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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 6.-Today Is
clear and warm throughout California. AS
one of the results of an unusually bitter
state campaign a heavy vote is being polled.
In San Francisco the vigorous opposition Of
the Strong non-partisan ticket as against the
old present parties is drawing out almost
full vote. So far there have been no dis
turbances.
SAN FRANCISCO, November G.-There
was TO indication UP to noon today that
anything unusual is transpirihg in connec-
ton With tfS election in any part of Cal
ifornia. All reports show a heavy vote
early in tie day, ard in some precincts 80
per cert of the vote had been polled by
o'clock. No arrests and TO disturbances.
In Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento and
other large cities of the state the election
Is proceeding quietly.
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NunKe OF inc TmermUmeteEs
The following were the readings OF the
thermometer at the weather bureau todayt
an, Al; pm, a; maximum, AZ; mimi
mum, 80.
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Bitter Fight mt York.
ALABAMA.
The Democrats May Lose Two of the
Congregational Districts.

The Democrats May Lose Two of the
Congressional Districts.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November 1.-THE
weather is cool ami clear all over Alabama.
A heavy vote Is being polled, the populists
and republicans. both white and colored.
turning out in large numbers and voting for
the fusion ticket in every district, except
the sixth. where the populists have their
own ticket and the republicans theirs. They
all united in the other districts. 1t now
looks thoL gh Goodwin, populist, Will de-
feat Cobb. democrat, in the fifth district
ard that How ard, populist. will defeat Den
son, democrat, in the seventh. The demo-
Gratis are very uneasy about these districts
and also have fears for the fourth and
ninth. but they are working hard. The vote
will be the heaviest In years, and Is pro-
crossing rapidly. All Is quiet.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November g.
Weather clear and cool. The election Is
progressing quietly and the vote promises
to be very heavy. Populists, republicans
and negroes are voting the fusion ticket
almost everywhere. The fifth and sew
enth districts promise to be very close be-
tween the populists and democrats.
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Is generally supposed Abundant wa
ter may be had by digging in the nu-
merOuS water courses or wadiS, as they
are call d, which cut the country in
every direction.
The soil of the plains and river val
feys is exceptionally fertile, but owing
TO the organized robbery practiced by
the government and all its officials
from the Sultan down, very little of
the land that is available for cultiva-
ton is titled at all, and none of it as it
should be.
This fact is, no doubt, in some de-
gree due to the natural Incidence of
dwellers in tropical climes, and partic-
ularly OF those in Oriental countries.
An Oriental never walks when he can
stand still, never stands when he can
sit, and rarely sits when he can lie
down, SO the persistent toll ard patient
in ustry which become habitual to
'dweilers in temperate regions are en-
tirely foreign bDIh to his nature and
TO his inclination. But even in the
hottest countries it has been found
that, where proper incentives to in
'dustry have been furnished and proper
security guaranteed. the laZie & of men
will work. No such incentives OF pro-
lection are held cut in Morocco, lays
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat for if
the system of government had been
deliberately cCntrived so as TO take
from the people all inducement to work
it could not have better answered its
purpose. The raising of the beautiful
Barba Y horses is discouraged, for the
Sultan has the right at any time to
take the best of these for the use of
his army. No remuneration is paid the
defrauded owner, nor has he any notice
of the intended robbery. and the first
he knows of the intention to rob him
IS the appearance of party of sol
diers, who take the horse, with as
ecant show OF ceremony as ever was
practiced by band of guerrillas, and
Shat is the last he ever sees of his stolen
property. Agriculture is discouraged
In the same way. A farme goes TO
work and raises cr,p for the use Of
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New Fad In Diet.

Vegetarians are outdone by new
diet-reform prophet, who advocates
the eating of natural uncooked foods.
His name is Macdonald, and he seems
to have gained small number of adj
herents in Paris. IL is a part of the
system he advocates never to eat or
drink anything but vegetable foods
and natural liquids, precisely in the
state in which they are found in ma
ture. Hot drinks of all kinds are spe-
cially condemned. although it is not
quite cay to see now the use of water
from natural hot springs would run
counter TO the principle laid down.
Carrots and turnips, beans and pota-
tees, we must eat raw. IL seems, If we
value our health, and fruit we must
eat just as nature gives it to us.
Whether this means that we must not
peel an apple is MT stated. MIR. Mac
donald himself eats raw oatmeal mot
oats, which, as a Scotchman, he
thinks not only extremely nourishing,
but palatable as well.-London Daily
News
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MULEYHASSAN'SLAND
SOMETHING ABOUT MOROCCO
AND ITS PEOPLE.
Tho Country for Which England, France
and Spain Are Now Contending-Igno-
rance and Idleness of the Population
An deliberately bad Government.
Morocco,s Natural Advantages.

