The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-05

highly orthodox ruler Of the Roman
empire took a hand in their squabble,
and, like Norman William, timed his
intervention so we'll that the leader Of
the popular party succumbed in the
first battle. His followers never got
another breathing spell. They were
scattered and chased like wolves from
mountain to mountain till they either
surrendered or took refuge among
their former enemies, the shepherd
ing MoOrS. Those who had been cap
were shipped to Asia Minor and fused
runners were disarmed by the savage
mountaineers, and persisted in slavery
all but a few, who cOntrived to con-
ciliate the good will of their former
neighbors and We're permitted to es-
tablish little stock farms Of their own.
In 1868, when Gen. Du Pin led an
expedition into the border mountains
of Eastern Algeria, he heard his scouts
mention q district known as the Bill
ed-N1ir Hamra-the land of the red
hairs--and on further inquiry ascer-
tanned the existence Of tribe Of high
landers bearing unmistakable evidence
of a mixed descent. They were less
swarthy than their eighbors-though
that might have been ascribed to the
elevation Of their pasture grounds
and many of them were fair-haired
and blue-eyed. A few days after the
officers of the vanguard came across a
characteristic specimen; raw-boned
clown who spit on their polished
boots, and, with his grizzly red whis-
kers, looked more like a Scotch moss
trooper than follower of the Prophet.
His own genealogical theories were
extremely vague, but he boosted the
superiority Of his tribe to that Of the
darker aborigines, and asserted that
his ancestors had not left their upland
home for a thousand years. Ages ago,
he believed, they must have come
from somewhere further north, since
they had a tradition of a time when
they crossed the sea in row boats, and
for 100 years after raided the coast
lands of their RUM rivals. He was a
vandal, in fact, or rather a descendant
Of a tribe resulting from a curious
mixture of Telton, Celtic and Moorish
elements. The limits of the territory
claimed by the Benz Hanna ('Brother
Redheads'O are defined by two paral-
lei mountain ranges, about forty miles
long, and from six to ten miles wide,
and their earthly possession, accord
ing to the admission of Du Pins wit
ness, consist of some 5000 head Of cat
tie, three small herds Of sheep and a
few hundred tents-the sum total Of
the remains Of world-empire. go
West, East or North, but don't go
South, young man-at least not this
side of the equator" one might para
phrase Horace Greeley's advice. The
Saxons who crossed the North sea into
Great Britain laid the foundation of
the champion land-grab syndicate, and
the Gothic tribe that conquered Sean
dinavia has held it's own against all
Corners. but the Villigoths in Spain
were absorbed by the aborigines, as
the Normans in Sicily, and the Heru-
lians never thrived from the day they
crossed the Alps None Of the native
tribes Of Northwestern Italy could re-
sist them, but the very facility Of their
conquest proved fatal; they took to
drinking and gambling, letting their
serfs till the fields. and by the time
the tribal deed of their lands had to
they had become Sc degenerate that
their king refused to leave his tent
and continued q game of chess when
the Longobards had already stormed
the works, The penalty was the ex.
termination of the whole tribe. The
victors, who would have spared the
submissive tillers of the soil, had nc
use for a horde of mutinOus, alcohol
lied prisoners, and voted to STAY them
on general principles.
The wonderful strategic adventure
of Greece, with a high mountain range
in the north and deep seas east, west
and south. have enabled a remnant OF
| the original race to survive the wars
of the last twenty centuries, but then
| kinsmen in Asia Minor appear to have
| been killed off to the last camp fol
| lowers. A hundred years before the
beginning of our chronological era
| i. e., just about 1000 years ago, all the
east shores Of the Mediterranean, in
Guiding the present territories of Tur
key in Asia, were studded with Gre
clan colOnieS-sOme Of them much
more thiclxly settled than any part OF
European Greece. The inhabitants OF
those countries were overwhelmed by
successive invasions of eastern bar
barians and drowned out as effectively
as the victims. Some Of the city
names, like "Antikeh," for >Antiochia
will bear a faint resemblance to theil
Greek originals, but Grecian noses
have been knocked out of joint, anC
the prevalent dialects are more alike