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Six centuries ago when the Turks marChed into (‘onstantinople as con- querors they found waiting for them in and armmd the church of San So~ (la a L' ‘eat multitude of ('hristians, more than 230,000 in number. who had gathered to pray for and to awaitIZn sublime faith the miracle that would deliver them from the Muslems at the city walls. Slaughterimr all before them as they went the Turks ad- vanced through the city until they reached the church and the crowd that had awaited the miracle that had not come. It was a situation to delight the heart of the blood crazed vengeance mad army. Quicklt the soldiers divided the people, ir- respective of age, sex or rank, a1)- porzl oned them as slaves and drove them of? like cattle to the camps. Gibbon says : “In the space of an hour the main captives were bound with cords. the males with thin veils and gindles. The svnators were linked with their The advance of the Christian army has been accomplished with military exactitude. There have been no tales of excesses or savagery from the Bulgarian camps. There have been all the horrors of war, but none of the harbarity that has accompanied every campaign where the Turks have been the victorious agressors. It is not for the enâ€" trance of the Bulgars as con- querors that Constantinople trem- bles and for which the European powers are rushing battleships east- ward. but for the barbarism of the Turks themselves when. desperate and defeated. they are driven back into the city. It is against the Turks themselves that the city. must be protected, against the hur- rors of personal vengeance which must wreck itself as well in defeat as in victory. District Attorney Whitman's office has begun an investigation of the affairs 0f Dr. W. C. Meyer, “‘dia- mond king of Brazil" upon the reâ€" quest of several wealthy men who allege they have proof of gigantic fraud. These men say Meyer and those in- terested with him have taken in $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 in the last twelve years to “deveIOp” the old mines in Minas Giraes. This money Gets $8,000,000 The Christian allies ol the Balkan States in three weeks of active war- 'fare have swept down through the Balkan pensinu,a crushing all resist- ance. before them and destroying as they went the great tradition of Turkish military power. Straight to Constantinople they have advanced, driving the harried Turks belore them There now the broken Moslem power hesitates and cowers. looking long- ingly aeross to the Asiatic shore where along it. it can find undisputed refuge. And at the gates the Chris- tian allies batter. just as six cen- turies ago the Turks battered while the Christians eowered at the church of San Sofia. praying for the mir- acle of deliverance from the Mos- lems without. For freed from all political considerations it is not the Bulgar that stands triumphant at the gates of the city of the Sul- tans but Christianity itself, prepared to perlorm an act of retribution and of justice. to restore the cross to the dome of San Sofia and meat from the Mussulman the first city distinctly Christian, built by the first Christian emperor on the ruins of vanuniahed paganism. Altnouxh centuries of misery and the blood of thousands of Christian martyrs are behind them it is not in the spirit of vengeance that his new crusade has advanvod to the eapital of the Moslcm faith. Rather it is inspired byafeeling of simple jus- tice. The Turk has had his chance in Europe and he has failed. He has hindered progress wherever he has set his foot, and those countries that haVe been under his rule have been wrongfully deprived of their share in the advance of European civilization. The great body ol sui- ferers are the Christians. who gmat- ly exceed in numbers the people of the Turks' own race and religion. and it is justice to these, to many generations of them that the word has gone forth. “The Turk must Victory of the Balkan Allied Forces in Constantinople Mark Final Steps of Turkish Power in Europe MOSLEM POWER BROKEN CHIRSTIANS TRIUMPH for Salted Mine I To the north of Stamboul, along the shore, are Galata and 'I‘ophane. bustling with commerce and trade, fw'flle behind the higher lies Peru, mm the mansions of the European l Ambassadoxs, the quarter of the Eu- ropean shops and many beautiful gardens and gt0\ es. Still beyond lies 'a section of subuibnn \illas and lsphnuhd paiks 0\eikxfiung the l305« ‘porus. ()n the Asiatic side of the Bospor- us which winds northward to the Black Sea between rows of palaces, gardens, cafes and little villages, are Scutari and filaCHKioi, with. thous- ands of gaily tinted houses, set down in flourishing gardens and ov- ert-opped by many mosques of glit- tering whiteness Backward, up the slowly rising hills are more domes all minarets, gay little \‘illach, big barracks and the cypress groves that mark the Turkish and British cemeteries. they say, came from all parts of the United States, from Canada, and from England. Those who make the charge ad- mit that the samples sent to the assayers from the mine. were rich, but they declare the mine was salt- Howellâ€"Do dity 7 Powellâ€"I should say I did! I married the daughter of a' judge and she is always laying down law to mo.