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Show BALKAN CRISIS PROVOKED BY POWERS GREED peninsula. He visited Sofia and Bel- be easily converted into cash. Others grade, and advised the Servians as were gUen brilliant decorations and It was quite nowell as the Bulgarians to cultivate bonerd the more peaceful and above all more ticeable that many of the foreign offlawabldlng methods in their Mace- icers sunn began to exhibit very little interest in the people whom they donian propaganda. A vermin-strickeCount Lamsdorff then proceeded to were s lit tn protect. Is confer the had he a mangy lot," here many way one Vienna, enres with Count Goluchowskl. the of the officers was reported to have minister of foreign described the Christian peasants at a affairs. Together they drew up an- concert in Yildiz Kiosk, and shortly his wife appeared with a diother program of reforms, which aftei-Aaramond which Pern gossips tiara, accepted of course, immediately was, by the porte in February, 1903. The averri-- site had never been seen to details of the proposed reforms are wear before. They unimportant here and now. Making No Progress. never passed beyond the paper stage. So much time was taken in negotiaThe integrity of the sultan's dominions and his unimpaired sovereignty tion and discussions, and, above all, in were safeguarded by them, and in entertainments, that few of the fortheir projiosals the powers remained eign officers reached their resjiectlve well within the limits of policy de- posts until the fall of 19U5. The fined by that Important article 23 of French were sent to Berea, the English to Drama, the Austrian! to Uskub, the treaty of Berlin. the Italian! to Monastlr and the RusA Bloody Insurrection. sians to Balonica. The Germans held The result of the application of back even at this early date In the these paper reforms did not remain in reform era. They only sent one offidoubt for more than a week. Instead cer, and he was instructed to refuse Ho of the pacification and a peace ap- to enter the disturbed districts. proaching that of paradise, which the contented himself with teaching Turk-li- h recruits the goose-stein the barbureaucratic Russian oount prophed racks yards of Balonica. sied would descend upon the As it has well been said, every on land, came the must bloody and formidable insurrection that the of the (lowers wishes to modify the rebellion-riddecountry had ever present situation, but, unhappily. It seen. It required 300,000 of the best would appear that each one wished troops of the Ottoman forces to up- to modify It for Its personal advanhold Turkish authority, and even with tage, and. alas, profit. In a word the this tremeudous display of force, the news from Macedonia is that the Turks made but little headway against champions of Christendom have come the insurrection until the fall, when to blows, not with the assassins of the many of the Bulgarian bands, yielding sultan, who are seeking to destroy the rather before the onset of winter than remnants of the congregation that St. of the Turks, withdrew across the Paul loved, but among themselves frontier. over a sordid question of political loot. To bolster up their shattered presWorlds Peace Imperiled. tige in the Balkans, in consequence However, the statements made In of the summer's bloody work, the czar of Russia and the emperor of the British parliament recently by Austria met at Muerzsteg in October. government officials in regard to the As a result of this Imperial conference Macedonian question go to show that the intervention of Europe in Mace- there was something in the reports donian affairs became for the first telegraphed some days ago about the time direct, but the results of the possible disruption of the concert of new course fell far short of expecta- the Euroean powers and subsequent tions, in the first place because of the trouble in the near east. The secrewonderful ability of Hilml Pasha to tary for foreign affairs said emphaticheckmate every move made by the cally that if Macedonia continued to agents of the powers, and in the see he neglected a catastrophe would ond because of the well-niginsupera- follow. ble difficulty that was experienced in It is, Indeed, time that effective rebringing the agents of the powers to form measures should be put In force act with unanimity or even in good in Macedonia for the good of the faith. Christian inhabitants of the provinca ' Buffers on Paper. A foreign general officer has been of the Macedonian However, at least, the Muerzsteg pro- In charge gram created two organs of control, gendarmerie with other foreign offior buffers between the Turkish au- cers under him, but supreme control thorities and the Christian peasants has remained In the hands of Turkish of Macedonia. Two civil agents, one officials. As long as that Is the cmsS Mona. Demerlk, a Russian, and the real reform la out of the question. The British government, recogni other Herr von Muller, an Austrian, siMH-che- NOT IN ACCORD Alliance to Press Reforms Upon the Porte Crippled by Inability of Christian Governments to Agree Quarrel Among Themselves Over Loot and Self-Intere- st Peace of the World Imperiled. Marquis of Argenson, Loula XV.'s wrote: "The first great change that will take place in Europe will probably be the conquest ef Turkey. This empire grows weaker because of its bad government, and because it is