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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-11-26, Page 7OUR OTTAWA LETTER RECIPROCITY WITH U. S. MEANS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN. That the Chicago Tribune Says--Tbe Wan- dering Commission—Mae I to lin lr n Settlement—Tarte% Loa l Piro*, ress"-T0' ' Crow'sl'iest Pa.. [From Our Own Correspeedentat Ottawa, Nov. 17.—An era of woe has come upon the able gentlemen who write editorials for the Liberal press, They seem to be unable to agree as to the lines upon which Sir ,Richard's friend Major alelainlar, Presidenaelect of the United States of America, will draft his new tariff. In Manitoba the Liberal edi- tors see free binder twine, free coal, free lumber, free agricultural implements coming as a result of the reciprocate, that Sir Richard will be able to negoelate, In the Maritime provinces the Finance Min- ister has been assuring the people them he will be able to arrange a reciprocity treaty. Now, it is not pleasant to have to accuse such eminent gentlemen as Sir Richard and air. Fielding of not ex- pressing their convictions. But, if they do not clearly see that there is no pros- pect of securing any measure of reci- procity without discriminating against Great Britain, they are not fit for the posts which they hold. They have been told by Mr. McKinley that the United States will extend reolprocity to nations that will give them something in return. In this case the "something" is diserime ination against Great Britain. Let Mr, Laurier and his aides tell the country frankly whether this is what they pro- pose to do. There can be no doubt that Sir Richard would sea no objection to discrimination against Great Britain, for be said so in the House of Commons not long ago, As for the Minister of Finance, he held views akin to those of Sir Blob- ard only six months back. At Guysboro* he said that he did not see why Canada should not discriminate against certain British Importations. There was trouble immediately, and Mr. Fielding explained to the indignant Nova Sootians that he had not been allowed to finish his sent- ence. "I Was going to say," said the present Finance Minister, "that I could see no objection to such a course if Eng- land gave her consent," eLa other words, Mr. Fielding saw no wrong In placing burdens upon the people of Canada for the benefit of the manufacturers of the United States British goods, as a rule, are netter anti cheaper. The alinister of Finance believes that it would be in Canada's interest to make the people of the Dominion buy American goods, and to make the importation of British man- ufactures impossible. what the Chicago Tribune Sorb. The farce will not last much longer. The people will know in a few months that the Government at Oarawa has ab- solutely no prospect of negotiating any- thing like an equitable treaty with the American Administration, John Sherman and James G. Blaine, two representative Republicans, have told us exactly what the people of Canada must do in order to secure what they call the benefits of unrestricted reciprocity. In a speech at Isiaine, a town that is just across the Now Brunswick border, Mr. Blaine said that the Canadians could never secure the benefits of American citizen- ship without becoming American citi- zens. In other words, they will grant us no favors until we are ready to throw off our British enteneetiOn and join the republic. Blaine voiced the sentiments of the tremendous majority of his people. The Liberal Administration, In paw° of cringing before the men in power at Washington, might better give some study to the question of Imperial trade. The former Government had given much attention to the question. The first thing Sir Richard Oartwright did on attaining office was to express himself as Convinced tient the preferential trade policy was impossible. Mr. -Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary in Lord Salisbury's Government, does not agree with Sir Richard. Neither do a hundred and more members of the Imperial House of Commons. But Sir Richard's fixed idea Is that we must continue to look to Washington. It must be apparent to many members of the new Government that. the reciprocity scheme cannot be carried out. Why do they not drop it.? Because Cartwright has to be allowed to please himself by talking. I doubt whether Mr. Laurier's friends will be able to do any more than did the Con- servative Government's ambassadors a Pew years ago. This is what the Chicago Tribune, a McKinley organ, has to say on the subject:— "The teatal question in this business is the willingness of the Canadians to reel- prottate on manufactured goods, and to have the same freedom of trade as exists between our States; in other words, a complete zoliverein. To allow them to pick out a number of articles of which we have abundance and grant reciprocity on them is the sheerest nonsense. "It will be tough better for the trade relations Of the two aceantries to remain as they are until Canada is ready for a competirig reciprocity as complete as that which now exists between the American states. When she is ready for