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only bare fields or the crops.
In the pasture lands the sheep, goats
pigs and other animals are herded. watchs
ed by a shepherd, who Is often employed
by several farmers at SO much for each.
animal, the flocks thus feeding together.
At night he drives them all to the village
and each animal makes a. Decline for lis
own individual home. No one woul9
think of leaving even a goat outside the
town after dark for fear of thieves.
These are the conditions within mile
OF Tangier. the chief seaport OF Morocco.
In the interior they must be far worse
There many of the families live in TENTS
but all are on the constant lookout AGAINST
thieves and brigands, and nearly every
tribe is at war with its neighbors.
often n half-dozen or more of the vil<
lagos make up the home of one tribes
They are governed by chief who col-
lects certain taxes, and who acts as their :
leader In their war with the other tribes.
This is the condition throughout the whols
empire. which Is rather an aggregation OF
wild pastoral and agricultural tribes tnan
n kingdom or empire. In our sense OF tno
word Each tribe cares only for itseir
and its own particular country, and there
is. am told. no such thing as REGARDS
Morocco as Il whole. The only binding
cords among the tribes are those OF re-
lirion They are fanatcal Mountaineering
VIM hate the Christian and all that be-
longs to him. They want nothing TO 90
with him ana resent his presence here.
Speaking of the hatred OF these people
for foreigners, and especially OF that
which exists among the mountain tribes,
| / heard the story to-day OF a young
! spaniard who loved not wisely but too
| we'll, This young man was spendlhs
some time in the neighboring town OF
| Tettan. when he happened to spy In the
market one day beautiful Berber sirl
az one of the AMER tribes of the E sltrs1
mountains near by. AS he looked ne
| loved. and by carefully prosecuting his
attentions from market day to market
day he was able to make the girl enter
into n Irritation with him. AT last his
passion grew to such an extent that ha
followed her to her village and there
proposed marriage. The tribe answered
| him by taking possession of both him
| and the girl and stripping them almost
to the skin Each was then gagged and
| securely tied to one OF two trees, one
on either side of bride path, ut
| Mace not far from Tetuan. and left there
I1ntil they starved to death. AS the
story goes they were SO placed that their
.eves could look love to eyes that spakes
1 again" but as hunger came on their
love turned to anger and they miserably
4 persisted. .,,,>,rrp
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Der than anywhere else, and they have
the right to live wherever they please,
which is so in no other city of Morocco
The walls of these Moroccan cities are
entered by gates, so that the city can
be closed tight at night. The business
is largely done In markets. although an
towns have shops and bazaars
Ten Thousand Straw Villages.
Tho cities. however, contain but
small part of the population oil Morocco.
The masses live In villages made lip OF
huts of stone, chinked with mud ana
thatched with straw. or in movable TENS.
Many Of the huts reaMtogether OF straw,
and not. a few OF them are sun-dried
brick. Roughly speaking, there are about
ten million people housed IN these WAYS
ana that Is more than on-tenth as many
as the population OF the United SUITES.
The city population could, ! venture be
placed within the limits of Baltimore
and have room to spare.
How sQualidly these people live one
can see by riding n few miles out into
the country. The average village Is IKE
| /, collection of falling straw stacks, each
surrounded by hedge Of green cactus,
| the leaves of which have thorns as sharp
! as fine needles. Each house stano;
| .lone and no man dares peep in through
| tho gate or look over the walls, the
| cactus hedge usually incloses a small
bare yard in which the cattle, sh>'p
goats. horses. pigs. camels and chickens
belonging to the family are driven al
night.
Such villages have no STREETS and no
pavements whatever. After sunset they
| become as dark as n pocket except
where the houses are lighted by candle.
or perhaps by American coal oil. The
| villagers are farmers who own land!
nearby. No one lives on his farm, ant
in looking over the landscape one see!
no horses, barns, nor fences. There arr
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and umbrella hat, is one of the sights
of Japan. Some OF these pilgrims are
mere mendicants who go about from
house to house, tinkling their bell IN
front Of each, and generally, in rural
narts at least receiving from the house
holder rim or two "a rim is one-tWeh-
tieth of a cent? These pilgrims nave
their outer garment stamped In red at
each shrine they visit the most coveted
probably being that from the top OF
Mount Full. The pilgrims may be roughly
divided into three groups. The hrst con 4
sists of these professionals. or mendl-
cants. who are little different from
tramps.
