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Sszs2Sg Of the royal mail steamship
OIinoco, which recently rammed the No.tn
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse off the French coast, was instru-
mental In saving the German ship, the ex-
perts say, from more serious injury. If
the Orinoco had had the straight stem it
doubtless would have wounded the Kaiser
below the water line, flooding at least one
compartment, but probably no more, as
their doors were closed from the bridge
Immediately after the impact.
The accident has inspired the advocates
of the graceful, old fashioned bows to
rhapsodies over their advantages, aesthetic
and otherwise. The Kaiser itself, they say.
was not only saved from worse disaster
but the orinoco actually owes its salvation
to it's bows. Its overhang halted its way
as It smashed through the heavy plates
of the German and prevented 1t from being
hurt below the danger line.
The Orinoco is one OF very small fleet
of ocean crossing passenger carriers that
have the stem that once added beauty to
the most OF the great steamships and all
the clippers OF the past, when America had
a merchant marine Of which it was proud.
Two Of the handsomest OF modern liners,
the American steamships New York and
Philadelphia, have clipper BOWS Win Widl
the nautical unitarian would call the added
anachronism OF hgureheads These ships
are among the steadiest ahoat and take on
less water forward In heavy sea than
the straight stemmed liners, but they are
not In the greyhound clasa
Believers In the straight stem say that It
is the natural evolution from the mere
picturesque, and Is more economical in con-
struction. II is true that the seas break
under ourving bows. but they incidentally
ruin the features OF a figurehead once In a
while and not infrequently start a plate
The kneehigh steel breakwaters on the
main deck forward OF the eight-storied
liners usually take care OF seas that topple
over the bows. and bow seas, anyhow, are
not to be considered SO much those that
smash over the sides or quarters. These
the curved stemmed ships cannot avoid any
better than the STRAIGHTFORWARD craft Why
not go back to square sails, the utiiharians
say, II 1t is an object TO have beauty and
symmetry rather than strength, speed and
cargo and passenger capacity1
The old Anchor liner City OF Rome. orig
inally in the lnman service. had splendid
lines and one Of the finest clipper bows ever
fashioned, but It lacked the modern ele-
ment of getthereativeness Massive fun
nels through which some OF the clipper
bowed vessels OF the past were not too big
10 sail; Lighthouses piled one on another to
skyscraping height; wall-like sides, per-
pendicular. lofty and unlovely bows. do not
form the idealists vision of what real
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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 rag
ing over her international adoption. Never
theless the powers want her and her trade;
for she is rich and her country is one Of
the best parts of this continent. It ex-
tends from this point down the Atlantic
coast for a distance as great as from New
York to Pittsburg, and eastward for sew
eral hundred miles along the Mediter-
ranean from Gibraltar to Algeria II Is
bigger than any country in Europe, ex-
England added to the combined areas Of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
Virginia.
Morocco is a part of what was once
called Little Africa" the great section at
the northwestern end of that continent
which embraces Morocco, Algeria and
Thpisia, reaching from west to east as far
as from New York to Omaha, and every
where wider than from Philadelphia to
Boston. This land was named by the
Arabs OF the past the Western Islands.
of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and
on the other by that sea OF sand, the
Desert OF Sahara. OF this Algeria and
Tunisia belong to the French and are
rapidly changing under the new civilization.
The people are prosperous and the exports
increasing. Morocco is an independent en-
pire. and is still in the throes Of the dark
ages.
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A Country Going 20 waste.