that she will probtibly be ready to come Into the Union, The United States is in no hurry for this change. We can get along so.faras the tariff is concerned by treaty as we do with other nations. So long as Canada prefers to remain in a colonial condition as a province of a little island beyond the ocean no closer trade relations with us can be expected. This is an independentselagoverning country and Canada ought to have come in at the time of her own rebellion in 1832. But we don't want an ono Ming state organized out of a hostile province. Des- tiny will determine the time of Canada's admission, and the United States will go on as it is doing now until such tirne as Canada le ready to be absorbed. If she had come in a century ago,RS she should have done for her own interests,,, she would have had now ten million people instead of fiveonillion people, and her wealth would have quadrupled. So long, however, as she loves the mother coun- try she should be allowed to enjoy that sentiment to the utmost, and so long as she prefers that kind of silliness to solid advancement she had better go on as .she is going, while the United States will remain as a nation friendly to the colony of a far -distant power, There will be no noire jug -handled reciprocity be- tween Uncle Sam and his charming but foolish neighbor Miss Canada." The Wandering Commission. Confide, it mime to me, will continue to prefer "that itioa of silliness." The Liberal Administration can be known •ef its friends, The Chicago Tribune used eo be one of the admirers of the 'arty while in Opposition. The sooner Oertwright and Fielding come to the conclusion that this country will not 'base itself to Uncle Sato, she better for Me Administration of to -day. The busi- ness men of the country have their own (Millions on the tariff. They have said in private what it would nett do for them to say in rubeitu that the less tinkering with the present tariff the better for Canada. The watidering Commission of Ministers, which is composed of Mr. Fielding, Sir Richard Cartwright and Mr. Paterson, Commenced work in Toronto the other day. They were besieged by gentlemen whose all is wrapped. up in Canadian manufacturing interests, men who em- ploy the mechanics who buy two-thirds of the farm produce of Ontario. These manufacturers laid their cases before the Commission. They humbly prayed that they should be allowed to continue their business. They pointed out that without Protection they could not hope to compete with 'the eheaply manufauturrili products of the United States. The Commissioners gave them an attentive hearing. But the trio must not forget that their leader "bas said that he will not be satisfied "until every vestige of Protection is 'wiped from our statute books." If that aspiration is gratified what shall we ax-' peat? Abandoned factories, homeloes workingmen, useless farms, It will be a return to the old days of the Mackenzie Government, when the soup kitchen was in full blast throughout the land, and. when everybody who had the money left the country. The Commissioners will visit all of the large cities of the country. Let it he hoped that they will see the error of their ways before they return to Ottawa. The °emaciation of Sir Richard and Mr. Fielding with the Controller of Customs may do good, for Mr. Paterson knows that Free Trade would ruin his biscuit business. Let it be hoped that he will convert his two friends to a belief that Protection is not altogether to be decried. Manitoba School settlement. At last the terms of the Manitoba School settlement have been announced., They,tilffer In he material respect from those which I indicated some weeks ago. The Roman Catnolios in schools, in which there are twenty -live or more children of that faith, are to have a teacher of their own religion. Provision is also made for teaching the French school children in their own language. It le to this latter 'enactment that the Protestants and English speaking people of Manitoba will most strongly object. These children are to associate and to do business all their lives with English speaking people. Nobody asks that they shall not be allowed to speak the second- ary language. But everybody will See the necessity of teaching them to speak the tongue of the dominant race. This can be done better by snaking English the colloquial language for at least the mid- dle and higher grades of their sehols. Hon, Clifford Sifton, however, has at- tained his desire. He has been sworn in as Minister of the Interior, and has shaken the dust of the provincial coun- cil chamber from off his feet. Henceforth he is to be in receipt of a salary twice as large as that which lie was paid at; Winnipeg. He hoe won his case; he hart ()limbed a step higher On the ladder; and the Manitoba School question has given him the things that have made his pro. gross possible. Thomas Greenway bas witnessed his departure with no feelings of regret. The Farmer Premier feared Sifton as, in time agone,he feared Joseph Martin, Now Greenway feels secure. His concert with Laurier has satisfied him, has satisfied Laurier, and, if report be true, has satisfied