The Miserable Moors

Tho livea lived by the Moors are, vrithont perhaps any exception, the most precarious and miserable that can bo imagined. The poor nian is throvru into prison for suma be never possessed and eau never pay, the rich to be squeezed of all ho possesses, while those only can hope to escape who are members of families snfflcieutly powerful to arouse the fears of tbe local governor should he attempt extortion and not Bufficiently powerful to stir up the jealonsy and avarice of the sultan. Even the governors of the provinces suffer themselves as they make otbers suffer, for just as they squeeze the agriculturist and the peasant so are they in turn squeezed by the sultan and hia viziers, and sliould theyfail by constant presents to maiutain a good opinión at tho court they eau expect only