Impossible that this government should become better, and quite sure that It will grow worse. (rest minister, and If she had the Intention, she has not the money. This road would cost millions, and goes through a difficult and what railway men call a very lean country. It would never pay; that Is, not within the ken of the present generation, and could only serve a political purpose which Russia will be unable to pursue for many years to come. On the other hand, Austria has the right to build her railway, or rather the gaps in the present system. It is a right that was granted by an article of the Berlin treaty, and it has not lapsed simply because the Austrian government has allowed the matter to lie in abeyance for so many years The other rumored Austrian project of building a road from her system to the Adriatic, and then down the coast to Montenegro, and ultimately to Greece, is a sound Idea, and one that would pay for Itself handsomely, at least so far as.Cattaro, and probably there is no idea of pushing the oad much further in the immediate future. Uosnian-Herzegovl- Ready for Roads. Under the fostering care of Herr JiarC2ASarJ&XS4 von Kallay, the provinces of Bosnia, of Herzogovlna, and in a measure, too, Dalmatia have flourished under Austrian rule and development They are WILD CAT AN EPISODE n 4 4 4 4 4 IN WOODS AND WATER d blood-drenche- SIMMONS AND THE n, Austro-Hungaria- NATIONS DOC 4 4 EXPLOITS 4 4 4 4 4 4 By Eraest McGalley Authmr of Cm mn4 4 4 4 4 Pwi 1tA Cn. 'UliUAlUUlU iCumrngki, trda 4 4 J Jump a. Jhiwlaa.) "Got your compass. Doc?" asked one of the guides, as a short, stout figure passed out from the tents, with a double-barrelle- d shot-guover his shoulder. was the reply. Yep "Which way are you going today?" "Over by the oak ridges, was the answer, "I saw lota of turkey sign there late yesterday afternoon. "Well, look out for wildcats over there, too," remarked the guide, "they-r- e settln around In the green briers over there watchin for rabbits and turkey." "All right," replied "Doc," "if I run across one of em, I'll try and scratch bis hack for him. We were camped in the Arkansas wilderness, forty miles from a railroad and in the heart of the White river country. It had been a trip through the swamps, and it had taken us two days to pitch camp, cut wood, and get our bearings a little. Five of ua had arranged to take the dogs and "drive" deer that day, and "Doc Slmmoua, like all but two of was going over ua, a tenderfoot, n - heart-rendin- caslonally call for turkeys. Finally I from began to get an answer over to my right and I kept calling the beat 1 could, but finally I must have let out a fortissimo instead of a pianissimo note, and the turkey quit me cold." "Forty mlsslmo," says one of the guides, whats that, Doc?" It's a buck-snor- t translated Into English," says "Doc." "Go on. Doc, says old man Waite. "Weil," says Doc," at last I heard the sound of about a million turkeys gobbling down in the timber and omething must have scared them, for they commenced flying over me by singles, pairs, threes and clouds. I got two shots befora they all went past, and killed one turkey. When I started back where they all had seemed to light, I hung my turkey up by that old cottonwood stump, high up out of reaca of anything 1 guess." "Well, I was coming along to where the turkeys had all lit, and I got down to the green-brie- r I patches. wormed my way through about a mile of 'em, hut can't raise any turkeys. 1 sat down and tried the call,' but uary a turkey. Then I made up my mind to come back to camp and pick up my turkey on the way. There waa a little enow on the ground. Just a smear, and every once in a while I'd come across one of those big old logs that was hard to climb over and far to go around, and the wading through the briera was awful tough besides. At last I came to a long old log that waa running the way I was headed, and I made up my mind I'd ride her.' Bo I climbed up on top, and as I was roming along down towards the end I aw a thick bunch of green-brier- s at the other end. Bays I to myself. I'll Jump that hurdle, and I took a lltUe flying atari and up I went over the briere." "Now. It'a a little singular, but when I came down I lit square straddle of in Arkansaw. Yea. the biggest wild-ca- t sir! I was in the saddle for aure, and I squashed him right down to tho ground. I wasn't exactly scared, you might soy, but I was a trifle confused. g h Map of ths Disturbed Region. They are rising in the Ottoman empire. Every day a feather falls from the wings of the Turkish eagle. So it seemed to this farsighted man there several centuries ago, but Is only one fact of the Balkan situation upon which all sane westerners agree, and that Is the growing strength of the Turkish military resources, writes Stephen Bonsai in the Philadelphia Ledger. That is a formidable boty of trained and fanatical men, some 300,000 strong, that tramples the Christian peasants of Macedonia under foot, and, after looking the situation over, the Intervening powers of Christianity have not fallen on this rugged host, but have fallen out among themselves on a question of railway concessions. Thirst for Advantage. The czar of holy Russia and Emperor Joseph, who was called to rule the holy Roman empire, are exchanging letters, which, while the diplomat-Jlorms are still observed, recall the to-da- y wordy wars of railway