Year: 1875




Boys always ready to get up and be doing in any
which commends itself to their imagination and
their experienced kinsfok smile at their antics feel
scared by them, as the case may be. Unces laugh,
aunts frightened fathers and mothers do quite
know what to make of the unexpected energies deve
oped in their progeny. If their adventures turn out
satisfactorily and small tradesmens sons develop
themselves abruptly into Ministers who have contracts
and other things to give away their forbears not
only satisfied with their behavior but proud Of their
achievements IT. on the other hand the LOCAL police
make themselves disagreeabe the families of The scape
graces dsavow all knowledge of their pranks, but plead
for their pardon with the rich eloquence Of mothers
hearts and the rough oratory of fathers aching lips,
nevertheless.


But statesmen, who look at the worlds ways
which are always a comedy to those who think If they
are tragedy to those who feel know very well that
public opinion throughout the whole world depends
partly the thoughts and still the action of
young under twenty-five years of age


The world is always in the right after its fashion,
for young bright eyes take clearer views of facts than
old eyes obseured by fear and and deceived by
experience,


1t is easy for boy to put three books of poetry
and a clean shirt and a collar (he does any
socks if of military mould INTO bundle to buy go
tick for ten dollar gun and set off TO the wars with
big idea and keen appetite for whatever may turn
He is withheld by prudential motives. He has
neither wife, children burdens, money in the
funds Nothing which possibly happen in the po
litical way will be of much consequence to him. He is
tired of his books he has, perhaps quarreed with his
sweetheart. He is in debt with his andlady with
his washerwoman. Anything will be a relief from the
monotony of school days and the dread of competitive
examinations The sap of hfe's sprngtme rises in his
veins and pushes him to do something. This is the
OF the Servian boys, and if the Sultan phi
osopher he would rather have heard that all the dip
lomatists in Europe were combining against him than
that these turbulent and unreasonng youths had taken
up for his discontinue They


FLocKING TO THE SCENE REVOLT


In great numbers and will increase daily in multitude
because the Sorvians like all half savage peoples have
immense respect for education, and whenever they
begin gain money they send their TO the schools
universities of Western Europe Prince Milan, their
sovereign moreover, is a very young man. who thinks
cordially with his contemporaries, and he has just ap
pointed


A YOUNG sERvIAH MINISTRY


to give effect to his ideas and theirs.


Let us examine cooy into these facts and cndeavor
to explain their real meaning Prince Milan and the
young of his age assuredly feel hearty detesta
tion for the Turks have said land who has
any knowledge Of the actual state of Turkey will deny
the asseron) that there little If any oppression
of the rayahs. But there awful goings in the
last generation and angry pacha terrible
Turk indeed A contumacious rayah found no mercy.
He shot in sport strung up like dog to the
est tree tortured for amusement His wife was often
taken away from him his wedding day; his his
daughter were carried Off and heard Of He
was banged with sticks till he revealed the hole in the
earth where the savings of his lifetime concealed
and sometimes he forclby made Mo-
hammedan. servia, Montenegro and the Her





and it a far cry Vienna Pars-a still further
cry to London When the cry made it found
echo What did tho court of Ferdinand or OF Louis
XVIII OF George " for the wrangle of barba-
The present generation OF Servians therefore,
were brought up in acrimonious hatred Of the Turks
hatred rendered bitter by its awful impotence.
They could not they dared not rise against their op
pressors They did not know how do so; they only
felt that their condition most miserable and now,
it has been all time the Of the fathers
being visited the children of those who tyrannized
them without pity or human feeling. The Of
the despsed rayah who helpless, read yes
terday the latest republican prints III Vienna and Paris
to-day he is prepared to act upon their teaching


THE LEADER OF THE YOUNG sERvIASs
is Prince Milan. His grandfather was a swineherd,
who became first a cattle dcacr and then sovereign.
He must have had long ~sotted account against the
Turks. Prince Milan is Tor be married TO Miss Keshko.
Miss Keshko is the granddaughter Of a large cattle
dealer Bessarabia who drova his own oxen to mar
ket and the present writer has him dressed in
mud and rags. He mus. have often beaten; he
must have been often robbed, often vexed But he
acquired large fortune which he invested in Russian
land His son. who dred suddenly few years ago at
Odessa, was brought up in Paris; and his widow a
very resoutc little lady OF the stourdza family also
cattle dealers has passed much of her time at
Nice. Tho lady and her orphan daughter brimful
OF French romance and believe heroic patriotism and
great deeds rich and idle ladies do Possibly prob
ably they pray morning, noon and night for the de-
livery Of the Christians from the Turks. Their pray
crs and their hopes backed by the Sovereign
Prince Of Serva and his Ministry; they are
backed too, by Earl Russell and his kinsman Sir
Something Elliott the British Ambassador Con-
stantinople. They supported by all the enthusiasm
and all the ignorance of Western and Northern Europe
Tho Turkish bondhoders, and only such of them as
clearly understand their interests, opposed to
MRS. KEsnKos rRAYERs-AN AWKWARD ITEM THE


TURKS.


Some OF the traditions of diplomacy also are silently
working against the Porte. Not long ago Wallachan
boyar told me that he had succeeded after much diff
nculty in obtaining


AN INTERVIEW WITH NJ. THEIRS


The President of tho French Republic, then In tho
height Of It's glory, talked to the waachian boyard for
precisely twenty minutes, showing that he was per-
fecily misnformed and did not listen to one word
which the boyard had to say. Thus similarly In
sructcd from the depths his own internal conscious
ness, NJ. Guizot wrote in his memoirs thus;-'If
Europe will not deliberately consent to the partition of
Turkey which is in dying state least II ought not
TO bc duped by false pretcnces The Ottoman Empire
neyor be reformed; 1t can be made a regular
and living member Of the European confederacy."
There half truth in this axiom but the great ques-
ton at issue is how and in what manner shall the
partition OF Turkey be made2 None Of the Powers in
terestod agree about their respective shares and
any attempt to divide it would Immediately produce
European war. Russia, indeed demands the whole
Inheritance Of the "sck Mani" yet Russia herself IL
ono may trust recent reports s on the Of civil
war, which may break up the empire of the czarG