Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-18

troubles anG the wars Oh the north, al
ter being involved in a contest with
Russia, by which he lost in succession
the cities of Asoph and Belgrade, and
the provinces of Temesvar, Servia and
Wallachia, on the discontinue OF his
arms by Persia, had an instruction
among his own subjects, and was com
PEELED by the JanizarieS to abdicate in
favor of his nephew, Mustapha Ill,
who then threw him into a prison,
where be passed a life of modification
and shame, "after he had, as Voltaire
has 1t, I" sacrificed his yizier and his
principal officers in vain, to the resent
ment of the nation.
| On reading of all these things, Ce-
! Gle registered a VOW that she would
| visit Turkey, seek out her father ana
endeayor to console him in his misfor-
tunes; and the death of her guardian,
1 Emilia, about this time, together with
the annoyance she experienced from
| the old prince, who, presuming ON
/ her friendless, dubious, and false posi-
/ ton, daily "became more urgent and
/ less respectful, FASTENED her depart
ure.
! Alone she set out for FOntainbleau
! TO solicit a passport as a French sub.
/ iect, and to return thanks for the pro-
4 lection afforded her by the court of
/ Louis XIV; but IN returning to Paris,
| her carriage was stopped at night in
/ the forest, which then covered thirty
Thousand acres Of hill and valley, and
their ensued an episode, which, by its
/ cOfncldences, seems to evidently ro-
nance, though truth at times is strang-
! or than fiction.
/ 4 handsomely attiried chevalier-
who proved to be the Prince-requested
! her to alight and enter a roit,lrc, which
stood there with six horses, pleading
/ that she would do so without com
polling him to use violence"
On this she uttered cry for help;
and ere long another pojtatre dashed
up, and there leaped out gentleman,
sword in hand. He proved to be
young Duke de --, her Roman adj
mirer, and he had barely time to recog-
nize Cecile, when her bethrothed, the
Knight of Malta, also appeared on the
scene, which thus becomes SO melo-
dramatic as to throw ridlcule on the
story.
1.-THE Duke is about to deprive you
of your mistress, said the cunning old
7 Prince to his son; "let us Jointly use
our swords against him in defense of
/ your dearests."
SO thereupon the cavalier of Malta
ran the poor duke through the body in
! the most approved fashion; bore off
! the fainting Cecile to Paris, and placed
/ her in the hotel Of his father
There the renewed but secret adj
/ dresses of the latter alarmed her, and
on one occasion she had TO protect her
/ self by an exhibition of pistols, after
she escaped with Salmoni and the
Knight, who urged that she should, in
/ fulhlIment of her VOW, visit her captive
father, while he once more strove, at
the feet of Pope Clements successor, to
get his oath of celibacy absolved.
In Turkey, some unruly Janizaries
slew Salmoni, and were about to offer
some violence to Cecile, despite her
French passport, when she displayed
before them the Jet t0. This, we are
told, was a piece of yellow silk on
which were embroidered in golden let
ters, the names of the Sultan, of her
mother Ask, and herself, with the day
aud hour OF her birth, together with
certain passages from the Koran: "lhe
children of the Sultan are bound with
the tet il Immediately aftor birth; and
this document Is deemed a sacred proof
of theirroyal descent and at the sight
of it, every MoAammedan must bow
himself to the ground, and defend with
his life the wearec of it. =
By this time her cousin Mustapha
III. was dead, and his successor, her
kinsman, Mohammed v, on hearing OF
her story, and, more than all, OF her
beauty, conceived Il passion for her,
and sent his chief friend and conf
dante, the Beglerberg Of Natolin, to
inform her of the honor that awaited
her Being informed that 1t was the
fame Of her wonderful hair that had at
first excited the curiosity and admlra-
ton of the Sultan, she cut it entirely
of, and tossed it to the messenger
''Go, - said she, land give your MAJ
ter this-the object OF mis- love-and
tell him that woman capable OF such
a sacrifice knows no master but Heaven
and her own heart !"
Had chignons been then in fashion,
much trouble might have been saved
the fair Cecile, who, finding that a
hasty departure from Turkey alone
could save her, demanded, but IN VAN,
n passport from the Pacha of Smyrna or
Izmir. Urged by her father Achmet,
she quilted secretly by sea, and was
landed by a French frigate at Ioulon,
where she learned from the lieutenant
of a Maltese galley that her lover had
persisted in a duel.
Her Journey to Turkey had greatly
imnnyerishnd her. and now she found