Lost Grandeur Of The East

A comparison between the annual revenues of the Byzantine empire in 'he beginning of the thirteenth century and the present revenues of the empire of the Ottoman Turks brlngs before the mind's eye a picture of the lost grandaur and wealth of provinces over which now broods tlie silence of desolation. At the period meutioned the dominions of the Greek emperors at Constantinople had been impoverished by the invasión of the Frank Crusaders, and the :hief part of Asia Minor, with its flourshing cities, had been wrested from Ihe Byzantine monarchs by conquering [sham; yet the annual income of the successors of Constantinople amounted to $50,000.000. The revenues of the Sultan's empire have shrunk to $90,000,000 per year. Such is the blight which Turklsh misrule has brought upon some of the fairest regions of the earth.-