Show J j J Jj rf T jj 1 i Heir to a Noble NobleT T Heritage He Made Himself So Obnoxious to toll His i s People P eo pie Thai That the ike Nation Lost Its V and Relapsed He to Into Brigand Brigandage age ascI a e es rr in I s pre that the un uni I i h 11 and most mott d dIn 0 HM fan in Africa today toda t h the abo ablo P u t e ruler of the tho Moor Moon 00 Abdul AbdulA A bel u I A AI i v H He has IMS hII abundant reason Hie Hier ir r that Hoo belli who WM wu driven r f the by b the united t s of all Spain was waR the victim YkUm i ss ti ut I p eM ly more mere ml actual than i ti Ii f which are nr on Abdul ti IL t and tact fad faatIn p v u in the oas ease of ot the pu too Spain le Ie the thorn on of cf hem that I which pierces pierce hl h dl d it ty j manhood d It In Is Spain that lw toe ha han toeM M nett n II nn her iter lethargy and dl i 1 H 1 h hr her r standing army ermy arm to assist n rh Ih I II i rc crr fi of er r order In th ther the r nut t It IK h l SPIll Spain At af til to the na fla nai flar i i 11 f r I that has KB h taken upon ullOn I 1 1 f the Job if lit tf K Frane In Inta tit ta i J rather tuther task laik of at D n i Hi lh Africa I That of ot must mut be gall and n w to the soul out of ot any Moor j v ho i i know knows aught of ot the history of hi Als 11 ht 1 H a th the tho Spaniard and th tho t 1 M t i r there has baa boon ben nothing but per er erI 11 I ual enmity The Th d term torm i t dally daily prayer rayer In the sultanate In Ini InIe i adee 11 Ie a special peel malediction against ag i ev f e ry dweller on the Spanish Ii and no devout Moor Moer ever omits i t pedy destruction 0 O Allah on all 1111 alln il n prophets prophet It run and II of It all on th the cursed Spaniard I Jt 11 In Is all on account of ot Abdul A all and nj he cannot fall to realize 11 It The TheM Thet I t J Mars M 1 KICK rM his hi subjects have not changed i hv hY are r the th most mOlt unchangeable pee peo peer r i l on 0 the th tarn fare of t the earth rth The elvi hl hr rt II on lint that would Quid penetrate the say nav sayi v I i ag ry even orn n of r a south couth uth sea PM Islander lalander i f sold i Y i ill fill powerless against the thick iJ J I 1 rr eI l tance of ot a north African n A AL L 1 E I J fr 7 t l h i ir iI r I t t Ta I I e t S a r k Yet LI qt t JN a k 1 u t r a ac ax c Ii J x J I ITHE THE UNHAPPY SULTAN OF THE MOORS day today and forever All but Ab A fa b fail il dulko u I ho I Is different lie Ire U I Ii hi not lIot at al all an like his Ids father tather the sultan Human typical Moor toor Moorish lei ish hero and ruler whose wh throne was waa his hi horse hero ho his hie canopy o th the sky ky k All who came In contact with this worthy descendant of ot the Ute great Mohammed Mohammed med the best befit beloved belayed of ot Moorish sov sovereign were extravagant In their praise pral of ot him He lie was wa described a aa u au ua aua a centaur when mounted an Apollo Apello dusky of course when on foot toot the Ills days day were ere pasted passed In the saddle addle and for tor more than half halt of ot his hla life 11 he h slept In rr r In I II the n He lie was wall as a wise WI as al he was wa good to look upon He lie made mad himself acquaint acquainted ed with every overy ever class cia and caste of hh hla savage people He Ue knew their vir virtues tues tu their fallings were equally patent paten I Ito to hint him lie He knew that no man who loved lored peace at any price Id be po potent potent potent tent In north Africa and he kept at atthe atthe atthe the head of his hie mounted hosts for tor at atlea least lea t sU s 1 months of ot the year never declining to take sides Idee In a quarrel and never accepting ft n peace e that did not bring advantage ad to his hi country was the Idol of his hla people ople It H did not detract from his hla 0 rhea thit he s sometime finite lIe frequently indeed truck struck terrible blow blows and that offending hud heads felland fell tn felland and rebel robe blood was wan shed hed In Morocco I Ico co such uch natters matters are retarded as a quite the th proper thing Full warrant for far such sueh heroic measures measure IB Is to be bi found In the Koran The Moor Is ts I not net a critic of ot his holiest hol t book It has haa never occurred to him to doubt Its It authority Hassan Hasan was a n great creat sultan and he ha was waa lamented sincerely so o 0 universally and so 0 truly Indeed that It wee was evident ident that his hll successor would be obliged to todo todo todo do great Teal things thine In order to walk ac acceptably acceptably acceptably In his hla footstep Not Kt rol one nn n of It the great gr I things expected ed H d H of ot that tl t successor or has h s coon come to a pee paM from the popular JKo ular Moorte viewpoint that Is lo Abdul Asia AI to whom th the pa paternal paternal terI blessing was VI given CIn by br th the Lord Lard an en his hIli hi deathbed has flu been b ft a disappointment pure and from the He lie seems aMmo e to have ban Inherited nothing from his gallant father lather not lIot even the Ule capacity of ot making friends He Ile Is la probably the most moat thoroughly disliked man In the sultanate today tod He It In Is who l la Is held hid responsible for forthe forthe forthe the woes that have fallen fallon on the lb hosts aNti of Islam In north Africa It Is I current belief among the van vari yarl various sue ous ou savage tribes tribe of Berbers that the Unlike Any Other Moor Who Ever Liv Lived Lived ed Abdul Ex Exchanged Exchanged Exchanged changed His Splendid Birth Birthright Birthright Birthright right For a Worthless V Col Collection Collection Collection lection of Mechanical Me Mechanical Mechanical Toys sultan miltan ha has been Moen that h hhas he has ha become Inoculated