Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-29

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we had voted ourselves back pay every
session we had a mighty nice slice ou'
of the Bulbul and Cashmer railroad
to say nothing of the dip We had in
the Ispahan Navigation company.
"My daughter loved and was loved
by youth of Ispahan, who was q
mele seller of shawls. He stood in
the bazar, on a small salary, with nc
chance to steal but little, and was
therefore poor. His master, a Jew
from Cairo, paid him but four dirhems
per month, which would hardly keep
him in kirboshes. He kept up style,
however, by bilking his landlady and
borrowing. His capital was cheek.
The immortality and dishonesty of the
lower classes is something terrible.
Baba, my daughter, loved him, never
theless. She would steal out into the
garden nights to meet him che would
20 to the mosque to meet him; and he
even once penetrated to her chamber.
II demonstrated with the young fel.
low, but to no purpose. 1 desired
Baba to wed with Hassan, the rich
merchant, but he was old and ugly,
and she preferred the penniless young
man. pointed out to her the proba-
bility of Hassan's dying, and leaving
her rich widow, but she was immo-
vable.
"'Papa,' said she, Il will never de-
sert Ilderim till he deserts me, which
he never will. 1 can die, but what is
death? 1t is merely change; the
body moulders in the silent tomb, but
the spirit, the eternal essence, returns
to and becomes part of the supreme
entity from which it originally sprang.
Your cruelty may drive me to an i'm
mediate return to my native Heaven,
but as for marrying Hassan-not for
Joe.'
"I was determined that she should
not wed with Ilderim, but did not re-
sort to bludgeons and double-barrelled
shot-guns and bull dogs, and things of
that unpleasant nature. Not any. l
am an astute old gentleman, whose
eyeteeth have been cut. I met Ilderim
cordially the next day. I invited him
to the house-I said to him, Take
Baba to the minstrels, and to the
Young Mems Christian association lec-
lures, and other places of cheerful
amusement : and 1 slapped him on
the back, and remarked that I liked
young men of spirit.
"But just at that time story got
into circulation that I had been specu-
lating in stocks-that l had been led
into trouble by Jimfsqu and Jagould-
two railroad financiers of that day,
who would clean out an honest man
in less time than it would take him to
write out an assignment-that l had
confided in Da Neldroo, and, in short,
that was busted. And the next time
that Ilderim came there were officers
of the Cadi in the house, who were, as
he entered, appraising Baba's Lester
piano. I fell on his neck and wept,
and told him I was ruined, and asked
him to see if he could not get me n
place as a scribe for bis master, for |
was now poorer than he.
II need not dwell on the painful
theme. I was surprised to see llder-
inns vacant look, as he remarked, It's
queer co. and panied to see him
absent himself without even asking
for Baba. And two days after l heard
Baba speak of him as ''heartless
wretch which remark she made just
after seeing him promenading gayly
with Zobeide, the daughter Of Zan-
roud, the rich candle maker. Baba
married Hassan the next week. Ilde-
rim was disgusted when he discovered
that I had not lost my shekels-that
not dirhem had left my pouch, and
that the officers he saw in my house
were my own slaves in disguise, and
he accused Hassan and myself of bav-
ing put it up on him. as he expressed
/ it. Possibly we did. Mind is strong
er than muscle, the cunning dwarf
can do more than the stupid giant.
Management will accomplish what
kicks and bludgeons cannot. Kicks
never reach the seat of reason.
"Go home, fond father, 60 home.
Spread the report of your failure
get it noised about that you have been
week in Wall street, and see how
long it will take your dry goods clerk
to tilt Kenturah Jane. Then will
Kenturah Jane wed whomsoever you
wilt. Her head is set on matrimony,
and she must marry somebody. The
moment her present young man goes
back on her Ito use a phrase OF the
ancients) you may nominate his sue
cessor, for marry somebody she will,
if for no other reason than to spite the
man who Tilted her. Once set on
matrimony, they marry. The flame Of
Hymen in a girls bosom never goes
out-never. Follow my advice, and
she will be Mrs. Jenkins in week |!
Away, dotard, awsy!"
And Abou ben Adhem gathered up
his pipe and bottle, and went into his
t..pt Cor his ciacfo