The eyes of the European powers are
turned TO that small strip OF country
on the north western coast OF Africa,
until recently ruled over by the late
lamented Muley Hassan-Morocco
Since the Sultan saw fit, some time
since, TO quit this land OF the living.
matters have become very complicated
In the land of the Moors and several
OF the European countries stand ready
60 make a grab for it, England would
like TO get hold of Tangier, the prin-
cipal city, as it lies directly opposite
Gibraltar and would give her COM
mand of the straits between Europe
and Africa. Spain wants it for naval
station, Italy wants 1t because Spain
does, while France will leave no stone
unturned TO get possession OF 1T, as 1t
would give that country a chance to
unite all the French African colonies
in compact body. There the matter
stands, each country waiting for the
other to make move.
Should any of the European powers
come into possession OF Morocco 1t will
certainly reap rich harvest, for OF
all the North African countries this Is
the most favored by nature. Small
and insignificant though 1T be on the
map, it nevertheless represents an
area Vi uOb lcSS Oudn -OO,OOO oQudIO
miles, or almost a large territory as
that of Texas Morocco has $50 miles
OF coast line en- the Mediterranean and
not less than $50 miles on the Atlantic
shore Far from being a desert and
fat as the prairie lands of the West,
which seems to be the general impress
sion, Morocco is just the oppo lite.
There are great stretches Of sandy
plains, but the general character OF
the county is wildly mountainous, re-
-sembling New Mexico perhaps more
than any other State. The mountains
are in most parts destitute of any veg
citation ana present scene of desolation
and barrenness rather than OF pictur-
esaue grandeur. The climate inland is
fully in keep with the frowning scenery.
Cyclones and cloudbursts are not in
frequent and are fully as destructive
as the American product. These sud
den storms make the rivers alternately
floods and dry channels. Still the
country is not so destitute OF water as
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kind occurred near Tangier a few
years ago. A native peasant by the
hardest toll raised little more than
100 bushels Of wheat. AS soon as 1t
was garnered the Sultan's tax-gather-
er came along and took forty bushels
as the share OF tho COVE, nment. The
local Kad took tweuty for district tax
alton, and the sheik OF the nearest viii
lsge appropriated I'D. This left the poor
farmer with but thirty of the original
100 bushels. A few days after the last
robber had paid his visit TO the granary
a party of horsemen passed by and
loaded ten bushels into their bags
without so much as saying thank you.
The unfortunate man lost no time in
concealing the paltry remainder of
his store, and few days later was
mercilessly lbastinadoed by the orders
of the commander OF foot regiment
because he would not tell where he
had hidden ii. Commerce is taxed
with almost as much severity. Every
transaction must pay tax OF y per
cent. usually borne by the buyer.
Day by day the Sultan's men make the
rounds of the shops in Tangier, Moroc-
co, Fee and other towns, investigate
the business of the day and demand the
taxes. Every handicraftsman must
pay tax for the privilege OF
entering on his calling, what
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A Pee iilar Bridge.

1t is claimed that a recently ccm-
pleted bridge over the south branch of
the Chicago L liver is the only one OF
its kind in existence, and it is certainly
aradical departure from common meth
DDS. the principle upon which it works
being that of raising or lowering a
window. ON either bank rises tower
of lattice-work l9l feet high. The
bridge 80 feet in span and weighing
300 tons, extends between them, its
ends fitting into grooves. 1t is fitted
with CONFERENCE.-The, cables, and pull
leys, all of which are governed by a
70-horse-power steam engine. When
tho bridge is TO be opened the engineer
throws off the balance, and the bridge
rises smoothly and horizontally in ia
grooves, hating at a height OF lJJ
feet. 1t is probable that SO ingenious
a structure is by no means the last of
its kind, as its advantages in certain
situations are self-evident.
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Twas Not a Cabbage.

