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man who boasted that the sun
never set on John Bull's pos
sessions? It was "that the sun did not
care to set for fear the old pirate might
teal somethln. m."
As It Is now th. Ptarii.h wn onuntriM
In f nearly every part of the globe. They
nave more land in North America than
we have. They have recently added to
their African colonies, so that they now
own more than one-third of that conti
nent, and they are slowly and surely
gathering In everything else that Ilea loose.
One of their latest acquisitions Is Arabia.
They now, practically control the whole
of it. They have the Slnla peninsula
throilffh thai, nnBi.B.lnn Panl ' nA
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they can .control that part of Arabia
along the Red sea through the ports which
they are building on the opposite coast.
They have entered into the closest of
relations with the sultan of Oman, and
they have two uncrowned kings In the
persons of certain of their political resl
dei?s 'and consuls general, who control
the whole of eastern and southern Arabia.
. The first of these Is stationed at Bushlre,
in Persia, but he has made treaties with
the various tribes along the Arabian side
of the Persian gulf, which give the Eng
lish the trade of that region; and the
same Is true as to the tribes of southern
Arabia, who are controlled by the British
resident here at Aden. These two consuls
..n.r,i k,. ,oi,ii.v, ..i
postal routes through their respective
mhu ii. a
onlv the malls, but monv matt.r. . well
They are working In connection with India.
and the moneys used are rupees and president, took with him' to the White
annas. If difficulties arise between the House in April, 1841, a large family,, and
Arabs and Persians, they are brought to became quickly associated In the public
the English resident at Bushlre, and If mind with social events of a varied char
between the tribes of southern Arabia, aoter. President Harrison lived but
they are brought to Aden for adjustment, month and Tyler was practically president
-4 tor Ihe full term. ! Mrs. Tyler died within
Arabia to Have Railroads. the' year
j'lhT,' tlT" Ul8t T P"hP Presidential campaign was so
siderin, the development of the peninsula. fc , C0te,teS. and certainly not one ever
They have proposed to build a pilgrimage re,ulted , ar0UBlmJ the enthusiasm of
railway from Jeddah. on the Red sea op- party t(J tfc u raache(J
posits Port Sudan, to take the great army when lt canai(UU tne famous old her.
of Mohammedan worshipers Inland to of Tipp.no,, was trumphant. John Ty-
Mecca. This would oonnect with their .f77.,i ,. .n ,,.
new rallread which now crosses the
Nubian desert from Suakim to the Cape
to cairo route, ana wouia open up an
Immense passenger traffic from central
Africa and upper Egypt during the pil
grimage season. If the English are not
granted the concession for that road it
will probably be built ,by the Mohamme
dans themselves, and In any event It will
be more or less under British control, and
be a fseder for the Egyptian railway sys-
Another railroad project Is to run a line
from Aden into Temen. The latter prov
ince Is one of the richest of Arabia. It
has a good rainfall and is noted for Its
eoffee and grain and fruits of various
kinds. The Idea Is to run the line trim
Aden almost directly northward to Sana,
. One of the chief cities of Yemen and an'
Important commercial center. The road
will make that town the capital of western
and southern Arabia. ,
A third and still more ambitious rroJct
Is to build a railroad across the northern
part of the peninsula, making thereby a
short cut to India and Persia and to the
rich valley of the Euphrates, at the head
of the Porlan gulf. The present plsn
Is to start ihe road at Port Said and go
eastward across the peninsula to Busra,
on the Euphrates. The most of the way
will be right through the desert, snd the
distance altogether about 1.000 miles. I
understand that the route Is a feasible
one, and the probability Is that the ef-
forts the Germans are now making to
reach the Penlan gulf may cause the
British to wake up and adopt It.
Tne Arabian Penlnsala.
