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RAISULI, THE BANDIT. Pen Sketch of Man Who Kidnapped Perdicaris. New York American. He is a gorgeous figure, is Raisuli. the Moorish bandit. whose kidnapping of the distinguished American resi dent in Morocco. Mr. Perdicaris, and his son-in-law. Varley. has caused the United States to send a fleet to the Moorish coast threatening to bom bard the port of Tangier if the sul tan's forces do not rescue the Ameri can prisoner. No famous Othello that you ever saw on the stage could surpass in pic turesqueness of appearance and rich ness of attire, the same swaggering, handsome desperado. Raisuli. Nor did any stage Othello ever more perfectly look the part of Shakespeare's hero than this gentleman marauder. whom I met in the little Cafe des Poses. in Tangier. on a night in January of last year. The night I met Raisuli in the little cafe in the single square where are the French, German. British and Spanish postoffices and banks. the whitestone English hotel Bristol and the booths of the oriental merchants the minstrels in rush and bamboo cof fee and tea houses in the open market just outside the city gates were thumping their two-stringed guitars and singing songs of Raisuli's latest exploit. He and his band had inter cepted a caravan on the way toeFez, the Moorish capital, from the Soudan, with ivory and slave girls. He brought the girls boldly into the slave market at Fez and sold them. He as publicly disposed of the ivory. There had been absolutely no interference by the gov ernment, There was talk that officials at Fez had shared in the profits. Raisuli. sitting in the public cafe at Tangier, laughed at the idea that any one would attempt to arrest him. He raised his eyebrows and laughed in immoderate scorn at the question as to whether he had ever been pun ished for any of I.is depredations. He became more quiet, and presently said that the only thing he feared at all was possibly a revengeful bullet. But he tapped his own. a long, gold mounted gun, with its curving pearl inlaid stock, and laughed again. 6 - Kidnapping is an ancient and hon orable custom among the Moors. The government officials themselves make frequent use of the method in orde'r to collect taxes. Kidnapping of little children from the Spanish colony in Tangier, which numbers zo,ooo persons, is frequent. Raisuli has earned many thousands of 'big Spanish silver pieces in this fashion. Raisuli affects the elegant attire of a noble and a shereef-the latter meaning a noble man through descent from Mohammed. He wore a fez knotted to indicate a man of rank. It was of cream colored silk, embroider ed with braid of finely spun gold. A sweeping white cashmere cloak fell gracefully from his shoulders. caught at the throat by a big silver clasp. Beneath that was a green burnous, a'l so embroidered with gold. The ma terial was of cashmere and silk. He wore loose scarlet pantaloons with gold braid stripes down the side. 'His black muscular legs were bare, but his 'feet were ornamented by yellow boots of elaborate highly finished soft leather.. Beneath the fez his dark brown face showed in fine contrast. His eyes are big, black and long-lashed. His nose is of the Roman type, but most deli cately modelled. Lips, heavy, but well turned, are not concealed by his glossy, ointment-treated mustache and whiskers. He follows the custom of shaving the hair off under part of the lower lip. 'When I admired his ivory handled curving knife in a scab bard of exquisitely wrought silver and light blue enamel, he was childishly happy. .When his shoes caught my eye he insisted upon removing, them and showing the beauty of the handi work in detail. He was smoking a cigarette held in an amber holder a half foot long. Requiring both hands to hold one of the yellow boots. he startled me by suddenly crossing his legs and slipping the cigarette holder between his toes. He talks English only a little, but in French and Span. ish he is as voluble and vehement as in his own tongue. With a very free smile he admitted that the bandit business was his pro fession. He said he had a right to kidmn penpe .nel levy a tribte-a right vested in the fact that he was a shereef. Lowly Moors peered in the cafe window and their looks were all of admiration. When they caught his eye they kissed their thumb nails and i bowed low in salutation. Nobody criticising him for his ma rauding. In the coffee houses his deeds are constantly celebrated in the minstrels' songs and stories. The only fault they had to find with Rais uli was that he was not as good a Mohammedan as he should be. for he was often to be found in the European cafes drinking the "dirty water that the pagans drink." Alcoholic bever-. ages are so classed by the Moorish custom officials. When Raisuli got up to leave the cafe two huge Nubian slaves. attired all in white. suddenly got up to escort him. Both carried big. old fashioned silver lanterns with candles stuck in them. With