Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-05-09

more prevent raid of Turko altman
| Trading company than he could locate
III the desert a Turks tekke tent
| So he built from the Caspian shore
eastward the great kizil allan fred
wall1 OF Elessanar to stop the progress
of our alImans. He could not con,
quer us, so he walled Us out But the
Urus, alb farin the Russian, away
| with him he, too, builds, red wall
hut it is the advancing wall of fame
| from the mouths of u hundred thous
and musSets. 1t will crush us ur
drive us into the sea"
Allow about the English 2" | asked.
THE Inghilis binamaz English her
etic, or, more literally, one who does
not say his prayers] is no better than
the Urus. He, too, advances his kill
aim of fame, and the poor Turko and
Ii herd is crushed tetAeel the two
walls. Nasib [it is our fatep']
4But why do the Russian and the
Englishman come here to fight ?"
asked lis not the world big enough
with wide open plains for battle?
Why must they come along these
| mountain passes to tght?"
Pointing to the West, and speaking
with added dignity, the Turkoman re-
| Piled: @Khudaim biliar God knows
See yonder sun sinking behind Duchak
La noble mountain west of Herat |
Why does it not set behind Serabend
[another mountain in the North n The
blue smoke curls gently out OF the
little hole in the top of my charcoal
mound in the blessed mountain OF
Badkhiz, praised be Allah The smoke
rises lazily, a little column from the
very top, but the whole mound is full
of fire. The smoke of battle is al
ready curling upward from Aghanis-
tan, the summit of Asia, but the fire
OF war smolders all over the continent
from ocean to ocean, There is man
who lives in greet city of Germany
He is the Karin Padsha Prime Min
isterl to great King. He has con-
quered all his neighbors except the
Urls In his last war he marched to
the center city of Frenghistan France
and sent its Khan flying for his life to
the Inghilis. This man, who is called
Bissimak, grows old. He must soon
die. He has done much. But before
he dies he will make grand monu.
ment to himself. What is that? All,
do you not know, soul of my life 1t
is the crest consuming ambition of
Rissfnak to give the whole of Africa
to Germany as a memorial OF himself,
that, a thousand years from now, when
Africa shall be as civilized rs Frengis
tan, they may say-the world may say,
'Bissimak gave Africa TO Germany
Then all the world will say 'Bissimac |
WAS the greatest statesman of the i
world Il is Bissimac who makes |
this war. He must drive the Inghilis |
out of Africa, so he tells the Urus |
Padshah Russian Emperor that he |
may have Afghanistan and BeleOchis |
tan, clear to the waters of the Southern |
sea, and that if the Inghilis light he /
will see that Roum Turkey shall
close the Dardanelles to keep out the
ships of the Inghilis, when the war has |
worn out both nations, Biss:mak will |
take the whole of Africa. Italy will,
of course, object to give up its Red
sea conquests. The Frenghi will not
give up Algiers and the rest of North
ern Africa, and they will go to fight
with the armies of Bissimak. When
the war is finally over it will be found
that Russia has Sweden, Norway, AT
and Belocchistiln, Persia, and
Asiatic Turkey; France has Switzer-
land Italy; Spain has Portugal; Ger
many has Africa, Denmark, Belgium,
Holland, Austria, Turkey in Europe;
has her old possessions, except
in Africa. That is the scheme. Russia,
Germany, France and Spain will at
last favor it The opposition OF Swe-
den, Norway, Denmark. Austria, Italy,
and England will not
prevent it Nasib Fit is fated.
Birligh caught his ass and mounted
him. | gave my my kiblenupa [com-
pass as momento of our meeting.
With solemn "Aman" Peace be with
your] he rode slowly away up the
road. turned back to go
10 my carayanserai. The sun had set,
and us walked through the dusky,
dusty street, tumbled over broken
basket and fell sprawling. 'Bishallahl
A plague on" | looked up. 1
sas in the Office of The Post, and the
Boys were standing around laughing
it me; and Hurry, who had neatly
ipped my chair over, had scud into
Inc composing room.
THEo KAIANDRI