Tho second includes those who are
sent ma representatives of a neighbor-
hood on n tour of the important shrlnes;
and the third Is made up of those who
go forth In bands at their own expense
for pilgrimages to some ono sacred
place. usually near at hand. Pilgrims
travel third class at one-half the regular
rate. with OCCASIONALLY further concessions
to crowds, which makes 1t possible for
them to cover some stretches at the rate
OF less than one-fifth of cent mile
This sort of plety and plain Anglo
Saxon morality are by no means iden-
teal. A pilgrimage Is more or less OF q
picnic. The stock OF merit acquired
thereby is sufficient excuse, II excuse
be needed, for any lapses from virtue.
Thus 1t comes that a white light upon
tho character OF Japanese religion is
thrown by conditions at points OF popular
pilgrimage. At Kuwano to cite par
ticulars, the famous Buddhist shrine in
Ise eight of the thlrty-two streets are
| devoted exclusively to the social evil.
! Yamada, the seat Of the imperial shrines,
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sons from committing suicide by leaping
off. as had become quite the fashion.
The largest whole bell in the world is
being hung in this temple area 1t was
cast at the time of the Osaka expo
sition, two years ago. and 10000 Budd-
hist priests were present. which Is about
one-tenth of the total number In the
empire. Report went forth that fol-
lowing an ancient custom, a young maid
en- was wanted to propitiate the gods
by throwing herself into the molten metal;
and a young woman really presented her
self as an offering. but Of course the
authorities would not permit the sacrifice.
This bell. which is second to tho broken
bell Mt MOSCOW in size, was made of gifts
OF swords and ornaments and money,
and has tone of more than Ordinary
richness. All Buddhist temples contain
large bells and their sound is soft, deep
and musical
One other phase of worship at this tenn
pie is the pond full OF sacred turtles. 1t
is a pious act to feed these with the
pink rice balls which a priest sells. Here
+ enjoyed the sensation of being an An
drew Carnegie, for the purchase of half
a nickes worth OF the food (about
quarter of a peck) caused the wondering
natives to exclaim, ooh. see! Here is
very rich mani"
The hundreds OF turtles race and fight
FOR the bouyant balls, and then beg for
more. This feeding of the living crea-
lures that are called sacred Is pleasant
| form Of religious devotion / have fed
wriggling cells to sacred cranes (the cells
were not sacred, and had no rights,
beans to sacred horses, rice to sacred
| fishes; and have paid Il few coppers To
see dancing prlestess go through hel
slow, graceful posturlng and gasturlng
| without moving her feet, Certainly wor-
ship at popular shrine or temple can
scarcely be called monotonus with all
| these diversions. and the various booths
| for the sale Of souvenirs besides,
Pilgrimages as Picnic,
4 The white robea Pilgrim with his bel
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The most Of these Jews came originally
from Spain, and some belong to faini-
lies which have lived hundreds of years
in Morocco. As n class they are de-
spised by tho a1oors. aid in the cities
are compelled to live in their own quar-
ters. In most places 1t is against the
law for them to live anywhere else, and
they are not allowed to buy lands.
The Jews dress in their own costume
wearing caps with little curls hanging
down each side the face and long black
coats or gowns. They are sometimes
stoned by the Moorish boys, and are
forced to do certain mental work. In
Europe the Jewish quarter Is known as
the Ghetto Here it Is called the Meah,
which am told means salt, and may
come from one special job which the
Jews have. and that is the picking OF
the heads of rebels before they are fas-
tened up over the gates of the cities as
n warming to traitors,
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PATRIOTISM AND
RELIGION ARE With
THE JAP ANESE
CONTINUED from Fourth page.)


prayers are fully answered.
One of the most pathetic temples I have
visited is the children's temple at osaka,
which is filled with the clothes and toys
OF dead children, given as VotiVe oner-
ings by bereaved parents. The humdrum,
mechanical manner in which the at
tendant priest droned out prayers ana
rang the bell in behalf of two parents who
brought an Offering while was there
made one want to lay hands on him.
