Kaisali first ran afoul the Wash
in 1904, whan hi
held for ransom Iai
born fai Atheaa, and Cromwell Varlej
his son-in-law, a British citisen. Mr
** —ti - — -■ „ — * , J a n t- — I—, — , ..Is
rti utcsni, rvporiN id d® uuiucnivi j
wealthy ownad a beautiful nhm
▼Ilia in tha Beni Ami Hilla of Mor
rocco, where it waa Ma t Malum to en
tertain many Effropean notables ir
lavish stjrle. One night, while a bril
liant dinner-dance waa in pnyrsas, a
band of outlaw* headed by Baiaull
quietly surrounded the house, over
powered the Host and his son-in-law
and carried than, still in their eve*
tec clothes, to the bandit's lair ir
the mountains back of the Kabyle vil
lace.
While a wave of resentment ovei
the incident waa sweeping the United
, tha government sent a wai
to Tangier and also ordered th«
to bfiag about the fwiifftdimti
release irt Mr? Peidicaris. for whose
$70j000. Tha saltan, lajwevai, dread
km to dignify thc, IWfc by tieating
•a l;_, I*231
wimI DiW, ET'piM ■ IirifA*!V(* ■vv>'llu(
which farther angared the Americas
Will
I the m<
\ £
sending of several additional war
ships to Tangier, and the pointing ol
American rum at the sultan's capi
tal.
It was at this state t-.lt the fr
mous cablegram, "Perdiraris alive n
Raisuli dead." supposed tc have beer
sent by President Rooeevth to thf
sultan, was read from the ssituai ol
the republican national cnmtioii
then meeting in Chicago. Two davr
later word was received that Perdi
caris and Variey had been released, al
though it was not in response to tlx
business-like cablegram, which Presi
dent Rooeevelt said later had beer
prepared bat never sent. The su.'tar
fearing the destruction of his city, Lad
paid the ransom.
The kidnapping of Perdicaris wai
not th« first mischief-mnkin? enter
prise by which Raisuli attracted
world-wide attention. Oiw of his ear.
ller victims htd been Wnlte.' B. Har
ris. a corr*>«| < nrient of the Iyondor
Times, who w,h captured ami held fm
a ransom of 10,000 pounds >t, 1901
Harris at firat refused to allow pay
ment of the money, but was subject
ed to so many indignities that Iw fin
ally capitulated. One of his moil
grewsome experiences while a captiva
was to awake one looming and find
a headless body, dressed in his owr
clothes, oceupyiny part of his little
shelter tent.
Raisuli'a next important captive wai
Raid General Sir Henry Mac Lean, a
Scotchman who was serving as com
mander of the suftan*s bodyguard
Next to the sultan himself. MacLaai
was the most powerful and Influen
tial man in Motroceo. Believing thai
RaieuH waa In a mood fa
with the anthoritiee, he had ar
a meeting with the handi
take him
ill sent i
of II men to escort MacLeaa
the #rty clear «|
JM
ilNjMud tTirita.TSlc^
,! to aponaar the extortionate demande
iof the gsremor ousted htm from of
fice and dreee Mm hack to Ms native
MB*, ohm mora mm eatlaw.
naiauii, (in many or nu nouMi run
tain that ho practiced brigandage
- 1 - mL„ . M *L .
puffiy in sw mitmi cit uw wiu
and tho npptaasad, and that he rohhod
, tho rich in order that ho aright hot
tor lolkovo tho poor. Despite thia ap
planation, them ia no record that Ma
charitahla honodictiona oror extend
ed beyond tho limita of Ma own littlo
following.
