The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-21
THE TURK IN EUROPE.

Inc reA0cF, pcKH1ROs ID AAVS o"oA0
of the origin Of she crescent upon the
fac and coins Of the Turkish Empire.
It dates back to an incident which oc-
CURED three Hundred a1d ninety years
before Christ, before Alexander the
Great was born, ana when his father.
Kins Phillip oe NAcedon, was besieg-
ina the city now called COnstantinople,
hui then called Bysantium. At crit
ital time during tho siege. . fash OF
light illuminated the northern horizon,
which revealed to the besieged the
approach OF philips army, and enabled
them to prepare an efkectual resist
ance. After tho retreat Of tho Mace
DOMAIN troops, the inhabitants or BY
zantium built an alter to Hectate, the
Torch-bear, and stamped cres cen
on their coins device adopted by
successive conauerero, and now the
special emblem Of tho Turkish power.
Whether this fash of light was caus-
ed BY the rising moon. or the rising
sun. or by an accidental conJuncCon
ofmirrors, We do not know. But an
instrument has lately been patented
called the Sun Telegraph, or the Nance
Heliograph, which utilizes the flashes
of lirht from mirror in such a man.
ner that news can be conveyed thirty
or forty, or even sixty miles. Some
of the English lighthouses, by means
of this instrument. are enabled to
flash messages to the distant shore.
When tho city OF ByEantium was
thus saved by fash Of light, the
Turks were an insignificant tribe OF
barbarians, ono OF many similar tribes
living in some unknown portion OF the
country now called Siberia. They
were indeed members Of the great fam
ily which we incorrectly style Tar
tars, indigenous in northern Asia. a
poet has said, westward the star o.
Empire takes it's way" This may b.
true at the present time; but the usua
course of an imperial race has beer
southwark, both in Asia and IL
Europe. A mild climate, while i
tends to redundant population, soft
ems the manners and renders peopl
luxurious and averSe to warfare. In
severe climate of the North limits tn
number Of the inhabitants, but reT
ders them hardy, adventurous an
brave. Northern people have cor
stantly cast longing eye southwark
and when their southern neighbor
have become sufficiently enervate
and degenerate, they have invaded tn
rich and fertile South, and have fri
uuently become the dominant race
What the brave. tough, and barba
Gus Germans were to tho Romans du
ing their later centuries, the hard
and barbarous TartArs were to tn
mild and luxurious Chinese; and tn
whole history Of that part OF the worl
for many ages seems to have been til
northern barbarions and the more CT
ilized southerners. Among the mo-
warlike and enterpfising of the Ia
tar tribes were the Turks. who ear
embraced the Mohammedan religion
which has strange power to conve
an undeveloped race into IRENE
dous conquering force. Europe fir
began to hear Of this formidable tril
as long ago as the year 844, when thu
emigrated to Armenia, part of whit
they hold to this day, and there thu
remained, little known and underv;
ued for two or three centuries,
creasing in substance and in number
until in 1880 q Sultan Of Persia DC
roWed band Of three thousand Tur
to assist him against the Sultan of B
bylon.
That was the beginning of Turks
power. These three thousand we
commanded by a real general, nam
Tanero1ipix, through whose master
conduct the Turks had = chance
show the metal they were made of.
Everything in the universe. from
ant to = newspaper. and from new
paper to an empire. ranks accordi
to its lighting power. This Tang
lipix not only enabled the Sultan
Persia to defeat him OF Babylon, /
when the Persian Sultsn refused
let the Turks GO home. and sent an
nv of twenty thousand men to p
vent them. T2ngrolipix attacked t
supesior force in tho night. and
it 70 utter ronk Nothing succe.
lihe ssccess! Othss sSibse jehsd
standard OF tho vis1es. 81 ~ Ku
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