Pittston Gazette

              % M #,Dv A'(! t Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Villey. PITTSTON, LUZEIiXE CO., I'A., FRIDAY. MARCH 24, 1893. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. j $1.50 PEE I IX ADVANCE Roy j T. E ROY 11ST horrible — that man is a t* civilization — but it will help us immensely."'"■race to pud fro. Wild-to- s ana r ere will be here with thfD re- victim ha.il not time to utter a cry, and bastions); "and the tower is precisely the strongest of our defansws. The curtain i-s not vyorthy to be called a defense." . ' hirn, and the Kangaroos had not stood by rue, he would have been either cut in pieces or taken prisoner. The !■'reach, seeing what a prize was within their grasp, tried hard to take him. If the Albanians at the sally-port had not heard the sounds of the fray and come promptly to the rescue, we should all have been taken. When the French found themselves attacked in the rear they hesitated, became , slightly confused. and before they could recover themselves we got through, by the skin of our teeth, and shortly after sunrise were once more at Acre—those of us who NYE IN COLORADO. Edward i Vinson, with whom I used to do my banking while I was running The Boomerang, secured an impetus then which has made him a wealthy retired banker who goes to the Holy Land every year and can tell you all about the earth world or globe which we inhabit, and of what parts it is composed—viz., land and water. picturesque f the squadron to-morBow or only when I saw him roll on the pave- Help us! Uov the next day. ya too, tlist Comma ride meat did I realize what had happened. Just then some Albanian soldiers "Don't you see? By setting everybody acrainst him and making1 the Turks desperate. 'Better die sword in throng. Tho : the cliu terrifl ms both iVj-aliie uaid I reiicn. s, Djezzar,. whose manner wan if not courtly, feiuiled still ro:ir?D lv than before, invited Miller came up. "Bonaparte has generally a reason for what he does," I answered, a little coldly, for it seemed tome that the colonel was letting his hatred of his old A YpUNG MAN WHOSE PERSPECTIVE WAS NOT WHAT IT SHOULD BE. Ten v noth "Take it away," said Djezzar, pointing to the body.—"Shall we go on, Capt. Roy? You seem surprised." BY WILLIAM WE^TaLL and swearing- i [costikukd ] hand than surrender only to be shot.' they will say. Those poor devils he killed at Jaffa will fight against him at were at v .elf to sit near liim, and ciilici o and pi;Dps. Then lie turned iCD aie and : aid t'so far as I could iD.rft!--e C-nt) that lit; was delighted to know I spoke Arabic, and inquired how lonjj I had lDeen in t he cast- Foreseeing- that I should sc later be put in a corner, and mily eon- 1 ■*s of my lingxiistic weakness, I had and committed to lisMimry p .ttie speech. It was to the eft iv.ving only lately be;.-:iu to 1C am A I knew it very iuliiiVrent! '-Cs, the little I did kno. I rid 1 More than surprised. I am stupe- Tiye Meets Sir George Tart-Paddock, and In her excitement she had pushed her chair a little backward; I had edged mine a little forward; her face was raised to mine with a look which made me wild, and, quite forgetting that she was a jeune fille, I put my arms round her neck and kissed her passionately.In a moment she was on her feet. catioi -some wheeling eartn ; .or ec fied." class companion blind his judgment, "lie has a reason in this instance. lie Is in a hurry, and no doubt thinks that the capture of the tower will lead to the immediate surrender of the town." the Latter Telia a Fine Story—A Few Per- Acre, and more potently than if they were alive. And, now. about Ahmed Djezzar Pasha, with whom, owing to four know ledge of Arabic, you are likely 10 bo brought a good deal in contact. Djezzar. as you know, means 'butcher.' That describes him, but only partially. He is as brave as a lion, as cruel as a tiger. and as crafty as a fox. lie thinks no more of slicing off a man's head than your boatswain thinks of rope's-ending a powder monkey, and I dare say has taken as tnaoy lives in his tiftie as this damned Bonaparte, and that is saying a good deal. A few years ago Djezzar went to Mecca with the grand caravan of pilgrims, leaving in charge of the citv and government his favorite Soliman. Well, one day during the pasha's absence. Soliman happened to catch sight of one of Djezzar's wives, a Circassian of great beauty, and fell in love with her, pretty much. 1 imagine, as Ivitt fell in love with the wife of t'rum the IHttitc. kilted "two "br three eunuchs, broke .into the harem, and then called" for his horso and his arms widening ditches, others r thening the walls and t That man was one of Bonaparte's gonals That William Bag Picked Up on None of his cashiers ever went to Canada. That was understood when the cashier was hired. hauling itoiies, inting iruns smes. the Road. bringing tip a "You knew him, then?" "I never saw him before." "How, then—" "He is mistaken. The struggle will only begin then," observed Djezzar, who was with us on the ramparts. "Exactly. The pasha's troops cannot stand lie fore the French in the open country; but behind walls and in a Btreet-fight they will hold their own against the best troops in the world. It is their metier. And Bonaparte is committing the great mistakeof undervaluing his enemy. H e not only thinks that if he takes the tower the town will yield, but that he can take the tower by a coup de main. Moreover, his camp and his works are badly guarded." [Copyright, 1893, by Edgar W. Nye.] Colonel William Horatio Roat is now a connoisseur and buyer of rare wild animals in a live state. He does not aim to be literary, but he has the faculty of conversing freely and writing letters with ideas in them, and he does it without the use of a compendium. He had gone with a carload of live elk when I was there, but he buys everything in the heavens above or the earth beneath or the waters under the earth. He will fill an order for anything from a prairie dog to the grizzly bear, and would be glad if some little boy who wishes to know the business would accept a position as caretaker of a grownup bear. The last boy was perfectly satisfactory, but according tC5 the contract he will have to be shipped inside another bear just sold to Fairmount park. James Milton Sherrod is still on a neatly dressed squaw man, whose face, as the California editor said of James Whitcomb Riley, one has to become gently acclimated to. He has a queer habit while engaged in deep thought or conversation of rolling a small ball of wagon wheel tar between his thumb and forefinger. Many a time he has been engaged in conversation with me, say at the university or the penitentiary, and he would halt, look wildly about, tears would fill his great moss agate eyes, and ho would say: "Excuse me