The courier., 1902-05-10
Slaves of The Clock

Slaves Of The Clocl
Higher critics Of ''The Arabian
Nights Entertainment" or the thous.
and and one tales told by the willy
Scheherezade to save her neck from the
bOw-string Of a sultan who had sworn
to take wife every Saturday and have
her strangled Sunday morning, have
begun to doubt the truth of some of
the tales. To be sure, a person who
must tell good story or die Is not
hampered by truth and is likely to dis
regard everything except the light of
interest in the sultan's eye. To be guild
ed to safety by that Pickering, cruel
light showed what a resourceful wo-
man Scheherezade was. Her invention
was device to save her life, and the
magazine editors have adopted her dis
covery Of the serial story to keep alive
the interest in their publications from
one month to another.
The story of Aladdin and his Won
derful Lamp Is one of the best known
of the tales of Scheherezade. The hero
found lamp that he rubbed and
brought to his aid powerful genie
who could do anything except escape
from the owner of the lamp. The story
has a modern and an American appli-
cation that indicates it's essential truth
1t is true as a parable is true. The
most powerful genii in this country
are slaves Of the clock. They carry
their masters in their vest pockets
They consult them constantly. The
watch allows his slave so much time
Tor his breakfast, dinner, supper, a few
hours for sleeping, and a much more
limited time for dressing, bathing and
changes Of costume during the day.
Then the slave has a little time for
reading, but the reading is not for rec
reation and elevation Of the slaves
own mind; he must read to get in
formation concerning the market and
politics which effect the market.
knowledge of the pathology and geog-
raphy Of the markets make him a more
useful slave. So the time devoted TO
investigation Of the conditions Of trade
Is not limited. Nor are the means con-
fined to reading. Brokers and students
OF how to make money quickly and in
large quantities discuss the ways and
means at luncheons, dinners and even
at evening parties where the sex which
Is more interested in ingenious ways of
spending money than in ways Of
making it, is present. The men gather
In groups, look solemn and rich and
discuss ways and means of turning an
honest million. If woman with whom
none of the party happens to be in
love addresses a remark fragrant and
shining with sweetness and light to one
of the solemn males, she gets the icy
polar breeze for complying with the
to preach the gospel to all
After long time, when Aladdin was
IN old man and the genie had built
him gold mounted palace set in dia-
nOnds as big as apples and paved with
apis lazuli. when the genie had stolen
he sultan's daughter for Aladdin's
wife. when Aladdin had everything
hat he could think of that other men
ould not get, he was filled with ennui.
md at this moment the old and hateful
who envied Aladdin his lamp.
old him to ask the genie for a roc's
gg to hang in his hall. II he could
ct the egg, the magician told him, he
ould have what no one else in all the
orld could get for hall chandelier.
'Ow Aladdin did not know that the
&c was the sacred bird of the genii.
he had 1t would not have made much