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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. Precedent Bacz ia losing popularity in S.iu Domingo. It is rumored that S.imnna bay will be leased to Germany. At Epsom on Tuesday the Handicap Handi-cap race was won by "Julius Cie nr." The note of the Turkish government govern-ment to the powers is characterized by the same ppirit of self-reliance and injured innocence which have marked U t!uure during tho past two v-.r-ol negotiation. Turkey has res);!'., ,; to "reuin in the world tbe place which Providence has destined Uc her," but unless she gets some very Ull backing from England it looks m if tho followers of the prophet will have to vacate the territory which bit came theirs at the battle of Ivassova in 13S9, when tho groat Sclavic empire, em-pire, established by Stephen Dushan, was, after a fearful struggle, made n prey for the ferocious Osmanlis Turks. Five centuries find tlio Turks still a lighting nation. They now v. ill have to fight for txUtenco itself. To establish estab-lish themselves at the capital of the old Groek empire they had to crush one of the bravest races of Europe, and during tho period of their cruel domination on the Balkan peninsula the hatred of tho Sclavcs toward thtm has inci eased with an intensity beyond be-yond expression. Today tho Mos lems number on!y3,G10,;i54. and the Christians 4,701, odl in Turkey proper, pro-per, excluding tbe tributary slatta of Servia, Montenegro and JRoumani.i. Why the Christians have not thrown ofl the yoke in tho Bubject provinces is bec.mso they are forbidden to wear arms but aro taxed several dollars each annually for exemption from military service), and are subjected to the brutality and cruel caprices of tho Mohammedans, who heap every indignity upon them while unablo to defend themselves. They revolt wheusver they get a chance and have somebody to lead them. The poor Sclaves of Bosnia contemplate with joy the prospect of a revolt of tho prince of Montenegro, for they regard that plucky 1 it t lo country as the germ of the restored Sclavic empire, which once stretched from the Adriatic to the Black Bea, The Montenegrins i were the first lo revolt apainci i.ho payment of tribute, and do not by any means consider themselves an integral in-tegral part of Ibe Ottoman empire. About a century ago they slaughtered 30,000 Turks on one oacasion. About twenty years ago they repulsed another invasion and cut tbe noses ofl tho laces of eignt hundred Mos- -leme. Louisville Courier-Journal. |