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still was al the head of the nations Of
Europe in army matters
But said the officer, Belgium is a
very small country, having no army to
speak Of"
You are jealous of the Belgians, are
you not?" smiled the prince. Il know
what / am talking about. We of Mo-
rocco buy the greater part Of our arms
in Belgium"
When the prince visited = Spanish
vessel he became interested in the COM
pass and the nature of the instrument
was explained to him. as he had never
seen or heard of the magnet needle
He, however. refused to accept the in
formation as true, arguing that there
must be 2 clock work concealed behind
the dial of the instrument
Quite recently the sultan complained
of the heavy cost of Transporting pris-
oners of state from Tangier or Fec 70
Mel1imes. He was told that n European
railway train could cover the hundred
miles Of territory in two hours There
upon his majesty got very mad. think
ing the SDaniards were fooling him
Another anecdote related of Abdul
Aziz is TO the effect that. when the
French ambassador was introduced to
him he asked that dignitary, through
an interpreter. how his majesty 1.-The
emperor republic" was. The sultan
lad never heard of another form Of
government than his own E. FL
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MADE KINGS QUAKE
A Half Breed Negro Is the Richard
Croker of Fee.
He Roasts Royalty by Inches-The Arabian
Nights Grow Tame Compared with
the Daily Life OF Grand
yizisr 10 Hammsd
iCopYS1GHT. 1891

A slave. descendant OF a long line OF
slaves, the son OF a negro and half
breed Jewish woman. dispenses sher-
eefian omnipoteEce in this vast empire
DO Hammed, and if ever there was an
all powerful grand vizier, this Off
spring from the late sultan's body serv-
ant. Musa, took pattern after him.
He had not been twenty-four hours
in his position when he began wedding
out and removing all human obstacles,
high and low, that by birth, or previous
conditions of servitude, claimed the
new majesty's attention. The notorious
dungeon of Mekimes is full of political
prisoners, and the graveyard in its cell
lars nightly receives victims OF the
MYSTERIOUS oriental illness, which is ell
ways preceded by an attack OF royal
distemper on the part of the shereef.
1t is understood among Europeans
here, in Tangier and in other Morocco
seaport towns that Abdul Aziz, the sue
cessor of the murdered Sultan Muley
Hassan, will ask the European powers
not to send warships, as such action
would drive the orthodox Arabs TO ex-
tremes. THE reques meanwhile has
been made.-Ed.) II Spain, France,
England and Germany comply with
this shrewd request the lives and prop
erty of non-African residents will be in
immediate aud deadly jeopardy. Muley
Hassan was not unfriendly disposed
toward Europeans. and yet their posi-
ton in the country Under his govern
ment was never particularly secure.
English and German men-of-war had
to visit Morocco ports quite frequently
to remind the Arabs of the disagreed
BILE possibilities that would follow IN
the wake of an attack on Europeans.
The present shereef is bloodthirsty
fanatic, hating with a deadly hate all
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Electricity and Water.

The possibility of using the water as
a method of telephone communication
is now being developed, and it is al
most a certainty that before long NOV
ing ships at sea will be able 10 COM
municate with one another, though
they are outside the range of vision,
and that a warning of the approach OF
icebergs, Gerelicts or other ships will
be given by electrical apparatus at
.ached to the vessels
With few exceptions, until the in
PRODUCTION of the Column bian stamps
last year. the postage stamps of the
United States have borne the portraits
Of ex-preSidents and other noted men.
The pictures of Washington, Jackson,
franklin. jefferson, Lincoln. Webster.
Clay. Hamilton. Perry, Garfield and
Grant have each served their turn. In
1859 there was q fifteen-cent stamp IS
sued which bore picture of the land
ing of Columbus The only special IS
sue from that time TO 1855 was a
stamped envelope brought out il 1875
in celebration OF the century OF the
declaration Of independence. In April,
$50. an elaborate set OF stamps was Is
sued. comprising the following values:
One. two. three. six ten. twelve, ST.
teen. twenty-four. thirty and ninety
cents
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Sudden death>-poison or broadsworo-
The sultan's brother, Muley, is said to
have kept Mohammed company Ii
this piece OF intelligence proves true it
would surprise nobody here No SELF
respecting sultan of Morocco suffers a
brother of his TO live if it is within his
power to send him TO paradise The
late Muley Hassan was voted quite an
agreeable gentleman, still he dis
patched several OF his brothers within
six weeks after ascending the throne.
