The Holbrook news., 1912-06-21

DldHCd Ou tue W6SI-fTdQC0 udA watched proceedings and played the game, adding a point from time tc time to her score. Her great couI | (since the occupation of CasablancaJ occurred last winter, when disturbed conditions at Fez offered pretext to send military expedition against the capital and occupy it. This, of course, was directly responsible for rousina Germany again and the dispatch by the latter of a gunboat to Agad1r. The ugly situation thus arising has now been settled by Germany's consent to French protectorate, which means Morocco's virtual end as an inde pendent state and her assumption as part of Frances North African pos sessions
 As suggested at the outset Frances first work will be means of communt cation. So far there Is not railroad in all Morocco. There is not even wagon road outside of the cities. much less any vehicles to travel one Transportation in the land of the Moors Is on the backs of cameIs mules, donkeys and women. For long distances cameIs and mules predomt nate. For shorter distances and light CT loads donkeys and women are the cheapest and most convenient.
 Women Carry Flrewood.
 Women bring all the firewood into Tangier, packing it in bundles on their backs, often from a distance of eight or ten miles. The only thanks they get for their labors is to be looked down upon by the men, among whom there is an ancient and honor able proverb which says: A man wishing advice upon any undertaking should consult his best ten friends If he has not ten friends, let him consult each of his best five friends twice. If he has not five friends, let him consult his one best friend ten times If he has not one best friend let him consult his wife. and then do exactly contrary to what she ad- vises" With French occupation it may be assumed that women as means of transportation will gradually be superseded by better and more hu- mane means. Indeed, one of the first acts of the French in Casablanca was to introduce the two-wheeled cart and begin an improvement of roads in and about the city making possible its use.
 An east and west railroad through Morocco between Algeria and the At lantic ocean Is one of the cherished French designs, and preliminary sur veys for this have already been made. It will go either by way of Fez or have a spur connecting with that city. It's seaboard terminus depends on the site which is chosen for the creation of a new Atlantic port
 Such a port is one of the immedi- ate necessities for the development of the country. Not only is El Mogreb deficient in means of communication within her borders, but she is most awkwardly situated in respect to get ting goods to or out from the coast. One hears much about the ports of Morocco and the value of this and that one, but the truth is that on her one thousand miles of coast, Mediter- ranean or Atlantic, the country has not a single first-class port Even Is indifferent.
 But 1t is the western seaboard that is particularly unfortunate. It is fianked most of the way by a bar extending out mile or so from shore. and making it necessary for steam ships to lie of at that distance, dis charging passengers and cargo by means of barges. In some weather it is impossible to do this at all, and after lying of town for perhaps a week. waiting for suitable conditions, the little coasting vessels that ply these trade routes frequently give it up and go on. ''If you want to spend two days in Rabat," it is said, you want to allow two months for the visit. For it may take you a month to get there and another to get away
 Casablanca is not so bad, but it is lar from satisfactory. Jetties already nave been constructed on the water front, which protect the landing of small boats, but the steamships which they discharge must lie a mile or more away, beyond the bar. and must ID anchor and be of in case of storm