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

and thought with the sharp distinctions
of varying civilizations, as well as condi-
tions, of all men. l had not stood con-
templating the throng five mmntes when
an
AMERICAN TRAMP PRINTER
edged up beside me and "nicked the
! Office" for aud lang syne, to which, 1
pledge you, my heart made me respond
| with more than ordinary liberality. Near
him, against the wall, lounged a Malay
| sailor. In front OF him stood a French
| priest. To nv left loitered clean bloused
| Chinaman, just landed, and gazing with
his sad, soiled eyes as if for an available
| laundry stand. While within a radius of
| ten feet square were grouped three Turk
! ish merchants in earnest conversation,
! two Russian travellers, like myself inter-
ested as onloOkers, a Kabyle man and
| woman with big, scared eyes, as though
! they were lost, church of England
! curate with a pale, cOnsumptive face,
| two American sailors, dirty and drunken,
| seeming only Algerian possibilities Of
| vice, and more power to the little ruut
| for his explOrative proves, tiny hump
| back, sallow and shaven, wearing a stiff
| cap with the we'll known red band of the
| Salvation army, who deferentially
! handed us all a pulp paper "dodger'
! on which was badly printed in English,
| French and Arabic, "Salvation is
free! Fly from the wrath to come!'
upon the reading of which the two
American sailors started alertly toward
the harbor as if absent from their vessel
without leave and fearful of apprehen-
sion and punishment.
But let US watch these strange and va
ried tides of human travel setting past US
in all directions. This group comprises
| half dozen Mozabites. They are Syrians
by descent, and are believed to be ideut-
ical in race with the Scriptural Moabites.
| They are the fiercest money makers of
AIgiers, and are butchers, grocers, ba-
kers-auything for riches. Their greed
! is prompted by a curious ambition. That
| is to gain independence and return TO
their homes at Hammada Chebka, lit
tie oasis surrounded by lofty rocks in the
most arid and burning portion of Central
! Sahara. In this little blistering beehive,
| containing about twenty square miles,
are countless cultivated gardens and FIVE
| Dopulous cities; and to sometimes come
back here and idle and dream,
the Mozabite will work and
starve half a lifetime. You can
not mistake him in Algiers. He is darker
| than the Arab; not so black as the negro;
his skin has the appearance of continuous
oilng; he wears a white turban, but is
| chiefly distinguished in dress because of
invariably wearing sort of sleeveless
tunIo, called the gandoura, which falls
| straight to the knees, like the blue
denims tunic when was country boy,
nearly forty years ago. The stripes and
| marvellous. His wife wears the adjar or
veil, like the Arab woman, but her haik
SHAWL or wrap which covers her head
falling nearly to her feet, is of blue and
| white checked stuff, similar to that worn
by negresses in Algiers. These MoZa-
bites have with them bevy of KabyIes
who are in from the farther Atlas range
of mountains with animals for the CHAM
bles. They are butchers; are on their
way to the abbatoir, at HANNA, along
the shore to the south of the city; and
are volublv
DEPRESSING PRICES
in excited gatherings. Staggering at
their heels are dozen or more navies
from the grim old German man-of-war
in the harbor. They have sat all night,
drinking and singing. and nothing worse
(all honor to the German man FOR IT'D
in the cafe de Bordeaux, just across the
Place there. They have fair skins, curl
ing boards, clean, honest faces, these
gay fellows, and though little gosY
from the wine and the choruses, pass
along oivilly. keeping as good step as