As to Arabia Itself, J doubt whether It
will ever furnish a large trafflo for rail- Van Ness family. He was known In the J81""'' nd thoroughly Engilh In his
roadt. There are certain provinces suoh best circles of New Tork society, was the PPar,tnc an not the best English. Hs
as Temen. Oman and the Valley of Meso- intimate friend of Washington Irving and ,e,med horribly bored by the crowd pass-
potamla. which are fairly well populated. Paulding, and knew all the other literary ln round hlm- H na Washington Irv-
but the whole peninsula has altogether men of the young nation. Mrs. Cooper was ,n ,r botn 'aklns' to me at Ihe same
not more than five millions, and theee are famous for her bright Intellect and Is the Wm?!l'
scattered over a territory one-third as Sophy Sparkle of the "Salmagundi." Washington Irving shs said: "I am
large as the whole United States. There Mrg. Kobert Tyler as PrisoUla Conner charmed wUh hlm' took m ln to tha
are not a wore of town, of any sis. In made her but In New Tks Virginia' V TH "V t0 h'm' nd
all Arabia, and you can count th. eitle. t "J 2ZZJ alked to me of mamma all the time, t.ll-
on your fingers. Th. most of the country wUh her faUeTfor tTo r"ir. appelrtng T T"40 " f r'n1;
tP!i LXTt tL iMJ?Z COBU UPOa C" "Th"' point of Interest. Wash
r.?i S 1 ? a ooast line 1 Tml . " ihtor that a large num- ington Irving, and th. lady who presided
still Arabia ha. ' ber of pereon. whe had no Interest In the on thus occasion with surpssslng courteous
longer than the dl.t.ne. between New 4roml.ur.tlon'. social ,uceM, went to the nes. and grace. Mra Robert Tylr. Irv
Tora and San Francisco It Whlt. House to see Mrs. Tyler. And lng. now grown more fat than 'bard be
about 1.600 miles rrom north to south and about her at all the social funotlons gath- seem. Is yet still distinguished by that
t,!00 miles from east to west. Almost the lrM not only the members ef the cabinet glow of genius and humor ln his eye. and
whole of the United States east of the and officials but the distinguished men of smile and utterance, which made him the
Mississippi could be erowaed Inside t. the city. She was witty and vivacious, adored of the New Tork world of fanhion.
borders and a considerable part of It is weU read and familiar with social usages. "Washington Irving Is at the Executive
still unexplored by white men. It is a She was young too. and had ths strength mt-nsion. nbt now aa Washington Irving,
mountainous country. It has peaks twloe and eoujrage te fill the position .he held, but as the ambassador to Spain. Who la
as b!-a as Mount Washington, and Ue eve to the aslant of spending three hour that lady receiving such honors from ths
than a half mil above the sea. South or
Meeoa there are mountains over 8,000
feet high and the hills here at Aden are
the Blue Ridge In Virginia.
Yemen, northeast of Aden, running
along the Red sea, has a fairly good raln-
fall and climate.
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Is as fertile as Egypt; but the greater part
of the peninsula Is as barren as Sahara,
Lull of ,Mcas Coffee.
The very best of our Mocha coffee ls
shipped from Aden te the United States.
It comes here on camels from the prov
ince of Yemen. It Is raised there by' the'
natives, each family having a few bushes
about Its house, and producing only
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lng. There are' no big plantations and no or the worm, as wen as one or ine greai
coffee factories. The berries are gathered est of the British coaling stations. Some
when ripe and dried In the sun. After thing like 3,000 steamers and native craft
Women Who Once
HERB died In Washington re-
T
cenUr Mrs. Semole. the last
surviving child of ex-President Mrs. Tyler . In one of her home letters, ter, and she is welcoming, from her' eleva- ture of languages. At last, after a flour
Tyler by- his first wife. Her In speaking of this formidable part of her tlon, in her mother's friend of bygone lshlng speech, squeezing my hand, with a
residence for many years had duties in a city of magnificent distances, years, the ambassador newly created by second low bow over it, he departed, fol
h.n th Teniae home.' the In- said: "The victim of this sacrifice Is to be her father." lowed by his suite, each first making a
stltutlon eatahl lahori hv w. W. Corcoran
tor the benefit of aged southern gentle-
woman
John Tvi, th. t.h nr.Mnt of tho
United States, and the first accidental
let siciauuu rwrna mviivi, wv ...... w
a shock since he was not a Whig, and the
knew that m hl, accon the hard
won fight
feat
practically turned into de-
And so yhen he returned from Virginia,
where he was at the time of the death
of the president, brought with him a part
of his family, and soon after established
all his unmarried daughters and all of his
anna In th. manatnn. the nuhlla of Wash-
,nrt0I wu mor, han usually interested.
It was known that Mrs. Tyler, who was
a grandmother, was averse to publio life,
and that the daughter-in-law, the wife of
the eldest son, Robert, would be the first
lady of the land. Mrs. Tyler, sr., had
been the mistress of ths executive mansion
at Richmond, during her husband's term
of office and had been the hospitable host
ess of Greenway, his county seat In Vir
ginia, but the laraer field Into which she
was now thrown as the president's wife
had no attractions for her. and she was
rarely seen by visitors. There were several
married daughters, one of them being Mrs.
