Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-30
4 love Sick DIucAzin.

ty Blanche Wilson, of Columbus, o.,
has been the Stenosrapher and amanu-
ensis of Manager Smythe of the Sou
danese village in the street in Cairo of
Midway Plaisance. She came 10 town
month ago, and the room she fitted
up soon became postOllice at which
the derv,shes, wrestlers, necrOmancers
and dancers of the street called for their
letters Among her visitors WAS q tall
bewhiskered fellow with keen eyes.
He was the muezzin of the village.
Four times day he climbed TO the top
of the great white miuaret and called
the faithful to prayer in the mosque.
The mueZzin tried TO teach his friend
the stlAnge language Of his country.
His efforts amused ii they did not en-
tighten the girl, for she seemed 10 en-
courage his visits. Manager Pangelo,
who knows something about the i1irta-
tions Of Cairenes, warned Miss wilson
TO have nothing more TO do with the
muezzin. But the girl seemed TO be
entertained if not hypnotized by the
palayer of the fellow Then Manager
Smythe told Miss Wilson that she must
stop what appeared to him 10 be dan
gerous Irritation. Miss Wilson laugh
ed and declared that she was not alralC.
Manager Raphael threatened TO send
Miss Wilson back TO Columbus. So did
Manager Smythe. who was quick 10
ste that the girl was getting into the
power of the priest.
The muezzin climbed up he mnaret
on Friday night and cried aloud 10 the
Mohammedaus to enter the mosque for
prayer. He held two oranges in his
hand when he emerged from the white
building. A love message, 1t IS sup
posed, was engraved upon the surface
of each orange. The peel had been
carved into hieroglypbics, which, it is
to be presumed, Miss Wilson could not
read. She received the oranges, placed
them on her desk, aud then laughed as
Sheik Ali, the muezzu, shufiled. out OF
the Office.
Manager Smythe did not wait to see
anv more. He told Miss Wilson that
she must 60 back to Columbus at once,
as he had positive proof that the priest
had not only professed his love for the
girl, but mad gone so far as to declare
that he would renounce Mohammedan-
ism and become q Christian, so that
their marriage could not be stopped by
religious barriers.
1t was I o'clock on Friday night
when Manager Smythe received mes
sage that bliss Wilson was dead in his
office. He found the young woman
living white and cold beside her type
writing machine. The two carved Or
anses lay at her side. The doctor said
the girl was suffering from heart fail
ure. All night long the physicians
worked over the girl, but it was not un-
til O'Clock Saturday morning that she
was revived to consciousness. For ten
hours she lay like one dead. The muezzln
could not BIZ driven to bed. The guard
whacked him, but The lovesick Oriental
refused 10 leave the window OF his
sweetheart. When he learned that the
Girl was 10 be borne away, he gather
ed a guard Of half dozen Arabs and
sought to intercept the carriage.
Manager Smythe bundled the girl
out of a side gale and gave instructions
to drive with haste to Englewood,
where the still half-conscious girl was
placed in car and sent to Columbus.
Miss Wilson is scarcely 20 years old.
Two years ago Editor w. S. Elliot
of the lSundcy Capital. ofCUlun' bus was
involved in street fight with A. c. Os-
borne, reporter on local paper.
While the fling was iercest Elliott
seized Miss Wilson and using her as a
shield, sent the fatal bullets into his an
tagonist. Elliott aud his brother Pat
! (the latter having taken q hand in the
fight were tiled for murder The edl-
tor was sentenced to the p,hitchtiary
for life, and his brother for twenty
years.