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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

Here 1900 men and lads carr a periious
and precarious livelihood, Some OF them
spend but bare fortnight out OF the en-
tire year at home with their wives and
families.
The far-famed Dogger Bank Is one OF the
principal fishing grounds. II the North
seas floor were raised about 100 feet the
Dogger Bank would form third member
OF the British Islands. about half the size
OF Scotland
Year In and year out by night as we'll as
day, these shallow waters are ploughed by
thousands OF fishing boats. The fishing
fleets dwell here as permanent villages
perhaps 900 or 800 smacks. ranging in size
from forty-fve TO eighty tons with a crew
OF from I'VE TO seven hands. These VIII
lagos have their churches, stores, canteens.
hospitals. postofices and hsh carriers.
Twenty years or so ago London philan-
thropist. who had heard stories OF distress
among the fishermen, took a run out on a
steam carrier from Brlinssgate TO the
Dogger. a 500 mile trip. He found the men
in a pretty bad way. They were utterly
cut on from the world. Just as though
they lived on Tristan d'Acunha.
Some Of the sick were without even the
most elementary medical aid. Broken
limbs and wounds we're roughly treated by
the skipper. often with serious results; and
last but by no means least all the men
were az the mercy OF the Dutch "copers."
These were sturdy little sailing boats, out
from Dutch ports. laden mainly with fiery
Rniseed brandy. doubtful literature and In
fsrior tobacco. The men eagerly hailed
these fellows. and would get roaring drunk
out OF sheer desperation at the loneliness
and utter monotony OF their lives.
In stil earlier days smacks ran out
slngly carrying enough ice to preserve
their catch. and selecting their own inds-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

swing cots. The staff consisted Of a fully
qualified surgeon and a surgeons mate, with
the requisite servants.
Others Of similar design followed
until today the North Sea Is patrolled by
eleven floating hospitals, which are never
idle for a moment, for they are ready to
carry fish, tow line OF smacks in a calm.
carry out mails or hold a service or enter
tainment on the shortest notice. For the
hospital is at once church. temperance hall.
library, club and institute on tho high
seas. Each steamer bears upon its bow
the watchword Heal the sick" and this
she certainly does. for everything that skill
and money can provide, from X-ray in
stallation TO trained hospital nurses. arc
available.
The vessels also carry good tobacco, for
sale at cost price, thus checkmaung and
starving out the vicious cooper" who made
the mems craving for cheap tobacco a
means OF inducing them to purchase also
the most vllainous kind Of liquor, often
with tragic results. Indeed matters be-
came so bad at one time that a special
act OF the British Parliament was passed
IN 1894 making the sale OF alcohol to fisher
men at sea Illegal.
Tho floating hospitals also carry loan
libraries and games. They distribute
bundles OF magazines and newspapers, and
offer wooden comforts for sale at low prices.
And IN summer volunteer evangellsts,
vaudeville artists and other entertainers
60 out in these ships and amuse the hard
working fishermen, who appreciate the
least Frightening up OF their dreary lives
II was IN one OF these little floating hos
pitfalls. helped by Skipper Joseph William
A
his knife and needle Immediately after tho
outrage by the Russian Baltic feet. The
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owned mostly by the French. They arc
walled off from the road by hedges Of cac-
tus, in which dried thorn bushes have been
twined, making a barrier impossible Tor
man or beast. There are also olive or
chards, and almost everywhere, even TO
high up in the mountains, are groves or
wild olive trees, and now and then for
est Of the evergreen oak. whose bark fur
nshes 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 i'll
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
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

They were defeated by the French, and
since then no Kabyle or other native. ex-
cept In certain wild districts, is allowed
to have arms.
At Port National 1 found a battalion Of
zouaves, about eight hundred strong; and
the town itself is fortified in such a way
that its guns command the many villages
on the neighboring peaks. The road is 50
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 several regiments Of
French soldiers who were on the march,
and could easily see how an army of
them with road like this could keep the
people in order.
found most Of the Kabyles friendly and
the contrast between them and their broth
ers in Morocco was striking. In Morocco
every one carried a gun, and WAS not
allowed to go into the mountains unless
accompanied by soldiers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
DnnEerona PeonIe.

The Kabyles are among the most insur-
rectionary of the population of Algeria
Like the Swiss, they live in the mountains
and they have the same love of freedom.
They submit to the French and work for
them; but 1 am told that they hate them
at heart, and that II 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 its war
with Germany. At that time army OF
these mountaineers marched on Algiers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
Inn nerher Home.

