Show Unique Minas Abdul Aziz the Sultan of Morocco l IRINO the twelve years that Ab Jib Abdul Abr r dul dal Mix Aziz inns has been sultan of oC Morocco t nothing moro more likely W rY J d to stimulate night il r mare inure In II has hAil happened I t to him than tho the per of or the tho demand of the Unit 61 ti t States Stales and England l for the release pf the American Ion and nn his hll stepson Cromwell Varley Vorley from Crom ibi Ib hi clutches of o the bandit Rev sedition anti and privy conspiracy In the tho atmosphere of an nn absolutism like tho the country o of t tho the Moors ul ml u every monarch both Inherits and ant antt t them Hut But It Is II n a far Clr more Ious matter matler to bo be put suddenly Into Zionism with two mighty nations The Tt present ruler of o Morocco now In year has bAs been the object of more moro comment than usually to the tho lot of ot ix a 1 Barbary despot d spot was as because from the tho very day of ot othi bit lla hi secession cc when ho was fourteen rear Im of age ho he has shown a 1 marked for certain features of oC west tin ers civilization This may be ho accounted for to a n certain extent by hy bythe bythe the fact that he be Is U the tho grandson lson of oC an at of great beauty who vho be berame rime mime of her own volition light of tho the at nt the Moorish court Ills bother vas pas a 1 of or much In force And beauty according la 1 I Moroccan standards Tho The sultan Is prepossessing for a n Moor MoorIe M hie Ie Is II tall erect and of athletic build Ills Ile III manner Is la not at nt all nil suggestive of oft t Its typical Moor who In III spite of his is time the most boorish of men ho III It II affable easy of and Inclined to down tho barriers which have l 1 ate In his predecessors Morocco at tho the time of nc ne I t was as In ono one sense senio n o a n promising geld field for tor a n reformer It was wa From all nil other points of view It was the tho most hopeless country under tho time sun sta No ono one but a 1 mat man of tho the most reckless enthusiasm would have attempted at attempted tempted It Over tho the whole land there had fallen the thu slumber of o at leant le st nine mime centuries It was certainly that far tar bo be behull hull tho world In III no other state slate was life so Insecure so HO dependent on each Individuals capacity to protect himself and his neighbor Abdul Ah ul found the tho ruler of a n land so 80 given over overto overto overto to anarchy and blackmail that It was Impassible to timid find nn an honest man of his its own race Every Moor WitS was subject to Instant arrest anti and Imprisonment from w winch whIch ho le could cour only ly hope to escape by pitying a II sum salami that must beggar him All AI tho the ministers made a 1 practice ot or dealing In pardons pinions There Thero wn was not a n railroad or oven Ion a 1 four tour wheeled vehicle In the tho kingdom There were few bridges and AH practically no regular roads All trade was conducted by mull mob amid camel bark back Morocco was wall at nt aton once on co the tho most mORt fertile and most moat squalid state ot of Barbary About this title time fortunately for Cor tho the young sultans liberal development there thero canto to lu the limo court COUlt at nt l Fez Jez z a It soldier of ot fortune a n non man who might have shoed tho the experiences ot of Sir Walter Waller Raleigh had haul he hp been a n contemporary of that worthy worth He lie had hod lived In n a dozen countries had hod served In ht none mall that than one olle army and amid possessed a marvelous talent for tor This clever er ft Sir Henry Maclean a u Scotchman lit nt once won von the tho friendship of nf the sultan and onet was ens assigned tho the Important task of putting tho time Moroccan army on a ti re Ie respectable tooling footing This Thle he lie proceeded to do 0 anti he ho did It en eo well and 1 so quickly that It seemed like e witchcraft s to Il the tho superstitious n Moors free 1 Sir fre Henry It was waR m Abdul licud heald mean tho t me sto lito ly ry of the wonderful things 1 In the thu outer To tho time eager and alert any hoy ho It L I K r j I q 1 I I IiI 1 t I iI 1 r ry ar M h 1 y SIR HENRY MACLEAN COURT OF JUSTICE TANGIER THE SULTAN was WaR an ns enchanting the tho Arabian Nights When he hc Willi made le to realize that these thes marvels welo not ot I miracles Ir limit hut facts III he was seized with n at I m mighty might longing to possess them therm Of what avail was It U to be bc absolute without the time power to tn command com these things timings lie He would woul l I look over oer tho the poxes ples pi cs of Sli Sim henrys looks hook II find A t ten tic tm e t there Ct M t l en l clog 1 gure of n coo modern ern Inver on I would summon en um coon his hla t tad nid point to time tho chosen page sa saIng nir We e c thIH his hll wise mIll men s would ou eind et their and all shake their u heads s I theli thell point of or v lov Iw ew t is rent hA was an nn omen of direst evil The he desire to test lest for foi Ol himself the In III of the time western we weIn world led leLi Abdul Into extravagances never neer be he 11 rOlo of In III Morocco The nev never ne neer er or overflow a Ing l r In came absolutely n empty anti and the time youthful sultan on at taking stock of his resources found himself clr In of a n dozen doyen auto with no roads loads to 10 speed them over ocr mud a n sixty foot oot yacht with n a riv river river river er only thirty feet wide wille lIe He treated ted himself to n gathered from all parts of tho the world nt tit an enormous expense He lie filled the tho royal with vita lIh a 1 motley collection of modern Inventions telephones phonograph rand and all 1111 the tho electrical do vices ho could obtain All Ills was WitS amusing and ond possibly Instructive for Abdul but lint It wits wan wu time the madness ma of witchcraft to time Iho hoary hoar headed Mos ros Moslems lame lems who wc o trying to steer the tho ship of state stale Another nother hall bold departure from the tho Moslem Will even more morl serious In ItH its consequences An Englishman was WOH shot one flume day dllY at Fez Toz without provo prove provocation cation Ills His slayer u II fanatical tribes tribesman tribesman man took refuge In ht n a mosque lue Ac According According cording to Moorish custom he was wan as sate safe In that na ns was the time sul Bul sultan tan In his palace Abdul however dud did not see soo lit tit to tithe take that view slow of It Ho lIo liea a dragged tho time murderer out of the tho sane nano mid shut shot him hint Many of oC the tho sul Rul sultans sultans tans own aura soldiers deserted and went over OCI to a pretender who wax ss ns nt at that time lime preparing to make mako trouble This shrewd making his appearance from trum nobody knows where whore secured much nueh capital out of ot foolhardiness ness It grove Itao him hum opportunity to accuse ac oc accuse cuse the limo young sultan of forsaking time the religion of oC his hla fathers father and follow following the practices of oC tho time hated Nazarenes Ow Owing ing Ilig to tho the wily cleverness and the Intrigues of time the Trench French who would like to attach a n slice since of the sultans do domains mains I III to Algol Algeria la Abdul has had hud plenty to 10 disturb his hili dreams To 0 this thin Is III now added time the complication of ot time the abduction lion tion A lesH astute despot than limn n Abdul might feel at ot hiving attracted International n orna ono attention u II r hut but 1 th the ho sultan knows how unsafe It may he be heMI MI W v BROWN |