Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-18

MANY TRYING vIclssITuDEs OF FORTUNE.
| was soon swinging light heartedly
along In grateful shade, among the or
oharis and gardens and tinkling WATER
courses that skirted the town, very Eden
after the desert had passed through. The
people flocked about me us | went, some
eying me with darlsening brows, some re-
garding me with ample amazement, Others
OF a deeper curiosity turning in their walk
to follow me, and could hear them de
batting what kind Of outlandish barbarian
this could be who had unaecountably found
his way among them.
I felt very much like monster on eNhibi.
ton for the entertainment of the vulgar and
the idle Yet, remembering the necessity Of
prudence l was at great pains TO be civil.
Salaaming and saluttng necessarily, | in
voked pesce and the best blessings NJ heay-
en- on all and sundry, but the marhabas, or
welcomes, were disappointlngly few. Had
! known the full Significance of an Arabs
failure to return salutation, | should
probably have made more haste to get out
OF the town than was now making TO get
into IT, But ignorance is wondrous pre-
server Of mems spirits.
Judging il best to refrain from asking
questions, pursued my way at a venture
through squnlid alleys that writhed and
twisted like endless snakes turning upon
Themselves in eternal windings and cir
oliugs, with the sole object, AS IL seemed, OF
bcvildering and dstracting, They led any
where and everywhere, but lodged deiln-
ito conclusion, and were thus no inapt en-
blem Of the tOrtuous AsHtic mind. The
scent' were puugent and OF the kinds that
make ono fain TO hold ones nose Ii these
were the "Sabesn odors from the spicy
shores OF Arahy the blest,h then let Il be
put ON record that, in spite of the mighty
authority OF Milton, Sabean odors are a
great deal pleasanter in Imagination than
in reality,
Packs Of lean, hungry dogs, too, kept
smiling ut my heels in Il way that was sore
" yexing There are VIGOROUSLY III con-
ditoneh dogs In Turkey and Greece. Con;
stSntinoplu swarms with them. They are
worse than the brgauds in che mountains
OF Attlca. But OF all the despcable, de
generate ours in existence the starving
hounds that prowl about Arabian towns
are tho bassst aud most degraded With,
out owners, greedy partalers OF all TINT is
vile and forbidden, "the hlthiest beasts
that banquet upon DIAL, despised and NAL.
treated, mursuders by inheritance aud by
necessity, they have long lost every Yestige
Of canine morality.
In contemplating an assault they do not
bark at you nor show their teeth Such
honesty might put you ON Your guurd.
They side up 10 you with the avcrted lool,
OF inuurahle dupravity, pretending TO take
no notice Of yuu, yet all the while carefully
selecting the juiciest part Of your leg Even
when they have selected their point OF at
tack they viii not dy at il, but wait pa
tiently for their opportunity. When it
comes, pltstol their inngs are In your calf
and they are oil with tho mouthlul before
/ you have tins to turn. ihese hrutes kept
me continually With one eye over my shout
der md the other down by my side, for
WAS ever afraid Of thotooth o. adog. Some
times tie people made preteuse Of re
monstrating with them, but think thpT,
would have been less sorrow than gladnesi
had been worried to the hons,
The squat, boyliko shops aud bazar,
were Uttered with miscellany Of goodi
exceedingly strange 10 European eyes
vatlesatcd cloth, rod and yellow slipper,
saffron, sandal wood, glass hesds. mirrors
swords, nles. rgxors, ropes, bells, saddles
butter aud various namcioss kinds " Of
aud grosae used for amounting the head ant
body, waterSkins, conecpots, hrlzeu pan
and kettles and many other stuifs an,
trumpery were strUwn about in hopeless
confusion. standing lay the door OF sis
ting cross legged on palnleaf mats IN Ia
midst Of thor wares, waiting with heav.
eye and languid mlcn for the customer
who never appeared to come, were the mes
chants One aud all they stared hSnl q
me, and most OF them came into the stree
70 look after mo with muttered guessing
and oomments have no doubt theru wer
uuttefed curses an well
10 my surprise the orchards and garden
ran almost continuously into the center 9
the town, and uhn would was apparpG,t.
free 10 eaieg., In VARSITY and ushpess tbs