Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-10
many Enelishnen. and are often Deaa-

Tanoier. Further than that European is not permitted to go without Moor ish soldier as escort. Sometimes people
 te-y it. Awhile ago q Spaniard was mur- dered in this way. His government se- cured a money payment from the sul- tan, but the murderers were never pun ished. Piracy is still an occasional pleasantly of Moorish life. The Pros per Coqin. vessel engaged in the French-Spanish trade, was recently footed by Reefian pirates, and the for eign ministers went in a body, accom- panied by their dragomans, to demand restitution on behalf of France and Spain from AIohammed Fl Torres, the Shereefian minister of state. They will get it some day.
 These dragomans are splendid efea- lures in robes and turbines, looking as if they had just stepped out of the Ara bian Nights. They squat on their heels in the ministerial antechambers, run errands and are otherwise useful and ornamental. When 1 got past the par ticular Yusef who guards the door of the 14IlGN bUdtCS IG NNs A AettaA's4 AAI AIr Burke, eX-prineipal of the village school which I attended. After swap ping "reminiscences of deacon this and squire that, MT. Burke, who is a veteran diplomat, though not long in Tangier, talked lovingly of the eoun- 2fy.
 There is no telegraph here, except to the Spanish possessions in Ceuta and Melilla and to the country seats of the
 foreign ministers" said AIr. Burke. "The Nloors have no use for it. Some day or other I must go to Fez to pay my respects to the sultan. Just by way of joke l asked the minister of foreign affairs, whose establishment is here, what railroad 1 should take for Fez. He held up his hands in holy hor- TOT. There will never be q railroad in Morocco, he said.
 q asked if Morocco was a very popu- lous country.
 ..0h, yes" said the minister, it is by far the greatest and most populous country in the world
 .sAbout how many inhabitants do you count in your census?'
 ".Oh, there are so many we could never count them; but it's a great corn- try he replied And that, on unim- peaehable authority, is all l can teIlyou about Meroeeo's greatness, said 8IP. Burke.
 Our American representative at the court of his Shereefian majesty is at present boarding in Tangier. The Brit fsh, German, and French ministers live in great state in big houses with spa eious gardens on the outskirts of the town. Anyone can do this pretty cheap ly. No one pays taxes on house prop erty in Tangier The public needs are met by money squeezed from import and export duties of one sort or another. Two American ladies live absolutely alone on the southern verge of the town, in a beautiful house o4aeered entirely by MooFish servants. If one is lucky enough to be bidden. he can go there of an afternoon and have a real Yankee tea biscuit handed him by Moorish servitors with bare legs, robes stilt tAli UeliAo dG1E AdNlGS tAAl44lN " ibN-A feetly safe to live alone thus, right on the boundary between the dark conti- nent and the wickedest city. and have done so for long time.
 Such are the disappoirtments of life! The wicledest is not so very wicked after all. In spite of the slaves and ooncubines. the refugees and renega- does, the escaped Spanish jailbirta from Ceuta and the fierce Moors with their daggers ever ready for the insult CT of their faith, Tangier is a very safe and quiet place. It is so easy to live by cheating the tourists that it isn't worth while to steal from them. The Moors are proud and honest, handsome and courteous, impressing one as being just what they gentlemen of long pedigree and excellent blood. One never sees a drunken man in the nar- row, filthy street any more than he sees a street ear or wagon. Mo- hammedan prohibition does prohibit. The only satisfactorily drunken man l have seen in two weeks was the red faced British captain of the steamboat that ferried me over the strait from Gibraltar. Many of the Moors are scared and gashed from bloody en. counters on the caravan trail. but there is no fighting in Tangier, though every third man on the street goes armed with a long gun for use outside of the walls.
 The Moorish seclusion of women. though not so strict here as in Tetuan CT Fez, prevents any Haunting of social vice. As tough a cafe chantant as one often sees fourishes across the way in Gibraltar under benign British rule. 4 Moorish cafe is as decorous as a church Only men attend. whether as attend. ants, musicians or guests. They Dila their slippers in a great heap by the door and sit about, cross-legged. smol,. ing and drinking coffee, while the mu. sleians play the tombola and the guen- eeri and other queer instruments. and