How backward Morocco is we shall never
realize until the foreign powers step in
and begin to develop It. The soil is rich
and deep and a large part of it will raise
the same crops as California. These foot
hills at the Atlas mountains might be the
chief fruit garden of Europe, and there are
great plains in the south, which will raise
the best OF wheat, barley and corn. Even
the mountainous parts. and they are many
are covered with pastures and the people
now rear thousands of sheep, cattle and
goats
Spain gets most OF her meat from Moroc-
CO. and as look out of my window 1 can
see them unloading boatloads OF beeves
which win be carried across to Gibraltar
The cattle are taken out or the boats IN a
curious way. The water is so shallow that
lighters cannot come to the shore and
the beasts have to wade. There are no
landing arrangements and each animal is
pried out by a long beam which is thrust
under its belly, while Il is held fast by two
sailors head and tail and stretched taut
At Just the right moment four other Moors
standing outside the boat in the water
press down on the opposite end OF the
beam, raising the steer into the air and
letting 1t slide down into the sea. II goes
IN with a splash, comes up gaspinE and is
led out TO the shore by a rope tied TO its
horns.
The 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 II has gold. silver. copper and coal
Geologically II is a part OF the Spanish
peninsula which has long been furnishing
minerals in great quantities. Morocco has
however. never been prospected and no one
knows what Il contains.
Think OF a country six times as big as
Ohio which has not one road At for a wagon
or any wheeled vehicle 70 say nothing
OF railroads or other means OF oommunica-
ton. Let Il have not one thrashing ma.
chine. reaper OF mower. and no farming
implements but those which scratch the
soil; let It have no markets worthy OF
mention in our sense OF the word; and let
its people be robbed and oppressed by theII
oHaoials so that there is almost no incentive
TO labor. and you have soma idea OF the
conditions IN Morocco.
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Country of MohSmmedan Tribes.

Often a half dozen or more Of the villages
make up the home Of one tribe. They
are governed by a chief. who collects GER
tain taxes, and who acts as their leader in
their wars with the other tribes. This is
the condition throughout the whole empire,
which is rather an aggregation Of wild pas
toral and agricultural tribes than a king
dom or empire, in our sense of the word.
Each tribe cares only for itself and its own
particular country. and there is. am told,
no such thing as regards Morocco as a
whole. The only binding cords among the
tribes are those Of religion. They are fanat-
teal Mohsmmedans who hate the Christian
and all that belongs to him. The want
nothing TO do with him and resent his pres
ence here.
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warning to traitors.
Every Moroccan city has three parts, one
belonging to the government, where the
officials live; another containing the stores
and homes Of the Moors, and the third the
quarters Of these despised Jews. There
are but few large towns in the country,
but all are of about the same character.
being made up of box-like hat-roofed
buildings and surrounded by walls. The
most important city is Fee, which lies 40
miles south Of here. 1t contains 10000
people and is the chief capital. ANOTHER
capital is Marrakech which contains $1,000,
end a third is Mekinez which is of about
the same size The sultan lives in all Of
these places during the year. He Is now
o. Fee and will probably be there for some
months. He carries his court with him,
but leaves a relative in charge OF capital
when he leaves It. I understand that he
also has a palace in each Of the ports. 1
have seen the one at Tangier. 1t is shabby.
Ports of Morocco.
The chief ports of Morocco are eight In
number They run along the Atlantic and
Mediterranean coasts. Tris town of Tan
gier is about the largest II has $1,000 or
6OO0o people Tetuan, farther eastward on
the Mediterranean, covers more space, but
It has a smaller population. Along the
Atlantic farther south are Larache. Rabat,
Casa Blanca, Magazan, 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 NOV
ing out of the. Melah and renting houses In
the Moorish section of the town. This, I
am told. was the cause OF the rebellion
which broke out in that quarter few
months ago. The chief of one Of the Mo-
hammedan tribes near by was called in and
he drove the Jews back to their own quar-
ter, telling them they should know their
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Copyright, 1906 by Frank G. Carpenter.)
7ANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 10.-(Spe-
cal Correspondence of The Bee)
Stand with me at this, the chief
IGISwgYI gate of Morocco, and take a bird s
S@ eye view of the country. We are
on the Atlantic coast, at the northwestern
corner of the African continent and only
fifteen miles from Europe. The Strait of
Gibraltar begins just east of here, and the
Pillars Of Hercules are almost in view.
i can see the hills OF Spain over the way,
and know that the seat of the world $
civilization is not far beyond.
