The Elbert County tribune., 1909-07-08
ByGEN ZACHARYT cSWEE,NEY
II F0R11EP- CONSUL -GhnERAL AT
COHcSTAN7INOPLE


the Ottoman claimed to be a deserter and
having important secrets reveal to Amurah person.
On being led to the Turkish sovereign
him homage. and then stabbed Amurath with a sud
den and mortal stroke of his dagger Milosch sprang
from his knees and being gifted with activity
strength the enemies that thronged
around him, and found his to his horse had
been left but before he could Janssaries
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 of Otto
mans He died pronouncing the death doom of King
Lazarus. who conquered But that the
saddes death of the day When Prince Bajazet realized
that the victory the Christians accomplished,
and he was acknowledged by his fathers generals
their sovereign, he Immediately ordered his brother
Yacoub who had fought valiantly by his sde be
seized and put to death. He justified the by saying
that "Sedton is than murder" saying has
caused many Ottoman sultans to commit acts of
cruelty since that time.
Bajazet commenced his reign upon a battlefield and
followed the against the Servians with such
vigor and success that he named Yderim.
"Thunderbolt After completing the Servan war, Baja
get returned to Asia and increased the territory of the
sultan by conquest OF several adjoining states.
mania. which had long held out independent state
acknowledged Bajazet sovereign. Gluted with VIC
tory and rapidly augmented power, Bajazet gave him
self over to sensual of the fouest kind He
was the first OF the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the koran against the of wine Ali
Pasha his favore general set his master the example
Of drunkenness and the infamy of these lives suly
the pages of Oriental history Bajazet startled
his revels by crusade of Christian chivary
tan The Christian army marched against the Otomaps
down through Pennsylvania wallacha servia They
captured Widdn, Orsoca and invested Ncopolis, but
Bajaze marched against them and ngorousy dispersed
them After the conflict Bajazet pitched
of Nicopols and rode the field OF battle When
the number of his dead soldiers 1t enraged him
that he said: Il will have this slaughter well avenged
the prisoners The next morning the Christian pris
to the number Of ten thousand out with
their hands bound behind them with
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 tho biot-watar In
the power of Bajazet He made preparations to
invest Constantinope The Byzantine king searched all
Europe for assistance and descended the humi
alton of asking aid from his oldme enemy pope
Rome. but all in vain. Just at the moment when it
seemed that Baazet the point of entering Con-
stantnople cuod arose in the eastern horizon in the
shape of Tamerlane the Tartar though years
age, had succeeded in uniting number conquered
provinces into strong empire, and had marched
the dominion of the Ottoman empire, captured
ancient city of svas and put the inhabitants
sword killing among others Prince Eroghrul the of
Bajazet who when he heard of the death his son.
hurried at the head of his against
lane. He seemed however. to have lost his
tion and sagacity; with only 10000 swept
against army of 100000 and show his reck-
essness engaged in grand hunt the neighborhood
of Angora until they entirely exhausted Return
ing to his quarters, he found that the willy
taken possession of his camp and poisoned stream
and his weary and thirsty night
without water The next day he led the dsprted army
to battle. and while of them good account
of themselves. others exhausted that they
themselves over 10 the enemy and on the field Of
Angora, where his ancestor. Ertoghru nearly two hun.
dred had laid the foundations
empire. he overthrow, and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet with OF his sons
captured. and made show in the triumpha pageant
his He carried In litter
there current story that he had been placed
iron 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
mated. and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing characterses the rule of the Turk as its
recuperative c-<n has 1t been seemingly
thrown and swept from the face of the earth
dfotcI arteas
spirit its predecessor Mohammed l., son of
Bajazet took the shattered fragments which father
had left and began the work of building up Ottoman
The Greeks said of him that he perse-
verng camel" He the youngest son. and.