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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
Mr.. DooLEY ON MUSIC


known a man with a large family w
girls who was employed to edit pnoo-
matte hammer on sllyscraper pause
with a look iv anguish on his face an
curse as a lady in tn house mkt dure
begun tn five finger exercise.
ME neighbor gives me concert
ivry mornin. She was just through
whin We come in. TIL music teacher
arrived at ten o'clock an at ten five
Misther McGraw boorded an eastbound
car in tn direction iv tn lake. had
to stay. Things that will dhriye man
firm home won't dhrive him firm
saloon. TIL intertainmint begun an
wint on its usual lenth. I've got 1t
timed exactly, FIR tn music teacher is
hired be tn hour. She's infatchooated
with tn playin' iv her pupil, but whin
| peeped in wan day | see her lookin'
at tn clock. I've got tn performance
timed to tn minyit, but can't help 1t,
ivry day | give way to onmanly hopes
that | may be wrong. | think me clock
may've stopped, but it hasn't. Thin
hope tn music teacher or tn PLAINLY
will jump out iv tn window or. Gawd
frgive me, somethin' will happen to
tn poor girl hersilf. | pray to keep
firm thinkin that tn innocint young
thing may Luckily squash knuckle, not
bad, dye mind, but enough so that
can git in me wurruk with Dock
OLeary an have him tell her if she
doesn't stop practisin' FIR awhile she'll
niver be able to git weddin ring on
her finger. But nawthin' liver happens.
At tn end iy tn half hour she's as
fr'resh as iver while I've hardly
strength to kick tn dog.
'Afther these performances tn
thrainer hauls out 9TH March ly
Norma or 'Th Filly iv tn Rig'mint.'
Havin' an extensive acquaintance
among TIL marrid with families | know
thin two great wurTuks be heart. Tn
music teacher sets on a small chair
alongside tn PLAINLY stool an me neigh
Dor sets on tn pianny STOOL 1t isn't
high enough to give her tn proper
reach FIR tn back molar teeth iv tn
PLAINLY, an she gets up an twists it.
Thin she sets down an looks undher-
meath tn pianny to see If she's got her
feet right on tn pedals her face as
sumes an expression iv man about to
make a difficult pool shot FIR tn corner
pocket; tn music teacher begins:
Wan, two an three an wan, two,
three Thin hear: DUN, dunn te';
wait; thin: DUN, dunn te dunn, te dunn,
te-'; another wait, thin, Dunn. dunn
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MIR. D00ley's Philosophy

"Forchnitely it is a slow an timid
monsther, like all that come up firm
tn bowels of tn sea. 1t niver moves
or attacks amy wan but whin hurt;
whin amy wan slaps it's mouth it gives
forth thin little squeal. To see tn
size iv TIL pianny an to hear its weak
cry whin assailed Is wan iv tn most
melancholy things l know Nv. Ye'd
tlnk this great, huge monsther whin
stnruck wud belch forth a roar that
wud blow off tn roof But no. Out iv
it's vast cavern, full iv iron rods, bolts,
screws, wire, wood, an varnish, comes
a trickling little cry FIR help like a
chicken lost in a storm. IT'S as if an
elephant clucked. Afther while ivry
body takes liberties with it. Honorya
can't go by it without playin few
missteps firm popular waltz, tn little
boys run their dirty thumbs acrost it
to make 1t squeal, an fin'lly We use it
to store ye'er cuffs an hat.
give often Wondered what music is,
anyhow, Hinnissy. l don't like PLAINLY
music, though I've heerd some iv tn
hest players an all tn worst in me
time. I've seen thin all firm a young
lady that made a score iv four Nv pos
sible ninetey-three to fellow that got
down close to tn pianny an played 1T
be winkin' again tn keys. Whin he got
through tn ladies in tn aujeence
climbed on tn stage an kissed him.
AS | looked at tn ladies Mercy sthrug-
gled with Justice, but as | looked at tn
fellow Justice triumphed, an | says to
mesilf: 1t sarves We right. 1t sarves
We both right
whats music, anyhow, I'd like to
know. Tn Chinaman down tn sthreet
whin he stint tn last shirt home to tn
wrong man can get lot iv fun settin'
around with his frinds on Saturday
night be hittin' a gong with a stick
whin he thinks iv it. I can't keep me
feet on tn ground whin blind Clancy
is wheedlin' tn Rocky Rood out iv tn
pipes, an nawthn' but four-iliyin fire
wud take me away firm brass band.