His Holiness the Pope. It may be retneinhered that in August last Abbe Proulx, who Is Mr. Laurier's parish priestwas called upon suddenly to visit Rome. In the House of Commons Mr. Laurier stated in terms that Rev. Monsieur Proulx had not been sent to Rome by the Liberal Administration. "He has gone to Rome on private busi- ness," said the Premier. New the same Mr. Laurier tells us with pride that Abbe Proulx has gained the' Pope's con- sent to the terms of the settlement. The plan of the Administration was very clear. If Monsieur Proulx should be un- successful the members of the Govern- ment would aver that they knew naught of his mission; if he should successfully plead his cause, the Ministry would claim the credit. In other words, it was a "sure thing." The French bishops of Quebec had, at all costs, to be convinced that the French Premier was not lacking in awe of there. Joseph Martin, the friend of public schools, the man Who battled for the formation of an undivided people in Manitoba, the man who fought Laurier's battles with more ability than did leaueler himself, was sacrificed on the altar of French domination. The bishops would not have him in the Cab- inet. He was the enemy of their lang- uage and their religion. He must not be germitted n place in the Council cham- ber of the nation. And so it came that Martin was betrayed, and that Clifford Sifton, a cunning mediocrity, was 0110Sen in his etead. The bishops had won their case, but they were not satisfied. They wanted more, and so the Abbe Pretax was appoinced Canada's Minister pleni- poteutiary to the Papal court at the Vatican. His negotiations have been sure mane]; his Holiness has formally given his sanction to an agreement between two Canadian Governments. Let us all bow to the Crossed Keys and to our am- bassador, the Abbe Pronix. The settle- ment that has been arrived at is unfair to the many English speaking Roman Catholics who are quite satisfied to send their children to the public schools. They have not been given liberty to , continue to do so. No matter what their desire may be, they are to be compelled to engage a Roman Catholics teacher. The religlein interferes in no way with the efficiency of the instructor. The facts show that there are very few Roman Catholic teachers who have passed the requisite Normal sehool examinations. The consequence will be that the children of that faith will be at a disadvantage as compared with their Protestant school mates. In roldielort to this, the cost of supporting the schools will be greatly Increased. But this, as well as all other considerations, has been lost sight of by Mr. Clifford Sifton in his desire to ob- tain Cabinet position at Ottawa. His, alleged convictions, his duty to the peo- ple of Manitoba, his oft -repeated pledges, have all been forgotten. He has the eight thousand dollars a, year and "Business ts b . c use n err v ng a a ec ern in of the School ease, we cannot regret that we are to be exempt—for a time at least —from discussing it. I do not believe that the biolucps will accept the atitust- roent that has been made. They will have further demands to make, and their desires will be gratifled. Leerier owes his position tc 'the flocks er the bishops; he has yet to pay the shepherds. Tarte,s itoyal Progress. Mr. Israel Tarte continues his royal progress through the West, Since his rencontre with Rey, Mr. Fairlie, of the Indian school, we have not heard that the gentlemen of his suite have become involved in any more difficulties upon account of their Sybaritic propensities. Liberal editors who have taken up the cudgels on behalf of Mr. Tarte's party accuse Rev. Mr. Fairlie of having un- necessarily troubled himself about a small matter. If it is an unimportant matter to keep the Indian wards of the nation from seeing a party of gentlemen drinking and smoking and behaving in other ways as they would in their club, the objections to Rev. Mr. Fairile's action will stand. The point is not that it was wrong for these gentlemen to drink and smoke; we are all entitled to °lir own opinions concerning the matter. It is submitted that if these gentlemen desired so have luncheon at the Indian school they might well deprive them- selves for one meal of the champagne and whisky which they nnsisted upon having. The Crow's Nest PIIKK. Not long ago Mr. Tarte acknowledged with great simulation of candor, that he bad accepted a gift • of three thousand dollars from Mr, T. G. Shaughnessy, Vice -President of the 0. P. R. The money was used, said the Minister of (Purified) Pattie Works, in paying his election expenses in the county of L'Islet. This was a shade worse than the Whelan transaction, in which It will be remem- bered, Mr. Tarte said he took $10,000 from the contractor of the Quebec court house, with which to bribe the Conserv- ative members of the Quebec Legislature. The statement has been denied upon oath by the gentlemen concerned. In the Shaughnessy case the Minister stonier convicted out of his own mouth. Now the Canadian Pacific people want. their quid pro quo for that three thousand dol- lar "donation," Their desire is to obtain the exclusive