Although bo waa a peaceful farmer
in early lift, ha claimed to ha of nota
LI. L!-aL » * -« ■- a __
«>!• Dirin, ana rnKjufniiy proauctKi an
riant letters purporting to estahliah
thia contention. Hia career aa a ban
dit bagan following hia eocapa from
priaon In IMS, when ha waa 90 yaaca
of ago. Ha had aarrod fWa yaara,
much of it in the torture chamber,
for an alleged offenae against the
*uKaa'a authority. s
In character, he ouwail to poaaaea
alt tho traditional cruelty of Ma Moor
iah race, aepecially in dealing with hie
•■nemiea, yet ha waa known to diaplay
genuine aympathy for a child in trou
ble and waa noted for hia kindneea to
animals. •
Mr. Petdicaria. who wrote a detail
ed account of hia captivity in the
haunts of Baiaali, said that ho "really
crew to like the man." "He waa at
cmce ao gracious and dignified, not
to us alone bat to his own wild ad
that he araa not a mora brigand or
caiue-iuter nut a patriot struggling
to rescue hi* Berber follower* from
•be tyranny of the corrupt chereefian
•ifficial*.'*
Another aide of Raisuli'* character
• told in connection with the capture
>f a Baaha officer. It ictwi that he
had no grievance against this parti
cular officer, bat was bitter afainat
the Baaha, therefor* lie arranged to
sell hia captive to aoaae tribeaaaan
whom the man was alleged to have
wronged years before. Having paid
Raisnli Ms price, the purchasers
calmly rat the priaoaer*a throat at
the door of the room in which Raiauli
waa seated and where the whole trans
action had taken place in the pres
ence of the victim, who well knew Ma
fate.
Jan. 10th Co-op* Got Third
Payment on 1922 Crop
Raleigh, Dec. ^S.—The tobacco
growers cooperative association lias
made successful sale of all but a
comparatively small amount of the
163,000,000 pounds of the 1922 crop
delivered to it by organized fanners,
according to Richard R. Patterson
manager of the co-operative's leaf de
partment, who attended today's meet
<Ut of the tobacco aaaociationa direc
tor from three states in Raleigh.
Reoont successful sales of millions
of pounds of tobacco at figures satis
factory to the directors, have enabled
them to make the $8,000,000 eaah dis
tribution which begin* Friday of this
week at every co-operative warehouse
in eaatera North Carolina and I* scbe
dulad to continue with the co-opera
tive grower! of the old belt ea Jan.
10.
•
Check* to pay the saltern co-ope
will ha at every cooperative ware
house In the east o* the mining of
December XI, according to the atato
of the aa*ociation who waa at today**
Directors frota all diatricto of the
; old halt who riariwd Raleigh today.
' Bdileee ***
nt it Nt
system m4 «• IN
Mn The Mews for i
you Ilka hi* pi
HNM • bonqMti if yo« da Mt.
•and • bottle of chloroform, 3
we will (to tho Mi)
purpo—. If
TWe anrniag t am not (oinf U toll
Instead ! Ml
the Now Tear'* resolutions I
t*L Dntaf 1M4 I am iMil»ri tc
Mt my IBnif mm carsfally, al
wiyi looking for » drank driver or ■
fool on every carve. Only to this way
may I aspect to coaae thru the ran
with a whole ■kin and a wholo ffiror
Tha motto on my wmdahield
"Drive aa tho every man yo«
either drunk or a fool." Only by m
doinn ran I hope to chant Sarah Ana
oat of collecting tho faea value of my
insurance polfcy.
2nd. in* is
year. I have never yet I
portunity to vote and 1 am
thia year shall bo no exception. I
believe a man's religion should oelot
his polities. But soaae men keep
their religion in a separate compart
ment of* their heads or hearts (of
wherever inch things are stored)
whore they keep their politics.
they are showing you thro the
cathedral of their religion all is lovely.
Oh, bat iant the waethor fine today.
Bat Just lot them open that cham
ber of horrors where their political
gods are enthroned. Ye writhing
snakes and slimy mo—tars of hath.
