The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-11-21

| carries or perfumer's street, its butch
er's street, shoemakers street and so
forth. The grouping of the people of
the same calling in one street reno
ers advertisements unnecessary al
every one knows where to find the
shop he wants.
Newspapers in the Arabic language
are not printed in Palestine. All
Arabic papers are published in Syria
or in Egypt, and even these are not
much read by inhabitants of Palestine
towns because the common people are
mostly illiterate The upper ten Eff
fendieh generally read and write. They
are the rich land owners and to-
gether, with the Turkish officials form
the most influential class in municipal
government matters. They address
each other with the complimentary
title "Thy Highress'', or 'Thy Ex-
cellency".
Turning to traders and artisans we
find that the most indispensable is
the grocer. who sells all kinds of dried
fruits and olive and sesame Oil. Al
most all buying and selling is done in
the streets, as the shops are too small
to admit more than one person, viz,
the owner, who thus overlooks his
goods which are in huge baskets be-
fore him, so that his customers are
served outside without his stepping
out of his shop. Here and there you
can see a little improvement under
European influence The Moham-
medap quarters have remained very
much as they were in ancient times.
The perfumers street smells of Or
iental spices a good way off. All
kinds of spices are sold in it and the
shops are even more tiny than those
of the grOcers; often the shopkeepers
can barely turn round in them. The
perfumer can reach almost any of his
articles without getting up from his
seat. If business taking any length
of time is on hand low stool is plac-
Ell in the street and the coffee house
keeper around the corner receives a
hint, hurries along with coffee pot
ard some tiny cups in his hands and
offers the Introductory cup, without
which no serious business is under
taken. When this has been partaken
of, mostly on the shopkeeper's account
DlSlHeSS is pIOCccucu Will. TIC oIOp
keepers pull down a net work cur
tain over the entrance of their shops
when on an errand or at prayers; no.
body ever approaches them then and
thefts are practically unknown.
The coffee shop is generally at the
corner of some important street and
is the meeting place of all strangers.
Here everybody, whether friend or foe
sequence of this usefulness of their
is expected to be found, and as d con-
establishments, they are not all con-
fined to one place, but are spread over
the whole town, and are to be found
especially near the gates.
The establishment of the barber is
sometimes combined with the coffee
shop, as most people meet there, and
not only desire to be shaved but find
in the barber medicine man who has
leeches, or who bleeds them by cutting
the ears with his sharp razors. The
Muslims, both of town and country,
shave the hair of the head as well as
the sides of the beard-that is, below
the chin and on the neck
The green-grocer and the butcher
are the noisiest tradesmen in the
towns. This is evidently in conse-
quence of their intercourse with the
Fellahin, who bring in the vegetables
and who quarrel about the prices
The dogs of the slaughter house, with
which the butchre has to contend, and
the animals which he Stays, augment
the noise. The green-grOcer has to
rise very early in the morning and
waylay the vegetable growing farmers
on their way to the market, often
miles before they reach the town.
Especially is this the case at Jerusa-
lem. Jaffa grows its vegetables close