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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. * 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. JOIN THE LIFE BRIGADE IT WILL help you to help yourself. It will show you • the way to health and success. * What more do you want? Membership soc a year includ ing 12 lessons and a useful - present. Money back if you desire it. Particulars and first l lesson icc. j THE LIFE BRIGADE, Box 186, Elberton, Ga.