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

ss RJmsEiz5d IS Cisalpi1e G.ul. E7ery-
where in the far interior Roman towns #
striking s'ze, adorned with tr.umpaal
arches, churches, palaces and moruman' s,
survive IL fragments within their shTuEk-
en- walls to besr witness TO the great
Catholic civil zs.icn which has pissed
STaY, for t1a time, from all Moth Africa
REMAINS CF ANTIQUE Arr.
| 1t is s,IsEge to stGdd in me Museum 81
A gIers-thsl besul fuI museum s. quaint
2 lnstall5d II the courtyard Of Mus.apaa
| Pachs's Moorish palace-snd glance
around st the modern locking tor5os Of
antique sts,uary lDtersperssd smCng the
| foliage Of palms And bananas that I'll W
the arclGsys OF tia. open arc.Ced ps'io.
! FHe antique remains belorg, we feel H.
s!incuVely, to our CivliizauCn; they are
| part, Ike our own work, OF Creek SRI; DE
tween them and Us there is 10 crest gulf
fixed; all has been but one uLi!Crm
course Ct consistent development.
| > -atues like those in every important
particular except perhaps meri } are
mCdeleG TO- Gay in every studio in r me-
or Paris, or Munich or London. They
sTe Earcpesn, or to give them what IS
possibly their tTuer name, Mediterranean
| 10 type. Even the letters Of the lnscrip-
| lions sre cur own Roman alphsbet; she
WORDS are toe Latin still spoken under
slightly varying dizgui5es over sll
the southern shores 4 Europe
But the building in which they
stand, with lis pointed SaTsCenic arches,
lFs oriental tracery, s exquisite tile
Wotk, It's NohLmD sdan DIT corstiop, where
81 im.:*tlve elements are strictly svCided,
belongs to smother and wholly alien STYLE
Older, more bSrbar!c, lower, intrusive.
II Il hsrd o realize int men live and
Wroughs hsre in Africa capable f turning
on! those splgldid WORKS Of grt, those !
HauE and AphTodites, long before the !
csrVeTs of the foW!ng AraD!c inscriptions /
th&t cover the walls lad begun to develop /
their Own 6eautitul but profoundly in
lerlor school Of ornament
Well. the ArADs came and swept all |
this sway; they divorced North Africa
for 1890 yesrs from it's natural union
with the opposite shore Of the Mediler-
rsnean, and they cut If the entire COST,
rom Egypt TO Morocco, from intercourse
with the civilized world OF Europe I-h-
msePs hand, here as elsewhere, was
against every man; the Bsrbsry
pirates mace civilization impossible
AZ home, End pre- csrious on the
Pfcvencsl end Ligarisl seaboard
OF course there was q time when ell
this might have been otherwise when it
W. doubtful whether R me or CordOya
'yas to become the Ceuter Of sweerness
sid ign. for the nations; w1ether Islam
II Chr.ste1dOm YVES to evolve the ,hIIos-
ply E1d the science OF the world. But
when once that question was f1GIlY set
led North Africa fell back into mere
'eething mass Of sIarch SITS and robbers
christianity, commerce, art, sC!erCe,
III died down TO the M5hamme-
ism lsvel. For twelve Centuries
bis outlying fragment of the European
ToIld relspsed iGto b5rbari.m that '
raw deeper and deeper With each sue
seeding epoch. Islam formed 81 imper- q
5ra5le barrier to the southwark proeress
4 c.vilzing ideas. All pesceGb,e ioter-
curse wss wholly suspended Afrcs .
eemed more readily accessible from zoe
vest the south, or the east 20 European | 7
lflences than from tie old aod na;r~sl f
ighTsy of the north ard the Mcdi.elTs-
can, blocked up by hostile creed and
irsticsl people. \
REAC ION AGAINST MOHAMMEDANIsM 6
1t WAS with the present century thst \
ne return wave set in. Isl1m in its dot r
&c began to decay. NapOleon's invasion ;
no the rosa 70 Iadis brought Egyp. first 7
'eli within the range Of European politics.
ut 10 US N E1g.and the rest of the north
Osst Of Africa rad less interest and i'm.
ortsnce; our concern lay rather with
req er A'rIcs-the Cape, ZIlulGud, Lha 6
Vest Coast, ZscZiosr, the river Highways, n
re u1explCred interior To this day, il r
oglGEd, Whe7 we say Africa we mean ha- v
::uaily Negrolsnd and the south-ths1 is "
re Africa with waicn we all have prscti- :,
silly TO deal; thst IS ,he Africa Of Brit d
n interests" OF political c. mDiiCa io1s, =,
tile ware, missionaries, explorers, The !
apes q trade, the undevelOped markets.
hIther manchester turns Ter longing A
yas; thitaer the heart Of Exeter h2ll is II
esraiIg But in France it is quite T
therw Sc. africa there Tesns Algeria, S
unis, Morocco, the desert. That is rhe a.
tcica where the French soldier h.s |,
srvad with distinction; the Afrtcs whose b
sde enr!ches Marseilies; the Africa n
hence civilization and perhaps even
are slowly moving their way
sck into the CREST interior. :,
think We in EGglsnd have perhaps too
uch overlooked the importance snd
Ng0!tUde OF this vigorous FrerCh move :
eul 1Of inc re-cCpQueSt q the B3rbhFY :"
asst for civilization sad ChCistendom. b
10 penetrate Atica il the
ind's eve by way ot the Me, the Congo -
I'd the Ztmbeel, we have perhaps under y
3timated tle value and reality OF the
ss snowy, nut more sure Cud solid, 81
OK which Fence IS dol, z for the world g
algeria Tunis, ard wSica, it is 20
2 hoped. no petty national jeGouay on
lie psrt Of any other European
s.e Will prevent her from Carrying ous !,
lualIY vel II Morocco. But any unpre- -
diced observer 7eho looks at the msr- ID
lous result the Frsnch have SlreadY OBJ
ihed in little more thin fifty years ia l.
l2eria cannot help admitting that their q
inquest Ct North Africa hss been real
,an to the civilized wor.d-cannos helm o
eipg tha! from A'giers as center civil u
I'd bsoits snd modes Of sctiOn ere grad
lily 1terlcg through TO the very desert II
d oiepiGg Dack to Europe for the com d
on good this lorg lost province CT Ro =,
81 Clristendom. y