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^WSekinc Hr< ,un\i r- ^ 1 1 w 1 ^1 A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LII BY MAURICI CoDjrlfibt, 1893 and 18? CHAPTER XXIII. CONTINUED. "Violenoe, violence, ah I I have felt what it is. I am not violent I 1 am simply God's blade of vengeance. I am not a living man as yon are; I am dead, save for the little spark that lights me to my purpose. Yon do not understand me; you oan not; yon have not suffered enough to realize my meaning." "T&! You are unreasonable." "Am I? So I am. It is well that I am. If I were reasonable I oould f not do what is to be done. Behind me is a desert, a scorched and blackened way, a life made of cinder by Kirk MacOollough. Reasonable, reasonable! To kill him is the only reasonable thing]" Burns's words fell upon Mr. Vernon's ears with a strange power. It was not the crazed old preacher's purpose that struck with most terrible effeot. It was what lay beyond even tlie most perfect consummation of revenge. There seemed little probability, indeed, that Burns could ever do harm to the man he was trying to follow; but what he might do with the mere breath of his frenzied lips was incomparably dreadful to think of. Strange it is that, although Mr. Vernon had not the slightest assuranoe of the safety of his wife and daughter trom even the most horrible consequences that oould oome out of their captivity, he felt their danger from that source far less than what would befall them were his past to be made known to them. Somehow, so long as he had Jackson's ai;my with him he could not lose the hope that all would be well, so far as retaking hie loved ones was ooncerned. This was but a matter of fight. But the other 1 That was not to be fought back, once it should find the way to reach them. He felt that Burns, in his monomania, was likely at any moment to make an end of all this beautiful, precious dream of happiness. Happiness? Ah! He had been happy?no man happier?but now, what was coming? .. Where were his wife and daughter? He felt his brain ' ' swim and waver. Suddenly he grasped Burns's arms again with all hiB giant strength. "Tell me right here and now," he muttered huskily, "tell me: Are you going to betray me? are you going to disclose the secret of my life? Speak or " "I will not speak, save to shout for help, while you assault me like this," said Burns. "Forgive me; I forgot." Mr. Vernon took off his hands from the old man's arms as he spoke. "But you can,.see how terrible it would be. Think of my wife and daughterl" _l -*r^ At T???. lUiUHUl iACU^OiOU i^uv wuv IV be sare, you never harmed her, and I owe my life to you and yours," said Barns. He stood a moment in silenoe, and then added: "Your secret is safe with me so long as you do not interfere with? with my purpose. To accomplish that I would, if I could, destroy heaven and earth and all that is in them. I tell you that Kirk MacCol/ lough shall not live!" k . His tone was solemnly awful. Mr. Vernon felt helpless before him. They stood there in silence after that until, suddenly, a light flashed forth from the house where General Jackeon had his headquarters. "Gentlemen, it is time to be up," they heard the gruff commander exclaim, as if to awaken his sleeping staff, the redcoats will be upon us before we are ready, if we don't step spry. Come, come, gentlemen, fall out!" Immediately there was a stir and bustle in the house. Lights shown at the windows and the clicking of latches and the opening of doors told how promptly the officers responded to the call of their leader. A moment later Jackson himself came forth, followed by the enthusiastic bat sleepy aides, who were buckling on their ?ide-arms. "Ah, Mr. Vernon, is that you?" he demanded, as he came near the two old men. "How goes everything? Any stir among the redcoats?" "Not yet," replied Mr. Vernon, ; "save that they seem to be, making ready for an advance." "Tiaftham rflftdv. Who is this you have with you?" . The general peered askance at Barns through the fog and dust. "It is a friend of mine," said Mr. Vernon, without offering further introduction. The members of Jackson's stafl were coming around him for orders, which he began giving with his usual swift and clear understanding of what the moment called for. Meantime Barns managed to disappear. CHAPTER XXIV. ENOS PEEVY's RIM.E-PRACTICE. At a little after daybreak, though the fog was still heavy and the breeze too light