Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-10-03

manner prescribed DY our law. NO one
will be so hard hearted as not to have
compassion at the sight of the dead body.
In this way we shall collect money osten-
sibly for the funeral. Constantinople is
large and has many mosques, and there
are twelve Of us who can take our turns,
if God will. Is this agreeable to you %
And they answered with one voice,
" Bre Aferim, it is good Omar Who
would have thought that out of such a
head so much wisdom would have pro-
ceeded 2"
But you shall not be the first" cried
Ussein, gaily, = will be the first, l am
the oldest. and then the others can follow
in succeeded"
Yes, that is right, the oldest shall be
first" assented the others.
The dervises could hardly wait patient
ly for the next day, Friday. When the
hour drew near at which the Turks go
the mosque, The dervises took up the
board on which their elder brother was
already stretched out, and went with it to
the midde Of the street which leads to
the mosque Of 81. Sophia. One winked
to the other, and then they began to weep
and lament. They had not long indul-
ged in this loud expression of their grief.
when Adzia a worshipper noted for his
piety, stood before them. "He will give
something" thought the dervises.-
But the hypocritical dervise were soon
convinced that men are often deceived
while they are striving to deceive others.
"What trouble has belallen you, SER
wants OF the Prophets
"Oh. do not ask, dearest Adzia, our
blessed USScine has died to day. He
was brave, honorable, and holy man,
and the eldest of our number. We poor
brethren have not the means to pay the
last honors to our elder we have noth-
ing wherewith 10 bury him, if soma one
does not care for his soul. 1t is pious
work to bury any dead, but how much
greater to do this honor to deryise, the
eldest of the deryises. a man Of such sane
tility.
My ancestors have done many such
piouS works, and l will do the same"
said the Adzia. g Do not grieve your
selves, go home, it shall be my care TO
bury him" So saying. he gave two SER
wants who attend him the keys of his
dwelling, With orders to carry thither the
dead bO ly, and lock it in room, and
then return Immediately to the mosque.
" And when the hour OF evening prayer
arrives, when we are called from the mi
narct we viii then bury him." he added.
1t seemed to the four derviSes when
they heard these words, as if all Cou>t tan
tinople was turning around them. But
there was no help; the servants of Al.
ziA tool up the living corpse, and the der
v;scS with heavy hearts were Obliged to
thank the sool Adsia for this LABOR OF
love. BuJ who could be so unhappy as
lLc=e dervi5cs or more to be piLtd than
they? The pretended dead man was
locked up in ihe cabinet Of the Adlza. How
did this courage hold out?
The four returned to their brethren,
and as they told what had happened to
UsAeine, they all fell into deadly sweat.
And poor Onar They all tcll upon
him like white crow. "Foollsh boy,
!" e might have known that nothing bets
ter would have come from your silly
SKULL" In vain tt1 Omar justify him self,
and maintain that they were as foolish AS
he to follow his counsel. No Que would
listen to him. Complaint followed com
plant, first for their com panion and elder,
and still more because the people would
say the dervises were deceitfu people,
and practicel hypocritical tricks, and
! there would be an end to the jeers about
them.
There came over the Adzia as he re-
turned from the mosque, a suspicion
whether the dervise was actually dead or
not. The Adzia was somewhat familiar
with the arts Of dervises. Occupied with
these thoughts he reached his dwelling
and behold his suspicious were iusti-
| fed. On his entrance into the apart
ment he remarked that cluster Of figs
which had been hanging on the wall was
no longer there. The hungry rogue OF
dervlse had eaten them, and then laid
down again in his place. The ALzia
called the servants and asked whether
they had taken away the cluster OF figs.
Their denial strengthened the suspicion
OF the Adzla that the dervise only preten-
! ded TO be dead.
"R 1scaI oI a dervse," cried he, "where
are my hgs, do YOU hear % Though the
A1zla repeated these words several times
mockIngIy, and touched the apparently
dead man with his loot, it was in vain
The dervlse was dead, and remained
dead, aud neither rose nor moved. A
last the AdziA began to beseech him to ge
up, and assured him that no one should
be told the story. The Adzia spent two
hours partly in prayers and partly it
thr ats that lie would have him buried
alive. All was fruitless. The dervise
still remained stiff and stark. Hereupor
the Adzia went out and sent his servants
into the room, with orders to make the
de'vise leave the place either by prayer.
or threats.
But the servants effected nothing, and
things remained the same in the Adiza'.