The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28

rowing man. II tnefe WASH IL screw ioost
somewhere in the economy of nature, as re-
| cards the duration of life. why" asked
this individual, why was Death permitted to
come into the world at all o."
Abou was never in so good humor when
he had an opportunity to moralize, and this
was one not to be wasted. So he arranged
himself in his easy chair, and got the man
! safely under his eye, and, as the Orientals
say, went for him"
| Death" said Abou. sis not to be catalogued
among the evils OF this world it is to be con-
sidered as the greatest blessing the world en-
| Joys, and as the most useful OF all the provi-
| sions of nature-that is to say, when it is ia
ken into account how men are made.
If men were all as honest, true, and as
good as am, for instance, death could be dis
pensed with but as they are not, 1t Is an alb
Solute necessity as a great equalizer 1t is the
the bad rich man check and the poor good
mans protection: it is the salvation OF the
State and the hope of the individual
Listen to brief history
| In Persia hundred Years or more ago
lived Hogeln. Hogem, i'll his youth, sailed a
small schooner on the Gulf OF Persia, from
koamud to Bangay. He accumulated dirhems
| in small way at the business, for he allowed
no competition. If another man started a
schooner in the same trade, Hogem's craft
always got to sailing wild. and was certain to
collide with the new one, and burst hole IN
her side and lay he up. Accidents OF this
kind got so frequent that no one cared to sail
| on Hogem's route. and he had the whole trade
to himself
OF course Hogem learned the advantage of
| having control of an entire trade, and he kept
his eye out for it. When steam was intro
duced into Persia. he was the first to put on
| boats propelled by the new power, and he OBJ
| he. thnfh a Il ii
schooner, and OF course made great piles OF
shekels by his steamboats,. Then came rail
ways and Hogem kept his weather eye cock {
in that direction He did not embark ali
roads at the beginning, for he was talented.
He waited till the people built them with their
own money. and found they could not make
them pay He watched the road from Ban
gay to koamud, the two most important cities
in the Empire. and he waited his time. The
rood cost 20 600, 600 of dirhems, and as it had
never paid a dividend, the stockholders were
willing to sell at any price. So Hogem bought
| a little over half Of the stock, for little or
nothing, to make himself President; then he
swindled the others out of their stock and
owned it all himself 1t paid Immediately, for
he stopped all the stealing, and the time had
come when it was possible for the road to pay.
| Owning the road he had sure thing on the
people. They had to travel over it, and they
| were compelled to use it to transport their
produce, for there was no other way for them.
He put on Just such rates as he pleased, and
he regarded their murmurs no more than the
| signing of wind through rose-bushes.
The people murmured and applied to the
Council for relief. They said, in their Orien-
| tai way Lo this Hogem has gobbled our rail
road, and has us where our hair is short. After
roads are built he captures them, and we are
HELPLESS. Save us from HOgem
But Hogem laughed in his sleeve. Shall
let this fat thing go out of my hands What
says Niggah-mynstrel, the poet of the people i:
ssWhen you have good thing, save it, save it;
When you ketch white cat, shave it, shave it
When you ketch a white cate, shave it to de tail
These people are my cats. Go to-
And he went to Teheran, where the council
met, the same time that the representatives OF
the people did; and he took gorgeous rooms
at the TeheIan Hotel, and he put therin bot
ties Of the juice Of the grape, and great jars OF
the strong waters of the GEour and tobacco
cunningly rolled by the Espangol, and he
stored in his closets bags of dirhems.
And then Hogem asked the members of the
Council to visit him, and he gave to them the
juice of the grape, and he warmed their hearts
with strong waters. And as each went out he
took him aside and laid his finger beside his
nose, saying: Here, take this bag of dirhems,
for thou art pleasant fellow, and brick and
love tn g And when my enemies, the peo-
pie, whom may Allah confound, come to the
Council and demand laws against my just
charges for carrying their rice and things, say
Go to. Hogem is good man, and an honest
man. His charges are just. And when the
vote is taken, vote against them, and if you
prevail come to me again-come alone-and
there will be more strong waters, and per-
chance haply, another bag of dirhems. ~
And Hogem put his finger to his nose and
winked solemn wink of ineffable meaning,
which was comprehended, for the member did
likewise
Now there were two hundred members of
the Council, and the great man saw one hun
bred and five of them, and each, with bag OF
dirhems under his robe voted against the
people. Straightway each of the one hundred
and FIVE had two bags OF dirhems about him.
Thus YOU see, Hogem had the entire country
at his mercy He owned the Council so that
it would not permit other roads to be built. In
it would not permit other roads to be built. In
little while he did not have to seek the mem
bers, for they sought him. They would say,
eff he has the gold, why should l not have
my dvvy?" Divvy is Persian word, used
in Councils; the meaning of witch | do not
understand
Now here is where Death comes in to ad-
vantage Hogem had all the Councils under
his thumb he was moving on the Shah him
self. He would, in ten years more, have had
all the Persians at his feet and you may i'm
agine the condition we should have been in
with this one man our sole ruler. Just as
he was making bigger and wickeder combi-
nation than ever, paralysis struck him and the
people were saved His combinations melted;
his railroads had to be sold {; competition came
in, and things were again lovely in Persia.
Suppose that the Frank, Bonaparte, had had
eternal life He would have gone on swallow
ing one nation after another till he would have
met another Bonaparte, you say? Very good;
that would have kept the world at blood-let-
ting forever.
And then think of world with such pests
as George Francis Train, and the Woodruff in
it, with no prospect of relief from Death.
Good men die too" Verify. But that
Doesn't detract from the strength of my posi-
ton particle. For where there is one honest
or, to put it stronger, where there is one like
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