The first assault of the Turks took place in June

Knes Sima   whom Kara George had put in the place of Jacob Kenadowitsch, who was disabled by a wound   caused his troops to cross the Drina at three different points, and surrounded and vigorously attacked such fortified places as were in the neighbourhood of the passage   Beljina and Janja, Srebrniza, and higher up, AVischegrade. lie then with the main body of his forces ascended the Bosnian range of hills. The Turks made a gallant resistance. Here fell Meho Orugdschitsch, of whom a song makes particular mention: often in after  times Luka Lasarewitsch showed the sword which that commander had worn, bearing the inscription, “ CAROLUS VI.” However, the Bosnians were compelled to give way. “Wherever the Servians advanced, the Bosnian Baja rose; headed by men of good repute, such as Knes I wan, who had paid the ransom for the prisoners of Kulin.

In the mean time Kara George undertook a still more daring enterprise.

There is extant a spirited poetical culogium by the then AVIadika of Montenegro, on the valour and unanimity of the Servians : before whose arms the Turkish mosques fell to the ground and the llodscha gave way; and likewise on Kara George: who again unfurled the banner of the Emperor Xeman  jitsch, and whom the AViles adorn with wreaths of laurel   a reward not to be obtained by gold, but only by glorious deeds. The hero of the poem, however, is not satisfied with the enjoyment of the success he has achieved, but determines to drive the Turks out of Bosnia and Ilerzcgowinn, and to form an alliance with Montenegro: which, situated in the midst of Turks and Catholics, has from remote times enjoyed freedom purchased by the blood of its people.

This, in fact, was the project of Kara George, in the spring of 1809 ; and the song shows with what pleasure he was expected.

He first surmounted the lofty mountain near Sjenitza, for the purpose of joining his distant brethren in faith, who inhabited the ancient possessions of the Servian empire, on the Raschka, and on the Lim, above the point of its junction with the Drina.

The Turks encountered him with a strong force, in a position very favourable to them, on the mountain plain of Suwodol ; where there are wide plains on which the Turkish cavalry could ma noeuvre with advantage. Kara George, who, from want of cavalry, had always avoided the plains, with horror saw himself surrounded. He formed the newly organized troops beside his artillery: which, however, could not have saved him. But fortunately, he had also a few horsemen ; and it was one of them, Wule Ilitsch, of Smederewo, who, by means of a daring stratagem, decided the fate of the day. Mounted on his good Arab steed, and accompanied by Moinkes and Bekjares, lie rushed amongst the enemy, at the same time calling out repeatedly in Turkish, “ The Turks are Hying ! ” This produced a panic, and led to the complete defeat of the Pacha.

After this, Kara George was able to pursue his course. He stormed Sjenitza, the ruins of which have been seen by recent travellers; and lie advanced into the territory of Wasojewitscli and Dro  bnjake. The Christian population rose in every direction ; and soon also some of the Montenegrins made their appearance to welcome their victorious brethren. What most excited their admiration were the Servian cannon many of them having never before seen any thing of the kind. A Servian Woiwode remained with them; and thus an union between Servia and Montenegro was effected: ITer  zcgowina, as well as the part of Bosnia already spoken of, joined in the insurrection. A rising of the whole of the population descended from Servian tribes holding the Christian faith, and a general attack on the Mahometans in Bosnia, were now anticipated.

Kara George proceeded forthwith to Xowipasar; which commands almost exclusively the communication between Boumelia and Bosnia, and forms the central point of the high roads, and of the traffic of Bosnia: he drove the garrison into the upper fortress, which did not appear able to hold out long against him.

 

Here, however, the most unwelcome news reached him from the lower districts.

Favoured by inundations, which had for some time prevented the Russians from passing over the Danube, the Turks, with all their forces from Kiscli, had thrown themselves upon the Servian frontiers near Alexinaz.

More than once, had Peter Dobrinjaz defended these frontier posts successfully and with glory. And at this time, lie was stationed there, with a great number of his countrymen. On Mladen’s recommendation, however, Kara George now entrusted the chief command to Miloje; a man whom Peter was not disposed to obey, and who was himself unable to conquer the hatred which he entertained against Peter and all his adherents. The contest which had hitherto shown itself only in the senate, was thus transferred to the frontier; now in the greatest peril.

The first assault of the Turks took place in June, 1809; when they attacked the fortification near Ivamenitza, which was defended by 8000 men under Stephen Singelitsch, the Ivnes of Ressawer, and the friend of Peter. The Knes made an heroic defence : but he was in need of succour ; which Miloje, with inconceivable blindness, refused him. At length, when the Turks, marching over the bodies of their slaughtered comrades, had crossed the trenches, scaled the walls, and gained the upper hand in the melee, Stephen despaired of being able to maintain his ground ; and, determined not to fall into the hands of the Turks, either dead or alive, he fired the powder magazine, and blew into the air the entire fort   destroying himself with his friends and enemies! The Turks afterwards erected a tower on the road side, near the spot, and inserted amongst the stones of its walls the skulls of the Servians who thus met their death.

