Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-02

AMERICAN MACHINERY.
The Morocco Of today offers but few
opportunities for the sale of American
machinery. AS to farm Implements. the
people are too poor to buy anything
that costs much. The country Is divid.
ed up into an infinite number of small
holdings, and all outside the officials
and chiefs and merchants live from
hand to mouth The tax gatherers also
attempt to collect one-tenth of all crops
Labor here is backward MS In the days
OF the Middle Ages. All over Morocco
logs are sawed into boards by hand, ana
thrashing Is done upon well-nounded
floors with falls or by treadins inc
grain out with horses, cattle or mules.
IL would be impossible to carry
thrashlng machine through the country
for the lack of roads, and In many To-
caIities II would be difficult to supply
tho fuel to run It.
Saddles and harness, such as we have
are In no demand, and the hardware
used Ia OF the cheapest homemade
variety, There are some sewing ma
chimes In use, but the favorlte ones are
those run by hand. There is some sale
for mirrors, darnlng needles and sew
ing needles. These, as well az nails and
wire are now sent in by the Germans
Much of the Moroccan earthenware- II
homemade. Some china Is imported
and also many of the drinking glasses
In which tea Is served.
MINT JULEPs MADE OF TEA.
Most of the other Mohammedan ma
lions drink coffee These people drink
tea, and are especially fond of 1t when
Favored with mint. The way to make
1t, ! am told, is to put good LOT of
sugar into the teapot and q spoonful or
so OF green tea, together with some
mint leaves. Now pour on boiling wa
tor and let the stuff steep. II YOU maks
IL right you viii have a drink for the
gods, and at the same time free from
the intoxicating properties of the mint
Julep of the Kentucky colonel. Such
liquor Ii furnished In tumblers at tea
houses all over this country and the
Moors drink it boiling hot sitting cross
legged on the ground as they do so
The most OF the tea used comes from
England, London alone sending as
many as 10000 chests in one year. In
1904 Morocco bought of England more
than 900 worth of tea, and iv
sugar purchases then amounted TO corr
siderably over $4,000 900 in value. These
people ere fond of sweets. and their
consumption OF sugar is so great that
it has almost ruined their teeth. This
any one can see whenever Moor opens
his mouth.
BEDS, TABLES. STOOLS AND CAN
DLEST1CKS.
1t will be long time before the or
binary Moroccan will want American
furniture, The poorer classes sleep
on the floor, and they are so hardy
that man will wrap himself In his
gown and lie down anywhere for IA
snooze. There are men sleeping on the
stones out in the streets here every
night, and that by the hundreds Many
houses are guarded IN this way
Spring beds are unknown TO such
! people, and they seldom have chairs.
When they sit they do not hang their
legs down, but double them up under
them or lean back against the wall
with their long boards resting on their
knees. II they use a bench or divan
II is to sit cross-legged upon Il. The
tables are rude, and are often simply
low round brass pans upon legs. Some
such are beautifully carved. Candies
are In demand, and the British are now
sending almost quarter of million
dollars worth of them here every year.
The American drummer who comes to
Morocco must expect TO carry on his
business largely through the Jews.
They are by far the best business men
of the country. and they have the bulk
OF the wholesale and retail trade. There
are Moorish bazars, 1t Is true, In all
OF the cities, and there are Moorish
commercial houses with large capital In
Fee, but the Jews are everywhere, and