The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-03

demned ones which the sea rover had
picked up at some government bar
gain sale. But they were built to go
were modern compared with the an
tique fintlock 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.
$50 to!" said the sultan. by the
beard of the prophet! Shall dog
of Giaour handle the hard-looted
simolians of the shereef Of Tai
March? Bismilla Akbar!" which is
the Arabic for ''go chase yourself
So the trader did as the sultan had
spoken, and chased himself. But he
came back again, and brought with
him as tough gang as ever was seen
outside of Tammany conventions
few traders like himself, with their
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 linn
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 fled beyond
the sands of Nefud, seeking an oasis
with we'll of sweet water and palm
trees, where he might deposit the COM
panion of his fight, his favorite ado
lique, the beautiful Nourmahal, or
Light of the Harem, who was 40 years
old and weighed 200 pounds.
After the fight 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 business boom to the old town
such as it had never seen before. but,
venturing into the interior with
quantity of rifles which he had con-
tracted to deliver 10 the sultan of Ne
jed, he was set upon by Bedouins and
killed. 40
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 glance ct
| the map will show. But somehow the
British got wind of her operations and
of where all the arms and ammunition
were 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 he would give her just
As hours to quit. If she did not shut
up shop and abdicate 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
I to London.
: She was wealthy, but 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-
| cin1ec and started a steam laundry
which is still running.