to remove it, it was observed that the British were steadily advancing. ? - i - a it.; n- J <jaCaBOn naa every imug rcauy uuu f; . was nervously eager for the fray to begin; but ho preserved a cool expression of face, and gave orders that there be not a'shot fired until t>"* enemy were within certain range of i,neguns. Mr. Vernon hastened to make hie presence felt among the men, who looked to him for the encouragement that such beings always need in the supreme hour of dauger. He found ^ I them chilled and hungry; but they responded vehemently to his few low words, and showed that they meant to be brave. A fiery rooket whizzed up from the British front and curved through the slowly thinuing fog; then another Arose from a different point. "They aro ooming," saidJackson to < Lieutenant Ballauche. "Let us go to fiootts's battary." Sfifc . HI' * ' . s * O Fv ^. TIT r ? T A TV T r\ bY ISLAND FE DURING THE WAR OF 1812. **r>r S THOMPSON, !3 fcy Robert Bonner ' Sons. ! They walked along the line at a rapid gait and, just as they oame near, they heard a low order, and then out boomed the gun. The long, red blaze leaped far out through the fog-curtain, and they saw for the first time the ! glint of red uniforms away off by the . ! line of woods across the open level land. The column was moving at a swift pace right down upon them. Uia JCinos reevy came near megeu, eral and saluted. ""Well, Enos," said Jackson, "is Mary Ann in good order?" "Ye'll see poorty soon, gin'r'l. I air jea' er waitin' for 'em air fellers ter . come close enough for Mary Ann ter talk to'em; she air got some remarks to say to 'em, an she'll make 'em sick, . shore 'nuflf." ( ; He rubbed the long, heavy barrel of . his rifle while he spoke, and wagged , his head grimly. . ' , And now the breeze strengthened . and began to lift away the fog. , Spotts's gun bellowed once more, ; shaking the wqt ground with its ( , tremendous conoussion. , The British column came right on; , all the batteries in front of it opened bravely and sent their heavy missiles < plowing through it. 1 Soon enough the rifles of Tennessee ] and Kentucky began to crack, keen ( , and clear; and when the range became , certain, the effect was terrible to see. Peevy stood on top of the earth- i ? ^ r\ V*i?i rv> r\f Viio nl/1 nax\ turned np in front. He lifted his gnn and fired at an officer, who, sword in hand, was leading the column. It was a deadly shot. Down fell the i brave man; but the column bore right on. Not far, however, for there was that fatal ditch in its way, and the , bullets and cannon-shot were cutting men down like weeds. ''Give it to them, boys!" shouted Jackson, as he tramped baok and forth behind his brave little army, the fire of battle lighting up his careworn face. "Give it to them while they are wavering I" The British recoiled, shattered, bleeding, confused, their front ranks breaking into and destroying the order of those behind. At first it appeared that the fight was over; for how could those scattered and widely fleeing men ever be rallied and re-formed? It was then that the brave Pakenham showed himself at the front wav- ' ing his hat aloft and galloping to and f ro and calling on his men to remember the honor of England. They heard his manly voice above the roar of the patriot guns that were playing upon them, and they turned and set their faces onoe more toward those low, dark breastworks along whioh flickered and sparkled and flamed the rifle-blazes of marksmen who shot with the aim of veteran woodsmen. The bullets, like ? level swarms of furious bees, bummed along the orisp air of the morning. i "Aim well, men! Get a fine bead r on them!" shouted Jackson. "Blow them to kingdom come!" ^ "That'e the talk, gin'r'l!" responded ? Peevy, as he stood deliberately reload- j iDg Mary Ann. "I'm er doin' that air c very thing!" ? There was Yasseur wildly excited aud trembling like a freezing lamb, t but fighting like a mad lion. g Not far off, Crapaud Crapoussin, who came from the city but an hour ' before, was crouching behind the wet s earthwork aud filing away as best he i could. Fiddler Dick was there, too, with an enormously heavy gun, which t was so long, that he had to re9t the ( butt of it far back on the ground behind him when he was loading it. In- j deed, it seemed that all clasBeB of men 1 to be found on the gulf coast, gentlo- 1 man and cut-throat, dandy and raga- f mnfHu, upright citizen and scowling t forban, all