Before the eccentric George G.
Min became a tragedian he was a
circuit clergyman in Iowa, and was
the pet OF the women Of his circuit.
When he appeared as a star over the
same circuit his feminine admirers
We'd with each other as to which
could present him with the largest
and handsOmest bouquet, writes
Marie Adair, in the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
In Iowa City he appeared as Rich
ard III. A lady sat in box with the
most monstrous bouquet the florist
could furnish. Frank Tannehill, Sir.
assumed the parts Of Buckingham
and the dead king. Instead Of using
super, as is customary, to lie upon
the bier, Mr.. Min insisted that Mr..
Tannehill should lie there In his robes
AS the funeral pageant crossed the
stage, this lady, not being great
frequenter Of the theater, regarded
this as the most fitting time to pre-
sent the bouquet.
AS the cortege reached the center
of the stage, the well-meaning wom-
an arose from her seat in the box,
and with all her strength hurled a
bouquet TO the stage, 1t struck Mr..
Tannehill in the face with such force
that he decided it was a cabbage,
and regarded the situation as too
hazardous to permit his longer pos
ing on the bier. He sprang to the
stage and quickly made his exit.
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BrienPts.

JAMES HOGAN, of Brooklyn, beat his
son nearly to death.
FOREST fires are raging near Egg
Harbor, n. j., and are causing heavy
lcsses.
THE whaling bark Abram Barker
was wrecke in Behring Sea. The
crew was rescued.
IN quarrel at Columbus, Ohio, over
q game of cards, John Williams was
shot dead by Benjamin Fasit.
B. f. GENTSCH, ex-postmaster Of
Buffalo, N Y, committed suicide by
shooting. Business troubles caused
the act.
GRAY WHIRLwIND, the Sioux brave,
used tobacco and caye ne pepper as a
lotion for sore eye. He lost the sight
of the eye.
MISSES BENDER and Halverstone,
American missionaries were attacked
by mob in Canton, China, and the
latter may die.
THE Attorney General of Indiana
will bring suit again t the Eastern
Illinois Re ad for payment of $4,000
incorporation fee.
EXPORTS of merchandise for the year
ending June ~ were as. Eli, ZSO ana
have been exceeded but twice. Imports
were s65l, $685.
GIOvANNo PERNA shot into crowd
of merry-makers in a PHILADELPHIA
garden, wOun lfng twelve. A Ign h.
ing was averted only by a constable 8
bravery.
As THE result of n quarrel T. ]. Gil
lespie shot Bernard McNutt, near
Columbia, No. He then knelt in the
road and offered prayer for his vic
Tins soul.
THE good government clubs OF New
York City are seeking the aid of the
newspapers of the State in the move
ment to separate the municipal and
national elections.
UNKNOWN persons, supposed TO be
strikers, loosed the brake chains on a
Big Four freight at indianapolis and it
dashed down an incline into brewing
company's stables.
Miss PoRTIA WELLINGTON. the 16-
year-old daughter Of Mr.. Wellingto ton,
wealthy planter, was assaulted and
murdered by an unknown fiend near
her fathers homo. at Pierson, Tenn.
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OF caiLels threaded their way through
the painless sand 70 the south, carry
ing TO the Soudan what Morocco had
to sell, and bringing back what Moroc-
co wished to buy. Caravans of equal
size crossed the Sahara toward Egypt,
starting eight or nine months before
the great festival, at Mecca, and trad
ing their way slowly to the Red Sea
and Mecca. These business expedi-
lions, on the former scale OF greatness,
ale now unknown, for, although the
caravans still move, they are merely
shadows of the hosts that formerly
went through the Sahara like con-
quering armies.
The change is due solely to depotism
and arbitrary taxation, and thus it Is
that the cities of Morocco are merely
crumbling aggregations of houses, the
streets filthy lanes which serve alike
a passagevays for the people and
sewer for all manner of refuse from
the houses. The tales O. travellers who
return from Morocco disagree in many
particulars as to the people and their
ways, but in regard to the vileness( of
the smells emanatipg from a street in
Tangier or any other city in Morocco,
there Is practical unity. The wonder
is that plague, cholera, yellow fever,
smallpox and u few other vile diseases
are not epidNNnic all the year around,
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A ROMAN PALACE IN THE SAHARA