Hogan, who's great f'r all kinds,
wanst took me to hear what he called
tn higher music. There were sixty or
siyinty German men playin' on different
Instruments. Some were scrapin' an
some were BLOWN an some were
thumpin an lady with harp plucked
firm time to time on that conthraption.
A large man standin up in front pinted
at wan section or another with a stick
to tell thin whin TO begin. He'd pint
to tn fddlers an they'd fiddle. he'd
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

Copyright, 1907, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Maillot, Algeria.
AVE You ever heard of the white
race of the Atlas mountains? It's
people have features like ours, and
some of them have blue eyes and red hair
Many have rosy skins and compilations
SO fair that if dressed in European clothes
they would not be out of place in Lon
don, Paris or New York Others are
darker from their admixture with the
Arabs and Moors, but they are still a
people of their own kind, and strong
enough TO impress their brand on their
Offspring
This race is scattered through the
mighty mountains of northwestern Africa.
1t is composed of the Berbers of Kabyles,
who are numbered by millions and are
found everywhere in these hills.
The Atlas mountains begin opposite the
Canary Islands, well down the Atlantic
coast, and run from southwest TO north
cast for a distance of more than 1868
miles, ending near Cape Bon, below the
Island of Sicily. They are longer than
from Philadelphia to Omaha and wider
than the distance between Washington
and New York. The region altogether is
more than one-seventh the size of the
United States, proper. and including the
valleys 1t has population Of 15,00O 600 or
more.
Fully one-half of these people are made
up of the descendants of this white race,
and if we take the tribes which have left
the mountains and gone down into the
1owlands and desert they will number still
more. The Tuaregs, the fierce brisands
of the Sahara, who wear black wells night
and day and scour the desert on camels
robbing the caravans, are of Berber
origin. and SO are the Biskris and others
who come from far down in the Sahara
to do the heavy work about the wharves
of the Algerian ports. There are several
million Berbers in Morocco where they
have divided up into hundreds of tribes.
They live in the mountains and are law
less and wild. The band of Raisuli.
which kidnapped Ion Perdicaris is one of
them, and they are the main cause of the
danger to foreigners in that country to-
day.
Oldest White Race on Record.
The Berbers are the oldest white race
upon record, and il we could trace our
own forefathers back into the dark ages
we should probably find that they are our
cousins. They are supposed to have come
here from southern Europe, but, if so, it
was when Europe was savage and when
our ancestors were still eating with their
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BY F. P. dunno
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room in tn mornin' ! sing in way
that charms me. Me notes ARE full
an mellow an | wondher why it is no
wan has been along To pay me five
thousand dollars a night to MARBLE FIR
thin. If | cud dacintly invite tn wur-
ruld to me bath room to hear me sing
it's little thought they'd have iy sindin'
to lily f'r their talent. Such volume,
such sweetness, such variety, such
tenderness. Think iv it! "A most
brilliant an fas'n'ble aujeence gath
cred In tn bath room to hear Signor
Dooley give his cillybrated rindition "
Home, Sweet Home" TIL dimon
horse shoe blazed with jools.'
Among those prisint was. But
shudden't go on. P'raps it's just as
well that there amt amy aujeence. |
injye it all tn more. I'm like that
there king | read about in tn pa-apers
that used TO have tn opry performed
FIR himsilf alone. 'Tis a great luxury
f'r me to set in me magnificent tub an
listen to tn finest tenor in tn wurruld.
| amt always tenor, though. | have
great range. Sometimes | sing bass
an sometimes barytone, but I'm al
ways good.
AN that's why, I s'pose, ye see so
NANNY piannies around. If anybody
ilse injyes thin tn people that plays
thin does. Ony like me singin' in me
bath room they ought to perform in
private"
Il feel kind iv sorry FIR tn music
teacher" said Mr.. Hennessy.
Its a hard life," said Mr.. Dooley.
"But she must she must get a good
deal iv satisfaction out iv KNOWN that
tn windows ARE open. Tn wan firm
next dure always seems to cheer up
whin she sees me face afther tn les
SON."
