The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-26

,ns away N ,Hcir graves before the Turkish
empire arose. Mast explain tNis>
Nahomrt WIS aa Arab and lived on the
desert and rode came, He died Ia tine year
GJ2. HIS SUCCESSORS, NE Artt "r Sa'arcn Ca
.lphs. being in waul Of 2ool UrrlUeyO sullicrs,
used 10 recruit from a set %. chaps called
Turks, vino lived in Asia, east ot Il hl- lake
now called he Caspian sea- Ihey were u
Kind Of TartarS, and hat 10 more religion
than Sioux indians, WHOM they rcsemhcj in
horsemanship. They never stole, hnt when
they wanted anything went right ana took i,
like an honest mau. They made heap Of
trouble among the Arabs on account OF want.
ing everything and praying toward the north
east instead OF the east. But about six hun
bred wears after Mahomet died, the Turks
were all driven out of their tathcrland on the
Caspian BY a deluge Of TartarS 1t was a
Tartar cmetc and they galloped Oft on their
horses. All the sultans, to whom they repaired,
required them 10 do was 10 say: There is
one God and MahOmet Is his prophe;' This
they did with much ability, and no collection
was taken up among them, as with converts
generally. In the year l2o9-the very last
crusade having been over several years-Oth-I
man or Ottoman, Turkish chief, became
sultan and founded kingdom. About one
hundred and fifty years atterward his success
ors took Consantlnople. Then Turkey, near
~ as we find it, was licked into shape.
THE TURK FINDS RUSSIA.
You will perceive from M story, my son,
that the Turk was = wild man VINO capslzed
his protectors, the Arabs, and took the green
banner OF Mahomet away from them, and set
up on his own hook. He drove the Greeks
into Greece, and sat down in COnstantinople,
and kept q horse market of Christian women.
You do not receive more pigs IN Cincinnati
than there were cap,ives driven into Constan-
tinople and sold or slaughtered. The Turk
was q bad man. He bore no more rescmb-
lance to the gentle Moor Of Spain, who con.
Cuered that country $50 years earlier, than
Ben Wade bears to Rutherford Hayes. The
Moor taught Us algebra, which We forgot so
easily, and how to farm crops in rotation, and
he built beautiful concert saloons, like the
Alhambra. The Moor was tine fellow com
pared to the Spaniard, who drove him out of
Spain because he would not believe in three
Gods instead OF one. After living in Spain
and making up stories like the Arabian
Nights" for 800 years, the Mcors were ex'
PEELED by Columbus patron Isabella. Then
IN revenge, they set up pirate states III Africa
where many an American had to be slave
or pay a ransom. And think, jeremiah, III
you and were kicked out of n country where
We LIiN ulj'It Nv llli III IO Gals W. HF''AH
turn pirates too.
The Turk has now been in Europe, in that
part we call Turkey, 300 years. Suppose the
Russians drive him out aud he takes to pira!
cy, Will it be any better for US, or ANYBODY y
The Turkish sultan is the head of the Moslem
church, except in Persia, and draws tribute
Asia He is generally the sue
cessor of the other man, who was assassinatedlI
Not to put too fine point upon il, the Turk
IS fit for nothing else than woman and war
HIS religion is the best thing abOuthi that
gives him the only Christianity he possesses
for Mahomet picked up his religion, like Joe
Smith, from the Jews and the Christians. 1T
took GOD years for both those religions To get
about four hundred miles from their sources
and yet we complain because Ben Wade does
not adopt Hayes's policy in five weeks! Ma
homet drove camels and Ben Wade drove OK.
en-; camels travel faster than oxen, and so i'll
will take Ben Wade at least eight hundred
years TO be converted
Poor old MahOmet was a good man as
long as he had one wife. She was widow,
and one of her kin became a Jewess, and that
is where Mahomet learned all his religious
points. She hadn't become very well &C.
quanted with them when she met old Ma
married women, and they couldn't remember
a dead Moses very well while he lived with
such beautiful beard. From being pure
man, he fell to weakness like Solomon and,
as all apostles and founders do, Mahomet en-
graved his errors into his religion. That is
why the Turk, as we'll as the Moor, are poly
gamists. For Mahomet started out to be an
artist in religion, with one God, one wife, one
camel, the unlties and the line Of beauty. Ev
en- the rough Turk has been growing mono
ramst, or One.wifed man, during the hundred
years. Mrs Turk is too expensive, and onei
Of her is enough.
The Turks first became acquainted with
the Russian bear about three hundred years
ago, when one of their sultans, a peaceful
chap, got an idea of buldlnga canal from
the Black STA, the Turks European lake, to
the Caspian sea, the home Of his fOrefathers
These two lakes are III Asia, 800 miles from
each other, the Caspian dropping down like
Lake Huron, the Black sea hanging west
ward ike Lake Superior But the Nolga
river, flowing into the Caspian, is at one
point in what is now Russia, only forty miles
from the Don river, running into the Black
sea. Mr.. Turk, bent on internal improve
ments, never suspecting that anybody would
interfere with him, and he proceeded to occu
Ply place called Aftrahkan, at the mouth of
the Volga. Suddenly Sultan Selim and his
Turks heard noise sounding like: Run EN-
off! Kick 'em Off Lock 'em off! Shove 'em
off! Romauoif! Hourra!" "In the name of
Mahomets old shoes" exclaimed the sultan,
what barbarous people are these:"
The Roo shers," said the great visier
"they rccr alOft a cross and want to eat all the
candles in our camp. The lamp of knowl.
edge has been sent them in vain. Instead of
burning the oil they drank it."
TILE CANDLE EATERS.
There were the Russians, ii was their first
appearance. They had been trained to fight
by the Recommendations of tho same race as
those who conquered France snd England,
but living hundred yesrs or more earlier.
Vladimir, the Russo-N orman king, is the
King Arthur and Jack the Giant Killer of
the Russians Almost nine hundred years
ago he was baptised Christian with all his
court, and they ate all the candles around the
altar But Russia would have been higher