a moment; I want to step over to town and get a new piece of tar. I can't riccolect when I'm out o' tar. Tar is my inspiration, understand? I can't coat Scripter. I can't recconcile. I'm like a cow that's lost her cud. I ain't wuth a d  Amid uT or Colorado, March difticuty in Bin fine-loot r Coi. r a w "You mean how did I arrive at the survived. There is one peculiarity about this country that I have never referred to or described, and I therefore take the liberty of doing so now, especially for the benefit of those who may not have traveled in this direction. pr. soklicr- resolute and a C j conclusion that he was a spy? Well, 1 his movements were suspicious, his answers unsatisfactory, and his eye quailed before mine." It was a bad business, that first sortie. For though we did not spike a single gun, we left behind us, alive or dead, more than a hundred Maugrabins and five of my bluejackets. Most of us were wounded, though not dangerously. I got two or threecuts; the pasha came off svith a severe shaking and two or three contusions. perious manner ect that •'You forget yourself, Mr. Roy!" she exclaimed, indignantly. "Go, please; leave the room this instant," in pr the construct n of a r oould c- and so busy that 1 a ft j Neverthr "And so you killed him.'' "It is true, my love for you ipade me forget myself. But don't be angry; it will be no child's play out there, and I may never come back. If you don't want me, I won't." I am (flail Sir Sidney is i we shall want him.' unti made me extremely desirous to know — i "It was written that I should kill him. The east is not the west, my son, and its ways are not our ways. Fiftyeight years ago I was so poor and found life eo hard that I sold myself to a Jew slave dealer, and was brought by him to Egypt and sold to Ali Bey. Now I am pasha of Syria, with the power of life and death over ali the saltan's subjects in these lands. I do what seemeth right in my own eyes, and no man dare say me nay. Why? Because I have never spared an enemy and aVrvays destroy those who cross my path or whom I suspect of treachery or disaffection. If I waited for proofs before I punished, as you do in Europe, I should n5t bo pasha of Syria until the next full moon. The only way to insure respect and obedience is to show that you are not afraid to kill. And what matter a few lives? We must all die, and for every one that perishes two are born." quickly after r in;' the comnw C tr j raid not by surpr 1, tl "You saved my life, Capt. Roy," he said, when we had mustered our men anil counted our losses. "1 thank you. They say Djezzar never forgives his enemies. You will find that he never forgets his friends. Who was the traitor?— Murad?" The words were hardly spoken when Antoinette turned deadly pale; her eyes filled with tears, and she had to lean on the back of her chair for support. marc I see the French first They are C y don't let the a here, wlu Djezzar. "We will make a sortie." said "They killed Henri; and if they kill you, mon Dieu, what will become of me?" she cried. la l This was what Phelippeaux wanted, but it was better that the proposal should come from the pasha. .t think to I Iv i: ,ro r JtM? At- I did not want to see Murad'shead stryk from his shoulders, I suggested itw? "the traitor was much more likely Then I ventured to put; my ermsroHnd her a second time, and she liifd herh'eaa on my shoulder, murmuring: "They will kill you; they will kill you." 'I then f European soldiers I should helfss, t "By all means. When?" he aske;'. grarr n o "To-morrow morning, an hour before dawn; the time when those who watch and work are beginning to flag, and those who sleep sleep the most soundly."hare little fear for the result. VDu\D with llies-' only half-disciplined Turks and Maugrubins, and X "No, they won't. Now that I know that yon love me, I shall not let them. Don't make yourself unhappy, darling'. I am sure to come back safe and sound, and then— You will think of me sometimes when I am away?" and lied into the desert O) jk f V i k miven knows what besides!" (Hpretb jlouel shrugged his shoulders.) Muet "To whom will you assign the duty?" "My Maugrabins." (lepen on whether Uona'parte lias a a. Hut I confess that 1 put j m ntf Wl i J «ief'e "And my Kangaroos," I exclaimed, eagerly, fur I was spoiling for a fight. "He asks whether I shall think of him! Always, always—and pray for you. But hark, there is a knock at the front door. Mind, not a word of this to my mother—now. She would think me a wicked girl for allowing— Therel Let me got You must." my t —»J sailors mid. Llonaparte's bad general- t mainly in your si ;ps and SQUATTED OH THE FLOOR. As I could not express approval of Djezzar's moral code or of his political principles, and as it would have been inexpedient to gainsay him, I changed the subject, and we presently reached the water gate. "If you like. Bring twenty. No more. A large party would make too much noise, and we want to take the enemy by surprise. We shall muster in front of the great mosque." ship. more, anCj I was studying1 the language assiduously. As however, my ear had not become attuned to the music of it, and my vocabulary was limited, I should feel particularly obliged if my interlocutor would give himself the trouble to speak slowly and clearly, in order that I might miss nothing1 of what "Coiiuparte's bad generalship! J never thought to fccar Bonapartc'i and bad generalship mentioned same breath." MEETING ST. GEORQE TAUT-PADDOCK. I refer to the rarity and clearness of the air, making distant objects seem quite nearby. nam Phelippeaux concurred, and after some further conversation we parted, the colonel to kmk after the completion of his defer ses, so far as they could be completed, Djezzar and myself to select our men and make arrangements for the morrow. One more embrace, and Antoinette resumed her painting' and I my chair; and when Mme. de Gex came in I was deep in a book. "Oh, he can plan a campaign and fight a battle—I grant you that. Hut he is a bad hand at a siege. Lie is too impetuous. and wants to win with a rush, which when stone walls are concerned is not always possible. And this time he has ve ry good reason to be more impetuous than usual, lie is cut off from France, and can obtain neither supplies nor reinforcements. The sea is open to ns, and we can obtain both. Acre will not be fakiDn by a coup de mr.in—I can promise "him that; and if we hold our own until the arrival of the Turkish troops and fleet which the sultan has promised to Rend, Bonaparte will be a lost man. My countrymen do not like generals who fail. And now, gentlemen, you will kindly excuse me. I in t "Come and see me again," he said, as we shook hands. "If you can be at the seraglio by sunrise we will have a ride In the small bat live, prosperous town of Buckwheat, Pa., where