The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-09-22
WHOLE NO. 7OS

his speciality being study of the blood.
He gave lecture on the blood corpuscles,
illustrated by black board drawings and
microscopic slides, for the benefit of the
patients.
j. E| Budget Meakin. who has won con-
siderable celebrity by his long residence
and travels in the Barbary States and his
lectures and articles concerning these inter-
esting peoples, has just been making short
stay at the sanitarium, during which he
delivered three exceedingly interesting
lectures. He is an English gentleman who
went to Morocco about ten years ago, and
is the late editor and proprietor of the Times
of Morocco He travelled and lived as a
native and acquired such fluent use of the
language that he has been repeatedly taken
for Moor and has thus gained access to
certain of their sacred temples where it
would be death for Christian to be discov-
cred. Mr.. Meakin delivered his last lecture
in full Moorish costume-loose flowing
robes, turban and slippers. He is a very
ready off-hand speaker, witty and great
mimic. He is thus able to make his
audience see and hear so vividly that they
can almost fancy themselves abroad. He
has rich, melodious voice, and he gave
speciman of the chants used in the mosques,
the five-times-a-day call to prayer, funeral
chants, numerous street cries, etc.
The story taIIar tho cnoIya oborr,or o,l
street vendors were portrayed in turn. The
story teller has learned the ''tO be con-
tinued" trick of the modern serial, and after
he gets his auditors much interested, he
stops at the most exciting point and passes
around his tambourine to take up collec-
tiOn. If he does not get what he thinks he
ought to have the first time, he begins again,
and again breaks off at the exciting point
and by the patron saint of the story teller,
he appeals for more aims. When he has
succeeded in getting what he thinks he
ought to have, he finishes his tale to the
accompaniment of his tambourine.
The water carrier goes about with goat
skin full of water and sometimes one will
hear the familiar cry, "Come, ye. buy
water without money and without price!"
This means that some alm-giyingEpilgrim
has bought the whole stock and order ed its
distribution. Two cents will suffice. The
ordinary wage laborer earns about twenty
cents day.
Coming into town like Tangier the Euro
pean traveller can we'll imagine himself
back three thousand years in the history of
the world. In the country, the people live
in tents in true patriarchal fashion, and in
the town, the houses appear like so many
cubes of white chalk scattered about at
random without regard to streets or to one
another. At present, the few European
families have houses with windows in them.
There are no roads, sidewalks or wheeled
vehicles. We go about on mules and dom
keys, following a bride path or founder
ing across fields, and fording or swimming
streams. The inconvenience of travel is
what makes prilgrimages such momentous
undertakings for the devout Mohammedans.
One of the neatest touches in Mr.. Meakin's
lecture was his showing the audience how
to eat gracefully where the people do not
use chairs, tables, knives, forks or spoons.
He says eating with the fingers is really
quite elegant, if you only know how. lie
spoke very earnestly of the missionary
work which is being done in these countries
and of our responsibility as churches and
Individual christians to forward the gospel