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Gateway to the Suitan's Palace

He Is q product of his country and his
age--the medieval age 1t is well to
bear in mind this fact in discussing the
bandit Raisuli the most disturbing per-
sonal element now in European politics
In the United States we have had
men known as bandits. Jesse James of
Missouri was perhaps the most con-
spicuous representative of the class
But between Jesse James and Raisuli
there is a gulf of difference so vast
that comparison is impossible James
belonged TO modern civilization. In his
boyhood he became a guerrilla soldier
in the civil war, and his outlawry re-
suited directly from that experience
and its consequences In his individual
case. Raisuli belongs to an ancient
barbarism. His outlawry is a part of
the prevailing system in Morocco, not
merely the result of an episode in war
fare. It has been said of Morocco that
thA Inhabitants are of two classes only
~, sas oud the looted The gov
r. ..t- colleota it's taxes, so called, by
looting. The brigands collect their
means Of livelihood in like manner.
Why Raisuli Goes Free.
Why doesn't the Moroccan govern
ment capture or kill Raisuli? That
question occurs to the average mind
The answer Is that Raisuli is an adept
in the art of reprisal Let Morocco
capture Raisuli and the brigand's fol-
lowers would sweep down and carry
off Moroccan officials by wholesale
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"<AE Romance OF reclamation
4 what a title for an epic tale
of empire building in America!
When it is written, il win be
the great American epic. infinitely
more soul satisfying than any light
summer fiction or even the great Amer
lean novel. The forthcoming session of
the fifteenth national irrigation con-
gress al Sacramento, Cal, from Sept. 2
10 Z is an incident in the epic, The
four great objects of this congress, as
stated in the official circular. are ito
save the forests. store the floods, re-
claim the deserts and make homes on
the land"
Where is there finer and fuller pro-
gramme of human endeavor?
Some time in the future there may
be new American holiday, called Rec
amation day. for June II, 1902. was
The date OF the passage of the Carey
land reclamation act OF congress. Un-
der the provisions OF this act the
moneys received from the sale of gov
eminent lands were to be set aside for
the reclamation of the great American
desert or rather the several deserts on
nemiarld regions. by irrigation. APP
hand for this vast work Already
twenty-five large reclamation projects
are under way. Ten thousand men are
working on dams and bitches. More
than 100000 acres of land now prac-
lically desert and worthless viii be
watered by these engineering works
Hundreds OF thousands Of farm homes
will blossom In the acknowledgements no
longer, but beautiful agricultural areas
hundreds of towns viii spring up along
he water canals and beside the inn
lnense artificial lakes Increased farm
products running up into billions OF
dollars Viii result Hope and health
ana opportunity for human happiness
WIN De augmented beyond any statis-
neal computation
Good Business Move.
Now. isn't there an epic in all this9
liui ihls IS not all Of the story--not
half by amy means. The foregoing
figures relate 90 work already in prog
ress and 10 be completed within three
"' iour years, The ultimate ieclam-
sole area OF the American arid lands is
'i'ed by the interior department az
about 1oOOO.CO0 acres So successful IN
lls beginnings ~ this reclamation work.
so splendid business proposition is Il
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There he lay four years in chains, A
friend outside finally introduced a file
in piece of bread. Raisuli worked
five months in filing his way to free
dom. but some of his chains still re-
manned on his body, and he was re-
captured He was returned to prison
and was released after two years more
Of cruel confinement. The man de-
clares that he made a solemn vow
never 10 cut his hair until he had
wreaked full vengeance upon those who
had caused his captivity
About eight years ago Raisuli de-
sCended from his mountain fastness to
the outskirts of Tangier. There lived
an old man, an Italian, who was re-
puted to be iniser. He wore shabby
clothes and appeared to he poor, But
the gossips Of the neighbOrhood de-
clared that he had much hidden wealth.
With him lived his daughter, her hus-
band and their two little children.
