The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-07-17
ByGE.N ZACHARYI SWEENEY
F0Rr1EP Consul -GHNERAL AT
CCvcSTANTINOPLE

vitsch, rode to a
the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important secrets to reveal to Amurah In person
On being led the Turkish sovereign he knelt II to
pay him homage and then stabbed Amurath with sud
den and mortal stroke of his dagger Milosch sprang
his knees and being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that thronged
around him, and found his way to where his horse had
left but before he could remount the Janissaries
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 re-
which decided the victory In favor OF the Otto
mans He died pronouncng the death doom Of King
Lazarus. who conquered But that was not the
saddest death Of the day When Prince Bajazet realized
that the victory over Christians accomplished.
and he acknowledged by his fathers generals as
their sovereign he Immediately ordered his brother.
Yacoub who had fought valiantly by his sde 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 up the against the servians with such
vigor and success that he was named Ylderim, or
Thunderbolt" After completing the Servian 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 Bajazet as 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 favorite general set his master the example
drunkenness and the nfamy of these two lives suy
the pages of Oriental history. Bajaze startled from
his reves by crusade Of Christian chvary of Franks
tan. The Christian army marched against the Oomans
through Pennsylvania Wallachia and Servia They
captured Widdin Orsoca, and invested Nicopos. but
Bajaze marched against them and ngorously dispersed
them After the conflict Bajazet pitched his tent in front
of Nicopos and rode the field of battle When he
the number of his dead soldiers 1t enraged him
that he said II will have this slaughter well avenged
prisoners" The next morning the Christian pris-
to the number of ten thousand led out with
their hands bound behind them and with haers around
their necks. After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
the prisoners their liberty the sultan the
signal for the slaughter to commence and the unhappy
captives fell In front Of his tent. $50
The battle of Nicopos the high-water mark in
the power of Bajazet He made preparations to
invest Consantnople The Byzantine king searched all
Europe for assistance and descended to the hum
alton Of asking aid from his oldme enemy, the pope OF
Rome, but all in vain. Just at the moment when 1t
seemed that Bajazet the point of entering Con-
stannople cuod in the eastern horizon In the
shape Of Tamerane the Tartar who though 10 of
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
Batazet who when he heard OF the death Of his son.
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 neghborhood
of Angora until they were entirely exhausted Return
ing to his quarters he found that the willy Tartar had
taken possession Of his and poisoned the stream
and his and thirsty troops had to spend the night
without water The next day he led the dispirited
to battle and while many Of them gave good account
OF themselves others were SO exhausted that they gave
themselves to the enemy. and the field OF
Angora where his ancestor Erpghrul nearly two hun
dred previous had laid the foundations Of the Otto
empire, he overthrown. and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet. with Of his was
captured and made show in the triumphal pageant OF
his conqueroy He was carried tn latticed litter and
there story that he had been placed In
iron Thus the empire of the Ottomans. that
had swept Asia and large part of Europe. till II
had earned the title Wrath OF God" suddenly termi
mated and the Ottoman power seemed gone forever.
Nothing 10 charactarizes the rule Of the Turk s
recuperative power Often has been seemingly
thrown and swept from the face Of the earth. but ie
diately there arises again mighty power having the
spirit its predecessor Mohammed l., the Of
Bajazet took the shattered fragments which his fah6r
had left and began the work Of building the Ottoman
power The 0reeks said Of him thae 10 vac as perse
ver1n9, caraol" f3o vao The youneoot eon