The killing of Mohammed was evil
IDENTIFY in harmony with DO Hammed's
anti-foreign and orthodox regime The
dead man had shown many kindnesses
to representatives of the powers ID his
official capacity, and was therefore
cordially hated by the religious fan
atics Astounding in the empire 1t IS
also possible that he knew something
Of the murder OF Muley Hassan. So,
let him be removed; eorpses tell no
tales.
The sultan's second brother has just
arrived here with three Riffs whom he
accuses Of having made an attempt
upon his life. OF course the Riffs will
be beifeaded for the same reason which
led to the poisoning of Mohammed;
they know too much. For while pa
tricide, as intimated, is not calculated
TO lower sultan in the esteem of his
subjects it would not do TO let the
paid murderers tell their story. To
show that he bears no i'll will to them
on account of their clumsinesS, Abdul
Aziz ordered they should not be sub
jected TO the usual torturing process as
preliminary to execution. The prince
OF the imperial house, whom the Riffs
failed to Kill, has been brevetted
khalif of Fee, ito give him an oppor-
tunity of committing some act of i'm
prudence, which necessarily leads to
the scaffold," it is whispered.
The leaden roofs of the MekiInes
citadel have already claimed a victim.
FL Seguir, the deposed general of the
Az and minister Of war incarcerated
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who do not swear to Nohammed. His
grand vizier possesses these traits even
to a more harmful degree, because
with him the ideas and views enter
tanned by his majesty originate. Alb
dull Aziz, the emperor, is but the echo
OF Bo Hammed, the eX-slave, you must
know.
1t needs only one look at the sultan
to see that he is weak man, easily
swayed by passions, coward and an
egotist. His new grand vizier is a
negro, understood, but fat and asth-
matte. de is proud, imperious, reck-
less and cruel. Recognizing the i'm
portance and necessity of following
among the orthodox, he seeks to in
crease his popularity with tnem by de-
spising foreigners.
Hammed served Sultan Muley Has
san as keeper of the grand seal for
twenty years. IN this capacity he ex-
ercised great influence over the en-
peror, but ne was the power behind
the throne only after all. Occasionally
the sultan reminded his servant of the
latter's low origin by treating him TO
the bastinado. Now all Is changed;
the ex-slave may carry his head as
high as he pleases, and the time has
arrived when he may even Ill treat his
imperial master, not corporally, II Is
true, but in the sense OF admonlshing
him into submission. There Is no
doubt that Muley .Hassan, who at the
time of his death was only fifty-fve
years old. was poisoned. As all meals
taken by the emperor were prepared
by his own mother and served ex-
clusively by DO Hammed, the latter IS
charged with numbering his itron-
Not that anybody biames him for hav-
ing done SO; he followed. after all, an
ancient and esteemed oriental custom.
but having ing-atiated himself ever
lastirgiy with the new sovereign.
''why should he deem 1t necessary TO
remove all the deceaSed's friends AID
relatives" ask the people
II would be useless TO mention names
in connection with the oficisl slaugh-
ter going on here since two or three
weeks. as one sounds ike the other.
and none VIII stick IN a foreigners
memory; suffice il 20 say that 30
Hamned. through ABDUL AK, has
suppressed or wiped cut the entire
male line OF the late sultan's descend
ants. ell his sons. with the exception
OF the incumbent u the throne. his
uncles. cousins and nephews- Those of
the-crowd who 50 Ear escaped an attack
OF the oriental disease above referred
70. are now being slowly roasted under
the lesden roof o. the Meki11es prison.
where they lie in irons with most lux
uriOus food TO tempt them Bat who
WOMB cave The courage 20 partas-e Of
delicscies that may or may not Dc dosea
with slow or quick poison? Late news
saws that three bearded heads stuck on
piked poles erase the tower q the
great prison. They probably belonged
30 ms zls jesty's Uncles. whose fortunes
have just been c5aiscetsd on tae plea
that they were derived from stete
funds. ~ course they were The
temporary owners positIon - ggTerzi-
ment officials plainly entitled tAem -
tap The TIL Diplomats Ill ovrr TIE
world = no hsvc ever visited GorsscC2
viii te sorry - hsar that the grand
master OF ceremony OF the late salszn.
NahanI1ed Bel Ark has 'zu9e7s1
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/ there has become violently insane, and
I another prisoner, the sultan's eldest
brother, is now in dying condition.
