The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-06

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 have convulsed the empire. Certainly it is the most interesting place to stran- gers. Bales of strange merchandise
 are being moved, camels are unloaded
 and donkeys loaded, green -turbaned
 merchants make rounds of inspection. ] men on horseback, in voluminous white l robes, with yellow slippers dangling | straight down on each side of the clum- sy saddle, pick their way hlther and ] thither through the crowd. Here and l there are water-sellers, carrying upon | their backs great leaky skins habbily bulging with water and ringing small bells to attract attention. Shoemakers , squat cross-legged, sewing and ham
 mering upon slippers and sandals only. Barbers ply their trade in the open air, 1 growing rich on market-dayS upon l country custom" Their office is of | double nature, for, as in the old days, they bleed as well as shave. They use ! no father, only water; and the customer
 sits on the ground, in front, while with
 razor, more or less keen, the barber re- | moves his hair, the head, oftener than | the beard, being shorn. In bleeding | they make an incision at the base of the
 skull, cutting to the bone. Bread-sell- I CTS crouch against walls and doorWays, | indifferent, as are their customers, to the trif1ing facts of dust and f1eas. l Funeral processions pass on the rum 1 for the dead Moslem thus arrives at paradise more quickly Snake charm | CTS, with hdeous oobras- de capellos
 around about their filthy bodies saunter | through the throng, nobody paying any attention to the reptiles which Wriggle about alarmingly and dart out vicious 1 tongues. Necromancers, who generally eat fire, are common in these streets as patent medicine falklrs at home. Half grown negroes from the Soudan are at tired in nothing but scant breech clouts of untanned hide, in marked contrast
 to the stetely Moors and Arabs in flow ing draperies. Perhaps the oldest of all the motley throng are the negress slaves who were born in the jungles be-
 low Sahara. They are indescribably
 ugly with short puffy bodies, tremen-
 dous heads anr huge necks, lips like
 eboni2ed conch- shells and nostrils back
 almost in a line with the facial angle
 They wear hails of blue and white
 check, which intensity the lustre of
 their coal-blacls skins. Some of them
 are yelled, with an air of monumental
 skittisness; but besides the haik, little
 can be said of the rest of their cos-
 tunes. Some wear mems cast-off
 trousers, others cavalry boots, or any,
 thing else they can lay hands orr; but
 as rule, they are bare from the knees
 down, exhibiting huge splay feet like
 the claws of some unclean beast Hun
 dreds of these slaves may always be seen in the market place, either as help CTS, or on errands for their masters, or buying the fowls to be beheaded In the revolting "Negress sacrifices" It is with difficulty that they are kept with in the bounds of even African ideas of decency. When not singing wild songs of the Jungles, they are generally fight ing one another. often literally making the wool fly In their jealous rages.
 Moorish soldiers scurrY by-bare- footed bare-iegged poverty-stricken and hungry, but always tn the rush, and commanding respect by reason of their long guns. Genuine Bedouins of the desert, on skinny steeds magnif- gently caparisoned. dash recklessly | through the thickest of the throng, un- LII Ol WuOIu lHGy Uidy IidHpiS. Khabyles with leather aprons and | shaven heads, present aistudy of Afri- | can hill-men. They are the artisans of | the country and are always accom- panied by their hardy wives, who work at everything beside their husbands. f Khabyle women wear but single gar ment-a straight scant chemise reach ing to the bare feet, girded at the waist | with brightly-colred sash. Tall DOW erfully built-Reefans, wtfh brutal, for bidding faces, stand in silent groups, al- ways by themselves, regarding the world with proud, fearless eyes. They are the mountaineers of Morocco, as we'll as the pirates whose day" is not altogether past. Like mountaineers the world over the race has proved uncon- querorable and for thousand years those that hold the rocky fastnesses of the cost have defied successive Sultans. No contrast can be more striking than that between their aspect and the timid manner of the per secuted Jews, and the dreamy. passive. indifferent air of the Moors, who are induring the ills of this life while waiting for the better life as All ah's paradise. Above everything else n the market place you are constantly ware of the ill-smeling, mangy, moth eaten camels, evidently poorly fed and badly treated. but all, even when at est, wearing the bright hued, curious y-woven trappings to which their driv- ITS attach the loads. Some of them are , standing some kneeling, others lying Town with legs stretched out in every ,ody's way; but all are chewing their ,uds with funny, sideway motion of he jaws. and wear expression of unut- erable weariness and misery on their faces.
 FANNIE E. WARD.