soever il may be, besides an
nual fees for license to carry it on.
And over and above these forms of
taxation, of every sub Jet is demanded
q yearly sum in the form of poll tax,
for the privilege of being allowed to
exist. According to governmental
ideas in Morocco, the only excuse a
man has for living is that he may con-
tribute to the Sultan's excheauer, and
whatever else he does or does not do,
he attends TO this with reasonable
promptitude, fer he knows that ex-
cuses are of no avail: q failure TO pay
certainly means the bastinado, applied
at once; possibly Imprisonment for an
uncertain length OF time; in some cases
having his head cut off by the expert
enced executioner of the court, who
never gets out of practice through
lack of work.
Thus it is that the people of Morocco
are lazy, shiftless and improvident.
They have been made so by their gov-
eminent. They have no incentive to
labor, for labor seems to be III eless;
they do not care to be put to the
trouble of providing for the future only
to see the means they collect unscru-
pulously appropriated by a savage
SOluiOiy' ~ IhcJ p"So Ohoii eihlO 90
pleasantly as they can, do as little
work as may be necessary TO satisfy
hunger and the ever-greedy taxgath-
erer, and employ themselves in listen
ing to the street story-tellers, in watch
ing the snake-charmers, in smoking, in
sleeping, in anything, in short, but
work. Under proper conditions they
would would work cheerful y, and
when Morocco is placed under civ
ilized government, as some day it will,
its people will become as Industrious
as Orientals are capable of being, and
Morocco will again, as it once was, be
an important productive country.
That, however, was long before the
days of Mohammed and Islam. When
the iron rule OF Rome governed the
whole Of the then known world, Mo
rocco, under the name of Mauritania,
was great province. 1t must have
had dense population, for here and
there, at frequent intervals, even in
what are now sandy deserts, are found
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groups of ruins, the remains Of the
cities and temples and shrines built by
the conquerors of the world. ard there
stretch across many OF its plains long
lines OF columns, Luilt when the Ca
sars ruled, marking the line of some
ancient a jueduct which brought water
TO the cities that have now crumbled
into dust. From the ports of Morocco,
now filled with sand. went forth
carg os of wheat, which kept cuict
the turbulent populace Of Rome. From
Morocco came the best horses used on
the European post routes and In the
cavalry which hung on the wings Of
the legion. Morocco was then no doubt
rich and prosperous, which is
moro than it or its people have ever
been since. For a time, during the
Saracenic period, Morocco was seat
of learning and industry. There were
Moslem universities at Fee and Moroc-
co; there was an enormous trade in
leather, the manufacture OF which was
unknown outside Of this corner of
Africa; there was an Immense business
done in ivory and furs and gums and
slaves with the vast and. until lately,
unknown interior south of the Sahara
Twice year caravans with thousands
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History OF Goth n m.

At one Of the annual dinners Of tn,
New England society of New York,
at which Mr.. Blaine and the late
Governor Van Zandt, Of Rhode Isl,
and, were both guests, little good.
natured chaff was INDUCED in as to
the relative influence Of the Holland.
ers and Yankees in the settlement
and development of New York. Il
can give you the history Of New York
in a sentence" said Van Zandt, In
whose veins coursed both Dutch and
Yankee blood. "The Dutch settled
New York, and the Yankees settled
the Dutch"
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A surgeons Terrible Mistake.

"a few years ago." said Charles j.
Patterson, of Philadelphia, Il learned
the secret Of the life Of a man who
had passed more than quarter of a
century with scarcely smile. He
had been a physician and surgeon.
and on one occasion had to remove
an injured eye In order to save the
other eye, and prevent total blind
ness. The night before the opera
tion he had been drinking heavily
with some friends, and, although the
following morning he was sober, his
hand was unsteady and his nerves
unstrung.
After administering chloroform he
made a fatal ard horrible blunder,
removing the well eye by mistake,
and thus consigninq his patient to
perpetual blindness. The moment
he discovered his error he turned the
man over TO competent surgeon,
decided everything he possessed to
him, and hurried from the neighbor-
hood like convicted thief. The Ie-
mainder Of his life was one constant
round OF remorse, and he rapidly
developed into a confirmed nissan
thrope. The secret Of his life was
known to number Of people, but
when it was finally revealed to me it
explained mystery, and made me
respect the man, for however grave
was his original blunder, which in
some respects was, Of course, worse
than a crime, his repentance was OF
the most genuine character. New
York Recorder.
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A ROMAN ARCH NEAR TANGIER