Nearby is a peculiar device for offering
prayers for the dead,
The name Is written on thin shaving
of wood. and then placed in large stone
cistern in the form Of a turtle. into which
sacred water Is constantly running. Devo-
tees take great pains to have the wood
thoroughly drenched, for thus the prayer
is borne to the god
The Largest Bell in the World.
AT the Tenno1i temple at Osaka are a
number OF interesting sights. In the first
place, the temple courts are a regular
bazaar filled with a display OF second
hand goods. Scores OF dealers have
their wares spread about and lively
business is done with pilgrims and 9th
ers. Little things like germs disturb no.
body. since lepers wander freely about.
At the gate are two of the prayer wheels
which are not uncommon in temples. IT.
reverent tourists sometimes turn these
backwards, which Is said greatly to upset
the god The paGoda In connection with
this temple is II fine old ons. and from
the top good view of Osaka may be
! obtained, The platform is screened in
by heavy wire. in order to prevent per-
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The Cities of Morocco.

Every Moroccan city has three parts
one belonging to the government, where
the officials live: another containing the
stores and homes of tho Moors, and the
third the quarter of these desp!sed Jews.
There are but few large towns in the
country. but all arc OF about the same
character, being made UP OF box-like, fiat
rooted buildings. and surrounded by wallis
The most important city is Fee, which
lies ITO niles south of here. 1t con-
tains 10000 people, and Is the chief capi-
tai. Another capital is Marrakech, which
contains 10000. and a third Is Mekinez'
which is of about the same size. me
sultan lives In all Of these places during
tho year He Is now at Fee and Will
probably be there for some months. He
carries his court with him. but leaves
a relative in charge Of a capital when
ha leaves It, I understand that he also
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has palace In each OF the ports L
have seen the one at Tangier 1t is shah
by.
The chief ports of Morocco are eight in
number. They run along the Atlantic
and Mediterranean coasts. This town of
Tangier is about the largest. 1t has fifty
or sixty thousand people. Tetuan, farther
eastward on the Mediterranean, covers
more space. but 1t has n smaller popu-
.latlon. Along the Atlantic farther south
are Larache, Rabat Casa Blanca, Ma2a-
gan. SAT- and Mogador All of these are
white towns surrounded by walls and
made of box-shaped white houses OF brick
and stucco.
Mogador has about 5000 population. and
of these 10000 are Jews. The Jews have
been making a great deal of money there
and some of them have been gradually
moving out OF the Mellah and renting
houses in the Moorish section of the town.
This, l am told, was the cause Of the
rebellion which broke out in that quar-
ter a few months ago. The chief of
one of the Mohammedan tribes nearby
was called in and he drove the Jews
back to their own quarter. telling them
they should know their place and keep 1t.
Mogador is the port for Marrakech, the
southern capital and 1t formerly had a
great caravan trade with Timbukti. The
camels We're Loaded there and made their
long march across the Sahara to the
upper Niger. The place is now shipping
| goat skins to the United States and
! many an American lady pulls on a kid
| shoe every morning made of hide from
Nogador. There are 300 Europeans living
| at that port. consisting of English, Ger
mans, Italians. Swiss, French and Span
| iards.
| Magazan has 5000 inhabitants, one
| third of whom are Jews Larache has
! 5000. of whom 1000 are Jews, and here
| in Tanger the Jews are more In num-
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apparent in the western faith which i
Buddhism and shintoism do not show.
When Wages Were Low.

columbus" said an antiauary OF Chl'
cage got salary of three hundred
and twenty dollars a year, less than
dollar a day. His captains got one huns
bred and eighty dollare as year apiece.
His crew got two dollars and twenty
FIVE cents month. To equip the ex-
pedition that discovered America COST
twenty-eght hundred dollars The total
cost Of discovering America was seventy
two hundred dollars.