~â€"Jud~o's Library. Crowning the heights oi Stamboul are many mosques with their white minarets, always first to catch the .rays 01 the rising sun and the last ‘to glow pink in the evening light. and here too are the long rows of :lmhre cypress trees planted in pro- cessional sows from the foot to the summits of the hills. Here is San :Sofia. with her famous dome and four uwhite minarets rising from her rose fund white Rails here are Sultan Ah- ,med. with six lance-like towers; Mo- hammed 11., built above the burial Pliu'c of the Christian Emperors; Solomon the Great, Mth its ten swelling white domes; and here too are the Seraulio or 'l‘ekyr and the Tower of the Seraskiarate. Crowd- ing around all these more notabl! edifices is a multitude of smaller mosques, kiosks, tombs, buildings of every kind, overgrown, wherever there is a bit of soil for it to take { root, with a tree or shrub ora1 plant of some kind. elavm :the prelates vlth the porters of the church. and the young men of a plehian class with noble maids whose faces had been inVisihle to the sun and theie nearest kindred. In this common captivity the ranks of society were confounded. the ties of nature were cut asunder. and the in {exorable soldiers were careless oi ‘iathers' groans. the tears of the mother and the lamentatinns ol the children. The loudest in their wailing Were the nuns who were torn from the altar with naked hnsoms. out- strett‘hed hands and tlisheVelkd hair. 0! these unfortunate (lreelu. of these domestic animals. whose strims were driven through the streets, and as the conquerors were eager to return for more prey their trembling pace was quickened with menaces and blows. ‘ ‘ ’ About 60.000 of this devoted people were transported from the city to the camp and fleet ; ex- changed or sold. according to the caprice of their masters and dispers- No city of Europe. travellers any, has no distinct an individuality as fkmstantinuple. It is not European: it is not Hrientnl it is unlike any other city in the worldâ€"it is Con- stnatinople. “More than any other capital of mankind, it is cosmopoli- tan. both in its present and in its past. It is the synonym of the ins- ion of races and the clash of creeds. Constantinople, (ii'i-zitex‘ ('unstnnti- nonle. it might be said. embraces the group of cities and villages on and immediately adjacent to the Asiatic and European sides oi the Bosphor~ rush. lts heart is the mediaeval town between the Marmara and the ,Golden Horn. which is called Stam- lboul. This is by far the largest and most important of the towns that compose the capital. ed in remote servitude through the provinces of the. Ottoman Empire." you‘bclieve in here- A doctor who has a cuetom of Ecultivating the lawn and walk in ifront of his home every spring en- firmed O’Brien to do his job. He gwcnt awax for three days and when satisfied \xith HS wmk and said: â€"â€"- he returned found 0' Brien waiting ‘for his money. The doctor was not 'l‘he l'nited States is already en- joying more than sixty per cent. of our itmport trade. The total trade between the two countries during the fiscal year, 1911, was valued at $413,812,000. Of that, $294,416,000 represented our imports from the United States and $110,307,000 our exports to them. The presidential election may mean ultimately atar- ifi conference between the two gov- ernments. With the possession of sufficient data, and a full apprecia- tion of the commercial and agricul- tural possibilities and increasing na- lue of the home market of Canada, an agreement might be consummated which would prove acceptable to all Canadians. THE DOCTOR QUIT TALKWNG “Share, doc, there's mant abad job of yours covered with gravel and dirt.”-â€"-Houston Post. “O'Brien, the walk is covered with gravel and dirt and in my es- timation it’s a bad job.” O'Brien looked at him for a moment and replied ways been a low t'arifl and hown- ward revision man. His actions pro- ved otherwise, and he thought to square them with the Canadian re- ciprocity treaty. It was asserted by many at that time that if Canada would give sufficient time. the United States by popular and political de- mand would reduce their tariff on Canadian imports of their own voli- tion. This, we believe, is what will happen with President Wilson at the helm. 0n the other hand, we do not think that Mr. Wilson will revive the question of reciprocity in the form proposed by ex-Presidc'nt Taft. It is not necessary here to print the correspondence in full. but mereâ€" 1y to add that Mr. Roosevelt wrote to Mr.. Taft on January 12th: “It seems to me that. what you pro- pose to do with Canada is ad- mirable from every xtandpoint.” Mr. Taft also stated he has al- E The. Democratic victory in the l’n- ited States has more interest for Canada than is usual in the presid- ential elections of the Republic. When President Tait entered the White House four years ago. his promise was that the tarifl should be revised. He performed that pro- mise only the revision was upward |rather than dol’nward. One of the iplanlts of the Democratic platform for a long tinr has been the lower- ing ol the tarifi. in the 'past elec- tion. that plank was strengthened. President Taft has always sought. the best way to balance himself on the presidential tittht rope. He thought that upward tariff revision and the proposed rectprocity treaty with Canada would keep him safely balanced. pleasing both the manu- facturer and the consumer. Failing to recognize the majority opinion of Canadian onlookers. the balance ov- erturned and the rope entangled him in defeat. President Woodrow Wilson assumes his new oflicc pledged to tarifl rc- vision. He is the type of man who will perform his promise without evasion of any kind. His party is sufficiently strong to m’nrcame most. if nOt all. obstacles. The people of the I'nitcd States are in a frame of mind fur a rmiuction of the tariff. “It might at first haven tenden- cy to reduce the east of food pro- ducts somewhat: it would certainly make the reservoir much greater and prevent fluctuations. Meantime the amount of (‘anadian products We we would take would produce a current of business between Western Canada and the United States that would make Canada only an ad- junct of the United States. It would transfer all their important business to Chicago and New York, with their bank credits and every- thing else, and it would increase greatly the demand of Canada for our manufactures. I see this is an argument against reciprocity made in Canada. and I think it is a Ill! flfflflflflfllfi PM!" All] TAflfllf BEVISIUI In t‘his (‘nnnoflifm itis interest- ing to recall the letters which pass- ed between Mr. Taft. and Mr. Roose- velt in 1011. On January 10111. wri 0m: tn the cx-Pn-sidont.th0 then President (Taft). «aid. n-g'arding the proposed rociprovity nmmmcnt with Canada :â€" democratic Party Ptedged tn Reduction, at Paramount Interest to Canada THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE him in surprise