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Show ius and the courage of the moslems who, in the sixteenth century, conquered con-quered eastern Europe and besieged Vienna. ' A 1KA1 1IUKO. A bravo man is honored the world over, and thero never was a bravor man than Osman Pasha, tho Turkish soldier who has just lost Ids life through the imbecility of his government, which sent him on a mission to Japan on an ill-manned and ill-provided steamer with which he went to the bottom. When in 1877 the Russian army of invasion in-vasion was halted before Plevna, an insignificant in-significant place which only the trained eye of Osman had detected as a strato-gio strato-gio point of importance, the unequal aspect of tho war was immediately changed. Iustead of haying a triumphal trium-phal march to Constantinople as expected, ex-pected, tho Russian army was checked and its advance corps were compelled to retreat iu hot haste. Tho assault ou Plevna was repulsed with terrible slaughter, and a second assault ordered on the czar'a birthday and led by the impulsive Skohelotf, who promised his master to lay the city at his feet as a birthday gift, proved no more successful. success-ful. The best Russian troops were led to the sacrilice and deoimated. At last, after weeks of fruitless efforts, and when the garrison was disheartened by privations, a third and last assault was made beforo which the stronghold fell, but not until Osman Pasha, heading a desperate rush upon the Russian lines fell wounded in the hands of his enemies. ene-mies. In him was preserved the gen- |