privilege of run.ang trains through the Crow's Nest Pass, the only practical defile leading to the gold fields. Tarte will do his best for his benefac- tors. He will report in favor of giving the franchise to the 0. P. R. Anti the Liberal Government will have another powerful ally. WILD HORSES. They Are Still Found in Various Parts of Asia. The horse has beeorne so thoroughly domesticated in all parts of the world that really wild representatives of the species mire extremely rare. There still exist in parts of linegary partially wild horses, but these when captured young may he broken in and put to harness with as much reanincss its horses reared on a farmstead. It is, however, far different with the wild horses. of the Tartars, which are untamable, and will not live in captivity. During his journey through Western China, G. R. Grum Grizmallo met with a wild horse in the Dzungerian desert, and after much trouble succeeded in securing two specimens, though neither of them were taken alive. Ihe herds are extremely oantioos, and it was only by the Utmost patience and cunning that the explorers were able to conceal them- selves near enough to a small salt lake where the horses came to drink to shoot a couple of them. The wild horse has something in common with Altai, Can- causlan, and Finnish ponies, It is of short stature -1.46 meter high has a broad chest and back, a short, massive neck and fine legs, as elegant as those of a race horse, ending with broad beefs. The head Is rather heavy in compari- son to the body. but the wide forehead Is handsome, the line from the forehead of the noes straight, and the upper lip covers the lower one. The upper part of the tail has the color of the body, but black at the point, and, like that of the wild ass, is not entirely covered with hair. The mane begins in front of the ears, the longest hairs being in its mid- dle part; it is black in color, and hangs over to the left In the scantiness of hair about the body the wild horse rather re- sembles -the Tekke Turoomane horse, but the killed specimens had a strange look- ing pair of whiskers, about four centi- meters long, running from the ears to the chin. Its „miler is sandy in summer and light brown in winter, with nearly white parts on the abdomen. The fore- head and cheeks are rather darker than the rest of the body, while the end of the snout is whitish. The legs are black, the spinal mark hardly exists, and entirely disappears in winter. In its manners and mode of life the wild horse differs from the wild asses— the Ojighetais and the Xulans, They stay in preference in the desert, whale the asses prefer tae mountains. The wild horses march in Indian file when they scent danger and leave in the desert their track in the shape of well-defined paths as they niarch from their aberies amidst the desert hillocks to their drink- ing places. TIaey nelah exactly like and have the characteristic growling, like, our horses. The Mongols' sometimes succeed in catching young foals alive, but so far they have never been able to tame them nor do the foals live for any length them, time, when kept in activity, They are very fleet of foot, anri a herd when startled rushes away with the velocity of race horses.--.Pittsbnrg Dispatch. Charity of Speech. Charity of speech is as envie a thing as charity of action. To judge no one harshly, to misconceive no man's mo. tives, to believe things are as they seem to be until they are proved otherwise, to temper judgment with mercy—surely this is quite as good as to build chorches, es- tablish asylums and found colleges, Unkind words do as much harm as un- kind deeds. Many a heart has been wounded beyond cure, many a reputa. tion has been stabbed to death by a few little words. There is a charity which consists in withholding words, in keep- ing back judgments, in abstaining from speech, if to speak is to condemn. Such charity hears the tale of slander, but does not repeat it; listens in silence, but forbears Comment, then locks the un- pleasant part up in the depths of " his heart. Silence can still rumor; it is speech that keeps a story alive, and lends it vigor.—Hurnane .Tournal. Els Kind of a Joh. "I'm always willing to work, no mat- ter how easy the job is." "Yes; you are one of those fellows who are always looking for a chance to teach the deaf and dumb alphabet in a blind esolOner'—Cleveland Plato learelera Much as we may dierapprove of the THE TURKISH ARMY. A FACTOR TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THE PARTI- TION OF TURKEY. A- Nation of Soldiers Wit h !IP!. I II toss Gen- erals --The Turkish- Irregulars—Bands of Crtith Vie1 Is Vilto Are Worthless Against Civil Ired Troops. The interest at present felt in Turkish affairs generally is intensified with re- .gard to the Turkish means of defense against the aggression of Europe, for al- though the existing difficulty may be smoothed down without an outbreak of war, still any untoward incident, when affairs are in so critical is conditton, may be productive of serious reusits. The Turkish Empire has long been de- nominated "The lick man of Europe," but this expreselon must be underetood to