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rom an Unpublished Manuscript, BY Aufschnei.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

DOCTOR (sald my tWO-carat brilliant
let me tell you a story of a Mohamme
dan saint, prophet, or rather impostor
During the reign OF Mehemet Aal
Pacha in Egypt, that famous admins
traitor, conqueror and murderer, a Mos
Eiem saint, or worker OF miracles, was
firmly established i'll Cairo. The his.
tory of the impostor was Interesting,
Abbas Sail was the natural son of Kara
Efendi, Pasha of Damascus, by French
woman, who for some years was the
favorite of the old Pasha. When the
boy was fifteen years old his mothe,
prevailed on the Pasha to send him to
Paris to be educated, where he chose
the profession of medicine. There was
Enotf q. wilder rascal in the QUARTER
Latin than Abbas Sail. AT the age OF
q he lost his father, and his mother,
with lew jewels secreted about he1
[persons, left Damascus and Joined her
son in Paris. The young student, how
ever, sighed for an active life, and
as his mother only lived about q
year after her arrival in the
French capital, his desire was soon
gratified. The youth wendell his way
towards the East. His life was as
stormy as it was checkered. He Joined
the, Bedouins and robbed 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
cutta, and at last physician to the
begun of Aude. His rcstlessness. how.
ever, was such that he could not re
main long in place. At Delhi, With
or he had gone, he found Mohame
dan saint vino was working miracles
for the people. Anxious to pierce the
mysteries of the Delhi miracles, he in
gratiatcd himself into the favor of
the saint, and soon discovered all it's
impostnre. After having learned oil
the tricks manners, sayings, and in
fact the entire holy trade, he very
shrewdly concluded that Cairo, one Of
the largest Moslem cities in the East,
needed saint, and would be
willing to pay one literally. Happily
for Abbas Sail, the Delhi saint fell sick
and Abbas, as a 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 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 valuablcs, fitted ont a regular cara.
van, and, attended by retinuo of In
dian servants, wendell his way to
Kurachi, where he shipped for Alden
and Sucz, and eventually installed
himself rs u saint and worker in mira
cles near tho Sucz gate, in Cairo. Grca,
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 aud 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 successful
worker of tho miracle of curing bur
reness in young married women VIII,
had old husbands signing for heirs
Half of the harems in Egypt resoundet
with his woodworking art. Grav'
old moslems married young and lovel,
girls in order to have q son in old age
a blessing SO much desired in the East
In case no little stranger came to th'
happy pair tho interccssion of tn,
holy Saint Abbas WAS called into reuul
sition. A few days devotion of th'
young bride Tin prayer, of course, j,
the secret divan of Ab|ns Sail, usual,
brought the desired result.
Abbas Sail in the decade of 1904
was o greater man in Cairo than evel