Bemple, but they were never more than
occassional guests at the executive man-
slon, and the only lady of the White
House, In the strict sense of the term,
until the second marriage of the president,
was Mrs. Robert Tyler, the wife of the eld-
est son. She was much more than a social
figurehead, and she Is distinguished as be-
lng the only actress who ever presided as
hostess of the White House. Mrs. Tyler
was the daughter of the famous English
tragedian. Cooper, who was known and
admired all over the United States.
Ceoper had married Mary Falriee, the , ""' Bo, not at a11 romantic look
daughter ef Major Falriee of New Tork. ratner thickset; his face, of course,
an officer of the Revolutionary army and mo,t lntelllt and bright, but his dress
of Uie Governor TaUs. LtviPtone n
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this they are put up In bales and carried
on camelback over the hills to this place.
They are hulled between millstones
turned by hand, and are' then winnowed
and sorted for shipment The latter work
Is done by the women, who look after
each grain carefully and take out the'
bad ones. Labor Is cheap, but the coffee
has to go through many bands. It pays
toll to the chiefs of the tribes who own
the country through which it Is carried,
and as a result it must be sold at high
prices. For this reason we have imita
tions ' of Mocha coffee from all parts of
the world. During my stay on the plan
tations of Brasil I have seen them label
buns as Mocha; and Guatemala and other
coffees are sold under the same name.
Just now they are bringing coffees from
Ceylon and Java to Aden and transship
ping them here. They lie In the ware-
nouses ror a lew weeKs, ana men go lorjn
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remamea, ana pernaps
AraWn Mocha.
Ensrllsh at Aden.
This port of Aden has belonged to John
Bull for something like sixty-eight years.
He took possession of it in 1830, and later
on gobbled, up the Island of Perim In the
Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. That Island Is
about a hundred miles from here, and the
two places practically control the entrance
to the Red sea and the Sues canal. As
fi r Aden, It Is the Gibraltar or this part
a day, three days In every week, making
calls.
adorned In a white chip bonnet, trimmed
with moss rosebuds from Lowson's In New
Tork. I could spend my time here charm-
'ng'y It were not for the duties of my
Position.
Among her friends were Mr. Webster
Mr. Calhoun of the cabinet, and many
ot her letters contain affectionate mention
of the former, who, though "so over-
whelmlngly sensible, could talk the most
agreeable nonsense possible." He advised
her In regard to her social duties,
No on reception during Tyler's time was
rnurh discussed as the one held In
March, 1842, at which were present Charles
Dlckfns end Washington Irving. The ob-
erving hostess wrote of the former's
,eVB. the public leatherings were called
,n that day, and said:
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Peninsula
RA.CIXO CAMELS WHICH OO A HUNDRED MILES
call at It every year. The harbor la ex-
cellent, and the outer entrance Is more
than three miles wide. The Inner waters
have been so dredged that steamers of
twenty-slz feet can go everywhere, and
there Is room enough for all the vessels
that pass through the canal to anchor at
one time.
Aden Is strongly fortified. The town
stands on a volcanlo Isthmus, and It Is
guarded by a broad ditch, which has been
cut out of the solid rock. It has a garrison
of 8,000 or 4,000 men, guns of the latest pat-
tern, and no one knows how many subier-
ranean and submarine mines.
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Like Desert City.
I wish I could show you the town as it
lies before me. It Is the sorriest city I
have ever seen. -There Is nothing to com-
pare with it, except Iquiqul, on the nitrate
coast of South America, and Iquiqul is a
paradise to it. Imagine a great harbor of
sea green water, the shores of which rise
almost abruptly into ragged mountains of
brown rock and white sand. There Is not a
blade of grass to be Seen, there are no
trees, and even the cactus and sage brush
of our American desert are absent. The
town Is without vegetation. It is as bare
as the bones of the dead camels In the
A.ort hAhinrt It and Ita trnnlcal sun twata
down out of a cloudless African sky.
Everything Is gray and dazsllng white. The
houses on the sides of the hills are white,.
the rocks throw bsck the rays of the sun,
and the huts upon their sides are of the
same gray color as themrelves.
Ruled Washington Social Life
new ambassador? She is the player's
daughter, but she Is the president's daugh-
Mrs. Tyler's mother, years before, had
written in 'one of her numerous letters to
Irving about her daughter, In which she
had assured hlra that Prlscllla, then but
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wrote, "that Is ln regard to spriRhtllness
of mind, clearness ln writing and fun and
drollery In everything, but so Incapable of
application that she has not of what might
technically be called accomplishments one
single one. She edits a family newspaier
that Is In great demand wherever It has
been seen. She would he the delight of
your heart. I am sure."
