The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-21

them-in the same fertile valley, and
within the very shadow of the great,
overhanging shelf which has ever since
borne their name, in deserving COM
memoration of Van Bibber's leap.
WHO AYOOB KHAN IS.
The Life and Busy Career Of an At
shanistan Chieftain.
From the London Times.
The victory of Ayoob Khan will have
the effect of bringing this young prince
Of the Barakzai house prominently
forward as an active participation in
the guidance of events in eastern AT
ghanistan. Up to the present time he
had held aloof from the Vaccinations
at Cabul and Candahar, and the view
had become general that he was either
personally incompetent or indifferent
to the progress of affairs. Both opin-
ions are now shown to be fallacious by
the success Of the Herati army, and
Ayoob Khan will henceforth occupy Il
prominent place in the imagination of
the Afghan people as their
most successful champion. While
his name will undoubtedly serve to
give increased cohes: ION to tile so-called
national party, his birth, together with
the promise Of ability now afforded,
will tend to make him among his fol-
lowers the natural successor of his
brother Yakoob. Whereas up to the
present he remained in the background,
circumstances have now brought him
prominently forward, and in the flu
ture settlement of Afghanistan the role
he will play must necessarily be an
important one.
Ayoob, so far as our information
goes, is the son of the late Ameer
Shere Ali, by the daughter of the Mo-
mand chief Of Lalpura, thus being the
fnll brother of Yakoob Kahn. He
was born in or about the year 1851 land
took part in the campaign of 1868,
which resulted in the triumph of va
kOOb and the restoration Of Shere Ali
to the throne. His name was not
mentioned, however, until a much later
period. In 1871 Yakoob had fallen in
to disfavor with his father, and had for
safety withdrawn from Cabul. In the
following year he retired to Seistan, and
soon afterward, gathering around him
a small band of adventures, among
whom Ayoob was prominent, he at
tackled Herat and expelled Shere Ais
government. Until the close of the
year 1871, Yakoob ruled there in indie
pendent state, and he was assisted in
the task Of government by his young
brother Ayoob. In the year mentioned
the well-knOWn attempt to reconcile
the conflicting pretensions of Shere All
and his son was made, and Yakoot
went under a safe conduct to Cabul
where he was arrested and cast into
prison. In his absence he had left AvOOl
in charge of Herat, but the prompt
measures taken by the Ameer and the
skill shown by his general, Omar Khan
made his rule there one of very brie1
duration. On the approach of Shere
Ais army he fled to Persia, where he
was granted an honorable reception acc
allotted Il pension by the Shah. From
1874 until the flight of Shere Ali from
Cabul, in December, 1878, he resided il
Persia, generally at Meshed, but whe
the Afghan power crumbled away in its
first contact with our own, he saw thai
an opportunity offered itself for estab
fishing himself in Herat. The governor
nominated by the Amer was apparent
ly 10th to refuse an entrance to Ayool
at a time when a common danger
seemed to sink all party differences bu
as soon as the young prince had obtain
ed admission into Herat he intrigued
and successfully, against his father:
representative. When Yakoob Khan
was negotiating with us at Gandamak
his brother Ayoob had so fal
consolidated his power in the
west that he was in position to sen(
fresh troops to take part in the wa
against ourselves. These arrived OF
the scene too late, for the treaty O
Gandamark had been signed. It il
generally understood that Ayoob, OF
learning the conclusion of the war, re
preached his brother for having mad,
territorial concessions to the Ipfdel
and the part taken by the Heratf levie
in the attack on the Cabul residenc,
will also be remembered as substan
TALLY this view.
Ayoob showed ne inclination to leave
Herat and come to Cab;il after tn,
withdrawal Of our troops last year:
circumstance which may be attributed
either to his Discrimination to surrende,
independent authority, or to the con
sideration that the communication
through Candahar was only practicable
with our assent. Even after the out
break Of the last campaign he long
remained passive, and, despite fire
quent rumOrs, it was only within the
last few weeks that he showed any in
clination to take an active part in the
progress Of events. His success vii
inevitably make him the natllra
leader of the party of Yakoob, and
while everything depends on his skill
recOllections, are unavoidably aroused
of the former proves and ability
shown by his brother in the same quar-
ter where he is nov operating. He
doubtless hopes to emulate the career
of his uncle, the famous Akbar Khan
but he will find that the state of affairs
is vastly different now from what it was
in 1912. 1t would be as impossible as
it is necessary to deny that Ayood has
SHOWN IllaI he possesses something o.
the great qualities which have made
the Barakzais supreme in Afghanistar
during the last three generations.
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