The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-14

his hat, so to say, becomes royal city l for the time being. Each capital i' divided into three Sections-the Kas bah, which contains the Sultan's pal
 ace and It's adjunctS; the Medinah, ol
 Moorish civilian quarter and the Mel
 lah, or Hebrew quarter Everywhere in town and country, the foreigner: only safety lies in the fact that the Sul- tan, being the state, can be made tc
 pay heavy damages whenever an out
 rage is perpetrated against European
 or American. Of course that does moi
 greatly benefit murdered victim; but
 they are fewer because the money with
 which the Sultan redress foreign injur-
 ies does not come from his own over
 flowing coffers, but from the depleted
 store of his previously taxed subjects
 Though his high mightiness would re-
 joice to see every dog of an unbeliev-
 err wiped from the face of the earth
 he has wholesome respect for foreign
 guns. Besides he dislikes to have his
 ease disturbed by such insignificant
 matters, and has habit of inflicting
 dreadful tortures of bringing upon him
 the annoyance of a claim for damages.
 As for insults, the traveller in Morocco
 must make up his mind in advance to
 put up quietly with no end of them,
 and be thankful if indignities do not
 take the form of personal violence. He
 is constantly cursed and often spat
 upon, not only by grown-up fanatics,
 but the very children at play in the
 streets stop to curse and spat at "the
 dog of an unbellever," having been
 brought up with the idea that this is
 the proper way to salute Christians and defend the faith of Islam. The He brews of Morocco, who number nearly a third of the population (mainly descen- ded from those who were exiled in Eu-
 rope during the middle ages), are per- secuted even more than the few stray Christians There is nobody to demand indemnity for them and therefore they are considered lawful prey But Jew is as intolerant in his own way as a Moor in his: and if one or the other should renounce the faith Of his fath- CTS, he would thenceforth be an out cast among his people and an object of hatred and contempt, whom to kill would be righteous action be- tween the two classes of citizens. mis- sionaries have hard time in Morocco, and such a thing as a convent to Chris tianity was never heard of. However religion--according to his lights-in the dominant factor in the lives of both Moor and Hebrew, interwoven with ey- cry thought and action. Can more be said of the average Christian? There is little band of Scotch Presbyterians iY, oft hn Jo time in the vineyard; but, according to ther own statements, have had no suc- cess whatever, except on the physical side-in the line of caring for the sick and feeding the hungry.
 The wholesome awe in which the Sultan of Morocco is held by his sub jects is shown in the enormous amount of tribute constantly coming in from outlying districts, in the form of droves of sheep, oxen, goats, loads of wheat, barley and other grams together with sums of money and profuse apologies for the smallness of the gifts and abundant promisee for doing better n the future. The poor farmers do this not from love of the potentate, but to save themselves from being massa cred by his fierce soldiers. However large the payments, the Sultan never shows anything like satisfaction or ap- oreciation. but invariably utters blood- curdlng threats of the dreadful things ne will do if more is not forth coming next time. If tribe or village fails to contribute what his Sultanship consid- ers g decent sum. for two or three years in succession he decides to make m example of the delinquents by send ng detachment of his troops to ex- terminate them and siege everything low and then serve to refresh the memory of the people and make them liligent in well-doing-to a certain ex- ent, just far enough to satisfy the tax ,atherer. What is the use in accumu- l ating anything more, when the ultan I will get the lions share anyhow? If a | nan is industrious and begins to show | igns of prosperity, ten to one the local | authorities will conclude that he is get | ing on too well for true child of the Prophet and will hire couple of per urour to swear that they heard him
 laspheme or know him to be a con- pirator or make some other charge gainst him which will ensure his being rought before the Kadi. The latter yill order him to be soundly bastina- oed on general principles; strip him f all he possesses and then bastinado i'm again because it was not more. finally he is turned loose, nearer dead nan alive, to begin life over again, a adder if not wiser individual. You lay be sure he needs the warning gainst thrift, and forever afterwards ts dutifully in the shade in summer nd in the sun in winter, clothed in lgs and attending to the snake charm and story teller rather than to heav- r duties. Morocco is particularly oh in story-tellers, of vivid magina- 1 on and endless wind" Seated in ; me nook where he Is comparatively ( fife from being tumbled over in the ' owd, the professional Scheherezade Ills attention to the character of his ltertainment by series of ear-split- lg yells, followed by the announce ent: Tn the name of the Prophet, $ Ii Ben Hassan Cor whatever his
 mel the greatest story teller in 1s-