the manager said that he never saw such a refined audience in the place as we had, we were told about this peculiarity of the Colorado air. §/• "Mr. Roy! You here!" she exclaimed, in a tone of not very pleased surprise. he said He was the first to greet me when I landed in Laramie years and years ago and tell me that Laramie was the only town that had a particle of prospects or progress or pop or gitup. As I reeled off this discourse to the pasha. Miller (who had evidently been sceptical as to my mastery of the "French of the east"') 6tared at me in open-mouthed astonishment. He little knew the pains I had bee n at to learn it, and that it was the only coherent sentence any length I cou'tl utter. "He is como pour prendre conge, mother dear. Ke has just grot his grade, and is going to Egypt to fight Bonaparte," said Antoinette, with a smiting nonchalance of which I had not believed her capable. It was essential to success that our design should be kept secret—a condition, however, which it was difficult to secure, for the French had spies in our camp as we had spies in theirs, and a single incautious word might reveal our plans and ruin the enterprise. On the other hand, we could no more muster three or four hundred picket men so early in the morning without giving them notice the night before than they could march to the rendezvous without being observed. We could only kr »p our own counsel, enjoia strict secrecy on the officers, and tell them onl'D- what was absolutely necessary. As for my Kangaroos, I merely told them to parade at halfpast three with their pistols and sidearms.Buckwheat has never had a boom. She has had a constant, steady, healthy growth and no setbacks—or setsback, I should say. Buckwheat is the county seat, and I was asked to say a word-far her. I cannot do otherwise. How can I refuse to state publicly that Buckwheat has never had a boom? MAN TO MAN. "She never hed a boom. She jest moves stiddy right along. Ever now and then she strikes a new mine rich with all kinds of things in her. That gives confidence to the merchants, and that's the time I buy my supplies on credit, understand? Then when the cold winter wynd is enquirin round to find who lias let his wife work his extra ■winter wear up into rag carpet I can eat and sleep content. to be one of the dervishes who had been hanging about the mosque, and mentioned the figure which I had seen stealing through Ahe mist. "When Djezzar returned ho vrentraad Cwitb rage, hilled the Circassian with his own hand, and had all the other Tiromen l" the number of thirty ONE CAME TOWARDS VB. "Dams! This is surely very snduen. I congratulate you on your promotion, Mr. Roy, but we siia.ll be very sorry to lose you." "You speak Arabic very well," said Djezzar, taking1 my hint to speak slowly. "You must have an excellent master. When you are at a loss for a word, you can say it in French, which I understand passably well." Djezzar agreed with me, and expressed sincere regret that, owing to the absurd religious prejudices of the townfolk and the troops, he could not strangle every dervish in the place. But he would try to turn the tables on the French by bribing a genuine dervish to act as one of their spies and then betray them as we had been betrayed. sewed tip in She has had a steady growth since 1826. when she had but one house. In 1835 she had two houses, but this was followed up by a terrific fire gutting in a few hours both houses and making a perfect pandemonium. She has steadily grown from that, phcenixlike, as the paper there goes on to state, and is now abreast of other citips of her class. All the same she did not seem very sorry, and was probably by no means ill-pleased to hear of my approaching departure. It would relievo her of a great anxiety as touching her daughter, and she would no longer be under the necessity of playing the duenna. Poor old lady, how little she knew! leather sac lea—into each b In been put a snake and a caV—anCt thrown into the sea. Then he bought him thirty other women, and walled them up in his harem, leaving only a little im must to my work. Au revoir." This was eminently satisfactory. I could get along now; but, being particularly anxious to impress Miller with a due s-.'iLse of my cleverness at languages, I blundered on in Arabic, though well aware that I was making an aivful hash of it But Djezzar was too polite to laugh. lie listened attentively, smiled pleasantly, and even when I was most unintelligible made as if he- understood me perfectly. "When a mine is struck and the paper follers it up with editorial comment at so much ham per comment, I take advice of my better judgment, and during the mercantile rainbow I purchase." hole through which they could receive their food. And they are there yet, except three or four who have died, and whose bodies the others lowered down from the roof with cords. For nobody living is suffered either to come out or "lie is always like that—work, work, work, night and day," said Capt. Mifcler. "I doubt whether he sleeps tihreo hours in the twenty-four. And he ha.* certainly done wonders. You have no idea what a state these walls were in when we came hither the other day. Murat might have ridden through them with his cavalry. Nothing like hatred for making a man energetic." Two or three days later-tlie French batteries opened fire on the tower and the adjacent works. The garrison replied with great spirit, and the contest waxed exceedingly warm. Djezzar, having a wholesome fear of surprises and night attacks, had great lanterns lighted all along the ramparts and blazing fircpots thrown into the moat. The effect from the sea. alter dark, was striking and picturesque. Acre looked like a town en fete. It is a good time to,get lots there now, for times are low And money matters scarce. Buckwheat has never had a boom or fictitious prices, but there have been many times when, owing to depression, property could have been bought far below its value, and if retained as an investment would be something to look forward to. Yet, whatever may have been her thoughts, Mme. de Gex was all kindness, wished me success and a safe return, expressed a hope that they would hear of me occasionally from my mother, and bade me God-speed. Then he told me that Laramie was very healthful and said that never had she had a boom; that the wind wouldn't blow down a stovepipe, which I suppose was because it didn't have to. STABBED HLM TO THE HEART. go in." round the ramparts. You are young, and I like the young. You look me in the face with fearless eyes. Yes. I like you, Roy: Djezzar is your friend," They were punctual to the minute, and we m rched swiftly and silently to the great mosque. As work went on at the fortifications all night through, and part of the garrison was keeping watch