Raisuli and his followers entered this
home and demanded the old mans hid
den treasure He was told that the
family was poor; that the story of
mlserliness was a falsehood The ban
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dit killed the father OF the children.
He carried OFF the little ones, sending
back demand for high ransom. The
old man in despair besought the ban
dts to search his premises He had
nothing. In time the children We're
butally murdered by the bandit in his
disgust al failure.
Capture Of Harris.
Walter B. Harris is an English mill
lionaire who lives in Tangier and in
cidentally represents the London Times
as correspondent. He is a close friend
of the young sultan Of Morocco Four
years ago he was captured by Raisuli
and carried off to the mountains. The
brigand demanded a ransom, which I1ar-
ris refused. After two weeks of captivity
the robber chief determined TO bring
his victim to terms. He entered the
room where Harris was confined. threw
down on the floor the headless trunk
OF a man he had murdered and inform
cd the prisoner that this horrible thing
would be his roommate until he ar
ranged the ransom. Harris stood it
for Il whole week. He possessed a
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large measure of good old British
nerve, but at last he capitulated, and
the ransom was paid Mir, Harris is a
reputable citizen, and he has told this
story in detail yet there are those
who call Raisuli a highborn gentle
man.
Raisul's next important catch was
Ion Perdicaris. an American citizen.
He grew up in Trenton, n. j., where he
still owns large part of the gas
works. He is rich enough to live where
he pleases. For thirty years or more
he lived in Tangler was noted for
his kindness to the poor, had visited
the horrible prisons of Morocco, Civ
ing comfort and aid TO the inmates,
and had written books and plays and
painted pictures. He was known well
in America and England.
RaisuIi and Perdicaris.
Perdicaris had entertained Raisuli at
his home, and Raisuli was his friend, as
he thought. one night the brlgand
pounced down upon Perdicaris and his
stepsou, Oliver Cromwell Marley, a
British subject. descended from the
great protector and carried the two
men OFF to the mountains.
Raisuli was kind enough to his cap
lives. He astonished them by asking
them what they would talle-in the
way of wines The brigand brought
forth fresh cases of champagne from
the GOODNESS of mountain spring and
hpolosiaed because he had no ice. He
was truly polite. 1'hen he sent word
to the sultan of Morocco that unless
that dignitary sent him $4,000 dis
missed the governor of Tangier and
released all of Raisuli's followers who
were in prison the gentleman bandit"
would proceed forthwith to kill the
American citizen and the British sub
ject whom he had the pleasure of en-
tertaining as his guests. Ralsuli as
has been stated, is diplomatic bandit.
He knew what would happen to Mo-
rocco if the sultan did not accede to
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The Romance O. Rec1anafion-An American Epic;
Sg>onder fuf t>ork JWoev Being Done BY Irrigation

acres told me that he had received
5000 letters Of inquiry in regard to the
lands under the system built by his
company Three hundred of the 5000
taking "A hundred acres apiece would
have taken the entire tract
Mr.. Bennitt, who is a close and in
telligent observer of industrial condi-
lions. also makes an observation which
goes to show that this land reclamation
matter Is In no sense OF merely Sec
tional interest He says:
East Shares Benefit.
"'rhe best object lesson that | can
suggest for any one who doubts that
the east is benehting extensively by
the building up of western irrigated
tracts is 10 visit the railroad freight
houses AT stations on or near such
lands. There he win see large con-
siguments OF farm machinery and i'm
pements, bags OF seed grain, furniture
In great quantity. hardware of every
description, pianos In goodly number,
building materials by the carload,
barbed wire, woven fencing wire net-
ting groceries and provisions, canned
goods, mercantile stocks and every
thing that is needed to supply human
wants both the necessities and the
luNuries These things are bought, not
by carloads alone but by train loads,
and usually they nre cash purchases"
Thus do New England. New York.
the south The middle west, All manu-
featuring centers, profit by the opening
of new agricultural regions IN tho
Western states The reclamation act Is
as rar removed from class legislation
as the moon is from the earth. II Is
purely a benevolent and benehcent
piece Of legislation. ANA one Of the
many good lhings about Il Is that this
act ot congress which "appropiiates"
many millions IS not pouring money
into ratholc. but Is investing It al
sure return of many hundreds per cent,
To Meet at Sacramento.
