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THE NEW # SOUTH.
Vol. 3, No. 9. P?rt Royal, S. fc., Saturday, December 3,1864. Whole No. 113
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November Poems.
Is there no lesson in the year,
Running her latest seasons out ;
No type or shadow in onr thoughts,
Whilst fading leaves are strewn about ? ^
Surely we have a sympathyMade
true by all our hearts have known, '
Of faded hopes and ended joys?
With flying leaves and flowers blown.
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Are those not things that tonch a springWhere
scenes, both sad and dear, hath lain
In memory's immortal bower,
* "*? ?inw> luck again ?
TliU nuica uic i-o. ?
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Do they not mind us of the time
When we must also leave the light?
^ When the last bloom upon our cheek
Shall turn into a deadly white ?
When, from its watch-tower, ths soul,
? ? Li a a leaf foiling from its bough.
Shaking and twinkling to its goal.
Must draw its gaze, and trembling, go.
YUSEF EL CASLAJj.
.AN" EGYPTIAN TALE.
In the city founded by Moaz, n Ara-,
biau caliph, and called by him El Kakirrh
or Cairo, you may find in the Frank j
quarter, in the street Muskih, nearly op. i
nosite the tKmib hanoot, or wine shop.
of Herr Datelbaum, a true Cairone coffee i
house. The water-pipes, wade of a t ocoan
it and two pieces of fishing cane, the
lit tic tirtjaiut, or crockerV coffee cups with
bras 1. older i, the squire seats made of:
cane, the fur.)ace with charcoal fire, and ;
the large mortar in >\hich roasted coffee ,
is pouuded, comprise the entire outfit,
anil may be bought for a few dollars. If
you understand Arabic, and sport the i
tarboosh, or red purple felt cap ot" the j
country, can sit cross-legged juid smoke j
in turn the shish ih, of water-pi e, as it!
pass d tr ound, and c.an drink Arabic cof- j
fee neat, why, then you may hear a story
like the following, told by u black-eyed, j
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11UOK-Ili'MTU, Uitll-SWU fvu nuv
thus earns his coffee, a few pwns; and a
pull at the water-pipe by amusing the
ireqnenters of this and other ot the thou- j
sand coffee shops in Kl Musr. He tells
th's with the greatest glee siuce it has for
its hero a man resembling himself, and 1
contains an apology for bis own aimless
and almost shiftless existence :
Theie once lived in a beautiful city, in
1 the days of Sand Pasha, two brothers ol j
the tnbj of .Yhmrik, thi elder of whom
was named Yusef el Lkislftn, or Yusef the '
Idle, while the youuger one was called I
Ali el Mash pool, or Ali the Busy. On the i
death oi their parents they divided their
1 roperty, the eldest brother, Y'l.sff, so in
vesting tiis share that he could just live
on a small income it yielded, while the
} ouuger brother, Ali, true to his name of;
mashpool or busy, ut once placed his property
in a fruit shop, and made money
diligen tly.
Now, it happened that Yusef, surnamed ;
the Idle, had a iriend who acted as drag-'
oman to the ever-wandering Franks, and
who was called Abu ben Blah ralah, or
Abu the son of the Restkss ; and this
Abu, over many pipes andjinjanq of coffee,
taught Yusef the language of the
Franks, and the two wasted days in the
idle talk (for it is well known Uiat words
base no bread.) But in course of time
Yusef could converse with fhe Franks,
and, behold, lhey understood every word
in six he spoke to them. Ue also passed
iiis time, like a very idler, gatneriug
dowers and making carious periumes, in
company with an old Jlikim, by boilii g
them in queer glass vessels looking like |
u gourd with a very long thin neck ; and
one of the perfumes was so delicious that
it was called "lire Dream of the Harem,"
and a trader in the 'funis bazaar once offered
Yusef a thousand piastres lor the
recipe, Hut Yusef refused it, saying, "I
am uot in the fancy-soap and perfumery
business, and don't want to be. 1 will
give it to the Pashn, and perhaps he will
invite uie to visit tae Gaiden of 8houorah
next time he goes there with his
families."
Then Y"user, who was always idle, discovered
a certain dye SiUll that gave a
tint like the rosy red of morning to the
wliite cloth made of cotton, and the dyers,
with arms all bine with indigo, saw the
beautiful color and said, '* i>e one of us,
give us thy secret : and thou shjdl go into
our business, and have pieuty oi piastres,
so that there shall be Lutakiali in
thy pipe, and bouza in thy cup, aud scveial
maidens to keep tlicc in music." Hut
luset turned a deal ear to the dyeing
men, and told them that he preferred to
be clean. So they left him in wrath, ;ind
he and bis dye whs troubled by tuem up
more.