and ward on the walls, many people were afoot—among them several dervishes—and it struck mo that the guise of a dervish was just the guise which a French spy would be most likely to assume. But, as this was a mere idea, and Djezzar, if f had mentioned it to him, would probably have killed every dervish he could catch, I held my peace. "What a frightful old ruffian!" Antoinette said very little; but the answering pressure of her dear hand was more eloquent than words; there was a loving, pathetic look in her beautiful eyes which went to my heart and whenever I thought of it afterwards made me alternately wretched and exultant - "Yes. according to our ideas. But you must remember that Djezzar is a Turk, and that here, in the cast, human Kfe is of no more account than it was when Samnel hewed A gag in pieces before the L*jrd. and .Joshua thought he was doing God service by killing all his prisoners osf war. houghing their horses, and burning their chaViots with lire, lie acts according to his lights. And let us do the old barbarian justice; he can do a generous action. Some time after he had walled up his second batch of wives he was sitting in his divan, surrounded by his officers, and dispensing justice in Oriental fashion, when the door was thrown violently open, and a hooded stranger, wearing a robe of camel-skin, burst into the room, thrust aside officers and litigants, and stood before the pasha. "You mean that Phelippeaux hates "Why, you 6peak Arabic as well as the pasha himself," put in Miller, "and yet you ware never in these parts before. Gad! you make me quite envious; and if it were not so infernally difficult I would learn it myself. But, as I cannot join in the conversation, I don't see the use of staying. Besides, I am wanted on board my ship. Say so, and make my excuses." And then we parted, and he was speedily lost to view. 1 could not hrtp wondering how, in a city swarming with spies and w.iere his peculiar system of governmen; must have made him many enemies, he dared to walk about at ni;*ht without cscort, or, rather because the man was obviously of a fearless nature, how he could do so without receiving the sa ao measure he had dealt out eo freely to others. But I was in the east; and, as Djezzar himself had just Baid, the ways of the-east are not the way3 of the west. \s the devil hates holy water, and Bonaparl rather more." In Buckwheat there was a man who had been almost everywhere. He had seen the Mammoth cave of Kentucky and Pike's peak, Colorado. His idea was to incorporate a company to try the Mammoth cave on over Pike's peak and then guess how near she would fit at 50 cents a guess. He thought there was money in it. "Why?" The great tower, although it had withstood the battering-rams of the crusaders, made a poor show against the French artillery. Ijjvery shot told, and there was presently a hole in the wall big enough to admit two men abreast. But, being at a considerable height above the edge of a steep ditch, eighteen feet deep and twenty-six wide, Phelippeaux did not regard it as a practicable breach. "I dare say he would say because he is a royalist and a Christian, and a very good reason too. But in his case I imagine there are other reasons. Bonaparte and Phelippeaux were at college together, and rivals; and peopSe said Phelippeaux was the cleverer of the two and would make more show In the world. Well, he has not, and I daro say that is a sore point." . . CHAPTER XL On reporting myself to the admiral at Portsmouth I was ordered to proceed to sea with all despatch. Join the blockading squadron off Alexandria, and place myself at the disposal of Commodore Sir Sidney Smith, who, by virtue of a treaty just concluded with the sultan, hail been appointed to the supreme command of the Turkish fleet in Levantine waters and all the land forces of the porte in Egypt and Syria. Bonaparte's unprovoked invasion'of It is hard work talking in a language of which you know next to nothing; and when Miller was gone I fell back on French, which Djezzar understood much better than 1 understood Arabic, and spoke fairly. lie also spoke Slavonic (his mother tongue), Italian, Syriac, Turkish and lingua franca, knew something of history, and was so far from being a "typical Turk" that he liked to class himself as a European, and was as free from religious prejudice as a Voltairian Frenchman. The Maugrabins reached the rendezvous at the same time as ourselves— with them Djezzar and Alurad. The He also spoke of Colorado. He had been there. One curious thing ho noticed there was tho purity of the air. Clear and pore and rarefied, he said, one would be often deceived in distances. "I see; he is a disappointed man/' CHAFTEK XIL p&sha surprised tie by saying that he intended to lead the sortie in person. 1 tried hard to dissuade him; for, being the only Turkish ofllcer in the place tf'xxi for anything,, and on whom we could depend, his life was precious. But I failed to win hiiu from his purpose. It was the first sortie. He must see how his officers behaved. Well led, he said, his men would fight like lions; badly led, they would run; and unless they were under his own eye he was never Mire they would be well led. Moreover, he had no fear for the result. Llis time was not come. Bonaparte, however, thought differently, and ordered an assault. "Either the man is mad or h« thinks we are all "That's it; also a very able soBdier, and a colonel in our army. I believe he would lick Bonaparte on anything' like equal terms. But here we are at the divan. Old Djezzar is always in. at this time. 1 am glad you are clever-at languages. I am not. I don't know a word of Arabic—they say it is infernally difficult—and only just enough to ask: 'What ship is that?' and tell a French captain that if he does not strike his flag I will blow him out of the water." Three days later the leading columns of Bonaparte's anuy reached the foot of Carmel, where they were attacked by the Tiger's boats and forced to pass to the north side of the mountain, instead of continuing their march by the shore. Shortly afterwards, moreover, the Tiger captured seven gunboats which were bringing from Jaf'a the battering-train of artillery, ammunition and other supplies destined for the siege of Acre. They were used for the defense of Acre. So were the gun-boats. Once there was a feller out there—if I am not taking up your time—a feller that started to ride to a foothill before breakfast. He was a tenderfoot. Struck Denver and was going to climb a bunch of peaks a day till he had seen how they looked on top He said he would ride over and climb one before breakfast. He gave it up and took a light tea from the sideboard at home.' On the way somebody overtook him and found him stripping off ready to swim a little irrigation ditch, and the old man asked him why he pulled off liis coat instead of jumping his horse over the ditch. " 'Who art thouT asked Djezzar, laying his hand on the hatchet which lie has alwavs within reach. these countries had excited great indignation in Europe, and above all in EnC*- land, the traditional enemy of French aggrandizement and ambition. In thi* Instance, at least, the indignation waa warranted. Without rhyme or reasorf, or even plausible excuse, without even declaring war against Turkey, the directory had sent an army and a fleet to Egypt under command of Bona- "The stranger threw back his hood. 