The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

hypnotism. They do not attempt thesN l dangerous exercisen until they have wrought themselves up to the highest pitch of exaltation by q series of wild gyrations and much frantic beating og drums.
 And many of these dancing devIshss. who whiri around uiks top for a Qhartsr of an hour and then swallow snakes and thrust swords through their bodies. are white-bearded old men of % years or more. Some arc even cenSenarians. Ons would think that such fierce excitement would be fatal to them. and. indeed, their faces oftentimes take on the ghastly pallor of death during their performs ance. But soon after it Is over they are all right again.
 Their fantastic emotions are very catching" An English resident in tha City of Tunie once induced q number of them to perform at a garden party which he gave. Many of the guests. Euro- peans and Americans confessed to az strange impulse to join in the various exercises of the Aissawa, as fl they had caught something of the religious infec- tion. "one of the native servants was so far carried away" said a man who was present, that he suddenly fancied himself to be e camel and retired to q remote part of the garden to eat cactus leaves"
 CoIm anu O1&u4ueu.
 But most of these graybeards of Bar barry are very different from the juggling fanatics of the Aissawa. They arc dis tinguished by a calm, courteous dignity which it seems impossible to ruffle1fhs dignity that naturally springs from the eataIism of Islam. In the streets 0f AIgiers, Fez of Tunis you have only t0 stand for a moment to watch an old Bedouin crossing the street in order to ETa f4a r tr4N who in America would have to be care- fully helped across by the policeman. bus in a Moselem city he never seems to take the faintest notice of traffic until he ab- soiutely obliged to do so. He will not step aside for horses and carts until they are on the point of running him down and then only with utter unconcern.
 It is the same even in business, as any one may see by a walk through the ha- zaars.
 "The venerable merchant will ait and smoke in the recesses of his shop said Herbert Vivian, an English traveller who knows the people of Tunis we'll, "satis- fled that customers will come to him ie so be that fate shall decree it. When they do come, he requires much pressing to induce him to take the trouble to dis play his wares. though you may be sure he will drive a hard bargain before part- ing with any of them. He appears to be refecting all the while that he would be far better pleased if the world could only be induced to leave him alone"
 Where Women Work.
 Tn the country districts the centena- rians are even more in evidence than in the cities. and many of them are of the softer sex. Some of the Berber tribes yoke their women to the blow with tho OK and the ass. and the blood of tho foreign traveller boiis at the sight of aged grandmothers and great-grandmoth~ CTS being treated in this manner. But they trudge along the furrow cheerfuily enough. The work is not really so hard as it appears. and they do not realize the degradation, because they have never been used to anything else.
 A Berber chieftain who was renl0nS strated with for putting his own aunt woman of over 90, to work in the neldss replied calmly:
 Women are bestowed by Allah for pleasure and profit. When they grow too old and ill-favored to give pleasure va turn them to profit"
 This is the prevailing sentiment throughout North Africa, except with some of the Bedouin and Kahyie tribes. among whom there Is Q more chfvnlFous feeling toward women.
 Many of the '.marabouts." or holy men who are to be found at the sacred shxiuea and tombs which arc scattered 60 thiekly all over the Barbary states. live Co in4 credible ages. There is one ak Marakenf who is aald ts be over 90 Yeaza clA