Show a 4 BEYOND THE ATLANTIC THERE is a little flurry in india and a corresponding worry in great britain simultaneously with the above an pomes another that but bulgaria is in imminent danger from the incursive muscovite who is in such a position graphically geographically gee strategically and otherwise that he be could make a quiet descent upon the little principality and metaphorically put it in his bis pocket before the watchman on the towers knew he was in the neighborhood russia has not concurred in the prevailing sentiment elsewhere that winter is not the proper time to begin a great war because of the added expense and difficulty of transporting troops troop and and the increased hardships involved russian soldiers are better fighters in severe than in mild weather and the fact that it is otherwise with the remainder rema iader of ef the powers makes it an immense advantage on her part to do her heavy work when the others are laboring under temporary disadvantages which only the procession of the seasons can overcome perhaps all this is making the ruling power in russia restive and it evinces its dissatisfaction now and then in a smothered perturbation or a muffled growl which makes the neighboring kaiser and emperor start up nervously and mechanically draw their swords the question remains how long will russia intent upon striking str ikins a blow the reverberations will he be heard around the globe be restrained from action with the incentive of her best campaigning pai gai gning season passing away spurring her er onward england announces that if russia enters bulgaria she will send two fleets through the dardanelles Darda nelles into the black sea of course these would not dot be e sent upon a cruise a voyage of exploration or a trip for practical instruction in the art of navigation none of these lessons are required 1 and armed and manned war ships are not used in that way by her Maje government besides the passage of such vessels into and through such waters would be equivalent to a declaration of war against turkey unless the latter power con centea to it in which case the movement would constitute simply the formation of a defensive alliance against the Bor northern thern raider tills this would indicate hidi cate that the batters lat cam paten would be short s sharp a rp and disastrous as a it could not light fight england and turkey on the shores ot of the ve ajack a ck sea and germany Germa nv austria belgium I 1 stu in holland and italy on the west ana and north at the same time not even if france as is expected were to take a hand abaid in the melee ou on the othar side but it is not it at all likely that turkey is as desirous of english protection as she was ten years ago in fact it is tolerably sure sore that the nearer power and former foe lq is the present choice of the ottoman empire in ane matter of a stalwart friend but the sick matill man I 1 is about as sick now as he be ever was and the chances are that england would not ask hi 0 permission in such an einger gency but would send the vessels along and force her apparent friendship upon the in doing this she would strike one blow for turkey and ana two tor for herself her principal pal route to her chief store house and in treasure vault ludia india is menaced on bot hibe southern and eastern sides of the sea and it if it should be found necessary to quietly smother the turk and then fight for him that pro gramme or something very lik like e it w will III be carried out such a complication would make the impending conflict C present a different shape from any it has so far assumed but it ball ba already assumed as many different shades as Fre teus and the exact position in which the characters will be arranged on the board when the bolt falls can only be conjectured there is only one thins thing that remains definitely fixed fired that whatever position the contending hosts may occupy or from whatever source they may come russia will not be out ant of the fight more than this she will be the central figure and doubtless the initiator of hostilities la iff fact it is strictly her feht her trouble no other nation thinks of aggressive movements except such as follow acting upon the defensive as a matter of course and no preparations have been or are being made by any of them for striking a hostile blow except for mere protection and retaliation russia is the fomenting principle of the situation sita sit atlon nation there can be no doubt of that she presents to the world the spectacle or of a 4 great ungainly giant environed hy neighbors individually weaker but stronger than blin Relf and who have banded b an ded themselves her for the double purpose of confining him to his reservation and any attempt to cut his way vp sy out by means of trickery or cunning he is not happy in his belongings not dot because he haq haa not plenty ot room in which to circulate wd and improve but because he be is cut off from such nuch commercial advantages as tte the pow posse po w P hv means of which tiff ta r ar ara adva advancing neing while he Is lak abt lent retrograde inz hi 4 heart Is sot sit on an outlet arid and the strait ami other waters kiich w alch unite the black sea the mediterranean ocean are the very things desired to that end perhaps tie he will never satisfy his ambition in that direction but that he will corti continue nue to work intrigue and fight for it is as much the certainty of the future as it is the history of the past with that object baing gained I 1 russia would soon be the chief nation of the earth from the standpoint of either military strength or commercial wealth this would be no menace to us with a great ocean on either side and endless resources within but it would be bad for those who occupy p part art of the same great division of the gl globe obe and that is why they are combining III so strongly str onely to nip the move me ment n tin in the bud bad if possible but in an any event not to let it fructify |