Lawyers nowadays, especially corr
5poratlon lawyers, think nothing OF earn
ing u million n year In tho reign OF
Edward w. baronet entered IN ms
diurnal, or diary:
paid to Roger Fylpott, learned in the
law, for his counsel, three shilinss, Win
four pence for his dinner y
"Ministers often make to-day twenty
or thirty thousanS dollars n year. The
late DR.. Talnlage made sixty thousand
dollars. Vet John Knox only got two
hundred and twenty dollars year, or
four dollars a week. and that was
dollar more u week than Scottish JUDGES
got
"small salaries those concluded the
antlouary; 'but we must remember thar
In that epoch there We're no trusts to ms
fate prices, and dollar went long
wny In fact II Christmas dinner forG'sa
family of six would have cost IN John
| KnoN,s time--for the turkey 10 cents;
| cranberry sauce, . cents; potatoes, IS
}cent turnips cent; celery, 4 cent
| pl,im pudding, 4 cents; total, y cents, or
| less than three cents heaa, ---hahsaS
| city Journal,
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will raise the same crops as California.
These foot hills of the Atlas mountains
might be the chief fruit garden of Europe
and there are great plains in the soutn,
which will raise the best OF wheat, barley
and corn. Even the mountainous parts,
and they are many. are covered with pas
lures and the people now rear thousands
of sheep. cattle and goats.
Spain gets most OF her meat from Mo-
rocco. and as ] look out OF my WIN
dow can see them unloading boatloads
of soeeves which VIII be carried across "
sasibra,tar The cattle are taken out OF
the boats In curious way. The water
is so shallow that lighters cannot como
Ia the shore and the beasts have TO WAGE.
There are no landing arrangements ana
each animal is pried out by long peaih
which ia thrust under Its belly. while
/, ia held fast by two sailors head ana
tail and stretched taut.
AT Just the right moment four other
Moorg. standing outside the boat IN inc
water, press down on the opposite eha
OF the beam. raising tho steer Into the
air and letting i. slide down into the sea.
It goes in with a splash, comes up gasp
ing and IL led out TO the shore by
| rope tied to it's horns.
Tho sheep here are as fine as any in
spain. and this might be one of the great
wool producing countries Of the world. !
| am told that the land is rich in minerals.
and that 1t has gold, silver, copper and
coal. Geologicaily, 1t Is part OF the
| Spanish peninsula which has long been
furnishing minerals in great quantities.
Morocco has, however, never been pros
pected, and no one knows what 1t con-
| tains.
Think OF country six times as big
as Ohio which has not one road fit for
a wagon or any wheeled vehicle. TO say
nothing OF railroads or other means of
| communication. Let 1t have not one
| thrashing machine, reaper or mower. and
| no farming implements but those which
scratch the soil, let 1t have no markets
worthy OF mention in our sense of the
| word: and let its people be robbed and
oppressed by their officials. SO that there
is almost no incentive to labor. and yot
have some idea of the conditions in Mo
L
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Among the White Africans.

You can know nothing. however. about
the situation until you consider the peo-
pie These Moors are not like our negroes,
whose ancestors came from below here
across the Sahara In the lands bordering
the Gulf OF Guinea. Those people are
black as your boots, and as barbarous as
any tribes on the face of the earth.
They are low in intelligence and are ter
ribly debased. These have brains which
will compare with our owns. They are
Mohammedans who believe in Allah and
the prophet. They are white and they
wear clothes. Some of them are as well
dressed as any Christian gentleman, and
their clothes cost more than ours. They
have gowns of the finest wool. under
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his imperial klnsman has only sixteen.
Wrestlers in the Temple Courts.

uonv things are associated with tenn
pies that seem incongruous 10 the 9S'ccl-
dental mind AT Kioto during my So
journ there a national wrestling tourha-
ment was on, and rare eShip!t'oh !.
was. The ring was pitched on Temps
enclosure, tho management was IN inc
hands of the temple, which handled the
gate receipts: fat and shaver priest
was one OF the referees, and directly IN
front Of where / sat on the temple pal
cony where were the reserved seats 10Y
foreigners, squatted the staff OF temple
priests enjoying tho bouts hugely ana
feasting, smoking and quafftng sake
between whles. 1t was far removed from
the asceticlsm which one associates with
Buddhism and priesthood. Whlch leaus
10 a final word about Buddhism as
nave found 1t in city, village and country.
Kipling Corrected.
ooh ye who tread the Marrow way
By Tophet- flare to Judgmenet DAY,
Re gentle when the heather pray
no Buddha at Knmakura!
