Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-13

the street is rooted over with n lattice
work upon which grape vines have been
trained, and their cool green leaves
temper the rays of the sun, This street
is lined with shops, some Of which are
about 10 feet square. Such shops are
considered great business establish
ments, and their turbaned owners are
among the nabobs of the city. The
ordinary store is not as wide nor rs
long as library table. and there are
many so small that the merchant With
In could not ask a friend to- enter with
out moving his goods. Almost all thr
streets are such that wheeled vehicles
cannot go through them, aud some VIII
not even admit donkeys or camels, Most
of the freight is carried by por-
tiers, who 90 about with great loads
on their backs or heads. In the wider
streets little donkeys are the chief
beasts of burden. while the camels
carry the heavier loads.
WATER CAME1.s,
One of the most interesting features
of Tripoli Is connected with It's water
supply. This town of 10000 has TO
water mains or sewers. There are no
MIGRANTS. aud the water used comes
entirely from wells in or near the
city. Some Of it is carried in goat
skins on the backs of men. some of
it in clay jars on the heads of women
humps OF camels. The camels kneel
down by the wells while the barrels
are filed. Each camel carries two
barrels at n load one on each side of
it's hump, and on the horn of the sao-
die is hung the measuring tub, turne'
upside down The water is sold at so
much per tub and the camel owner
has his regular customers TO whom he
furnishes their daily supply.
AMERICAN SEWING MACHINES
TIE only modern thing l have
seen in Tripoli is the American sew
ing machine. which Is used in The
street of the tailors. Every business
here has its own section, and one Ions
street Is filed with tailors. who sit
cross-legged on the floors of their
little cubbyhole shops as they sew.
Some of them use hand machines,
which they place on little tables beside
them, and some have table machines of
a well-known American make. Where
the ordinary table machine is used it
takes up half the shop. Nevertheless,
| have seen more than a score of such
machines in action. They are all ex-
ported by one company which sells its
machines everywhere over the world,
and that Notwithstanding we have
other machines equally good which are
never seen abroad
But let us take walk through the
bazars and observe these Barbary
pirates at work. They are busy peo-
pie and have many manufactures, al
though everything is turned out by
hand, Here for instance, Is the ba-
Ear of the jewellers. 1t consists of
street. walled on both sides with little
rooms not much bigger than an up
right piano. In the center OF every
t.. HaaI
through a bellows worked by boy.
Here Is one in which a longgowned,
dark-faced Arab holds n pot of mol
ten silver over the fire. Now he takes
1t off and casts the white metal into
bracelets and anklets. In the next
shop a turbaned man sits nat on the
floor and pounds a gold bar into ear
rings as big around as a saucer, while
over the way are smiths making silver
nnklets, each of which will weigh sew
eral pounds. All Mohammedans are
fond of gay ornaments, and the Be
douins Of the desert use jewelry as
their savings banks, turning their
earrings into the gold and silver worn
by their daughters and wives. Many
OF the articles are OF great weight.
Some OF the earrings are as large
around rs ones wrist and silver
brooch of common wear is the size of
a tea plate. fastened on by a prong
hinged to its back
AMONG THE SHoEMAKERs.
In the bazaar of the shoemakers ]
saw scores OF cobblers at work upon
slippers. The American shoe is prac-
tically unknown in Mohammedan
countries, and the Arab gets along
without shoe strings or shoe buttons
Both women and men wear slippers,
and they are always of the brightest
of colors, the favorite for mems wear
being a lemon yellow. The man usu-
ally bends down the back of the heel
and wears II under his foot. The wo-
men use only red slippers and the
richer ones often have slippers OF vel
vet embroidered with gold All foot
wear is made by hand; and the shoe
makers hammer il round paper
weight affair shaped somewhat like an
old fashioned glass ink bottle. The
shoemaker holds this by the knob, and
rubs and pounds with ii at will. The
shoe shops are small, the ordinary
cobbler usually has three or four boys
sitting cross-legged beside him work
ing away.
Tripod makes great deal Of cloth.
There are streets here filed with
weavers, in which mere work on hand
looms in just abou; the same way as
they did In the time of MohaInmed
MILLING AT TRIPOLI.
wish ] could show you the roller
patent process OF making flour In this
old fashioned Mohammedan city. Trip
oil is the Minneapolis of Barbary, and
1t manufactures meal for shipment all
over the country 1t has many mills
which are worked day in and day
out the year through. Each mill looks
more like q stable than anything else,
and indeed 1t is often stable and mill
combined In the center OF the stable
OF l..
cart wheel, and about two feet In
thickness There is hopper above
the top stone, and from this the wheat
pours down into a hole in that stone.
and is ground as the stones move about
one on the other. The power which
makes the mill go is an ungainly
camel, htched 10 long bar which
moves the top stone. The camel has
two cups OF closely woven basket
work as big around as a saucer over
his eyes, and he goes about blIndfold-
ed. In addition to such grinding a
great deal OF liquor is made with hand
stones moved by women. This Is the
custom In most of the GASES. the grain
being ground from day to day as II is
needed.
PUBLIC BAKERS,
Another Trlpoli institution. through
which many families combine together
10 cheaper their food, Is the town bak-
en- This man is to be found In most OF
the streets OF the city, His shop looks
IKE cellar; II consists OF a great oven