The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-01
SONS OF THE DESERT
DANDY WORDS OF
HOT IMPORT
Jugglers From Assouan
Teach a Gioaur Policeman
Some of the Niceties of
Inyectiye = Mahmod Ac-
cuses Abou of Theft, Then
Relents = Sons of the
Prophet Embrace.

1smail Abou Zeyd, a one-eyed Qerv-
ish from the pyramids of Gizeh, in
whose shadow he swears no liar was
ever born, found himself in an awful
row yesterday afternoon in front of
the dime museum on Washington ave-
nue., Minneapolis, with an equally dark
skinned and vociferous person nanaQl
Mohammed Mahmoud.
Both the men originally belonged to
Chukree's Hindoo circus, combina-
ton that weathered the wrath Of In
dian and Japanese circus patrons, only
to go bump against dogs of unbelievers
out Frisco way, who ir.sist that no
circus is any sort of she 4 at all that
hasn't three rings to it, and a whole
troupe of performing elephants.
Abou Zeyd and Mahmoud are muse
UNI jugglers of sorts. They both
swear entertainingly and accuse each
other Of every conceivable crime in
the codes of their own country and
this, but the chief grievance of Nah
moud is that Abou Zeyd stole from him,
when the San Francisco collapse oc-
Cured, a number of valuable orna-
nlents used by him in making up for
his act. The trinkets, Mahmoud de-
clares, are of solid gold and worth
several hundred dollars. He was so
DESTROYS of knowing what Abou Zeyd
had done with these properties that
him in constantly narrowing circle
and then kicked him; reviled all his
relatives for many generations back in
painstaking detail, and ended by ap-
pealing to the police.
BY the beard of the Prophet" cried
Abou Zeyd, slapping his breast de-
yc11tly, Il came to this place from the
palace of the khedive of AbbasiyeIl,
and 1 formerly went regularly to the
mosque.
LAS for this wrinkled son of sinful
parents, shall make his end easy who
has followed me many miles with his
lying tale of robbery, that he may ex-
tort from me backsheesh, and thus
rob my family whom honor? Let him
bury his face in the dust for he hath
no salvation 1t is written in the
Koran that a dog has no soul to save,
SO be it,
Mahmoud's shoulders shrugged un>
easily, as though he were suffering
physical pain. He licked his lips and
tried to utter sounds in a dry throat.
The whites Of his eyes became in
famed, and the policeman outside the
dime museum lifted him up only to
set him down again stiff legged-like a
bucking broncho, because the copper
thought Mahmoud was going to throw
a fit.
Allah IL Allah!'' shrieked Mahmoud,
lying son of a race Of infamous liars
and horse stealers to the city Jail.
Brother of iackals!" he cried, poking
his beard in the face of Abou Zeyd,
who was smoking a Cairo cigarette
of abominable bouquet-"what hast
thou done with the rings and ank-
lets ?"
stop that" interposed the patrol
man, or I'll run tn both of w in"
grabbing both Egyptians by the en-
broidered bed quilts in which they
had been disporting themselves.
By the toElb of the Caliphs it is
coercion. Surely this wicked liar
should be crucif1ed like the bandit he
is" saying which Abou Zeyd relapsed
into his native tongue and proposed
something that evidently meant a COM
promise, because Mahmoud became in
stantly appeased. Another word or
two in the incomprehensible language,
and then the palms of the men from
Assouan met one, twice, three times
The divils is playin' patty cake
grunted the patrolman.
The Egyptians took no notice. They
touched their lips, their breasts, their
foreheads, with their hands, perform
ing this ceremony three distinct times.
Then Mahmoud fell upon the breast
Of Abou Zeyd and embraced him.
I'm the name of Allah said Nah
moud.
so be it, in Gods name" answered
Abou Zeyd, and they walked off to-
gether, leaving the policeman scratch
ing his head in a puzzled way with
the end of his club.