A man's religion should ha so senai
ble and his politics so free from de
ceit and bigotry that the t#o could
freely mingle in the same heart and
head. And who dares to maintain
that a man's political duties srr any
baa sacred than his religious dotiee?
am resolved to swallow ae
for any rain on my party ticket w^pae
character is inch that I have to hold
my nose with on* while I aa>t my
ballot with the other. Too w» I an
outgrowing the hereditary notion that
I mast vote like my father and grand
father before me or eUe t disgrace
the family. The family before BM
may have acted the fool l.y voting an
thinkingly, but 1 am not going to do
so. I disgrace myself f I fail ta
vote for the man who in my judgment
is beat fitted for the office.
, I an not worthy the ndme at a
citizen and a Christian if I am an neg
ligent of my civic duties as t.. fail to
vote, . r so blinded by iiewiitary pre
judices that I vote without the exor
cise of my own best judgment. Call
me a "mugwump" if you will bat my
ballot is my own, not yours, or my
grandfather's. or nay party's. It is
I a sacred duty entrusted to me alone,
and I alone can perform It. Now of
••oorw when my Sarah Ann goea to
vote, she having but little experience
in rfuch matters, I am constrained to
whin per to her how she ought to mark
^er ballot. .
And ! am going to respect my
neighbor whose political opinions dtf
I fer from mine. Why should I hate
him and say all manner of hard things
about him just because he thinks his
party's political policies would be bet
ter for the country than mine? (I
see Deacons Lumkins an<^ Pgttibone
making wry faces. Calm yourself,
brethren, for I am talking about my
self this morning.) It is the practice
of politicians to stir up strife and
hatred but I am not going to ho fool'
ed by them, for in the olden day aft
er the opponents had debated in
heat and slang mud at
until the atmosphere tasked of sal
phnr, I have seea tkeae mm politi
cians go down to the saloon ana ta
arm, and got n
at how they li
M 1 Ml
aid I can to 1
1M4. Wo Ai
of What Wm Ml data* Jaatfea k
Ammrin ia lar*ely a farre. Ciltuali
firiala to perform tw"dutils fear
iMrir.
4th. 1 am raaoWad daring lib com
lag |«ar to raad at laaat amm gom
book, r dont want my bra ma to ba
cam4 list lifted before I am 60, ax
only by reading a good book saw am
than can I prevent friatHmNra. !
may baaama afflicted with biirdia
of tha tlsiim but Lord deliver m
of tha brain.
It ia pitiful to aaa an aid yamii
man who ia absolutely daad tram hii
xhouldera op.
Deacon Pettibone. pleaae paaa tlx
hat.
Polities la always played at pob
lie expeuae. Man in office do thingi
in way* they would not dream of do
ing at their own expense.
|n private business we would nol
accept and pay for the aamUo of a
roof-painter who was sent to as tc
do a job of plumbing. In politics wi
da.
It has bean publiahed a thousanc
times that not a single practical ship,
master has ever been appointed of
«Ukippu>g Boan^- all imwymn, od
WUm mmn. ,11 if, '
The New York Tines says, editor
tm liar •
"Experienced travelers returoiiti
on the Leviathan, who had made tM
axtward voyage on the ship, iak
she was overtrewed. There wen
1466 fat her crew, compared with 1
100 en the Majestic. In the victual
ling department there were 867 hand)
to look after 2.860 passenger*, whih
the Bereagaria had only 670 men
women and boys to take care of 2jWI
persons.
The Hamilton. O., Daily News adds
"This excess of crew on the Levia
than was not the fault of the headi
of departments on hoard or the oper
a tors, it waa said, but to frienda o!
members of the Shipping Board, wtx
wanted to send college friends to
Europe on a free trip.
"89 long aa business institution!
are operated by the public the Jobs ii
those institutions will be regarded ai
political jobs, and they will br paasec
around by inflentia! politicians as poli
tical favors.
"Naturally, under such condi^na
the number of jobs' will multiply foi
it is on jobe that professional politic)
lives. 4
"The over-manning of the Levia
than is not of itself very important:
*>ut it provide* a striking example ol
the inherent weakness of the system
that the Socialists are always puttinf
forth to save the world.
