Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-23

bed 20 feet long to a bushel or so 80 the
little store boxes on wheels hauled by
donkeys not much larger than New
foundland dogs.
The Algerian mule has an odd har-
ness The collar ends in three hoTns;
two of them are az long as cows horns
and extend out from the shoulders.
while the third is just over the neck
and Is shaped like the horn OF a rhino-
ceros. The latter stands straight up
above the neck OF the mule and is usu-
ally about two feet in length. These
horns are hung with bells, which jingle
as the animals go, | observe that the
mules have leather blankets tied back
OF these horns. They may be for hot
weather or rain. Some of the better
animals have their hair clipped from
their backs and sides, Many wear shoes
which extend out about half an inch be-
yond the hoof all around. The shoes
OF the donkeys are made in u triangle
with no opening ut the back, as is the
case with our horseshoes.
ALTOGETHER FRENCH.
More than four -fifths of Oran is COM
posed of Europeans. Tho town contains
~. 600 French, 10000 Spaniards and TO-
600 Jews The buildings are almost of
French architecture. and were 1t not
for the Moors. negroes and Berbsrs,
which are sprinkled through every
crowd one might imagine himself in
one of the smaller cities OF France.
The port has all modern landing fa-
cilities. including steam cranes and
electric lights 4 long breakwater has
been built out at the west, and the
stormy Mediterranean dashes itself
against it in vain.
There are cabs at the wharves, and
one rides up smooth roads, which have
been cut out of the sides OF the noun
tains, to the upper parts of the city.
where the best hotels are. The rates for
carriages for two persons are 20 cents
trip, and you can ride all day for ~
cents an hour.
The buildings are just like those OF
French towns. They are usually OF an
even height of from Ave Ia six stories,
built of brick and plastered with stucco
OF creamy hue. They have stores
and shops on the ground floor and
apartments above. The most of the
people live In flats or apartments. In
every block there is n restaurant or
cafe. with little, round iron tables on
the street outside 1t, about which a
motley crowd sits drinking coffee, Wine
absynthe or some other liquor as they
gossip and chat, play cards or domiu-
oes, or read the newspapers. All the
same time there are little Arab boot
blacks moving about begging custom,
and Arab newsboys who Will give you
the latest Oran daily for one or two
sous. The city has 4 number Of dailles,
and they publish kilograms from all
over the world. 1t has schools, lib
rarics and museums There are parks
here and there throughout the town,
undc the trees OF which one secs French
peasant girls sitting and knitting there
are many bareheaded French women
Il H..
Frenchman In blouse pushing IL cart
just as in France.
THE VILLAGE NAIGRE.
III one oonld see the African side Of this
French town he must 60 back of this
modern section. To The hills above II.
There is what Is known as the village
Naigre, which may mean Black village
or Negro village, az one wishes 10
translate II. The houses in this quarter
are ot only one story; they are fat
rooted and Of African style. There
Arabs sit on the street chatting Many
lie at Full length upon mats on the pave
mentA, wrapped up in their gowns.
There are Moorish coffee houses where
Arabs ana Berbers are drinking togeth-
er as they sit cross-leRged on the moor,
and there are Arab women moving
about, each finding her way only
through peep-hole about as big
around ms n wedding ring, which she
has made in the white sheet-like gown
which she wraps tightly about her.
There are also Berber girls with big
earrings, their checks and chns blue
with tattOoiug.
IN addition 10 these characters there
ara 1ueRlers and storytellers. with
crowds OF Arab men and boys watching
their antics and listening to their tales:
there are shoemakers and tailors
working out on the streets. water car
rlers and oedlers and all the other fea-
lures OF the life ~ the native Such
black villages or native quarters are
found connected with all Algerian
towns, The French quarters are almost
nltogethe French but one has only 10
so 20 tho outskirts 10 find all the motley
characters who lnhabit north Africa.
IN OLD DRAM.
| have spent some time here, looking
for the old Oran. The French have
wiped out all vestige OF II. II waa
probably port IN the days OF the Ro-
mans, and II must have had long HIS
tory, We know that the Mohanmednns
rounded "A town here "a thousand years
ago ana along about 80 or go wears be-
fore columbus WAS moving about
through the West Indies. trying 10 find
new way 10 The orient, q Spaniard
Wrote that the oran then had 5000
houses, 40 mosques and schools equal
70 the colleges OF Cordoya, Grenada and
Seville. some time after this Oran was
saken by spain, but II was later re.
captured by the Moors aud finally ac-
qulred by the French In 1881