"And whose will, from Pride released
condemning neither creed nor priest
| Nav feel the soul Of all the East
About him ut Kamakura,"
So wrote I<ipling But he is mistaken.
| JSnmnl,,ra, with its colossal bronze
] Daibutsu, is too near to Yokohama to
! represent the East. And the great i'm
| age which has stood earthquake shocks
| that wrecked the surrounding temples,
! would langulsh in neglect We're IT not Tor
! the onen-handed tourist, who responds
| to the plea made by the abbot for con-
| t,ibutlons toward the maintenance OF this
Buddha. There are few worshipers at
| the image, but the hands In his lap arc
| worn by the tourists who have their
photographs taken while sitting in the
lap of the god.
The idol is we'll worth seeing, rs are
| also the shyines Inside Of hlnA Which
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{" TAND with me ut this, the chief
Nm gate of Morocco. and take BIRDS
eye view of the country. We are
on the Atlantic coast. at the
northwestern corner OF the African CONT
mont and only fifteen miles from Europe.
The Strait OF Gibraltar begins Just east
OF here. and the Pillars of Hercules are
almost in view. L. can see the hills OF
Spain over the way. and know that tho
seat OF the worlds civilization is not
far beyond.
The Land the Powers Covet.
This country Is on the very edge OF
Europe. 1t Is fat with natural resources
and the great powers would Ike TO gop-
BILE 1t zip. France. Germany and Eng
land covet II. and 1t is only the Jealousy
Of each which keeps off the others. On
my way here called at Algeclras, SPAN.
where the conference OF the powers was
held and | find In Tangier the represent
tatives of all the nations which FORMED
a part OF IL. Our own American minister
Ia now at Fee to have an audience with
the sultan and to officially welcome Mo-
rocco into our family of nations. He went
there with large caravan, guarded by
soldiers sent by the sultan, the Moorish
government paying all bills.
But what kind of creature is this our
new international sister,
In the first place, she is coy. She would
rather be let alone. and her bosom Is
raging over her international adoption.
Nevertheless, the powers want her and her
trade: for she is rich and her country Is
one of the best parts OF this continent
1t extends from this point down TO
Atlantic coast for distance as great
MS from New York TO Plttsburg, and east
ward for several hundred miles along
the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Alge-
ria 1T Is bigger than any country In
Europe, excepting Russia, and bigger than
all New England, added to the combined
areas of Now York. Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia.
Morocco is a part Of what was once
called Little Africa the great section at
the northwestern OF that continent which
embraces Morocco, Algeria and Tun!sia,
reaching from west to east as far as from
New York to Omaha and everywhere
wider than from Philadelphia to Boston.
This land was named by the Arabs OF
the past the Western Island. 1t Is bound
ed on two sides by the waters OF the At
lantic and the Mediterranean, and on
the Others by that sea OF sand the Desert
OF Sahara. or this Algeria and Tunsia
belongs to the French and are rapidly
changing under the new civilization. The
people are prosperous and the exports
Increasing. Morocco Is an independent
empire and Is still in the throes of the
dark ages
A Country Going to Waste.
How backward Morocco Is we shall
never realize until the foreign powers
step In and begin to develop 1t. The soil
is rich and deep and large part of II
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j"uello. there. links, DO YOU feel ra-
onneratea after your vacation"
.po You really care hans?
,.Not u hang. l merely aAked our OF
ooliteness that l see was quite thrown
s,ss.x ~ lisxila Cougleg-J ournal NJ
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Arabs and IeWs.

AS to the Arabs, these came in with
the Mohammedan invasion. many centu-
ries ago, and they have mixed more or
less with the Berbers There are three
or four millions of them. Some are no.
madic Bedouins. living in the oasis OF
the Sahara or on the edge OF that desert
and a large number are farmers on the
rich plains of Morocco Arabs are also
found in the cities.
The Jews number something IKE TWO
hundred thousand. They live in all cities,
ana here and there in the villages. They
are the real business men of the coun-
try. doing most of the banking, and hav-
ing the chief wholesale and retail shops
MANY OF the chiefs of the large tribes
have Jews to finance them. and they
also lend money to the Moorish officials