Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-30

woman of rare beauty and this be-
came noised about in Fee, where, how
ever, beautiful women are not rare
One day the sultan frowned upon him
and Sid Ghornet took the hint. He
very cleverly made his master pres
ent Of the earthly houri rather than run
the risk Of being dispatched to join the
colder company of the celestial ladies
who people the Mohammedan paradise
| "a danger to which he would un-
doubtedly have been exposed had he
clung to his prize.
She was christened Ayeesha, and
! queened it over the harem unto the day
Of the sultan's death. Under the spell
of her influence Mulai Hassan commit
ted the folly Of practically disinherit-
ing his many sons by his legitimate
wives or shereefas, and on his death
bed appointed the weak and rather
iabby boy to be his successor. Sid
Ghornet, the importer Of the clever
Georgian slave and Caid Harry Mac
Lean, a Scotch drillmaster in the She
reefian army, were prominent in carry
ing out their dead masters will, and
they have remained in power ever
since.
Disaffection Is Widespread.
Abdul Aziz's accession to the throne
was a most unpopular one, and this
probably accounts for the fact that
early in his reign he surrounded HIM
self with foreigners who, with some
exceptions, were not generally men of
"a high type-rope walkers, photogra-
pliers, balloonists and sleight- hand
men were the representatives Of west
ern civilization who for long time
appealed most powerfully to the young
sultan's appreciation Of culture. In
view Of the rising tide Of discomfort
and the disaffection even Of the people
Of the capital, and the growing strength
Of the various revolutions in progress,
in the last year the sultan has dismiss
ed his staff of foreign adventures and
goes to the mosque as regularly as his
father did-but probably the harm has
been done. In Morocco as we'll as in
other countries, a reputation for ortho-
doxy is hard to retrieve.
Within the last week one brother Of
the unlucky sultan, Mulai Hafid by
name, Of whose character and leanings
upon the questions Of the day little Is
known. has been formally proclaimed
sultan in the great mosque at Morocco
City Another brother, Hassan, 1t Is
said has been exercising rights Of SOW
eighty in the Riff Highlands, west Of
Yetnan and on the Mediterranean
coast for two years past. In the Sus
country another brother, who bears the
name Of Morocco's greatest sultan, Mu-
lai Ismail, Is threatening rebellion with
a force of fanatical horsemen estimated
at $4,000 at his back, while in the west
ern provinces still slumber the never
radically suppressed rebellions Of the
Rogue and Bou Hamara, the benevo-
lent Father of the Asses" who. with
his claim to divine descent and reVe-
|lation and his wonderous gift Of elo-
|uuence exercises a remarkable infiu-
ence upon the mule drivers and all the
other nomadic folk of the empire.
Such in outline is the situation by
which France and Spain find them
selves confronted because Of the rec
ognition Of their special interests In
the disturbed country, and the police
mandate which they received at the
conference Of the powers at Algeciras.
In the light Of recent events 1t
would seem not at all unlikely that
their diplomatic victory at the CONFER
ence will entail to France and to Spain
the loss of many thousands Of men and
many millions Of francs, which neither
can afford to throw away. The talk OF
an expedition to Fee, flying column
OF 10000 men, in which the boulevard
sheets indulge Is the sheerest nonsense
or the widest madness. 1t would re-
quire 10000 men, all picked troups' 10
capture Fee, and 1t would require many
thousand more, and require them In
definitely to hold the holy city and
maintain something approaching law
and order in the surrounding country.
Before embarking upon such a venture
Il would be we'll for the French to
calmly study the situation, to recall
the enormous cost Of their war with
Abb del -Kodir, whose best troops were
Moors. and to cast critical eye upon
the ruins and relics Of previous foreign
occupations which abound in the land
Of the Moor.
Terrible Fate of Portuguese Army.
Portugal was for several hundred
years in possession Of nearly all the
Moorish ports on the Atlantic coast,
including Casablanca; indeed. the sec
ond title of the ruler Of Portugal today
is King Of the Algarves," which refers
to the royal pretensions to Moorish
sovereignty, all the substantial basis
to which has long since disappeared
together with the East Indian depend
encies.
1t was in 1873 that Dom Sebastian
the chivalrous hero Of Portuguese song
and story, equipped an army for the
purpose of overrrunning the whole
country. A Duke Of Leinster and many
other gentlemanly adventures joined
Dom Sebastian's standard and begun
the journey to the capital, which SC
many conquerors have undertaken, but
in which no single one has succeeded
at least not since the day when the
green banners Of the Prophet of Islam
were first flung to the breezes from the
battlements Of Fee.
Dom Sebastian and his army of 90
900 men, together with the uncounted
Adventures who had come together
from all over Christendom to follow sc
gallant and so generous a prince, me,
their fate in the valley by Alkesar
which is watered by, a shallow river
generally identified by historians anc
geographers as the Sixus Of Pliny
There 10000 men were cut to pieces by
the Moorish cavalry, and those who
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