The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-03-18
PIRATES AND P0ACHERS

Ing their lives in the attempt They
struggled in all of the rifles that the Afri
dis had in the late rebellion. The Mad
f'ak1r of Swat did not have so much CON
| f1dence in religion as a weapon as not to
be willing to pay $500 for Martini rifle
The penalty for smuggling rifles to the
natives is 4 long term of Imprisonment
Some fellows were caught in the act Of
smuggling while the rebellion was in
progress, and they wero shot for high
treason. One of them was a discharged
sergeant of the British army with a good
record.
Smuggling brandy 70 the rajahs, who
ore not allowed by their religion to drink
Intoxicating liquors, Is another favorite
trick One old potentate In the far north
Of IndiL had never tasted brandy until
it was first put to his lips by a man
v no YVES Scotchman by birth. but ras-
tal in all his thoughts. The rajah liked
1t so well that he was willing to pay any
l.rice tv get it, provided the priests and
Ills people did not find him out. The
Scotchman promised that they shouldn't
ard received present Of fine ruby for
suggesting that in a certain secret place
he would always find a bottle of Scotch,
end for every bottle brought he was to
leave 200 rupees. At this rate of profit
and with the old rajah consuming nearly
a bottle a day. the Scotchman would have
recCme rich if the rajahs mother-in-law,
who was anxious to have the rajah off
the throne, so as to give his son a
chance, had not granted the Scotchman a
subsidy to encourage the old mans ap-
petite.
AS a result. the raja!a lived only
year, then the Scotchman saw that not
himself but the mother-in-law had the
best Of the bargain, and cursed himself
for having killed the goose that laid the
golden egg just to please her. The old
loI l.
man that she did not think that he ought
to live. So. as became an Oriental dame,
she told him that she wished him all
manner of health and happiness, and
sured him that so dear friend would
always be welcome at court. Then she
gave orders that he be assassinated, but
the assassin made a false move and the
Scotchman escaped.
IF an adVenturer sees that the chance of
stealing a rajahs jewels is Slight he may
try the dodge of getting him to visit Eu-
rope. with himself as an escort. Usually
the Indian government refuses the re-
quest when application is made-for the
rajahs are virtually prisoners-and then
the adventurer. after getting large sum
for interceding with the government, is
seen no more.
When the government suspects one of
the rajahs of reasonable designs-and
many of them are by no means reconciled
who can serve the government by going
to the rajah with tale of dissatisfaction
with the British, and offering support to
any plan that will discomfit their rulers
and thereby securing all manner of val
liable, information which helps the gov
eminent to put the rajah in proper place.
This is work which no man can do as we'll
as the real adventurer. Members of the
civil service whom the rajah would not
know have been brought from another
1,n@ - I'll
win the rajahs Confidence. The rajah
likes the adventurer probably because his
air Of easy morality is natural and not
assumed.
: The rebellion in the Philippines was in.
cited by the adventures from Hongkong
as speculation. They saw the oppor-
tunity of embarrassing Spain when she
already had the rebellion in Cuba on her
hands. They furnished Aguinaldo and his
leaders with arms and ammunition In re-
turn for promise of a share of the icos
If they succeeded. and for a share CT the
bride money if the Spaniards should
choose to "settle'' with the leaders, while
they nomlnally granted reforms in order
to appease the poor fools who were Agui-
nado's followers. Spain chose to SETTLE
as we know and the adventures made
a big stake out of the bride money. They
got it direct from the Spaniards. it is
said, not being willing to trust Aguinaldo
to deliver it up. Aguinaldo went back to
Hongkong with fortune under promise
not to start another rebellion, which he
broke at the first opportunity,
Many of the adventures in the Philip
pines are Germans and Frenchmen. or
those mongrel Europeans which are pc
culiar product of the continent. The
Spaniard was an easy prey for them.
They played an important part in the eff
forts that Germany made to e1nbarrass
our occupation of Manila. If they are
driven out by the establishment of a sta
BILE government they will go to China. or
somewhere else, where there is a chance
to play the poacher or the pirate.
All the weapons which Menelik used to
defeat the Italians were furnished by this
same class, some of whom were Russians
and in the direct employ of the Russian
government. They would unload hun
dreds of rifles on the shores Of the Red
sea in .sin.s.e night and the next morn
ing all would be done. Out of sight or
the desert mules and men that belonged
to Menelik and lad been waiting for the
vessel were hurrying the rifles on to Men
elik's camp. All the rifles and anmuni-
ton that the Dervishes had III the battle
Of Omdurnyan were Smuggled. The white
men who speak the languages of the
dark-skinned scum of Port Said delivered
these materials on the shore of the Red
sea- and received their pay from wild
men of the desert, who acted as middle
men. The Dervishes however, had such
bad reputation that few middlelnen
would take the risk. For the khalifa was
Just as likely TO cut off mans head
who presented the bill as to pay, it. He
regarded all white men as better dead.
and so he missed the service OF hundreds
of adventures who would have made
their way to him IL the chances OF deatp
and success had been even. .. .
Ac hoS trV-
irg to steal the diamonds of South Africa
as. in digging them. Now every part OF
the naked bodies of the blacks who WORK
in the mines are searched when they
leave work is an old story. The barren
country which stretched out for miles
upon miles around Kimberley without
food or drink would seem to have made it
impossible for the thief to get away with
z diamond once he had got possession Of
><4One of the overseers of the great COIL
solidated mining company, of which Cecil
Rhodes is at the head discovered one day
that a black had a glass eye. He had the
eye taken out, found that it was hollow
ard that it contained a stone worth about
1926. The black confessed that white
man had furnished him with the eye and
put him up to the game. The white man,
it seemed, gave him the large sum of 81
for every stone that he would bring him.
BY the time the police lad identified the
white man he had scented danger and
as ont of town. In number of in
stances the thieves, by taking their lives
in their hands and having swift horses
ready and food waiting for them on the
veldt and then making a bold dash have
taken as high as 100000 worth Of dia-
| Eonds and got away scot free with them,
Fifty thousand dollars worth of dia-
n onds can be carried in ones pocket.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of gold IS
as much as the average maa can lift. let