Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-06-12
BUDAPEST AND VIENNA.



BY wAIEnn WILLIAMS IN COLUMBIA HRRAnn.
PRAGUE, BOHEMIA, April IA. The
unspeakable Turk, as Gladstone,
noblest Englishman OF them all, styled
the fellows with the red fez, has been
all too gradually pushed out Of Europe.
He still retains the most beautiful
capital on the continet and his
sovereignty, normal or real, extends
northward many miles. Where it is
absolute the political air is stuffy.
Where II is restrictedAAg foreign
powers the people chafe under the pre-
sence Of the Sultan's soldiers For
this cause you may expect wars and
rumors OF wars in the Balkan states
for all time to come until Russia at
tempts 10 kick the Sublime Porte
across the Bosporus into ASA and In
wolves all Europe in strife in 50 doing.
Bulgaria is not so bad as 1t is paint.
ed. In the country made Infamous by
the Miss Stone episode we expected to
find brigands at every cross roads and
eut-throats In the guise OF policemen.
Instead we saw a peaceful, agri-
cultural people, writhing under
Turkish suzerainty but tillers of the
soil as we had not found in countries
with far better reputation. Indeed we
have seen no finer farm land and no
more industrious people than in Bull
garia and Seryia. Belgrade is almost
modern capital city. Sofia, ,centerof the
search for Miss Stone, is as civilized, so
far as outward appearance goes, as any
European town. There is another
side to the Miss Stone affair than that
the newspapers have told. 1t will
come out some day. We have not yet
read that the James boys had anything
to do with her kidnapping.
The Sultan has our sympathy. This
is not merely because he has 300 wives
which is 300 too nany-but because
be is a practical prisoner in his palace.
"Why does he not come out and trust
himself among the people as does the
president OF the United States?" This
inquiry, propounded to a Turkish
official brought the dry reponse; "The
Sultan has been on the throne a
quarter OF century. Two Of your
presidents have been assinated In that
time.n II is a little curious, by the
way, that the so called Sick Man Of
Europe has outliyed every ruler who
occupied a throne when he girded on
the sword Of Mohammed aftershutting
his brother up as insane in 1876.
Emperor Francis Joseph, the beloved
monarch Of Austria-Hungary, is the
solitary exception. This merely goes
to prove the rule that it Is the well
man who dies first.
THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE As TWINS.
To the outside world the Austrian
Empire is Austria. When one gets
closer he finds it to be dual mon
archy. Austria is a nation and Hun
gary is a nation and therwo are bound
toge1ner IN sorp oi '9ia'hese '"in'
arraneement known as .nc oom-
twin but the least homogeneous.
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the Mauvar nhrase s4;od save the
Hnn0arian fatherland.n 1t was an
innocent ntterance he thought and he
was not prepared for the outburst
which followed. Every Hungarian
rushed AZ him with uplifted glass,
shontlnp the meantime. He could not
make his escape but he backed up
AGAINST the wall and determined to
seIl bis life as dearly as possible. On
tbev came each with glass held at
srn,,s length as though to strike down
the offender. He had.no weapons save
ton.cnnt nenlsnife and a pair Of
ad,,or,sl sc,ssors-without point like
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