one in front and one be hind, the ;>andit shouldered his long. gold-mounted shotgun. made his way past the white houses in the narrow, cobbled street. and out through the big gray gates to his many-colored tent in the open market place. WORLD'S RICHEST CHILD. John Nicholas Brown, 4 Years Old is Worth r5 Millions. Chicago Tribune. With x5 millions in his own right, 4-year-old Nicholas Brown of Provi dence, R. I., is today the richest child in the world. There are several little boys and girls in the world who are prospectively richer than little John Nicholas Brown, including the infant child of John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. the Vanderbilt and Gould children, and the youthful heirs presumptive of some of the royal houses-but there is none of his tender years who has in his own right anything like the for tune he possesses. When his father and uncle died, four years ago, this month, the pro perty that they left this little boy was conservatively estimated at 15 million dollars. This vast accumula tion of Nvtalth is being wisely man aged and carefully invested. Much of it is gilt edged real estate, millions of it is invested in high class bonds, and it is a safe estimate that when the boy is 21 the property will have near ly tripled. If he lives to reach .his majority-and the is quite a healthy boy-he will find upwards of 4o mil lions of dollars awaiting him. When John Nicholas Brown, fa ther of the boy, died at his New York mansion on May i, ioo. the baby was but two months old. He was not healthy, and it was feared he would never live to secure the 6 million dol lars and more left him by his father's will. Today one would never imagine that his health, even his life, was feared for four years ago. There was trage-ly connected with this baby's possession of the second fortune that came to him. Harold Brown, only brother of Johrn Nichol as, was traveling abroad for his health when word reached him that it was feared his brother's illness would be fatal. He at once prepared to leave for home. Physicians told him he was threatened wit'h pneumonia, but nothing could prevail upon him not to return at once. He sailed on the Teutonic, which had a stormy voyage. When thi vessel arrived he had to be removed to the hotel Netherlands in an ambu lance. He was told that his brother had died, and he sank under the blow. In ten days he was dead, and little John Nicholas Brown, wailing in his nurse's arms, became the sole male representative of the line of John Carter. wealthy manufacturer, East' India merchant and millionaire phil anthropist. . "A BLUE GUM NEGRO" He Bit the Patrolman's Arm to the *Bone. Macon. Ga.. Special to the Atlanta Constitution. Suffering intense from ugly wounds' made by a negro's teeth upon his right arm, Patrolmnan T. E. Chain bliss, one of the best members of the police department, has just removed from the city hospital to his home. Bob Matthews. an uinruly negro. tried to clean out Cotton avenue. Patrol man Chambliss apparently brought out the negro's fighting proclivities. and the instant the officer touched "I's a blue-gum nigger. I is; you'd better keep clear of my teef. else vou'll wish vou hed." With a spring like that of a cat. he was upon the officer. burying his teeth into Chambliss's right arm along the fleshy or muscular section. He soon bored their way through his thick un iform coat. through his shirt and on into the flesh until the negro's teeth could be heard griting against the bunes oi the offcer's arm. All the time the officer was pound ing the negro over the head with his .lub. but the licks. hard and fasr as ther were. made no impression. The wflunds were painful, intensely so. from the second the negro's teeth be gan tearing the fleshi Not for a breath even was the officer free from pain. He was removed to the city hospital. where the .wounds were cauterized. 'But still the swelling did not cease. And during all the time Chambliss was suffering intensely. Later in the evening his sufferings subsided and he was, at his earnest request, sent to his home. The hos pital surgeons wanted him to remain at that institution, but that he declined to do. For generations. in fact, ever since the negro became a quantity in the south, a negro with blue gums has been considered a dangerous quantity. -Cupid," remarked the ready-made philosopher, "is blind." "Except among us," answered the Mormon elder. "Out here he is likely to see double at least." Winthrop College Scholarship & Entrance Examination. The Examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col lege and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 8th, at 9 A. M Applicants must notbe less than fifteen years of age. Whenschol arships are vacated after July 8, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 21, 1904. For further in formation and catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. of Newberry, S. C. 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