The victors were now no longer satisfie

Therefore, when Soliman, on the intimation that no further supplies would be granted him, begged for a safe retreat, it was promised to him, indeed, and also a safeguard: but scarcely had he (on the 7th of March, 1807), with his two hundred Janissaries, and with the different families who had joined him, gone a few hours’ march, when he was attacked from an ambuscade. The safeguard, instead of defending him, made common cause with his assailants : and out of his whole party not one escaped.

The massacre immediately extended to Belgrade. For two days the Turks, who had endeavoured to conceal themselves, were sought out and slaughtered. They who still survived on the third day, chiefly beggars, were sent to Widdin. Some turned Christians. By the booty of these bloody days, Mladen, Miloje, Kncs Sima Marko- witsch, Wule Ilitsch, and others, became rich. In such fearful acts of cruelty did their hatred against the Turks vent itself: hatred long suppressed, but strengthened by mutual animosities, and by the war; and at last thus fiercely bursting forth.

Kto Servian song commemorates this sanguinary retaliation on the Turks. The old Ivneses shook their heads and said, “ it was not well done: they would have to atone for it! ” But they said this secretly, lest they might be considered as siding with the Turks: which would have endangered their own lives.

Their younger countrymen, however, urged on by the fortunate issue of these events, hastened, on the contrary, to prosecute the war still further, as though nothing extraordinary had occurred.

In February, Schabaz yielded, after experiencing similar horrors.

Kara George then attacked Uschize with the army of the Schumadia. After the Turks had released themselves from their treaty with the Servians, they had raised fortifications round the town; and to take these was the first object of the assailants. It was here that IMilosch Obrenowitsch first distinguished himself; receiving, however, a dangerous wound in his breast. Uschize is, after Belgrade, the most populous town of the Pachalic; and it was no slight advantage to the Servians that in June, 1807, it fell into their hands. This time they did not again entrust it to the Turks.

The victors were now no longer satisfied with the territory which had formerly belonged to them.

Jacob had, without trouble, taken possession of the districts Jadar and Radjewina, which already formed, as it were, a part of the country; and he left nothing untried to throw Bosnia, on the further side of the Drina, into a state of insurrection. In the first instance, he sent two deputies thither, who issued proclamations. But lie had not selected proper men for this purpose: one of them was a robber, addicted to drinking, who was attacked and killed while in a state of intoxication ; the other was a monk, who, being thus left alone, would not place his life in jeopardy. Jacob then sent over a few armed men, who succeeded so far as to excite some of the villages to insurrection, after having killed a collector of the Haradsch; but, on the first arrival of the Turks, order was restored.

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Pre-select outfits for busy mornings

This is another basic tip, the importance of which can’t be overstated: don’t let your hectic schedule get in the way of your creative styling. If your mornings are reserved for caffeine intake and mental preparation for the day to come, take a few minutes before you go to sleep the night before to pick out a winning combination of clothes. Don’t sacrifice style because your days are jam-packed! When you have a closet full of clothes that works for your style and shape, all you need is a few seconds of free time to craft an ensemble that will no doubt make you shine. Despite the hustle and bustle of the workday, you will feel your best in an outfit that works for you and you will be glad you took the time the night before.

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Wicked sinners of sojers kem to these part

Samuel Lover (1797 – 1868)

Samuel Lover was born in Dublin of an English Protestant family. He studied painting at an early age, and though he continued to practise that art, he soon discovered his talent for writing. Many of his most delightful sketches of Irish life appeared in various Dublin periodicals in the early thirties. In 1832 he published his Legends and Stories of Ireland, in which The White Trout is found. The best known of his novels is Handy Andy.

The White Trout is reprinted from Yeats’ Irish Fairy and Folk Tales; New York, no date.

The White Trout

There was wanst upon a time, long ago, a beautiful lady that lived in a castle upon the lake beyant, and they say she was promised to a king’s son, and they wor to be married, when all of a sudden he was murthered, the crathur (Lord help us), and threwn into the lake above, and so, of course, he couldn’t keep his promise to the fairy lady and more’s the pity.

Well; the story goes that she went out iv her mind, bekase av loosin’ the king’s son for she was tendher-hearted, God help her, like the rest iv us! and pined away after him, until at last, no one about seen her, good or bad; and the story wint that the fairies took her away.

Well, sir, in coorse o’ time, the White Throut, God bless it, was seen in the sthrame beyant, and sure_the people didn’t know what to think av the crathur, seein’ as how a white throut was never heard av afor, nor since; and years upon years the throut was there, just where you seen it this blessed minit, longer nor I can tell aye throth, and beyant the memory o’- th’ ouldest in the village.