the noted characters of city ( or swamp were to be seen in that oozy trench fighting for the country of their < J ? is? ?e ??lt i uiriu ur huujjliuu, rc^muicoo ui acu, \ their whole energy centered in the one desire to drive back the British, f Only one of the well-kncvn men of i New Orleaus who might well have i been looked for in the line was missing. Yes, two. Colonel Loring and t | Lafitte. The latter had been sent by Livingston to bear Mrs. Livingston and her child to a place of safety, should the 1 battle be lost. Down the line where Mr. Vernon's J men were stationed, the roar of the : guns was continuous, like the long, 1 rattling roll of summer thunder. The y British bullets sang keenly overhead or tossed up little puffs of sand along ? the embankment. . U'Tll git thet air feller on 'the hoss ( yifc," muttered Peevy, taking aim at 1 Pakenham, "thet is, ef Mary Ann kin carry thet fur." j He fired, and down went thet brave ' 1 officer's horse, pitching his rider J headlong. "Thet thar Btopped his cavortin1, ' anyhow!'' the scout bawled out, 1 though everybody was too excited to ' L hear. Rah fur Gin'r'l Jackson!" , About this time Burns came sham- ' [ bling along the line, apparently quite ' unconsoious of danger. He was hag- } gard and wild-looking, his hair un- J [ kempt and his long, thin, white beard j . tanglad across his face. He Baw Vasseur and approached 1 ? hlm- i "Have you Been him yet?" he in- : quired, bending over the excited little i half-breed, "have you seen him yet?" 1 , A round-shot cast up a splash of 1 ; mud and water in front of them. ' , "He not there at prayson," stam- ' [ merod forth poor Vasseur. "Mebbe he not care about zis t'ing varee like 17." i The front of the British column I dashed up to the ditch; a few brave i i fellows floundered through it and ] i rushed right into the muzzles of the . American guns. 1 But it was not for mortal courago 1 > to stem that humming current of mis- | siles. A thirty-two-pounder was 1 J loaded to the muzzle with musket- ] ' r balls and fragments of metal. Jus as the oolnmn thickened close alon; the ditch, the gunner, with steady hand, lowered the piece so that th< dreadful charge would rake the leve surface of the ground and fired Never, perhaps in the history of war fare was there another so destructiv* a shot. The historians tell (what ii too incredible even for romance) thai two hundred British soldiers wer< killed outright by the storm of leac aud iroD, that one blast of the breatt of war! The whole front of the charging column had melted down. Peevy still stood on the breast work, peeping through the battle smoke, trying always to aim at some particular one of the enemy befort firiug Mary Ann. Pakenham had been given anothei horse, and although one of the scout'f bullets had hit him, he mounted auc went to the head of the column onct more to re-form it. But he was doomed. A grape-shot dashed him, dying, to the ground. General Gibbs took command. Peevy saw him and signaled him out for his aim. Mary Ann was merciless. Officer after officer fell. Down dropped Gibbs; over went Keane; Dale fell dead; indeed, it seemed that no rnau who undertook to lead the columna could escape those special messages of Mary Ann when directed by the imperturbable aim of the scouts So the battle went; tue isritisu recoiled, plunged forward, tumbled iu bleeding heaps, broke, rallied, charged again and again. That little, muddy ditch, with its slippery bauks and slow, dark tide, was the line ol death. No man crossed it and lived. At the last desporate moment, a man, superbly mounted, was seen calling together the bravest spirits of the English army. He rode like a king; his face was as coid as marble and yet scintillant with magnetic energy. General Jackson leveled his old Seld-glass upon him and actually recoiled. "That scoundrel!" he exclaimed, ind his bronzed aud jaundiced visage Showed a sadden excitement. "A renegade, by the eternal!" Vasseur saw the new leader and eaned over the breastwork to gaze at liim. So attracted was he by the apparition that he forgot his fear. Mr. Yernon looked and turned pale, rhe enemy's line reformed, the Highanders in front, and came on again, ;his time with a ready sweep that ap reared resistless. Peevy was still at his stand, reloadng Marj Ann as calmly as if he were going to shoot a squirrel. "He air a long ways off, Mary \.nn," muttered he, "but we mus' e'ch 'im, ole gal!" He lifted the rifle and took deliberite sight over the long barrel. The iharp report was'lost in the general oar of the fight. Had he missed? ["here was no sign to the contrary. "Pierre Rameau! Yiola! See! It's Pierre Rameau!" screamed Vassear, lanoing aronnd wildly. General Jackson came almost runling along the line, the white foam of ixcitement fringing his bloodless lips. "Shoot that eternal, infernal scounIrel for me, Peevy!" he shouted, >ointing his long, emaoiated finger oward the new' British leader. 