Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Turkey Takes a Step Forward. [ARTICLE]

Turkey Takes a Step Forward.

'lhe Sultan .of Turkey has made .1 vigorous break through the trammels 01 national tradition and has given the order that Turkey shall take a place in he march of civilization. He has granted concessions for the construe • toll of long railways which will opeD i*v. Jbis territory to the east, the north vhe south, all having their termi*d at Constantinople. One road i& to rati U> Damascus, and another, the Tigris sad Euphrates Railway, W" the r-isiaa Gulf,