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diem; there was also danger of break
down IN the mountains and | concluded
to hire Il carriage instead. This l got
for SIS per day. 1t had an Arab driver
and three horses hitched up abreast, and
il enabled me to make my way leisurely
from point to point now stopping at a
village and now at the little fields where
the Kabyles were working.
French Military Road.
This road over the Atlas is a wonderful
piece OF civil engineering. 1t goes along
the sides of the cities and has been fairly
cut out of the rocks. In places the drop
to the valley below is something like 1000
feet and at times, when a caravan of
camels passed by us, each beast loaded
with two great, long bags of barley
which tripled it's width, we had to stop
for fear we might be crowded over the
rocks and dashed to pieces in the valley
below. At other places we met droyes
of donkeys, which their Kabyle owners
had to bring down to single file in order
to pass, and again companies of Kabyle
natives with loads on their backs, who
walked the same way.
The road Is a limestone pike, with fire.
ouent stone culVerts and now and then
bridges of stone and iron. Away up on
the top of the Atlas there is tunnel
which has been blasted through the rock;
ana on the very Typ VI tic pass We "NHS
through a deep cut which had been made
for the road. All along the way are piles
of broken stone. showing that the repairs
are going on all the time, and there are
guardhOuses at every few miles, where
the men who take care Of the road are
stationed. This pass is, In fact, mill
tary highway, and it enables France to
control the whole region about.
Dangerous People.
The Kabyles are among the most insur-
rectionary of the population OF Algeria.
Like the Swiss, they live In the noun
tains, and they have the same love OF
freedom. They submit to the French ana
work for them; but / am told that they
hate them at heart, and that If France
should have a great war with any other
nation they would again break out INTO
rebellion. This they did in 1871, when
France had it's war with Germany. AL
that time an army of these mountalneers
marched on Algiers. They were defeated
by the French, and since then no Kabyle
or other native except in certain wild dis
tricts, is allowed TO have arms.
At Port National 1 found battalion
of zouaves, about eight hundred strong;
and the town itself is fortified in such
q ray that it's guns command the many
villages on the neighboring peaks. The
road is so made that guns can be easily
taken over it, and the many Kabyle
towns, in view everywhere can be shelled.
On my way to Tizi-Ouzou L passed sew
eral regiments of French soldiers who
were on the march, and ] could easily see
how an army of them with a road like
this could keep the people in order.
I found most of the Kabyles friendly
and the contrast between them and their
brothers in Morocco was striking. In
Morocco every one carried gun, and 1
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xE'RE over arly," said Mr.. Doc

L<X /ERE over arly," SAID MI. Doo-
l. eyes" said Mr.. Hennessy.
'"lhere. was nawthin' to do, an l
thought I'd run acrost while Honorya
was takin' her music lessons"
cts a grand thing, music" said Mr..
Dooley.
at is" said Mr.. Hennessy, sadly.
I'm crazy about it." said Mr.. Dooley.
81 don't know what there is about tn
pcyrer iv music, but it has tur-rible
erect on me. An if there's wan piece
iv music that moves me more thin
amy other It's tn five finger exercise.
Was that what Honorya was playln =
st was" said Mr.. Hennessy.
81 thought so,' said Mr.. Dooley.
"Tis tn composition I'm most familiar
with. don't know how NANNY millyon
times I've heard it, but ivry time it
gives me new thrill, a kind iv tn
Jumps that / don't git firm dhrink or
tobacco. Whin | hear its sthrains
pourn' firm tn window next dure am
: strangely excited. | cease to be tn
sordid, money-lovin, practical man ye
know. I'm lifted out iv mesif. | long
10 uulC lut DuSiIcSo ttb So luto III
wilds. | pace tn room, tear out me
hair in handfuls. l beat on tn walls
with me fists. Take good hot sum-
mer's day, whin I've been up most iv
tn night befure an tn flies ARE plen-
tiful an tn five finger exercise, no
matther how inaccrately played, makes
me think I've got tn artistic timpra-
mint, although otherwise man iv
clane habits who shaves four times a
week
Ibid We liver notice how tn sweet
music iv PLAINLY dhrowns all other
sounds? Not even a def man wud
call this a quite neighborhood. But
tn throlley cars may be clangin' by, a
man may be shinglin' tn roof, tn peo-
nile upstairs dancin' breakdown an a
couple iv Germans at tn front dure
debatin' whether they'll play ten pins
or pinochle week firm Sunday, an all
I can hear is Observation-Disclosures, dosila-
rolfareemido firm Miss Mary McGraw
mkt dure, who weighs hundherd an
Ave pounds an cudden't make sound
enough to be heerd If she was leadin'
tn ace iv spades in card game. 1t
amt a loud noise, dye mind. 1t don't
shatter ye'er hearin'. 1t slips into what
Hogan calls tn chambers Nv ye'er ear,
snuggles down close to tn dhrum an
roes to wurruk with an anger. I've
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who speaks the Kabyle language acted
as my interpreter, and through him the
owner gave US permission to enter. we
had tried at several other houses, but
the women ran from us as though we had
the plague, and the boys slammed ina
court doors in our faces.
