The Virginia enterprise., 1909-07-09

the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important secrets to Amurath in person.
On being led to the Turkish sovereign he knelt as to
pay him homage and then stabbed Amurath with sud-
den and mortal stroke of his dagger Mlosch sprang
from his knees and being gifted great activity and
strength cleared himself of the that thronged
around him, and found his way where his horse
been le but before he could remoun the Janissares
overpowered him and hacked him to pieces. Amurath
realized that his wound mortal, but had sufficient
of mind to give orders charge of his re-
serves which decided the victory in favor of
mans. He died pronouncing the death doom of King
Lazarus who was conquered But that was not the
saddest 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 to be
seized and put to death He justified the 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 named Yiderim, or
'Thunderbolt" After completing the Servan war; Bata-
zet returned to Asia and increased the territory of
sultan by conquest of several adjoining states Cara.
mania, which had long held out independent state
acknowledged Bajazet sovereign Glutted with VIC
tory and rapidly augmented power Bajazet gave him.
self to sensual of the foulest kind.
the first of the Ottoman princes who violated the
prohibition of the against use of wine Ali
Pasha his favorte general set his master the example
OF drunkenness and the inamy of these two lives suy
the of Oriental history Bajazet
his revels by of Christian chivary of Franks
tan The Christian army marched against the Otomans
down through Pennsylvania Wallachia Servia They
captured Widdin, Orsoca, and invested Nicopos but
Bajazet marched against them nglorousy dispersed
them. After the conflict Baazet pitched his
OF NlcOpOls and rode the field of battle When
the number of his dead soldiers it enraged him
that he said Il will slaughter we'll avenged
the prisoners The next morning the Christian pris-
oners to the number of ten thousand led
their hands bound behind them with haters around
their necks. After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
among the prisoners their liberty the sultan gave the
signal for the slaughter commence and the unhappy
capt1ves fell In front of his tent.
The battle, of Nicopols the high-water mark in
the power Of Bajazet He soon made preparations to
invest Constannople The Byzantine king searched
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 it
seemed that Bajazet the point of entering Con-
stantinople cluod in the eastern horizon the
shape of Tamerane, the Tartar who though years
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 Sivas and put the Inhabitants to the
sword killing among others Prince Ertoghru son Of
Bajaze who, when he heard of the death of his son.
hurried at the head of his veteran troops against
lane He seemed however, to have lost his usual
ton and sagacity with only 100000 he swept for
ward 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 Tartar had
taken possession of his camp poisoned the stream
ana his weary ana tnlrsy troops had to spend the night
without water The next day he led the disprted army
to battle, and while of them gave good account
of themselves others exhausted that they
themselves over to the enemy and the field of
Angora, where his ancestor Ertoghrul nearly hun
dred years previous had laid the foundations
man empire, he overthrown, and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet with of his sons
captured and made show in the trumphal pageant of
his conqueror. He carried in lattced litter and
there arose current story that he had placed
an iron cage Thus the empire of the Ottomans that
mad swept over 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 so characterizes the the Turk as tts
recuperatve power Often has been seemingly over
thrown and swept from the face of the earth but mme
d1ately there arises again mighty power having the
same spirit as it's predecessor Mohamed L. the son Of
Ba5aze took the shattered fragments which his father
had left and began the work of building up the Ottoman
power The Greeks said of him that he "as perse-
vering camel" He was the Youngest son ana