The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

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 To Jerusalem Through the Lands of Islam. By Madame Hyacinthe Loyson. Madame Hyacinthe Loyson introoa lem with some recollections or tne great men who have urged her .o write. Horace Mann. Horace Greeiey' George Bancroft, Longfellow. All seen to have discovered in her taien' aS. aS giving to the world her tnousn the servations expressions thr1ueN D medium of the pen. tho
 Wat her book is far from being tne .onc,se- carefully wrought work oi tns nractfcal writer or Of the hanu, hv genius to expression in this 1orm.
 Reading her book Is conversins WEI, w A woman of culture, communins Mi.n :. . souI of consecration. It IS enooiins association with being of lofty and svnnetrical character, with one wno IS s,yyused with great loving kindness to ,Il humanity, with one who IS upheld py unfaltering principle. She draws many contrasts between customs or Mosisnl snd Christian, not always to the credit as the Christian. At her first entrance into a mosque she sees the worshfppers ciad some in rags, some in coffee-sacks T"costumes which would have excluded them from almost any Christian Church") and there were no nigher' lower, loft, back or front seats. ,,.
 were ing. nor whispering, nor wonderins eyes-for the first essential or MOS Jern's prayer Is absolute concentration of mind and will upon Him to whom all honor and worship is due"
 The worshippers. while reciting rom the Koran, for all know 1T nos .ne whole the gneater part of 1t by heart. hold the two hands before them as 1T reading from the holy book.
 Pere and Madame Hyacinthe hao axceptional privileges of studying the home life of Ham They were visitors in Ire house of sidi Ali-ben- Had1- Moussa. devout and most learned 1heih in all North Africa.
 They were honcred guests at The EavIe's Nest" the Moorish palace or AH-Cherif. Ali-Cherif had distinguish ed himself as a soldier during the Franco -Prussian war on the pattieneius of Alsace and Lorraine, thereby en- dearing himself greatly to all French people. He wore upon his Arab cos fume or military officer the cross of the Legion of Honor. Here Madame Loy- son made her first entrance into na- rem, This for foreigner Is almost i'm possible, ore must not only not ask 10 see the women of the household. but 1t is a breach of etidnette even to en- quire about their health.
 This pleasant experience was repeat ed for Madame Loyson at the home oi almost every high class Fastener at which she was a guest and her varied cxneriences trerein are to be related in n later volume from her pen: Harem Life.
 No incident of the life seen in jour- moving from city to city is lost to our writer's sympathetic eyes. There IS no atrl Ggle for Hfe,' she writes ot the poorer classes. as with us. only en- durance; and, safe in drought and fam inc, their wents are supplied, including length of days. Islam, 4neans resig- nation"
 Her sense of lStice is outraged by the cupidity of European travellers who get from the poor vendors of wild as- parsGus. or roughly made souvenirs their wares at even less than the nom- inal price asked
 At one station another Christian doubtless Pere Hvacinthe himself. "at- tempted to mako vicarious amends for his country woman's cupidity by buying up all tho asparagus which the young men offered and his wife by set ting up in business a very old Arab the establishment costing about one franc"
 The negro quarter of the city of Oron interested deeply these travellers. It was market day. but there was no ribaldry, quarreling nor drunkenness for there negroes were Mussulmen and used no wine nor intoxicating bever- ages.
 Can it be possible that the far East can solve the question that proves sore puzzle to the West? Segregated quarters and complete prohibition merely are potent factors in such a solving of the vexed problem.
 In the great city where our trav- elers stopped Pere Hyacinthe was in- vited to speak. These discourses were received with utmost attention. Often times his audience pursued him cry ing: You are saviour, remain with us!"
 Madame Loyson makes the .surpris- ing statement that the high class Arab resembles the best type of New Eng flanders. The high moral and religious qualities in state of far East and West may give resemblance, but is that indomitable energy which makes teh Anglo Saxon in America take the lead of earths foremost people to be found in Islam?
 Worship is natural in the East as breathing Madame Loyson describes journey on q moonlight night through the Atlas mountains. At stop of the train the engineer went silently to his devotions, the Arab stoker fell prone on his prayer rug. And the writer going a little apart, sent up this pray CT to the God of All:
 % Heavenly Father, hasten the day when light shall dispel the dark ness that enVelops this beautiful earth, and when men shall live together in sober and chaste as they expect wo- men to be; when women shall be hap py because they are virtuous, and when children shall be obedient to parents--then-then there will pass over these parallel lives other parallel