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A DOZEN guinea ($60) would bring one in comfort from the Morocco wharf, London, to Mogador, but It cobU quite as much in money and a thou sand tlmea as much in nervous force to traverse the short distance from Mogador to Agadlr. If Agadlr is opened up these cities will only be five or six 'hours apart by sea. By railway they will be still nearer, and in both cases a few shillings will pay one's fare from one .city to the other, writes Francis McCullach in the Chi cago Dally News. At present this Journey requires four days of the most toilsome and uncomfortable traveling. At least three mules are necessary two for the baggage and one for yourself. lYour guide sits on one baggage mule, your Interpreter on another, while an assistant muleteer belabors your mount in an almost hopeless endeavor to keep it moving at a fair pace. Mules Lack Vitality. The mules and horses to be hired in Mogador are a very sorry collec tion. If we were nearer Spain I should be inclined to imagine that they had been rejected by the Span ish bull fighters as too much lacking In vitality to figure even as passive victims in the bull ring. "When traveling In most parts of Europe we assume that many things can be bought or hired on the way. When traveling In Morocco we must bring as many things as if we were going to visit an uninhabited island. Pots, pans, kettles, corkscrews, spoons, a tent, beds, soap, tinned meats It would take pages to ex haust the list A tent might be dis pensed with in the dry season, al though even then the dew la very heavy, and one might perhaps do with out a mattress, but a camp bed Is nec essary to raiBe one above the floor of an Arab patio, which is sometimes a moving maBs of fleas. Another necessary nuisance is an Interpreter. All be can do is to tell you how much you have got to pay for fodder and corn, which. afterward discover, was not bought at an, Dut sent to you as a present by the local cald. Your Journey le a continuous running fight with your Interpreter plus your mule drivers, the latter combination thirsting for TYPICAL your money and you feebly trying to keep down expenditures. - Oh, for a little Arabic, a very little Arabic! Twenty well-chosen , words would enable one to dispense with that egregious fraud, the interpreter, a few hundred would enable one to jet some inkling into the life of those silent, spidery, light-framed Arabs leading or riding the solemn, spare and spidery camels to which they are 00 well suited. Without Arabic one Is at the mercy of a ring of clerks, translators and go-betweens. Ordinarily there are three stopping places between Mogador and Agadlr Cald Anfluss'. Cald Oilulll's and the Sheikh Hammuch's. The first named and the last named are ordinary Arab bouses, with great courtyards for cattle and a few stables for men to sleep in. Cald QllulU's is, however, a large fortress-like bouse surrounded by mud walls loopholed for rifles. It contains, I believe, the tomb of some Mohammedan saint, for no Jew or 'Christian is as a rule allowed to en ter it ' Around Dar-GlluUl the land la com paratively fertile, though it is sur prising how the harvest manages to grow up between the stones with which the ground Is covered. It also upports some scores of Arab faml liaa. while the rest of the road seems w ar 4 to be uninhabited. . Even at Dar GilullI, however, there is no attempt to create a town. All the houses are apart, generally on hilltops, and the effect of this ascetic aloofness is In creased by the severe lines of the houses themselves. They are all structures of straight lines and fortresB-llke appearance. They generally take the shape of a long, low rectangle, built of yellow ish age-stained stone, with one monastic-looking door, which never seems to be opened, and with no windows at all,' or else narrow, infre quent ones, mere slits like those in the tower of London. . Naturally the population of the country is scanty. Most of the people one meets are camel drivers, who have come with their camels some times from places four or five days to the south of Agadlr. There are only three or four wells on the road, and wherever there is a well there Is generally some animation, some signs of local life. At the first well which I passed half a dozen young women were working: at a wiadlass so long and so hard that I suspect there was no water in the well at all. or very little. A Curious Laundry. The second well, near Cald Anfluss', was an oblong platform of masonry. It reminded me of a music' hall stage, and the resemblance was heightened Dy tne lact that a native gentleman in a Maud Allen costume was dancing on It. On coming closer I found that he was dancing on his week's wash ing, which consisted of a white gar ment about as large as a waistcoat, which he had first of all washed in the well. At this point the flocks of sheep and goats, a score of camels and several fine-looking bullocks and the shouts of two young goatherds at play echoing