southern parts of the empire they are
much less particular. and the tourists
o ten speak of their beauty. 1t Is not
a civilized teauty, but the loveliness
OF the desert: beauty adorned with
strings of silver coins; a beauty best
set off by the soft colors which predomi-
nate in Oriental fabrics: a beauty which
has nothing of the intellectual about
it, but is purely sensuous. They are
the earthly prototypes of the hours,
which every true believer expects to
have as his personal attendants when
the gates of paradise have closed be-
hird him. They do not seem fit COM
panions for the fierce-looking, warlike
men, but the latter, TO speak the truth,
are far fiercer in appearance than In
reality, and though armed with flint
locks seven feet long and half dozen
pistols. which cannot hit anything,
they will rarely attack civilized s.av-
elers, save in overwhelming numbers,
and even then with caution, for expert
ence has taught them the immense
superiority or tho rife and revolver
over their own inefficient weapons.
Although lying la sight of Europe
and at the doors OF European COM
merce. Morocco. owing TO its Govern
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Weather Bureau Reports the Crops Suffer-
Ing for Moisture.

Ing for Moisture.
The synopsis of the conditions of the
crops throughout the country and the
influence OF weather on growth, culti-
walton and harvest, as rep )rted by the
Chicago station of the Weather Blu
reau, Is as follows:
The week has been better than usual
throughout the southern portion OF tho
country from the middle and south At
lantic coast westward to the Pacific.
Nearly normal temperature prevailed over
New England. New York. and In the Ohio
and Central Mississippi Valleys. while It
was decidedly warmer than usual from
Southern Wisconsin westward over Mime
sofa and the Dakotas
Except over limited areas, confined most
ly to the Southern States. the past week
has been very dry. Heavy rains occurred
over the greater portion of Georgia and
over portions OF Florida. the Carolinas.
Louisiana. Mississippi and Texas, but
there are considerable areas In the South
ern States where but little rain has fallen,
while throughout the region from the mid
die Atlantic coast northwest ard. over
the Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and the lake region. only very
light showers have fallen. and over a great
part OF the territory named practically no
rain has fallen.
The absence OF rain throughout so much
OF the country during the week has great
ly intensified the drought conditions which
previously existed. and, while all crops
need rain throughout the central valleys
and middle and New England States. the
warm, dry weather has been especially ia
vorable for threshing OF wheat Winter
wheat harvest Is now completed as far
north as Southern Michigan and thrashing
has progres-e ed rapidly.
Spring wheat is reported as considerab bly,
injured by drought in North Dakota
Corn is reported as in favorable condi-
ton in Illinois and Kansas and as much
improved in Arkansas 1t is suffering Sc
riously in Wisconsin and Iowa In the
last named State it is reported In critical
condition. and continuation of the pre-
vailing drought will greatly reduce the
CROP
The general condition of cotton. except
over uthwest Texas, where IL needs rain
is satisfactory. 1t Is fruitng we'll and has
been laid by in Georyia and Mississippi
Tobacco is suffering from drought in
Ohio and Kentucky, but in Tennessee 1t Is
doing we'll though small
Cranberries have been injured by heat
in Wisconsin.
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mert. is still in the dark ages. 1t has
remained 80 from the fact that Chris
tendon has not been able to come to
an agreement as to the disposal Of its
territory. When an understanding Is
reached, Morocco will be placed under
q stable form OF government that will
enable the people to resume something
of their ancient industry and regain
something of their ancient prosperity.
The forests, the mines, the agricul-
tural resources OF the country, are
only now becoming known to outsiders,
and as soon as stability in the form OF
government Is assured, and an equita-
bic and reasonable taxation estab-
lished. some European power-mos 1T
probably England-will have prov
ince that in its value will equal South
Africa and rival Egypt.
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Past Helm.

Bouvard. one Of the most learned
as we'll as brusque physicians of his
times, was one day called TO attend
the Archbishop OF Rheims, who was
suffering from violent collie. Il am
coming" said Bouvard, who, how
ever, did not stir. "For the love of
God, SIR" said the messenger "do
not wait any longer. Monseigneur is
suffering the tortures Of the damned
-" what" exclaimed Bouvard,
already"