“Rabbi” Ben Shuali Abed, colored, who discribes himself as chieftain of one of the ten lost tribes of israel, got himself in hot water the other day when members of his Lodge of the Mystery Ten staged a pistol duel that landed two of them behind bars.
“Rabbi” Abed, otherwise known as Prince of the Kingdom of Abyssinia and God Prophet from the Beginning, ejected one Larry Ross from a Lodge meeting Ross didn’t like it. He was formerly the grand keeper and high in Abed’s godly circle. So one night the keeper tried to soothe his shattered vanity by crashing a meeting from which he had been barred.
Edward Williams, one of the faithful, who stood guard at the portal to the inner sanctum where the Lodge was perfroming holyrites, held Ross at bay. They flourished pistols. The rest of the story is history, but the outcome will be stteled by the grand jury.
One of the good old customs Prince Abed likes to teach his followers is a method of writing English from left to right. A fair attainment this, even for educated persons. The Lodge holds it up as a qualification for beig Jewish. Also, Prince Abed sells Hebrew prayer books at three times their worth.
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