The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-10-23

NV crime and moreover the law will
overtake me with its vengeance. If
I curse the name Of the great Allah,
I NAV sigh in vain for future happi
ness in the gardens Of Paradise But
ri hecome ipebriated with the juice
of the grape, can expiate that fault
by severe modification, penltence,
and renewed prayer
Then, turning his countenance up
ward toward the Genii, he said, 40
fountain of all evil ! l have made my
choice, since thou art determined up.
ON this injury =,
"Name the object OF that choice,
said the Genii.
II will get drunk with wine, as the
least of the crimes winch you pro-
pose" answered. the deryisex
"Be it sO,' cried the Genii; "thls
evening, after the hour of prayer,
thou wilt find a jar Of Cyprus wine
upon thy table, when thy father has
retired to rest in his own cell. Thou
mayest fulfill thy promise; but woe
unto thee il thou deceiveth me"
The Genii gradually became less
palpable as he spoke these words
and, by the time the concluding men
ace issued from his lips, he had van
ished altogether. Hamet retraced
his steps toward the grottO, With a
sorrowful heart but he would not
confide his anticipated disgrace to
to the affectionate parent who vel
coined his return.
The day passed rapidly away; and
| in the evening Hamet and his sire
knelt down as usual at the door OF the
grotto, with their faces toward the
south, to raise their voices in prayer
When their vespers we're concluded
the old man embracedthe son tender
lly, and retired to the inner part ol
the grOtto.
AS soon as Hamet knew that his
father slept, he lighted the lamp; and
as the Genii had told him, he saw
large measure of wine standing upon
the table. The unhappy dervise
raised it to his lips, and drank deeply
70 the intoxicating draught. A glow
of fire seemed to electrifY his frame,
and he laughed as he sat the vessel
down upon the table. Again he
drank; he felt reckless and careless
Of the consequences. He drank a
third tine; and, when he hah emptied
the measure, he ran out to the door
of the grotto, and threw it down the
slope of the mountain; then, as he
heard it bounding along, he laughed
with indescribable mirth. AS he
turned to enter the grotto, he saw
his father standing behind him.
"Son," said the old man, "th1
noise of revelry awoke me from my
slumbers, and 1 rise to find my be
loved Hamet drunken with wine
Alas, is this one Of thy many mig ghts
orgies; and have now awakened To
the dreadful truth OF thine impiety
for the first time? Alas. thou has
cast ashes upon the gray head oil thy
father
Hamet could not brook this accu
sation, and the implied suspicion tha
he was accustomed to indulge In WINE
while his father slept. He felt sud
denly indignant at the language o
his sire, and cried, "Return to you
couch, old dotard! Thou knowes
not what thou sayest!'
And, as he uttered these words Ia
pushed his father violently into the
grotto. The old man resisted, ant
again demonstrated with Hainet.-
The brain of the son was confused
with liquor; and sudden dread o
exposure to the world entered hl'
mind. With the rage of a demon HI
rushed upon his hOary-headed sire
and dashed him furis usly against th'
stone walls of the grottO. The OLE
man fell with his temple against
sharp fint-one grOan emanatet
from his bosom--and his spirit ile'
farauar--
I Suddenly conscious OF the nUrru'
crime of which he had been guilty
Hamet tore his hair, beat his breas'
and raved like a maniac. And, II
the midst of his rawlings, he lifted u
his voice against the majesty o
heaven, and cursed the Deity whom
he had SO long and fervently wor
. shipped! w
:, At that instant terrible din echo
, ed round about--the thunder role
tall trees shook with an earth
! quake-and, amidst the roar OF th
conflicting elements, we're near
shouts Of Internal laugter. All he
seemed to rejoice at the fall OF th
!. good man, whom no other vice la
ever tempted away from the paths {
virtue until drunkenness presente
! itself. The rage Of the storm increa'
ed--the trees were torn up oy the
roots-and fragments OF the rock
:, parts Of Olympus rolled down IL
hill with the fury Of an Alpine aV'
n lanche. Suddenly the GEM appea
4 ed before the wretched Hamet, an
Exclaimed: "Fool! by choosing
y commit the CRIME which seemed
. thee least, thou hast committed Il
other two likewise! For there
y more danger in the wlne;eup tins
anv other means of temptation rr
), sented by Satan to mankind p
e And the last words OF the Ger
- mingled with the redoubled howlir
4 Of the storm, as Hamet was bor1
Il down the mountain by the falliI
= e masses, and dashed to pieces at tt
n bottom. ,.