Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-07-09

the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important secrets to reveal to Amurath in
being the Turkish sovereign he knelt if to
pay him homage, and then stabbed Amurath with sud-
den and mortal stroke of his dagger. Mosch sprang
his knees and being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that hronged
him, and found his to where his horse had
been left but before he could remount the Janissares
overpowered him and hacked him to pieces Amurath
realized that his wound mortal but had sufficient
presence of mind to give orders for charge of his
which decided the victory in favor of the Otto
mans. He died pronouncing the death doom of King
Lazarus, who was conquered. But that not the
saddest day When Prince Bajazet realized
that the victory the Christians accomplished
and he acknowledged by his fathers generals as
their sovereign he Immediately ordered his brother,
Yacoub who had fought valantly by his side, to be
seized and put to death. He justified the act by saying
that "Sedition is than murder saying that has
caused many Ottoman sultans to commit acts of
cruelty since that time.
Bajazet commenced his reign upon battlefield, and
followed the war against the servians with such
vigor and that he named Yderm, or
"Thunderbolt" After completing the Servan war, Baja-
to Asia and increased the territory of the
sultan by conquest of several adjoining states Cara
mania which had long held out independent state,
acknowledged Bajazet sovereign Gluted with vic
tory and rapidly augmented power Bajazet gave him
self to sensual eXcesses of the fouest kind. He
the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the koran against the of wine. Ali
Pasha his favorte general set his master the example
Drunkenness and the infamy of these two lives suy
the pages of Oriental history Baazet was startled from
his by crusade of Christian chivalry of Franks
tan. The Christian army marched against the Otomans
down through Pennsylvania, Wallacha and Servia They
captured Widdin Orsoca and invested Nicopols, but
Bajaze marched against them and ngloousy dispersed
them After the conflict Baazet pitched his tent in front
of Ncopos and rode the field of battle When he
the number of his dead soldiers 1t enraged him
that he said: Il will have this slaughter well avenged
on the prisoners The next morning the Christian pris
to the number of ten thousand were led out with
their hands bound behind them and with haters around
their necks After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
among the prisoners their liberty the sultan gave the
signal for the slaughter to commence and the unhappy
captives fell in front of his tent.
The battle of Nicopolis was the highwater mark in
the power of Baazet. He made preparations to
invest Constantinope. The Byzantine king searched all
Europe assistance and descended to the humil
alton of asking his oldime enemy the pope Of
Rome but all in vain. Just at the moment when 1t
seemed that Bajazet on the point OF entering Con-
santnople cluod In the eastern horizon in the
shape Tamerane the Tartar who though 70 of
age had succeeded in uniting a number of conquered
provinces into strong empire and had marched against
the dominion of the Ottoman empire, captured the
ancient city of Svas and put the inhabitants to the
sword, killing others Prince Ertoghrul, the son of
Bajazet who when he heard OF the death or his son,
hurried the head of his veteran troops against Tanner
He seemed however to have lost his usual eau
ton and sagacity with only 10000 men he swept for
ward against army of 100000 and to show his reck
lessness, engaged in grand hunt in the neighborhood
of Angora until they entirely exhausted Return
ing his quarters he found that the willy Tartar had
taken possession of his camp and poisoned the stream,
his and thirsty troops had to spend the night
without water The next day he led the disprited army
battle and while many OF them gave good account
of themselves others exhausted that they
themselves to the enemy, and on the field OF
Angora where his ancestor Ertoghrul nearly two hun
dred years previous had laid the foundations of the Otto
man empire, he overthrown, and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet, with of his was
captured and made show in the trumphal pageant of
his conqueror He was carried In lattced litter, and
there arose story that he had been placed in
an iron cage Thus the empire of the Ottomans that
swept Asia and large part Of Europe till 1t
had earned the title Wrath of God" suddenly term
mated, and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever
Nothing characterzes the rule of the Turk ita
recuperatve power. Often has 1t been seemingly over
thrown swept from the face of the EARTH but mme
diatey arises again mighty power having the
same spirit its predecessor Mohammed l., the OF
Bajazet the shattered fragments which his father
had left began the work of building the Ottoman
power The Greeks said of him that he "as perse
a camel He the Youngsat and