Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
SCENES IN MOROCCO.

On every side,as you travel through
the country, you cannot help noticing
the fertility of the land. Delicious
fruits grow, almost wild, in great
abundance oranges, polhegrauat"s,
apricots, peaches, ounces, almonds,
vines and fig-tiees. Wide fields OF
grain wave before your eyes, as sure
Iy thew would not, were it not that
the soil barely needs to be turned
over: for, through all the centuries
siuce this ceast was first cultivated,
not one particle of Improvement do
the indolent people seem to have
made in their clumsy methods. When
a native farmer finds he can no longer
sit in the sun aud postpone his plow-
ing. if he is to have any crop at all,
he catches donkey aud a goat, or
COW and u mule, or any other crea-
lures (includins his wifc) that will
pull, aud harnesses them to plow,
which would be fiue curiosity for
one of our agricultural fairs, since Ii
is simply some sticks of wood bound
together SO that the sharply pointed
end of the main or handle piece drags
along, little under the sod. Yet We
must not forget that much nearer
home a like lack. Of progress is seen !;
tor in parts Of. Mexico all almost ex-
actly similar excuse for piow has
5een used for three hundred years,
and may perhaps be used for three
hundred more.
When the caravan reaches town
of considerable size, q stop Is likely
to be made tor some days, III order
to allow trading to be carr ell on.
| 20. O. tn W. r.
nv the traders much, aud between
the entertainments OF the village peo-
pie aud the recreatiOns At the camp,
the stranger will not lack for aInuse-
ment. 1t is 10 this race, tits always
to be remembered, that we owe the
Arabian Nights tales. Ottnese sto-
ries our trans iations contain only
selection. aud as you sit ana sip your
coffee, tea Or lemonade, i'll some little
cafe of whitewashed stone, you hear
the old plots and the tamll al names
and many new romauces Ut the Same
kind, told by neu who dc nothing
else. These tales form the treasure
of u very numerous class OF men and
women throughout the east. who hnd
livelihood i'll reciting Them to
crowds never tire of listening. The
public squares of all tie towns
abound with such men, wh,se recita.
,ioms, full OF gestures and slg. esuve
looks, hold circle of siien, listeners
spell-bound with the pleasing pic
lures their imagiuations conjure
1t IS said that the physicians fire.
queutly recommend the stoly-tellers
10 their patients III order t. sotthe
pain, to calm agitation, or TO produce
sleep aud, accus omed to talk to sick
folk, they modulate their voices, sol
ten their tones, aud gently cease al
sleep steals over the sufferer.
Quite the opposite of this quiet ano
dreamy amusement, which lakes thu
place of our theaters, are the SHOWS
Of the suake charmers, who every
where collect pennies from admiring
groups. They sit On the ground and
handle the serpents i'll every way, al
! lowing them to coil about theil
arms, necks and body, and dart long
forked tongues almost into their ia
ces, while one of the group hammer
tambvurine as though his lite de
. pended ou it. | cannot conceive how
. this so-called music has anything t.
do with the wonderful control exer
cised over the snakes by the juggler
| should think they would grow eros
rather than be 'charmed" by the Ill
:, cessant uiscords.-lErnest lngersol
in ST. Nicholas for Nav