down the valley imparted some animation to the scene. As a general rule a funereal silence hangs over all the country, especially at mid day. One hears no village song, no shepherd's pipe. The most interesting place at which I stopped was the house of the Sheikh Hammuch, a poor caid whose lonely home was built on some sand hills fac ing the Atlantic, close to the place where the River Eitamer enters the sea. Here I was well received by the SUILDINGO master, a spare and elderly Moor, who Invited me to sleep in one of his In ner rooms looking out on a small patio with a well In the center. He offered me curdled milk, honev and ten seemed well disposed toward Euro peans. His son, HadJ Mahomet, a tall, lank man of about fortv vprth nf ara moving with the peculiar stately move mem 01 tne mountain Moor accus tomed to riding and hahltnntort tn loose, flowing robes instead of trou sers, was not very cordial In his wel come. My interpreter told me that he dislikes Europeans and upbraided nis ramer ror extending hosnltalltv to me. Some miles outside Gllull! .nd an. other point a few miles outside Aga dlr is a market, or "soko," where grain, fodder, bread and food of vari ous Kinds are sold. A fair is held in these places at stated Intervals, when there is much animation and many camels, mules and natives. Ordinarily, however, the score or so of rude stone huts which constitute the eoko are quite deserted and uninhabited. The mountains to the south of Mo gador really constitute a tier on the south of Morocco. The aosence 01 roads, of water and of people makes Aeafltr proach and may lead to Its eventually falling away from Morocco. BEST OF OUTDOOR FUN HAPPY THE MAN WHO FINDS OE. LIGHT IN FISHING. Enjoyment Not Given to All, and Hard to Cultivate Health, Strength, Courage and Fortitude In the Sport There are in this world two sorts of men, those who fish and those who don't. The don't are divided into those who would if they could, but can't, and those who could if they would, but wont The won't are still further divided Into those who are quite contented that they don't want to, and those who are dissatisfied with themselves because they lack the taste. When we get as far aa this we reach the man who could if he would but won't, and would If he could but can't Talk to him about It, and he will tell you something like thlB: , "Yes; I know that it is a great thing to g6flshing. There is my partner. He Is a fisherman, says It's fun, and by the way he sticks to it and leaves me here to take care of things, I guess likely it is fun for him. But as for me, I can't fish. I've tried it, faith fully; have sat in a boat half a day at a time; have tramped miles of stream; have- gone through the mo tions and caught fish, too, but that is not fishing; it does not give me the enjoyment it does others. I am not a fisherman, when I see how others like it, how much good it seems to do them, and how it brightens up the world for them; I often wish I did like fishing. But I don't, and. never shall.'S That is what the woulds say. Just such cases have come under the no tice of almost every fisherman. For there le this about field sports, that while most people are quite ready to recognize what they do for those who follow them, the taste for their true enjoyment is born in one, and is with difficulty acquired in mature years. It may lie long latent, and one may take to fishing or to shooting late in life, but he must have had in him, though dormant and unsuspected, the capacity of enjoyment with the rod or the gun, Not infrequently people take up in late life the fishing rod which has been idle for years," or go shooting once more after a decade of forgetfulness of the field. They renew the sports of their early days, and with them awak en again the youthful spirit,' and re store health and strength and courage and fortitude. To be possessed of such tastes Is a blessing often too lightly esteemed. The father who en dows his eon in the care-free days of boyhood with a liking for these sports of the field is equipping him for life with resources of healthful enjoyment. Forest and Stream. Largest Novel. The largest novel in the world has Just been finished by a Japanese writer, Kiong Te Bakln. It waa com menced In 1852, and the author found a publisher willing to publish the novel in volumes as the writer finished them, the laBt volume being turned over to the publisher this year. There are no fewer than 106 volumes all told, each one containing 1,000 pages, and each page has about thirty lines each containing an av erage of ten words, so that the work consists of 106 volumes, 106,000 pages, 3,180,000 lines, and 38,100,000 words, and it weighs about 130 pounds. So far it has not been suggested that this work should be translated and pub lished in England. It would Just be the thing for, the libraiy of a convict prison, so that when a man was sentenced to "ten years' hard" he could calmly start at volume one and plod on without inter ruption till "Finis" was