'O, my father,' he cried, 'I am thy slave, Soliman. I cannot live away from thee. I am come to die at thy hand.' "Jesus Christ is the Mohammed of Christians; Mohammed is the Jesus Christ of Moslems. Voila tout!" "TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE." This was his idea of the two religions. In other respects, however, he was a true Oriental—a man of strong passions, a fatalist, fond of adventure, and with a faith in his luck that made him a stranger to fear. The vicissitudes of his life had been more extraordinary than those of a hf -o of romance.' Born of Christian parents, he was made a Mohammedan at fifteen. He had been beggar, cabin-boy, sailor, slave, Mameluke, executioner, or bravo, to an Egyptian bey, then a bey himself, and finally, after long years o" strife and intrigue and bloodshed, pa ha and seraskier. He also said that you'd be awfully fooled on distances here, the air was so "pyore." ■J "Djezzar sprang to his feet, brandishing his hatchet. Three times he raised it to strike. Soliman neither stirred nor spoke, nor showed by the quiver of an eyelid that he feared the death that hovered over his head. Then the pasha threw his hatchet on the marble floor. Several soldiers and others were aVnit the door of the divan. One of them came-toward us and made.obeisance to my companion. Meanwhile, Sir Sidney Smith (who arrived at Acre the day befcre the French arrived at Mount Cornel) had ordered me to leave the Kangaroo in charge of my first officer and come on shore with half.of my ship's company, the other half being quite equal to working her guns. This order I received with pleasure and obeyed with alacrity, for it was evident that the post of danger was inside the town and the hottest fighting would fall to the lot of tliose who manned the ramparts. "Once there was a feller out hyrr—-if I don't tress-pass on your time," etc. That was 17 years ago. I saw him the other day by the mere'st accident. His hair has grown gray, and Nance, his child wife, as I knew her, fresh from the upper alcoholic circles of the OgallaUa Sioux, to whom she traced her lineage, was with him. They are both old and living now on Vulgar creek. This was final. I said no mora. Our plan, as arranged the previous night, was to steal round the (lank of the French position in front of the great tower, fall oti the guard, spike the guns, which were parked near the trenches, and beat a retreat before we could be attacked in force or cut oiT. A hundred Albanians were left in reserve, near the exit of the sally port, or covercd passage, through which we passed from the Inner to the outer fortifications, and through which we should have to retarn. The rest of us, some three hundred strong, then turned towards the sea shore, and, after marching, or rather creeping, a few hundred yards, wheeled to the right at a point where there was a little cover, and then advanced as stealthily as Indians on the war path towards a part of the French position which we had reason to believe was very indifferently guarded. parte, who had taken possession of the country, slaughtered thousands of its people, and wrought havoc and untold misery wherever he appeared. Nelson had destroyed the fleet at the glorious battle of the Nile, and so deprived Bonaparte of the means of returning' to France with his army. Most generals in his position would have. "Thes pasha's dragoman; just the fellow we want. lie speaks French like the Gallic cock, and knows even a little English. Is the pasha in, Moses?" "Ditch be d d," said the young man, casting aside his porous plaster with a bitter oath and a portion of his back also. 'Tm getting now so that I can judge distances better than I could this morning." And that is a fact too. He had. {\u njf' " 'For once in his life, Djezzar has forgiven.' he exclaimed. 'Come and sit by my fade. Thou art my son.' "Yes, sar; sartinly, sar.«" "Will you announce us?—Capt. Miller and Commander Roy." "I tell you this," continued Sir Sidney Smith, "that you may know what like of a man Djezzar is; for so soon as you £ re in port you must see him. Tell him that-1 am now coming with my sqnadron to his help. Encourage him to resist to the utmost—if he needs any encouragement, which I doubt, for they eay that notwithstanding his more than, threescore years and ten he is a man of immense vigor and resolution. And, though you may see things repugnant to your ideas of civilized warfare, don't cross him. He won't stand it. A la guerre comme a la guerre. Unless we pull together, we shall not save Acre; and saving Acre means the defeat of Bonaparte and the destruction or surrender of his army. Remember, also, in your intercourse with Djezzar, that he is a man of great importance,—seraskier. or generalissimo, of the Turkish forces in these parts and viceroy of Syria and Palestine. Col. Fhelippeaux, a royalist engineer officer, ia seeing to the defenses. I will give you a line to him, also to Capt. Miller. -The coloncl knows Bonaparte well and hates him, 1 think, as much as I do. They were at Brienne together. The wind is fair; weigh as soon as you get aboard your ship. You should be at Acre the day after to-morrow." "This way, sar. lie aeraskier now alwise gladdersee English, officer." We sat and talked for a long time, he kneading his wheel tar slowly between his finger and thumb as he looked down into the sad depths of my wonderful eyes, and I examined his fangs and found him to lDe 68 years old on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of his parents. ... :^— "I thought it was kind of comical," he added. thrown up the sponge, but Bonaparte was a general hors ligne. Dislike the man though you may, you cannot help admiring the grandeur of his ideas and the energy with which he carried them into effect. Cut off from France, and finding it impossible or inexpedient to remain in Egypt, he marched into Syria, intending, when he had conquered that country, to raise and organize an army of Arabs and either in- Moses, as Capt. Miller call him (he called himself Mose), took a great ■weight off my mind. He would be able to give me a lift with the Arabic when 1 was talking to the pasha. We had been talking perhaps half an hour, when one