~ This country is on the very edge of
Europe. It is fat with natural resources,
and the great powers would like to gobble
It UP. France Germany and England covet
II, and 1t is only the jealousy of each which
keeps Off the others. On my way here 1
called at Algeciras, Spain, where the con-
ference OF the powers was held, and l find
in Tangier the representatives OF all the
nations which formed a part of 1t. Our
own American minister is now at Fee to
have an audience with the sultan and to
officially welcome Morocco into our family
of nations. He went there with a large
caravan. guarded by soldiers sent by the
sultan, the Moorish government paying all
bills.
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who are not in the pessimistic veteran
class, was the old bark rugged sidewheeler
Asia. launched in 1850.
What the clipper bowed Yankee ship
looked when under a press of canvas may
be imagined from the accompanying
sketch of the famous packet Dreadnought,
which, under command of Captain Samuels,
covered the distance between Sandy Hook
and Queenstown in nine days and seven
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can lines steamship Prinzessin Victoria
Luise, on Port Royal. jamaica, the clipper
stemmed feet lost one OF its noblest models.
II had all the advantages OF an up TO date
liner with most OF the comliness OF the
real clipper Of the past. II had seen much
rough weather in Atlantic passages and
had come through II all without mishap.
The consideration OF expense did not enter
into it's construction. II was built to be
a perfect excursion ship. TO carry a lin
tied number OF passengers, and its de-
signer was instructed TO make II beautiful
inside and out. Apparently he thought the
ourving outwRter more becoming 10 9 great
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the situation until you consider the people.
These Moors not like our negroes,
whose ancestors came from below here
across the Sahara in the lands bordering
the Gulf of Guinea. These people are as
black as your boots, and as barbarous as
any tribes on the face of the earth. They
are low in intelligence and are terribly de-
based. These have brains which will COM
pare with our own. They are Mohamme-
dams, 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, undergarments OF beautiful
cloth, ssashes of silk and shoes of fine yell
low leather. Their hands are soft and their
faces often handsome, There are many
red-haired and red-bearded men among
them. Their features sparkle with INTEL
ligence and they have most of the charac-
teristics of the Caucasian race. About the
only black Africans here are those who
have been brought across the desert from
the Soudan to be sold as slaves. There are
however, many mulattoes, the offspring OF
these negroes and the Moors.
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cruising yacht than the up and down COM
mere. stem. The Prinzessin also had the
hgurehead of the clipper and an elabora-
ton of the scroll work at the bows. The
sleeve of its bowsprit was somewhat less,
perhaps, than some of the old-timers, but
It made it seem more graceful.
The Cunarders long ago abandoned the
clipper stem. One of their finest looking
ships, from the viewpoint even Of some
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About the Berbers.

The population of Morocco, all told, is
about 100000. A census has never been
taken. and BY some the number is esti-
mated much higher. The majority of the
people are Berbers or Kabyles, and after
them come the Arabs and Jews.
The Berbers are one of the most indie
pendent races on earth. Some people sup
pose them to have emigrated from southern
Europe ages ago. II is known that they
were here in the days OF the Phoenecians;
and they fought again and again with the
Carthagenians and Romans. They have
been frequently conquered in battle, but It
is claimed that they have never been really
. subdued. They are somewhat like the
Swiss in that they have villages in the
mountains, and It would be almost impos-
sible to reach them in time of war Most
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place and keep II. Mogador IL the port for
Marrakech, the southern capital and Il
formerly had a great caravan trade with
Timbuktu. The camels were 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 woman pulls
on a kid shoe every morning made of hide
from Mogador. There are 300 Europeans
living at that port consisting of English,
Germans. Italians, SWISS French and Span
iards.
Magazan has 1900 inhabitants one-third
of whom are Jews. Larache has 5000. OF
whom 1000 are Jews, and here in Tangier
the Jews are more in number than any
where else and they have the right to live
wherever they please, which is so in no
other city Of Morocco.