In spite of that Bo Hammed viii not
consent to his removal from Mel1imes,
and has surrounded the invalid by a
strong guard, who are responsible for
his person with their heads. A half
brother Of Bo Hammed. that Is, the son
of one OF 10 HamIned's fathers mis-
, tresses, Said Ben iusa, has been
created minister OF war. FL Seguir,
by the way, was a near relative of tho
reigning sultan and protege of the
! French.
When a Morocco official is disgraced,
imprisoned or beheaded, his fortune in
variably falls 20 his accuser, who is
thus rewarded for his faithfulness to
the cause of the legitimate govern
ment." 30 Hammed, in order not TO
appear too grasping on account of the
wholesale arrests ordered by him, is
sued a proclamation soon after being
elevated to his present position TO the
effect that the children of the accused
officials must not suffer, and that he
would pay each of them a small sum,
a btndred buros SIPS. That was a
generous thing to do. and the prime
minister vas admired very much by
everybody for his liberality. / wonder
how he feelsabout the matter now that
he found Dechanay ell Kebio. ex-ninis-
ter of the interior, 20 be the happy
father Of two hundred and ten chill
dren. Two hundred and ten times one
hundred and twenty-five dollars is
nice sum pay out.
Garnit. minister Of foreign affairs IN
der the former sultan. is ssh in Office.
as far rs known. he viii probably re-
tain his position. too. for there IS 10
man in the empire who can beat hin in
the matter Of sickness and deceit
Thus he is Just the person needed az
Tangier-the type OF an Arab, low cur-
ring. full u sweet and high-souncing
phrases. The arabs SAY OF him admir-
ingly that he usually crowds twenty
-Tss n every ten words ne Ctte-S- IN
ADDITION 70 these virtues "a Morac-
CO diplomat, be possesses decided tai
ent for acting, and one after another
4lG~ GEff< rfS4 70 - teCas - -tsS - %
foreign power accredited here II 30
Harmed does not grow Jealous q Garuis
and have ms head cut of tie two viii
make splendid team
The sultan. vho not Only eoadones
hut encourages his ex-slave grand
vizser-s atrocities. IS one Of the uao,st
ignorant brutes sTes permitted 20 dis
grace throne n the nineteenth cen
tury. He Is absolutely destitute q al
knowledge not directly sppertsining %
The affairs q Morocco and his kro7rl-
edge q the country be rules over j.
notorirrsrssy efficient TIE murdered
sultan knew az parts - nis empire m
;iEuatelv: he Rad stEdled the wants
and tie rec u1rer2ents Il his people
Ab6uI-AziE gzi8ed bis education n tie
field - TIE bad e small h->5ies Il
t-s-5es. ne can hardly read and vvri's
Arabic an5 geill not h@@E q securing
IKE u-,.s sary zaowlrdge y Freaca
u En9li,h
: -lanlsa ARM as.-esr. whc ~: fts
prese1t saltza * or seven Esoas-ss aro
agrszz tie wrz- vzisa tke Ksess, reports
ias. kis hl-azcss axsSsSs -lss.sn II .,rsS.-r
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a pETRiFiEO WOMAN.
An awful C.sh OF Her Fereh~sA Isdi-
Gates . Violent D~ath-

An awful C.sh Her FerehssA Tsdi-
Gates . Violent Dsssh-
Sixty years ago, 80 the story goes
there lived at VAUDEVILLE, Greene
county. III, s man and wife By tho
name Of Lovess and near by family
Of Bridgewatera They were intimate
as all new settlers were. says a eorre-
spoaden. OF the ST. Louis R-pubiic.
About that time land seekers came 70
wnIkerville and began surveying anS
locating lands Mira Loves~ was p
beautiful woman and attracted The At :
tentiOn II one Of the land buyers, and
he paid her gre@; deal Of attention
80 much 80 that Love.s became leai-
Gus and N 1t Of rage left his wife
aad country.
About that time the Lc-r.sN log cabin
was burned 10 ashes and there was po
trace Of the Loveas woman 70 De found
Il was generally supposed tina. she was
erenated In the bnraing cabin The
land buyer. TOO. was missing
A few weeks ago. bear tho spo. ~
the old cabin. WA fovn5 ths body ~ .
retrihsd WOMAN The nsighboTs AZ
senablcd 20 take the BODY out 81 TIA
limestone fo-na.son n ths Tarinss
where IL was dlscovsred Nrs Eri1ge-
water. IA S0oa as the tody was pre-
sen.s-d % view, recognized u "a tia
body O. her Old fTlsoa aSd reiyhhor.
sigz- I>e,xess There waa Tie isaes q .
