New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

piunoering as they go out but when they come
oack they strip the country Of everything which
VIII SELL from girl to a glue pot or course
they are curse to the enemy and that Is why
we use them Ssut they will not fight: in a bat
tie we have tU protect them as II they were
women"
Nevertheless. Hafiz Bey believes in war Of
the old school. with a gun" said he as we
chatted on tactics you may do execution at a
distance; but you are fighting the air But
when you meet the enemy face to face with the
sword. you kill him. and you with your own
eyes that he is finished, once for all before you
leave him. These German officers are running
the fighting capacity of our men with their
maps and their strategy and their roads In
the old days there were no roads and no bother
about them When our Sutans wished to take
a city they carried the metal for the guns on
the backs of horses. and cast them while the
lines were being prepared The soldiers were
the children Of the Sultan. and the generals
knew that II they failed to win they would say
goodby to their heads. But now our generals
study German books thick ball,
and look TO the brushing of their clothes and
put white gloves They know all about po-
uteness. but little about Our army is be-
ing ruined Two things our people have forgot
ten; is to kill the enemy and the other is
TO kill the General who makes of himself.
guage that Turks can make war"
But the world has not forgotten the gallant
stand which your army made at Plevna against
the Russians before you were driven back from
the Balkans
Hahz Bey's one eye flashed We were not
driven back from the Balkans We defeated the
Russians in every battle It was our strategy
which brought them down to the walls Of this
city; the intrigues Of our strategists."
sT-7--F -asr
You could not set your foot on the ground
without being tripped up by one or another of
their intrigues. InJrigues let the Russians for
tify Shipka Pass before any one thought Of
sending Us up TO take il. It intrigue that
left them IN the fort Of St. Nicholas on the top
Of the Pass. when might have driven them
out I took The fort myself with my single
troop, and there We lay under a fire the like of
which I hope no friend Of mine may have en-
dure II Gehenna. The Pacha who was 10 have
supported the attack was so drunk that he did
not know UP from down. He actually marched
ms brigade down into the plains. looking for the
top Of the pass Then the Russian towards
drove Us out, and knocked my eye out besides;
may the whole parcel of them get their just
dues"
Doubtless your country recognized the
bravery of your attack Fort ST. Nicholas. all
the same"
der for a soldier who gets cornered like dog in
blind alley and has TO surrender, did, when
the Russians came over the mountains" Then a
broad smile lighted UP the face Of the Bey. and
he continued: But I viii tell you how I got my
promotion Il long after the after
these events had been forgotten. There is one of
the marvels Of the earth in a little grove near
Baba Eski. the AdrianopIe road There is no
place like it in all the world At least I never
heard Of such place. You go into that grove
now, and you see nothing. The ground is
hard as the pavement of a mosque But you go
there in September, and il shakes when you
walk il if there an earthquake And
wherever you dig in the grove you md a soft
mud which has no bottom. The mud is good TO
cure diseases, ana people come from great dis
tances TO be cured. passing through Baba
Eski day, and heard that my Colonel
At the mud for his health so I went there to
pay my respects. You never saw such sight
as the Colonel He was in a hole in the ground.
up to his neck N mud. and hanging pole
laid across the mouth Of the hole lest he should
go clean under He was vexed al NE for catch
ing him in such a place But there IS a remedy
for everything IN this world except death and
so l had another hole dug near by, and into that
I got. For a week spent good part of
every day in our holes, hanging 10 sticks,
and getting all the good we could out Of it. The