Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-20
rom an Unpublished Manuscript, by Aufschnei
~ Il MASTER OF MIRACLES.
An Episode i'm the Career Of MY Two.
Carat Brilliant.

Doctor (said my two carat Brilliant
let me tell you story OF q Mohamme:
dan saint, prophets or rather impostor.
During the reign Of Mehemet Aall
Pacha in Egypt that famous admins
TRAITOR, oonquerot and murderer, q Mos
Eiem saint Or worker of miracles, was
/ firmly established id Cairo. The his
tory Of the impostor was Interesting.
Abbas Sail was the natural son of Kara
Enendi, Pasha of Damascus, by a French
woman, who for some years was the
favorite of the old Pasha. When the
boy was fifteen years old his mother
prevailed on the Pasha to send him to
Paris to be educated, where he chose
the profession of medicine. There was
fn6ts d. wilder rascal in the Quarter
Latin than Abbas Sail. AT the age of
q he lost his father, and his mother,
with . lev jewels sscreted. about her
tp@mbpss ldH Damascus and ioinetl her
son in Paris: The young student, how
essr,:. sighed for an active life, and
as his mother only lived about a
year after her arrival in the
French capital, his desire was soon
t8fatiffed!C The youth wended his way
towards the East. His life was as
stormy as it was checkered. He Joined
the ,,Bedouins and irohbeds caravans.
He fought under Ibram Pasha. the
brave son of Mehemet. He went to
Mecca and subsequently to India. He
became in turn faquir, dervish, an
appraiser of Cashmere shawls in CAL
outta, and at last physician to: the
begun of Aude. His restlessness, how.
ever, was such that he could not re-
main long in place. At Delhi, With
er he had gone, he found Mohame.
dan saint who was working miracles
for the people. Anxious to pierce the
mysteries of the Delhi miracles, he in.
gratiated himself into the favor of
the saint, and soon discovered all it's
impostpre. After having learned all
lth6 tfidkS manners; sayings and in
fdct the entire sholy trade, he very
shrewdly concluded that Cairo, one of
1.-The largest Moslem cities in the East,
NEEDED saint, aud would be
willing to pay one liberally. Happily
for Abbas Sail, the Delhi saint fell sick
and Abbas, as physician, informed
him that ne had not long to live. He
exacted from the dying saint written
proclamation, which was afterwards
solemnly confirmed in the mosque,
that tho mantle of the great Delhi
saint would fall on Allah's favorite,
Abbas Sail. After the death of his
master Abbas possessed himself of all
his valuables, fitted ont a regular cara
van, and, attended by retinue of In.
dian servants, wended his way to
Kurachi, where he shipped for Alden
and Suez, and eventually installed
himself as saint and worker in mira
cles near the Suez gate, in Cairo. Grea,
were the miracles Abbas Sail per-
formed. Being good doctor, know
ing the virtues of morphine, mercur,
and other anodynes, he was able Otter
to alleviate pain and sometimes cur,
local diseases, always, however, unde
the seal of miracles. Prayers wer,
necessary to effect these miracles, ant
all other cCntrivances attending til,
sanity trade.
Abbas Sail was most successf,,
worker of the miracle of curing bar
reness in young married women VIII,
had old husbands signing for heirs
,, , Half of the harems in Egypt resounde.
with his wonder-working art. Grav
old mos]ems married young and Lowell,
girls in order to have son in old age
q blessing so much desired in the East
In case no little stranger came to th'
: happy pair the intercession of tn
holy Saint Abbas was called into requl
. sition. A few days devotion of tn
" young bride lin prayer, of course, J il
the secret divan of Abbns Snli, usual,
y brought the desired result.
: Abbas Sail in the decade of 1904
was Q greater man in Cairo than eve,