One of Mrs. Robert Tyler's wittiest de
scriptions Is of visits to the White House
ln 1MJ by BertraisS, Napoleon's marshal,
who came to Washington acconiunied by
a gay suit and had an exaggerated Idea of
Importance of the position of lady of the
executive mansion. She tells of the en
trance Into the Blue Room of this marshal
of France and continues:
"He bowed to the very ground and I
oourtesled quite low. -I cannot convey to
you any Idea of how charmingly I received
hlml The hour he remathed he spent In
complimenting sue In s'renoh and Kngllsh
and Planning Its Development
A DAT.
The city looks thirsty and dry. It Is dry.
There is only a well or so In the place, and
these, I am told, the English bought of
their owners for something like $l,(ioo,0uo.
Almost all of the water used Is condensed
from the sea, and fresh water always
brings Its price. There are no streams any
where within miles. The town Is situated
In the crater of an extinct volcano, and
there Is one great depression nearby in
which some famous stone tanks were made
1,000 or so years ago. These tanks are so
big that If they were cleaned out they
might hold 80,000.000 gallons of water. As
It Is, they have now a capacity of only
8,000,000 gallons. Tha water Is caught when
it rains, and is sometimes auctioned out
to the highest bidder. The reeelpts go to
the English government, and a good rain
may bring In 115,000 or 120,000 or more.
. . $
People of Aden.
This Is my second visit to Aden. My first
was sixteen yesrs ago, when I stopped here
on my way around the world. I do not
see that the town has changed, and I doubt
whether It l'ss any more people than It had
then. The population Is sbout ),0P0, and
It Is made ui of all the nations and tribes
common to the Indian ocean. It contains
Arabs, Africans, Jews, Portuguese and East
Indians. There are about 4.000 Europeans,
and In this number sre the merchants, of-
flelals and soldiers. The majority of the
n.nni. ir.h. mnA tha ni-oi-a ii in.r ,Ain,
is black. There are tall, lean, skinny,
black Bedouins from Interior Arabia, who
believe In Mahomet, and go through their
rather Jumbled together, while I returned
his compliments in the same eccentric mix-
profound obeisance. I could not resist the
impulse, and as the last mustachioed
Frenchman left the room I turned a
pirouette upon one foot on the rug. and
then dropping a low courtesy saia, i peg
tne csoinei s paruun.
TKZ&r0G or TMZ WHTITHOVJE
Her husband, who stood near and whom
She was given to calling the Prince Connort,
rebuked her, but the cabinet ministers,
who doubtless had been bored by the visit,
heartily enjoyed It.
For nearly four years Mrs. Tyler re-
malned hostess of the White House. She
sccompanled the president ln February,
1844, to Boston, where he went to attend
the celebration of the laying of the corner
stone of Bunker Hill monument. And In
ths following April she chaperoned the
presidential party on board the Ill-fated
Princeton, when, by an explosion of Its
largest gun, the secretary of state and
the secretsry of the navy were klllsd.
Another victim wss Colonel Oardlner of
mw Tork. whose two daughters wer. In
tha nartv. The Dresldent Invited the latter
to be his gussts and they accompanied
Mrs. Tyler to tne w nite Mouse, wnere me
funerals of the two secretaries and of
their father were later held. Miss Julia.
the eider 01 tnese young women, wh
frequent visitor ln Washington.
The attention paia ner oy me presiaeni
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wuDiioc, .Hf
displeasing to her. although she ws. but
Just out of her teens and he aa St. the
father of nine children and
father of several Mrs. Robert Tyler noted
the growth of her father-in-laws Inter-
est in the young lady.
Bhs Imparted her knowledge to her hue-
band and the two decided to remove from
the White House before the end of the
admlnlstration, and did so. Mr. Tyler be-
coming a number of the bar in Phlladel-
phis. Thus ended In May. 1844. the career
of Mrs. Robert Tyler in the White House
eight monrhs-hffore the retirement of
President Tyler and two months before
his second marriage. I-ong years after-
ward she wrote a letter In which she said
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prayers five timss a dsy. There are black
Mohammedans from Bomaliland and black
Christians from Abyssinia. In addition
there are Parsees, Hindoos and Indian Mo-
hammedans of various shades of yellow
and brown. A few of tho Africans are
wooly-headed, but more of them have
wavy hair, and the hair of the women
hanKg doWn in corkscrew curls on both
sides of their fsces. Of these people,
neither sex wears much clothing. The men
have a rag around the waist and women
wear only skirts which reach to the feet.
