River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-03-28

anu hUUhS, rs q PHYSICIAN, informed
him that ne had not long to live. He
exacted from the dying saint a written
proclamation, which was afterwards
solemnly confirmed in the mosque,
that the 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 out regular cara
van, and, attended by a ~tinue of In
dian servants, wendell his way to
Kurachi, where he shipped for Alden
and Suez, and eventually installed
himself as q saint and worker in mira
Giles near the Suez gate, in Cairo Great
were the miracles Abbas Sail per-
formed. Being a good doctor, know
ing the virtues OF morphine, mercury
and other anodynes, he was able often
to alleviate pain and sometimes cure
local diseases, always, however, under
the seal of miracles Prayers were
necessary to effect these miracles, and
all other contrivances attending the
sanity trade.
Abbas Sail was a most successful
worker Of the miracle Of curing bar
reness in young married women who
had old husbands signing for heirs.
Halt OF the harems in Egypt resounded
with his woodworking art. Grave
old moslems married young and lovely
girls in order to have son in old age.
a blessing so much desired in the East.
In case no little stranger came to the
happy pair the intercession OF the
holy Saint Abbas was called into requl.
sition. A few days devotion of the
young bride Tin prayer, of course, in
the secret dlyan of Abbas Sail, usually
brought the desired result.
Abbas Sail in the decade Of IS30-40
was greater man in Cairo than even
Mehemet ali Pasha. The ruler work
ed through fear; the impostor attached
the people by enslaving their credulity
the very worst form of slavery.
Money, slaves, jewels, and gifts of all
kinds poured iuto the possession of
Abbas; and even /, your two-carat
brilliant, was made a present to the
holy Abbas by lovely young Arme-
man lady, who was married to rich
old pasta, and on whom the saint
practised his devotional intercession
tor an helr-an intercesslon blessed
with the desired result. Abbas was at
that time man about fifty years OF
age, powerfully built, in vigorous
health, satisfied with his thirty years
adventures, and determined to enjoy
all the pleasures of life that offered
excitement and opulence without dan
gers.
And now for my short story: In the
month of October. 1887, u well APP
pointed retinue halted before Ab5as's
magnificent house, and the Sheik Alb.
dallah ben Nawayes was announced.
In a spacious room, on a sort of
throne of rich Persian stuff, reclIned
the handsome Abbas dressed in pure
white. A white turban, adorned with
valuable diamonds, rubies, pearls, and
sapphires, was on his head. His slip
pers were perfect work of art, richly
studded with gems. In his mouth was
the amber mouthpiece of the inevita-
BILE narghile, studded with diamonds.
Ia short, no Eastern Prince could show
more luxury than did Abbas Sail, the
saint and worker of miricles. Before
him stood his visitor, Sheik Abdallah
ben Nawayes, man of truly princely
appearance, very old and perfectly
blind. The four sons of the Sheik,
men already IN years, stood two on
each side of their sire, and two lovely
youths of about thirteen years old
the old Sheik's grandsons-were firmly
held by the hands of the old man.
Am / before Allah's favorite, the
holy Abbas Sail ~ inquired the old
man in pure Arabic.
:" Thou art. What is thy desire ~
inquired Abbas.
" Favorite of Allah" began the old
man, 81 want thy intercession for a
miracle. Grant my request. Oh, Saint;
let me not implore in vain"
BE seated, said Abbas, "and let
me hear thy request"
The servants Immediately brought
divans, and the four sons tenderly
seated their father on them, the old
man still holding the hands of his two
grandsons. "Holy Saint said the
old Sheik, =" i am ninety-fiye years of
age. / am, as my name and lineage
denotes, the chief of the Benz Nawayes,
who, for forty centuries, have obeyed
the commands of my ancestors. Allah
has blessed me from early age with
peace and plenty. / saw my numer-
ous family like olive branches grow
round me. Loving and beloved
passed my years until / was eighty,
when it pleased Allah to afiiict
me with total blindness | muir
INJURED not against his DEGREES. |
could see my household in my
minds eye, and felt as happy as before.
Two years after my affection my two
grandsons were born within week OF
each other, and / named them Benai
Enai, or the sons OF mine eyes. From
that day until this they were to me the
eyes Of which Allah has deprived me.
Hardly weaned from tleir mothers
breast took them to my room, and
inseparably by night or day have been