"This system, by the way, noarlj
ruined Italy befose Musaolina ruth
lessly put an end to it, and dismissed
a whole army of needless employes*.'
—Industrial News Bureau.
' omm into the oWmI HmMiM this
year. For a time ha lived m J omm
vflte awl people (there will teO yon
, that far tha put two ar three years
whan Wood waatad • ear or anything
alaa In ewiped K.
Like a attppery aai ha ueually «ot
away with his raaeality. Tha rri
I <ianoa in tha Kaplan caaa ahowed that
Wood beat tha paa to death with
> a pistol and in hi* ptiwi; foread aw
> or twe aan at tha point of a inn
• to drive him in thair can and than
robbed than. Ha wya finally appre
handad hi Waat Virginia and whaa
' brought to Graenabors to'faea Ma ac
i eaaara daniad any knowledge of tha
•rime. Bat oa tha witnaaa ataad Ma
memory rutrm •iki nt pwa itu at
fanaa. It ia aaid no appeal will ha
taken from tha verdict.
Tha followiag dispatch gives the
verdict of tha jmrf.
Greensboro, Dec. 24.—Otta Wood
waa found goilty af murder ia tha aae
ond decree yeaterday by a Guilford
county jury for tha killing af A. W.
Kaplan November 3. The verdict
waa reached at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning and was presented to Judge
Thomas J. Shaw shortly before *11
o'elock.
With the verdict the jury preaant
•d a recommendation that Wood be!
.riven the full limit of the law. This]
i« SO years of hard labor.
Judge Shaw did not pronounce the'
aeMfteaee. Hv wli i* ilui mmha*l
OH when court convenes at 9:90. Al
J S_ t At
*.ion of what Judge Shaw wflt do, ill
ia universally believed by thoae who
have followed the caae closely that
the sentence will be SO yean.
A tenae moment cane when the
foreman of the jury, W. H. Dunbar,
reported that the verdict was "unity".
Otto Wood waa standing cm his feet.
His wife and one child were beaide
him. Mrs. A. W. Kaplan and mem
bers of her family wet* present. Law
yers on both sides sat listening in
tently and an unusually large number
of persons data and hour considered
waa leasing forward eagerlf
The usual questions were put U
the jury about whether the members
had Tear bed a verdict. They 'had
And about who was to -peak fot
them. Then—what waa tr.e-vrrdietT
"Guilty", said Mr. Dunbar.
Guilty might mean first degree,
second degree or manslaughter.
A moment of terrific silence and
Judge Shaw asked the foreman,
"Guilty of what?"
"Guilty of murder in the second
degree with recommendation that the
prisoner be given the full limit ofj
the law," was the answer.
Wood did not bl'nk an eye lash.
That same cool manner was his at
the great moment of his life. He
I looked straight at the jury, took the
verdict squarely between the eyes and
i stood there with a calm, almost se
I rene, look on his face. It was what
he expected. It was better than what
he feared.
Nor did hVwife show any sign of|
emotion. If anything, she was t
tiered. Gone long ago was any hope j
for laps than a manslaughter verdict, i
Ok the threatening horisoa waa the I
I black cloud of first dugrai with the i
of electric chair Irresistibly |
Msnalaughter they hop
for, the man and the wsmsa, first 4
grse murder they feared, second d
free they expected. They gal what|
thrv expected.
"The verdict ia in aeteed with the|
UM«ht the
ewted a* he waa hi aeaaed with the
of
City
o# No
Washington. Dec. 26President CmI
id** ha* been handed the
nomination for Tftidnr
result of the ru.ia-rol'er
method* by the RepaMican NatioMl
Committee, in the opinion of practical
politician* her*. Ttai« opinion ia sup
ported by statistics of the rgapoiti—
ment of delegates. The National Com- I
mittee had a mandate from the last
Republican National Convention to
reduce representation of the Southern ^
states. Instead they increased it fit*
SIS to 232. At the same time they
t reased the representation from
northeastern
in* section from
generally
(feoHdge
de legatee