apply only to the political state, for, individually and collectively the Turks are about as healthy a lot of peo- ple as exist on the globe. The Govern- ment is weak and inefficient as despot- isms grown old are wont. to be, but that te no sign that it is near the end of its days, for these oriental despotisms have a trick of hanging on to life, sometimes for centuries after they ought to die. The Greek Empire at Constantinople liven for five centuries after its territory had beeu relucted to the region immed- iately surrounding that city, and it is not at all impossible that the Ottoman Empire may follow its example, and It probably will unless the Powers show more unanimity in regard to disposing of Its estate. But those who suppose that Turkey will fall an easy prey to the rest of Europe are reckoning without their host, for lazy and degenerate as they are, the Turks are marvelous ngitters and when their fanaticism is roused, they show a degree of nallitory aggressive- ness that has more than once duinfound- ed their opponents. During the last three centuries they have waged a dozen wars with surrounding Powers, and, on each occasion, their opponents were forced to confess that, had the Moslems been pro- perly commanded, the result would have been extremely doubtful. Their weakness has always been the miraculous stupidity of the Ottoman Generals, Whenever they have been led by trained officers of other nations than their own, their rec- ord has been good. It has always been clear of cowardice. Their fatalistic creed makes Own strangers to fear; to them everything is "Kismet," or fate; and if commanded to go forward to attack a battery, where certain death seems to await every assailant, they neither hesi- tate nor falter, considering that, if it is their fate to be killed at such a time and niece, there is no use trying to avoid it. Beetiles this, they are a hardy race, capable of enduring great fatigue and hardship without breaking down, of A, BUGLER. marching long distances without food or rest, and all these qualities, in a soldier, are invaluable The Turkish army, therefore, is a fac- tor to be considered in the discussion of the fate of the Ottoman Empire, for if the Turks should make up their minds not to be divided up into parcels without a struggle they are capable of offering a very effective resistance to any proposed plan for the partition of their country among the Powers of Eurnpe. The area of the Turkish Empire is about 1,600,000 square miles, or a little over one-half that of the United States, and the popu- lation is nearly 40,000,000, or about two- thirds that of the United States. These figures, however, do not furnish a defin- ite idea of the strength, or more proper- ly, of the weakness of the country, for comprised in the enumeration of inhabi- tants are the people of an the races that were conquered by the Turks, Who con- stitute more than one-half of the whole number. Christians within the limits of Turkey are regarded as aliens, or rather as enemies, whom both the Government and the Mussulman populatinn would he glad to see removed or exterminated. They are not liable to military duty, but, Instead, pay an exemption tax of abent $1.60 a head per annum. - Theoretically, every Moslem in the dorainione of the Sultan is a soldier on furlough liable at, any time to be called on to serve his muster in field or garri- son, but such is the corruption prevail- ing in every part of the Turkish admin- istration, both civil and military, that any one can secure an exemption who is able to pay for it. There is, moreover, a system of conscription organized by law that is suppesod to be carried out in every part of the empire. It is based on the military system of Germany, for since the laid Turco -Russian war the army of the Porte lees been entirely re- organized by German officers, who nat- urally adopted the plan prevailing in their own country, and with which they were most familiar. The military system consists of the Nizana, or regular army. two classes of Redifs, 'or Landwehr, and the tlustafiz, answering to the Landsturm of Prussia, At the annual conscription the ranks of the regular army are sup- posed to be filled by the men of the levy, who must serve six years with the regular army and first reserve. They thee pass into the second reserve, to be called out only on emergencies. Here they remain eight years, subjected to annual drill at their homes, then become members of the third reserve for six years longer, thus parsing twenty years, either in the army or in one of the re- serves. This is the system, and, in work - leg order, it woaid furnish the Govern- ment with an army in time of war, of nearly 1,000,000 men. But, like every- thing else in Turkey, theory is' one thing and practice quite another, and, as a manor of fact, there are very few dis- tricts where the system has beefe put in running order,and none where the con- sorepts of the year do not buy exemption' from service whenever they are able to do so. In one ease in a military district Pear, Sitlyrna, the population made a con- tract with the enrolling officers that, in • consideration of