Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-22

| could be expected, and, hand in hand,
are still softly singing, as Germans only
! can sing, that buudeslied of magic ten
| derness and power, "Bruder reicht de
| Hand yum Bunde!' Following these
are the entire members of an English
| family-a round dozen altogether. They
are travellers, or are here for the benefit
of the glorious winter climate; are
dressed sensibly in honest wooden stuff;
and better than all, are walkers, every
one of them. They learn something
when they travel, for any one with
brains enough to see the world on foot,
sees it from the proper level always. Be-
hind them are q score of negresses. They
are on their way from the Arab markets.
over in the Place de la Tyre and Place de
Chartres; and you may find any day
hundreds more like them as helpers
there. They are indescribably ugly,
with short, puffy bodies, tremendous
heads and short, huge necks, lumpy
cheeks and square jaws, nostriIs fiattened
back almost in line with the facial
angle, and lips like pair Of ebonized
conch shells Their haiks are always of
the blue and white checked variety, in
tensifying the luster and depth of color
of their coal black skins. Some of them
are velled, giving them an air of monu-
mental coyishness and skittishnes. Be-
sides the haik and veil, little should be
said about their costume. Below the
haik are cascades and cataraots of gar
mentary all-sorts. Two wear the bright
red cast-of trousers of the French Zou-
ayes. A pair of cavalry boots ornament
the feet and legs of third. The rest
are barefooted, and their feet are like
huge claws. But the poor creatures
were born in the jungles below Sahara.
They have not been free long. They
are sunny-tempered and brave. They
chatter and jabber along with good deal
of indendence and dignity. You or
under like conditions might not make
even so much of life in Algiers.
Here come several detachments of the
military. They are shifting guards at
the different forts for the.sake of dis
oipline. In advance Is a little squad of
mounted officers. Following these come
three or four bands of chas-
seurs, and then there are seen six COM
panies, or parts of companies of the in
fantry. In three of these companies a
small proproportion are Arabs. One
whole company is composed of native
soldiers, even to the officers. And in
this trifiing exhibition of the soldiery one
can read the entire
MILITARY POLICY OF THE FRENCH
provincial administration here. Algiers
is one of France IS nineteen military "re-
gions. Each one of these ''regions"
is suppositiously occupied by an entire
army corps. But the Nineteenth corps,
that of Algiers. comprises between Co.
600 and 20, 900 available men. In many
French regiments each company holds a
few natives, as, during our own civil
war, Wisconsin and Minnesota troops had
q few Chippewa Indians among them
distributed through each company, or
occasionally comprising entire companies.
Some regiments have entire companies of
Arabs, including officers. But the three
regiments OF Tirailleurs indigenes, and
three regiments of Spahis, are the only
ones composed exclusively of native
troops. The former are called Turcos,
and are similarly organized TO the native
infantry in India, and thu latter are used
for outpost service, each man beng pro-
vided with a small piece of land for cul-
tivation. free of taxation. No
native soldier can rise above
the rank of captain and the en-
tire body of native volunteers is so dis
tributed, and so well treated, that dan
ger from uprising is almost wholly elm
mated. These fellows have q fine, man.
ly look, and their military bearing is
given added interest by their oval faces,
sparkling eyes, closely-cropped black
boards, and their light, and elastic step.
AS one sees these splendidly drilled and
disciplined men disappear down the Rue
de la Tyre. and notices the CLEANS of ex-