The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-05
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.AVENGES "DANCE OF DEATH"
Russia's Annexation of Mongolia
VIII Repay Vast and Bloody
Invasion.

tItev. Thomas B. Gregory in New
York American.)
Russia is thinking Of annexing Mon
golla. 1T is a fine modern instance of
tho ancient adage that turn about is
fair play for 600 years ago Mongolia
more than annexed Russia. conquering
her. Staying hundreds of thousands of
her people. and holding her in bond
age for more than two centuries.
From heir nome IN the wild Mon
golian steppes the Tartar hordes burst
upon the world like a bosom Of de-
struction. They broke through the
great wall of China and poured over
province after province like a devas-
tatfng flood. They invaded India.
slaughtered right mi left. leaving be-
hind them as the marks of their pro-
gress burned cities. desolated fields.
and great wtndrows of dead and dying
men. women and children.
Turning westward. they overran
Persia. and passing aroun the Cas-
plan sea. streamed over the Trials into
f'ussia. o%verrunning the great white
empire, they crossed the Dnieper, in
vaded Hungary and Poland and
threatened all Europe.
Christendon1 was teerror-stricken.
h cry went up: "They are the hosts
of Cog and Magog. and the end of
tho world is Mt hand!"
|. a black despair took hold Of mems
hearts. Iife's pleasures were forgot
ten and its industries neglected. There
was but n thing to think of-the ap-
pallinG vision of the on-sweeping de-
stroyers!
The old annalists tell us that the
Tartars We're a fearful set to behold,
With broad, fiat yellow faces, great
distended nostrils. small snakelike
eyes black as jet. short, thick legs.
voices deep and hollow. which, in the
act Of yelling or singing. sounded like
the believing of bulls. And as the
hordes OF these monsters approached.
we are informed. so loud was the
grinding of the great wooden char;ots.
the believing of the %buffalocs, the
cries of the camels. the neighinr Of
the horses. n the f%erocious chants
OF the Tartars that the people of tho
doomed cities could hardly hear each
others voices.
And SO the Internal hosts swept on.
villages and cities disappearing before
them like grass before the scythe,
Fortunately for civilization. lust as
Europe. partially recovered from it's
rlsh was about ready t throw itself
across h path Of the invaders. thew
suddenly turned about. recrossed the
Dn1eper into Russia. and ceased to he
Ii menace to the nations south of that
stream. In Russia, however, they
held into their power for more than
700 years, and were not fairly driven
out until about 1850, more than three
centuries from the time they first
struck the cars dominions.
n ring master and original in
spirer OF this dance of death, in which
II Is calculated that more than SO, OO0.-
ooo human beings were ruthlessly
slain, was Jenghiz Khan, born in q
tent on the banks of the Oman. in
llb2. IT is said that he was horn
with a clot of blood in his clenched
list. and in blood he lived and died.
Great. in a sense. was Jenghiz, for.
though by birth he wal but the CHIEF
OF n petty Monaghan tribe, he lived
TO see his armies victorious from the
China sea to the banks Of the Danube.
There were no captains of indus
Try IN those days to exploit human
itE: there were only ~"conquerors."
who murdered men outright with
swords. clubs and spears, and among
ail me conquerors of history Janghiz
stands first. Compare with the con.
s~clenceless. remorseless Mongol, Alex
amer, Caesar, Napoleon and the rest
of the long list were Weddings and
nobodies. OF all the scoundreis who
from the beginning until now have
"waded through slaughter to the
throne Jenghiz Khan bears the palm
alone. In his bloody renown he stands
without a fellow and without a peer.