a lump sum, paid down In cash, the district should be exempt, The money was paid, and the conscript- ing officers returned fictitious rolls, and °Margie OF TIM eTioAta' went back, rich and contented, to Con- stantinople. In another, the conscripting officer was prevailed on to enroll the population of the prisons•, in a third all the beggars and poverty-stricken wretches to be found in the district were entered as conscripts, while the able-bodied men escaped. In reality, the Turkish army is com- posed of young men, unable under the oppressive system of taxation, to make their living on the farm or in the work- shop, who, therefore, entered the army voluntarily, and such conscripts as could be secured in those districts of Asia Minor and European Turkey where the military system has been put in working order. There is another class, comprising widely different races of men, who re- semble each other in nothing but the fact that they are all alike. savages. The Turkish irregulars are all cavalry, and probably not since the time of Attila has a Worse lot of thieves, robbers, out. throats, murderers and all round desper- adoes been got together. Tures from Anatolia, Kurds from Armenia, Circas- Flans and Georgians who prefer a wan- dering life of rapine end murder to the iron discipline of the Russian military service, Persians, the descendants of the Parthians so much dreaded 2,000 years ago, Arabs from the Red Sea. Coast, Druses from the mountains of Syria and Palestine, negroes from Egypt, fugitives from justice of every surrounding coun- try, escaped jail birds, anybody is wel- come to their bands who has a horse and arms and can ride, steal and shoot. These are the men who desolated. Bulgaria; these are the men who are now making Armenia a desert. The only discipline they recognize is obedience to their lead- er; they have no system of drill and the terror they inspire is due solely to their well deserved reputation as butchers. When they wage war it is not war, but extermination, for they make not the slightest distinction between the armed and the defenseless, killing all alike with alma ferocity. To them an expedi- tion is a raid, during which neither man, woman nor child is spared, and what property can not be carried off is horned. The American Indians were gentlemen compared with them, for the Inflame did ocasionally spare the ohil- drenadopting them into their tribes and raising them as members of their families, but to the natural savagery of their dispositions the Turkish irregulars add a religious fanaticism of the most exaggerated type—a fanaticism that causes them to regard the murder of a non -Mohammedan as a religious duty,an act extremely laudable In the sight of Allah and which will entitle them to much credit, both in this world and in the next. Principles, if they can be so called, such as these render the Turkish irregulars objects of the utmost terror to defenseless villagers subject to their raids, and. have at one tune or another made their name a terror word from A EMU Ortivease Vienna to Teheran. Along the frontiers of Hungary and Poland they were equally hated and feared for 200 years; the Popes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries issued special prayers for pro- tector) against them; the inhabitants of Southern Russia for a eentury and a half had Cu minuet fast day to insure im- muoity from their raids. To the regular troope of any civilized Power they are contemptible. They are armed with antiquated, flint -lock, smooth -bore muskets, 6 or 7 fent long, pistols of equally ancient pattern and sabers. One cowboy, with a Winchester, a pair of good revolvers and a horse fleet enough to keep him from being over- whelmed by numbers, would be more than a match for a dozen of them. They are brave enough,in the ferocious, brutal way, but the worthlessness of their oteapone renders them a ooff to any or-- ganized body of troops. During the war of 1870, one regiment of Russian foot - drove beeore it, in headlong route, over 6,000 of these marauders. A company on forty Russian frontier guards has been known to disperee a band of 700. Wort' - lees for fightiog purposes, they are valu- able only when inurder and pillage are to he done. They are picturesque object& to their Oriental costumes, with halter stuck full of pistols and daggers, but is a soldier, picturesqueness is a quality at very small consequence. In actual warfare, therefore, with ant civilized Power, Turkey must 'rely on the infantry and artillery, the effective forma of these two arms being less than 400,- 000 men. Such a force as this cotdd offer a strong protest to the partition ort the Turkish Empire. but even after Its resistance was overcome, the trouble Would not be at an end, for before the division could he performed a campoigni in every neighborhood would be meow eery. The fanatical hatred entertained by Moslenis for everybody and everything' Christian is almost inconceivable by the Western mind. When, at the close of thr war of 1876, Bosnia was assigned. to tria,an army of nearly 100,000 men were needed to complete the transfer of the territory, although there was