The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-05

have been punished in any of a half dozen
ways
Miss d'Alna has not abandoned her de-
termination to penetrate the mysteries of
the oriental harem-the most curious and
least known social institution on earth. If
her disguise is again discovered and she
should once more fall into the hands OF
the Sultan her career of exploration will
probably be cut short forever.
She may be led through the streets of
Fee by a rope tied around her neck as &
camel is led, and she may be fed on as
paragus, which is the food of camels. This
is to show that she Is held IN derision
like the camel, the most despised of beasts
in Morocco. 1t IS the deadHest insult that
can be offered by the Sultan of Morocco.
They may cut off a finger or all her
fingers.
They may cut flo foot or limb or all
her Limbs
They may scourage her with the fat of
their swords.
They may pour oil down her throat and
set it afre
Her head may be severed from her body,
in a public square in Fee, by the two
edged sword of the public executioner, the
Asst Sultan.
Miss d'Alma sailed for Tangier on March
90. She wrote to the Journal under the
date of April that she would leave the
next morning for Fee. She would join a
caravan and ride a camel straight to the
gates of Morocco's capital. She was wear
ing oriental costumes and had picked
enough native phrases to serve her pur-
H.
health and superb spirits.
A long letter was received from her
dated April "A, one day after she departed.
The next news was contained IN a cable
gram sent from the interior by way of
Tangier:
Have been arrested in mosque.
"D'ALMA."
Tt is believed that Miss dAlma was ar
rested in the mosque Of Sidi Kassam 30
Assray. The town is celebrated for but
one thing, the mosque, The mosque IS
the Oldest and most sacred in Morocco.
All mosques in Morocco are sacred from
the tread of heretics. No Christian or
Jew is ever allowed to step across their
threshold. But the mosque of Sidi Kas-
sam 30 Assray is most sacred Of all.
Every Sultan of Morocco has made a pill
grimage to it by caravan. The mosque
Of Sid Kassam Bo Assray became the
holy Of holes among all the mosques of
Morocco. And it was this temple that Miss
Alma profaned by her presence.
Mulai Add Eel-Aziz Ben Hassam Ben
Sidi Mohammed Ben Add Rahman is
eighteen years old.
The claims the prestige of Irish descent. |
Early in this century his grandfather, Sui
tan Sidi Mohamet, choose as one of the |
flowers Of his harem handsome Irish girl, i
the widow of a sergeant of sappers, who |
had been detached from the British garri- |
son at Gibraltar and taken into the Sui |
tan's service.
The Sultan Mulai Add El-Aziz, known to |
his subjects by the title of "Emir-el Mu-
menn," or Prince of the True Believers"
was born in 1881, and succeeded his father |
on June Z, 1894.
Young as he is the Sultan has a harem !
Of one hundred beauties. Most Of them are
older than himself. All are beautiful in |
the voluminous, luxurious, evanescent style |
Of the tropics. They lie all day on silken
divans in dim apartments hung with Orien-
tai draperies and heavy with Oriental in
cense.
In this, unnatural, half-clositered life
their beauty blossoms early and soon fades
When their beauty is gone they disappear
The Sultan of Morocco is a royal syb-
arte. HIS only rival in kingly splendor is
the King of Siam. The Siamese monarch
has a glass pavilion which he sinks at
will to the bottom of the lake and and
there lives as long as he wills among
watery splendors. The Sultan of Morocco
has an equally whimsical contrivance for
MS royal pleasure. Two years ago he had
in his palace a narrow guage
railroad that runs through every corridor
and state apartment of his palace and
larem. distance of over a linear mile.
In the main track attached to the palace
S a circular track a quarter of a mile in
ength, upon which it is his delight TO
send his car whirling about with his royal
person inside at the greatest speed that
me motor can supply.