'Shoot him I Kill him!" "Thet air's jes' w'at I tole Mary Inn," replied the scout, primiqg his ifle. Jacknon snatched up an old musket hat had been flung down by some >ne and aimed it. It snapped harmessly. He dashed it aside with furi>us emphasis and stood gazing in itark anger. On came that steady, shining line, he regiment of Highlanders stepping ill aa one man. "Blow 'em up!" yelled Jackson. 'Shoot that officer! Everybody aim it him! Do you hear? Shoot that nan on the horse!" "Thet's the doctrine w'at I'm sr preachin' ter Mary Ann," respondjd Peevy. Vasseur was so excited that he forgot to prime his gun, aud, when at ast he did prime it, he had rammed lotne three loads, and so, when he ired. it almost kicked him over. He hought he was wounded in the shonlier. He cur6ed in three languages,, The horseman rode right up to the lituh and waved his hand to Bignal ,he charging troops to cross it. i Peevy fired. The man's right arm ell to his side; but he took the bridle eins in his teeth and waved his hat with his left hand. "Shoot that imp, I tell you, Peevy, [hoot him!" ITO BE CONTINUED. J One on Senator Devew. Nolhing is more incomprehensible 0 European writers than the Ameri:an custom of breaking eggs in a glass. Jhauncey M. Depew likes to follow he American custom, and one day the vaiter at the Hotel de Russe, in Paris, old him he mustn't do it. There was 1 dispute, and the head waiter was sailed. "The glasses caunot be prop>rly washed," itwas explained. "They ire ruined." "Nonsense," said Mr. Depew, "my lervants at home do it every day in he year. Use a little more elbow grease." Then Mr. Depew broke his egg into :lie glass, as usual, and the waiter matched him. When the glass was set aside,he came with a dustpan, racked the glass on his boot heel and lisappeared with the fragments. The ;harge for the gla3s was on Mr. Depew's bill, and he refused to pay it. He was too good a customer to make insrry, so the hotel people smiled. Ihey knew that Mrs. Depew was gong to remain a week longer. A broken sgg glass was ingeniously worked into ber bill, and she paid for it, but Mr. Depew didn't know it for mouy months ifterward, when he was telling the story as au instance of his success in jounteracting the extortions of European hotel keepers.?New Eugla"'1 Home Magazine. Printer*' Lanenaeetirowlne. Composing machines are response ble for the forming of ten new words from the Greek, as additions to the language of the printer. Thoy are: A.utotype, graphotome, graphotype, linotype, monoline, monotype, plectrotype, tachjtjpe, typobar and typograph. The rest of the machines hare been satisfied with plain Anclo-Saxo? nomenclature. " Iff J'cW^'s Startling J^eVelatiorv of I 3 edly ^Corroborated by Ev>i 1 'irHrfi'y-AS the real Columbus a 1 \ /\ j Chinaman? this astoundV ing question is raised by 5 . a statement that has just come from Pekin, reinforced by recent remarkable discoveries in Mexico, says. the New York Herald. In the ) loot of one or tiie palaces id tne f orbidden City there was found an au, thentie historical document telling of , the discovery of this continent in the [ fifth century of our era by five Bud? dhist monks, who voyaged from China j to a distant land now deemed certain to have been Mexico. The document is from the pen of a historian named Li Yen Shan, who i lived in the beginning of the seventh century, and it tells the story as it was 1 related by one of those monks, who, more fortunate than his companions, returned from the New World in safety, in the year 490 A. D. He described the newly discovered country, which, ' he called Fu-Sang. as situated some seven thousand miles to tne east of China. The distance is stated in li, three of which are about equal to one of our miles. i.ne wouaeriui uiscoveries oi me capitol of the ancient Montezuraas by ; workmen who were making an excavation for a sewer in Escalilleras street, immediately back of the great cathedral in the