models who first had
to l*e discovered. By a process of se
lection each drawing of the subject
bore fewer lines. When the drawing
was published most of those who look
ed at :t thought that it had been done
with a few rapid strokes of the pen.
wher as it probably represented a
week's hard work.—London News.
CAVE HOUSES.
France Is Dotted All 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, east or west you tind these cu
rious imitations of the homes of prim
itive man. They stretch for fully sev
enty miles along the valley of the
l„oire, from Blois to Saurrur, 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 tbyir mysterious
looking caverns, and unless you have
learned the country you will he in
clined to Imagine that they possess
some of the characteristics of the
Iroglodytes 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
ants, 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 iu summer without
being in the least damp, while in win
ter they eau 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. This, 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 the majority of eases those rock
houses were not excavated for the spe
cial purpose of being inhabited, but
with the object of obtaining stone for
the building of bouses. At Rocheeor
bon there Is a rock dwelling carved
out of a single block of stone, and the
ingenious owner, in addition to making
n two story villa therefrom, has pro
vided himself \\ith 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 written 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 or
obligation left unfulfilled by dead par
ents, for has not the prophet said that
martyrdom even will not atone for an
unpaid debt?
“Eloquence is accounted the greatest
of all possible 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 subscriber 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.
CHURCHES.
METHODIST
Rv. W. T. Hunnicutt, Pastor.
Preaching at 11:30 a. m, and 7;45
p. m. .Sunday school at 10:15 a.
m., W. 11. Toole, superintendent.
Prayermeeting Wednesday at 7; 45
p. in.
BAPTIST
Rev. J. W. Perry, Pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday except first at
11:30 am, and Bp. m. Sunday
school 10:30. a. m., W. L. Blas
ingarne, superintendent. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening
at usual hour.
CHRISTIAN.
Rev. J. H. Wood Pastor. Preach
ing Ist, 4th and sth Sundays at
11:30 a. m. and Bp. m. Sunday
Sahool at 10:30 a. m. Claud Mayne
superintendent. Prayermeeting
every Thursday evening at usual
hour.
PRESBYTERHN CHURCH.
Services on the Ist and 3d Sun
days at 11 a. m. and §:3O p. m.
Rev Fritz Rauschenberg, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10:30 a. m. W. H. Quarterman
superintendent.
NATURE’S WARNING.
Winder People Must Recognize and
Heed It.
Kidney illstcme quietly—mys
teriously,
But nature always warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions.
See if the color is unhealthy—
If there am settlings and sedi
ments,
Passages frequent, scanty, pain
ful.
It's time then to use Doan's
Kidney Pills,
To ward off Bright’s disease or
diabetes.
Doan’s have done great work in
Winder.
C. T. Hamilton. Athens St.,
Winder ,t la., says, “Ti e too fre
quent passages of the kidney se
cretions caused me much annoy
ance. I sometimes had to get up
as many as four or five time dur
ing the night and in consequence
my rest was greatly broken. I
also had considerable backache.
Being advised to try Doan's Kid
ney Pills, I procured a box at
Turner’s Pharmacy and began
using them. I noticed an im
provement from the first and by
the time I had taken the contents
of two boxes, I was well enough
to discontinue their use. I am
now in the best of health and I
am pleased to endorse Doan’s
Kidney Pills.'’
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Cos.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan's
—and take no other,
TENNESSEE
MULES.
I will unload Satur
day morning a car of
Mules and
Horses.
I will offer them to
the trade at Rock
Bottom Prices, or ex
change them for sec
ond hand Mules.
J. W. Moore,
Winder, Ga.
PROFESSIONAL CARDT
LEWIS C. RUSSELL, m
w -
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Winder, Ga. t
Offices over First National Bank.
G. A, JOHNSjJ
ATTORNEY LAW.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Smirh & Carithere’
Bank Practice in State and U.
S. Courts.
J. F. HOLMES,
A TTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Statham, Ga.
Criminal and Commercial Law a
Specialty
W. H. QUARTERMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW .
Winder, Ga.
Practice in all the courts
Commercial law 7 a specialty.
W. L. DeLaPERRIERE
DENTAL SURGERY. -j
Winder - - Georgia
Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work
done in most scientific and satis
factory way.
Offices on Broad St.
SPURGEON WILLIAMS
DENTIST,
Winder - - - GeorgEa
Offices over Smith & Carithers
bank. Ail work done satisfac
torily,
ALLEN’S ART STUDIO.
All kinds of Photographs made
by latest methods. All work done
promptly 7 . Office on Candler St.,
Winder Gn.,
DR. S. T. ROSS,
V
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON,
Winder, Ga.
Offices over First National Bank.
EDMODN F. SAXON, M. D.
WINDER, GA.
Office in Segars* Building, over
Segars’ store. Residence on
Broad Street. Phone 116. At
■tend all calls day or night.
DR. R. P, ADAMS, *■
BETHLEHEM,GA.
General Practice. Telephone.
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Winder Train Schedules
Gainesville Midland Railway
SOUTH LOUND
No. 11 —Lv 8:40 V m.
No. 13 —Lv. 8:25 p. m.
No. 15 —Lv. 10:85 am; Sunday
only.
NORTH BOUND
No. 12 —At. 11:80 in.
No. 14 —A i. 6:20 pm.
No*. 16 —A.. 5:28 p m: Sun.onlv.l
No. 12 will run to Belmont re
gardless of No. 13.
Yard limits at Winder are ex
tended “south” to Seaboard Air
Line junction.
All trains going through Winder
yard must be under full control.
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