The East Indians are everywhere. They
do the most of the retail business and
trading, and they are found peddling on
everv street comer. They dress according
to their caste and religion. The Parsees,
who are flre-worshlpers, wear black
proarhrr-like coats and tall hats of the
style of an Inverted coal scuttle. The In-
'Aian MnhimniAilari wear turbans and the
Hindoos wrap themselves up In great
sheets of white cotton. In addition there
are many Greeks and Italians, and not
that both she and her husband knew of
" iiiooiunii. "
Oardlner and of the engagement, which
was made by correspondence.
Mrs. Letltla Tyler Bemple was Invited by
her father to be the mistress of the presl-
dent's house for the Interval, and she spent
two months there, receiving the bride at
the end of June, and then departed for her
sister's home In Virginia.
The eiect)on of President Polk In Novem-
ber, 1844, dimmed the Interest of the gen- Hew God Made the Onsnel.
eral public, but not the Washington pub- Have you ever heard how the camel was
lie, in the family of President Tyler. His created? Here Is Its origin, as told by the
bride was the center of attraction at all Arab They say that God first formed the
receptions and the president himself re- horse by taking up a handful ef the swift
newed his youth. He was a delightful south wind and blowing upon It. Tha horse,
man socially and had the southerner's idea however, was not satisfied with his mak
of hospitality. Mrs. Setnple greeted the lng. He complained to God that his neck
bridal couple when they reached the White was too short for easy gracing and that
House and was described by the bride In lts hoofs were so hard that they sank In
one of her letters as remarkably fine look- the "and. Moreover, he said there was no
lng and Intelligent. She closes the letter hump on his back to steady the saddle,
by saying: "She has left and I have com- Thereupon Ito satisfy the horse. God
menced my auspicious reign and am In created the camel, making Mm according
quiet position of the presidential man- to tne auln'M uggeetlons. And when the
sion." horBe Baw hl" lde' 'n flesh and blood he
The family of President Tyler all left the Jllf'LlZ a?"th ,U u,,ne"
White House, with the exception of the
second son, John Tyler, Jr., who was the
president's private secretary. He accom-
panled hi. father to New Tork and was
present at ma weauing on June a, jmi.
No publicity atended this wedding, which
took place in th. Church of the Ascension
in Fifth avenue, and was attended by but
twelve persons. But after the ceremony
the presidential salute was fired from the
several forts In the bay and by the United
States vessels In port.
Mrs. Tyler enjoyed the attention shs at-
traded whureever she was recognised on
the train or at the hotels of Philadelphia
and Baltimore. She tells her mother in her
first letter that "such time as we have
had since I first plsced my foot In the
railroad cars defies the power of any pen
to describe. Wherever we stopped, where-
ever we went, crowds of people overtrlpp-
lng one another came to gate at the presl-
dent's bride. Never was there such a gen-
eral expression of Interest' Besides a night
at Philadelphia we stayed five hours at
Baltimore, and then dropped Into Wash-
ngt0n almost accidentally, for the city
was totally taken by surprise, we bringing
tne firat information ourselves.
Tna gecrecy of the sffulr Is on the tongue
nd admiration of everyone. Everyone says
It was the best managed thing they ever
heard of. TI'O president says I am the
best of diplomatists. I confess, from
what I have heard since my arrival here,
think his part has bum quite ns well per-
formed, for our carriage dro- e . through
the avenue from the cars t the White
House without a single one of his ac
qualntances In Washington a servant
in Ha hnuaa nVainlna- of ita o intern. An
instant afterward the news flaw like wlM.
fire over the city."
Mra Tylt,r eoe on to d,cribe the atten
Uon, pa)j n( an(1 ,h, 69eT that
evt.rytiilng has been very brilliant "brll-
uant to my heart's content: as much so
aa If I was actually to be presldentress for
four more years to come. Crowds fol-
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luweu ino wnuner I wem. my nign estate
h been thu. far altogeth9r , to
m9. Th,. morning I attended church. I did
not turn to th. right or left, but th. pre.,.
dent said in th. carriage: Hid you not se.
all the people In the church stand still as
you passed out?' " ,
u was the custom In the early days of
the re,,ubllc for the president's house to
oe open the year round; and on the Fourth
0f July the president and Ms bride had a
throng of callers, and tha happy lady tells
of her pleasure In being the center of at-
traction.