When the fifteenth national irriga-
ton congress meets at Sacramento
with Governor George T.. Chamberlain
! OF Oregon MS president and other deep-
~ earnest and progressive men from
on parts of the country as delegates. II
! wil be wen worth while for American
| citizens IN every state 10 read the pro-
ccedings Of this convention and enjoy
an interesting cantO in the great
/ American eplc-the Romance Of Recla.
! nation. ROBERTuS LOVE.
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and grease wood or perhaps some
scraggly buffalo grass The new grass
1.-The alfalfa in six 10 ten cuttings an
nually 49, the wheat the orchard and
berry products pay for the land and
the water, and the farmers and their
families live happily ever after
This Ia The age OF engineering. our
government engineers for years past
have been studying the problem OF sup
plying water to parched land areas,
Those snow fed rivers going to waste
are now being haInessed their waters
damned and stored for systematic out
let TO the land. They do the seas no
good. but they viii reclaim and develop
the lands. Engineers are now in the
act OF transforming into highly pro-
ductive farms a series of desert areas
equal IN the aggregate To half dozen
of our great states. is II not wonder
fur Yet Il Is a simple problem IN SCI
entifc engineering,
In former years II has been too often
the policy Of the United States gov
eminent 90 give away It's lands 10 great
corporations or through carelessness
IN supervision TO permit corporations
and individuals TO steal the land For
the most part, happily, these millions
of acres now being irrigated We're
not considered worth The stealing or
the arccptins hy gift What a Rlori-
Gus Joke ON the land Erafters, Here
and there. however, corporations have
acquired arid lands and built irriea-
ton works 70 thor profit and to the
prJai of the settlers but these acQui-
siiionS are comparatively small They
ire useful in opening the eyes of Uncle
Sam 10 his own opportunities The
people want the land, plus water, and
now the government liz giving them the
watered article. Mark lclnitl Of Chi
cagp. who has visited many Of the
places where irrigntion PROJECTS are un-
der construction or already In opera
ton, says significantly,
1.-THE extensive development under
irrigation has gone ON with little uum-
poting or noise Of any sort. and the
great populations Of the eastern states
are almost unaware nf the changes that
are beine wrought IN economic condl-
lions In the Rocky mountain and Pa
oiflc states Perhaps the reason fOl
this Indebtedness Of procedure Is due
10 the readiness NJ people 90 take pose
session 81 the irrigated lands a man
who Is at the head Of a comparatively
obscure project embracing only 10000
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HON, GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN,

'proHt and loss" Every dollar put
Into this great proposition is simply an
Investment. thoroughly safe invest
ment, for the terms are such thar the
settlers on the irrigated lands must pay
back dollar for dollar on the original
cost Of furnishing water 10 their acres
Not only viii tho original outlay be re-
turned, but Uncle Sam win receive his
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BRIEF ITEMS.

The United states has the lnrsest
lorelgn population. Argentina where
WolYe out every 100 are forelgners,
ranks socmp
lffmm ,sontion promisf q now
erh ~ the production OF lead pencils.
~ INC new process OF manufacture
"""posiiion made principally from the
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building ana ironworldng, in which
hey display the greatest patience In
The tea, six weaving and light Inc
dusuics female labor Is Invariably re-
Wilrcd
Though New Zealand bought Sb05.-
455 worm Of pianos, S2S,G65 worth Of
organs ana harmoniums and S9S,1i5
worth OF other musical instruments, in
Guiding materials. IN 1905. In all $685.
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profits in taxes. having increased the
taxable wealth of the country by bill
lions of dollars, Billions is meant. not
millions.
