Arizona weekly miner., 1877-06-01

that Russia enters ol tlis @cHa N'N'' "''
 much as the aut0crAt demanding surrender and asserting dominion, and seeking con conquest, as it does aS the leader, TepIveeh' A-
 tive, embodiment of a new vel old, oht "i'
 ways powerful racc-to-ce, having character
 istics peculiarly itS own. To me, lSi'sia ia the = aguliau rtcc, embatticd anu mar halted for the future prepared L. assert it' destiny and bound to proclaim and Nind'- cate Is aspirations Are these go1d "f eNlii
 Thi, k th. plrtcutilu, issue ot thls pprIrn
 tious m ,vetn .nt Mhasa looks at the drelafa'
 ton ot War against Turkey 1s only An cipfi
 of conquest on ,he par; oi an ambitions and
 imperial >tttcIrai!, fails to under-tAad ih
 nature ot th, force, at work ln and through
 north .ra anI ea-tesn ElFAPs and among ihe
 people whom c,huu.oLists Ciassn. as Inc
 S.avoaiaa race.
 Tarkcy-Eusopcan, Asiatic ani Atncan- extenls over l,sl2,o0J square miles. Iis
 population |, c.timtted a 3O,Ooo,oJO. Hex
 t,nd, from tAe Adri4uc Sea to the Fer'Ian
 Gulf and it, shores are washed ty ih. .Ercan Sea, tle Medcteranian, the S-A |"
 Marmora, th- Back and Rsd Scts. It can
 marsha, million ot men for sts present
 needs.
 The f,li of fgat embraces lands f.m'u.
 in all history. Wltdn tbe territory o'r' which the crescent now floats, ihe n4Ww race ha, received its most memorable am
 pul>c.-,hc progress ot man has been ms
 definitely marked. Prehistoric lore te.i'
 Us uf thr remarkablC civilization brlnoC'o-
 to the Turtnial >,,c,, the people WOO "ac lived in Northern Atric, and are >.iii irtc- . by the blus-cyci E ,llc 5 ut tlttrryl'f, NIH
 as the "Oushites" uf the Bible, qsJ.t Au c.u nire in Arabia, the remains ot which in'
 English traveller, Paiirty, has cNpIor-t H1,
 made kuuwa, and whose grc.tnc-s ht~ n-' ] set forth by the American scholar, BttNlh of whom the cntcrpr.>lng, comm -rc!'i ap' industrial Phtnicians were a later oii,h DO
 and to whom the evidcnc. of a clyiukStns
 ante-dating the Etru,can, which havt h,',
 found in Greece, Italy, Spain, along tl'
 northern coast of France. n Ireland aat southern England, are in all hSt.lh ''t tl' Within th. countries acNIoWled Hng Iul
 kiSh rule tu-dty, have risen aud It.!e' -rtt empires Nlncyah and Btby.on, l. ,Fp' ! the mystcrious mother of cisilzati 'u, . yr.l and that still morc, tp u~. woldeT'H~ Ian ] Palestine, within which lived that rcmtrka ] be rae. that first formulated f1r man tA . ! i,tic conception of divinity which i1, moIi ! fici all other cosmosonicS the world h'r known. II 1T, the Savior livci and died. 8 ! the mystic peasa.t wh sc simple phyi'~o ] phy ani deep religious cmpoiicm It ot the l Divine Hum unity, with its equities an. ] capabilities, k slowly. perhaps, but surely changing the world, civilization. Along ] the shores whict have fpr four centuries ac ccpted Ottoman ruic, blind odd llomrg's h. | rors sailed on these waters; Wis, Uly,ce went up and down them on his voyages ! Penelope spun her web in view of their blu, waves; the cider Argonauts went their que> ] for the golden fleece across the Golden Horn and the conflict of States, the fable of schools | that grew on these shores, have rcyerbrAte, ! through the centuries, moulding the lie o ! all succeeding generations Vast armies | have marched where now the din O. battle rages between StavOIian, Tartar and Otto
 man. Nerxes and Cyrus moved mighty | hosts across these historic lands; Alexander | the empire builder, swept over them Tn rc l sistlcss might, cutting, as his later namsSak, Is now seeking 10 do, the gordian kaot o' | that day with his conquering sword. Asi atic hordes, named and unnamed, have swept | through them in desolating fury. The Ro-
 man held sway here; the Greek made these
 lands lovely and famous in song and story
 art and philosophy. heroism and effort
 The latter empire, founded by Constau-
 tine, here held power and sway, rivaling al
 times Its prototype in very splendor. Car
 thage rose and fell, and the debris of innu-
 merable cities have crumblcd into utter ob-
 scuuty beneath the devastating tread of the Mahommedan fanatic, be he Arab, Turk oI Saracen, who acknowledges no code or li brary but tJe Koran, no literature but its commentaries, who has made of the fairest
 portion of the old world dcsoaiion and | abominaiio1 in order to make surer of the
 sensual paradise, with whose glamour Ma