modern City of Mexico, a few days ago, corroborate to an amazing degree the statements in the historical document of Li Yen Shan. In the first place, no less than a thousand genuine jade beads were unearthed. Now,* these beads were known as "Aztec diamonds," the most prized of all their possessions. Tho possession of these jade objects by the Aztecs is regarded by archaeologists as the strongest link in th? chain of evidence indicating the presence of Chinese in Mexico hundreds of years ago. No jade in its natural state has ever been found in Mexico. China is MEXICAN CAKGODOKEH W?AHISO UAI? COATS LIKE THOSE CHINESE USE. the only place where it is found, or ever has been found, so far as is known. The very fact so well known to all historians that jade was so highly prized by the ancient ^ztecs?prized far above gold and silver and all precious stones?further indicates that il was not a native product, but a rarity from some foreign country. Second?The ancient Chinese were as fearless seamen as the Norsemen. It is a well known fact that the mariner's compass is of Chinese origin. Time and again Chinese junks have been found stranded on the shores of Alaska, British Columbia and as far south as Oregon. This proves the seaworthiness of their craft. T1 ird?The great oceanic current which flows northward up the eastern coast of China passes along the southern edge of the Aleutian Islands chain and then sweeps down to the south again, past the shores of Alaska, British Columbia aDd California. Everything set adrift or dropped overboard uu me coast 01 i^uiiiu cuiucs iu Allienca by this route. Fourth?Pictures of old thatched roofed shelters in Oaxaca are strikingly similar to the thatched roofs of the i Chinese. The peculiar rain coats worn by the old Mexican porters are almost precisely like the rain coats of the Chinese. Fifth?In Southern Mexico are found a numerous aboriginal people possessing the only true monosyllabic language?a language in structure singularly like Ihe Chinese?found in that part of the world. The hieroglyphic Fac .si Mm: or TKZjfl i record oF J"HE DWCOVPEVV AMERICA r- ^ sano tz 13 .SJTWBD. 3!^5^iwS EC (Fi?0rt THs) &RE?r V? COUhiTOV fgp rME.^t& ^ ?k TbTiSZ EAST S^?L' ???. ^ &j5y? ^nr *"* J?? ?U (ABOUT THE CT^^055!!?^^!! A THE KEOIOH ^#v #r.J} (has) $BSmto 0? MANY jg&S^;J?> ^ TREES *1 CHINE4E FACH d IMAM 1 ^| central, APS 1 characters used in writing by the Mayi as of ancient Yucatan and Mexico ? somewhat resemble those employoi1 by ; the Chinese. The Chinese characters , of to-day are merely modifications of hieroglyphics winch are more or less pictographic. > Sixth?The ancient Chinese symbol representing the male and female prin- < %-iples of generation, which is distinct "Hjj-. ' " " -,V - j "'Tr^OcT'l ; Oriental Exploration Unexpect- ijl al He>r\re> Fmirirl irv M OYirn rvo/i I i.. ly Oriental, was found carved in a block of stone, which seemed to have ri been p??rt of an ancient altar. Profes- a sor E. T. Hamy, of the Trocadero Museum, discovered this long before the e1 recent discovery in Pekin of the LI S1 Yen Shan document. Other Mexican a images, with figures having Chinese turbans and Oriental features, have tc been found in Southern Mexico, ac- m cording to Professor Seville* of the m American Museum of Natural History. ls He does not think the Chinese ever CI lived on this continent, but admits that > rj. _ seagoing cbwesSjwjk- ^ WRECK OTA Chj.%?5E ! , JUNK FOUND OW THE COAST OF there is striking evidence of 4he knowl ai edge of things Chinese in old Mexico. pi Here is the original document: in "Fu-Sang is situated about 20,000 li ip to th^ east of the country of, Tahan ti and an equal distance to the east of tl China. It has many trees, whose first sprouts resemble those of th* bamboo, dl and which serve the natives as food- to The fruit is red and shaped like a tt pear. The bark of the tree is prepared d; in the same manner as hemp, to be ? manufactured into cloth and flowered ? stuffs, and the wood serves for the > construction of houses. The inhabi- '1 tants have a system of writing, and make paper from tree bark. They possess neither arms nor .troops, and they j never wage war. 1 "According to the laws of the kingdom/ there are two prisons, one in the 3. ? - J. at 4IATA INDIAN OF TiUCATAN, SHOWING m Ot ORIENTAL PHTSIOONOMT. (Jl north, tlie other in the south. Those a who have committed trifling faults c? are sent to the latter, those guilty of graver crimes to the former. The male m. and female prisoners are allowed to marry each other, and their children Wl are sold as slaves. When a man of te superior rank commits a crime the mi an HIBttCLYPHtCS th [ir^^T^^^WKr.TltoaETBoMvnijcK ai \ modern j, CKAWCTEF^: ^-T ' AKX DTOVE5 O * i. - h? tHI & rabbit ~^?p! 0 peppef? j" ^ bean cu h drum ^ ?