The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
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breast of the baker is on level with the mouth of the oven. The dough is put in and the baked bread taken out on long wooden paddle. The baker not only i bakes but he also does roasting, and one can have a sheep cooked, pan of chest nuts popped or coffee Drowned, accord ing to order.
 These public bakers have their regu- lar customers, who pay them so much per month, and some of them work on tho same plan as our country m. - f@i-ag a toll out of each baking Int in. For instance. if a dozen loaves are cooked the baker gets one as his share. and IF smaller amount is sent in little loaf Is put in for the toll.
 Fuel is scarce In all the cities of north Africa and especially in such as Tri- poll, where the only wood nearby is that of the palm or the olive tree. A great part of the fuel used is charcoal, and this costs so much that it is cheaper to send ones roasts and loaves out to be cooked than to do them at home. The only stoves used are made of clay or of bricks, built up as ledge in the kitchen walls. There are no chmneys and the smoke gets out as it can.
 Speaking of the baker makes one think of the butcher and the candlestck maker. They are all to be found In Trlpoli. The chief light of the city comes from can dies and there is a regular business of making candles for the trade. They are usually sold by the pcrfumers.
 The butchers are even more interesting. I spent some time the other day in big meat market just inside the city walls. The chief meats sold mutton and camel flesh, each of which has it's own department and it's own butchers. The market is held out of doors, and the killing and selling are done on the same -1,, ert,ao o-iv, -I,a skinning them, while their customers waited for th> still smoking flesh, and be- side them their fellows were cutting up other carcaSSes and weighing them, pre- paratory to selling.
 The Tripolf mutton is fine. It is tender and fat and the carcasses have great flaps of fat at the tails. The Barbary sheep have tails which are made of noth- ing but fat; they hang down like great aprons over their rumps, single tail sometimes weighing fifteen pounds.
 Many of the sheep sold in the market are decorated with gold paper to catch the eyes of customers, and some are sprinkled with white and black seeds. | asked the price at which mutton was sell , ing, and was told that good cuts brought | 10 cents and upward per pound little farther on was the camel mar ket. Here the meat was also decorated with gilt paper, but as 1t came from old and broken down camels it was tough and jaw breaking and brought much less than the mutton.
 Leaving the meat market, I visited a place where men were selling perfumery in little bottles above as big around as one's thumb. They sat the ground with their tables before them and weigh ed out the scents at so much per ounce A little farther on I saw several Arabs 1 peddllng secondhand weapons Most of the guns were of the old hntrock variety, and some were beautifully inaid with | gold. silver and ivory. I find the flint l lock gun still in common use here and | also the Hints. In some of the Tripoi | shops boxes of flints are exposed for sale side by side with cast bullets and cast ] shot