The Pearsall Leader. (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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BOABDIL.
he Last of the Moors.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
bdil—son of Muley Aben Hessen,
King of Granada,
let El Zegri, general.
Atar, governor of Granada.
rologer-Jusef Aben Connxa,
vizier of Boabdil.
g Ferdinand of Spi in.
Alonza de Aguilar,
ando de Talero, archbishop and
ct nfessor.
a Diego de Cardena, officer of
Queen Isabella.
seen Isabella of Spain and Castile.
Morayma, wife of Boabdil, daughter
of El Zegri.
Horra, mother of Boabdil.
tima, youngest wife, Aben Hassen.
»y attendants and soldiers.
Cypsy.
Scene—Alhambra and a camp near it.
Jusef Aben Comixa, Moorish general.
strength and beauty. His in-
tellectuality will be of a high de-
gree ; his taste for fine arts com-
bined with an ideal nature will
place him the foremost man on
the continent. Then, again,
Mercury being the ruling planet
and the signs of Gemini ascend-
ing gives him a contradicting
horoscope, interpreting that in
spite of having rightfully in-
herited all the blessings frqjn
father and country, his end will
ninuie.
(Curtain drops.)
(Continued.)
PERSONAL LIBERTY,
Did you ever stop to consider
when you have the liberty to use
your boasted “personal liberty?”
If the individual could be so iso-
lated that his actions could have
no effect whatever on any other
Ready-made
Mosquito
BARS
PROLOGUE.
“Ye quechless stars! so wond-
rous bright
Untroubled sentries of the shad-
owy night
While half the world is lapp’d
in downy dreams
Then ’round the lattice creep
your midnight beams
How sweet to gaze upon your
placid eyes
In lambent beauty sparkling
from the skies.”
________creature, then he would be in a
be sad and miserable. Further-. position to do as he pleased, if it i
more, the sun being in mid-heav-j were impossible for him to ever
en and bringing your ruling] return to normal life. But since
planet in evil aspect with Saturn ' bo one is so isolated, his personal
and Uranus will cause his father ! liberty must be enjoyed with the
to conspire against him and also j sole view of permanent profit
predict a violent death for him. and pleasureto himself and oth-
Preceding this catastrophe cruel ors.
broils will cause dissentions i There are men so circum-
within thy domain which are in- stanced that this abuse of rela-
stigated by a revengeful and am- tionship does not work such hav-
bitious woman. This state of af- j °c as it ordinarily does. If the
fairs will afford an opportunity money spent for drinking robs
to foreign powers to overthrow
your mighty nation.
(Hesitatingly)—To continue
the home of no necessity or lux-
ury, if the energy dissipated in
drunkenness detracts nothing
ACT I. Scene 1.
(Muley Aben Hassen, King of
Granada, in the Alhambra with
his Astrologer.)
King—The happy news of the
arrival of an heir to my illustri-
ous throne reached me this min-
ute and a3 the glory of the
Moorish Kingdom rests upon
him I am deeply interested in
the future of my beloved and
only child. I have therefore
sent for you and wish to test
your knowledge and world-
famed wisdom by demanding of
you the revelation of his fate as
written in the stars. Go! Haste!
Prepare the chart.
Astrologer—Most noble sire,
anticipating this request from
thee and having the love for thee
this annihilating reading would from one’s duties to his work—
be but heaping coais upon thy but this can never be so—then a
honored head. I have not
strength to voice such horrors as
I see here. Pity me; spare me
I beseech thee. I but instructed
you of the wisdom that I was
taught in Egypt by Tewfid
Chezil, the renowned astrologer.
King—(remains silent for a
while, then suddenly arousing)
Such news as thou hast imparted
to me has almost maddened me.
But lo, I will not be weak like
you. Necessity forces me to
adopt desperate measures. These
tiidngs that the Gods predict
shall not be true. If fair means
will not prevent them, then foul
ones will. Am I not a Monarch
with absolute power? Am I not
the Kiiig of a mighty Nation. I
say destrop the youth, while yet
the flame of life is easily exting-
uished in him. By doing so you
will save yourself, your nation,
your kingdom from disgrace and
downfall.
Astrologer—Oh, beloved Sire,
stain not thy hand with the
blood of thy innocent child.
Think of the curse of having i
murdered your own infant. De-
man may use his personal liber-
ty to get as drunk as he wants
to, but so long as his earnings
are needed by his family, so long
as the accomplishment of his
work as it should be done re-
quires all his power, so long as
there are moral obligations to be
met, and the universal demand
for a clean life, and the promise
that that which is sowed must
be reaped, holds, no one has
“personal .liberty” of the kind
that is made the slogan of an in-
terest that is opposed to all the
good that humanity has striven
to accomplish these thousands of
years.
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100-inch gauze ..........$1.35
90-inch wash gauze......$1.50
100-inch wash gauze......$200
110-inch wash gauze......$2.50
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THE EMPTY LAW
AND THE OPEN DOOR.
Hush,
none of your^advice. I shall at-
tend to further proceedings.
(Astrologer Exit.)
and thy child at heart, I have ■
already prepared a horoscope ofi vise some other means,
thy dear offspring’s life and King— (abruptly)
have it here with me.
King—Ah! Thou art indeed
wise and thy services shall be
well rewarded!
Proceed, I am impatient.
Astrologer— (trembling) Al-
lah Ashbar! God is great, he
alone controls the fate of thee
and thy empire. It is written
in the heavens that this newly
bom son shall sit upon the
Illinois has a law forbidding
dramshops to be open the first
day of the week.
