FOREIGN. (SMITH STIMBULOFF.) 



i I 



^J'Ar 



nd was pot to work in the 

 weo. Two year* later 1 



refbrn Tun 



ry, 1881 ; died near Hug- 

 he son of a 1 -rick maker 



^ ttd btfcra he was 



-'.* ' - - ; - 



the brickmakom. Aa the direct r 

 an act of Parliament was pasted if 

 Government inspection of brie 



of life 



1 

 tn. MM :' 



alion \\;th 

 ' and wrote 

 ition in be- 



bcgan he enlisted in the Russian army. When r, ,; 

 gsrian ind; :is at length estuM^I 



' o in Kiir-tchuk. and obt; 

 c. As one of ti 

 drew up the den 

 he was elected to represent that 1 

 in the Sobranje. Prince Alexander, in 



I ho represented the M i,t. 

 nation, aelected 1 



and dissolved tl 



it pasaed a vote a-am-i : 



Btambuloff attached h : 



that politician on account of liis intrigues \v 

 Russians, and became him.-clf ti 



Mia, MM! atated in the * Fortnightly Review," in 1878, ical \\ Lend party. Hi- in; 



IbaloflOOjOOO men, women, and children employed country was his remark.. 



on the river* and cans 1 ' nation to a< 



used his Influence to effect the ..\erthi 

 and he waa chosen president of the - 

 waa elected to M. 



Ineed into Parliament in 1877 and became a law TherevolutkmofPhUippopolis, which broi 



Jan. 1, 1878. The last sixteen years of his life were the union of Bulgaria at 



mttt in the endeavor to bring gypsy children within 



the scope of the education acts. Mr. Smith -. 



author of The Cry of the Children from the Hri.-k- 



varU of England. 4 " >ur < 'anal Population/ 1 w Canal 



Adventures by Moonlight," - Gypv 1 " Pve 



born in London in I** ; died in Hath! So 

 May4,iatt. She waa the daughter of Edward II. nd 

 land, a London physician, and at twenty n 



. . K. /--.:.;: a i J./-icttJB Of Bftlfa, She he- 



w MV * - *. < ' r^ m 



eoald neither read nor write, and 90 p*> 

 drunkard*. After aeveral years of persistent agita- 

 tion the cmnal-billa act was by his influence intn- 



gan to contribute to periodicals before her marriage, 

 and throughout her life was active in promoting 

 the movement for a wider range of work for women. 

 Her flr*t novel. " Bnthcn-in-law." was published in 

 IMt. Later ones were: "Her Own Fault' 1 (1871); 



- Parted Lives " (1878) ; u Jocelyn's Mistake " < 1874) ; 

 -Mark Evlmer's Revenge " (1 876 1 ; p,,,th in the 

 Wron n (1878); -TiUDeath do us Part" (1881); 



Mr. PJobody " (1884); Recollections of a Countrv 

 Doctor w (1886); "Kept Secret" (1888); A" 

 inc" (18M): and - No Humdrum Life for " 

 (18ft). She waa the mother of 8 children, and her 

 4 sons were educated at Oxford and Cambridge on 



from their mother's books. 



Btefaa, a Bulgarian statesman, born in 

 Tirnova in 1866; died in Sofia, July 18, 1895. When 

 aeveral Bulgarian youth were aelected to be educated 

 in Russia at the expense of the Russian Govern- 

 ment he was one of 

 those chosen, and was 

 placed at the age of 

 seventeen in the theo- 

 logical seminary at 

 Odessa, where he im- 

 bibed more of nihil- 

 ism and republican- 

 ism than of theology. 

 He was a bright, bin 

 not a plodding stu- 

 dent, nor waa he 

 amenable to disci- 

 pline, and at length he 

 waa expelled. 

 KrivtAoff, the agent 

 of the Slav Society, 

 ^^ who looked after the 



'^*r Bulgarian sti. 



took him into hi* law 

 offlee as a clerk, but 

 - d the refractory youth, who left 

 where he found employment for a 



v. 



SS*^jfHi 



l iSS5OTSte*J mlent ho 



r ^ fol *? lo 3 or * ln " BB <* tltc 



whstt the Rus*o-TurkUh War 



the union of linl^'aria aid ICastern 



eoiii]ilihed ut Stam)>ui 



friend Stoyaiiot!'. \\ 1 



<lurte<l. in 'August, 1886, Stain biiloff, a> 



the Sobranje. issued aproclairation tmi 



noiiMi-in k r as traitor* the meinber- 



.il Government, nnd appointing < '!. Mutkuroff, 

 his brother-in-law, commander in hi, ' 

 jrarian army. Hi?. parti>ans throughout tliecoojKn 



. ;m<l the 1"\ 



unny acted jn-oinptly on hi.- 

 Hult that the 1'rovisional Government 



lays, and he appointe<l, in the IV 

 Cabinet of which Kad- 



eome.l the I'rillCC ut Kllstehllk. lull II 

 hi- final abdiea' 



by a threatening' telegram from the <'tai. 

 \\hen Alexander departed ); "minitte<l th> 

 of the throne to a council of 

 buloft was the head unl K 

 the other membern. The rir-t recent 

 trated all ]K>\ver in )iis own hands by dis< 

 Kuraveloff, who was replaced bv .livko;' 

 friend of Stambulotl'. The r/ar. whi I 

 not to interfere excel .t in <-a>i- of anan-hy. 

 think it possible for Bulgaria toe\i-t under an ;int 

 Russian rtgime, and it 

 the strength of the hpirit of imb-pen.i, 

 umazn and resourcefulness ot 



who. with the support of England nnl tl 

 of Europe, foiled every effort of the RUI-- 

 turn him. When he procured tl. 

 Kenlinand by the Grod Sobranje, July ; 

 not lay down his powers, but as Prinn 

 posed his will upon the new Prince. Stambu 

 pressed thcplotof Major I'anitx.a ami other a" 

 risings with cru< '. ;m<l male 



eiK inics; but his tyrannical rule was not reset. 

 the people, who were not overtaxed and w 

 pered under the conditions of quiet and r 

 forced by Stambuloff. After some of the lea- 

 tin- Opposition had been shot, imprison 

 into exile, the rest were so terrified ti 

 dates appeared to contest the election of I- 1 ." 



.-nlv the liritish 

 trian governments, but Ai- 

 triple alliance were won over l>y Stambul-.-'- 



. preserving order. In ]*'.<] ' 

 narrowly escaped assassination, th< V 

 nance being struck down in n 



t all rivals and a> 

 tnies that he began t 

 lie sacrificed in a measure his reputati< 

 ism by changing the Constitution so u- 

 heir to the throne to be baptized as a I 

 lie. On seeing his position w ak " ' 



Prince turned upon him and he^an to rebel afl|P 

 the dictation of his auto, r,.';- Prune Mini-N r. Ferdi 

 nand hoped that if Stambuloff would 

 could become reconciled to the Czar an 