Let me give you a picture OF one OF these
Border homes which l visited yesterday.
My dragomau, Emmanuel Dammit, 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 the court doors in
single bowl which usually contains the
jealous, and their women will have nothing
70 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 introduce US TO his wife.
but she was with him I'm the hut and as
usual. unveiled. she had a baby at her
breast, and there were half dozen small
children sprawling over the floor. Indeed,
we had TO step carefully at first for fear
OF trampling a baby. but as our eyes be-
came accustomed TO the darkness we got
along very well.
In this house there was no sign Of what
we call furniture There were neither
chairs nor tables. The members Of the fam
fly were sitting around pile Of figs which
they were sorting as we entered They sit
on the floor and eat squatting about the
main dish Of each meal They eat with
wooden spoons. using a common knife.
They eat most things with their fingers.
and often break up bread and soak Il 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 them
selves sometimes in the family mill and
sometimes in one belonging 20 the village
In common.
In little home like this the winter sup
piles Of the family are stored. One OF the
receptacles I noticed was a stone jar for
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other places we met droves Of donkeys,
which their Kabyle owners had TO bring
down to single file i'm 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 fro
quent stone culverts and now and then
bridges of stone and iron. Away up on
the top of the Atlas there is a tunnel
which has been blasted through the rock,
and on the very top Of the pass we went
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
guard houses at every few miles, where
the men who take care OF the road are
stationed. This pass Is in fact, military
highway, and it enables France to control
the whole region about.
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Ships That Minister to Do99er Bank Fishermen

known, and a second hand smack called
the Ensign was fitted out with decent liter
AZURE. surgical instruments, a competent
doctor. a magic lantern and a hundred
and one minor comforts. such as would be
appreciated by men.
The Ensign was soon followed by a reg
ular hospital ship called the Queen Vic
torla, and fitted up with a perfectly
equipped hospital Of eight beds and two
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

pendent markets By this system every
week or two found the men at home living
like Christians.
But as the trade developed fleets were
formed. with regular admrals, from whose
central smack instructions we're issued in
daylight by flags and at night by rockets
and flares. The It was that the fleets
began to stay out on the fishing grounds
for weeks at time and smart sailing cut
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

tiers we're employed to carry their catch
back to market.
And when steam came the fleets in
creased immensely and the fish carriers
that piled between the North sea and the
market grew into steamers, capable of car
rying out 5000 empty fish trunks, and
maybe fifty tons Of ice for preserving, as
we'll as the fifty or sixty tons of coal
requisite for the double run, out and homo
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

Thus each large fishing feet might be at
tended by half a dozen steam carriers,
which might be seen blowing their way
back to London often with 5000 boxes Of
fish, each weighing perhaps eighty pounds
Soon the men would be eight weeks at a
stretch at sea, laboring in all weathers,
Sundays not excepted, so long as a good
fishing breeze held.
The plight Of these fellows soon became
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
Thronrh the Adm Nrountninn.

Before I describe my visit to the Kabyle
villages 1 want to tell you something
about these mighty mountains which form
their homes. l have Travelled 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
I of the world. The air here is as clear as
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
Copyright, 1907, by Frank C. Carpenter.)

Copyright, 1907. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
@AILLoT, Algeria. March a.
I'M Especial Correspondence Of The
Ree.)-Have you ever heard OF
IEsSdSgN tho white race of the Atlas
S~a mountains7 Its people have
features like ours, and some of them have
blue eyes and red hair Many have rosy
skins and compilations so fair that IL
dressed in European clothes they would
not be out Of place in London, 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 or Kabyles, who
are numbered by millions and are found
everywhere in these hills
TEe Atlas mountains begin opposite the
Canary islands, well down the Atlantic
coast, and run from southwest TO north
east for n distance of more than 1900
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
Ates proper and including the valleys
has population of 100000 or more.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
French MIiltnrr Road.