Like all Mohammedans, the Kabyles
are jealous and their women will have
nothing to do with strange men. in this
case both husband and wife were at
home, and the man was more liberal
than most of his kind. He did not in
troduce us to his wife but she was with
him in the nut, and as usual, unveiled.
She had Il baby at her breast, and there
were a half dozen small children sprawl
ing over the floor. Indeed, we had to
step carefully at first for fear Of tramp
ing a baby, but as our eyes became ac-
customed to the darkness we got along
very we'll
In this house there was no sign of what
we call furniture. There were neither
chairs nor tables. The members of the
family were sitting around a pile figs
which. they were sorting as we entered.
They sit on the floor and eat squatting
about the single bowl which usually con-
tains the main dish of each meal. They
eat with wooden spoons, using common
knife. They eat most things with their
fingers, and often break up bread aud
soak 1t in the soup or stew. They have
meat about once a week. but their chief
diet consists of fruit and of bread made
of wheat or other grain. They grind their
meal themselves. sometimes in the family
mill and sometimes in one belonging to
the village in common.
In a little home like this the winter
supplies of s1e family are stored. one OF
the receptacles | noticed was stone
Jar for figs, with hole in the bottom
to allow the juice to run out; another was
a larger vessel of the same material for
wheat or corn. The latter would hold
perhaps twenty bushels There was also
a large clay jar for the olive oil, which is
made on the little home form and pressed
out by the family.
| asked where the cooking vas done,
and in reply the woman pointed 20
hole in the floor In one corner Of the
hut. The floor is the bare rock, so that
there is no danger of fire
Donkeys Sleeps With People.
AS l looked about me [ heard a sheep
bleating. 1t was apparently right under
my feet and turning around I saw a
long eared ram and nanny goat looking
at me from under a shelf at the back Of
the hut. This shelf was the chief sleep
ing place of the family and the space
below it served as stable. There We're
some chickens in the same place, and at
night the donl1eys and other animals be-
longing to the family are brought in and
all sleep together. These Kabyle sheep
are tame, and they follow their masters
from place to place like dogs. The people
have many sheep, which they pasture on
the mountains in one common flock
watched by shepherd. The sheep and
goats are brought into town every night.
AS soon as they enter the village each
runs for its own home and remains there
until morning.
Pretty Berker Girls.
Some of these Kabyle women are fine
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fingers and sleeping on skins in the wilds
Of the forests.
Indeed, the Berbers We're here when
Athens was in its infancy and when Rome
was yet to be born. There are records in
the Egyptian temples dating as far back
as 1900 years before Christ which speak
of them as having rosy cheeks, blue eye,
and red hair, and we find them fighting
with the Phoenoians the Carthaginians,
the Romans, The Goths and the Nandals.
They were conquered again and again, but
they ned to their Businesses in the Atlas
and have kept their individuality to this
day.
When the Arabs came the Berbers were
again overcome and they adopted the
Mohammedan religion, but they have
modified it to suit themselves, and they
have still their own ways and customs,
as they had in the past The kabNle
women do not veil their faces and the
men are satisfied to have but one wife.
A large number, however. have inter
married with the alien races, and there
are now among them as many brown
skins as fair skins. The fierce African
sun darkens the lighter-hued kabyles in
the summer, and they take on the brown,
roseate complexions of Italy, Spain and
South France.
