Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-18
p0ruELIA AND ITS FATE.
-. ~spOLEON's TIME, IN OUR
~ oU-N. AND IN THE FUTURE.
49, eurrounding States and their In
1n7 Effects of Turkish Misrule
The Turks Last Hold,
NON the N630 York Tones.

r.90i the Ne9C York Times.
,,...r>-r,- oct. 21.-"Wben that 'ere
49,, dJes.v said Mark Tapley of Mr..
p.oFsniff-s bony steed, ''you'll see there'u
i,o paragraphs in all the papers headed
'5p y, Longevity OF Horse as if
Ia ever been alive worth talking about"
rsts nlaln-spoken criticism defines with
',..,riar exactness the paralytic longeyi-
e., If the Turkish empire, which seems to
~, an living because it has not strength
ssn,,,ob to die. when the wise men came
bsnre the King" said the English school
l,r .tbey said, % King, live forever
.,d Immediately the King lived forever"
ir,s anDearauce OF ROumella in great
inrernatonal quarrel is no new phenome-
van. seventy-eight years ago, on fine
dav in June, two men met on ralt
,,'csored on the Niemen near Tilsit, to set
,atse Al, irs of Eurspe and TO decide.
s,os7g other things, the fate Of Roumelia
s-d trat of COnstantinOple. At that mo-
a+ont they might we'll think themselves
atia 10 marcel out the world as they
~Iased. for one was Alexander l., of Rus
Iia and the other was Napoleon Bona
,,orts Between two such men the details
NJ the great political burglary were
snaedily and simply arranged. The East
was no fan to Russia, the West to France,
while as tor England and her colonies.
81 hate the English as much as you do,"
said Alexander, land am ready TO JOIN
Won against them" "ln that case" an
swprej the imperial artilleryman with a
rrinl smile. s'peace is already made be-
Igeanus." But the two august rulers,
lita many other robbers before and since,
ended bv quarreling over their booty.
g'6e Car had set his heart upon Roumelia
and C0nstantinOple, while Napoleon,
whose geen strategic eve fully APP
r7eclated the paramount importance of
ibis gateway between East and West,
and who had his own designs upon the In
diam empire which he had ostensibly
Welded 10 Russia, WAS secretly deter
mined that no rival should ever hold the
kew of the BosphOrus. 1t was at length
decided that B0umeia should be lett to
fine sultan. But this was manifestly
temporary compromise at best. Neither
party could trust the other, and the brief
f1ndship was speedily diss0lYed-Wlth
what result we all know.
THREE-QU OF A CENTURY HAVE
ROLLED AWAY
since that time, and ROumelia is once
more disturbing the peace OF the civil
lied world, while Turkey-which even
then was morbund in everything but the
splendid fighting power OF her unpaid
and half-starved sOldiers--is now practl-
callv dead, though still retaining the
miserable semblance Of life into which
ehe has been galvanized by the mistaken
policy Of England. There is a quaint
Northern legend which tells of certain
promising lad-presumably young doc
tor-WhOm death himself adopted as his
own son, and instructed. strange to say,
in various secrets of medicine, which
made him the wonder Of the profession.
With these valuable teachings, however,
the proprietor OF the scvthe and hour
glass coupled grim caution. 'When
YOU see me standing at the foot of pa
TENTS bed, y said he, ''yOu will know that
he NAV possibly recover, and then you
can proceed TO apply your remedies with
out fear. Butit ever YOU see me stand
Ing at the head OF the bed it is a sign that
the sick person is doomed to die, and then
You must not presume to interfere be-
tween me and my lawful prey" For
some time the young physician prOspered
exceedingly, and cOnfOrmed so strictly to
his adopted fathers rules as to call forth
tue skeleton mOnarch's coolest and heart
Jest APPRECIATION. But at length, in an
evil hour, he was called in by a wealthy
merchant whose case had been given over
as hopeless by several doctors OF note.
Our hero entered the sick room with his
usual confidence, but his heart instantly
sank into mis- pOcket-where indeed it
was generally to be found-as he saw.
erect at The head of the couch, Death him.
self IN all his terrors, holding up his
skeleton torehnger In gloomy warning.
"sdeathP u muttered the good physician
Wlth Involuntary appropriateness, "tbis is
q pad business" The sick merchant,
nearing this discOuraging verdict, franti-
eaily lmpl0red him not to give up the
case, offering him half his fortune in the
event Of suecess, and what was quite as
much TO the purpose, the hand OF his only
daughter, very pretty girl Of 10, whose
appearance had already attracted our in
AaAaaDle doctor as she glided in an out
OF tne sick room. ThereupOn the ingeni-
Gus youth, struck with bright idea, sud
geniy Whiaked the bed round so as to
lea'e Death standing at it's foot, and then,
promptly applying his remedies, saved the
patient.
inns is no inapt allegory OF the recent
history OF Eastern Europe. Long after
.le Vanished rottenness Of the Turkish
sni pre- had lost every atom OF true pOliti-
gai me, England has persisted in keeping
Iue inevitable doom at bay little longer.
~ I9il when Mehemet Ali, the only great
nau whom Islam has produced for 100
i1aIs' was rolling down upon Constants
l1ple IKE an avalanche, with all the con-
saieu might of Egpyt, Syria and Asia
1lhof' 70 create, 1t may be, a great Mos
..n empire ruled by skill and energy in
seau OIL sluggish and tyrannical c0rrup-
o-' 'Ae British cannon which shattered
, 90 narred the grand project and per-
AtlNttu tho pNrCugC pf flur1-iGh n "a fOua fifV
Iot above ground for another genera
uon. In 1853, and again in 1878, Russia's
th was upliited TO deal the final blow,
W., tne English government was still
az, ,QIe TO protect its cherished carrion,
ca. u l9e omclal cannibGls Of stambOul re
SgNeu iiesh lease OF that life which was
u'ala 70 all around them.
al PRESENT, HOWEVER, SIGNS ARE NOT
WANTING THAT BRITAIN
az length growing weary OF her self
posed task OF mesmerizing a corpse,
Inv Edgar POe's experimentalist, and
Or suat TASK Is being transferred 10 9TH
Dauus by the Irresistible march Of
nus ';Austrla," said Talleyrand to
,.son IN 1900. just after the decisive
|f,, ol AusterlitZ had laid the Austrian
h tNt az the great cOnquerOr's feet, Isis
u3'ural guardian OF the Danube, and
rl,u l" I'm your Majesty's power TO re-
uer permanently from the path Of
f"l'e aud plant her inthat OF Russia by
4 ob ' Il,I her Of L0mbardy and the TyrOl
.spd si1e while giving her Moldavia
.cb9," allaehla on the other. and thus
. IN E- ns her AZ once from German 90
. cor-r'9i, erh power" This MachiaYellian
lfr,r.el vas thrown way upon the head
|m.th uespot, but the transformation