This road over the Atlas is wonderful
piece Of civil engineering. 1t goes along
the sides Of the, cliffs 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 cam
els 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
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
In the KabyIe villages.


me most striking feature Of the whoIS
Of these Atlas scenes ia the human interest
which shines out Of their every picture
The Kabyle villages arc everywhere. Thers
are thousands Of them I'm the Algerian
mountains. Every great hilltop is spotted
with them, and they cap all the lower
peaks. The people build right on the tops
OF tho hills. Their little huts are OF stons
and plaster, with roofs OF red tile. Tho
walls are whitewashed, and every town
makes a great patch Of white and red on
the landscape.
The villages are usually far off the road
and are reached only by mule paths. 1
climbed up and visited some of them. Ono
was entered by a gate forming a sort OF
loafing place for the gowned, bronze faced.
turbaned citizens. Passing through this, I
was right In the settlement The houses
stand close together, built along narrow
streets with no pavements Of any kind.
They are all of one story, and lock more
like stables than homes. The doors arc
rude, although some have carving upon
them. They enter into a court upon which
are sometimes two houses, the walls of
both facing the street. The average house
is about fifteen feet square; it has a ridge
roof, which is seldom more than twelve
feet in height at the comb. Here in tho
Atlas these roofs are Of red tile. and In
other places they are Of thatch.
The houses are entered from the court
by doors as rough as those which face
the street. They are absolutely without
ornamentation. They have no windows,
and with the exception Of a little hole
about Il foot square under the roof at one
end, no light but that which comes in at
the door.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
Rerbers of NIorocco.

Fully one-half of these people are made
mp OF the descendants Of this white race.
and II we take the tribes which have left
the mountains and gone down into the low
lands and desert they will number still
more. The Tuaregs. the fierce brigands
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 di-
vided up into hundreds Of tribes They
live in the mountains and are lawless and
wild. The band OF Raisuli, which kidnapped
Ion Perdicaris Is one of them and they
are the main cause Of the danger to for
signers In that country today.
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AS one climbs up the Atlas mountains
the views widen that the whole world
seems spread out below. One can see 80
far that such mountains the Alps are
dwarfed by the mighty panoramas. The
ragged hills stretch away for hundreds OF
miles on every side, and in the winter,
when the Atlas is covered with snow, the
views must be, beyond expression, mag
nihoent. 1 saw one sunset at the very top
of the pass, which will remain in my mem-
ory as among the most wonderful OF the
cloud paintings OF my life. During the day
the sirocco had been blowing its hot blast
from the desert and the sun had been hid
den. When 1t set the sky was fun OF
clouds, and it gilded them IN a hundred
roseate huesL We were high up in the
Sky, with great masses OF feecy gold above
and below US. The mountains took on all
unts and shades, and their sides became
a patchwork OF many colors. which we saw
through a thin veil of gold. On other hills
the veil was a delicate lavender, and on
others snow white tinEed with nose pink
AS the sun disappeared a band of royal
purple ran around these mountain peaks,
resting below them. while tbere were bands
Of burning copper above and below.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

Along the lower slopes Of the Atlas
there are many big orchards, but these are
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
oldest white Race on record.

The Berbers are the oldest white race
upon record. and II 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, II so, Il
was when Europe was savage and when
our ancestors were stnl eating with their
fingers and sleeping on skins In tho wilds
OF the forests.
~,lndeed the Berbers were here when Ath-
-. was In it's 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 eyes
and red hair and we find them fighting
with the Phoenicians the Carthagenians,
the Romans, the Goths and the Vandals.
They were conquered again and again. but
they fled 20 their fastness I'm the Atlas
and have kept their individuality TO this
day.
When the Arabs came, the Berbers were
again overcome, and they adopted the Mo-
hammedan religion, but they have nodded
81 to suit themselves. and they have stln
their own ways and customs. as they had
in the past. The Kabyle women DO not
veil their faces, and the men are satisfied
20 have but one wife A large number,
however, have intermarried 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 Ka-
bylss IN the summer, and they take on the
brown. roseate compilations OF italy. Spain
and south France.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24
KabyIes of the Grand AtIaa.

KRbyles of the Grand Atlas.
I have seen many OF these fair-skinned
Berbers or Kabyles since I came to the
black continent some months ago. I met
them first Ia Morocco and again In Spanish
Africa, and have found them everywhere
duang my travels in Algeria have spent
- last week in Grand Kabylia, where
they are almost the sole inhabitants, and
have gone from village to village investi-
eating their customs and photographing
them at work and In their homes Within
the last three days I have ridden for more
than 100 miles through the widest OF these
African mountains. crossing the Grand
Atlas chain from TIKI Ouzou. the capital
OF Kabylia, by way OF Fort National and
Mlchelst, over a pass almost hs high as
. MOUNT washington, and then coming down
Vthis little town OF Maillot, IN the rich
tney OF the Tell. where I now am.
The road We took over the mountains
covered a distance q about 10 kilometers.
II was built by the French as a military
highway 70 hold these people in order, and
Il Is so SMOOTH that one could so over Il
in an automobile. Indeed, I was offered
an automobile for the trip az cost Of
IS per day, but found that should have
70 pay one days rsturn fare for every day
SD the machine. making the cost really
Per di0ni thew was also danger Of 4
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

breakdown in the mountains, and con-
cluded to hire carriage instead. This I
got for SIS per day. 1t had an Arab driver
and three horses hitched up abreast, and
It 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
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

alone has an army of 100000 men and boys
employed In catching fish for It,.
The wild waste of, stormy waters known
as the North sea is dotted with floating
villages made up Of the fishing fleets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-24

