The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-09

OF smoke. II COllecteQ, and behold! II
was a genie, SO huge that his head
was in the clouds, He would have
killed his rescuer had not the willy
fisherman insisted that never could he
have come from the bottle The silly
genie squeezed himself inside, where
upon the fisherman clapped on the
top, nor would he remove it until the
genie swore to serve him faithfullq
This oath it was that led to the find
ing of the ensorcelled prince with
legs turned to stone and the lake
wherein swan fish Of four colors that
had once been men. After marvellous
happenings, the prince was made as
other men and the fish were men
and women. And the fisherman was
SO rewarded that he was the wealth.
est man of his time.
OF Prince Ca maralZaman and the
Princess Badoura, beautiful beyond
compare, and of how each saw the
other in sleep and was smitten with
great love. But when they awakened
they saw not one another for they
had been brought together by genii
who had carried Badoura out OF China
to the confines of Persia. Grief SO
| afflicted both that they sickened and
were insane from sorrow. Then a
messenger from Badoura journeyed
far over land and sea until he found
Camaralzaman and returned with him
to China where the lovers were we'd
ded. But while they were travelling
to Camaralzaman's land he wandered
away. Badoura dressed herself in his
raiment and passed herself for a man.
1t betell that she found favor in the
eyes Of a king and was married to a
princess. And Camaralzaman too
came to this land and knew not his
wife who heaped honors upon him.
At last she revealed herself and was
known as woman and CamaralZa
man took also to wife the princess
whom Badoura had married and they
were happy together
OF merchant who, awaiting death
at the hands Of a cruel genie, was
, Joined by three old men, one leading
a gazelle, another two black hounds,
and the third a mule. Now it is relat-
ed that the gazelle and the mule had
been wicked wives transformed by
been evil brothers. When the genie
! was told these stories Of enchantment,
| he was SO diverted that he spared the
merchants life.
About Haroun AIrashid
And Of many tales concerning the
/ Caliph Haroun Alrashid and his going
disguised into the lanes and baza airs
of Bagdad where he CHANGED upon
strange people who told him strange
stories of magic. Once he supped
with three ladies Of dazzling beauty
and with him were porter dazed
with the ma gnificence he saw and
three mendicants, sons of kings. all
blind in the left eye. Not knowing the
Caliph they told of their fantastic ad-
ventures and sufferings and he re-
warded them. And again he encount-
cred a beggar who implored him to
strike him, a youth who spurred
cruelty mare upon which he rode
and a rope-maker who had risen sud
denly from poverty to affluence. Their
tales too did he hear and them too
did he reward. Nor should AbonHas-
san the Wag be forgotten, whse trick
cry in pretending that he and his wife
were dead won SO much gold and SO
many laughs from the Caliph. And of
like import is the mad tale of the
humpback who seemed dead and of
the talkative barber who restored him
to life, of all those who had believed
themselves murderers of the hump,
back and Of the amazing tales that
they related.
So it came to pass that by the end
of the thousand and one nights, Shah
riar so delighted in the cleverness OF
Sheherazade that he welded her again
with regal pomp and they lived hap
PLY ever after.
Copyright. 1919. by Post Publishing
Co. (The Boston Post). Published by
special arrangement with the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate. All rights re-
served.
"Steia Maris," by William J. Locke
as condensed by Miss Mona Osborn
will be printed tomorrow.