Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-22

| = shallow venesring OF Africa snd Islsrn,
for sll That. The country Was, ana yet
will D., Europe. The very things that
,semed So foreign a. fl st sight ale them
elves as foreign to the soil as 10 cur OBJ
! sewing eyes; they are I'll lste casual i'm
portG ions from W1-mer Cl.mares. The
! 1ioe znd the prickiy pear come lcgoss the
e. from the American tropics; they grew
n North Africa, IS they grow along the
R.Viets ard on the Sicilisn slopes, by SUI.
farsnCe only. The further you get away
rom the towns ard C.viizsTi0n the more
90 you leave whit emed Africa behind
you, Gud The more dc you fad yourself
st2nkly II EIrope-exCept, of course, IS
Tegs-ds the human pCpu!stiop. The dates
nj 5Aosa. and Sgaves dissppesr;
and you wander gradually into al aria
land CT evergreen osk ard Org,
1eathY plants, exactly like the barren
waite limestone hills about Msrseiiles
! md Toulon. Almost every species OF
living thing now found in the country on
me Atlas slope has entered ii frst from
he northern shores-from Prove. &c arG
SoGlc-prCbaDly before the Straits OF
Gibraltar were formed, and when land
bridges existed Wis Sardinia ana Corsica
IN one side, or Sgsin, via Rsggio, Sicily
sad Cape Ben en- the other. The few
southern kinds sre, every ore Of them,
! recent immigrs'iuns or home iDpor s.
| lions. The camel is useless north u the
Atlas; the negro is an intruder; lands,
DHn5s ard animals, al alike, are purely
Eur pean.
and so, with some trfipg cxccptions,
ale the people. The Arabs, TO be cure, so
isr as any Of them can clsim true Arsb
descent, are no d.ubt Semitic sad there
lore Asanc. But the genuine Arab Gf
ne KISS 81 alD belongs for the most par,
70 the desert aud The south; he herds
With the csnel, the ostrich and the date
pNIm. Tee population OF he toWns and
tae aea board is very mixed, most Of il
SHOWS strong traces Of European blood,
sad The population of the mountain il in
large pars 8 lesst SIS Euro M So the
population Of Spain, Sicily and Ely.
HIGHLY INTERESTING PEOPLE.
Toke for example the Strange nails
faced race, the K4byles OF Algeria. They
Ere an interesting people, these aboriginal
Berbers-strsrded Europeans, still vlgor-
oQsly subsisting in the midst Of cn alien
m0hammedan folk: Romsn CarlslisBs, |
reduced for the time being to the cutter |
faith and manners OF ISLAM, but remain
irg for ell thai essentially European in !
numerous underlying ideas, habits a0d
customs. To look at the K1bgle is els
tilctly rs white msn," e5 they say 10
America; some French authors hsYt |
eVen gone SO far as TO say that he pre-
sen's s decided Garmsnic aspect"
De Q1atTeisges Considers himself sur.
viving specimen Of the cave men OF Gro
M4gnon; English authorities inc Inc
rsther 70 call hin an Arfan, whatever that
may meSD, for M faith is weak on the
Arysn que ton. Bat Aryan or ba barisn,
Pc 3e jntaic or neO.chic, oGe thing is Ger
tsio, the fair aud strais ht-hsired Ksby le
resembles essentially in ell important
points the remainder Of the NJ diterra~
0eNo population; sId he does not Tes5m-
ole in any respect whatsoever the Arabs
Of Araoi&, or the negroes 81 the Soudar.
He belongs TO the ss- race lin broad
5ers }, as the people OF Italy, Spsin ana
ireland, not to The same races a. TIE
people Of Egypt, Syris or Africa. He IS
ore Of ourselves, man aud 8 brother.
And as mis- bsUgde complexion, his !
sree blue eyes, his rutdy hsir and his
l!Sh, straight forehead point him out a.
)nce SIS in Gil fundamentals 8 European
til. in bsik szd 6urnouse, so, in spite I
( generations Of Izlsn, do his language,
lis lie and MS srts ESQ. The Kabyle is 4
10 nomsd, Ike tee Arab Of the desert, he
g big house &nd home; he is s bu hand !
nGD ard herdeman, hGbi:s OF steady in {
iustry mark him G If severely from the !
Sande Ing Semne; dWtller in Villages, {
~ avsr Of nae cloth, OF wooden f.bFics, !
II baskets, a mlkes.Of arms, Of cutlery, Of I
pottery, OF 6Fna mental mental work; he |
etaina still not few traces of the in I
uence Of the old P 9lician srt. Many of :
- productions are extremely beautiful; c
II OF them betrcy & true feeling for his ]
sndiCr6f. Above al, he shows himgeU |
ssant;sllY 3 European IN that he posses t
es sUll the instinct OF The family. Itcss ]
t inst fundamental order cAEn0t readily c
e put IF snd on like coat or @ creed. :
NE ksbyle, il tae midst Of lslsn, susrds, c
o this cs5, the European ouG Christina ]
aspect Tor the dignity Of 1omsu. H. ls 4
ot q pOlygCmist. He has but enc wife, G
2ho lives with hia, not in suojeCtioD and t
1feTiOriiy lie the Arab woman, but en- ?
he same practical equality as the 1omaa {
I more uDsgp1istiCatcd European races 3
Welsh, I,is6, NlrwegiAns, Swiss. Ia
( 2b, liz The foCe OF wife or maiden is i
ever yelled; aud, strange to say, it still I
ta-S q GSUeEs mStK CT CQtlSlls0 II III +
nee il the ctoss tattooed upon il il early C
hildhood. 4
STRANGE RACE CHANGES. 7
The sbogilinsl BerDer race, Their, OF =
,bich the Kabyle remains the purest 3
prsseltAtive, Wss in l's origin and in Il
purely Europsan; snd its early 2
Isrory linked it, OF course, entirely win j
be European Mediterranean ciyi zsti0n o
ven in the wilder parts of {
unidIa ard Mauritania, greet aoo- 5
ginal buildings Ike the Medrasser, E
: tomb of the Numidisn kings at i
.stna, and toe vast mAUsUleum OF JubS Y
|. Dear Cherchel-rouLd DArrows raised :,
4 solid tiers Ct stone, the esrlies5 stsae )
Z the evolution Of the pyranij-dispIEy c
lie force sud depth Of the pgrely native o
aroer culture. Brought first urder he 2
ihlelce Of ? 9lician and then Of Greek 4
this Berbar race showed the q
tme sdsptSb!lity % the rev order CT
liDgs ts did ell the other Mediterranean II
0pulati0ps. For time 1t YVES e qaes Il
0 whether Africa or Itsly, Carthage or
1Iop pa IN ryY1p a. md