The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-07-16
ByGEN ZACHAPYI T. SWEENEY
sFoRrzER CoNsu -GENERAL AT
CCNcSTAMTINOPLE

the Ottoman center and claimed to be deserter and
having important Amurath person
On being led to the Turkish sovereign he kne as II to
pay him homage and then stabbed Amurath with sud
den and mortal stroke of his dagger Miosch sprang
from his knees and being gifted with great activity and
strength cleared himself of the enemies that hronged
around him. and found his way where his horse had
been left but before he could remount the Janissares
overpowered him and hacked him 70 pieces Amurath
realized that his wound mol- but had sufficient
of mind to give orders for charge of his
which decided the victory in favor of the Otto
He died pronouncing the death doom Of King
Lazarus who was conquered. But that not the
saddest death of the day When Prince Bajaze realized
that the victory the Christians accomplished
and he acknowledged by his fathers generals as
their sovereign be Immediately ordered his brother,
Yacoub who had fought valiany by his side, to be
that "Sedition is than murder saying that has
caused many Ottoman sutans 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 Yilderim. or
"Thunderbolt" After completing the Servian war; Baa
get returned Asia and increased the territory Of the
sultan by conquest of several adjoining states Cara
mania which long held Independent state,
acknowledged Bajazet sovereign Gutted with vic
tory and rapidly augmented power, Bajazet gave him
self 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 infamy Of these two lives sully
the pages Oriental history Bajazet startled from
his reves by crusade Of Christian chvary of Franks
The Christian army marched against the Ottomans
down through Transylvana, Waachia and Seryia They
captured Widdin Orsoca, and invested Nicopolis but
Bajezet marched against them and ngorousy dispersed
them After the conflict Baiazet pitched his
of Ncopois 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
the prisoners The next morning the Christian pris-
oners the number of ten thousand led with
hands bound behind them and with halters around
their necks. After allowing "a Christian mobiles from
among the prisoners their liberty the sultan gave the
signal for the slaughter to and the unhappy
captives fell in front OF his tent.
The battle OF Nicopolis was the hghwater mark in
the power Of Bajazet He made preparations to
invest Constantnople The Byzantine king searched all
Europe assistance and descended the humil
alton Of asking aid from his odime enemy the pope Of
Rome, but all In vain Just at the moment when It
seemed that BajaEet the point of entering Con-
startinople cluod in the horizon the
shape of Tamerane 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 Sivas and put the inhabitants to the
sword killing others Prince Eroghrul the OF
Bajazet who when he heard of the death Of his soE
hurried the head of his veteran against
lane. He seemed however, to have lost his usual
ton and sagacity; with only 10000 he swept
ward against army of 100000 and show his reck-
lessness engaged in grand hunt in the neighborhood
of Angora until they entirely exhausted Return
ing to his quarters, he found that the willy Tartar had
and his and thirsty had spend the night
without water, The next day he led the dspired army
to battle, and while many OF them gave good
themselves others exhausted that they gave
themselves to the enemy, and the field of
Angora where his ancestor, Ertoghru nearly two hun
years previous had laid the foundations of the
man empire, he was overthrown and his empire shat
tered to fragments Bajazet with OF his sons
captured and made show In the rimnphal pageant OF
his conqueror He carried In latticed litter and
there current story that he had been placed
an iron cage Thus the empire Of the Ottomans that
had swept Asia and large part ef Europe till it
had earned the title. Wrath Of God" suddenly termI-
mated and the Ottoman power seefned gone forever.
Nothing characterizes the rule Of the Turk as its
recuperstve power Often has been seemingly
thrown swept from the face of the earth but ime-
diately there arises again mighty power having the
same spirit its predecessor Mohammed L. the Of
Bajaze 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 was the youngest son. and.