The Washington herald., 1915-04-11

| tian population of his empire"
International politics hardly could
sink to q deeper infamy than that
cynical al, effort S to whitsn anew ssspul;;
, thus renewed. the Turk doubled his
legs under him and again settled HIM
The Jinxoes.
more After ross twenty fa R%ssia
Of the reHelted saz s%e an IL
the Russo-Turkish war Of 1s77-7$ en-
sued: The liberal peoples of the
t Western snoL nations with Gladstons for
the basR Fee Grsnd o ~
Man Ma nv was for bundling Turkey out Of
Thomas Carlyle fastened Upon that
nation Ts,l,9 the name Of the unspeakable
with a sardonic smile, the Premier
of England. Benjamin Disraeli. al
ready entitled Lord Beaconsfield. faced
that storm Of Mortified indignation. He
Of the Suez Canal. and he and his fell
low Imperialists were resolved moro
than ever to keep Russia out of the
The Russian army slowly and pain
fully fought it's way down the Balkan
peninsula. until at last the tented
hosts Of the Car We're at ST. Stefano;
st. Sophia. only ten or twelve miles
way. And the Sultan was packed for
flight to Brusa-to quit Europe bag
But as he bear stood there by the
banks of the warm waters for which
he so long had thirsted.- the lion came
niS hsd seiHed upon the advances Of
the Russians to excite the alarm of the
British To n les ooo Parliament voted d., q
grant Of $4,000 900: soldiers Y were call call,
was dispatched 10 the protection Of
Constantinople. In the furore Of Lon
don. a music hall song gave to the
the English language a new word:
We've got the men and we've got tho ships
And. By lingo. we've got the money. too!
The Treaty Of st. stefano. which the
Sultan had FASTENED to make with his
tossed WITCH IN the n Tssts
t Saste the ~ Future 81 Turkey could be de-
termined only by the ,hpp owysrs acting
s.5Pa In to ls g. bar Of the Congress OF
Nv the treaty which eventuated.
Montenegro. Serbia and Roumania
were declared independent o. the sui
rain Of the Turk, was assured Its au-
tonomy. under the rule or prince OF
THOSE liberal slices having been cut
Off Turkey, the carvers proceeded to
nick the bones. Austria took limited
lease Of Bosnia and herzegovina; Rus
STA part Of Bessarabia and Armenia
a bit Of Epirus. Finally the British
lion licked the platter and gulped
down the island Of Cyprus, most con-
venisntly sitTstea enS I'm. mou9S on
Beaconsfield returned 70 London.
where a triumph was staged for him.
haeT bearing peace with honor" the
conscience Of England viewed II as
the Peace of Warsaw and detected a
faint in the honor At the general cleo
ton in 1880. he was turned out by q
large majority and Gladstone Installed
in the premiership.
TIE Kaiser's Dream.
England ceased once ana for all to
be the attending physician of "the
sick man. and retired from the case.
leaving Germany to take ner place by
the bedside OF the dying empire. When
cession to construct q railway to Bag
dad, Gladstone declined 1t and the
Germans took II.
and restored fallen temples; they have
been pushing the Bagdad Railway to-
ward the back door Of British India: (:
they have established great banks and
Of sharon IL fragrant with the orange
blossoms in German orchards. and on
the Phoenician shore at HaiYa, i found |
myself in the cheer and cleanliness Of !
4 German town. German hotels. rising |
prfmly amid the squalor Of Moslem or |
Am Villages, offer the only guarantee /
Of . good bed and . good meal In the |
Holy Land.
Lien aaA Bear Mako U.
Tho naval operations In thu Bysan-I
Tine Strait. theref0re. have only