One day, when Yusef was sitting near
that turnoie-down rock-grotto in the
islaud of likodo, idly looking at the
ohouw palm, and thinking what a good
cook nuture was to cause gmgerb.eul
fruit all ready-made to grow ou tout tree,
he drew lrow his girdle some dried dates,
aud, while eating them, he rememoereu
the dehcious taste of a date sausage mud. |
of fresh dates aud almonds smiled in au- (
telope casing, aud determined to propose
taeir inaiiuiaetiue to a newly arrived
h'rank, an Italian con eciioner, who
lived near the Esbekieh gardens, aud
was a mau of money and enterprise.? ;
JL'hus musing, lie rose from repose, aud
crossing over in the ferry-boat, waudercu j
around the city until Ue c.une to the i
Turkish bazaar where his brother, Ah j
the Busy, sat on his seat in his small
shop, smoking a schiboub. and waiting
patiently for customers. But his biow
was wrinkled when he saw his brother
lusef so calmly walking along, neither
buying nor selling, nor bartering, nor
huckstering, nor trading, and he lifted
up his voice and said to him :
" Sou of my lather, are you still busy
loafing?"
Then Yusef meikly replied, " Ali, my :
brother, i have tallied under the paim ,
trees in the pleasant Shade, and with the j
soft breeze perfumed with flowers I have j
reposed lor a long time dreaming 01? ;
perpetuul mction."
' rerpetu.U melons!" answered All
the Busy, ironically. ' While you have
been idle, I have been busy. How many
ligs do you think 1 have sold this morning
r
" Njiv, I know not," replied Yusef. I
" But tjnexs," replied the bu>ybody.?
"7)o guess,?tor the love of Allah."
" \\ ell," said Yusef the Idle, " about
seventeen millions eight hundred and
? ??? Imi n .1 . > n. l
mi^-iour iuuumuiu umc uumu&u <? ?<.? ,
twenty-six."
"i'ou go to !" shouted Ali. Where j
he desired him to go, probably t j?work,!
was unuttered ; lor at this moment up1
rode ail Englishman, with a cork hat ami i
blue veil around it, and mounted on a
-mall donkey, pursued by a small Egyptian
with a large stick, who from time to
time shouted, 44 RijlaLk! fk'hmalah !
Effcndi!" and only ceased when the
Englishman, anchoring his donkey by
stick ng his heels in the ground, pointed
to the fruit exposed in Ali's stand, and
beckoning the donkev-boy, said to him,
in a compound of Canton-English-linguafranca:
"I do gome pigeon here this uomo. I
buy-ee two-oo piastres," (holding up two
nngersj "oranges, (.apisce:
" Tahlb/' shouted the donkey-boy, almost
jumping out of his blue cahco shirt,
the only garment he had, on seeing the
silver piece. u-4io / oil rite, beeg olangis,
I rcerstrli. Eengeesh." Then giving Ali
the Busy a fjarful wink, the boy commenced
in Arabic a seveie blackguarding
of the Jnglese on the donkey, ending by
buying about ten oranges for ten piastres.
The Englishman, delighted at receiving
such fruit for his money, reflected to himself,?
"Ther^ is nothing like knowing the
langujige of the country you travel in,
you know!"
Jerking the reins, the hoicaga, or traveler,
w as about resuming this ride, when
Yusef the idler, w ho hud been leaning
immediately near his brother, started up,
ind said,?
"Sure, you want go in sassage bizness
?"
' How's that?" replied the Englishm
in. 44 Is it safe ? Will it pay ? Where
can you find hogs enough to make.it an
object, where people don't keep 'em?
but stOD,' Call this evening at 7 o'clock
at Shepted's Hotel; yon will find me
smoking a cheroot in the portico. Business
before pleasure."
"Oh, brother," said Ali tbe Busy,
"what ivre you saying to the red-headed
man ?"
"I ium asking him to go in the sausage
business with me."
"Halloo,hmeaga. Don't have anything
to do with Yusef the Idle ; he is an enthusiast,
a dreamer, a poet. lie makes
date sausuges! The fruit of rashness is
r pen: a ice ; therefore, let him alone.''?
But the Englishman understood not, and
a as already afar off before A.i had finished
his harangue.
Tnat evening, Yusef the Idle, with a
larm* sausace resembling a veritable bo
r? - o n
logna in weight, size, and dark color, accosted
the Englishman, who was dreamily
smoking a cheroot, und exhaling the
?>ottle of crusty old port he had lately
finished at dinner. Then Yusef, taking
out a large knife, sliced off two or three
cuts from the sausage and presented them
to the Frank.