At last the people began to think it must be a fairy; for what else could it be? and no hurt nor harm was iver put an the white throut, until some wicked sinners of sojers kem to these parts, and laughed at all the people, and gibed and jeered them for thinkin’ o’ the likes; and one o’ them in partic’lar (bad luck to him; God forgi’ me for saying it!) swore he’d catch the throut and ate it for his dinner the blackguard !

Well, what would you think o’ the villainy of the sojer? Sure enough he cotch the throut, and away wid him home, and puts an the fryin’- pan, and into it he pitches the purty little thing. The throut squeeled all as one as a Christian crathur, and, my dear, you’d think the sojer id split his sides laughin’ for he was a harden’d villain; and when he thought one side was done, he turns it over to fry the other; and, what would you think, but the divil a taste of a burn was an it at all at all; and sure the sojer thought it was a quare throut that could not be briled. “But,” says he, “I’ll give it another turn by and by,” little thinkin’ what was in store for him, the haythen.

 

Promoting Themselves And Sharing Their Mus

The world around us is constantly changing. Trends are changing, tastes are changing and people are changing. The same goes for music. People are seeking inspiration and a big part of them find it in music. Even if you have your genre already set, you may still be looking for something new, sometimes. This is just how we, people, work.

Nowadays, we have technology. Thanks to it, discovering new music is much easier than it was decades ago, when going to a party, a concert or buying the recent album on vinyl of your favorite band were more or less the most common and accessible ways to listen to something fresh. From the best known specialized websites in this domain, like YouTube or Vimeo to the least known blogs or forums, music is within a click away from you.

Artists started embracing these ways of promoting themselves and sharing their music as the popularity of these websites increased. From newcomers to world-known performers, no one is saying no to the internet.

Such online audio distribution platforms like Soundcloud, Spotify or 8tracks surged over the last years and made it quick and simple for people to explore and enjoy a rich palette of sounds and styles. You have the possibility to create playlists, to subscribe to the channels or follow the profiles of your favorite artists and based on your taste in music you always get suggestions which are similar to your picks. This way you never get bored and you help the maybe lesser known artists to get discovered and gain a positive reputation. It’s a win-win situation.

Beside the internet, a great way to discover new music is the traditional one: by going to concerts, festivals or parties. One goes usually to a festival, for instance, to listen to their favorite bands live, but there are always other artists or DJs who come in between and sing or mix their songs. Involuntarily, you’ll listen to them maybe while engaging in other activities and end up loving them, thinking: „How come that I never heard about you? You’re awesome!”

Another conventional method is the radio. Although it seems old and outdated the truth is that radio is actually a great idea to come upon songs you might actually like. While waiting in traffic or in your dentist’s waiting room or even at home in the kitchen, the radio is a good way to learn about other artists and their tracks.

Believe it or not, it has actually happened to me before. Give it a try sometime. Let your car CD’s rest a bit or take your earphones off while doing something else and listen to the radio. It’s refreshing. Keep your phone close though and use an app to recognize these new songs. Try Shazam, SoundHound or SoundTracking to identify your music and safely store it and listen it over and over again.

So even if you’re the technology type, choosing the internet as an inspiration or if you’re the more traditional one, seeking it at concerts, festivals or even at a random party at your friend’s house, embrace the idea of discovering new things. There is always something going on out there. You just have to open your mind and, respectively, ears in order to enrich your musical collection.

A certain officer of the Free Corps

Exclusively occupied with discussions respecting the balance of power, statesmen bestowed no thought upon the interests of the Christian population ; who had shown themselves so deserving of general sympathy. It was deemed sufficient to secure an amnesty for aU who had, in any of the Turkish provinces, deserted the Sultan and gone over to the Emperor, and to allow them to return in. safety to their estates. ‘ Thus Servia, with all its fortresses, was given back to the Sultan.

No one, however, will suppose that, by these means, affairs were placed upon their former footing.

The Turkish commissioners who took possession of the Country expressed their astonishment, mingled with apprehension of what might be the results, when they beheld a Servian troop, fully armed, march out from a fortress which was to be delivered up to them, and perform with precision all the military evolutions of the Imperial Army. “ Neighbours ! ” cried one of them, “ what have you made of our liaja ? ”

It has been affirmed that, to the last, the Servians indulged in the expectation of rising up in arms under a certain officer of the Free Corps, whom they wished to elevate to the dignity of a Prince over them ; and that a young Servian lady, courted by the officer referred to, had in a jest been saluted as their Princess ! The truth of this statement has not been ascertained; but, at all events, it is evident that the spirit of national independence when once roused could not easily be suppressed. They who had borne victorious arms against the Turks, cherished a feeling of their own dignity by such recollections.

