Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-21

Few persons who use steel pens on which
 is stamped "Gillot" have any idea of the story of suffering, of indomitable pluck and persistence which belong to the placing of
 that name on that article.
 A long depression in trade in England ! threw thousands of Sheffield mechanics out ! of work, among them Joseph Gillot twenty ! one years of age.
 He left the city with but a shilling in his pocket. Reaching Birmingham, he went to
 an old inn and sat down upon wooden set spent for roll He was weak, hungry and | iii. He had not a friend in Birmingham and l there was little chance that he would find | work.
 l In his despondency he was tempted to give l up and turn beggar or tramp. Then sud | den fiery energy seized him. He brought his l list down upon the table, declaring to him. self that he would try and trust in God, come what would. He found work that day I in making belt buckles, which were then fashionable.
 As soon as he had made pound or two he hired garret in Broad street and there car ried on work for himself; bringing his taste and his knowledge of tools into constant use, even when working at hand made goods. This was the secret of Gillot's success. Other workmen trudged on in the old rut. He was wide awake eager to improve his
 
 He fell in love with pretty and sensible girl named Mitchell who with brothers was making steel pens. Each pen was then clip ped, punched and polished by hand, and pens were sold consequently at enormously high prices.
 Gillot at once brought his skill in tools to bear upon the matter, and soon invented machine which turned out the points by thousands in the time that man would re- quire to make one. He married Miss Mitchell, and carried on the manufacture together for years.
 On the morning of the marriage the indus trious workman made a gross of pens and sold them for $36 to pay the wedding fees. In his old age, having reaped an imme nse fortune by his shrewdness and industry, MT. Gillot went again to the old inn, bought the settle and had the square on which he sat that night sawed out and made into ahair, which he left as an heirloom to his family, to re- mind them of the secret of his success.
 superstitions of Turkish Women.
 (H. o. Dwight in Harper's Magazine.l
 The Turkish woman is fanatical conserva- tive. The world in which she lives is un- moved by the practical facts of the nineteenth century which make life burden to her husband. No Chinaman was ever more inn pervious to ideas of improvement. She is tiercely intolerant in matters of religious be- lief. Tho teachings of the Koran have reached | U perfect Talmud of tradition. and these teach ings shape her view of the outside world. In obedience to them, she commonly hates for elgners with passion. AS she passes you on the street she will pray with audible fervor that your eyes may become blind, or that God may curse you.
 She is superstitious in the extreme In sickness she will use the saliva of an old wo- man who has never been divorced, or will in- hale the fetid breath of an odoriferous and saintly dervisn, in preference to the choicest prescriptios of an educated physician. She is assured that Satan in persons teaches Americans their skill in mechanical arts. She believes in charms. She will not live an hour bereft of her three cornered bit of leather which encloses the mystic phrase that is potent to ward of the evil-eye. She dis trusts Tuesday as the mother of ll-luck, and will not celebrate the birthday anniversaries of her children, nor even record the date, lest some magician use 1t to cast Q spell against the child.