The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19
LIFE IN DARKEST SYRIA.
Manners and Customs In the Benighted Country Now Sc
Prominently Before the Eyes Of the World.


Prominently Before the Eyes Of the World.
Tribune
One would been less surprised to that vice
consul had been attacked in the cities
Turkey than receive the that
Beirut W. c. Magessen, the object of attempt
at assassnaton The news came from an ,1nexnecte
ter Those recall the uprising neghborhood Of
Beirut little the
political conditions exist there as in other parts of the
Turkish empire unjust methods levying
collecting the soldiers left unpaid the
extent presence
much there the other side Bosporus.
fear of the Turkish soldiers sol affect the size
doorways. soldier could enter many
the Syrian while only
four feet high The syrians wish the
sutan's soldiers quartered in their like
have taken to show this spirit
It is interesting just look at some
institutions Syria change slowly
of China The generally
put mortar, of
look if they would jar. They
have log roofs hardly high enough permit standing erect
single only members
family but the living household
cattle goats donkeys and sheep The people
fear sleeping with apart
ment.
certain traveller who passing thru SYRIA
sleeping Nusairy among the CATTLE
it stormy and there other available
stop In the of the night what
seemed to him in his pressing
weight upon his impression
that the which night
before had caused him nightmare.
he opened startled find a
nightmare but might calf calf had its forefeet
his breast and was looking down into his face.
missionary tells sleeping village
going to HUNS and having troublesome
night the animals. raining,
leave He brought her into the
house and tied her to the foot of his
biting viciously only
sleep. Once he awakened by the breaking
ter jar from which she trying to drink. Then
cows horn became entanged in the legs while
the owner searching for something among
provisions The cows movements being stopped, the
quiet again. Suddenly the corner Of
out, animal takul fershette"
(The mare eating bed from under meo
mare had broken loose and exploring for fodder in
pallet children
sleeping
Sometimes the seepers awakened by strange noises
on the roof. In villages built slopes
street path be level with tops
houses below The passing
the beaten way excursions roofs The
seepers below may be awakened by fights and other
ertanments the boards this exteporized
falling dirt and insects add the resulting
these little side trips of the CATTLE ~
The level tops of the houses
nades in the cool of the evening but
fruit Naturally Syria,
houses of different character
dark novels in selecting places The supersons
of the Mosems interfere to extent securing
estate The Moslem believes that building
followed by death in the family of him
his property They altogether selling
houses however, if the right procedure
1855 missionary relates great diculty was
had in obtaining much building Tripo a
church building found and leased
enty both reality
SALE both recognized gave possessor
OF piece OF property for thirty the right ownership
The transaction signed sealed in the Belgian
suate without regard to the Moslem only
under that law who could legally the
the city judge kadi This official
seal within the days required
the buyer to produce four witnesses that
him seal it.
Kesrawan, district Lebanon, near Beirut
the Arab have
days when girl is born If shoe, dog,
donkey, pig he exclamation
Aelak Alahmay God elevate you' as if he would apollo
gze for speaking Of anything praying
that the hearer might contamination
with vile subject One of long list
bear anything but mention of his
in Syria; there is girl
is born AS she she discovers that brothers
are taught to look down her, and when she
maturity the toll of beast of
the burdens and grind the grain in their
Sometimes they yoked with
the pow All the water in Syrian villages is brought
from the springs in earthen borne
heads. If the sheep with those tails
weigh ten fifteen hung up the shops
as hang suet to be fattened for is
they who stuff them with the fattening food.
But mother is mother the over, she can
look down into the face of her child it Hes
with the hopes that other mothers
the males superiority here, has become