"Can't do it,'* said he, Mhave just
finished three dishes and a heavy desert.
But it looks like very good bologna ; not
too tough, the exact shade of healthy
young-ilonkcy-meat." But Yusef insisted
on the traveler's eating a small piece,
telling him it was sweet and very good,
setting the example by finishing several
sfices himself. Thus guarenteed front
sudden detth, the Englishman took a
piece, nibbled at it, ate it all, and asked
for another slice finished by discovering
it. .1 J i- .1 .: i. i
mm uaie-sausages was a very iutini> ueiicacy.
He theu entered into business
matters, asking Yusef what capitiil he required,
Ac., &c., to shirt their mannfucture.
But Yusaf told him he only had
the knowledge of making them lor saje,
and was too idle to attend to business,
but if he would give his brother an order
he would supply all he wanted. The
Knglishinan an once wrote an order for
for two tons (about fourteen camel loads)
to be sent by the boot boo! [Fellaheen foi
locomotive] to Alexandria, thence to
Engluni per steamer, money to be paid
for theai on delivery at Alexandria. H<
afcerwarus said that on the occasion of a
great dinner in London he had so exqr'8i
itcly sold [in Arabic <jashsli-cd] aU the
ciub, by having these " bologna sausages
" brought on with the dessert, that
he considered his tour of the East amply
repaid by the discovery of the date-sausages
Yusef, before taking his leave, modestly
presented a beautiful crystal gilt flask
to the Engl'shmau, and desired him to
see if the perfume pleased him. The
traveller, who was a man for every thing,
carefully uncorked, or rather unstopped
the flask, and, placing it to his nostrils,
a gentle sigh escaped him, and as his
eyes rolled towards the skies, he excia
med :
44 Tfia u*nn/1nrfrl T.nV?4? on/1 Pimmol
i have nothing like it What do you waut
lor the recipe ?"
" Howard me as you see fit." said
Yusef the Idle : 44 lo, I am not a business
man, and trust to your honor." The Englishman,
learning that it was Yusefs
own invention, gave him a handsome
sum for it, and wjis about closing the session,
wheu Yusef displayed a flamingoeolnred
piece of remarkably tine muslin.
Even by lamplight the color struck the s
Englishman's eye ; and when he was told
that the dye was the invention of the idle
of Cairone, he requested him to call the
next morning, and if the color look as
well by daylight as at night, he would
buy the secret.
The next morning Yusef the Idler
waited on the traveller: and the color appearing
even finer by daylight than at
night, the Englishman bought the receipt
for the dye, and paid the money.
Then Yusef the Idler went into the
clothiers'quartet and" bought for himself ? - ?
and put on, a splendid suit of maroon
colored- clothes, with a handsome red
! sash, and a gold embroidered kerchief for
, head and tbrDat, and a pnrple fez cap,
I and yellow leather slippers, a pair of pjs'
tols for show, a jasmine stemmed pipe
fi. r use, juid with a purse full of guineas,
J and tne order for lourteen camel loads of
I the date sausages in his girdle, he held
his way to the Turkish bazaar. When he
arrived at his brother's stand, behold,
1 there was the desolation of the desert.
Ten cents, or two piasters, would have
bought everything he had for sale, and
Ali the Busy, witn his head between b!*
hands, was very busy?crying. He had
not "made a fail of it," as the F'auks remark,
but he was, nevertheless, " busted
; up so high that the hawks couldn't fly
j to him," as the men of Kengisland tersely
say.
! " My brother," said Yusef the Idle,
! " how comes it that 1 find vou in aliiic
j tioa, and you do not come to me ior help
and comfort ?"
At the toue of his voice, Ali the Busy
would have broken out in a torrent of
abuse about lazy, idle loafers, but lifting
! his head the splendid clothes, and pipe,
j and pistols, met his eye, and believing
' they were worn by some rich old Turk,
t or one of the head officers of the police,
he kissed his hand, laid it on his head
aid breast, invoking a shower of complimentary
blessing on the head and beard
ot the Kffendi before him. and not until
several seconds did he allow his eyes to
I mount up, until, to his surprise, he met
the kindly regards of his elder brother
hied tenderly, lovingly on him.
Ali the Busy theu told his brother of all
hi* trnnnb-s and of his havinc/ to sell
| that morning his whole stock of goods to
pay a debt due that day, a debt that had
: i he refused to pay, he would have been
dishonored for Jife. Then Yusef the Idler
told his brother to be of good heart,
and placing in his hand the purse of gold
> and the order for the fourteen cauiel-load*
, [<hptin\l*d o? 4Pntje. ]