The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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Morocco Bandits and Their
Field of Operations J* >>
The Marauding Hands of the Desert Are Well
Organized and Arc Fearless.
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MOROCCO and piracy have
been associated in our
minds ever since school
days taught us a little of the
Sf history ot the Barbary stales,
brought lo us thrilling tales
of enslaved American voyagers, of gal-
lant liberating Decatur; but, in our ig-
norance. we had thought Moorish plnu >
a thing of the past, not in existence in
these modern days of telegraph ami rail-
way. However, we are lo learn the
Moorish pirate and brigand is still a
creature of vitality, seemingly as un-
conquerable as the Berber race itself
At present, news is Hashing round the
world concerning the captivity of an
American citizen, Mr. Ion Perdicaris, In
a mountain stronghold in Morocco, and
the danger threatening our citizen it the
demanded ransom in not forthcoming,
the demanded stipulations observed.
It is not improbable that America may
again take up arms against a Barbary
state; at least we have begun making
show of disapproval, our war vessels
now hovering about that bold and
treacherous African coast.
The story of the capture of Mr Perdi-
caris and his stepson, Mr. Cromwell
Varley, reads like a romance, and we
may be pardoned for reviewing it.
About half past eight in the evening Mr.
Perdicaris was at home with Ills family
In a villa about three miles from Tan-
gier, the. diplomatic capital of Mo-
rocco, when suddenly the house was
surrounded by a body of armed Arabs,
who, acting under order of their lead-
| entered only by tribesmen anil captive,
j n place of lntrenchment far from coast
and battleship, a retreat most difficult
j for outsiders to reach In safety.
Morocco has an area of about 219,000
square miles, but all except 5.1.800 miles
Is desert. Across the country, from cast
to west, extend the Atlas mountains
In the plains and mountains dwell Khe
turbulent Berber tribes; in the north
the Rifflan tribes The leading races
are the Moors, Jews and Berbers; the
latter styled "the free people." superior
to authority, folk that do not pay ob-
servance to, seem scarcely to be ton-
I scious of the existence of, that gentle-
1 man of supposedly autocratic power, the
sultuu of Morocco Constantly they are |
getting the sovereign into trouble by
I reason of their high-handed deeds of
! robbery and kidnaping, and the sultan
is ever mixed up in International broils,
is very often called upon lo pour into
the coffers of the offended goodly thou-
sands. No one nation, however.
pears ready to intern re to the extent of
assuming control of Morocco's internal
affairs, and the country confines a land
of political unrest, of lawlessness and
also of oppression.
Recently the brigands have been espe
dally bold in their depredations. They
cross into the spheres of French and
of Spanish Influence, seize upon any
"Christian"" that may come within
their reach In 189:: tlie Rifflan tribes
came in collision with Spain, and the
government was forced to pay a. large in-
demnity to the Spanish nation; since
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"IDONIA," III >MK OF ION !' URDU-AIMS AT T ANOIKR
T WOULD be Impossible to t spoil them, although they might bo
Imagine anything daintier ! tent to the wash matoy a time and ort.
and prettier than the new: The first of the blouses sketched
summer fashions in iiloifses ! might be made In Irish linen It wou i
* for young girls. Not only look equally pretty in plain "ten, or
are all the new styles so1 in one of those linens thai are flaked
duple and becoming, but the materials lightly with white. Stitched strapping*
n which I hey are carried out are end- of the same material torm a kind ot
ess in their variety, and so charming yoke, and appear again "P°n
■olor and design, that nothing more sleeves, each strap finished with a lit-
I) led beyond a simple skirt in He linen-covered button. 1 he tum-
ble or linen, and a wlde-bri led hat. over collar should be of white linen,
while the tie might be of the same col-
ored linen as the blouse, with white
embroideries on the ends, 'ihis blouse
might be carried out successfully in
any soft shade of pale green, pink,
mauve, or blue, finished at the waist
with a deep bell of louisine silk rib-
bon. The wide-brimmed hat, in sun-
burnt Yeddah straw should be trimmed
with a soft scarf of silk or gauze rib-
bon to match the color of the waist
belt. A plainly-gathered skirt in the
same Irish linen worn with this blouse
would make a charming costume for
a girl.
