Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-06

tions. In the first place, he had slept
i'll. Then his first born, his son,
Noureddln, had left his home the pre-
vlous evening, and had returned, after
sunrise, shamefully tipsy; clearly in
dicating that he was leagued with the
evil-livers of Bagdad, and had in
fringed the wise law of the Prophet,
forbidding the use Of wine and strong
liquors.
Then, again, the servant intrusted
with the duty of accompanying his
daughter to the bath had, on her re-
turn, con6ded to him that, for the
fifth time in as many days, a young
man, with a self-satis6ed air, had, as
if by chance, thrown himself in their
way; and that, in passing, Anime, IN
der pretense of arranging her veil,
had, on the contrary, deranged it in
such manner as to allow this good
looking stranger to behold her radiant
visage, proceeding which, on the
part of a Mahometan young lady, con-
stituted grave departure from the
rules Of good conduct.
Already considerably put out OF
temper by all there worries, Ali had
gone to the sitting of the Council.
There he had found himself in the
presence OF the Calf Amgiad, and the
Calf Amgiad had received him any
thing but pleasantly.
A short time before, sedition had
broken out in a neighboring province.
Ali, after having severely repcessed it,
had not thought it worth while to
bring the matter before his glorious
master. But the Minister'S enemies
had not been equally reserved, and
the Calf had vehemently reproached
his Minister; firstly, with having al.
lowed sedition to break out in his
kingdom; secondly, with having hid.
den the fact from him; and thirdly,
with having put it down by force, in
stead of by persuasion-which, in
deed, is preferable, but, unfortunate
", does not always prove successful.
On quitting the Council, Ali bore
with him this impression-always
painful to statesman-that his credit
was considerably shaken.
BE had no sooner returned home
than his wife had quarreled with him,
accusing him of piggardliness in the
sum he allowed her for her dress, de-
claring that the wife of tbs Governor
of the palace was better dressed than
she, and affirming that, in fact, she
had nothing to put on. Ali bowed his
head before this storm and ordered
his servants to serve him q collation.,
in the hope of finding in the pleasures
of good cheer q compensation for the
vexations of his public and private
life; but, by an unlucky chance, his
cook that day omitted every dish OF
which he was fond.
Desperate, Ali quilted his house,
left the city, and strayed into the
country. There, at least, he might
fret and fume at his ease.
"Truly," he muttered, as he went
along, ''there are days when one
would like to make al end Of ones
existence. Of what use to one is life?
nothing but to make one angry with
everything!"
Meanwhile, burning sun was
scorching the road on which he was
walking; and it was not long before
he felt an irrepressible desire to find
shelter somewhere. But in vain he
looked for shady corner. Atlength
he came in sight of path which,
from its narrownoss and tllrnings,
seemed to promise a little GOODNESS
He passed on to it.
The windings OF this path con-
Quoted him to O ruined wall near
which there grew palm tree. Ali
uttered sigh of relief and stretched
himself at the foot of the wall in the
shade of the wi de leaves.
Doubtless he would soon have fall len
asleep had not buzzing sound come
to annoy his sense of hearing. He
looked up, and saw pretty gold-and-
green-hued fly gayly wheeling about
his head. Wishing to take nap in
peace, Ali drove away the intruder
two or three times with his hand
but the obstinate little creature re.
turned again and again to the charge,
and ended by impudently perchins
on the Vizier's nose.
This was too much for Ali, whc
jerked himself into o sitting pos
ture. and with his hand made O
vigorous, but unsuccessful, dab at his
enemy. But in the hurry of getting
away the quick-winged fly did not no
tice that it was darting straight into c
large spiders web. spreading between
an angle Of the wall and the neighbor
ing palm tree.
Witness of this catastrophe, The
Vizier could not at first help feeling
glad.
.'Now," he thought, '.you tiresom.
insect, you will no lonecr be able tt
prevent me from getting the nap
want"
But as he continued to watch the
fate of the pretty gold-green fly he
saw emerge from crack in the wall
monstrous spider, with q body as big
as the fnger-tip of man and long,
black and hairy limbs. 1t rushed to-
ward its prey and set to work spinning
winding sheet of web about it, as il
enjoying its victims terror and agony.
The poor fly made such desperate
efforts to free itself from its bonds
that Ali, at the sight of its hopeless
exertion, felt moved by compassion
and, though he was very tiled, and in
spite of the little insect having sc
recently worried him considerably, he
could not bring himself to allow it to
perish so miserably.
He rose up, and with o wave o.
his hand frightened away the spider,
after which he released the fly from its
perilous activity.
''Now," he said, 81 hope you vii
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