Mrs. Tyler's was the first -portrait of a
lady of the White House to be placed In
the White House. In 1S she was In
Washington and visited the White House.
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few Persians. The English dress In white
and wear big helmets to keep off the sun.
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camels mm A Caravans.
This is the land of the camel. Caravans
"re coming ln and going out of the city
every day. They bring bags of Mocha
coffeswand gums and take out European
Koa Rnd other supplies to the rartous
There Is a considerable trade with
Temwn ana '0 w,t tha tribes of south
eastern Araoia. inere are always camels
l'ln Jn the market place, and one see
them blubbering and crying as they are
'oaed and unloaded. They are the most
alcontented beasts upon earth, and are
a mean as they look. One bit at me this
oon " 1 P"11 ra 1 m told
that they never become reconciled to their
masters. Nevertheless, they are the freight
animals of this part of the world, and
t,ie desert could not get along without
them- Tney 'ish the greater part Of the
ml'K 'or the various Arab settlements, the
people make their tents of camel's hair,
ana mey are, in fact, the cows of the
desert They are of many different breeds,
and they vary as much in character as
horses. There are some breeds that cor
respond to the percheron, and the best
among them can carry half a ton at a
load. There are others fitted only for
riding and passenger travel. The ordinary
freight camel makes only about three miles
Bn nour, ana eighteen miles Is a good
day's work. The best racing camels will
travel twenty hours at a stretch, and will
cover 100 miles In a day. 'Seventy-five miles
" ten nours is not an uncommon Journey
Ior J1 Arabian racer, and much better
speed has been made. Am to price a, an
ordinary freight camel brings about ISO.
but Bod riding camel costs $100 and
upward.
. . . " " nn mere is no
horse that U not scared when It first sees
a camel.
This story makes me think of the Arab
tr.nton , how"""
buffslo, which, as you know Is about the
UEllest 5,,.-. Ih" ' aBM1t the
.na'..".:1 Zl IrVT.
beautlfu, cow. When He had flnT.hV it
th aev, hapwnea that J" "
,aw it he laughed at the Job and sneered
out thnt h. eoulA make a wt(r bft(Mt
his eyes shut. Thereupon the Lord gave
him 10ml mntsrial such as He had put
Into the cow aqd told him to go to work,
The devil wrought all day and all night,
and the result was the water buffalo,
,
The Arablam Horse),
T have made Inquiries here and else-
where as to the Arabian horse. He Is a
comparatively scarce animal and he does
riot run wild In the desert, as some people
suppose. Indeed, comparatively few of the
Arabian tribes have horses, and the best
are fcfPt on the plateau of Najd, ln the
"nter of the peninsula. They belong to
,h 'Anazah tribe, which Is one of the
olfIe't of nil. and which claims to date
ba,, to the flood. It Is a wealthy tribe,
and 14 hss been breeding horses for many
generations. The best stock has pedigrees
"' DatK l time of Mahomet,, and
th8 very choicest come from five maree
w,"rh were owned by the prophet and
blessed by him. These horses seldom go
out -of Arabla- They are owned by the
enler"' an'' are nt sold, except In times
of th d,rMt necessity. Now and then a
'ew et ,nt0 EVPt and other parts ef
Nortn Africa, and the sultan of Turkey
' abIe to buy some for his stables.
during my stay In Algeria I saw ISO stal-
Hons In ths great army stables at BUdah.
Perhaps one-third of them were Arabian,
and they were kept to breed horses tor
the French army. The Khedive of Egypt
has some Arsblan thoroughbreds, and there
are a few ln Morocco and Abyssinia.
It Is only occasionally that a pure-bred
"'"' ur 1
Arabian goes to Europe or the United
..,.. Two of the beat atalllnna wa vr
XZZr.ViZ
brought from Constantinople Thl. was
ng hi. tour around tul
w,lH Turkey h, Rn . ,u)tan
v,lll(4 ,ha roy., .Wr. together. As they
looked over th. horses ths aultnn told
Grnt to pick out the one he liked best,
n(J 9 designated a dapple pray called
The Leopard. "It Is yours." Slid the sul-
tan. "and this also," pointing to a 4-year-
old colt called Linden Tree In due time
these two horses arrived In the United
glate, and Wero put on General B Beala's
farm near Washington. They were used
for bredlng, and they produced altogether
about fifty fine colts.
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1 'X-Xv';1
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FRANK Q. CARPENTER,