The second blouse which we illus-
trate is intended for afternoons, anfl
might he worn with a skirt of pleated
voile, and a waist belt of very soft
white kid, drawn through a square
kid buckle. The material should be a
flowered muslin or French batiste, with
tiny sprays of rosebuds and forget-me-
nots on an ivory-white ground. Three
fairly wide tucks, flatly stitched, dec-
orate this pretty blouse on either side
in front, in company with bands ol
< ream-colored mimosa lace insertion
the lace being arranged 10 simulate th<
form of a bolero both back and front
At the wrists also the same lace formi
a cuff, into which the muslin is finelj
' tucked. An embroidered stock collai
in fine whife lawn, and a tie of sof
I black satin ribbon, gives a pretty fin-
! ishing touch at the throat. The becom-
ing hat with its mushroom brim, hat
a full ruche of satin ribbon round tin
crown, in the same shade of pink ai
the rosebuds. Carried out in embrot
dered Indian muslin, or in soft wash
I vllh a ribbon trimming, to make quite « « *• lhi9 "esiSn wo,,ld also be Verj
I in ideal picture of a young girl's sum- (g ^ ^ Hmp Qf yoar whe,
ner costume mademoiselle demands something nev
The bad ol<l days have happily long
I jince departed, when any kind of ill- 1
I itting blouse, worn as often as not J
m an elastic and over the skirt, was
leemed quite good enough for a girl i
.o wear, even though it might be her ;
ast year in the schoolroom. Made- |
liolselle demands nowadays, and right-
y too. quite as neat and trim a blouse
is any that her elder sisters may de-
ight to wear, and although the sensi- i
Die modern girl would naturally scorn j
;he criminal foolishness of tight-lacing, j
I die nevertheless prides herself upon
owning a well-proportioned figure and
takes trouble to see that her corsets.
ire made iu a good shape and that they j
3t her comfortably, giving her suffi-
cient support without undue pressure.
The two very pretty summer blouses ' an,j pretty in the way of a Sunday besr
which we illustrate have been specially summer frock. The frock for Sundaj
iesigned to meet the requirements of bpSt_ or for smart occasions generally
the young girls. Although they are 0f which we give an illustration, migh'
suitably simple in design, they are either be carried out in white sof
I very smart in effect, and at the same washing silk, or in silk voile, in soitn
| delicate shade of lavender grey, pah
er. Raisuli. seized the two men and fled
with them to the mountains. Mr. Perifi-
caris is of Greek origin, but is a
naturalized citizen of the United States.
He is very wealthy, has been a resident
of Tangier for years, is married to an
Englishwoman, and his stepson is a
British subject whit h latter face brings
down upon the sultan's head now the
wrath of two nations. It is in accord-
ance with the oriental custom, that our
the bad feeling then engendered, piracy
on the Riff coast has Increased. It may
be of interest to readers to glance at a
few words from an article written for
an Hnglish magazine by Mr Perdicaris
on "Piracy In Morocco;" the autlioi
doubtless not dreaming at the time ol
writing that someday be himself was tu
fall a victim to this very piracy. "Kit-
flan mountaineers, men of a race which
alone, succeeded alike in the past
•ime are made in such a way that even
he most evil-disposed of laundresses J green or turquoise blue,
•ould scarcely find occasion to tear or
KI.LKX OSMONDE.
ance wim uic un'-mo* cuon-m. «*..*• mi..
consul at Tangier has asked the sultan and present, in maintaining iheirinde
that he advance money for tin ransom j pendcnce. men who were neither utter-
demanded, the consuls Immediate con- : lj quelled In bygone limes by Carthage
cern being the safety of the lives of the | Home nor (loth, and who. to-day, def>
captives. It is reported the brigand the sultan of Morocco as they do the
chief more than once has enjoyed the , greatest of the European states, not one
hospitality of Mr. Perdicaris in Tangier, j of whose subjects has penetrated thai
where the American is owner of one of
the sultan's palaces; but that the brig
arids mean business, and death doubtles
would overtake the captives if the terms
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BY MImOi'CO BAN I
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were refused. Mr. Perdicariu is 70
years old, and in poor healtln
Raisuli IU the Mime bandit that la.-t
year kept captive Mr. Walter H. Harris,
correspondent of the Ixuidon times, and
•foreigners in Morot co at tribute t he pres
,*;nt bold act of brigandage to the Indif-
ference shown by the government at the
offense, the bandits then going unpun-
" ished. But it should be understood, be-
fore quick judgment is passed upon the
laxness of the powers that he, that brig-
andage prevails to such an extt lit in
Morocco arrests and punishment of indi-
viduals might easily lead to a genera'
xcept as leaves or captive?
held as ransom, although the Bocoys
i country is situated in the very sight ol
| (iibraltar."
