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HIS GID "MAMMY" KNEW HIM.
And Yet She Had Not Seen Him fol
Sixty Years.

From the Kansas City Times.
A little old negro home at e10 Ottawa
street in Leavenworth, Kan, was the
scene of the renewal of a friendship Mon
day that had been interrupted for sixty
years. The principals in the remarkable
incident were a Chicago jurist and an
Old gray-haired negro woman, who had
been his nanny in Kentucky years
before the civil war. The jurist was
Judge Murray Floyd Tuley, and the old
negress was Ellen White. Judge Tuley
is seventyseven years Of age, Ellen
White is ninety-six.
More than seventy years ago Ellen
White, then slave owned by the fam
lily of Judge Tuley in Kentucky, was
given charge of her masters little boy
and his sister. She was faithful nurse,
and they grew to love her. In return the
negro woman became greatly attached to
the children. When the boy was about
seventeen years of age circumstances
separated the children from their negro
nanny" and until now she never saw
either of them. Ellen White did not for
get them, though. and it was through her
great desire to see them again before
she should die that she was found by
Judge Tuley.
About a year ago the postmaster at
Chicago received letter from Leaven-
worth addressed: TO Whom 1t May Con-
Germ. Care Postmaster, Chicago"
The letter stated that the sender, Ellen
White was DESTROYS of learning the
whereabouts of Murray Floyd Tuley and
his sister, who. she had heard. were In
Chicago. She asked that the letter
be given publicity that the Tuleys might
see 1t or hear of 1T If they were alive
| The Chicago postmaster being a friend
of Judge Tuley. informed him Of the re-
ceipt of the note. and the jurist recog-
nized in the sender his old negro mann
| my" He decided then to seek the old
woman out at his earliest opportunity
| Accompanied by Mrs. Tuley and the
three Misses Mccarthy of Chicago Judge
Tuley stopped in Kansas City on his way
to California to spend a short vacation
After seeing that the members of his
party were made comfortable, Judge
Tuley took an electric line and went to
Leavenworth He soon found the old ne
gress.
TT was a Joy indeed to be able to see
my old nurse; said Judge Tuley. and
the poor old woman seemed almost
tickled to death. She Rugged me and
Kissed me in a way that showed that
sixty years had not affected her love
FOR me when / was a boy. Tears came
into her eyes when she saw me. She rec
ognfZed me instantly. and for several
| hours we sat there and talked over old
times 1t was indeed pleasant visit for
me-"
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There was nothing in Miss Amelia Bing-
hams latest production Olympic to re-
vive enthusiasm in a wanting dramatic
season. A somber ecclesiastical impression
pervades the piece and, while there is moth
ing which could be construed as offensive.
the effect is homogeneous and depressing.
The play was well acted, but lacked the
qualities which maintain interest with even
consistency. 1t will probably be with
sense OF relief that the average theater-
goer will presently turn from the scanttly
successful efforts of this season to provide
serious dramatic productions to the lighter
forms Of entertainment which have come
to be regarded as features of spring and
early summer In this city.
The Bostonians met with the welcome
which always awaits them in this city.
Popular as 1.-THE Seranade'' and robin
Hood" are 1t is to be regretted that the
company did not find opportunity to carry
out its original expectation as to the pro-
ductton of a new piece during this engage
ment 1t was announced that Reginald de
Koven would lead the orchestra on Thurs
day night, but the arrangement was not
carried out.
Miss Eugene Blair continued to wiring
the heart strings of her local clientele by
her portrayals of the regrets of the lady
with a past at the Lafayette Theater.
Chase's enjoyed its usual reliable patron
age, and had the distinction of contributing
some highly appreciated features to the
Countess Cassinis bazaar. A performance
before an audience of society people is a
test to which professional entertainers sub
NIT themselves usually with a good deal of
trepidation. Sad stories come from New
port of the utter disregard of the perform
ers' feelings displayed by audiences more
absorbed In their own conversation than in
the doings on the stage. Washington So
ciety however, seems to be more consider
ate and appreciative, for the points of the
comedians were awaited with close atten-
ton and recognized with enthusiastic ap-
plause.
James A. Hearne's classic Hearts OF
Oak" constituted a welcome interruption
in the Academy of Music's customary melo-
dramatic policy. The fine old play retains
it's popularity to a wonderful degree.
