Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
lived in Tangiers for twenty years. and,
by reason Of his ;nng residence there
proved to be valuable man."

nVed I'D IanBlerS for tWenty yeass,sAl'u'
by reason Of his inng residence there
proved to be valuable man."
ssWhat do the women look ike?"
"Well, all that Isaw were old hags,
working about the town, carrying
loadslon their heads or backs. These
old women divide the honors of being
beasts of burden with the donkeys and
camels. They do nearly all of the
work and the men stand around and
boss the Job. Unlike the young
ome IN, they wear nothing on their
faces but mass of wrinkles, caused
by old age and hard work. The young
women, when they go out on the
streets wear masks on their faces so
that you can only see their eyes. They
only go on the streets when obliged
to, and at other times are kept in the
house and not allowed to see any one
or be seen by any one.
"A native of the country can have
as many wives as he Gun get. The
pasha of Tangier has twenty-five wives
and can get twenty score if he wants
them. If one of his subjects has
what is thought to be handsome
daughter, he takes her to the pasha
and offers her to him for wife. II
the pasha likes her he keeps her, and
if he does not like her he returns the
girl to her father as soon as he be-
comes satisfied that he does not want
her. It is considered mark of dis
tinction in society there for woman,
although rejected, to have been on in
mate of the pasha's household. The
object of the father in rendering his
daughter to pasha as wife Is for
the purpose of winning favor with him
so as to be rewarded in some way
later on"
care there any police or soldiers to
do patrol duty?"
tOnly few of them that 1 saw.
Here and there you would come across
one. They looked to me more like
brigands than keepers of the peace.
zone of the funniest sights that I
saw there was the Morocco barber
shop. This outfit consists of man
and his razor, the shop being any
where in the street that the barber
happens to meet a customer. In Mo-
rocco they shave mans head and not
his face. The barber stands up while
the customer stoops over and holds
his head in position while the artist
mows the hair off with q razor that
looks moro like q cheese knife than
anything else. The barber uses his
arm for razor strop, and it is anus
ing to see him suspend operations for
q moment or two to whet the edge OF
his razor on his arm.
GAS these people never shave their
faces, I suppose they chop off section
of their beard when it gets too long to
suit them.
"Another interesting thing that I
saw was q family of apes, living about
five miles out of Tapgiers. Our inter-
prefer and myself rode out on horse
back to see them. There was the old
man ape and the old woman ape and
dozen or SO young apes. The old man
was walking about his abode, which
was made of logs, with an immense
club in one hand and rock i'll the
other. They were real apes. There
was no mistake about that. AS neither
of us happened to be proficient in the
ape language, our investigations were
confined to observations only. I was
told that this mammoth specie of the
monkey tribe was harmless if left
alone, but would fight to o finish if
molested, and this being 30, we left
the old man and his family undisturb-
ed in their county home.
.'There is one thing I saw there
that I wanted to bring home with me,
and that was the little donkey that
brought our luggage down to the
wharf. While he was the regulation
size, he was not much larger than q
pointer dog, but he was all donkey,
and don't You forget it. Hunter had
q trunk. had two valises, and Rodgers
had two also. Now, she owner of
that donkey in some way placed all OF
this luggage on the back of that spun
ky little creature and under this i'm
meuse load he walked from the hotel
to the boat. I'fell in love with the
little fellow, and would have bought
him and brought him to Atlanta, had
1 felt satisfied that the freight on him
would not bankrupt me. I knew 1
could stand the freight on his body
and legs. but when I sized up his ears
I trembled when I thought of the
amount of excess baggage that would
have to be paid on them. The ears
were really immense. When I think
of that donkey, I feel as if I left a
friend behind me in that distant coun-
try to hustle for bare living during
the remainder of his life. Steve
PosTELI in Macon Telegraph.