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THK ILLUSTRATED KEATURK SECTION— MAY 2. 1931
The Sultan, R ab ah Zobeir, A fric a 's Greatest Champion
H e w as a G enius at
S tra te g y and
D ip lom acy
His
D arin g and B ru ­
tality K n ew No
B o u n d s
Rabah had the réputation of being
very hard and austere. It is raid
that one day, seeing an amulet
around the nerk of one of his wives,
who was asleep, he cut Ihr thrrad.
and. opening the amulet, found an
undeeiphrrablr inscription
inside.
Taking it to one of his Irarnrd men.
he bade him read IL . . . He ordered
both the learned man and bis wife
to be put to death.
B y J . A . R O G E R S , P ari», F ra n c e
The career of the Sultan Kal>ah Zobeir is concrete proof
that given the man ami anythin? near a favorable environ­
ment, race or birth counts for naught.
Horn among a prlmltlvr anil m •
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Urrly untaught people In the h e a rt' OM kingdoms crumpled under the
of the Sudan, captured and held aa ' " « t of hla well-trained cavalry
a slave, he fought hU way to liber- j There lands he later ruled with such
ty end carved for himself an im- j statesmanship that European admtn-
In Africa
used 1 11
him as their
menae empire In the richest region Istratora
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of Central Africa, cast of the Anglo- model. He built fine cities, had an
army
over
which
he
exercised
Homan
Egyptian Sudan.
discipline, and forced the head of
I the mightiest secret organization In
Africa and the East to obey him.
The most uncompromising foe of
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tsk fM f» r « M l4 A
(«Topsail expansion In Africa, Habah
if 0 . ^ M
t b l aka# 1 s t« lH a a a a 4 / A \
'VJrAL Nr«.4 mu >• m # s *»4 a ..14 O > made colonial Interests In England.
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{ France, Germany and llelglum very
^ H * l t « s a . T a k a a a a lk a r
Hay
V
y * f t a a r I 'r a g a ls t .
* a fo#
uneasy. Ftor thirty years he ruled,
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M l* H O * »
defeating able white commanders,
M M * Ml» | * l l I « , «... « • y ea . a l a s s «
W
as Peel
•
R si'i'le
H .s > . « I
and exacting a heavy toll In lives
1010 VT D R U C C im I T E r V w M IRI
C H IC H E S m f.P S
from Franc«
Lose Fat
Safely and Quickly
KniM'hrn B a it » - ‘ a perfect com­
bination of the a I x mineral »alt« your
body should have to function pvoptr-
ly) purify your blood of harmful
arid*. and aid the kidneys and bow
rU to throw off waste material the
continual formation of which Is
probably the cftuae of your fat.
In (h i* modern
llv lr * . I l l l*n-
p«>**»b!e Ui | » | these
B»IU
from
t»»«
fancy
food* you # * l but
don t
worry
ju st us long * 1 ton ha?o K ru a c h tn flalt*.
Tebe a h a lf te*ftpo. n «very m ornlns
before b reakfast In a
of hot watar
- l i t t l e by little that ugly fat disappears,
you II fael better than aver bafore year*
younger, moro energy
Y ou'll aoon po*-
ae»a th at enviable beauty.
c le a r
akin.
•t> rklln g eye*, m perb flgurg w hich only
per fort health ra n Im part.
An ¿S bottle »last* 4 weeks) at any pro-
fresatve druggist In A m erica. Money bark
If K ru arh en doe*n t ronvlnro you th at It
la the s a fa il, quickest, easiest way to leao
fat.
And all of this happened In our
lime for Rabah was born about 1848
Taken by French Women
I Captured at Ruhr cl Clhazal on the
Upper Nile, Kabuli was brought to
j Egypt and Mild to a trader named
I Zobeir. A Frenchwoman, coming to
I Kgvpi
is it 1 1 nil i x t s - i l l U o n l o r
(h r
m
lerlor, hired Zobeir as guide. The
latter took Rabah with him.
On the return of the expedition,
till- Frrnilm om aB gave her guns
and the remainder of the ammunition
to Zobeir. ami Zobeir, gathering a
number of adventurers, went off with
Rabat! up the Nile to Hahr-el-
Ohazal. ltabah's former home.
Here Zobeir established hlmarlf as
a slave-trader ami prospered so well
that he built a kingdom of hla own
At that time (18721 Egypt waa en­
gaged In rompierlng the Sudan, and
made war on Zobeir. H ie latter,
however, defeated the Egyptians and
a peace was concluded by which
Zobeir was made a viceroy. Much
of Zobelr's success was due to Habah,
who, by this time, had risen to be
second In command.
A Hartford woman writes, "I'll
Escapes Pursuers
tell the world Kruschcn Halls Is
As Zobeir had bien made a vice
wonderful stuff to reduce.'' 'n Ohio
woman lost 10 pounds with one bot­ roy, he was Invited to Cairo for a
celebration of the honor. But there
tle.
* r and had been greatly extended by
I himself.