Another Of the theatrical atrocities, based
upon the doings of the bold, bad Biddle
brothers constituted the attraction at the
Empire.
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Most Curious Place of the
Sort in the World.
WHAT IT REALLY Is
ITS BEARING ON THE PLANS OF
FRANCE IN MOROCCO.
How the French Are Working to Elk
tend Their Field of Influence
in Africa.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HOTEL OF THE SAHARA, Beni-Ounif
Near Ffguig). on the Morocco Frontier
of Algiers, April 13, 1904.
This Is the most extraordinary hotel In
the world.
1t is a first-class hotel and sanatorium,
with luxurious baths, COOL shady verandas,
cracked ice in pitchers, spacious billiard and
smoking rooms. formal dinners with duty
free wines from every country, beautifully
furnished bed rooms and perfect service.
Yet II you look out its windows on two
sides you will see nothing but the bound
less Sahara desert, with It's waves of burn
Ing sand. exactly like an ocean.
From the third side you see the famous
$50. 900 palm trees of the Zenegan oasis. 1t
was to save these precious palms rather
than their own skins when the French
threatened to lombard them in May last
that the inhabitants of Zenega and Ffguig
caved in and became nominally French.
From the windows of the fourth side OF
this hotel you far off Ffguig, a still
greater oasis.
Here we are at Beni-Ounif. the present
terminus of the adventurous Algerian state
railway that is going straight south to Tim
buctoo at no distant da tie when things grow
a little safer. Less than a year ago the
tribes OF Figuig and around about were
practically Independent of their nominal
Sultan of Morocco and of the encroaching
civilization of the French. But In that time
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SAND WAVES OF THE SAHARA.

we'll off in the carpet factory. which Is also
a school of decorative art and general cul-
ture. While to the free dispensary come
the sick and wounded from far-off wild
GASES
Who are the other players of the game,
bound In advance to lose? They are the
"Kronis.' The big "Kroni' is Mclean
that remarkable Briton called Caid Mclean
the confidential pal of the younger Emperor
of Morocco the organizer of his army the
encourager of his pleasures, the young
emperors money finder heretofore The
"kronis'' in general are the members of his
Morocco clan, his English and other Eu-
ropean lieutenants and the native chiefs
whom he has solid.
ALI Kinds Of Tales.
Here and at Figulg we hear all kinds Of
tales against the Big Kroni." who is ac-
cused OF pushing the young emperor into
financial excuses with resulting drain and
cruelty to the land. AS a money raiser he
has been a success. They say that there Is
a kind OF religious ceremony at Tanglers
and Fee for functionaries when they men,
ton the imperial treasury, verbally or in
documents. to add the phrase:
May God fill itl''
For example: 1.-The imperial treasury
may God fill IT." To fill It Mclean has
made frequent trips to England and the
continent. Recently, when 1t was said that
he had been expelled by the emperor to APP
pease the popular sentiment against yachts
and automobiles, Mclean was in reality
negotiating loans. He got three In all ag-
gregating $3.Oo0.0oO They were made prl-
vately, by banks, without special security.
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scrns native trading caravan. or from semi
political semi-looting attack on this or that
town across the Morocco border, and here
he finds an honest trading place to dispose
of his goods and buy all kinds of desirable
objects, like cartridges, saddles, brfoies.
guns. revoivers, water TASKS, blankets and
30 on from Europe.
The gflded youth from Ffguig finds all
kinds of splendors In the French depart
ment stores and Arab shops. He can come
out of them dressed magnifcently to the
ring on his finger and the monocle In his
eye. He finds tewelry-real and imitation
for his wives: silks and cambrfcs, high
heeled shoes. corsets. wells, fans. embroider-
ed underwear and who shall say what notf
French Hold the Cards.
The sheikh his father can get a note dis
counted at the bank. the Compton Gene
raux; run up big bill at the restaurant
for all kinds OF forbidden drinks and novel
delicacies. sit smoking over chess in the
perfumed GOODNESS of the cafe veranda. or
string out lazy mornings trading horses In
the corral And the son. behind his back.
can get a bill done now and then on his
future prospects. Here is land
and epoch where assets are not all
necessarily tangible. Influence counts.