! The strife between the sultan of Mo
i rocco and the pretender continues
j When the excitement was at its heigh
I last year, the London Times ©orr
spondent. Mr. Harm, spent three weeki
I of captivity with the mountain rebels
I of whom Raisuli is the leader, in th<
region about Tangier. Raisuli lias laic
to his account highway robbery, black
mail and murder, and it may be som#
of the cruelty of which he has
guilty has been dealt out in payment foi
the years he spent in one of the worst
ol' Morocco's notoriously bad prison
Mr Harris describes the brigand. Ilai
uli, as still young, quite handsome, with
no appearance of the ferocity of which
he has proved himself capable. Mr.
Harris says his captors indignantly 1
fused all offers of ransom for his re
lease declaring their motive in holdin
him being not robbery, but their ic
that the retention of a foreigner
might get tuem from the government
certain much-desired concessions, one
Of these concessions the liberation of
imprisoned brigands. Mr. Harris' free-
dom was finally purchased by means of
a 16 to one ratio. 1(5 men from the Tan-
pri being exchanged for the
•1; subject The Englishman said
berated prisoners were in deplor-
ondition, Morocco's prison meth-
ods being the most inhuman, while lie
himself came from under the brigands'
in the fine state of heaJt h.
As to present-day piracy in the land
Mr Perdicaris writes that the Hocoyas
A Klrv i on \\i:i noi we sui - j
prised to hear that the em-
brlodered linen frock finds
a place in every French
woman's wardrobe at the
moment. including the!
young girl and the matron of advanc-
ing years. Most of the demoiselles are '
wring rose-pink or pure white linen, j
"inbroidered with white and worn with j
| white suede or kid waistbands. These ,
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Cecil "Rhodes' "Dream S'eems "Destined to
Fulfilled Within a Fctv years.
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of Morocco weaken the boasted security
aI of (Iibraltar by waylaying the smaller
civil war. and the overthrow of the gov- sailing vessels that are unluckily driven
ernment. their way. shoot down those cm board
And who is this Raisuli that he dan that resist, and carry off captive officers
steal citizens of great nations, dictate an(j moll remaining Italian, Port li-
terals to great nations? One of the! gtiese, French. Spanish all have had to
oldest and most Influential of the make acquaintance with the tender
Skiereeflan families therefore not in j mercy of the up-to-date Moorish pi-
awe of any nation, any people; a brig- i ra^e>
and that can flee to the mountains so far
ri
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linen-, made up aa they are nowadays
without lining*, and worn over protty
silk s lip.-- or peiiimn' , are eharaeler- ,
1sti, Of tile sueeesafuj almpllelty or ^
French dressing Moat i-harnilnn are
tlmse niaile with a very full sikir: and I
pouehiiiK blouse-like bodk-e. Some- i
limes they have a little Inner vest and ,
high collar decorated with rows of |
transiiarmt atltchinB Manj of theae
ire very pretty, and are worn with soft
white taffeta bands, but 1 consider that
those of kid and suede are niori In
keeping.
With these linens are worn hats of
the very simplest description. For
Very hot weather 1 like those com- ,
tostiii Of two frills of pleated uitiiilin,
made for the most pan in white, ant
tied with ribbon of the same shade a.
the frock.
Among gowns for morning wea
there are small checks in red anc
white, blue and white, and black anc
white, which are still holding theii
own despite the fact that they have be
come rather ordinary. Still, they an
essentially delightful toilettes for tilt
Bois In the morning, especially wher
the skirt is very full (and trimmet
with three or five enormous flat tucks
and little insertions of white washing
beading), and the simple bodice has a
yoke piece of embroidery and a few
tiny flat tucks, pouching over a wide
band <;r sash, and rather neat sleeves
1 with turned-back cuffs of embroidery
worn with a Breton sailor hat.
