The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09

the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important reveal to Amurath in person
On being led to the Turkish sovereign he knelt to
pay him homage and then stabbed Amurath with sud-
den and mortal stroke of his dagger. Mosch sprang
from his knees and being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that thronged
around 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
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 conquered. But that not the
saddest death of the day. When Prince Baazet realized
that the victory the Christians accomplished,
and he acknowledged by his fathers generals
their sovereign, he Immediately ordered his brother
Yacoub who had fought valianty by his SIDE to be
seized and put to death He justified the act by saying
that Sedition is worse than murder saying that has
caused so many Ottoman sutans to commit acts of
cruelty since that time.
Bajazet commenced his reign upon battlefield, and
followed up the war against the Servans with such
vigor and that he named Yilderim, or
Thunderbolt" After completing the Servan war, Baja
yet returned 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 Baazet sovereign. Glutted with vic
tory and rapidly augmented power, Bajazet gave him.
self to sensual Of the foulest kind He
the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the koran against the of wine Ali
Pasha his favorite general set his master the example
of drunkenness and the infmy of these two lives suy
the pages of Oriental history Baazet startled from
his reves by crusade of Christian chivalry of Franks
TAM The Christian army marched against the Ottomans
down through Pennsylvania, Wallacha and Serva They
captured Widdin Orsoca and invested Nicopolis, but
Baazet marched against them and nglorously dispersed
After the conflict Bajazet pitched his tent in front
of Ncopos and rode the field Of battle When he
the number of his dead soldiers it enraged him
that he said 81 will have this slaughter we'll avenged
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 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 Bajazet He made preparations to
invest Constantinope The Byzantine king searched all
Europe for assistance and descended to the hum
alton of asking aid from his odime enemy the pope of
Rome, but all in vain Just at the moment when it
seemed that Bajazet the point of entering Con-
stantnople cuod in the eastern horizon in the
shape of Tamerlane the Tartar who though 70 OF
age. had succeeded in uniting 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 among others Prince Ertoghru the Of
Bajazet who when he heard of the death of his
hurried at the head of his veteran troops against Tanner
lane. He seemed, however, to have lost his usual
ton and sagacity; with only 100000 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 of his and poisoned the stream
and his weary and thirsty troops had to spend the night
without water The next day he led the spirted army
to battle and while many of them gave good account
of themselves others exhausted that they
themselves over to the enemy, and on the field Of
Angora where his ancestor Ertoghrul nearly two hun
dred previous had laid the foundations of the Otto
man empire, he overthrown and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet with Of his sons,
captured and made show in the triumpha pageant Of
his conqueror He carried in latticed litter and
there arose current story that he had been placed in
iron cage. Thus the empire Of the Ottomans that
had swept Asia and large part of Europe till it
had earned the title Wrath Of God, suddenly termi
mated, and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing characterzes the rule of the Turk as
recuperatve power. Often has been seemingly
thrown and swept from the face of the earth but mme
datey there arises again mighty power having the
spirit its predecessor Mohammed l., the Of
Baazet took the shattered fragments which his father
had left and began the work of building the Ottoman
power. The Greeks said of him that he as perse-
vering camel" He the youngest son, and,