&sm * kuira w, g^4r ^ house . . ^?- m maguey jj 3f( ?9 doll t? ~/?v ^ road "' ?$ '? m mat s ^#?5 dp eagix t. /s<? noble ? &gg$* ?31 ball-plav eo leg w] f1 Q Gown ?ti W& Grass ev X VAr z v,w. ^ Quail j?? > ' ;w] : SHOVCH OH f ] from S np csacAirwno- LJ , . ,J of ? th people assemble in great numbers, seat themselves opposite the offender, par- 1'S take of a banquet, and take leave of teI th" condemned person as of one who les is about to die. Cinders are then heaped about the doomed man. For J slight faults the criminal alone is pun- Ce isljecl, but for a serious eriine his ehil- to dren and grandchildren suffer with tri him, and in some extraordinary cases lib \ . *>" , ' is sin Is Tlslted upon bis descendant* i the seventh generation. "Deer are raised just as cattle are i China, and cheese is made from the illk of the females. A kind of red sar Is found there which is good at 11 seasons of the year. Grape vines so, are plentiful. There is no Iron, at copper is met with. Commerce free, and the people are not given to iggling about prices. "This is the manner of their marages: When a man wishes to wed girl he erects his cabin lust before te door of her's. Every morning and pening he waters and weeds the ound, and this he continues to do for whole year. If by the end of that me the girl has not given her consent i the union his suit is lost and he oves away, but if she is willing he arries her. The marriage ceremony almost the same as that observed in bina. "Images of the spirits of the dead ALASKA e placed on a kind of pedestal, and ayers are addressed to them morng and evening. Tlie King does not eddle with affairs of government un1 he has been three years on the irone. "In former times the religion of Budlia was unknown in this country, but i the fourth of the years ta ming, In le reign of Hiao-wou-ti, of the Soung j-nasty, five missionaries from the >untry Ki-pin went to Fu-sang and jd guadaljaba hut with thatchei ,boop like chinese hut. iere diffused the Buddhist faith. They irried with them sacred books and aages; they introduced the ritual and culcated monastic habits of life. By lese interns luey uuaugeu tut; man;rs of the people." Naturally, the most striking remains ft behind by the ancient people of ucatan and Southern Mexico are ehitectural, some of the ruins beinjj a very fair state of preservation, any of the buildings look like Budlist temples?vast caves of stones, irk and windowless. One finds in the irvings on the ancient buildings of ucatan and Southern Mexico a no-' ?eable likeness to grotesque Chinese rvings, walls and pillars being iorned with countless human heads, ore or less caricatured, and with her fantastic designs. The artists of at vanished race appear to have had great fancy for making masks for rpses and death's heads of incrusted 3rk. Representations of snakes and onkeys are numerous. Like the Chinese, the Mayas had a onderfully elaborate calendar sysm, which embodied so many e'eents of accurate chronology that it oazes European scholars to-day. The Unspeakable Turk. A Turk thinks i!- the most natural ing in the world to lose a province, id. having lost if, to qv.it and live 7ewbere. He talks quite eomplacentof leaving Constantinople some day, will go over to Asia and found, asher capital. He originates nothing; takes what he finds without assimting it, and remains profoundly ;rkish. He leaves no trace of his ocpation except ruins. Practically ere is nothing at Belgrade. Sofia and hens to show that for centuries they ?re Turkish cities. \I1 occupations, except agriculture d military service, are distasteful tc m. Yet there are two other ch.irac risucs even more important man cso. The first Is his sense of discline. It is this which keeps togethe: e apparently tottering fabric of the irkish empire. It makes the half1. half-clothed soldier ready to enre every privation, and prevents the rruption and incapacity of the offi rs from producing the anarchy tiich would he inevitable in any lier country. Sedition is unknown; on complaints are rare, and were a ly war proclaimed there is not a in who would not bo prepared