The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03

tice the cry of the peddler. said to lone of her attendants What a strange proposition is this? New lamps for old wonder if we could take advaptage of it? There is an old lamp in a closet off of the Princes room-ang uglyi old thing. Run and get it and we Twill trade with this peddler" The-slave did as ordered, and when she madeJtheiex- change with the supposed peddler ithc Princess was delighted. "How pleased the Prince Aladdin will be- cried she, to see in place of that old lamp hand some new one.''
 The magician, as soon as he, hadfgot possession of the lamp. which he at once recognized as the one he sought. hurried away down a side streee, threw away his basket and it's contents and, taking the lamp to retired spot out side the city, rubbed it with feverish impatience. At once the genii appeared and repeated his usual formula express Ing his servitude to those who held: the lamp. T command thee," replied the magician, to carry me and the. pa lace which you and the other siaves Have built in this city, to Africa. And in taking away the palace take also the people within it." Immediately the pal ace of Aladdin and the people in it were transported to a remote spot in Africa, and the wicked magician travdied along with the others. It was night When this happened, and the next morning, when the Sultan. as usual went to his window to admire the palace of his on-in- Jaw he was filled with astonish1nent and grief to find it gone-vanish ed-evap- orated, as it were. into nothingness. He sent to the Grand vizier to consult him concerning this marvellous phenomenon. Magic" said the grave Grand vizier. 4by magic did Aladdin build it and by magic has he removed it. He has thus stolen your daughter and has deceived you. That hunting expedition of his was only an excuse to keep himself out or the way while he worked his3wicked necromancy."
 The Sultan believed and septsa party of soldiers to arrest Aladdin At his hunting lodge, and he was brought eap- tive before the throne. The Grand Vizfer, who had never liked NAladdin had so filled the ears of his rdyaq mas ter with islanders and basa charges against Aladdin that the sultan refused to listen to explanations and excuses from the culprit, but simply sentenced him to death off hand Finally. How ever, in response to Aladdin's 7entreaties to know with what he was charged. the Sultan took him to q window and<fold him to look forth--did he see the; palace which had stood there? What hadt be- come of it?-and of his daughter? Aladdin was thunderstruck, but. sus- pecting at once that the magician had reappeared and somehow got possession of the lamp, he said: Sire, give irie but forty days, and if within that fine your daughter and the palace have not re- turned my life shall pay the, forfeit The Sultan granted the request. and Aladdin, repairing to secluded place. rubbed his magic ring. At once a,renie appeared to whom Aladdin. ssaidt.s T command thee to return to b&here it stood before the palace which was mine. T cannot do that" replied the genie, T am only the slave of the ring not the slave of the lamp" rr4-
 Then" said Aladdin, carry me at once to where the palace now stands.s,. In an instant he found himself before his own paiace-but in strange country. Enter ing the palace Aladdin was received with the greatest delight by the Princess, who told him all that had happened si1fce thev had been separated .''And where. is the lamp now?" asked Aladdin. fThe ma sician carried it in his robe,' rep3iud the Princess, and I know that my sparting with it has been the cause of otff rmisfor- tunes. for the magician has said as much Aladdin told the Princess that she must invite the magician to fake.din- ner with her that day and when at fable exchange drinks with him and drink to his health 5T--s-
 She agreed and Aladdin, going fs1ascity which he saw in the distance. purchased powerful drug. which on his return he put into the cup of wine which stood be- fore the Princess. All went. as. Aladdin had planned, and when $ thes .,nagician
 
 drank from the cup the Princess pre- sented him he fell down senseless and they took the lamp from his bosom. Alad- din had intended only to render 11Ssma- gician unconscious, but the drug WAS so powerful that 1t killed the AfricanszRub- ping the lamp Aladdin now sufffffoned the genie and had himself ahdp palace, with all within it. transported, back ito the Chinese capital, to the exact spot on which 1t had stood before. A-brother of the magician subsequently fried- to sruin Aladdin by getting the Princesss t6x ask for roc's egg to hang unders fhA doms of the palace-and the roc is the Tgaster of the genii But Aladdin discovered. the trick and killed the wicked. naasacian's brother. So they lived thereafter in peace and when the Sultan died at A good old age the people made Aladdin sultan
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