Tlie object of the Scnusst was to
keep Christianity and the Europeans
out of Africa. Us power was Immense,
j and extended even Into Europe
hr was made prisoner by the English that it was time he had an empire whither Senussl sent his youths to
general. "Chinese ' Gordon. Zobeir s of his own.
be educated. At the period of which
By the use of strategy, he deckled,
son. Suleyman, thereupon oner more
we are W T. lng. Senussl I I aas so
attacked the Egyptians but Suley­ he eoukl considerably expedite m at­ powerful that he Issued an edict
man. beaten In battle, was promised ters. At that time there were two I against Adbu! Nejtd, Sultan of Tur-
his life If he surrendered. He did powerful rulers near him: one on the ! key because of the closeness of his
east, and the other to the west. He ; relations with the European powery.
and was executed.
A similar Im itation had been ex­ decided to use the latter to further The Senussl played an Impottkdrt
I part in Near East politics in the last
tended to Habah, but too cautious to his ends.
Hated Christians
| war. and ts today one of the agencies
be caught by promises, he rallied 700
of hts countrymen around him as
This ruler was Mohammed Senussl most feared by the European powers
soon as Suleyman had surrendered, II. While Senussl s domain was not in Africa.
Senussl II was white, or what pass-
and dashed cfl Into the desert. Their ! a regular organized empire. It was
fleet Arab horses socn bore them perhaps e' en more powerful. He was |«s for white In North Africa. His
out of the rrach of their pursuers.
1 the head of a secret organization father was a white Berber and his
For the fugitives there was but which extended over the length and mother a quadroon.
one way of making a living: plunder. breadth of Africa, from the Mediter­
Demands Wholesale Massacre
At that time (18791 there were several ranean on the north to Senegal, Nl-
Rabah. whose daring knew no
Negro kingdoms In Central Africa, 1 gerla. and Abyssinia on the south, bounds, decided to bend Senussl to
just south of flic Sahara, which did and Into Turkey and Arabia.
The
considerable trade with Europe, as society had been founded by his falh-
Continued on Tage Six
the Wadat. the Haghlrml. and Uornu.
Bomu. lying in the rich and frrtlle
R l k l â / ^ f A d“v £
region around la k e Tchad, was the
richest, oldest, and most tmpoitant.
Several times the sire of the State of
New York, It had been established tn
the 8th Century, and was highly civ­
ilized when some of the now leading
European powers, like England, was
No One Exempt From This A m erican Shin C ond ition.
almost in n savage state. During
Palm er's Treatment P ro d u cts A m a zin g R ts u lts :
the reign of Henry V III while the
English were still using bows and
Throughout the U n ited Sla t« «, ap id erm iz stag n o iis if robbing the
arrows, the Bornuesc were using gun­
A m a rtca n woman of her b e a u ty . Beware of it. Slow ly but fu re ly it
powder.
c re e p s o n , from the fo o d you eet end the a ir you breathe. Y o u r
Rahali Becomes Immensely Wealthy
p o re s beco m e g rease clogg ed and germ la d e n , pim ples ap p e a r,
b la ck h e a d s an trench th em selves in you s k in , you r com p lexion loses
From these Central Aftlcan king­
doms went out gold. Ivory, skins,
Its life and co lo r — that's epiderm is steg no slsl N o one Is exem pt
from this A m e ric a n th in co n d itio n .
leather, ostrich leathers, and slaves.
Into them came silks, watches, and
Y e t it can be b a n ish e d . Your p o res can ba purified and yo u r skin
all the usual products of F.uropcan
m ade to ft, cle a r and beautiful. P rim e r's " S h in S u c c e s s " treatm ent
manufacture. Caravans took and
p u tt ep id erm is stegnosls to ro u t, end tones the skin to Its highest
brought these articles through Trip­
po in t o f e ttre ctlve n e ts.
oli by way of the Sahara desert,
This rem arkab le treatm ent It com p osed of an ointm ent, e whitening
hying across this route. Habah and
cream and a soap.
his band became the terror of the
merchants. So much booty fell into
The ointm ent gently le a p t thru the outer la y e r o f skin and co rre cts
his hands that he became Immensely
sk in d is o r d e rs ; the whitening cream (liq u id ) p enetrates the po res
wealthy.
an d d raw s from the d e e p e st fa cie i cre vice s e ve ry p a rticle o f sNrt,
Almost every nation from the most
p o w d er end g re a se ; the so a p m aintains that glowing youthful com ­
ancient time has been founded on
p le x io n . P alm er's " S k in S u c c e s s " Treatm ent Is sold at leading drug
plunder. When enough wealth has
sto res fo r 7 J t — M e a p ackag e.
been acquired by this means, the
Sa/e tica n sa a
leader usually thinks of settling down,
so to speak Habah. running true to
E.
T.
B
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N
E DRUG C O ., IN C.
form, cast hts eyes on the Negro king­
doms, nbovr-mentloned, and decided 127 W a t e r S tre e t
N e w to ri.
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