of the attendants whispered something It Djezzar's ear, whereupon the pasha said something in reply that 1 did not catch, and waved his hand. The next moment the curtain of the door-way w.is drawn aside, and the queerest crowd I had ever beheld came pell-mell into the hall—the halt, the lame and the blind, of both sexes and all ages, with bare legs and ragged garments—some with hardly any garments at all—and every one carrying a wooden bowl. "YOU HERE, M. ROY!" "We rode on through the boom belt, including Chicago, and at St. Louis we met a returning Englishman. He had been at Colorado Springs, a beautiful health resort that has always had a healthy, steady growth, but no boom. Everything there had always been healthful, and if he hadn't struck a night train he would never have known that anybody died there. He talked with the conductor and found that the road was mad because there wero so many health resorts along the line, all wishing to quietly ship their dead between 11 p. m. and 3 a. m., that it practically made a satisfactory time table impossible. He was a pleasant companion, was St. George Tart-Paddock, who had been out to Colorado to show the Leaf Lard Dynasty that thev were wearine their white hunting trousers behind side before, as it were. They have one man at The Antlers who wears a pair of white duck riding panties, gored or something at the hips, and so tight at the knee that it takes two waiters to seat him ai table—one to hold the chair and one to hook his legs up under the roof of the table. His father made his money by building a large sausage mill in New Yoik, and then succeeded in having an ordinance passed outlawing every dog in town. He soon grew vastly rich, and his son, St. George Tart-Paddock, now talks fluently in the purest stable English and eats his porridge with a crop. I haCl also to act as aide to the seraskier, at bis own request. children," suid Phelippeaux, when he saw the advance guard of the storming party run up with their ladders. "Wait until they are in the ditch, and then we shall have them like rats in a trap." "He has taken a great fancy to you," said Sir Sidney; "and, as he has few subordinates who are good for anything. and you speak Arabic so admirably—"The divan was a large and lofty hall, with bare walls and a tessellated marble floor-—the same room, doubtless, in which the dramatic incident described to me by Sir Sidney had taken place. Here and there the floor was discolored. "Jevver notuss how clair and misleadin the air is? Now, up on Vulgar creek, where we are plain people. _the_placo never havin had a boom at alt, but jest a good healthy growth, we often notice how clair tho air is. It's mighty misleadin, too, Mr. Nye. Once mere was a feller out there—if I don't pester ye by tellin it"  Nothing could surpass the bravery of those devoted grenadiers. Though they were falling like ninepins, they went down into the ditch and ' made frantic efforts to get up to the breach, though the ladders did not reach the opening of the tower by ten or twelve feet. Then they planted them on the bodies of their dead comrades and tried again. "No, not admirably by any means, commodore; very indifferently." vade India or conquer Turkey. It was to prevent the consummation of this design, and, if possible, destroy or capture Bonaparte and his army, that the British government had formed an alliance with the sultan and sent Sir Sidney Smith to the Levant. He was "Djezzar says you speak it admirably; so does Miller. I like young men to be modest, but it is not always well to hide your light under a bushel. As 1 was saying, you will be very usefuL You will take the pasha's orders, of course, and he, on his part, will be guided by me and the colonel. Try to keep him and his people up to the mark. They are. brave enough, I dare say, but, like all Orientals, they lack energy and order, trust too much in destiny and Providence and all that nonsense. Your principal duty will be to repel boarders —assaults, I mean, and take part in sallies. Do all you can to protect prisoners and the wounded. You know, I suppose, that the Turks make a practice of refusing quarter and decapitating their prisoners. The pasha is rightly called Ahmed the Butcher. But we must just make the best of him. lie is as necessary to us as we are to him, and 'pon iny soul I don't think he is half as bloodthirsty as that villain Bonaparte." "Blood-stains!" whispeivd Miller, pointing to these portentous spots. Djezzar, who knew every yard of the ground, went first with a hundred men; next came Miirad, and I with my blue jackets brought np the rear. Moses led us to the upper part of the hall, where the man we were come to see was sitting among his cushions, deep in conversation with two of his officers."My beggars," said the pasha. "I feed them once a week. This is the I said: "Sherrod, you told me that thing 17 years ago, and I've heard it since. I have also in five years visited 600 towns and over that just had a healthy trrowth and had never been boomed at all, but 1 had hoped that Vulgar creek had escaped. I change cars here," I said, "to visit yet other towns that are having a good, health}', nice growth and well settled by a class of people far superior to those of the unsociable and cold blooded but educated east." day." It was not very dark, rather the gray of a misty morning; and as I emerged from the sallyport I fancied I caught a glimpse of a ghostly figure gliding towards the French lines. The nest moment it was gone. Could it be one of the dervishes whom we had seen near the mosque? Djezzar's soldiers were not incorruptible, and a false dervish with money in his pocket would have no difficulty in smuggling himself out of the city. one of the most enterprising naval'of- The beggars then squatted on the floor, and servants brought them bread and meat and rice, which they either ate on the spot or carried off in their wooden bowls. When the meal was finished, each of them received a coin, and, as they hobbled away, prayed Allah to bless and reward their benefactor. As soon as the mendicants were gone, Djezzar invited me to accompany him to the fortifications; he wanted to see how the work of mounting the guns and strengthening the walls was progressing. As the old man stood up, he looked every inch a man of war, and, with his ax (which he put in his belt), his pistols and his poniard, a formidable one. At this moment the Maugrabin gunners, for some inexplicable reason (there is no accounting for panics), bolted from the rampart, but, being met by Djezzar, pistol in hand, turned back, and recommenced firing with such effect that the reinforcements which were coming up to the support of the forlorn hope were compelled to retreat. Two French generals were killed, and the grenadiers left more than half