The walls of the Moroccan cities are en-
tered by gates. so that the city can be
closed tight at night. The business Is
largely done in markets, although all towns
have shops and bazars
Ten Thousand Straw villages.
The cities, however, contain but a small
part of the population of Morocco. The
masses live in villages made up of huts
or stone, chinked with mud and matched
with straw. or in movable tents. Many OF
the huts are altogether Of straw, and not a
few Of them are sun-dried brick. Roughly
speaking, there are about 100000 people
housed in these ways. and that is more
than one-tenth as many as the population
of the United States. The city population
could, I venture. be placed within the I'm
Its of Baltimore and have room to spars4
How squalidly these people live one can
see by riding a few miles out into the
country. The average village Is like a coll
lection Of falling straw stacks, each sur
rounded by a hedge OF green cactus the
leaves of which have thorns as sharp as
fine needles. Each house stands alone and
no man dares peep in through the gate or
look over the walls. The cactus hedge
usually incloses a small bare yard in which
the cattle, sheep, goats horses, pigs, camels
and chickens belonging to the family ara
driven at night.
Such villages have no streets and no pa4
ments whatever After sunset they becorA
as dark as pocket, except where tn.
houses are lighted by candles or perhaps.
by American coal OIL The villagers are
farmers who own lands near by No one
lives on his farm and In looking over the
landscape one sees no horses, barns nor
fences. There are only bare fields or the
crops
In the pasture lands the sheep, goats,
pigs and other animals are herded, watched
by a shepherd. who is often employed by
several farmers at so much for each ami
NAL the hocks thus feeding together At
night he drives them all to the village, and
each animal makes a bee line for it's own
individual home. No one would think OF
leaving even a goat outside the town after
dark for fear OF thieves
These are the conditions within a 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 this ~
and brigands. and nearly every tribe q y
war with its neighbors.
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of the mountain tribes today are of this
old Berber race, and the same is true OK
the Tuaregs or the Sahara brigands.
These Berber people have language of
their own and they once had their own re-
: ligion Today they are about. all Moham-
medans and they resent the foreign inva-
sion. They do not like to pay taxes, and
not long ago, when one of the sultan's
officials demanded the tenth of the crop Of
a certain tribe. the chief replied
''If the sultan wants taxes let him come
himself for them. We will mold them into
silver bullets and deposit them in his per-
SON." That tax has not yet been collected
Where are about 100000 of these Berbers
i'm Morocco
AS to the Arabs, these came In with the
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and they have mixed more or less with the
Berbers. There are 100000 or 100000
of them. Some are nomadic Bedouins, liv-
ing in the Gases Of the Sahara or on the
edge Of that desert and a large number are
farmers the rich plains Of Morocco
Arabs are also found in the cities.
The Jews number something like 100000
They live in all cities. and here and there
in the villages. They are the real business
men of the country, doing most of the
banking, and having 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. The most of these Jews belong TO
families which have lived hundreds of
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Among the Whit Africans.
You can know potRinG however. about
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years in Morocco. As a class they are
despised by the Moors and in the cities
are compelled to live in their own quarters.
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 OF
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 1t is called
the Mellah, which 1 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 a
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wv YORK. Jan 1O.-(special Cor
re~uondence Of The r. - Va
curving cutwater, or as the she'll
Ds.c..s AIiom IL IN, cape. 8, IN,
of the royal mail steamship
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beauty and partly because II saves them
from duckings forward. On the other
hand, nearly all those sturdy old storm
defers. the Sandy Hook pilot boats. hate
what may be called straight stems, all
though, strictly speaking, it is slightly
convex.
Advocates OF racing steamships say that
the only kind Of bow for them is the
knife blade sort that parts the seas when
they are in a rage. instead OF pounding
them. Some yachtsmen Ike the straight
bow for little craft, but for cup challengers
and defenders they prefer the spoon bow,
like those of the Shamrock and the De-
fsndH
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Sr1hrt BcN Wins

The visitor was examining the class
Of small boys lie held the chalk IN
midlir
What uuuher shan draw ON the
board - Ne asked of one boy
tn" hoy replied. Thirty two"
The visitur drrW the uuni'rr hnck
ward. which made twenty three.