; For the loilette de reception and thf
more elaborate afternoon frocks, again
( do white mousseline de sole and white
muslin reign supreme. These seem tc
consist of endless numbers of ruchlngs
I gaugings, pipings and insertions oi
| valenciennes lace, indescribably elab
■ orate and yet maintaining a certain
chic simplicity. White muslin always
sounds simple, however Intricate II
! may lie in reality.
Our leading ateliers are making a
! specialty of mousseline de soie in blue
or zinc white shades, mixed with the
j coarsest while silk guipures or dentelle
lrlandaise; these are in contemplatior
for V^'ot. And once more are tliej
using linens de sole in a very vivid
shade of pink so vivid lhat It becomes
almost grange In tint—and these mlxec
with dull oriental embroideries or bpa
ver shaded guipure laces, are extreme
ly effective. Most of these smart frocks
are cut with the long shoulder, tin
deep, pointed ceinture, and a great dea
of fulness on the lilps. truly showinf
the popularity of the Marie Antolnetti
styles.
Then for very notable women, sunn
of our couturleres are making whi
i taffeta frocks with silk frills, edgi
with fringe after the manner in vogui
during the early Victorian era. anc
most •!4rac'.lve little prlerlne effects
fastening with beautiful hollis XV
paste buttons.
Illack chanltlly over white taffeta
promises to become a favorite fr
with the matron, softened by matij
plisse chiffon frills
Enormous.
The mail or<!°r business of ChicaftQ
amount* to more than }50,gi«,000 ai ear.
MAP ILLUSTRATING 1'RKSKNT < 'OX-
DITION OK CAl'K TO CAIRO LINK.
ft A WRITING in 1900 to Mr. Ewart
tTapSW S. Grogan. the plucky young
Jflnniw traveller who had then just
completed his unique and ad-
venturous journey from the
* Cape to Cairo, the late Mr.
Cecil Rhodes said:
"Even one supposes that the railway
Is being built with the only object that a
human being may be able to get In at
Cairo and get out at Cape Town. This is,
Df course, ridiculous. The object is to
cut Africa through the center, and the
railway will pick up trade all along the
route. The junctions to the east and
west coasts which will occur In the fu-
ture will be outlets of the line as it passes
through the center of Africa. At any
rate, up to Buluwayo, where 1 am now, it
lias been a payable undertaking, and I
still think it will continue to be so as we
advance into the far interior. We pro-
pose now to go on and cross ilie Zambesi
just below the Victoria falls. 1 should
like to have the; spray of the water over
'.he carriages."
If Cecil Rhodes were still alive lie
*ould soon see this last wish realised,
for the railway from the south has been
•arrled from Buluwayo through the
valuable coal region known as the Wan-
kie coalfields right up to the edge of
hose wonderful falls which are twice the
ight and more than double the width
L' the falls of Niagara, while a bridge
consisting of a single span of 500 feet is
now being constructed over the gorge
>elow the falls, and will be completed
jy the end of the year.
Starting from the south, therefore, the
ailway is now completed from Cape
own to Victoria falls, a total distance
if 1,035 miles, and a further stretch of
ijO miles In a northeasterly direction to
Broken Hill mine, 100 mlleg beyond the
ICafue river, will bo commenced at an
:urly dale, the contract having already
been let. This section, which is to be
mpleted by the end of March, 1005,
will tap a district extraordinarily rich
opper, lead and zinc deposits, beyond
which is a region with vast supplies of
rubber. There will then remain only a
section of 450 miles to complete the con-
nection with Kitnta at the southern end
if Lake Tanganyika, where the Char-
L red company's sway terminates. Sur-
vey work here is now in progress, and
there is no doubt that within the next
few years this link wilj be made. From
this point onward, however, Rhodes'
tchenie has had to be modified as the na-
ture of the country around the chain of
lakes stretching from the Zambesi to the
Nile larrfe to be known As Grogan
pointed out, on the one hand Lake Tan-
sanylka is hemmed in by steep moun-
tains offering well-nigh Insurmountable
difficulties to railway construction,
while, on the other hand, the lake itself
offers a magnificent waterway for 400
miles on the direct line between the Cape
and Cairo It may be taken as granted,
therefore, that this part of the journey
| will be made by water, and that passen-
I gers will be carried by steamboat from
! Kituta to Usambara, at the north end of
the lake. From here to Lake Kivu is a
I distance of 90 miles, offering no serious
! obstacle to a railway beyond a rise in
! level of 2,000 feet. Lake Klvu is 00 miles
j in length, and this sheet of water also is
1 surrounded by high and precipitous
mountains, so that another break in the
| line will have to be made and the water-
way utilised.