. Chicago has a mixed popula-
tion, a majority of whom hold
the European rather than the
New England view of Sunday.
For tweilty years or more sal-
oons there have been open on
that day. No doubt if the ques-
tion were submitted to the peo-
ple—as suporters of Sunday
saloons proposed doing at this
spring election—the major voice
name shall be obliterated from
the pages of history. Let me
view his headless body. The
throne of Granada and that the j sword ofvfher executioner shall
pwnfall of this mighty King-! prove the false hand of this iy-
<lom shall be accomplished dur- i ing horoscope and shall silence
ing his reign. ; the ambition of that unknown
King—2'enraged) — Silence ! female,
thy croaking! Thine eyes are: /(Rings for an attendant. At-
weak, and like a woman, you 1 tendant answers)— Summon the
hear misfortune in the crowing i Governor Ali Atar into my pres-
of a hen. ^Uook once again! Con- j ence. (King seats himself and
King—Such are indeed des- might approve the existing con-
perate means for a loving fath- dition. Both candidates in the
er! But my Kingdom above all.! last mayoralty contest said they
O! how I love Alhambra’s glory, j would not close saloons on Sun-
Yes, destroy the youth, his very day.
Of late an association has
caused the arrest of a number of
saloonkeepers for violating the
State law. Nine such cases have
been tried at this writing. In
each case, we believe, evidence
that the defendant kept open sa-
loon on Sunday was clear. In
each caes the judge instructed
the jury that, if the defendant
kept open saloon on Sunday, he
violated the law and must be
found guilty; and in every case
the jury either acquitted the de-
fendant or disagreed.
Commenting upon this, a So-
cialist journal observes: "Here
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NEW LIXIE.
Vince thyself of this fact before j is soon lost in revery and speaks
you make another such asser- half laughably.) Oh, beautiful,
man. Show me the chart. all golden, gentel youth. Thy
Astrologer — preparing the nation has lent a hopeful eye to
chart)—Most gracious Sire, ini you. Life would have been one
yours andltn your father’s serv- ‘ exulting pleasure had not this j is a precedent that will be found
Ice I ha*|kspent my days. In unlucky star brightened heaven j to our advantage. As the class
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90-inch wash gauze.......$2.50
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HANGING BARS AND FRAMES.
With all attachments complete.
house and happiness resting up-; drops from thy flowing hair, arrested should demand a jury:
on me, myliair turned white as May it be hoped that yonder trial, and every Socialist (juror-) !
—yonder sierra long! fountain’s sparkling water isj should assert his right to judsH
e stooped my shoul-1 clear enough to wash away the j whether the enforcement of the 1
the snow
before o
ders. Full many a night,: guilt of this execution. May the
though the cold wind chilled me moonlight not allow the appari-
to the bone, or through many a
summer eve, when the southern
zephyrs played and danced in
the moonlight around the foun-
law in the case before him isff
for or against his own class in-
terest, and act accordingly.”
A law that cannot be enforced
tion of a ghost-like vision to ap-
pear in the form of a crowned
angel armed with a sceptre, seems to us a mighty poor asset
________ _________________ What could I do to purify this! for any community, no matter
ram of Alhambra sat I lonely |spot from its murderous stains?!what it deals with.—Saturday
and faithfully with this chart Ah me! I perceive already, this Evening Post.
yearning to read in it the great-
ness and continued prosperity of
your name and rule.
Believe me, the science of
these thwinkling stars can re-
veal the secrets of life, tnough
they speak with a silent voice.
Their mystic symbols disclose
divine intelligence and exert up-
on our lives their good or evil
influence. Upon their guiding
power I have long since learned
to rely. But, oh, Allah, that
mine eyes should interpret this
fate. That my white lips should
speak the words!
King—Well, well, thou weak-
ling, dost thou forget thy duty
to comply with my command?
Proceed, I say, and read my fate
from yonder chart. If thou dar-
est to foretell such loathsome
hidings from it in earnest I vow
I will master them and prove
to all that even God can lie.
(King pacing excitedly up and
down while the chart is being
explained.)
Astrologer—Sire, the son who
has come this day into thy heart
and life will bear many blessings
from the Gods. If he lives be-
yond the age of five he will grow
be an Apollo in manly
ghastly, headless phantom mir
rored in the crystal wrnters of
the fountain yonder in the abyss
of the pool my very image
framed in soft curls, beautified
with dimpled cheeks lies cold,
breathless, the helpless victim of
a barbarous cruel deed.
Governor—(enters)—My no-
ble soverign, what induces the
pleasure of your calling?
King—(startled, greatly ex-
cited.)—I order you to give im-
mediate instructions of a p Folic
execution of all infants born
within the last week. The place
of teh execution to be at the
fountain of Lion in the Courts
of Alhambra. Make haste and
intoim the public that it is writ-
ten in the stars and that it is the
will of Allah to aDo include my
r.evvly born son, the Prince Boab-
dil.
Governor—Indeed, I am deep-
ly grieved that my mo..t gracious
sovereign consigns me WtTTTfcuch
a desperate charge, my soul corn-
peg me to beg you to ref.cct and
use more moderate means to car-
ry out such a design.
X;ng—Hush! Do not allow
yourself to criticize ~>v com-
A word to the temperance
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He is in command of the opposi-
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Over-confidence alone can defeat
the temperance workers.
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