The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-31
THE LOVE-SICK MUEzzIN,
A Pretty Typewriter Captures His
Oriental Affections.

A Desperate Filtration on the Worlds
Fair Grounds-He Sends Her Mes
sages Carved on Orange Peel-Th e
Young Woman's Heart So Serio usly
Affected That She is Bundled OFF
Home to Columbus, o.
Pretty Blanche Wilson of Columbus, o.,
has been thestenographer and amanuensis
of Manager Smythe of the Soudanese vii
lage in the street in Cairo of Midway
plaisance says a Chicago special to the
New York Sun. She came to town a
month ago, and the room She fitted up
soon became postoffice rat which the
dervishes, wrestlers, necromancers, and
dancers of the street called for their let
tiers. Among her visitors was tall be-
whiskered fellow with keen eyes. He
was the muezzin of the village. -Four
times a day he climbed to the top of the
great white minaret and called the faith
full to prayer in the mosque.
The muezzin tried to teach his friend
| the strange language of his country His
efforts amused if they did not enlighten
the girl for she seemed. to encourage his
visits Manager ,Pangele, who knows
something about the firtations of Cal
ren6S, warned MISS w liSO1 10 nave noun
! ing more TO do with the muezzln But the
girl seemed to be entertained if not hyp-
Noticed by the palaver of the fellow. Then
Manager Smythe told Miss Wilson that
she must stop what appeared to him to be
dangerous Irritation. Miss Wilson
! laughed and declared that she was not
afraid. Manager Raphael threatened to
send Miss Wilson back to Columbus. So
did Manager Smythe, who was quicl, to
see that the girl was getting into the
power of the priest.
The muezzin climbed up the minaret on
Friday night and cried aloud to the Mo
hammedans in the street below to enter
the mosque for prayer He held two
oranges in his hand when he emerged
from the white building. A love message,
| it is supposed, was engraved upon the
surface of each orange. The peel had
been carved into hieroglyphics, which it
is to be presumed, Miss Wilson could not
read She received the oranges, placed
them on her desk, and then laughed as
Sheik Ali, the muezzin, shuffied out Of the
Office
Manager Smythe did not wait to see any
more. He told Miss Wilson that she must
go back to Columbus at once, as he had
positive proof that the priest had not only
professed his love for the girl, but had
gone so far as to declare that he would
renounce Mohammedanism and become a
Christian, so that their marriage could
not be stopped by religious barriers.
II was o'clock on Friday night when
Manager Smythe received a message that
Miss Wilson was dead in his Office. He
the young woman lying white and cold
beside her typewriting machine The two
carved oranges lay at her side. The doc
tor said the girl was suffering from heart
failure. All night long the physicians
worked over the girl, but IL was not until
9 o'clock Saturday morning that she was
revived 30 consciousness. For ten howe
she lay like one dead The muezzin could
not be driven 10 bed. The guard whacked
him, but the lOve-sick oriental refused 70
leave the window Of his sweetheart.
When be learned that the girl was 10 be
borne away he gathered a guard Of q half
dozen Arabs and sought 70 intercept the
carriage
Manager Smythe bundled the girl out
Of "a side gate and gnwo instructions 10
drive With haste 10 EugleWoDd. where the
Htill lfuncOnsCious girl was placed IN d
car and sent 40 Columbus
Miss Wilson ID scarcely % years Old