The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-20

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hate, anger, grief, Joy, express themselves
III short words and direct sentences;
while cunning, falsebood, and affection
I delight Ia what Horace calls Ver6a sesqui-
pedsha-Words ga foot and halP' long
Roumania---Servia.
IN the fall of the Turkish Empire two
new nations have already come into ex-
istence, and both seem prepared to main
tain their freedom by the desperate re-
| sort of war One of them has had a
history so remarkable that it may yet
| form the theme of soma native Macau-
lay or Motley. R0umania, which stands
on the brink of great conflict with
Russia, surrounded by all the fercest
elements of the eastern strife. with Ser
via, forms the most recent Of those new
powers that have joined the European
! family of nations. It stretches g bread
| extent of fertile territory inelosed by
the Danube and the Carpathian mount
sins, and bounded on the east by the
Pruth. It has a small eoast-line, Bessa-
rabia, north of its great river on the
/ Black Sea, its only outlet for navigation.
| The new kingdom has surface of about
| 900 square miles, little less than
! England, and a population of perhaps
| 5,000,0 600. A strange blending of dis
eordant races appears upon this inland
region, so shut ia by its encireling range
OF mountains, and by the vast river that
| bounds it on the south. The Rouma-
mans claim a descent from the
Romans, who under Trojan first
planted a colony in the midst of
Dacia, and whose cities, roads, bridges,
once covered it with the first traces of
! civilization. After a century or more Of
| dangerous occupation it was found that
the mountains and the rivers failed to
protect the exposed province. A Roman
emperor withdrew his garrison, Dacia
was abandoned, and the Danube, dill
| gently fortified, became the upper
| boundary of the Roman power.
But Roumania has been ever the
| refuge of the wandering races. Among
its remarkable inhabitants are 200, 900
gypsies-Wild, half savage, who were
long held in slavery by the Turkish rui
ers but who seem to have chung with
tenacity to land which offered them
emily miserable oppression. Why these
| wanderers have fixed themselves in this
inland and inhospitabie region can
scarcely be Unsigned. But since Rou>
mania has become nation the gyosies
have been set free they were purchased
from their masters by government aid and
it is said are now employed as servants
and in various useful pursuits. A still
more unfortunate classof the population
are the Jews. They too seem to have
thriyen in the midst of persecution and
tyranny, and have refused to fly from q
land of bondage. They number almost
one-tenth of the people. They are often
of light complexion and hair, of Spanish
descent. Their activity in trade excites
the jealousy Of the ruling class.
They are still exposed to various
disabilities. But it is stated that
since its erection into a separate
state, and It's freedom from Turkish con-
troll, Roumsnia has made some progress
: toward liberation, and that equal rights
will be awarded at last to all its people.
a new nation has been formed; JRssy
and Bucharest are the centres of rising
civilization; and the Roumanians have
proved on many a bloody field their
resolution to be free. a large export
and import trade has sprung up on the
Danube, and the flag of almost every
European nation is seen in the harbors
of the towns and cities that line its
shores.
Still more remarkable is the sudden
rise of Servia to freedom and prosperity.
The Servisns were Sclaves who settled in
ancient Msesia a famous King Stephen
|
feated the Turks, Byzantines, Hunga-
Tians, and created 3 powerful state. But
when be died. the Turks, at the battle of
Kossovo O389), aided by treachery, de-
stroyed the might of Servia; Miles, the
Servian LeOnidas, stabbed his conqueror,
Murad, on the battlefield, but the miser-
able country sank into lasting suOjec-
ton. Its rising literature was sup
pressed, its children were snatched away
to fill the armies or the harems of the
Turks; the people sank into intense
ignorance Oppression checked their
progress for nearly five hundred years
/ During all the five centuries that have
witnessed the rapid progress of France
and England, Servia has slumbered in
this medieval decay. Within the present
century it has sprung into new
!. life. Through all its period of miser-
/ able subsection Servia still re-
tanned the memory of its earlier
freedom, and expressed in mournful
songs and ballads the pains and shame of
present decay, or celebrated the glory of
! its early heroes and kings. These tOuch~
ing songs. written IN unrhymed verse,
may be called the tears of Servia. But
since 1915 Servia has been, in measure,
free; IN 1856 it received a recognition
from Europe, and in 1878 it has become
, an independent state. It's modern princes
have assumed the historical names of its
early heroes; and the first of the line,
the uncle of the present prince, was
known as RIilos J., 50 intense are the
national traditions of these subject races.
The two kingdoms of Servia and Rou-
, mania are democratic communities,
| founded upon universal suffrage. Every
male citizen over twenty one, except the
iDsies and servants, can vote in SeTyia !;
in Roumania the voter must be twenty
; five and know how to read and write.
One of the striking traits of the progress
of the past twenty years is the adoption
everywhere of the republican principle
{ of manhood suffrage; it would be i'm
, proved if the Roumanian restriction
: should be initiated, and the only qualif-
cation demanded for a voter should be
! an educational one. Germany, and in
part Austria, have already adopted uni
! versal suffrage and general liberation /;
the cruel treatment Of the Jews In R0uS
mania is one of the lasting blots upon its
fame; humanity should be the leading
, trait of every new nation, and every act
\ of cruelty or murder tends to destroy its
hopes of progress. The Roumanians
promise improvement In these matters.
/, EUGENE LAWRENCE
First Babies.
A somewhat extended observation,
and a solitary experience, have convinced
MS that first babies have a hard time.
, Parents must have two or three children
! before they know what q baby is-hew
|, to treat it, and acquire patience sufi~
!, cient to treat it properly. The poor