kings. The alliance or entente between the powers which was to press reforms upon the porte that would make It possible for the Christian subjects of the porte to live In peace and yet live Christian lives, has been disrupted by the greed of gain and the thirst for political advantage experienced by the powers, which have in the last decade plumed themselves upon exercising a mandate in Macedonia which they had received from outraged humanity. It la a pitiful end of the reform decade, and the beat that can be said the of the situation is that Christian peasants are not much worse off than they were before, and that those who have survived thqir hard experiences are probably much wiser than they were when they began their political schooling under such august patronage. Taking the optimistic view, the Turkish soldier is not always a brute and the Turkish effendi not always a thief. Looking backward now, the more than decimated peasantry of the Macedonian highlands doubtless recall the pleasant days of before the uprising, the days when or a they had not heard of a Pan-Slac propaganda, when they didn't know whether they were Servior Bulgarians ans, Roumanians, Greeks, and didn't much care. to-da- y v lan-Hellenl- The Railway Row. The railway row is clearly a pretext for and not the cause of the split in the joint Macedonian policy of Russia and Austria. Russia has not even the remotest intention of building A railway from th Danube to the Adriatic, ready for railways, and many more of them. Ten years ago the complaint of little Servla and the veto of Russia would, of course, have brought these projects to an untimely end, but today the balance of power In the near east has changed aa greatly as It has In the far east, and the protests are more likely to fall to the ground than are the projected railways. The story of the reforms In Macedonia Is a sad and a sordid one. Officially, at least, all Christendom "with a long pull and a pull altogether," has been unequal to the task of making the sick man of Europe sit up, or of bringing the unspeakable Turk to book. In England alone of all the great powers interested, and. Indeed, morally responsible for the horrors of dally and hourly occurrence in the luckless vilayets. Is there any appreciation of the dreadful situation. Almost weekly the Macedonian committee, of which Lord Newton and Mr. Gurney are the most active members, publish statistics setting forth as plainly as cold figures can make them, that the present lalsses falre policy of the powers has only served to reproduce a tableau of what In the Iron age the world must have been. England Hampered. The English humanitarians are hampered In their work by the undeniable fact that through the action of the earl of Beaconsfleld and Lord Salisbury at the Berlin congress, when th6y thwarted Ignatieff's plan of a greater Bulgaria, including a free Macedonia, England Is primarily responsible for the present status of affalra. They are further hampered by the presence In Constantinople of an Incompetent ambassador, who baa given undeniable proofs of his want of rapacity In such Important posts as he has occupied In Sofia, in Pekin and in St. Petersburg. The first whisper of reform in what we call Macedonia came in virtue of the accord of 1879 between Austria and Russia, and their recognition by other European states as the powers most directly concerned. The advice of the powers was accepted gracefully it always is by the sultan, and with the purpose of forestalling any possible drastic action the aultan himself drew up a program of reforms, and appointed that adroit diplomatist and profound student of human nature, Hussein Iliimi Pasha, inspector general of the disturbed provinces. , Drawing Up Programs. The moment Hilml Pasha arrived at Salonlci to assume his herculean task the late Count Lamsdorff, the Russian minister for foreign affairs, set out for a visit to the capitals of the Balkan World-Wid- e Distribution of tho Mostem Faith. Ic feeling, which is At the present moment there is a great revival of ths emuse of msny new and difficult problems wherever east and weat come into war with the contact. Moslems throughout the world followed the to the problem of Turkey. A writer greatest Interest, and they are keenly alive in the Times haa pointed out that it Is a mistake to believe that the awakening is due to a movement on the part of the Ylldls Kloak. Its causes lie deeper, and Mohammedans are anxious to shake off the reproach that their religion Is only for degenerate or conquered races. Tlis distribution of Islam ism Is shown In black. Pan-Isla- m Russo-Japane- were authorised to and expected to control the action of the Turkish authorities. They were expected to ehadow the inspector general, to Indicate to him the reforms which they thought would prove helpful, end to listen attentively to the complaints They of the Christian Inhabitants. were ordered and authorised to investigate all complaints that were brought to their attention, but unfortunately the Investigation had always to be held in the presence of a Turkish functionary in other words under circumstances where no Christian peasant, after 600 years of Turkish supremacy, would dare to tell the truth. Something more than moral support waa required to make the slave of centuries stand up and defend himself. In addition to the restraint of the civil