The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04

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Among the Oriental T@tsor~. shoe
I makers and sxddlcrs-f'~rfuus-~s
( Worth Their Weight in Cotd-ffo~
/ French Iunis Grows-Ts New Ca
Fr:n, Where tho Audience Cam
hlcs Bet,vc~u fhe AcTs--A TsseatcT
Of Old C1r1n-c Eu-avatsxf and
Psiocnictan PLAYS 20 Bc Performed
There.
Take q scat upon one OF the magic
carpets OF the Arabian Nights and
= fly across the Atlantic ocean and over
the Mediterranean 10 the shores OF
North Africa Direct your reau to
set you down beside me on the top
/! OF the kaebah. IN THE saow-v bite
city Of Tunts. and let ~ travel to-
getner through this. one OF the old e~f
populations OF the oriental world he
fore we start cast your eyes over the
vast expanse or buildings. below you
We are high above the city and IL
stretches about on all sides look
Ing like great blocks OF tco. with here
ana there the white dome OF q mara
bout or Mohamm edan saint, and the
square marble faced towers OF q mos
dish-brown aectioa OF buildings. iy-
Ing beyond on the edge of the water.
is the ntev French quarter. and that
VIDE, glossy avenue. runnnpg across
Lake Tuuis. is the canal which has
been recently built up to the town.
There are blue mountains on our
right with white rnuildin4s upon them
and away Off at the Icft oyer the
| lake we SEQ the snowy house~ or Sidi
Bou Said and the white cathedral
which marks the site where old Car
! thage once stood That was
IT iE1lty city more than twenty-five
centuries ago. but this town. above
which we are Standing, WIS founded
even before CarthaSe. and II throve
until 1t was supplanted by It's Phoeui-
clan rival
Cosmopolitan Tr,n!s
The Tunis OF today Is rapidly grow
Ing. and IL IS now ore OF the most
cosmopolitan towns OF the world
1t contains with its suburbs. in the
neighborhood of three hundred thou
| sand souls. It hes something like
| fifty thousand italians: IL has fifty
thousand Jews far different in cos
1 tune and appearance from the Israel
! ties of our country: and also thous-
ands of Maltese. SiciIians and Snan-
iards- Its French are somewhat
fewer than the Italians. but they in
| clude a large garrison of soldiers
dressed In gay uniforms who form
striking figures wherever they go.
The most important part OF the
Tunisian population. is the Moharn-
medan element This numbers at
least one hundred thousand. and It's
members form the chief inha bftanta
| Of old Tunis. the great snowy town
under our feet. They are orientais
| OF the orientals. and they i've in q
| world OF their own They do not
| like Christians aud tolerate US only
| because they must. Their town In
| shut off from the rest OF the city
! by an enormous wall, and the French
rule is such that they are allowed to
have their own customs aud do about
as they please. One dare not enter
any one OF the hundred old mosques
where they go daily for prayers. he
must not visit their schools. and he
who would attempt to go into ore OF
their houses without permission might
be killed. and l doubt IL the French
would object
have visited most OF the great
cities OF the oriental world, I have
Travelled through India, Turkey and
Egypt. and | have yet TO find a sec-
tion so strictly eastern as the streets
of old Tun.s They are narrow and
winding In some OF them you can
touch the walls on both sidcq. and
others are so narrow that the fat
Tunisian Jewesscs have to suck in
their breath In order to pass The
white houses which wall these streets
are ainogt without windows and the
few windows which exist are SO hiyh
UP above the street that a field glass
would not enable one 20 look IN. They