Friendship Is bought A mighty game or
chess is being played, and the French-in-
dividuals always, be 1t understood-haVe
trump cards in their hands.
Sure as civilization brings undreamed-of
ease, pleasures and security to the rich and
influential, so sure is France to gobble up
Morocco.
This is how the game stands. 1t is all
new today.
The Just-signed Anglo-French treaty has
removed the last impeachment of weight. As
you doubtless know, 1t contains clause by
which England formally "diSinterestS her
SELF of Morocco.
England says to France. I'm not try to
stop YOU" France, to obtain this deciara-
ton has agreed not to fortify Tangiers or
the Morocco coast In front Of Gibraltar, and
she guarantees commercial equality to all
for thirty years.
The End is Clear.
From the windows of the Hotel OF the
Sahara we can now see afar off, like
cloud no larger than mans hand. the end
OF the present Emperor of Morocco. This
is the kind of talk one hears openly. l
asked Frenchman of large African expe-
rience, recently returned from Paris, II his
government would now proceed to do Its
conquerIng in some brilliant expedition.
NO." he answered. Trance is humane
and civilized republic We shall not take
Morocco If Morocco wants to come to us
It may.
From the windows of the Hotel of the
Sahara it IS beautifully clear LOOK TO the
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WOES OF MRS. WIGGS.
Penalties Of Being Famous-Bemoans
MANY Annoyances.


The female apostle of sunshine, Mrs.
Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch" who In prl-
waite life answers to the name Of Mrs. Mary
Bass. was dismissed by Judge Mccain in
Louisville. KY, yesterday. where she made
her appearance to answer the charge OF
throwing the contents of slop jar on Mrs.
Emily Smith, also of Louisville. Mrs.
Smith claimed that her dress was ruined,
her pride shattered and that her philan-
thropic impulse received a shock.
In Diminishing Mrs. Bass the court said In
brief
"This prosecuting witness came to Mrs.
Wigs house without invitation. The de-
PENDANT has been brought into great no
toriety as the result of a literary produc-
ton. and as a result has been terribly an
noyed, her home has been invaded and the
peace and quiet Of life continually disturb
ed. / think that she has had great provoca-
ton. and 1 think L ought to dismiss her OF
the charge on general principles"
Mrs Eass'. testimony was given In her
characteristic manner. She said:
For many months, years, I've been con-
tinually interrupted. Hobo after hobo comes
to my ouse. l order 'em down ana away
from my place whenever l see EN-. Ihey
come by droVeS. walk around the yaro open
the doors. When they rouse me and come
to the ooor to see what they want look
upon not a single face j know. There they
stand, and look at each other in foolish
way After awhile one will say:
Well we read the book.
"'Well, will say. If that's all you may
git
And 1 make them git"
AS she left the court room Mrs. Wigs
said:
Now, maybe I'll be able to spend my old
age in peace, and maybe my trees'H grow
out where all them memorials (souvenirs)
has been pulled off, and maybe my yard
won't be full of strange people every Sun
day, and I can move downstairs, where 1
used to live"
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finding that the French had come to stay.
Resolved to profit by them in a business
way. Others will tell you that the trade
Is due to the tact of the individuals,
French and Spanish, who are building II
up In any case. the daily arrivals OF mer-
chandise by railway amount to an average
of thirty-four tons, and as soon as the
cart road to Figuis Is built 1t will be
doubled.
Highly Picturesque.
The Hotel OF the Sahara Is the first thing
you see when you leave the railway car
1t is not the only thing. because there are
some sixty houses already grouped around
the railway terminus and garrison, which
h strong But the Hotel of the Sahara
Is highly picturesque.
1t is the most picturesque hotel you ever
saw II looks like an immense fort in the
open Sahara. Or one OF those old-tlme
American blockhouses. built against the
Indians In this. that on one side the high
white walls continue on, incloslng a great
open space for wagons and cattle. 1t Is a
fortified corral OF many acres In extent.
Between this corral and the hotel proper
all within the same continuous inclosing
walls-there Is a whole little city. Read the
sign II is the first thing you see:
Free Warehouses and General Account
Bank (Comptoirs Generaux) Of South AL
geria and Morocco. French Department
Stores. Arab Stores, Post and Telegraph.
