The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-05-02

was the only gentleman who had ever
been chartered there before except
themseIves-and hung up insidei the
door as a warning to any other rash
intruder who might seek to enter
| without suitable Recommendation
from his last place.
| The result was as might have beeu
anticipated. Mrs. Cassim alarmed at
her husbands absence, sent All to look
for him. He went to the cavern, and
iou finding his murdered brother, felt
almost as badly cut up as his. brother
was. lie packed the last four sad re-
mains of his brother in one of tho
sacks which were on the mule he
brought along, and then, to balance it,
| make accounts square with his BROTH
er, as it were, thoughtfully stuffed the
other sack with gold and things, so
that, as he afterward reckoned It, his
| brothers four quarters on one side Of
tilcmulewere equal I'd thirteen hundred
thousand six hundred and forty-three
dollars and fifty-three cents on the
other. 1t is rarely that r. brother can
be made SO useful, dead or alive, es-
pecially with only four quarters.ai
| The next business, after getting his
| quadrelateral brother home, was to
bury him without, creating, suspicion
among the, nefghbors. TO account
reasonably for his death, a servant
was sent for some drug-store whisky.
under the pretense that Cassim want
ed it for medical purposes, SO when it
was given out the next day that the
whisky killed him, no one thought
anything strange of the circumstance
at all! k3Gf1a 15el 1Ad o1c helW
There was an old cobbler, who liv-
ed on corner near by, who opened
his stall very early in the morning 10
accommodate any one who, having
been drinking hard the night before,
wanted an early ''cobbler." He con-
sented to sew Cassim together for
consideration, and was accordingly
blindtoIded and led to the house. He
asked if they wanted "yelIow fair
stitch and divided, or just q common
black welt" but Ali,who knew moth
ing of shocmakers lingo, said he
thought his brother had been weIted
enough already; 'just 90 ahead and
sew him up" The cobbler perform
ed very neat job,- though he leit q
stitch in his side that Cassiln proba-
bly, never gotover. He offered to half
sole him, too, and set up his heels, but
further services were declined
Cassim was buried the next day
with becoming honors, and the vari-
GUS societies to which he belonged at
tended the funeral, each of them hold
ing meetings afterward and passing
resolutions of respect, which were
published the next day in all the pa
pers. Engrossed copies of these res
Olutions were presented to the affiIct-
ed widow, but after kicking around
the house for a few days they were
sold for old rags, the widow marry
ing again. 1t is impossible. with the
space l haye, to minutely follow the
various strategems employed by the
robbers TO learn who it was that pos
sessed the secret OF the cave. Suffice
it to say, they at length did, and plans
were laid for his destruction. One
day the captain of the Forty Thieves
came TO Ali Baba's house(he had NOV
ed into Cassim's brown-stone 'front.'
and pretended he was dealer an Pc
troleum. He had large quantity of
non-explosive oil in casks, which he
desired to store with him for few
days. Certainly, said Ali,who was the
soul Ofhospitalitv,'sr troll it right into my
of these casks contained non-explo-
sive oil, while the others were filed
with something almost as deadly,
though not quite-murderous rob-
bers. 1t was shrewdly conjectured
by the robber chief, that If the oil did
not blow up the whole family, which
was probable, his men would dispatch
them during the night.
The plot failed however. A servant
girl who had been sitting up pretty
late in the kitchen with her Young
man, went to one of the casks to re-
plenish her lamp, which was getting
low, and discovered the robbers. She
finished them all by boiling some oil
and pouring it upon them through
the bung -hole-not the only instance
by any means where men have been
ruined sin oil" This narrow escape
Of the Baba family from destruction
should be warning to people not to
allow strangers to roll casks of petro-
leum into their front parlors.
The robbcr-chief, being thus left
alone, advertised in the papers for for
ty more thieves, determined to begin
business anew, and hoping by indus
try and close attention to business. to
thcItt d 1aiE ShdTc "a puOilC paSfOHdR6.
But he was so over-run with ex-COn-
gressmen, abseonding bank officers,
dishonest postmasters, Indian COM
ex-revenue officers, mana
gers of defunct gift enterprises, New
York city counciimen, and otheFs,tha
he was driven nearly distracted. Iu-
stead of forty, there were at least for
ty thousand of them, and being dis
gusted, he concluded to go out of the
thieving business altogether; it was
getting too low. 81 9 Trll 9af
He persisted in the house of Ali Ba-
ba, where he had penetrated in dis
Ruise for the purpose OF settling that
Did account with Ali. The servant
girl who performed SO neat job for
his followers, recognized him, and
finished him with a carving knife.
The story is supposed to be u lie, but
t is no more Ali than Cassim.
The career of the Forty Thieves in
stead of proving salutary warning,
seems 10 have inspired emulation, for
he number of thieves is certainly
every day Washington
Capital.