The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-08
A NEW EPOCH FOR AN ANCIENT PEOPLE.


 THE complete overthrow of Turkey Europe marks another
 great epoch in the that section of the world that
 craded history it's toddlmg days It was 522 years ago that the 1ohamedanS took Adanop and confined the remnant of the Eastern Empire that in that day wore ar els that had gathering ustre for than 1000 years to Constantnop Adc and Aegean shores that were accessible to fleets of Greece and Rome SXtwo years later Mohamed II forced ConStannope that had gaed age as Bzanyne before Constantine the Great had changed US name ten centuries before surrender after Constantine A had been killed He had been fighting in its defense all ms
 lifetime had of his predecessors for centuries oeore him. From the present the major part o that sec on of the world made famous by Alexander the Caesars Con- stanne the others of ancient history has been under the compee control of the enemies of Christianity Yet, de- spite all the efforts Sultan and his cohorts the spark the Western religion kept alive in that Near East for the intervening 800 years And while civilization reached very low ebb among and bounded followers of the Christ in the Ottoman Empire spread it's enace out all over the Balkan peninsula including Greece the islands o the Aegean ana Adrac seas and almost Crimea the Black Sea- the de scenants glorious people that had conquered the world never dream of the day when vengeance would be theirs.
 The ambition of the Russian government to acquire an outlet on Mediterranean and the religious zeal Of the Russian people provided the Balkan Christians the means for preparation the great contest long prayed for but that W." delayed present. In the of 1878 Russia forced Turkey to recognize the independence of Roumana Bulgaria Montenegro erva and Bosnia Greece hao al ready gained her independence Freedom and Western education al methods began difficult task of remakng people that generations subugaon had all but destroyed Progress was slow at first but of recent has been going at racnor speed the statesmen III control or the aS the little nations began the creation Ot military eStaoShne and planning of In the mdinees 1t broke out on the Grecan frontier the Balkan rulers knew the time was not yet so with difficulty they held their people leash and permitted poor little Greece to be humliated
 short hayear ago Italy completed the work that Eng land and France doing Africa That country took Tpo thus removing the last veStige of Turkish control m the darkest continent practically destroyed the Ottoman navy ana reduced it's island possessions to deenseess condition onged and thoughtful conferences the wise men o the " nodoms of the Southeast decided that the hour to strike had come and like thunderbo of the sky the pent Up 1ury that had accommodating for five centuries was let loose along the whole Turkish frontier and the waters ot her long coast line The wetmed and the preparation for if had been all that the hoped and believed Fur key must retire to Asia the Constannes long confined it. The descendants of ancient Macedonia have done the work themselves that and Ausrans and Russians failed to accomplish.
 Ru the great work of the Balkans yet before them The ancestors crude people, in the day o the glory paced tba world in arts letters agriculture and manutac tue victories of were even greater than the " nnbs of arms The real Balkan prince and statesman will be to master problems that will when peace shall have haar restored will the test to the capacity o the o m Balkan people regain for their the position among the peoples of world held by in ancient times be applied
 The Skagway Alaskan says: The only newspaper man Tn Alaska that said anything about witnessing the recent eclipse the editor of the Seward Gateway The ecpSe occurred two o'clock in the morning.
 What are we to understand? Were the others in bed or are they beyond the point of comprehension at that hour o the morning?
 Washington State celebrated her Apple Day" April 5th few days previously Samon Day was commemorated Now why not Potato Day, and Hop Day. and Butter and Cheese Day and Humber Day. and all the other Days" in order and in turn? Washington going to celebrate Day ~ ocb o tb industries for which that great State noted