Foreign News: Prince of True Believers

A theoretical despot, technically absolute, actually impotent, arrived at Paris last week, swathed in billowy garments, bedecked with Orient gems, surrounded by 100 six-foot Negro guards, by many a caid and pasha.

President Doumergue and French officials, numberless, bustled to welcome Mulai Yusef, Sultan of Morocco, Amir-el-Mumenin (Prince of True Believers). Soon that portly sovereign was installed in the magnificent residence of Baroness Roger, lent for his accommodation.

Divertissement. It is the duty of M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident-General in the French Protectorate of Morocco, to "advise" (command) the Sultan as to his every...

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