Us that rghtf" asked the visitor
Yves. sir: yes, sir" answered the hoy
In tlmid way.
What number shall take now ;" he
asked of another
The boy answered. "SiNty-twn." ."
whcrcupon III" visitor drew the mum
Der backward. rs before twenty-siX.
"ls that right hc asked
YES. sir replied the hoy.
A long way back u bright eyed boy
held up waVcriug hand
What number shall draw for youi'
asked the visitor
TIL" boy called out Forty four"
Then, when the visitor had drawn H..
he yelled OUT. "Now. II you are 10
blamed smart. twist that nround"-
New York Globe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-08
Glass Cuttinu,

The lnyman who il introduced 10 the
mysteries ~ cutting glass for the first
time II amazed NJ the amount NJ work
that the workman does entirely 10y his
eye. The first stage of the bowl which
is to be cut fnds II In perfectly plain
condition, not n scratch upon II and
only n half dozen or more marks In red
chalk. which mean absolutely nothing
To the Impractical eye. Hut To the
workman they mean the whole pnt
tern. Perhaps the dish II n salad bowl
The marks IN chnlk will run from the
edge, hve Intervals apart. down to the
center of the bowl nt the hottom. in
one of the divisions Of the bowl thus
marked there may be IA little further
marking In the shape perhaps Of n
diamond. This Indicates the pattern
into which the bowl IL to he cut, and
10 will lee repeated IN ench ~ the i've
divisions. Al the iniricHcies Of the
design the workman has Ia his hcnu.
and they develop on the glass in II way
which seems q the lookcr on absolute
ly marvellous, New York Times.
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Bsseom and His Students,

J'ln Nasc"m. once president ~ the
University uf Wisconsin. always had
a Keen Insight into mcn and for much
ot his life college students constituted
mankind for him. once when he was
Il class officer the names uf two mon
were read 10y him as absent from
morning prayers. Nhc uf them. pie
tist. stopped az his desk and said:
Professor. when the chapel bell was
ringing | was engaged in prayer and
did not hear it
You're NOT excused" responded
John. with contempt In his eye and
In his voice.
Then. calling back the other man.
who was about at the door an his way
out of the room, hc sllu to him.
What's your cycuscT'
81 haven't any. sir
You're excused
He used 10 have debates in his clas.
room. At one uf them student whom
Bascom subsequently described as n
"horiating fellow" Ia the hca, Of his
elopucucc said. Il wish that Ind
the ability and the time to exhaust
This subject"
YOU have the time" said Rnscom.
Harrers Weekly.
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His Foster Father a ch,osmsr.

fottsyille, Pa. Aug. Through a
document filed in the office Of the
recorder Of deeds of Schuylkill coun-
~ here yesterday. Charlie Sing
Chinaman laundryman, becomes the
foster father of Charles Hunt, n white
hoy Of Philadelphia parentage. The
boys mother, grandmother and great
grandmother. an OF Philadelphia, are
parties to the agreement They agree
that the boys name shall be Roy 500
Sing. that Charlie Sing shall he his ia
ther. and In return the boy become
the legal heir OF the laundryman.
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BRIDES IN CANAL ZONE.
Government Gives a Home to Each
Married Couple.

New York. Aug According to
passengers who have arrived here on
the steamship Colon. from Colon
there is an influx of brides to the ca
nal zone, and all because the govern
mcnt there has offered a separate
homo for every married couple.
Edwin H. Weeks. VINO. with hi
wife. has been for several weeks on
the isthmus entertaining the canal
workers with impcrsonations. part
OF the plan for free amusement adopt
ed by the government, says there are
not enough carpenters 10 build the
houses needed to comply with the new
order. All along the canal works they
are scattered and are hard at work In
the struggle to keep up with the week
ly arrival OF wives.