ID II not been for the panicky
attack Of Admiral RoJestvensky's
ships on the trawlers of the
North sea, many would never
have realized that Great Britain
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-27
IN COURTEOUS SPAIN.
Traveller Gets Best Idea by Journey
ing Third Class.

From the Atlantic Monthly
Tie stranger cannot perhaps more easily
get a glimpse Of the true and ancient
Spain than by acquiring the habit Of
travelling third class. The seats, indeed,
are hard, but the company is usually ex-
cellent. charming in its manners, and not
offensive TO any sense. Here constant
series Of novel pictures Is presented to the
traveller. who may quietly study them at
leisure Perhaps It Is a dozen merry girls
on their way TO a festival, packed tightly
together and laden with packages; some,
the more sedate among them, wear man
tillas. some bright handkerchiefs on their
heads, or go with hair uncovered; but.
however, they are dressed to whatever
class they belong. they are all clean and
sweet.
Or. perhaps. it is a less crowded car
riage one enters: there are two middle
class Spaniards and a peasant group Of
three; a fat, jolly, middle-aged man in a
peasants costume, but clean and new, al
most stylish; woman Of like age-one of
those free, robust, kindly women whom
Spain produces so often; and pretty
bare-headed girl. evidently her daughter,
though the man seems a friend or rela-
tive who is escorting them on their
journey. BY and by, when We have been
some hours on our journey, he lifts from
the seat in front Of him the large, heavy.
embroidered wd.let-the alfOrjd which
Sancho Panza was always so anxious To
keep Well hlled-unwinds il and draws
out one Of the great, fat, delicious Span
ish lOayes and throws it on the woman s
lap. Then a dish OF stewed meat APP
pears. and the bread is cut into slices
which serves as plates for the meat But
before the meal is begun the peasant
turns round with a hearty "Gusta?' II IS
the invitation 10 share in the feast which
every polite Spaniard must make even
70 strangers who happen to be present,
and IL is as a matter Of course politely
refused: ''Muchas graCias-' Before long.
the black leather wine bottle is produced
from the wallet and the meal proceeds.
At its final stage some kind Of sweet
meat appears and small fragments are
offered to the two middle-class Spaniards,
and then-with a slight haf-movcment,
expressing a fine courtesy restrained by
the fear Of Offering any offensive atten-
tion-to the foreign caballerO also. Il is
not improper TO accept this time, and now
the leather bottle IS handed round and
the middIe-Class SpaniaTds avail them
selves of Il, though with awkward IN
familiarity.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-27
COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTH.
Their Great Influence Upon Social
Life and Prosperity.

From the New Orleans Picayune.
Despite the opposition aroused by the
success of cotton manufacturing in the
South, the business is growing rapidly and
will continue to grow. simply because Of
the South's economic advantages over
other parts Of the country. and over other
countries. These conditions must operate
to secure victorious competition, and they
cannot be overcome. Without doubt
Northern mills engaged in producing spe-
cial classes of fabrics will be able to main
tain themselves, and to increase their
business TO meet growing demands, but
Northern mills cannot compete in the
manufacture of goods for the production
Of which the South enjoys special advan-
tages. Each section must conform to its
conditions.
The manufacture Of cotton IN the At
lantic States has been a GOdsend to
large class of people to whom no proper
and systematic employment and wage
earning was previously available. People
who gained a pTeCariOus living scratching
the rugged mountain side TO raise pitifuly
small crops Of fOOdstuffs, and cut of
from sympathetic social connection, each
family from others because Of their iso-
lated situations, have found regular and
haying work in the mills, a fact which
has required them to move their resi-
dence to the mill towns, where not only
the benefits of society, but the ability to
enjoy hitherto unknown comforts and
conyeniences are at their command.
This cotton milling is working impor-
tant social changes among a people who
were in great need Of such benefits. and
they are already realizing the happiness
and prosperity within their reach.