agents, there were appointed a large number of foreign officers to serve with the Turkish constabulary. An Italian general waa placed In command of the constabulary reorganization scheme, and to him were attached The many of the foreign officers. scheme proved ineffectual from the beginning. Instead of commanding the gendarmerie In the field, the aultan held, and tmjmsed his view upon the powers, that the foreign officers wire merely to act as instructors in schools for aspirant constables. Six months, a delay of tragic importance to the hunted Christian peasantry of the Macedonian highlands, was spent in discussing the question whether the European officers should wear Christian caps or the Turkish fcs. In the meanwhile the wily sultan was more thau friendly. Those of the foreign officers who could be reached in that way were loaded with rich Borne of these presents presents. were undeniably of a kind that could I thought If I lingered the wild cat might have robbed me of my watch and other valuables. se to try for turkeys. "Doc" had been This old cat spit and clawed out from under me and I know he wax almost taking lessons from an artist In calling, and by mesne of scraping frightened out of hie senses. The efa small cedar box on the barrels of fect on me waa what the scientists his gun, after having previously rub- call 'optical illusion.' Ever see these bed a quantity of common chalk on cages with a squirrel going around In the barrels, be had managed to learn 'em? Weil, I thought the world was a call that sounded quite natural to going around at the rate of s million the uninitiated, even If It didn't fool revolutions a minute and that I was the turkeys. going around with it in a sort of cage, on top of me But "Doc" had run across a tur- with eleventeen wild-rat- a key by accident in the brush, the bird to keep me company." That's the reason I came away having been scared up by the dogs while running a deer, and when it flew without my gun. That'a the reason right Into "Doc" he bowled It over I didn't hunt up my turkey. That'a as easy as he would a quail. It was the reason I hustled for camp. I a fine, big gobbler, and filled "Doc's" wanted the sight of human faces and breast with a desire to get some more the touch of human sympathy. What I wanted to do was to get away front of them. Along about five, when it waa get- there and forget all that maze of fur and ting dark rapidly, we saw "Doc Sim- and teeth and yellow mons coming down the trail, headed thrashing around there in the green-brierand that pungent smell of for camp. He didn't have any gun with him but he appeared to be per- scared wlld-cat- . "And that's the reason, I reckon, fectly serene about it He came up Just as though nothing had happened, that my clothes seem to be ripped up and says,' How soon'll supper be a little across the seams. I don't know what's the best record for travelready? on a direct "What's the matter. Doc, said Em- ing through green-brier- s ory, "anything happen to you? Didn't line, and I haven't measured the dismeet up with a irother, did you?" tance from here to where me and the and then he wlld-ca- t got introduced to each other, No!" say "Doc, luff that, rajaes the question whether a but I want to say that my time must "I says he. turkey." the time hae not come for the appolntr laughed. got have been something terrific. I sailed "Where ia It?" aaya Ed Morton. ment of a Christian governor for over the logs like a quail, and I went out in the brush," says up Hanging Macedonia. The aultan may be like a rabbit through the green-brierto resist such an appointment, "Doc." through an wage orange hedge. When's your gun?" says Ed. for he would ace in it the prelude to e "I thought if I lingered the wild-ca- t I left that during my the long of the province. Turkish h's-tor-y with my friend and contemporary, the might have robbed me of my watch haa taught him that. and other valuables, I guess, for I wlld-cat- , aaya "Doc." The secretary for foreign affairs r say a we all, let's never stopped to dicker about the gun "Sure enough fys the concert of powers must either hear." at all. And now when I come to size Justify or stultify itself. That is, it Well." says Doc," "It's quite a it up, that varmint was as badly must either demand further concesabout it after scared I mean confused, as I was. 1 sions of Turkey or split up. If it shall story; I'll tell you all remember he went over the log like supper." do the latter, then Turkey will be obthe minute he we bad supiier, and then a charge of buck-sho- t Well, sir, durate and the peace of Europe may the optical Ilblaze but could out before the loose, squirm Doc" stretches h imperiled once more. Whether of about a ton of logs and he aaya lusion on me was strong at that time, uy power la prepared to aide with and I thought I had lit right in the "Are we all here, brethren?" Turkey and block reform In MaceI startconvention. middle of a wlld-ca- t commences. he then And donia remains to be seen. There have went "Wholl go out with me In the mornand straight been rumora that one or another ed out this morning oak ridges, and built me a little ing and help me find my gun?" say power would do this, but as yet noth- to (be 'blind' and crawled In back "Doc." of sort ing Is certain. I will," says cld Emory. of it and commenced to listen, and oc- turkey-- eye-ball- s, &r&Z2tfrarJZa2rm s tete-a-tet- |