InO with the Ih dead deadly ly Iy virus Iru which animates animate the th enemies nem of ot the tha prophet As Aa A a variant Cr from the Moor of tradition and even from the theMo Moor MODI of ordinary acceptation h ha Is Ie a unique specimen Hating Haling a anus i ms and nd having no love lovlI for th the camp camph h ha hu permitted his hi sovereignty lOy to tob tob b om orne a fiction and aad his hi empire empl to slip Up Upa away a 11 The Th warlike tribes which were wen held In aw awed d and nad willing subjection by his hl hi masterful father have h relapsed lap lapIto Into Ito brigandage and the outlying province make m no II pretense preten of d obey obeying be beIn lag ing In the t of th Ute the court A a lene ia H When Abdul Dame came to th the throne thron his bis It Item empire em lre was wu composed of ot th the three t considerable kingdoms of et Morocco ONt ONteo co eo and nd Tartlet There Then was wu also aeo the th great t province at d Bus aua held beld In get fief by byth bythe th the of d I Morocco and governed on by b a viceroy usually a member of th the reigning family Pint First came th the pec practical practical annexation of th tit the west Sudan Bud by th the French and Abdul bad had no DO army to oppose the advance of the Intruder Bereft Bott of ot their gallant leader loader the th theo ee eo worriers warriors who had upheld uphold the tho ban banner n pier ner of or hu hIM father returned to their haunts In the Moroccan wilderness and entered on a life II lit ta of pillage under the formidable and other ather desperate leaders laden Meanwhile Abdul concerned himself hNIt but t little tittle over OYer the condition of his h em empire empire m pire He H made madr no secret rot o of his hta admi admiration admIratIon admiration ration of things thing thin Caucasian and anti hla bl most poignant regret At seemed met to be that he h could not get t th tb the money monay to buy every new mechanical device that tbt made mad Its It appearance In the u market mrk I The bicycle bl In Its Ile It various manifesta manifestations became hi hl hIli greatest Joy jy and nd he h developed loped Into an expert rt rider of at the wheel Regardless Regard of the Ih tart fart that th 1 ouch urh t a course must moat In to n the end l l mi 1141 III hU hili utter ruin he h iwu squandered nd the th that national at Inal nal treasure t Jr In all manner of f me toys jy ya In time every P pert part ot of oti ath i II h he royal palace Iala bore bor evidence of fIt the th pas l Ion in for such auCh iMm If ii Even iven the th Imperial audience hamber w wa v Into a store etore ato houe hn for fir hI I Minnie atone ole bow and talking machine At AI one In time he was 1 Mixed with a burning bunting desire Ifill to tn ss I pertinent with gas ranges range and It l I laa Is I aa rt that no 1 less than J different makes make aMI were wera tried la I a Id Finally nally hi ta his Moslem III i r l I fled fieri In dismay and d a French chef chat from fj 1 Algeria Algona waa w wa put In command of DM the royal kitchen j 1 r At at t th the Moor Moon ooN were Ie stunned Into i ia f I Ia a Ii bewildered silence The ion Don of Mu i lal fat Hawn H was held h sacred by them In spite spit I of hi his un ways way of Df t i conducting himself An A a sal sul sultan saltan tan must shoe ho abundant sigta of moral and aM me mental shipwreck before Wore his bl subjects fuel 1 Justified la Ia I IRk taking mat matten matI I 1 ten I Into lato their own hand haade The Th sultan mitten l Is III not only their temporal t lord and i muter be la ls far car more Ift than that He HeI H Ht t I t Is the th representative direct ef of th the prophet and that la ls Ut the real reel secret t 0 of hi h his J JHew Hew He H the KaW K 1 The greybeard graybeards of ef the tuner alter tItI C circle at the Ih Moorish capital tried to te remon remonstrate strate tt trot with the te young quit man a te to t bring king i him hint to a realisation ra of what woe waa ex uc expected 11 ported of ot him Later Latr they th pointed out outto outto outto to him the Ule certain disaster that his bli bl I course courne was wu Inviting Whoa When they be Mime eama It disagreeably Insistent Ita he dine dro d i 1 I them from his hI presence It Is 18 related reIA that on r one n occasion OC Ulon the staid KaM M Mesh i 1 iwar war 11 whose who fUnction functions ere are those tho of ot a f y grand r chamberlain took upon UllOn th tb the duty dutT of ef advising adri hi hi young mom mas master j I jeer Iter ter eer Tour loving subject are k i with grief t over 0 th the strange tran foreign en sn enchantment which binds bind you the Ute old man m ventured I Do 1 0 thy they dare to complain r asked uk th the sultan ultan who was 1 deep d p In the aye mys mysteries lories teries of a huge which h ht be t i had ordered mad made In is I Germany and had ha hAt hAtt set t up u In III his hl hi bedchamber some Bom om of them than th complain my mT mas mu master muter ter the tho kW kald admitted y The sultan ul shrugged lib his hi h contemptuously Let Lt those Uto who de do be Ite given gt a t taste st of f the bastinado he la Mid add It t wit wll w i distract tract them from troa their grief As A fw fOl fayou you Tb Th awed aged servitor r burled buried hi his hie face fac It to i his sponges burnoose and prostrate 13 himself n A As Aa for you Abdul wens wen h t on en In a tone lone to of great gnat t seventy th tit II punishment must mut be mere ro deckled decided l shall hall see to It myself war raised hla head bead h slowly is un tan until t i til MI It ft had bad reached Ched a proper angle a tm tOl t i decapitation With a laugh lough the Meppel pi P quickly to the th new talon and aiU started It with The Ride JUde of the Vat tal ai I J r C WILLCOX i I |