Carpet Mandatory. Franco-Arab School.
French Bakery. Grand Hotel OF the
Sahara. Restaurant Cafe"
The pirate OF the desert comes In hot
and red handed from his latest raid on
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Now. here is the latest news Of Mclean.
his loans and the financial prospects OF the
emperor. The interest on these new loans
was never once paid. To save his creait
and procure more pocket money, the ef1-
peror has been obliged to contract larger
loan, from French sourcesi Hence1ortn t,4
financial influence at Tangders and Fec VIII
be all French
No, 1t IL not the latest news. The latest
news am going to give you now. from "a :
windows of the Hotel Of the Sahara ana
taken I'D by the war in the east, this news
would be of enormous interest. And per.
haps It is of more Importance TO Europe
Notwithstanding!
The Emperor's Brother.
Deep In the desert south Of US ID Tesa.
There dwelIs for the moment. surrounded
by his followers. Mouley Mehammed, the
ominous elder brother of the present young
Emperor of Morocco. Aided by MS
.Kronis'' Abd-el-Aziz robbed and impr1son-
ed MouIey- Mohammed, the true representa-
tive Of the prophet, the eldest son OF MS
father.
OF the identity of Mouley- Meha mined the
French authorities here, at Paris ana
Throughout Algeria are convinced: wy
correct. they have done nothing. NOW they
wait. Like u.s. perhaps, they sit lookihs
out on the waves of the Sahara from the
windows of this extraordinary hotel
Far more exciting, there are others VINO
are convinced of the rights OF Mouley-
Mehammed. Imprisoned at Marrakech, ne
escaped through the aid of a devout MUS
sulnan eaid. He took refuge In the Ianlel
GASES, to the west of us here. Ihere I'VE
exiled certain other brothers or TINS siooy
young emperor. There he made the ac-
auaintance Of the FIR anch explorer DelDrei,
who is now his devoted adviser-his "kro-
nj" NJ Delbrel, be it said in passing. hao
come direct from Paris when he made the
acquaintance of Mouley-Mehammed
For the Future.
Furthermore, the famous agitator of the
south. Bou Amama, with his hordes has
proclaimed for Mouley- Mehammed. His
son commands the avant-garde Of Mouley-
Mehammed's army, now forming at Tesa
And to show how the great chiefs OF the
south and west GASES feel upon the sub
ject, the powerful ST Ahmed Roukina OF
Figuig, sitting on this very ho.el porch day
before yesterday, exclaimed:
"McLean Mclean! Kf-kif diablou!
C'All the same devil!')
Dr. Armand Gieure. a0joint to the mayor
of Oran. who has just come back from the
long and painful desert trip to Tesa where
he tended Mouley- Mehammed for some
fever or other. from which he has recoV-
cred. stopped at the Hotel of the sahara
On his way back to Oran, on the Mediter-
ranean.
This is what he told us:
"Hostilities will begin on the side OF
Figuig and Oudjda early In the spring.
Then the army of Mouley- Mehammed led
by the son of Bou Amama, after recruiting
among the Ghiates. the Riffins. the Glaias
the Beni-Guill and other tribes of South
Morocco, will attack Fez.'
Have they chance to take IT, 1 asked
"Sure. they will take it. Have they not
the modern quick-firing cannons they took
from Add ell Aziz last year?'
Thus will France enter Morocco. gently,
quietly, in a civilized way-by the back
door.
AN AMERICAN IN THE SAHARA.
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Fortunes From Corns and Teeth.
From st. James Gazette.

rroui ot. JhHies Gazette.
