The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-08-31
H0ROCCO'S CHILDISH RULER.
HOW AN ADVISER WORKS UPON
1T TO PERSONAL PROFIT.
Kodak, Yacht, Crown and Auto for the
Emperor of Morocco-"Just Like
Kinq Edward's"-Whims OF an
AmiabIe Monarch.

POultney Bigelow, sent to Morocco
on the occasion of the Perdtcaris KID
mapping, has these things to relate N
the Independent concerning the head
of the land where abide brigands with
a purpose:
Mahomet was twenty-five years Ola
when he married Kadijah who was
fifteen years older, and who more tAah
any one else strengthened the hand or
the DrODhet in his iabOrs to com oat
idolatrv and establish new and purer
creed among the people OF his race.
The blood Of this prophet dra85
Ianguidly through the amiable arteries
of Muley Abdul Aziz, Emperor OF MO-
rocco. and it has been dragging IAN
guidIy for the past twenty-five years.
Mahomet disapproyed Of portraits
because to him they suggested idola-
try. To-day no orthodox Moor per-
mits himself to be photographed, no
orthodox Moorish house contains pic
lures of people.
Kaiser Muley, however, ordered
kodak-not one, but dozen. He ere
ated the post Of court photographer
and had his sacred Moslem person
photographed; and if there could be
ANYTHING worse than that it was 10
have this same photograph multiplied
and sold at one cent apiece through
out the cities Of the Mediterranean, to
the scandal Of every Moslem from the
Himalayas to the Pillars Of Hercules,
and the corresponding delight OF Jews
and Gentiles.
It was a Chr IAN who put this
idea into the amiable head of Kaiser
Muley. and l am told that the sad
Christian did so for the sake OF
money.
There is a little strip of water at
Fez-enOugh of it to sail model
sail yachts or possibly a diminutiVe
naphtha launch. In an evil moment
Kaiser Muley heard through the
mouth Of a Christian adviser that the
great King Edward owned a steam
yacht, and that, indeed, all great rul-
ers had them. The Sultan was. per
suaded with ease-he would have one
for his little strip of water at Fee.
But the Christian adviser had larger
views, at least financially, for he
promptly negotiated, not for launch,
but for a sea-going royal yacht, which
in the course of time reported Itself
off the coast of Morocco and demand
ed transport to Fee, distance OF
some 200 miles overland.
Kaiser Nuley paid for this yacht
many times more than it was worth
and soon afterward sold it for scrap
iron, for it had no value in his eyes
once that his Whim had been gratified.
And then came King Edwards cOrO-
nation to torment tails son Of the des-
ert. His Christian adviser said to him:
THE British King has a coronation
coach-all great rulers have gaudy
carriages and magnificent harness; it
strengthens the feeling Of loyalty
among the masses. The Sultan Of
Morocco cannot afford to make less
display than his brother monarchs
of Austria Russia and England"
So the coach was ordered-the most
theatrical and costly thing of its kind
that Bond street dealers could invent
for a weak-minded spendthrift with
negro love of finery. The Christian
adviser shared in the profits of this
colossal criminal nonsense.
The coach finally arrived, and with
it harness so heavy with ornament
that few horses in the empire could
have supported its weight, even had
they been broken to this form of eX-
ercise. But the Sultan had no horses
broken to harness, and he wanted to
have his toy at once.
So he ordered out his army and
harnessed them into the traces. The
Christian adviser was made to sit in
side. another Christian stood upon the
toard intended fnr tho fQ0tman he