Chastlv wound GA ths zreAesd Ezasas.
fyv sharp instrument clearing TO
skuu. and whseh nsus. have procEcesi
death 4. Il suppossss tsns The .1vTsss
woman xas ns-EdeFe4 AID barred IN
The -zrire where found and tk.s eshsa
bzrrses 20 sro38 se.<eiioE CT suspleiSE2
I.s ;tsor1xA; tAs: :hs Hsses.sDe n2:e,
;r.cklsag So~s TITO ne sraTs p~tri1cd
80 body. AID tsst lie rsTfae ~>xsing
ozt eTpo~sa isss t<sdY - ;sss We. O:
lie rszz Who fgussa 4,
Tic petT11~d Uofs.zn has b~.n rx-
hibsisd 20 large crowds = ssriaz. rse-
&c,
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certs, AMI with X was associated most
remarkable instance of presence Of
| mind. 4 correspondent of the London
Spectator tells the thrilling story.
In the central part of this immense
auditorium were collected one evening
about three thousand persons. At
| shout nine o'clock, the manager of the
| building came to the leader % the
meeting. white with alright, ana told
| him that the floor had sunk nearly a
| foot, and that in few minutes more
the lemons Of the joists might be out Of
their sockets
| The floor would then fall through
onto the Chinese museum, and the
walls, sixty feet in height, would cal
lapse and be precipitated, with the
roof, upon the assembly.
The leader explained to the person
| whom the audience expected next To
hear, that by addressing the assembly
| from the end OF the hall, he could with
(, draw the company from the snnken
| part of the floor TO that where tse
front walls strengthened the joIsts 70
bear the weight Of the people
family was in the audience, and that
be must get them out first you sAaa
n0<i' said The leader. "a hin: Of danger,
rush, and T=e shall ell be under The
fallen walls and roof. Five minutes
delay may kill Us altogether"
As boy in the audience 7 well >e-
member my surprise AZ seeing The
leader suddenly appear at the far frosa.
Of the room, and tell the people tl,at
they would next be addressed from
where he stood-the organ-loft "A
the audience turned and moved 20 the
front, the flooring rose six inches
The people were entertained partly
By an impr0mptu sentimental song IN
voice vvithCu. quEEer. in the very
face Of death. and as soon a. pract.ca~
be they were quietly dismissed
No; q single individual in tia. great
assembly was aware that. by the pTss-
tastrOpbe had been avcrted tt,
imagination sickena a. the thougGlt q
what would have been the eonseqU.ac>
of panic and sudden alarm bg the
failure Of the courage Of This Eszn-
I am oonfden. that. excepting he
Speaker referred % and the manager q
the bailding. no oEe outside the iE.r1s-
date tsnilyo OF The man wbo@e courage
prevented this catastrophe h2s spn~a
the whole story till now
The terror of thos~ minutes b-sD~e
tie crowd -zS moved and The 5po-
roe toward is level. 7xas such. that =.
never, esen n bis oEn family. ali1dee
70 the soenr. ;ho1gh h. lived for fc<1J
yez-z ss.er1zrd
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HUNT FOR FORTUNE
America Is g. Veritable Paradise
for Them.
Who the Great Catches Archie whit
neyE aud tbs Uebbs Are Prizes,
But There Are Heirs and
He.resses Galore.
COPYRIGHT. 1891

It NAV be true, as Sarah Grand
signs. that love no longer fills our
faDcies." but we still think of mar
riage. By a curious ASSOCIATION OF
ideas very few unwedded men and
maidens do not bring to mind the sac
rament of matrimony. Should these
interesting persons be, moreover, heirs
OF heiresses, destiny seems nothing 4
not manifest, and that George Wash
ington Vanderbilt remains to this day
unmarried is nothing less that a social
wonder.
Thus the list of American eligibles is
long. The young men and young
women waiting to be wed are numer-
GUS enough to warrant a large edition
of anv manual for the guidance Of for
tune hunters.