1t gives one rather an ache in the mouth
to reflect that a gentleman who died re-
Gently In London has left an estate of nearly
917o,o0O all from making artificial teeth
Better that way than the fashion In which
his prototypes raised their wealth Before
the artificial tooth was created deficiencies
had to be made good by the real article, so
body snatehers ravaged the cemeteries at
night breaking up the jaws of the dead to
extract their teeth to sell to dentists for
Insertion in live mems mouths. An army Of
-hese ghouls followed Wellington. They
were licensed as suffers. but, once night
fell, out came their pliers. and out came
tho teeth of those dead and dying on the
battlehelds. 1t IS a horrible idea, but we are
not SO much more refined today. Only eigh-
teen months ago somebody was exploiting
the bones of our soldiers who had fought
and died under Lord Wolseisy in the
Ashanti war The poor relics we're shipped
to London, taken to an auction room to be
sold as 'curios." and only at the last mo-
ment was public opinion too strong to per-
nit the wicked transaction to be carried
through. Not so far from where the pros
porous tooth factor has just died there used
to live cutter of corns. Everybody knew
him-old Wolfr. He did not aspire to the
title of chiropodist-simply a cutter of
corns he. More than thousand clients
paid him their 3 guineas year. One of
them was an archbishop, who. while he SUBJ
mitted a painful corn to the razor piled hts
persuasive tongue upon the cutter. Here
was a Jew to be converted. ''Sir, II you will
go on talking, l shall cut YOU was the
only response of Shylock. IF make you
bleed you'll die" was another grim way he
had of silencing clients. In his dingy old
room, patronized by all the lions OF the
stock exchange, and everybody who was
anybody with corn. he piled up fortune
of over six figures. and was still coining
money up to the date OF his death at the
age OF eighty-four.
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UNIQUE Chautauqua for Chicago.

Plans have been completed In Chicago
lately for q floating chautauqua to
be established on the Chicago river for the
instruction Of school children in the geog-
raphy and geology of the city and the
methods of carrying on commerce. TWO
steamers will be hired by Principal William
w. Watt of the Graham school. promoter
of the project, as soon as the schools close
for the summer vacations. Lecture rooms
will be fitted up on the freight decks for
the accommodation of 200 pupils.
The boats will make three trips daily
One tourney will be down the Chicago river
every morning. Afternoons the vessels VII
cruise along the city water front, observ-
ing the typographical features, and visits
to the cribs and other points of interest
will be made The lectures will be given
while the boats are anchored Off Grant
Park. A brass band will be taken ON all
the expeditions.
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of warlike struggle even this Hotel of the
Sahara was already on the spot and doing
business.
At Oran. or the Mediterranean coast. we
take the railway, travel $50 miles south,
through Algiers and into the blank Sahara
desert, still raided by wild bandit tribes, to
this French strong place of Benz Ounif. In
one way it is Ike the old frontier times with
our American Indians NOminally the tribes
have submitted to France. France has de-
clared a protectorate over 100000 square
miles of this debated territory which the
Sultan of Morocco could not police, which
was a refuge for his enemies. Practically
there are bandit hordes roaming the land,
and insurrection grumbles low.
An Empire Drama.
sneak of the French individuals not of
the French government. French individuals
with capital and tact, aided by Spanish In
oiyiduals of push and nerve, are doing good
business WITH these same insurrectionary
grumblers, so that a very curious situation
of affairs may be seen from the windows of
the Hotel of tie Sahara. 1t is an empire
drama that Is being played. and 1t looks as
AZ the last act will be very French.
The railway stops here at Beni-Ounif.
Southwark beyond. there is nothing but
tho ocean of sand. no roads but only in
terminable sand waves beneath the blazing
sky. 1t Is the great Sahara desert. Dot
ting It, like islands in the ocean. there are
these GASES. Of which Figuig is a fam )'is
one. And the wild Inhabitants of these
far-scattered GASES are like island-dwellins
pirates. They scour the sand ocean en-
their ships OF the desert-their racing
camels. called mehar!s. Finding the Hotel
of the Sahara square trading place. az
well as a French fortress. they stop and do
business with 1t.
Ii is certainly curious. the amount of
business done at Beni-Ounif. There are
Bome who will! tell you that the lombard
ment of last May merits the credit of 1t;
the GASES people OF Figuig and Zenega,
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Columbia Theater.

By right of birth and tradition as well az
by careful exploitation of magic phenomena
the name OF Hermann will always asso-
ciate itself with the best in this line OF
stage presentation. Leon Hermann, who
will be seen at the Columbia next week.
beginning Monday evening. Is the last
magician of his famous family, Of whom
the exploitation of mysteries has been the
work for three generations Born in Paris,
France, on the 18th of March. 1860, he has
accomplished In his young career of only
thirty-five years the most remarkable suo-
cess, as well in the United States as In all
Europe Among the novelties he presents
this season can be mentioned his distillery.
In this experiment he offers to the audi