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Capture of Sir Harry Maelean by RdlsulI
ScOtchman, With Roman
tic History, Falls Into
= the Same Trap as Did
the American Perdi-
CARTS.


the first shock of brigand Raisuli's
latest exploit, the chanceIleries began
to laugh. 1t was too funny that an
imperial ambassador, going forth with
presents and pardon. should be igno-
miniously seized and himself taken
captive and held as hostage to enforce
the Moorish sultan's compliance with
preposterous list of demands-ransom,
together with pardon for friends in
trouble, lieutenant governorships, and
other pre- positions either insolent or
fantastic.
1t is easily the greatest blow that
has befallen the Moorish cabinet since
the Algeciras conference; and if the
person of the foolish young monarch
himself had been seized, the excite
nent could not be greater. But there
is another and vastly serious side to
MacLean's capture, and that is: How
will it affect the prestige of white men
8 salI over the Moorish empire, from Tan
&,ier to the Great Atlas? To this there
can be only one reply: That it will
make their hitherto perilous tenure
one of the gravest and most imminent
danger says the New York Times.
For up to the present the person of
Kaid MacLean has been considered alb
soIutely inviolate The mans career
reads like the widest romance. Few
people know that there is a handful
of Adventures now living who have
at one time or another made them
selves indispensable to savage or semi
savage potentates. I would instance
Sir Rudolph Slatin and the late Mahd1
in the Soudan, and NJ. Ilg, the Swiss
engineer who is such a power at the
fantastic court of Menelek, emperor OF
Ethiopia and king OF Abyssinia.
But MacLean's career at the court
of Fec beats them all, because of the
mans adaptability. Thirty-odd years
ago Lieutenant MacLean was an Of
ficer of the Gibraltar garrison-a poor
young fellow at that, who found II
more than difficult to keep up the en-
pertaining and fox hunting OF MS
brother officers.
How the young soldier got 1t into
his head a brilliant career lay oefore
him on the other side of the Stralts,
have never heard explained At all
events. he left the British army, went
over to Tangier, and sent letters thence
20 the late sultan Moulai Hassan.
Aere was a wise old despot, who. with
Mis- grand yizier, the renowned and
much Iamented Ba Ahmed, held rebel
lions chieftains and tribes in check
with an iron hand.
Still. he was growing old and suffer-
ed from an internal disease-two facts
carefully noted by turbulent clans IKE
the Rahamna and Zemoori. Therefore
when Moulai Hassan received letter
from Young MacLean offering his SER
vices as drill instructor to the lmperlai
troops. the old sultan thought the ex-
perimant well worth trying. ACCORD
inglv he sent quite an imposing retl-
nue. uo to Tangier to escort MacLeah
to the capital.
Here the adventurer found an Au-
,aon stable indeed. The flower OF
Moorish chivalry at that time CON
sisted of picturesque horsemen mount
Cd on prancing stations, and armed
on1v with old fiint-Iocks seven feet
long with stocks inlaid with ivory ana
Tpofber-of-pearl, and barrels that We're
terror 10 the man who fired of the
piece. sa+ -
ouietlv Lieutenant MacLean set 10
-,or,, advising the sultan and gettlhs
estimates from Krupp, of Essen al
stronp of Newcastle-on-Tyne COCK
ar;u of Tjeee. and other great manu-
fact,,rars of arms and ammunition
nFo,1lai Hassan sent forth MS tax gan.
arers and babe them rake IN Illlilol.S
of dollars for the remodeing Oh ms
army: and although this occaslolleu
little bloodshed, the money Vas
cured and the orders placed.
There were even tens OF thoiS 90
90 uniforms of a sort ordered IRON
1ona. and single-handed, MacLeaf
-, 70 educate the more inteillgen
raklke officers in the strategy ana td1
~ of modern warfare. Ana let il'
- here. he found pretty apt pupiis
Trba NSoors are a magnificent race, COIi
s;derad mentally, as well as phy slcsAlA-
-horr 6ehters everyone of then' AN
saaing that the Christian was oache
nv Sidna, the great lord, they heA
perforce to obey.
But by this time SPAIN France o. -
ItaIv as Mediterranean powers
Tv;nd of the scheme, and deciaIeu eA-e
- TOO should have officers reple
,+i,o them in the court ana camp
- Moorish sultan. Artillery onlceA
- cont from Marseilles and Aisiei
III &C from Rome and SeVllle ga,
Rnt all these were oiStiiiN'
-yeaar,,isnt to MacLean, who win nc
.,aIous tact and canniness mas Nep'
boId for half a lifetime. -. or
All was going we'll unul n,
hilton grew insistent and eT crit fro,n II II
t n,rrU advances were made from rom; =
''agna ard shadowy Algerian rom. 80
v,ere Topped of mere a.
80 ,~ While the country swarnleu W.,
oaents nrovocateurs, who hrsI 80, li,%,,
trouble and then put in e Mooris
1,a,-.s which the Mayhem OF 80
cnb iiri were only too glad to se - y,
caoin nTice That policy has gone on u u
ANY 81 he recent murder of Dr. Mauc Ia1,s
~ tbe southern capital Ma Mar ms
After his death the unfortuna oSam NJ,
us denounced in the French cL Lla Al
ss ..tactless": but it is well knom ,, u il
he was only carrying out ms
with literal fidelity won
II was thought that MacLean 80,
rekre altogether from the the se when &
cb1ntrv of his adoption When ;
Moulai Hassan died suddenly w V,4i
W. Aimed as regent. for the eros