to die defense of the system of extortion ilch grinds him down. Sis secoild characteristic is his lazi ss. in spite of ihe laborious industry the Turkish peacant. The fact ia at the Turk is too proud to do n:ar.y ings, too stupid to do others. His reinn iiu'iilfntps n ffltnMrm whirh ids to a conviction that effort i3 uce;s.?London Telegraph. American excelsior is exported t" ntral America, to the West Indies, England, and other foreign coun-' es, several thousand tons of thn re being shipped yearly. . * . REVEALED THE COAL'S VIRTUES*.;? Obkhtah Gore Bald, to Be the Tint trYH Cm the Black Diamonds. ' ~ B There are a number of stories a? to k| the tfjiv In which the valne of COfil was first discovered, and the Buffalo-Pi ; Express adds to the number by prifl&ViM ing in a recent number the picture trajH Obadiah Gore, who, It Is claimed. [Th? first man who made use ol aotbta~ cite coal.) H the first man to make nse of nnthra^v'lJM cite coal. M Obadiah Gore and bis brother Dan- ;-fl iel, says the Express, discovered that anthracite coal would barn; oonse^ ^H quently they made Known its valne. <H Obadiah served In tha army of WaaircraH ington from the beginning of the Rev* '.JlBj olutionary War, and lived after t^||Bj war in Sbesheqnin, Bradford Connty^^M Pann trboro Via ttoo -Jn/1 era nf tV>r? In^af court for some years. 9 Daniel Gore had a farm and ing three miles north of Wllkesbarr^^fl On a farm adjoining his to the north^M was a bed of rock, which came to the surface. A question arose as to jyhetherf&B it was a form of coal. It was tried in ? fireplaces on wood fires and" failed io<%B be of use. Daniel Gore experimented I with it in the blacksmith's forge an$ / fl established the possibility of its com* bustibility. M It should be remembered that black- /,* smithing was an Important fadustrji'^^ in the early days of the settlement of ' 3 this country. The local blacksmith . of the Wyoming Valley was no excep- 1 tion to rule. Implements of .farming, I also fixtures of houses, such as hinge?, door handles and latches, nails, eta,, together with kitchen ntepsils, and*. H irons, cranes, hooks and trammels,'- I such as were then in use, were made I id me oiacKsmua siiup. The Gore family in question, wheo the American colonies revolted against tBe tyranny of England, proved them? selves sturdy patriots and defender# & of their country's cause. " The Oyster Girls of Arcftchoa. '"v There 4s a quaint little town Id >, France where women do a great share /? in the natural industry of the place, v1'; and ttyugh no claim is made for themv?j as advanced women, they wear male < attire when pursuing their trade. Ax> / j cachon is the name of this little Frendf village, and it lies on an inlet of* the > Golfe de Gascoigne, not far from Bar* "'I'M deaux. It consists of two towhs, and 1 is said to be unique of its kind. The one situated on the shore, with its I shops, markets and streets, is the eo'm< .-.;5 mer, or Ville d'Ete, the winter town,'' ; rjf or Ville d'Hiver, nestling cosily above '.;J| amidst far extending pine forests on / 'J sandy hills or dbnes. With the excep* ?? ? ^ - ill I 1 tYPICAL OTSTKB GIBL OF AKCACHO 5 tion of two hotels, the Ville d'Hfverls. composed of about 300 independent villas, standing amidst their own gardens, the pines being all around. Thtf avenues are laid out serpentine fash- ' ion, to avoid air currents; nothing but p low hedges or light fences separate y : the different gardens. Neither ter- ' f races of houses are tolerated, nor %? shops, the result being quite park-llker~*- 4aud the eye, even in full winter, is re- i ' > freshed by living masses of green, j ' From the heights one gets a fine view I ^ of the Ville d'Ete, the fishing boats j^. and "Oyster Park." Here the oyster girls follow their i trade. When the boats come in they " 1 work on the floats near the shore, and . I present a picturesque appearance In their knickerbockers, big hats and sahots. The accompanying picture V, shows them as rscently photographed. w The Double Letter. jc- doubled letter is scarcely oC uso I:i nrv language Sometime* v/e ar." ;urely inconsistent. Letter must hav?j . " o "fa," literal one The double let- * ier very seldom affects the pronunciation. Would it not be wel: to drop tho uuuuiw ivjitci mi ??wum ^ simplify spelling and save time, too,? "otds and Qpcries. Big Dome*. St. Paul's. London, has a dome 112 feet In diameter; St. Peter's, Rome, is 139 feet across. J