Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-12-01

| day Othman's sword is belted onto
| him who sits in the imperial seat in
! the City Of Constantine in lieu Of a
! coronation. Great and chivalrouS
| and noble was he during life--sub-
| lime he became at death. When he
! knew that death was approaching, he
! called his warlikc son Orchan, gave
! him his sword and said: "My son,
am dying, but die without regret,
| because | leave thee TO carry forward
my work. Be just, love goodness.
| show mercy. Protect equally all thy
subjects Of whatever creed" That
| WAS in 1925, and to this day no
Turkish Sultan has persccuted for
Religions sake. as he who wears the
sword Of Othman must obey the dy-
| ing wtIde of him.
The Bulgarians and the dominant
element OF Hungary, the Magyars.
are close akin, both being southern
branches Of the originally great Finn
Family, which is in turn an onshoot
OF the Turanians OF Central Asia. So
that explains why the Bulgars and
Turks are not so inherently antago-
niStlc, both having strong strain Of
the Tartar blood. Further. it gives
a clCw to the wonderful fighting
prowcss Of these people. We see also
in each the Semitic strain. as shown
by their hooked noses and black hair
curling.
The Greek and the Bulgar have
from the eighth century been enc
mics The Greek has intrigued with
everybody Of whatever blood. of
whatever belief, that could aid him
in injuring the Bulgar, and the Bull
ear has at every opportunity, regard
less OF odds, unmindful Of seasons,
picked up the gage Of battle and
marched to protect his religion. his
land or his liberty.
The Turk ruled the Balkan lands
for more than five centuries. With
the Scimitar? No; with Christian
swordS-the JaniZarieS, the calling
OF whose name sent chilling thrill
through every heart that beat in en-
m'ly to Islam. Every fifth male child
born OF Christian fathers was claim
ed as the Sultan's own. became the
favored child Of fortune, trained and
educated in the highest degree. The
throne OF Othman never tottered so
long as 1t was supported by the
swords Of Christian Janizaries.
1t has been the wonder OF histo-
rianS that a mere handful of Turks
could rule so many millions of peo-
pies or so divers religions, with even
wider range OF natiOnalitieS. The
one word JanizaricS answers. These
ChrlSLi0n leGlOnaricS, serving Il Mos
lem monarch, would as lief bayOnet
the WhiteSt Indo-lranian skin Of AL
b&nia kneelinS at the altar of the vir-
gin as the blacklist hide in the Sudan
prostrate toward Mecca. Their only
allegiance was to him who wore the
sword OF Othman beneath the Star
and Crescent.
In l05 A. d. Rome, under Traian
conquered Thrace, which was all the
land lying between the Carpathiau
Mountains, the Danube and Dniester
rivers. ancient Dacia. 1t was so fair
and so fertile, and Rome. feeling the
need OF Il strong barrier to stand the
buffets Of the fierce Tartars and Av-
arS (mOdCrn CossackS) to the east,
transplanted Roman citizens TO the
territory. That accounts for the ap-
parently singular fact that the king
dom formed OF WallaCia and Molda-
via should be called Roumania, and
the language ana manners Of the
people should be Latinic rather than
COsSack, Hun or Bulgarian.
This sketch would be very incom-
plCte did we fail to mention the half
million Danubian gypsics. These
strange SanScrit people were scatter
ed from the Indian foothills OF the
Iiimalayas by that terrible Tartar,
TimOur, as chaff on the four winds Of
the earth. In the valley Of the far
away Danube this human notsam had
hcnrd that the meadows were green
and the mountains heavy with wild
meat. Thithor they iOurneyed, and
there they have wandered up and
down, an incon%ruous. disturbing,
diSSatistyirg element in an already
Scrthing region.
fhC commercial backbone of ;nc
peninsula has ever been its quarter Of
a million Jews.
1t would be impossible in less than
a Volume to give Il clear idea Of The
many inner differences and pcculiari-
ties OF tn" Balkan pronounced BAL
kaarD people. But We would be un-
falr dld "" fail to give an insight into
the reasons fer some OF their uppar-
entity unreasonable politics. The
Greek. the serb and the BnlGar has
each long had vivid dreams OF sitting
on the throne whose pedestal is laved
by the waters OF the Golden Horn,
ana the TURK desires to keep on sit
ting there. Russia has fought Tur-
key three separate times that shn may
swallow the whole Balkan territory
as Turkey diS@0r"cd it: but the Hou-
manianS. KNOWING what had hapron-
od to their brothers Of BcssaraDia.
and the hardy Bul"ars. remembering
with a shivcr the fate Of their Kin in
Astrakan and Finland. and the Alba