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

The reader, peHnApe, Is HOt aware
of the origin Of ehs crescent upon the
FLAG and coins OF tho Turkish Empire.
IT dates back to an incident which oc-
Cured three hundred aad ninety years
before Christ, befors Alexander the
Great was born, and when his father,
KIM Phillip oe Nacsdon, was besieg-
ing the city now called Constantinople,
but then called BysAntium. At crit
ital time during tho siege, fash or
light illuminated the northern horizon,
which revealed to tho besieged the
approach or philips ormy, and enabled
them to prepare an effectual resist
anca. After the retreat Of the Mace
DOMAIN troops, the inhabitants OF BY
zantium built an alter to Hectate, the
Torch-bear, and stamped cres cen
on their coin-a device adopted by
successive conauerere, and now the
snecial emblem of tho Turkish power.
Whether thi, fash OF light was caus-
ed by the rising moon. or the rising
sun. or by an accidental conjunction
of mirrors, We Go not know. But an
instrument has lately been patented
called the sun Telegraph, or the Nance
UeliOgraph, which utllizes the hasheS
of light from mirror In such 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 the city OF ByEantiurn was
thus saved by fash of light, the
Turks were an insignificant tribe OF
barbarians, one OF many similar tribe
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 OF
Empire takes its way" This may be
true at the present time; but the usua
course of an imperial race has beer
southwark. both in Asia and II
Europe. \ mild climate, while i
tends to a redundant population, soft
ems the manners and renders peopl
luxuriou. and averse to warfare. Th
severe climate of the North limits tn
number OF the inhabitants, but rem
ders them hardy, adventurous AM
brave. Northern people have con
stantly cast longing eye southwark
have become sufficiently enervate
and degenerate, they have invaded tn
rich and fertile South, and have fire
uuently become the dominant race
What the brave. tough, and barbal
Gus Germans were to the Romans dul
ing their later centuries, the hard
and barbarous Tartars we're to tn
mild and luxurious Chinese; and tn
whole history Of that part OF the worl
for many ages seems to have been tn
northern hArharions and the more ci'
ilixed southerners. Among the mo:
warlike and enterprising of the Ia
tar tribes were the Turks, who earl
embraced the Mohammedan religion
which has strange power to CONVEX
an undeveioped race into a tremel
dous conquering force. Europe fir
began to hear Of this formidable trif
as long ago as the year s4i, when the
emigrated to Armenia, part Of whld
they hold to this day. and there the
remained, little known and underys
ued for two or three centuries, /
creasing in substance and in number
until in 1880 3 Sultan Of Persia 90
roWed band Of three thousand Turl
" 1SclNt hAA tIiC COAStAL VI -
bylon.
That was the beginning Of Turks
power. These three thousand we
commanded by real general, nam
Tangro1ipix, through whose master
conduct the Turks had q chance
show the metal they we're made of.
Everything in the universe, from
ant to newspaper. and from new
paper to an empire. ranks aceordi
10 it's fighting pewcr. This Tangl
lirix not only enabled the Sultan
Persia to defeat him OF Babylon. b
when the Persian Sultan refused
let the Turks ge hcme. and sent an
nv of twenty thousand men to p
vent them. T2ngroiipix attacked Il
superior force in the night. and I
it 10 utter rouk Nothing succee
lihe ssccess! OsheF sTiess jcined
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