From Lake Kivu to the Albert Edward
lake is another GO miles, with a further
rise of 2,000 feet to the highest point ou
the whole route. The country to the east
of Albert Edward lake is so flat that Mr.
Grogan thinks it unnecessary to use this
fine stretch of water (75 miles long), and
suggests carrying a railway from Lako
Kivu, through a rich, healthy and dense-
ly populated country, past the Albert
Edward lake and down the Semliki val-
ley to the southern shore of the Albert
Lake—a distance of about 220 miles.
The Semliki valley is in Congo territory,
but he maintains that this is the obvious
route for the railway, with no engineer-
ing difficulty but a drop of 1,500 feet be-
fore reaching the level of the Albert lake,
while the alternative route through
British territory would involve a climb
of 2,000 feet, and a sudden descent of
3,000 feet. Once the Albert lake is reached
there is a navigable waterway right
away to the Mediterranean by way ot
the White Nile, save for a stretch be-
tween Dulile and Rejaf, where the river
is broken by about 100 miles of rapids,
which would have to be spanned by an-
other length of railway. An alterna-
tive route via Abyssinia offers itself,
the emperor of Abyssinia, under the
frontier agreement of May, 1902, having
agreed to allow the construction of a
railway through Abyssinian territory
from the Soudan to Uganda. However,
now that the denjse tangled mass of vege-
tation known as "sudd," which obstruct-
ed the river between Fashoda and Lake
Albert, lias been broken up, the Nile
route w ill probably be preferred to any
other Since the commencement of this
year a regular service of steamers is
plying between Rejaf and Khartum, a
distance of 1,000 miles, and Khartum is
now connected with Cairo by railway,
except for the short stretch of the Nile
between VVady Haifa and Assuan.
Thus, as Mr. Grogan points out, when
once the railway reaches the southern
end ot Tanganyika, a further construc-
tion of 410 miles of railway Is all that
will be necessary to render steam com-
munication by combined rail and water-
| way between the Cape and Cairo an ac-
complished fact. and. be it noted, the
whole route will lie through territory
j belongingto Great Britain or under Brit-
ish influence, save for the short stretch
' through the Congo Free State. When
these 410 miles of railway are construct-
ed Rhode's dream will have been realised
- if not In Its entirety, at least as far as
j the object which he had in view, for it is
evident from what he wrote to Mr. Grog-
an. that it was not as a "through line"
ay
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TORIA FALLS.
the Capo to Cairo railway appealed to his
imagination, but as a feeder line to
branch railways running east and west,
so that the "breakingbulk" necessitated
by the changes from land to water car-
riage is no drawback to the general
utility of the scheme. Two such branch
lines are already In existence—from
lJcira to Buluwayo via Salisbury, and
from Mombasa to the Victoria Nyanza,
and others are projected both on the east
side in German East Africa and on tha
west side in the Congo Free State. A
line about 243 miles in length Is also iu
course of construction between the
southern end of Lake Nyasa and
M'Tombi on tlie Shire river, whence
there is a steamer service to the sea via
the Zambesi
Passports Cause Annoyance.
The passport systi ni in Russia often
causes much annoyance. An American
wished lo change from one hotel In St.
Petersburg to a smaller one around the
corner. He came down with his bag
I packed ready to go. "Sorry," said the
I manager, "but you cannot leave this
hotel, or register at another hotel, until
I we get your passport from the polleo,
, and that will take a day and a night.
I Vou must go through exactly the same
procedure as if you were leaving the
country."
A Cry from Fasliiondom, '
"Doesn't a man have more tlinn one
vermiform appendix, doctor?"
"Isn't that enough?"
"But It's getting so common to hav«
just one removed,"—Town Topic*.
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