The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-07-03

demned ones which the sea rover hac
picked up at some government bar
gain sale. But they were built to gc
oil by the use of percussion caps, an(
were modern compared with the an.
tlque tiintlOck affairs with which the
~shereef's army had been supplied be
fore. In due course Of time the
trader sailed into the harbor of Tai
March and presented his little bill.
go to-" said the sultan. "By the
beard of the prophet! Shall a dos
of a Giaour handle the hard-lootec
simolianS of the shereef of Tai
March? Bismilla Akbar!" which is
the Arabic for go chase yourself.''
So the trader did as the sultan hac
spoken. and chased himself. But he
came back again, and brought with
him as tough a gang as eve was seer
outside of a Tammany conventions
few traders like himself, with thei,
followers and a lot of abandoned ma.
tives of all kinds, picked up along the
coasts with which he did business
He had given the shereef only a lin.
tied supply of percussion caps. and
the soldiers, being pleased with their
new toys. had been expanding them
literally in firing off their guns, just
to hear them bang.
So when the motley army Of invasion
fell upon Taj-Mareb it was off to the
desert for the shereef, who fed beyond
the sands of Nefud, seeking an oasis
with a well of sweet water and palm
trees, where he might deposit the.com-
panion of his flight, his %favorite ado
lique, the beautiful Nourmahal, or
Light of the Harem, who was 40 years
old and weighed 200 pounds.
After the flight Of the shereef the
trader had himself proclaimed in his
stead and settled down to the sultan
and trading business at Taj-Mareb. By
working the two trades together he
gave q business boom to the old town
such as it had never seen before. but,
v%enturing into the interior with a
tracted to deliver 20 the sultan of Ne
jed, he was set upon by Bedouins and
killed.
The English girl, who had Joined her
husband at Taj-Mareb, continued the
government of her dead lord and car
ried on his business at the same old
stand. She increased the trade, too,
and sent her. goods as far north as
Linah and as far south as Ez Zarih-
and that is a long way, as a glance st
the map will show. But somehow the
British got wind of her operations and
of where all the arms and ammunition
We're coming from which the Arabs of
the interior were getting.
If she had been given time the sui
tana, would have made all Arabia an
armed camp, which would have been
bad for the peace Of the country and
especially for the little colonies which
England had distributed along the
coast. So a British gunboat steamed
up the Persian gulf and the captain
thereof told the woman of business
and power that ne would give her just
As hours to quit. If she did not shut
7GPp shop and aibdicate her throne in
that time he would blow her town off
the map. She quit and taking what
money she could get together at such
short notice sailed away on the gun
boat to Alden and from there took ship
to London.
She was wealthy, but a woman of her
active temperament was not content
to rest in idleness and as she had in
early life known something of the
washtub she returned to her first prin-
ciples and started a steam laundry,
which is still running.