The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-28
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likely to get ANYTHING but hard knocks in
the coming campnign, if, indeed, there is
to lie n war
The porte has announced bliuhely it's
intention to put hundred and ten thou.
sand men OH the Thessalian frontier, but
so far il has been able to obtain only
funds enough to equip anu transport
about fifteen thousand for that purpose.
1t looks ms though non. Mussulman con-
tractors have arrived at the conclusion
that the beginning Of the end is near. for
tue former have tightly closed their
purse strings, and the latter have had the
;iudncity to press for Il settlement of
their long. standing accounts, II proceed"
ing which is very like crying for the
moon. The porte has got no money, bus
he would he oblivious of history who
would lightly assume THAT that fact indi-
Gates that Turkey is not i'll position to
wage war. The troops who lately passed
through Salonica were without ambu-
lance eouiument or surgical appliances
of auy kind but their arms were evil
IDENTIFY all right, and the ammunition trains
appeared TO he ample. The artillery.
too. was i'm "A good condition, and the bat
teries were we'll horsed.
The popular scare over the dangers of
tie compartment system OF railway travel
here, IA scare which had its origin in the
recent mysterious murder of Miss Camp
here, has been increased this week by two
or three fresh ontraEes. woman mas
been the victim in each case, but fortu-
nately the culprits have been arrested.
The panic among women travellers Is
leading to many absurd and ludicous in
cdents Few women will now enter an
. apartment occupied by IL lone man, and
no man cares to enter where there Is only
one woman for her evident nervousness
in. most cases is by no means ltattering.
One thoughtless individual who found
himself alone with n young woman on n
railway train this week. WAS foolish
enough to take out his pocket knife to
cut the pages of II magazine. his COM
panion instantly opened the door, although
the train was running forty miles al
hour, and climbed out OH the footboard,
shrieking for help. Tine i,assengers..in ad-
Joining compartments heard her and sig
nailed to the guard. The train WAS
stopped and the terror. stricken girl was
rescued
The panic has become so general that
the board of trade has written IA letter
saying that they are in communication
with the railways on the subject 1t will
seem absurd to American readers to say
that the question is one of great diff
Guilty, but it is and it will continue to re-
ceiNe the DeSI atlehoioh % WIS '"hiu' ~
is simply IL matter CT expense. Cars of
che American pattern. weight for weight,
will carry less than half the number of
passengers conveyed by the little boxes
used by the English railways. There is
an interesting illustration OH the South
eastern road where the only American.
built train in England runs between
London and Hastings. This train is very
popular. 1t has IA capacity of $50 passen-
gers 1t will, however. lie taken OFF in
summer when the travel is heavy because
AN English train of the same weight will
carry six hundred passengers.
England is the last place in which one
would expect to find any criticism of the
United States for failure to protect it's
citizens in Cuba, and yet even the Lon
don Times comments on the weakness of
the American Government in this re