Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-19

own hand, and had all the other women,
to the number Of thirty, scwed mp in
leather sacks-into each of which had
been put q snake and acat-and thrown
into the sea- Then he bought him
thirty other women, and walled them
up in his harem, leaving only a little
hole through which they could receive
their food And they are there yet, ex-
cept 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 cone out or
go In"
'.What a frightful old ruffian."
Eyes, according to our ideas. But
you must remember that Djezzar is a
Turk, and that here, in the east, human
life is of no more account than it was
when Samuel hewed Agag in pieces be-
was doing God service by killing all his
prisoners of war. houghing their horses,
and burning their chariots with fire. He
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 hooded
stranger, wearing robe of camelskin,
burst into the room, thrust aside of
fcers and litigants, and stood before
the pasha.
"'Who art thou?' asked Djezzar, 1av-
ing his hand on the Ratchet which ne
has always within reach.
'.The stranger threw back his hood.
%, my father he cried, Il am thy
slave, Soliroan. / cannot live away
from thee. I am come to die at thy
hand
'Djezzar sprang to his feet, brandish-
ing his Ratchet. Three times he raised it
to strike. Soliman neither stirred nor
spoke, nor showed by the culver of an
eyelid THAT he feared the death that
lowered over his head. Then the pasha
threw his Ratchet on the marble floor.
For once in his life, Djezzar has
forgiven he exclaimed. Come and sit
by my side. Thou art my son.
81 tell you this" continued Sir Sidney
Smith, ''that you may know what like
of man Djezzar is; for so soon as you
are in port you must see him. Tell him
that am now coming with my squad
ron to his help. Encourage him to re-
sist to the utmost-if he needs any ell
enlargement, which / doubt, for they
say that Notwithstanding his more than
threescore years and ten he is a man OF
immense vigor and resolution And,
though you may see things repuguant
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cross him. He won't stand it. A La
guerre CONNIE a Ia guerre. Unless we
pull together, we shall not save Acre;
and saving Acre means the defeat of
Bonaparte and the destruction or sur
render of his army. Remember, also,
in your intercourse with Djez.ar, that
he is man of great importance,-scra-
skier. or generalissimo, of the Turkish
forces in these parts and viceroy OF
Syria and Palestine. Col. Phelippeaux,
rOyalist engineer officer, is seeing to
the defenses. will give you q line to
him, also to Capt. Miller. The colonel
knows Bonaparte well and hates him, ]
think, as much IS do. They were at
Brienne together. The wind is fair;
weigh as :oon as you get aboard your
ship. You should be at Acre the day
after Tomorrow
/ weighed within the hour, and shors
~ after sunrise on the second morning
following we sighted Mount Carmel A
few hours later we were of Acre.
Twas not very sentimental in those
days, nor (having gone to sea at twelve
years old) particularly well read; yet
knew my Bible and felt in full measure
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igious 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 Car
mel, where the prophet of God had
called down the fires of Heaven on the
priests of Baal; there the road to Naz
areth, and the track which led to Beth.
saida and Capernaum; the river Jordan,
and the lake of Tiberias.
Hard by was Ceur-de-lion's mount
where many a Christian knight and
Moslem emir had bit the dust; and I'M
der those very battlements Sir Godfrey
de Roy, my own ancestor, had persisted
while upholding the standard of the
cross and fighting for his king. And
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about to witness fiercer struggle
"a struggle which, by turning the tide
of revolutionary conquest from east tc
west and restoring to France her great
est general, would profoundly affect
the course of European history for all
time.
let go alongside the Theseus, and
reported myself to Capt. Miller, who
was good enough to take me ashore
in his gig and present me to Col Phe-
lippeaux and the pasha.
Acre was like beehive when the
bees are swarming. The population
seemed to be all out of doors. A pro
cession of camels, laden asses and lee
horses was winding through the mar
row streets Djezzar's Albanian and
Maugrabin mercen3ries, armed to the
teeth, Turkish soldiers and British blue
jackets and marines were hurrying tc
and fro. Wild-looking horsemen in the
picturesque garb of the desert were try.
ing to force their way through the
throng. The air was thick with dust.
the din terrific. Men were shouting
and swearing in all tongues of Europe
and the east. Thousands of people |
were at work on and about the fortifi- |
cations-some wheeling earth and |
widening bitches, others repairing and !
the walls and towers, |
hauling stones. mounting guns and |
bringing up ammunition.
Amid all this confusion we had some |