The Republican journal., 1901-08-15


physicians about your case. We make no
charge whatever for medical advice.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA,
functions are performed under the strict
surveillance of the French. All Arabs
are nomads to the backbone, living in
tents, which they change from place to
place as the surrounding pasturage is
consumed. This eternal moving on
is not without it's advantages for people
so filthy in their habits. Where men
and animals live together, the constant
pitching and striking of their tents in
new places tends to prevent disease,
and to scatter at least portion of the
vermin with which they are infested.
1t saves the soil, too, from utter ex-
haustion, the flocks and herds manur-
ing the ground as they are driven about.
Arabs are not fond of work, and like
our northern Indians, the men never
engage in industrial pursuits. They
call themselves agriculturists, the wo-
men performing the labor, after most
primitive methods. 1t is part of the
Arab religion that the profession Of
farming must be respected. The theft
Of plow is sacrilege, and the manu-
facture of one is pious work, like the
carving of crucifx, or the painting of
a sacred picture. The female Arab in
Tunis occupies the same degraded posi-
ton she fills in all Mohammedan coun-
tries; among the rich she is the slave of
her lords pleasure, sharing his caresses
with many other wives; and among the
poor she is the household drudge, the
manufacturer of everything required
in daily use, harder worked and more
scantily fed than even the wretched
donkeys, because the latter cost money.
The male Arab shaves his head, all ex-
cept tuft of hair at the back 1t does
not enhance his beauty but he expects
to be finally drawn into paradise by that
tuft, and therefore regards it as his
/ choicest possession. He keeps it always
covered with the haik, bound round
with cords of camel's hair, falling down
| the back and sides Of his head and
under his chin. He wears the white
burnouse, and occasionally colored
one over it. His legs are bare, but his
feet are thrust into heelless slippers, or
into boots of red leather. His food is
los onI hic
GUS wives and children subsist upon
what he leaves of this national dish.
Perhaps the coussous is the barbaric
ancestor of our oatmeal, cracked-wheat
and other popular breakfast foods, be-
ing merely 'semoline of hard wheat,
granulated by peculiar process, which
is one of the special accomplishments
of the women. 1t is placed in a per-
forated dish and cooked by the steam
ascending from another vessel below it
containing meats, vegetables and aro-
matte plants boiled together, which are
subsequently eaten with it. Often there
is no meat in the stew, but an extra
allowance of grease tomatoes and red
pepper; and really, it is not bad to take
if you can shut your eyes to the dirt
that must be in it, and liberal sprink-
ling of boiled tieas and other vermin,
which are but tritiing incidents in Arab
family life. Milk is drank at every
meal, preferably curdled, though in
case of necessity they can make out on
fresh milk, as other people occasionally
drink wine that is known to be too new
for perfection. Arab bread, as made in
the cities, in the shape of round cakes,
is excellent; but that found among the
wandering tribes - usually an unleav-
ened mixture of hard-crushed wheat
and corn, vetch and barley-is simply
vile.
Considerably higher up in the social
scale OF Tunisia, though not so numer-
Gus, are the Kabyles, or people of Ber-
Der origin, now mixed up with Latin
and German races. In almost every
Characteristic, they are the exact oppo-
sites of the Arabs. So far from being
of nomadic tendencies, they never
mount horse or mule, and rarely move
from the spot where they were born.
Industrious farmers, mechanics and ar
tisans, they cultivate the gardens that
supply the markets of Tunis, and man.
ufacture the finest jewelry, pottery,
leather goods, cloth and swords. They
are all Mohammedans, belonging to
the orthodox Muleki rite that is, they
have adopted the doctrine of the Imam
Malek as their interpreter of religious
civil law. Their most distinguishing
trait is intense patriotism, as strong to-
day as in the old times before French
occupation, when sort of Suicide Club
arose whenever their country was
threatened by foreign foe. The flower