Show S AND 1 FICTION 11 T FOR intelligent BOYS DOYS AND L S sultan of morocco and his people aple A by ALBERTA PLATT A A V you ave a current events class ir your school you have heard c K something about the troubles in morocco in the past year the story of those troubles shows strongly how in our affe age of the world no nation can live to itself apart from the other ri nations the majority of the moroccan people are mohammedan moors de tic ended from the moorish race that conquered red spain in and held I 1 if e goo years vears till they in turn were conquered finally at the toll fall of grenada which at you rou have read about in poetry and history the present inhabitants of morocco hate diate all foreigners particularly chrls chris blans and jews and they dont want SULTAN RIDING A BICYCLE CYCLE anything to do with anybody outside ot of then thel own land just wish to be let alone to follow the wads ways of their ancestors of a thousand years ago they hate foreigners so much that now and 1 0 7 THE mar SULTAN saltan orrI OFFICERS CERS HAT then travelers from other lands have been badly treated in morocco sometimes even murdered when anything like that happens the nation to which the traveler belonged at once calls the sultan bt bf morocco to account for it besides that foreign nations are determined that they will sell their goods to morocco the moroccans cans need these goods too but they want foreigners to stay atay away and aid there is i a all round there has been eo so much trouble about morocco that a year ago a conference of representatives of various nations the united spates states among them was held at Alie Algecira ciras a in spain spain to settle settie various points in dispute at that conference the sultan abd el pa aziz IV was brought prominently before the eyes of the world this sultan Is quite a young man and has troubles OL of his own he ile Is a despotic monarch morocco has no congress no parliament and no constitution the young sultan himself hears disputants and their lawyers argue cases cabes and then gives his opinion as to which Is right and which Is wrong and that settles it the governors of 0 the moroccan states settle local law questions in the came same way the evidence of a jew or christian is not taken against a mohammedan in morocco so you see there is small chance there tor for justice for a foreigner although he is the despotic ruler over people any school boy or girl in america is happier and more fortunate than abd el azz sultan of morocco ha he received 9 a careful education much like that of young princes in europe that gave him a liking for civilization with its railroads universities and telegraphs and its electric rapid going life when he lie came to the throne he wanted to introduce civilized ways into his hia empire but his subjects would have nothing to do with them there Ss Is not a railroad in morocco or even a well built road being edans the moors have a contempt for all the ways of infidel doga dogs as they call the christian nations the southern part of the moorish empire is inhabited by half wild tribes that are always fighting against their ruler or against one another the sultan has bas a one eyed halt half brothers broth brother erv malai mohammed older than himself who thinks their fahr father the late sultan ought to have made mohammed instead oc of abd el azaz heir to the throne this en envious violis one eyed brother secretly stirs up rebellion against the young sultan an englishman who visited abd et lit aitz not long ago says lie h e la Is years ahead of his people he want bonts s to pull thero them u up p to the times and they wont come in this unpleasant situ situation atlon abe he sultan settles little quarrels among his subjects amuses himself with various civilized games and occasionally tries to subdue a rebellious chieftain or a bandit he can do nothing worth while because of 0 ails ignorant superstitious subjects he has learned to take photographs and that interests him almat almo et more than anything else he can develop and print his own pictures he likes to ride his bicycle about the mud walled grounds of his palace A queer figure he cuts upon a cycle with his long flowing oriental skirts tucked up around him he ig is very fond of bicycle polo in the hot morocco climate everybody bleeps sleeps from noon till 3 after that the sultan plays tennis cricket and billiards he ile is to an expert at billiards and that game usually finishes finla hes the day sometimes the muezzins cry for prayer time sounds before the game is fint finished shed and then the ruler drops his cue and runs off turns his face toward mecca and says his prayers he has great areat curlo curiosity sItY about white b I 1 t P 4 6 za 4 ar ARMY OF THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO peoples ways once when two english officers visited him he snatched the hat of one of them thein and wanted to keep it the officer had bad hard work to get it back again so that he would not have to go away bareheaded the late queen victoria of england sent abd el azaz a present of a magnificent ent carriage carriage the sultan const considers ders this one of his choicest possessions and always alway has it out for a state parade but he himself can never ride in it because of a riale that forbids a subject to occupy a seat higher than his ruler which the driver dilver on the box would be obliged to do AN AMUSING TRICK when in the country you may easily trick people into believing that one of the hens has got into the house and is cackling lustily this Is how you will have to prepare for your little game get a small piece alece of tin bore a hole through the bottom and then put a piece of string etring through gli it with a knot at one end rub the string with some rosin thefil take tho the string between your hiir finger and thumb and pull it down in jerks thus you will have a very good imitation of a hen cackling of course you will have to tako take care that that nobody sacs saes your tin and string arrangement but it will be quite easy to mako make use of it when you are alono in a room and to smuggle it out of the way before any one comes to turn out the hen when you are asked as you are sure to be whether you have seen the bird you can truthfully answer it Is not here then the search er will probably go away when you can produce another cackle THE SMALL BOY BOYS DAY youngster to elder brother just home from college you understand grammar dont you jack jack indignantly of 0 course I 1 do youngs youngster ter wel well 1 w what hat would woula you say the yolk of an egg is white or the yolk of an egg was white jack the yolk olk of an egg Is 1 white why do you ask youngster because I 1 should say it was yellow I 1 THOUGHTS E K KNEW NE W there Is but one kind of rock that grows said bald the professor can any of yom mention itt lt yea yes sir replied the irish boy the shamrock THE seismograph this Is the picture of the bolsmo graph the earthquake foreteller which was first put into use by the I 1 japanese in 1397 and has on since e been adopted by hy all nations every oscillation of 0 the earthy earth no matter how slight causes the needle in this instrument to scratch a line on a plato plate of glass whose surface la Is covered with a thin film filin of lampblack GREAT MEN KIND many instances of kindness tto to hu man beings and humane treatment of 0 animals are cited of washington 0 n lincoln and all he greatest heroes of the world these men lived tor for great things did great things and were toa to great tp bo be guilty of the small leevi peevish the unkind and Inhuman peo pie who are unkind to animals oi or to human beings must have disagreeable qualities which will make them unpopular when they grow up and people who shoot and kill hill innocent helpless things for pleasure are not yet ca civilized vi r A WELL LEA LEARNED fINED LESSON do you go to pe school hool benny dessir Yes sir lr what did you learn there today then well thir 1 l learned that it dont pay to sass back but dont you tell daddy I 1 told you thir PETER PRINGLE peter fringle cannot read peter pringle cannot write but peter pringle he can cat eat and that is peters chief for breakfast ho he has mush and mam with apples maybe on the sly ills luncheon it Is just the same with odds and ends of 0 cake and pl pla peter pringle plays no games peter pringle has no toys peter pringle cannot talk but ho he can make a lot of noise bolsa A reter bringle cannot read but peter care a fig As long as ho ha can eat and oat for peter rater la is a pig PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL falio pencil 1 tell you I 1 shall make aly mark in the world pocket knife slyly well isnow you may be cut short TWISTERS read the following aloud repeals repe alt tho the shorter ones quickly a few tinia in succession abslon gix thick thistle Fies wieshof hof freshly fried tried ilyina fish T sea it A us hisa roller lo 10 roller 11 lower roller A bat of mixed biscuits a L mixed biscuit bo bos 1 strict strong step stephen stringer ati slickly alx sickly silky snakes swam over the gea swim swan aswani swim swan swam back again well stanl it Is a shame sim sam these ort ar the same sam ris all a sham and a shamo it is to sham so sari i |