reached. Only some of the poor fellows might be asking for five years more if they were "let off" reading the book. Loss by Disease. "From sickness alone our mere money loss each year is $750,000,000. Conservative American authorities declare that at least one-fourth of this annual loss, approximately, $200, 000,000, can be prevented," said Dr. John B. Andrews of New York, secre tary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, before the Ameri can Public Health association. "Recently," ho continued, "there has been a remarkable development of interest in occupational diseases, of which phossy Jaw,' lead colic, miners' asthma, hatters' shakos, potters' rot, boiler makers' deafness, and the brass workers' chills are merely suggestive. "The prevention of occupational dis ease Is too great an undertaking to be left entirely to individual action." To Whiten Ivory. , To whiten ivory rub it well with un salted butter and places it in the sun shine. If it Is discolored it may be whitened by rubbing it with a paste composed of burned pumice stone and water and putting it in the sun under glass. CHANGE IN LOVE LETTERS Typewriter of Today Is Held Respon sible for the Curt Notes of Cupid. With the coming of the typewriter the art of writing love letters, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, seems to have gone out of fashion, and, in stead of the ornate missives our grandmothers treasure, the modern love letter reads something like this: "Dr. Em.: Yrs. reed. It was a daisy. Wish I cd. write as you do. Am very busy, but you know same aa ever. 'Phone me tomorrow. Will try to catch 8.29 Sat Meet me at station. If it doesn't rain, we'll have a good game. "You know what I think of you. So long. Aff., JACK." Thirty years ago, if Jack's father had been writing to Emma's mother, this same letter would have read thus: "Dearest Emmeline: Your dear let ter this moment reached me, and the beauty of its expression afflicts, me with a sense of my incompetency to reply in kind. But you know that my heart beats for you alone. "Although my time is not my own, I feel that I must snatch a few sweet moments in which to assure you that in this letter I repeat all I ever said or wrote to you, and that I love you bet ter than my life. "If you could write to me every day in the same strain my work would fairly fly under my accelerated ef forts. Such is the Influence of your inspiring devotion. "On Saturday I will be in the train which reaches S at half after 8. If your dear face were there to wel come me, you know how happy J should be. Whatever plans you may make for our brief holiday I will glad ly carry out. My own love, how can I tell you what you are to me? "I am . yours devotedly and faith fully. JOHN W. WATSON." Material for Composers. Modern composers who lack th faculty of creating original melodies sometimes try to console themselves with the reflection that the melodio possibilities have been exhausted. How far this is from being true Dr. Ralph Dunstan has shown: "Even with such a short musical form as th Anglican single chant, which consists in its simple statement of the notes, no less than 60,000,000 different mel odies are possible, without res:ardine the multitudinous differences formed by passing and auxiliary notes, harmo nies and rhythmical . accentuation. Supposing only one in a hundred of these tones to be musically interest ing, we have a possible repertory of 600,000 single chants. And if this be true of such a simple and restricted form of. melody, with what overwhel ming force does it apply to longer and more Important compositions ! " The chromatic scale yields over 6,000,000c 000 possibilities In the construction of melodies. Twelfth Century Football. In the twelfth century football was a game for the streets. The chron icler of that period tells how after dinner the city youths "addressed themselves to football," and how the scholars of each school and the ap prentices of particular trades would each have their peculiar balL There were spectators, too, in those days enthusiastic spectators. Fathers would come to watch their sons and "become as youthful as tne youngest, their natural heat seeming to be re vived at the sight of so much abil ity." In later years one recalls a famous hall game played in Hyde Park. In 1654, then, "there was a hurling of a great ball by fifty Cornish gentlemen of one side and fifty on the other; one party played In red capB, the oth er in white." And here the histori cal value of the contest Cromwell was a spectator and applauded the "great agility of body" displayed. different Ways of Doing It . Mrs. Touchley "I hated to do it but I had to take some money out of my husband's pockets while he was asleep last night to pay for his birth day present" Mrs. Chargely "Mercy I I wouldn't dare do such a thing. I used the market money and then had things charged to him. Kansas City Star. - ... Maturing Cheese Electrically. A British trade paper reports that an electrician of