The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-08-15
ADVERTISING RATES.
WAR SEEMS ENDLESS.
Struggle in Progress Since the World
Began.

Since the first foreigner. in the per
son of Dutchman. landed on the
Island of Sumatra in 1449, the native
AchinCse have combated the usurping
OF their land foot by foot. In the be-
ginning Of the present century the ISL
and came into British hands but was
soon restored 10 Holland. Then again
the Achinese took up arms against
the Dutch invaders. Although, says
Answers, when the Dutch can get the
Achinese out in the open they iuVarl-
ably beat them, the war continues III
desultory manner to-day and will
only end when the last native OF SUI
matra has been killed in action. The
number of Achiese killed has never
been known, but the war has been u
very serious drain on tue manhood of
Holland aud many of her best sol
diers We're Killed between the years
1873 and 1879, when the struggle was
very bitter
Since 1GO4 when the Perslans sur
rendered Armenia TO Turkey. the
numerous Sultans of Turkey have
never sheathed their swords In regard
To the former country save in the
flesh OF the inhabitants True. every
now and again, when matters are
very slow in European politics, some
country becomes righteously indg-
nant. aud "A concert OF Europe is called
and a note sent To the Sultan Still the
fighting goes ON or rather, the butch
ering
AT the beginning of the present
century Algiers finally passed into
the hands of France From that time
till the present the French nation has
always kept an army corps of not less
than fifty four thousand French
troops garrisoned there TO fight the
Arabs who infest the hinterland and
raj / French possessions at least once
II year. Chief among these are the
Touategs. who fight with one half OF
their faces masked, and fight always
10 the death or victory Never once
has Touareg been taken alive
France cannot snbdue them. for II
beaten they flee to the desert, where
no trained army can follow them.
The Riiians, who are the scourre Of
Morocco. resemble the Touaregs. In
that they also take and give no quar-
ter, but, instead of living In the heart
of the Sahara. they fight from their
mountain fortres IS and keep the Sui
tan of Morocco Ia continual dread To
keep his soldiers in good fettle the
Sultan every year gives at least three
months fighting To them by picking
n quarrel with one Of the feudal hold
ers OF the numerous semi Drigand
strongbolds.
From the day in 1920 when the first
Puritan settlers from England landed
on American soil Intermittent war has
been waged by the whites in the Uni
ted States against the original Indian
population. Gradually the Cherokees
Choctaws, Creeks and Sioux have
been driven further ana further back.
till to-day but Il comparative few re-
main Yet even row the government
deems II advisable to keep II body Of
picked troops 10 guard the Indian ter
ritoFy, for every now and again the
old scalping spirit breaks out in some
young brave, and dire would be the
result were he not subdued before
others could gather to follow him on
the warpath
The Northwest mounted police OF
Canada were raised, and are kept, for
like purpose; and although their
work is not SO arduous us that OF their
American doubles, yet even they are
generally busy.
No one knows when the first blood
feud began In Corsica. or when the
first brigand set up shop. Nor can any
one tell when the last will put up his
shutters Even In the time Of the Ro-
mans the inhabitants were too busy
fighting one another TO care whether
foreign garrison was left on the Isl
and or not. But not day goes by
without several lives being sacrificed
ia the cause OF some vendetta; and as
each life means the sacrifice in atone
ment of at least two more, there Is
o-day hardly one Corsican whose life
Is not wanted by fellow countryman,
and who, in running away, IL not al
so chasing some other person.N. Y.
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