II pecuuiary possibilities be any
standard Of precedence. the two single
daughters Of John ID. Rockefeller are
easily first Should the magnate di-
vide his wealth equally among his chill
dren, these young ladies would receive
sixty million dollars apiece. This vast
wealth consists of real estate through
out the country valued at twenty mil
lion dollars, of oil stock put at eighty
million dollars, and in turn made up of
railway shares, bonds, credits and cash
balances in six New York banks, be-
sides notes and mortgages innumera-
BILE How they viii ever manage such
riches is a mystery. since the expert
ence of these girls has heretofore
given them no acquaintance with
expenditures on a large scale. 1t
Is stated on what appears TO be good
authority that Miss Edith and Miss
Alta have each an allowance of one
thousand year for spending money.
That they have the conventional &C
compIishmen3s goes without saying.
Both can draw little, speak French
and Italian little, play the piano a
little and ride little. They live with
their parents in redbrick and brown
stone mansion on Fifty-fourth street in
New York, both being under their
mothers watchful eye and seldom go
ing out" IN the social sense. In fact,
neither is IN society. They teach in
Baptist Sunday schools, Miss Edith
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may be conservatively rated, therefore,
at two million five hundred thousand
dollars, and her papa's fortune is of
such q character as to render that sum
a cumulatively increasing one, since
he owns no less than four street rail-
ways almost outright and is a share
holder in corporations all over this
land His wife left quite a fortune be-
sides. and Miss Pauline is an heiress in
Thousand dollars or 50. She possesses
that sort Of beauty to which the term
statuesque has come to be applied,
rather Indifferent eulogy, it must be
admitted, considering the ugliness of
too many scUlptural creations.
Miss Whitney is barely out Of mourn
ing and her health is by no means ro-
bust. She has been travelling in Europe
lately with Eer father. and when in
this country she spends much time
with her cousins, the Paynes, at the
house of her uncle, Mr.. McBurney. Be
tween her and Miss Gertrude Wander
bilt warm friendship has existed, the
two having sworn eternal amity. Miss
Whitney plays the mandolin divinely,
and IS an accomplished student of the
foils. She paints prettily, it is also as
serted. although the impartiality OF
the Judges seems unvoached for. Miss
Whitney has many friends abroad,
Lady Randolph Churchill admiring her
exceedingly, and the dowager duchess
of Marlborough applies the expression
sweet" to her on all occasions; as they
know who have heard that peeress
speak of Miss Whitney. She is a seri-
GUS young lady, very evidently, al
though precisely what this is due TO
few know, since she has no Sunday
school class. reads no classics and was
never overheard talking science by
mortal man. Miss Whitney is devoted
to gems, however, having one of the
finest collections in America. and she
is seen more at the opera than most So
ciety maidens.
Miss Whitney's brother, William c..
tiona1 mill, and in few years viii be
a catch Of the first magnitude. He
is a fine. open-cOuntenanced boy, well
supplied with friends and money. He
is something OF an athlete, but stu
dious withal and destined by his father
for corporation career, 50 to speak.
1t will be the future concern of this
young man to take care OF the now
vast financial interests of the house of
Whitney, and incidentally, perhaps, to
fail in love. If, as so often announced,
he will inherit most of his fathers
wealth, this interesting youth viii,
about 1910, sooner. or later. be worth
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GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND.
4 Terrible Catastrophe Averted BY . Pub
lie Speakers self Control.

fifty years ago, was a magnificent
Chinese museum, whose treasures, col
iected by Mr.. Dunn, munificent mer-
chant, were displayed in a building
erected on the site on which now stands
the Continental hotel Over the mu-
scum was a long, narrow upper room,
about thirty-five feet high. It was .
PUBLIC hall, .lSeG. for. .lecto-..s e,Si con-
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Here j. remedy s0r -hi;enioz
and absolutely sure 20 eEre- Keep tns
l.odT clean by two sVArrn bstas a Tses;
taze two cool b<ths o4y 20 sseP ibs
sx5E ia = healthy csu1stsga tsss ths
q g,stlse orrz IL Es~rfe-t order cree
8 tAs stomach hzs - ~ n&rrs1
eTsrv azg Kat zna irsaz ,srnI'er "A ses =.
e: pl~rtF q sleep sad t@-s GzOG~-zst~
EXERCISE WzAs e lnfson ~ IN A.zGs
81 rxsaz~zter. .sae-t1sT4 ~ snueh ssre.s-
rs aaa sais .wsce - ssse le1an, g -
nz<S- zEsez z@slalz.-N = as<aA