Since Russia, on her side, had, in the peace of Jassy, imparted fresh force to the stipulations which had previously been agreed upon in favour of the Christian inhabitants of Moldavia and Wal- lachia, and in the islands of the Archipelago, it will be seen how greatly the elements of resistance and independence amongst the Christian nations in European Turkey, had increased in consequence of this war.

But it had also another effect, of a very different, and one might almost say, of an opposite character.

For some time the Turkish government had been fully sensible of the superiority of its neighbours, and of its own inability in its actual state to resist them. It almost despaired of being able to remedy the evil. “ The Empire is overthrown !” exclaimed the Sultan, Mustapha III.: “do not imagine that it can be restored by us.” Prepared for the worst, a Vizier of Abdulhamid observed, “ In Asia, too, there are shady valleys, where kiosks may be built.”

The prisoner himself sat by the table

“If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the Suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”

In the darkness he groped for the steps and the door and entered the hall of the garden-wing, then poked his way into a narrow passage and struck a match. Not a soul was there. Some one’s bed, with no bedclothes on it, stood there, and an iron stove loomed dark in the comer. The seals on the door that led into the prisoner’s room were unbroken.

When the match went out, the old man, trembling from agitation, peeped into the little window.

‘In the prisoner’s room a candle was burning dimly. The prisoner himself sat by the table. Only his back, the hair on his head and his hands were visible. Open books were strewn about on the table, the two chairs, and on the carpet near the table.

Five minutes passed and the prisoner never once stirred. Fifteen years’ confinement had taught him to sit motionless. The banker tapped on the window with his finger, but the prisoner made no movement in reply. Then the banker cautiously tore the seals from the door and put the key into the lock. The rusty lock gave a hoarse groan and the door creaked. The banker expected instantly to hear a cry of surprise and the sound of steps. Three minutes passed and it was as quiet inside as it had been before. He made up his mind to enter.

Before the table sat a man, unlike an ordinary human being. It was a skeleton, with tight-drawn skin, with long curly hair like a woman’s, and a shaggy beard. The color of his face was yellow, of an earthy shade; the cheeks were sunken, the back long and narrow, and the hand upon which he leaned his hairy head was so lean and skinny that it was painful to look upon. His hair was already silvering with gray, and no one who glanced at the senile emaciation of the face would have believed that he was only forty years old. On the table, before his bended head, lay a sheet of paper on which something was written in a tiny hand.

“Poor devil,” thought the banker, “he’s asleep and probably seeing millions in his dreams. I have only to take and throw this half-dead thing on the bed, smother him a moment with the pillow, and the most careful examination will find no trace of unnatural death. But, first, let us read what he has written here.”

The Bet part 5

The Patarenc Sect

The Servians themselves invited the Osmanlis into their fortresses, that they might not see their strongholds given over to a cardinal of the Romish Church. The King of Bosnia, whose intention it was to marry a Servian princess, and to unite both countries under the protection of the Pope, also made a declaration of fealty; and with   the same result.

The Patarenc sect, which prevailed throughout Bosnia, and had been for centuries attached to Borne, against which a crusade had been repeatedly preached, was also in favour of Turkish rather than of Roman domination. * At the next attack of the Turks, that sect no longer offered any defence : within eight days, seventy Bosnian fortresses opened their gates to the Turks, and the king himself fell into the enemy’s power.

It is possible that such events might have been prevented, if these countries had, at an earlier period, adopted the system of the Western states: but affairs must have been very differently conducted. Hungary, which from the first belonged to the Western empire, was soon after conquered by the Turks.

But the Servians and Bosnians, who preferred submitting to the Turks, had no presentiment of what they were doing, nor of the fate that awaited them under the new rule.

On the pretext that there was no necessity for keeping faith with an infidel, the last prince of the Bosnians, whose life had been guaranteed to him, was, notwithstanding, murdered by the hand of the fanatical Sheik by whom this doctrine was promulgated.

The chief nobles of the country, whom the Turks began to annihilate as they had already annihilated the royal house, soon perceived that their only safety lay in embracing Mahometanism. The last Princess had fled to Rome, and at her death had by will made over to the Pope her right to the country. The Pontiff, touching the sword and shoe which were delivered to him, as tokens of the bequest accepted it, on the ground that her children, a son and a daughter, having embraced Islamism, had thereby become incapable of succeeding her.

Urged by the example of the Princess — by the danger of refusal on one hand, and by the prospect on the other of a share in public affairs, if they complied, the most illustrious families were by degrees induced to turn Mahometans. Thus they retained an hereditary right in their castles; and, so long as they remained united, enjoyed much influence in the province.

Sometimes a native Vizier was allowed them. By this means, however, they separated themselves from their people, who, in defiance of every inducement, remained true to their old faith; and, being excluded from holding any office in the state, and from carrying arms, they, in common with all the Christian subjects of the Turkish empire, became