IT costs about $50 to reclaim an acre
of land by giving it drink when il
gets thirsty, The land unirrigated is
worth dollar an acre or nothing. Ir
rigated II is worth at once from $50 to
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potato takes the place of the cedar IN
the pencil
MIR Ernest Jardinc the purchaser
of glastonbury abbey has stated that
he y willing 10 sell the abbey 70 The
Church Of England Tor the same price
(si5O,000) that he paid for T.
Large beds OF oysters have been
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for Uncle SAM that there is no ques-
ton as to its continuation until the
ultimate and final acre OF thirst cursed
soil shall be watered and occupied. This
may require twenty years or more. II
will cost perhaps $1,000, 100000. Fright
full risk of money? Not at all. The
United States government is not spend
ing a dollar that will be charged up to
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onsly than the rain watered lands OF
the rich Mississippi valley This has
been demonstrated beyond doubt In the
considerable spots already irrigated ana
settled Just ms soon as an irrigation
plant is put in operation the home hun
CRY farmers rush in and develop the
land. They are eager to occupy it, for
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the reclamation projects TO refrain from
using enthusiastic superlatives. The
superlatives. as the diagnosing doctor
would say, are indicated" These re-
claimed millions OF acres of our own
interior possessions viii be worth more
to the United States than the Philip
pine archipelago many times multiplied.
We are anneXing by engineering an I'M
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entcenth century and 8,527 built II
the seventeenth ana eighteenth cen'
turtles.
Those who have wntered IN Alasks
say that Il rs not the cold. but the
mosquito, That is the hardest thing e
endure m me north
The average loss Of pay TO a striker
IN Great Britain 10 between $50 ans
S35,
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10y chief, is wiser man. though
"A R not better one, than he used
IA n TO be. Formerly he made the
mistake of kidnapping now and then a
poor and unimportant person. Now he
goes after personages-such men as
have money themselves to pay for ram
som or such as occupy positions so inn
portant that their ransoms must be
paid by the government of Morocco to
avoid entaneling alliances. His ex-
plot in carrying off Ion Perdicaris,
American citizen, three years ago is a
case in illustration. His latest adj
venture, that of capturing The COM
mander in chief Of the sultans army.
Sir Henry MacLean. the Scottish
Knight who many years ago cast his
lot with the Moors is another Raj
suli is diplomat in banditIy
A Mediaeval chtthrOat.
Much HIS been written concerning
TITS Moroccan marauder Lady jour-
nlhs, mr, glshed over him because
his g DR., ans of picturesque
nf y t9Ve been misled in
p Nvr Mi in terms of ef-
--t rho truth about the
n.ar. SO E he evidence pro and
CON IS t--, lie is simply a medieval
ttArect q picturesque survival of
dead 2rd buried centuries, a cruel bar
lcri3n Of vanished ages thrust forth
modern life. II cannot be soid,
yer that Raisuli belongs to M Y
'11iNonS, Herein lies his loop
escape from that unqualified
icialion and detestation which.
d. re him by the standards of civil
- "a the twentieth century. in
,iaE must be his portion. Raisuli
u living in the twentieth century.
Jr-cco does not belong to the TWEEN
t'eth century II belongs to ;ho four
teentn century OF earlier. r p.i be-
longs to that age of unenlEh Vt.
lie is neither worse nor be,t,r tlan
the Morocco which moves around him.
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they know ts worth. They are glad to
pay the government for the water
rights, 40 much year until the score
Is wiped out 1ney can do It easily,
paylng the rates out of their surplus
farm lur'" rApt is The proposi-
ton Tho q ncnt makes millions
Of blades OF sio. no grow where none
grew before nothing but sagobrush
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225 worth Of musical instruments IN
thnt yoaf tho United states only CON
trlhut-d i.t,2i0 worth Germany fur
nlahC3 tgf,fa5 worth ana Great
Britain g3,ae50 worth Crou Britain
makea 20 pcr cent 40 yalorsn duty
and an other countries. except British
possessions have 10 pay 80 Per cent
Nuremberg still has over 1900
houses that were built before the saw
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perial domain within our continental
borders,
The American deserts are deserts only
because they lack rainfall But run
Ming through Them on near them are
perpetual rivers fcd from the mountain
SHOWS the water now wasting itHelf
into ihe seus. The roll Is highly fertile
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5000 an acre You don't have TO take
a special course In arithmetic Ia figure
out this proposition You can see at
"a glance that the United States gov
eminent has fullen finally upon the
most stupendously profitable business
proposition ever offered TO n nation.
