Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-26

from ear to ear or leave a tuft OF hair;
unveiled Berber women, generally tattoed,
selling grapes and prickly pears or, as
the Moors call them, Christian figs; Sou
danese. sometimes fresmen, trading OF
holding ponies for hire; women from the
Soudan, the greater number slaves and
pockmarked, squatting among their mas
ters vegetables; Riff men, who have come
from the fighting district to sell a two
franc load Of charcoal; pretty, little half
yelled girls with one earring, selling bread
broken into half and quarter loaves; SOL
diers carefully feeling the weight of each
mail piece and asking for half q dozen
seeds of pomegranRte as an extra induce
ment to buy: minstrels and snake charm
ers and bards; water carriers tlnkling
bells; blind beggRrs chanting dolefully
Allah, Allah-la!" camel drivers, saints.
At dark the big Sok goes to bed with
the camels and the donkeys and the
sheep; man and beast bed down together.
and it is ar eOrie place to pick ones way
through when the night IL dark.
But 1t is not only when the sun ia down
that the Moor sleeps. He sleeps as well
by DAY. He Is q lazy fellow, and he tells
you his religion teaches him that as
nothing matters he may take life easy.
Wrapped up in his wollen cloak he lies
down wherever slumber overtakeB HMM
the sands upon the beach or In the road
way under the city wall, What difference
does it make, the earth is sweet and a
hard bed Ii bestl Why work like the
Christian to spend like a fool?
One day / saw a fisherman without a
turban sitting on q rock, beside him a
sleeping bundle OF homespun haik. They
were q pretty pair and with my kodak 1
proceeded out to where they were, going
cautiously, intending to get a picture from
behind OF the shaved head and it's single
trailing scalplock. But the fisherman dis
covered me and hurriedly lifted the hood
Of his Jeleba, at the same time mutterlng
something In Arabic. The sound waked
the sleeping bundle, which moved uneasily
q moment and a youthful face thinly COW
cred with sprouting beard.
You EnRlishman? p said the head.
mo, 'Merican," 1 replied.
Oats better, more richer. Open your
mouth and show this fellow you got gold
teeth"
/ did as he babe and disappointed him
Me woman" he continued.
"A beared woman" l suggested, at
which he AuEhed and explained. still ly-
ing on his back. hat he had been to Earl's
Court once In q show; that he had had no
beard then, being blu 16, and because he
wore what seemed to Londoners a feminins
attire they all thought that he must be a
woman.
The Arab quarter Of Tangier Is entirely
Moorish. The kasbah or citadel, high
above the water OF the straits is sur
rounded by its own walls, as Is customary.
and within these no European lives; 1t is
thoroughly Moorish. The tourist may enter
without a guide and poke his way through
the heavy arches and the stairlike streets.
He may go into the square where the
BGShR governing the district, like the SOW
sreign at the capital, receives delegations
and hears the messages Of tribesmen in
trouble; but the infidel. even though he be
q foreign minister, may not enter fort,
mosque Of arsenal OF any other place ex-
cept the residence Of the Kaid who is IN
m
He may look in. however, at the door OF
the prison and even talk 10 the prisoners
crowded within. But there is much grumb-
ling and no doubt some cursing II he goes
away forgetting TO distribute francs among
the dozen jaHers whose graft is TO make
a living in this way from Europeans. There
is one man In prison here who speaks :
little English and tells you he has beer
in jail for more than ten long years and
win be there forever for he has no money
and his friends are far up country.
He was imprisoned. so he says. because
a rival told the pasha that he had SNUG.
gied arms from spain. Now smuggling
arms is a trade that meets. In ports wher.
consuls do not interfere. with speedy az.
souuOn. and not many years GEO his pun.