their number, dead and dying, at the bottom of the ditch. fleers of his time; and I reckoned it as a piece of good fortune that 1 should have to serve nnder so distinguished a Ahmed Djezzar Pajsha was as fine an old gentleman as I had seen—tall, straight and well set up, ami, except in the whiteness of his heavy mustache and flowing beard, showing few signs of age. Ilis forehead was high and broad, nose straight, mouth well fchapen, face square and massive; the eyes were brown, cheeks sunburnt and ruddy, and his strong white teeth showed that he was blessed' with a vig- commander. I liked my ship and I liked my crew. I was so delighted with my promotion and prospects that I should not have quarreled with them though the Kan- garoo had been been old and leaky and the hands mutinous and incompetent. But the brig was wrfll found and a good sailer, and by the time wo made the Egyptian coast my ship's company was as smart and well disciplined as any in his majesty's service Nance said goodby also. Her cheeks were just as red as ever they were. Every fall and spring she paints them still with a paint which she gets of Mr. Studebaker at special rates. She looks even more like a kippered Ogallalla than ever. People used to gossip about her. I asked Sherrod if she were not a good wife. But it would have been absurd to suggest the abandonment of the expedition because I imagined that 1 had seen a figure which might be that of a spy, and so I contented myself with warning my men to keep a sliarp lookout and resolving to do the same myself. I weighed within the hour, and shortly after sunrise on the second morning following we sighted Mount Carmel. A few hours later we were off Acre. rC{M fD\ V\ After this check the French engineers began to sink mines, with the idea of filling up the ditch and blowing up the tower. Phelippeaux countermined, and Djezzar made sally after sally, and, though always driven back, he kept the enemy on the alert and did them an infinity of damage. In one of these sallies we captured a post, carried off a number of intrenching tools, and took prisoner an officer and several men, whose heads the Maugrabins and Albanians, in accordance with their usual practice, were very anxious to cut off. With some difficulty I saved the prisoners' lives. The officer was my old friend, Capt. Lacluse, who, however (my face being blackened with powder and dust), did not recognize me until we were inside the fortifications. On reaching' the rendezvous I went on board the flag ship to report myself and deliver the letters and dispatches I had brought with me from England. I was not very sentimental in those days, nor (having gone to sea at twelve years old) particularly well read; yet I knew my Bible and felt in full measure the influence of the historic and religious associations which had made forever memorable the sacred soil of Palestine and the famous city whose white walls were washed by the waters of the "Great Sea." Yonder was Carmel, where the prophet of God had called down the fires of Heaven on the priests of Baal; there the road to Nazareth, and the track which led to Bethsaida, and Capernaum; the river Jordan, and the lake of Tiberias. 1 T Everybody made way for us as we passed through the streets—except the children; they ran after him and greeted him with laughing familiarity. Djezzar appeared to know them all by name, patted them on the head, and gave them sweet stuff and money. At first all went well. We overpowered the outlying picket before they could give the alarm, reached the trenches unobserved, killed the slender guard to & man, and while Murad and a score or two of his men were collects ing intrenching tools, for the double purpose of incoveniencing the enemy and providing ourselves with implements of which we stood in great need, the rest of us ran on to spike the guns. Hut they were farther off than we expected, and we had hardly reached them when we heard the firing and frantic shouts in our rear. I could not agree with the commodore's estimate of Djezzar. Whatever else he might be, the pasha was certainly not wanting in energy; and he possessed many of the qualities which go to the making of a great captain. It is quite possible, nay, highly probable, that without Sir Sidney Smith, his ships and his sailors, Acre would have fallen; but it would have fallen with honor. The pasha had sworn to bury himself in the ruins rather than surrender; and there is no question that he would have been as good as his word. He wiped the tar on his trousers and said slowly as he looked at the gory sunset: "She is that. She's reely too good to be true." Sir Sidney Smith, who prided himself on his politeness and savoir faire, received me smiling. He was thirty-fire, Tery good-looking—dark hair and eyes, a face full of fire and energy—and a Jiaval dandy. "In a burst of merriment a beautiful young girl called him 'only a pantsey blossom.' That took away his joy of living there. No one could look at him without laughing, for the trousers were gathered and so full at the waistband that his little coat stuck out and curled up at the tail like a nasturtium. "Good heavens!" I thought, "and yet people can call this man a butcher!" "So yoa know Arabic?" he observed, after reading his letter. We went first to the old tower, building with enormously thi.-k wall dating from tlie third year of tt llegira. The guus were b.Jiaff shift*' from the sea side of the fortili.-atior (where they would be of no us.-) to tli land side; and Colonel Phelippcau: -/%i4 11 ;3P#t «- "A little," I answered, modestly; for, though I had succeeded in humbugging Admiral Jones, it would not have been safe to attempt anything of that sort ■with Commodore Smith. "But I could tell you something quite odd about the country at Colorado Springs," he added. "You will not nowtice it at first, but at lahst you begin to nowtice that the air is so thin and so rare and pure that one is often deceived in distances. Almost a Sleigli Ride. fat Hard by was Cceur-de-1 ion's mount, where many a Christian knight and Moslem emir had bit the dust; and under those very battlements Sir Godfrey de Roy, my own ancestor, had perished , while upholding the standard of the cross and fighting for his king. And now, though I knew it not, Acre was I about to witness a fiercer struggle —a struggle which, by turning the tide of revolutionary conquest from east to west and restoring to France her great! est general, would profoundly affect the course of European history fur all i time. On the other hand, he counted men's lives as nothing, and was cynically contemptuous of the rules of civilized warfare. Bonaparte, having made a fruitless attempt to induce Djezzar to receive him as a friend, sent an envoy with a summons to surrender and an offer of terms. For answer