II is hardly possible for any one who
has visited the arid west and studied
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his terms. What happened was thlss
John Hay was our secretary of state.
He sent to the sultan this message:
'Perdicaris alive or Raisun dead"
The sultan smiled a sickly smile.
"Raisuli dead!" lie did not dare even
attempt to XIII Raisuli. 1t must be
Perdicaris alive. Uncle Sans war
ships appeared In the harhor for the
first time in Moroccan waters since
stephen Decatur Just "A hundred years
before sailed thither and thrashed the
Barbary pirates. British warshps
also appeared Raisuli knew all this
would happen. He had no particular
desire to kill his kind friend Perdicaris,
but he did have particular desire to
get some of the sutan's money and to
procure the dismissal of his enemy, the
governor
Coereed by 5rigand.
In just one day after Hays historic
message reached the sultan Perdicars
and Marley were restored to liberty.
The sultan yielded every point asked by
Raisui The warshps, of course,
could not have harmed Raisul but
they could and would have blown up
few Moroccan ports IL Perdicaris,
American, had been harmed Thus the
brigand coerced his own government
by bringing about an International
complication. He compelled Theodore
Roosevelt and John Hay 20 compel the
sultan TO stand and deliver 1t was a
most extraordinary episode History
furnishes none other like IT, In no
other country perhaps could such a
thing happen in the twentieth century.
All of which shows that Raisuli, no
matter what his personal qualities Is
highly interesting person and one
with whom the nations of the world
must reckon, whether they like it OF
not.
A Superior Native.
1t appears that Perdicaris since his
release has been the chief apologist for
Raisul He said recently:
"You ask me to state what l think
should be done with Raisuli. have
always advocated his own scheme
| namely, that the powers represented at
| Tangier should arrange with the sui
tan the appointment of Raisuli as gov
ernor Of Tangier Itself"
Perdicaris goes on to say that Raj
suli when appointed governor of Fa-
Has, the district Immediately sur
rounding Tangler shortly after the
Americans release, kept his promise.
restored the roads and established a
degree OF order in that district which
had not been known for years. RAJ
suli," he declares, us superior to any
native | have ever met In natural
character except, perhaps. the late sui
| tan" JAMES L. STILES.
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AISULI. the Moroccan bandit
chief, is q wiser man, though
not better one, than ne used
IA he rprp,a,lN, i,a mod. tho
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2HE Romance Of Reclamation
what title for am epic tale
of empire building in America,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-13
IEEL "sTUpID.
nraip Troubled by Coffee.

People don't like to be considered
stupid even IL they feel that way, but
many persons who persist In drinking
coffee. year after year have spells
when they feel like thick idiots,
II have been badly bothered with
stomach trouble caused by coffee for
many years." writes a Ky. man, ''and
many times felt like stupid" with a
severe burning In my stomach aftereat-
ing, and a. great amount OF sour belch-
ling.
-Four months ago I quit coffee and
began to use Postum instead. ! have
had none of the old trouble since, have
gained flesh and l: don't think have
ifailed to eat hearty meal since quit
icoffee.
(" 4 feel can'ttpralsc Postum enough
for the change II has made in me. ]
Ibid not like 1t so well8at first. didn't
boil it enough now VIC boil 1t accord
Hing to directions on pkg, and like y
las we'll as coffee. which i shall never
fuse again.''t
Name given by Postum Cereal Co.,
ltd, Battle Creek, Mich, Read the
hook, 1.-THE Read to NVellville." In pkgs
Thieves a Reason.