Arizona republican., 1904-07-23
The nouarch of Morocco.

MT 1 eIulCetIlS, ldlely released rom the clutches of Fraissouli, the brigand, is Htrying to persuade the French govern
 ment to recognize Fraissoult as the
 real ruler of the back country in Moroc-
 at hand, Fraissouli is much better fit
 ted than is Moroccos nominal ruler to
 govern the country. Poultney Bigelow,
 sent to Morocco on the occasion oe the
 PerGicaris kidnapping, has these things
 to relate iI the Independent concerning
 the head of the land where abide bri- grands with a purpose
 1 Mahomet was twenty-five years old
 when he married Kadijah, who was | fifteen years older, and who more than ! anyone else strengthened the hand of the prophet in his Iabors to combat ] idolatry and establish a new and purer
 creed among the people of his race. The blood of this propI:et drags Ian-
 guidly through the amiable arteries of
 MuIey Abdul Aziz, emperor of More = co, and it has been dragging languidly
 for the past twenty-five years Mahomet disapproved of portraits
 because to him they suggested idol
 atry. Today no orthodox Moor per
 mits himself to be photographed, no
 orthodox Moorish house contains pie lures Of people.
 Kaiser Muley, however, ordered a kOdak-nOt one, but a dozen. He ere ated the post of court photographer and had his sacred Mos!em person pho- tographed; and if there could be any thing worse than that it was to have this same photograph multiplied and sold at one cent apiece throughout the cities of the Mediterranean, to the scandal of every MosIem from the Himalayas to the Pillars of Hercules, and the corresponding delight of Jews and Gentiles
 It was a Christian who put this idea into the head of Eaiser Muley, al.5l Bigelow was told that the said Chris tian did so for he sake Of money.
 There is a little strip of water at Fez-enOugh of it to sail model yachts or possibly a diminutive naptha launch. | In an evil moment Kaiser Muley heard through the mouth of a Christian ad- wiser that the great King Edward l owned a steam yacht, and that, in | deed, all great rulers had them. The sultan was persuaded with ease-he would have one for his little stlIp of | water at Fez.
 But the Christian adviser had larger | views, at least financially, for he | promptly negotiated, not for Q launch, but for sea-going royal yacht, which | in the course of time reported itself | off the coast of Morocco and demand ed transport to Fez. a distance of some 200 miles overland!
 Kaiser Muley paid for this yacht many times more than it was worth ! and soon afterward sold it for scrap 1 iron, for it had no value in his eyes, once that his whim had been gratified. |
 And then came King Edwards cor onatioE to torment fkis son of the des- ert. His Christian adviser said to him: The British king has a coronation coach-all great rulers have gaudy car riages and magnificent harness: it the feeling of loyalty among the masses. The sultan of Mo- rocco cannot afford to make less dis play than his brother monarchs O. Austria, Russia and England
 So the coach was ordcred-the most theatrical and costly thing of all it's kind that English street dealers could invent for a weak-minded spendthrift with a negro love of fnery The Chris uan adviser shared in the profits Of this colossal criminal nonsense
 The coach finally arrived, and with 1t harness so heavy with ornament that few horses in the empire could have supported it's weight, even had they been broken to this form of exercise But the sultan had no horses broken 10 harness, and he wanted to have his toy at once.
 So he ordered out his army and har- messed them into the traces. The Chris tian adviser was made to sit inside, another Christian stood upon the board for the footman behind, while Kaiser Muley mounted onto the box and waved his whip over the brown back of his Mahometan warriors.
 The Christian agent at Fez showed Kaiser MuIey a highly colored supple ment in one of the London papers DOT traying King Edward in his coronation robes. with a crown resting on the table.
 But" said Kaiser Muley, my re- Iigion does not permit me to wear crown