Rotterdam has dis covered a method of maturing cheese by electricity. The method consists in subjecting fresh cheese to an alter nating current for 24 hours, which treatment results In giving to the cheese all the properties hitherto ac quired by aging. Must Have 8tlmulant Where there Is neither love nor hatred in the game woman's play la mediocre. F. Nletsche. True Fortitude. It is easy In adversity to despise death; he has reaf fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. Martial, ADMITTED DEBTS TO WIVES Statesmen Acknowledge Benefits of Better Halves. Compliments have frequently been paid by famous statesmen to their wives. It will be remembered bow Disraeli dedicated "Sybil" "to the most severe of critics, but a perfect wife,'.' and when a certain wit, who never allowed good taste to. wait on his humor, was rallying Disraeli on his marrage he received the cutting reply: "I married from a motive which I do not expect you to understand gratitude." Mr. Gladstone, in old age, said to a friend: "My wife has known every political secret I have ever bad, and has never betrayed my confidence," and others have borne tribute to "the tender viligance which sustained and prolonged his years." Lady Salisbury, with no aptitude or inclination for public life, was the stay, confidante and social helpmeet of her husband. At a dinner Xo Mrs. Lloyd George in London, at which she was presented with a. replica of a portrait of her husband, a letter was read from Mr. Lloyd George expressing deep appre ciation of the "great kindness which prompts my friends to present to the brave little woman who is my wife a portrait of the troublesome person whom she has stood by through good and evil report" Housing School Teachers. The cities of Ulm and Frankfort, in Germany, are trying a novel plan for housing their teachers. They are sell ing to their teachers good municipal land at a low price and accepting a mortgage on it at low interest. In Frankfort this mortgage may amount to 90 per cent of the value, so that the applicant has to provide but 10 per cent from his own funds. The tax and mortgage payments together, it is said, do not amount to any more than reasonable rent and with his regular "house money," which is always al lowbd him besides his salary, the teacher is soon the owner of his own home. London Standard. Lower Class. Bobby There was a new boy in our Bchool today. Bingo In your class? Bobby I guess not! I licked him with one hand. Puck. Impure Blood Gets Good Bath Wonderful How Quickly Your Entire System Awakens When the Blood is Cleansed. If you are down with rheumatism; 11 you sneeze, feel chilled, are choked with catarrh, bave a cough, or your skin is pimpled and Irritated with rash, eczema, or any other blood disorder. Just remem ber that almost all the ills of life coma from Impure blood. And you can easily give your blood a good, thorough cleans ing, a bath, by using S. S. 8. There Is no need tor anyone to be despondent over the Illness of blood Impurities. No mat ter how badly they attack the system, of how unsightly becomes the skin, Just re member there Is one Ingredient In S. S. S. that so stimulates the cellular tissues throughout the body that each part se lects its own essential nutriment from the blood. This means that all decay, all breaking down of the tissues, Is checked and re pair work begins. S. 8. 8. has such a ipeclflo Influence on all local cells aa to preserve their mutual welfare and afford a proper relative assistance to each other. More attention Is being given to con structive medicine than ever before and B. 8. S. is the highest achievement In this line. For many years people relied upon mercury, iodide of potash, arsenic, phys ics, cathartics and "dope" as remedlei for blood sickness, but now the pur botanical S. S. S. Is their safeguard. You can get S. 8. S. in any drug store, but Insist upon having it. The great Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Ga., pre pares this famous blood purifier, and yon should take no chance by permitting anj one to recommend a substitute. And If your blood condition Is such thai you would like to consult a specialist freely and confidentially, address th Medical Department, The Swift SpeclfU Company, 160 Swift Bldg., Atlanta, Ga, Health of Married Men. A bulletin issued hv thn Mas Vnlr board of health shows that the death rate among married men is much low er than that among single men. From 20 to 80 the death mt A nmnnrr f Via married is 4.2, while among the bach- ciure u is o.o. r rom 80 to 40 the rate is, the married, about 6; the single, nearlv 13. rate among the married is 9.5; among mo aingie, i3.t. Kansas City Star. Good Guess. The class was discussing animals how they walked, got up, etc After she explained the cow's method of ris ing to her feet, the teacher said: 'Do you know any other animal that gets up like a cow." Silence reigned for moment, then one little girl timidly raised her hand. - ..aVhay!.,tT" a,ked the A calf," was the reply.