The Trinity times., 1855-09-08

| the formula, Ala bali !"
From the following a1ocdotn. IL would
appear that L is In tho hi CHEST d gree dan
gerous to play at yadace with your wife;
Hassan el Dipninah was. thirty year
sine vizior and chief favor;te to the Pasha
of the Oudjak of Consta ltine. He was til
fatt2st MAJ in the pachal'c, a ID, NOR than
that. was r. ckon to b. the most jealous
husband in the whole of Rarbary 1t is
som thing to b. the most i 'alous in la I'd
wh"r' all hu ba are Jealous. Gay young
| Mussulmen parks tr mbl as thy saw
Hassan .el Dieninah waddle across the or at
square of Consta tine, or issue from tn
barbor's. or enter the coffee housa. "
! walked slowly. aid with his legs ry W de
apart. His breath was short but his yata
ghal was long, and he conld use it. Ono
a ID only onca, he d tected a young B, VIZ
| ada. Ibrahim-. .l-Majki, sacr legiously at
tempting to accost his wife as she C ,me
| from the bath, a,d having even the hard
| hood to lift a corner of her veil. "Allah
! Akbar God is great I" Hassan, the v:zier
was wont to say, pulling from small green
| silk purse In his grdle silver SIX w,r
upon which app ared to be- three dri up
shrivellrd oysters. This is the nose, and
these are the ears of Ibrahim -el Maiki."
Whar upon the hold RS would shudd r.
and Hassan-el-D -Djeninah would rplsae his
trophies in his girdle and waddle away.
Hasear had four wives--Zouluki Kha
noun, Spleima Khanoum, GAIA Khanoum
a I'd leila Khanoum. Khanoum, be it I'm
darstood, means Lady, Madame, Donna,
Signora. Now. if Hassap-el-Djeninah was
jealous Of his wives. they, you may be sur,
were Jealous Of each othcr--save poor little
Leila, the youngest wife tthe poor child
was only sixteen years Old\. who was not of
a jealous disposition at all but who, be
tween the envy of har sister wives, who
hated her. and the unceasing watchfulness
of her husband, who loved h"r with incon
venient fonaness, | d terrible life of it.
Leila Khanonm was Hassan's favorite wife.
He would suffer her. but no one else, to fill
his pipe, TO adjust the jeweiled mouth pi ce
to his lips, and to tickle the soaes of his al
gust feet when he wished TO be lull To
sleep. fIe would loil for hours upon tbe
cushions of his divar, listening while she
sang monotonous 1ove-songs, rocking her
self to and fro the while, and accompanying
herself upon the little guitar called qoui
thrah, as il is the manner Of Moorish lad es
to do. He gave her rich suits of brocad
and cloth ef gold he gave her white
donkey, from Spain, to rid Oh when she
went to the bath he gave jewels and Span
ism doubloons TO twine in her trrsses
scented tobacco to smoke, ana hennah for
her eytlids ald fnger-nails; finally, he con
d scend d to play with her for princ"ly
stake nothing less than the repud iation o!
the ether three wives and the settlement OF
all his treasures upon her first-born-a at
va lace.
At the same time, as have observed, he
was terribly Jealous Of her, and watched
her, night and day, with the patience of O
bt aver, the persp'cuty of lynx the Gun
ming of fox, and the feroeity of wolf
He kept spies about her. He brb d the
trad smen with whom she d dtalt, ard the at
tendants at the baths she frequented. He
caust the menfonce, or little round apnr
ture in the wall Of the queublou, or alcove
of her apartment, (Which menfonce looked
into the street) to be br,ckcd up. He stu.
died the language of flowers (Which, in the
East, is rather more nervous and fore Bile a
tongue than with us), in ord"r that he IN; gh'
be able to examine Leilas bouquets, and
discover whether any floral b.si dOux had
been sent her from outs.de To complete
his systcm of espoinagc. he cultivat d q
warm AID intimate friendship with Ali bef
Asa, the opium merchant. whose house di
rectly fac d his own, in ord-r that he Ugh
have the pleasure of sitting 81 cretly at tn,
window thereof, at pIods when he wa
| supposed to be miles away, ard watching
who entered or left the mansion opposite.
One day, a. b was occupied in this man
ner, he saw his wife 3 female negro slave
emerge from his house, look round eau
tiGHsly. as if to ascertain if she were ob
: rv d d b ckoa with her ha d. Then
from u dark passage, h. saw a young maj
haJ.t d a. a FRA k. The accurs.d 5loau
look rou ID cautiously, as the negro hat
done, cross the road, whispered to h. r
81 pped some money INTO h. hand al'
thea the treacnerous and guilty pair entcr,'
the MANSION together
i.a,sa1 I'll Djeliuah broke out in cox
i nv ratio. II 4 b. "a TO blrd k
AIS Ta.u H. loan AT the mouth
4-.a y. got a, mi tacll0 D tween h.
..t4. Il d c4aa d "a II. 1h Ii tore h,
b "a In Il dtg h.a a l. ato til palm
%. As la d Ina h c!aYr i A.- Ia :,
un33 tt. lito Of tb in a. " Il Il
.ls to tn L,ac6 -iart CT ii . } "a iun
:. d A-t.ia 81 n. =, -ne ma. aa!k o. tn
pam, oi ! IA Ids ali th day Of ife
Tor If tn II b a.y y.rt1+ Il. th ba /, .adu
| VIII ave her 40 feet to walk up0i. A
to tn z Rour, by thu b-ard ol tn. Proph
wall have his head y
Lolg before thls speech was finished b
had crossed the road, travtrsed his court
yard. enter, b house, asc .Id d the star
ca aid ga.Ied the portal OF his wife
apartment. lie tore as,d. the siikcn cur
talhs, and rushed INTO tn room, lvid witt
rage, just as l. lila khaAoum was in the ac
OF bending over d large chest of richly
carved wood, IN winch she kept her SUITS 0
/ brccade aid cloth Of gold, her jewels aa'
her sequins Hassan-el-Djeninah saw th
state OF affairs at a glance the glaour mus
= be in that chest
, He knocked over the wrctched blacl
slave as 0le might ninepin, rushed 10 tn
chest, aud tried to raise the Id. 1t Wa
locked.
The key, woman the keyw h
roared.
7 My lord, have it not" stammered Ii
+ lila Khanoum. II have lost it--l have sen
= 1t to be repaired"
= :" The kry!n screamed Hasseh-el-Djen
: nah, looking ten thousand Bluebeards a
. once.
: With tparG a nd 1ranhIinr 7 aiia AZ lonorf