Among the kabyles.
| have seen many of these fair-s<inned
Berbers or Kabyles since | came to the
black continent some months ago. ! met
them first in Morocco and again IN span
ish Africa. and | have found them every
where during my travels in Algeria. /
have spent the past week in Grand IA
bylla, where they are almost the sole
inhabita nts, and have gone from village
to village investigating their customs and
photographing them at work and in their
homes Within tho past three days
have ridden for more than one hundred
miles through the widest of these Afri-
can mountains, crossing the Grand Atlas
chain from Tiz-Ouzou, the capital OF
Kabylia. by way of Fort National and
Michelet over pass almost as high as
Mount Washington, and then coming
down TO this little town of Maillot, in the
rich valley of the Tell, where | now am.
The road we took over the mountains
covered distance of about Ito kilo-
meters. 1t was built by the French as
military highway to hold these people
in order, and it is d. so smooth that one
could go over 1t in an automobile. IN
deed, was offered an automobile for the
trip at a cost of $25 per day. but | found
that I should have to pay one days re-
turn fare for every day ] used the ma
chine, making the cost really 500 per
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The Ideal.

FrOM JuuBe,
once upon a time an Intellectual Spin
ster, who made Much Money writing
Hints and Helps TO Mothers, met beau
teous Young Child.
The beauteous Young Child did not
Speak until 1t was Addressed--did not
Use Slang, did not get its Face or Hands
dirty, did not Spill Things at the table,
did not Shout or Giggle, or do Anything
Unseenly.
Here Is the Perfect Child" exclaimed
the Intellectual Spinster, My little friend
whose Little One are your
"Nobody,'s," answered the beauteous
Young Child. II am the Child that 10 al
ways put into the MAGAZINE Stories"
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Was not aliOWeu 10 ~ lllo lne MOUNTAIN
unless accomanied by soldiers.
Through the Atlas Mountains.

, was not allowed to go into the mountains
unless accomanied by soldiers.
Through the Atlas Mountains.
Before l describe my visits to the
Kabyle villages I want to tell you some.
thing about these mighty mountains
which form their homes. l have tray
eled through the Alps, the Himalayas, the
Andes and the Rockies. Each has its own
grandeur, and the same is true Of these
mighty African mountains, which in many
respects have scenery surprising that
of any other range of the world. The
air here is as clear as that ON the high
plateau of Bolivia. One can see as far
as on Lake Titicaca, and the sun is SO
bright that where it strikes the heecy
white clouds it paints patches of navy
blue velvet on the mountains below.
These high Atlas peaks rise from the
plain in rugged grandeur. They roll over
each other, with great canyons and
gorges; and they may be seen an hundred
miles or more away, cutting the blue
sky of the horizon. They are of as many
colors as the mountains of Colorado, and
in places are quite as rugged and rocky.
Almost everywhere they are cultivated
high above the line of fertility of the hills
of other countries. Their slopes are cut up
into patches of all shapes, some of which
are not bigger than bed quilts. About
sometimes they are marked by burrows
or bitches. Some have fruit trees grow
ing In them, but more often they are only
lunches of scrub amongst which the
grain has. been planted. Each of these
little patches is a Kabyle farm. Nearly
every family owns some land, to which
it clings as its dearest possession. The
men cultivate their little crops and make
what they can. from them, and then go
down into the lowlands TO work for the
French farmers to piece out their In
comes
Woods of tire Atlas.
Along the lower slopes of the Atlas
there are many big orchards, but these
I ore owned mostly by the French. They
are walled off from the road by hedges
of cactus, in which dried thorn bushes
have been twined making a barrier i'm
passible for man or beast. There are also
olive orchards, and almost everywhere,
even to high up In the mountains, are
groves of wild olive trees, and now and
then a forest of the evergreen oak, whose
bark furnishes our cork
Others of the mountains. especially the
slopes facing the valley of the Tell, are
covered with scrubby oaks, with leaves
an inch long and of much the shape as
those of rose bush; they are light green
in color. The trees are nothing like the
grand oaks of America, but nevertheless
they bear acorns and furnish food FOR
numerous hogs. Many of the trees are
trimmed of their branches every year in
order that the twigs and limbs may be
used for fuel | am told that 1t is against
the law to cut the trees down to the
| ground. and that most of the charcoal
and flrewood of Algeria are made from
| these switches. They are used by the
! bakers and the bread of great part OF