The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-27
CHE Mailp Arans.
independent IN Eoerything.
The Peddler's PRAYER.
NEW YORK. March IS, 1874.

NEW lohk. March Is. 1874. /
To the Editor OF the Financial Record
The surprise to see a Parsee letter in the |
Financial Record will, in my opinion, be |
less than at the lack of one But a Par
see letter without an anecdote, parable or
fable would be considered stale; and will
not omit the custom OF my people. The
good people of this country, or rather the
wire pulers on their behalf are clamoring
for more paper money. Well, then, can
not do better then tell them an anecdote
current in India, which is as pertinent to
the case as an egg is to an omelet. Many
years ago there lived an old Mohammedan
in Delhi, by trade BOri or peddler, who
carried heavy load of coarse goods every
morning from Delhi to the neighboring vii
lagos, for sale, thus earning a precarious
livelihood for himself and his family. 1t
is no joke to carry seventy or eighty pounds
of coarse cotton stuffs on ones back under
an Indian sun, and so the poor Boyi found
it, This old man was pious Moslem, and
one day sweating under his heavy load, he
1 looked up to the cloudless sky and thus
spoke. ''Ol Allah, | have been your
faithful servant on earth; know that
Paradise and fair amount of hours will
be my portion; yet | would ask a small in
stallment of favor in this world. All | de
sire from thee, D Allah is lit
tie horse to carry my heavy pack. | care
not how little it is, but hear thy faith
full servant, and do thou,O glorious Proph-
ct intercede for poor man and"
= Here he was suddenly interrupted in his
prayer by shouts some hundred yards off
, Of "Bori Bori! come here!" Quickly
vending his way towards the callers, he
found one of the young Princes of Delhi
; who had that morning driven out with q
splendid pair of blood mares, small anC
fiery, as only Arab mares can be- One OF
! the mares was followed by little colt, no
!, more than seven days old, apertect picture
J of grace, no bigger than calf. This littl,
$ creature, stepping on rolling stone, hat
injured its little foot and was famed. TIL
Prince, anxious to get his colt home, anC
: seeing the Bori, had conceived the idea o
making the peddler carry the colt to hi
stables. A Moslem Prince in India il
: those days. only had to speak to be obey
> ed. He graciously had the peddler's pacl
put into his carriage, helped his servant t.
put the colt round the Boris neck and tolC
him to carry it to the royal stables, thre
miles away As soon as the Bori was LET
alone and found words, he once more tried
$ as well as he could, to look up to heavel
10 and thus cried out 20, Allah. thou has
ar mistaken my prayer! True, thou has
tE given me now a little horse, but the hors
st | prayed for was to carry me, and behol(
thou hast given me horse which L hav
r. to carry.
Now many good people in this country
L. like the Bori of Delhi cry and pray TO
more paper money TO them it seems th
only horse that can carry them and a
! their financial troubles Beware, 0 N
y friends the increase of paper money wi
,st be little horse sure enough. But it vi
70 70 be you who will have to carry the horse, il
NJ stead of the horse carrying you. Tn
IN IN wares you already carry big horse A; yol
ar paper currency costs you at present II p'
nd cent more than its face value and as "
~ need nearly 500 million dollars to pay f
of foreign commodities and duties, it nature
te- ly follows that you yearly carry fully min
ty-six millions of dead horse in premium
ces But if you add another fifty or one hu
Oh dred millions to this dead carrion, the pr
nj MUM will rise to 20 per cent, and tn
we this very little horse that you pray for al
iii which you believe will make you all ric
will cost you an additional sixty or seven
millions.
/. | could pursue this smile much farth'
. but my eyes at this moment fall on the
minutive little horse (the Record, IL
has to carry my Parsee letter, and | +;
warned not to overload him.
| Iremain, therefore, yours, very since
i, ", ADERsEY CURIosIBHoY,
Parsee Merchant of Bombay