The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-25
A SYRIAN GLAD CONVICTION
al HODA," or ARABIC DAfLT,
BLOOMS AFRESH.

Even the Fulton street police were in
cited 10 wonder yesterday afternoon owe
tho racket IN the Syrian quarter. Lieut.
Andy Devery. brother OF Big Bill Deyery
shook bic pOmpadour and allowed that
must BE- series 81 revival meetings
Syrians wearing the DERBY. Turks wearing
the fez, children wearing lOincloth an,
ashes grouped on the corners % Albany
Carlisle and Washington streets exclEim
ing IN Arabic and Port Said Esperan,,
many circumlOcutory things denOtinl
joy, relief. bliss. A young man with up
standing hair raced through the streets.
-Kaleeb' Al HOdd!-
Upstairs In the waathered building al
81 West street Nanoum MokarEel editor
Of that only Syrian daily newspaper
~ HOtg. whose issuance regularly st
! 1 p. NJ. marks successive epOchs. sat al
his desk, his feet upon kermanshah rug
priceless and beautiful A. his brother
SallOim entered the room he plucked a
rose from the bush by the window and
handed IL 10 him The safe door swung
open and a bottle % arac emerged. Two
smiles, two mods. two tilted heads. There
IL no more appropriate toast than arac.
quintessence Of aniseed and the grape
and in &rac did the MokarIels pledge Al
HOdd
For five days had the syrain quarter
been without a newspaper. Five days
had the brothers Mokarzel been busy
moving the dresses. the Arabic library.
Offices. furniture. everything A HOdd
had grown too hiR 90 he cFamped IN a
couple 81 hoors. Il must inhabit tho whole
building. And the rearrAngement was
such desperate AFFAIR that the newspaper
Couldn't he issued last Thursday. nor last
Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Monday went
by and half the quarter did not know how
the other half lived
Business came % standstin. Why
should man enter into the Princely Eating
Place thasiliken estiatoreionl AT Albany
street when he had mo- ~ HOda 20 per,lsei
How could Shehesn. FasAa 4 Go. sell rugs
on Washington street when the firm had
not the latest quotations on KAYAKS pre-
ierred and Beloochisians llncOmmonf
How should Pedro CHram dispose OF mer-
chandise b. the DoDulace when he knew
not whether the last shipments from Beirut
had safely arrived in Vienna Oh, woe
and obligatory standstill, one might -
well he hack in lovely Mount Lebanon With
ell the newspapers suppressed ~ TO Try
10 transact commerce IN New York with
out a HOSd.
inside the offioes of Al Hoda there uas
confusion too. Continually the telephone
rang and continually Il must h. explained
that AZ Hod1 was merely In chryEalis
Meanwhile the compoeitor, bath gray
haired and in knickerbOckers, made pain
ful mistakes.
-Yussuf and Naiaenn.- salioum MoISar.
1el would say as he reproved them for
spilling the ConstantinOple despatch M
over the basement. while you present
the radiant scmblance q Adams I'm
happy race Il 10 inevitably shown that
your ancestors must have been hOd ear
riers at the building Of AOlomOn's Temple.
You were both manifestly raised In
MesODOtamia, where hipponotami are
taken Tor granted In the kitchen
Remember. you ars IN a country where
Il IL not good taste % handle type a. II
q were cObblest0nes 60 he heaved az the
Governor u the province. An. be swirl.
but unerring. or an emtaNaEy Of Abdul
hamid shall b. permitted % hang you on
a Mount Lebanon pine treel'
Beneath theae gentle rebukea the
mechanical force Quailed and made
careful haste. Not ~ unpr0vokinR were
the disputes AZ to what should 20 into
the FIRST deferred ISSUE Early Yesterday
morning Nahoum Mokarzel had thrown
three plots on the hOOr and was st-rnly
threatening not 10 print the latest Young
Turkish intrigue unless II was more
closely woven. War ensued between
the brothers MokaTzel a. % whether the
regular poetry department should have
space IN the impending issue
But We always print az least three
poems a day walled Sall0um. -and
because 81 nOn-appearnnce the poems
have accumulated fast ! have here
thirty-seven. We must print some or
our readers will declare ~ commercial - /
msroenary ! will cast away thirty-four /
Oh. heartrending task That leaves.
however three pearls. Here. we cannot |
leave this out
Rose Of Delight whose petals bios
CaprcIous A. my fahries. 70
This Is your meaning. thGn. for ne.
Thy thoughts be boauuful a. We.
Enchanting. but We have not the
room, groWled Nahoum
What then shall there be- room for?. .
demanded SallOum. For the rug QUO
latiOns and the advertisements al Bar- 4
,on's latest cigarette? BAH Listen 10
his rhythm:
h strayei Ia the garden.
NJ lovely aEurs garden
The moonlight made u azure. the moonlight
over The Bosporus-
! sweet breeze from the waters
| breeze from Donna Bagtschs
~ lHnF MI {
that my love be prosperous
Alas! ! shall answer for II at the judo
nent Seat, responded Nahoum. -bnt
shall exclude H. However. You NAV
'in the next chapter Of our serial The
\ yes % Bulbul's
The pickering continued. One by one
he articles were cnst aside or meticulously
coepted. And pretty soon there was
roar from the basement. a roar from
he street Sheheep Eassa rushed out
.areheaded and after a hasty scrutiny (
brew mp his shutters and marked up
Iie prices Pedro Caram, learning that
Iis goods were not merely In Vienna,
'ut safely &C Hamburg. Immediately
instituted a scarifice sale.
The Prinoely Eating Place was thronRad
or the first time IN a week with BulRarA,
erbs, Mount LehanOnites. all ordering
'urkiNh coffee, and with a polyRIot chatter
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