Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-08-27
''Name it," said Bamet, his heart
leaping with Joy.

leaping with Joy.
II viii grant your request, say, y
proceeded the Genie, ION condition
that you perpetrate some crime which
may diminish your Overweening pride
OF conscious virtue. Do not interrupt
me, or / will kill you upon the spot
but listen. / give you your choice OF
three Of the most heinOus crimes
which can imagine. You shall
either violate the law of the Prophet
an d drink your I'LL of good wine; 81
you shall murder your venerable old
father oryou shall curse the name of
the Deity whom you worship. Choose
between these three crimes"
Then Hamet was very sorroWfuI,
and heendeavored tFmelt the heart
OF the evil Genie; but all his prayers
and entreaties were unavailing. He
accordingly went to reason with hinn-
self.
"If,n said he, ''I assassinate my
father, no cOntritiOn can wipe away
my crime, and moreover the law will
Overtake me with its vengeance. II
curse the name of the great Allah,
may sigh in vain for future happi-
ness in the garden Of Paradise. But
| if / become inebriate with the Juice
of the grape, / can cexpiate that fault
by severe modification, penance and
renewed prayer"
Then, turning his countenence up
ward toward the Genie, he said: go
fountain of all evil! have made my
choice, since thou art determined up
on this injury
"Name the object of that choice, "
said the Genie.
''I viii get drunk with wine, as
the least Of the crimes which you
propose" answered the dervise.
"Be it So" cried the Genie; "this
evening, after the hour of prayer,
thou wilt finda jar ofCyprus wine on
the table, when thy father has retired
to rest in his own cell. Thou mayest
fulfill thy promises then but woe
unto thee if thou deceiveth mel"
The Genie 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 gfotto, with asorrow-
ful heart but he would not confde
his anticipated disgrace to the affect
ionate parent who welcomed his re-
turn.
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 were concluded,
the old man embraced his son tenderlY,
and retired to the inner part of the
grOtto.
AS soon as Hamet knew that his
father slept, he lighted a lamp; and,
as the Genie had told him, he saw
large measure of wine standing upon
the table. The unhappy dervise rails
ed it to his lips, and drank deeply of
the intoxicating draught' A glow of
fire seemed to electrify his frame, and
he laughed as he set the vessel down
upon the table. Again he drank, and
he felt reckless and careless Ofthe con-
sequences. He drank a third time
and, when he had emptied the meas
ure, he ran out of the door of hegottO,
and threw it down the slope of the
mountain then, as he heardit bound
ing along, he laughed with indescrib-
able mirth.-saw his father standing
behind him.
"SOn," said the old man, "the noise
of revelry awoke me from my slum-
bers, and 1 rise to find my beloved
Hamet drunken with wine! Alas!
is this merely one of the many nights
orgies; and have I now awOken to
the dread truth of thine impiety for
the first time? Alas thou hast cast
ashes upon the gray head or thine
father.n
Hamet could not brook this accu-
satiOn and the implied suspicion that
he was accustomed to indulge in wine
while his father slept. He felt sud-
denly indignant at the language Of
his sire, and cried, ''RetuFn TO your
couch, old dOtard! Thou knOwest
not what thou sayest !"
And, as he uttered these words, he
pushed his father violently into the
grottO. The old man resisted, and
again demonstrated with Hamet.-
The brain of the son was confused
with liquor; and sudden dread of
exposure to the world entered his
mind. With the rage of demon he
rushed upon his hOary-headed sire,
and dashed him furiously against the
stone wall of the grOttO. The old man
fell with his temple against sharp
flint. One grOan emanated from his
bOsOm-and his spirit fed forever.
Suddenly conscious of the hOrrid
crime of which he had been guilty,
Hamet tore his hair, beat his breast,
and raved like a maniac. And, in
the midst of his rawlings, he lifted up
his voice against the majesty of hea-
ven, and cursed the Deity whom he
had so long and fervently wOrshiped!
At that instant a terrible din eeh-
oce round aDout-the thunder rolled
the tall trees shook with an earth
quake-and, amidst the roar of the
conflicting elements were heard shouts
of Internal laughter. All hell seemed to
rejoice at the fall Of good man, whom
no other vice had ever tempted away
from the paths of virtue until drunk
enness presented itself. The rage Of
the storm increased-the trees were
torn up by their rOOts-and fragments
of the rocky parts of Olympus rolled
down the hill with the fury Of an
Alpine avalanche. Suddenly the
Genie appeared before the Wretched
Hamet, and exclaimed: Fool! by
to commit the crime which
SCCn1Cu W tAACC 1Cclo6g gAAOU AeNSo 49,
mitted the other two likewise! For
there is more danger in the wine-cup
than in any other means of temPta-
ton presented by Satan to mankind!"
And the last words of the Genie
mingled with the Fedoubled bowling
of the storm, as Hamet was borne
down the slope Of the mountain by
the falling masses, and dashed to pie
ces at the bottom.
It is said the "jar" caused by the
FREQUENT passage to and fro Of the
heavy engines and trains on the un-
derground railroads in London, is
gradually but surely loOsening and
making unsound the foundations Of
the superstructures in the vicinity,
and further, that great fears are be-
ginning to- be entertained for their
safety.