not a Turkish regiment in the province. The Moslem population rose en masse, the women fought side by side with thefir husbants with guns, pistols, swords. bateeets and even pitthforks. Military operation had to be carried on against every village, and it year elapsed era there was complete submission and order was restored. In ease a partition at Turkey were attempted, population Up- risings might be expected in every prov- ince from Albania to the Euphrates - They would all be ineffective, of course, but they would all be bloody and costty. A knowledge of the fact that Turkey la by no means helpless, even with a bank- rupt treasury and corrupt administra- tion, has probably something to do with the general willingness to give the no. speakable Turk a little more time. No- body believes be will- reform, but his army is too big and its fighting repute, tion is too well established for aggressive operation to be thoroughly undertaken.. A QUEER PRANK. A Mexlean Disappears and is Found Inside, His Bass Viol. In a hotel situated in one of the un- fashionable quarters of Paris, a poor Tzigana had occupied a room for some weeks wiithout showing any undue desire to pay his bill, says tic London Tele- graph. The other day the man servant acquainted the landlord with the fact. that his needy tenant had disappeared. the proprietor naturally supposed that, as the musician could not settle up, he bad bolted. Boniface, however,, consoled himself with the reflection that, though the lodger bad left no' money behind Seim, he had not carried. off his musical iostruneenta good double bass. Sent upstairs to remove it, the waiter put faith alt his strength, hut failed to move the inetrument, while up from Ito depths came forth a series of stgbs. grants, and moans. The man servant, firmly believing that he had to do with an enchanted double bass, fled from the room in dismay, with a report to his master of what had happened. That in- dividual went up to the room to investi- gate. He gave the bass viol a shake, when a hollow voice issued from its interior, pleading, in trembling accents, to be left alone to rile. In an Instant the hotel - keeper had whipped off the back of the case, and, tightly squeezed inside, he found its owner, the Tzigane. It was a mystery to those present how the poor man ever contrived to insert his body, thin as it was into the instrument, for considerable energy had to be called into play to get him out. Lord Shaftesbury's Childhood. "This watch was given to rue by the best friend I ever bad," said Lord Simftesbury, the English philanthropist. It was the gift of an old family serv- ant, Maria Mills, to whom his lordship owed the care that made him a good boy and a usetul man. His father was engrossed in publiolifeg his mother, "a society woman," neglect- ed her household. But Maria, the faith- ful servant, who had been in the family for years, devoted herself to him, She led him to study the Bible, and explain- ed it to him in her simple way. Sloe taught bine a prayer, and instructed hina about behavior. At the age of seven he was sent to school at Chiswick, where he was miser- ably cared for, but he proved faithful to, the training of the old servant. Be con- tinued to read the Bible and to offer the prayer she had taught him. Her influence decided his career. At the age of twelve he was removal to the school at Harrow, where both - mind and heart were invigorated. One day a party of drunken men were convey- ing the body of a dead comrade to the graveyard. Anthony saw them as they bore the coffin, and heard their profane songs and foul words. "Good benvensl" exclaimed the boy. "Can this be permitted because this man was poor and friendless?" He than re- solved to devote himself to the relief of the poor cud downtrodden. Maria Mills had given the impulse that first showed itself at the drunken fun- eral, and then fashioned bun into "the impersonation of the philanthropist of the nineteenth century," It was faithfal seed -sowing, marked and honored be- cause of the marked character of the mind in which it was sown. Where Women Do the Wooing. , Between the mountains of India and Persia is a poweveul tribe amone wham an extraordinary custom prevails. Wom- en's rights apparently have received. Lull recognition, for the ladies of the tribe can choose their own husbands. Alla single woman has to do when she wishes to change her state is to eend a servant to pin a handkerchief to the hat of the man on whom her, fancy lights, and he is obliged to marry her, unless he can show he is too poor th purchase her at the price her father requires. London- Children. An educati ,d authority says that 60 per cent. ef tee six-year-old children en- tering London schools have never Seen a robin, 18 per oene.have never seen a cow, some thinking it as big as their thumb or the picture. Over 60 per centesinia never seen growing corn, blackberries,, or potatoes. The lilting Sev. Mr. Meeker—Did you know, my dear, that the scientists say it is the female mosquito that bites? Mrs. Meeker—I have no doubt of in Probably she has to support herself while her lazy luisband Is down town talking politic,