Djezzar cut off the man's head and sent it back to Bonaparte as a gage of defiance. "We have been betrayed. They arc attacking Murad. Back! back! or we shall be cut off!" shouted Djezzar. "A little! They tell me you know it thoroughly." "They are too flattering. I know just enough to enable me to read the language with difficulty and ask my way about; but I Clare say a little practice will give me a sufficient command of the language to speak it with ease." who was directing the operation, explained to the pasha what'he had done and what still required to be done, the pasha on his part making suggestions which showed that, though he might not be a Scientific engineer, he was ai. any rate a shrewd and observant soldier. "You here, M. Roy!" he exclaimed, in answer to my inquiry after his health. A LITTI.E SPEECH "Why not? You also are here." "Once there was a fellow out there—if I am not taking up your time—a fellow who started to ride"— We allowed him to tell it, for he enjoyed it, and he told it very well, but when we got the cue to laugh great hot tears as large as huckleberries stood in Burbank's eyes, and he went to bed with a hot water cloth on his head. • orons constitution. 11 is general cxpre* sion was dignified and masterful—rather that of a soldier than a statesman. In his younger days Djezzar must have been singularly handsome; and I could discern in his refined and intelligent features no trace of the cruelty and craft which people ascribed to him. lie wore very wide Levant breeches, a We found Murad fighting at desperate odds with a crowd of French soldiers, whoso numbers, in the misty darkness, it was impossible to estimate. But they were between us and Acre. "It is true. I wish I wasn't. I would much rather be in Paris. I say, mon ami, you did me a very Dad turn by going away so unceremoniously from Boulogne." "That is all I want; and the sooner you begin the better. You must sail for Acre within the hour. Capt. Miller, of the Theseus, and CoL Phclippeaux are already there. I shall follow with the Tiger and some gunboats to-morrow or the next day, Bonaparte has taken El Arish and Jaffa, and if we let him take Acre he will be the master of Asia Minor." I5y the time the conversation and the inspection were over it was getting dark, and 1 hinted a desire to return to my ship, on which Djezzar said he would accompany me to the water gate, where I should have to take boat. "It is well for you that I did. If I had not escaped from Boulogne I should probably not have come to Acre; and if I had not come to Acre your body would have been left out there and your head brought in on the point of a scimetar." Meanwhile the French were digging their trenches, bringing up their guns, and constructing cpaulments, to protect themselves from the ships and gunboats, which enfiladed all their positions and kept up a continual fire. "Allah il Allah!" cried the Maugrabins, as they rushed wildly on, their scimitars in their right hands, their daggers in their left. Thus armed, they were more than a match for the French linesmen,whose bayonet-thrusts they could ward off with one weapon while they smote with the other. "Charge!" shouted the pasha. waistcoat and short jacket of fine blue Laramie City is a good town also. It is one of the two cities of the new state. Henry V. S. Groesbeck, who succeeded me on the woolsack as justice of the peace there, is now chief justice of the state. This should be a lesson to the boys of America and teach them to  their eyes 011 me. I met Judge Groesbeck, and he told me that a prolonged effort to make head or tail out of my docket had fitted him for chief justice of the state. I cloth, trimmed with scarlet and adorned j with gold and silver buttons, and. a I rich cashmere turban. In his belt were ! a pair of horse-pistols and a long dag- I cor: and close at hand lav the ax I which he had branished round the head We had not pone far when a man, whose head and face were enveloped in a burnous, glided furtively past us, as if he wanted to escape observation. Djezzar, who missed nothing, saw this, and called to him (in Arabic) to stop. The man obeyed. Whereupon Djezzar asked liim who he was, and then another question, the answer to which was hardly out of his mouth when the pasha seized him by the throat with one hand and with the other stabbed him in the heart. I let go alongside the Theseus, and | reported myself to Capt. Miller, who was good enough to take me ashore i in his gig and present me to Col. Phe-1 lippeaux and the pasha. "You are right. My head is a great deal better where it is; and I thank you a thousand times for keeping it there. I hope I shall have an opportunity of reciprocating the favor." It presently became evident that the principal battery was to be opposite the great tower. "So! He has taken Jaffa?" plundered the inhabitants to the bone, and slaughtered four thousand of the garrison in cold blood, after of Soliman "There! Did I not tell you so?" exclaimed I'hclippeaux, with great satisfaction, pointing to this part of theenemv's work. "Kally tome! keep close together, and take care of the old man!" I sang out to my Kangaroos. Acre was like a beehive when the bees are swarming. The population Becmed to be all out of doors. A procession of camels, laden asses and led horses was winding through the narrow streets. Djezzar's Albanian and Maugrabin mercenaries, armed to the teeth, Turkish soldiers and British blue- When the pasha caught sight of us ho smiled graciously, beckoned us to him, and shook hands with Miller as with an old friend. "You are very good, though I cannot say that I share in the hope. I should be sorry for my head to be in such peril as vours was a little while ago. However, I think we may almost consider ourselves quits. I owed you some amends for getting you into such a scrape. Was Bonaparte very angry?" There was very little shooting. One ▼olley from our pistols, and then the cold cold steel. It was man to num. bayonet and sciinitai', cutlass and sword. What happened to me personally I can hardly tell. Once, Djeziar went down, and if I had not stood over they had surrendered. He could not spare troops to guard them or food to keep them, and be knew that if he let them go they would join old Djezzar at Acre; so he lust had th«m it !• "Tell him," said the captain to Moses, "that I have brought with me Commander Roy. who has just arrived from Alexandria and brings word that the "That Bonaparte is a bad hand at a j siege. He will try to breach the tower j before he attacks the curtain" (that part of the wall between the flankinsr Tell me what?" Judge Groesbeck was succeeded by Dr. Hayford, who wires me today that his thirteenth child has just registered at his house and secured rooms. It was done so suddenlv that the [to be con-tinted.]