Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-06-30

in order to let donkeys, mules and
horses, with their spreading burdens,
pass by.
Camels have to be unloaded on the
'sokO," or market-place, outside the
walls. Things too heavy to be car
ried by a single animal must be trans
4 ported by men, and it is no unusual
sight to see great stones five and six
feet long slung on poles and borne by
a dozen or more half-naked Arabs.
In these narrow streets the little box
like shops waist high, give the proper
oriental setting to the whole. In them
we see the owner reclining and sedate-
ly reading, seemingly oblivious to the
stirring scenes around him, until he is
''disturbed' by a purchaser for his
! goods, all of which are within arms
reach.
Fee Once Paradise.
Inland Fee is, of course, different
from Tangier. The golden days of
| Fee began in the Ninth century and
continued till about the Thirteenth. 1t
was then celebrated as paradise.
Around the city were splendid gardens
/ OF rarest fruits. The soil, watered by
| thousand streams, was of eXtraor-
binary fertility. Its numerous schools
and Libraries and it's famous univer-
| sity attracted students even from Eu-
rope. The climate, it's fruits and flow
/ erS, it's fountains and wells, it's ver-
dure and beauty, caused the city to
enjoy reputation unique in Islam. It's
| glories have departed, but it still
| boasts of one of the most Sacred
mosques of the Mohammedan world,
that of Mulai Idress, "the Younger"
the founder of the kingdom.
The sights of Fee are it's teeming
streets, bazars and markets. Weeks
can be spent in this interesting city,
and yet new and strange scenes be
met with at almost any moment
Snake-charmers, medicine-men, story
tellers, with their gaping crowds, ar
tisans and tradesmen of every descrip-
ton, costumes from the four quarters
of Morocco and beyond interest the
traveller at every turn. But all is not
| poetry in Fee. Revolving are the hor-
rible diseases to be seen on every
hand. --,.A... 0u.. -. s,g tsS .o..asi
The residence portion of the city is
| Strikingly unattractive. One can scarce
| ly believe that he is being taken to call
on one of the wealthiest Moors of the
city, when he stops in a narrow street,
| barely five feet wide, inclosed by high,
| prisOn-lilke windowless walls. These
walls are the houses themselves. A mas
| sive, iron-studded door will be opened,
and in semi-darkness one will be con-
| Quoted along a tortuous, dingy pas
sage, through several doors, to suddenly
I emerge into one of those inner courts
which are the masterpieces of oriental
architecture, with its mosaics, tiles,
| fountains colOnnades or light Sara
cenic arches supporting a second gal
lery above, all covered with profu-
| and pendentives.
| Almost rivaling these inner courts
in popularity, especially with the worG-
| en-, the fiat roofs of the houses must
be mentioned. Here during certain
| hours the men are never expected to
appear, for they are then sacred to
the women of the families, who resort
| TO them unveiled to enjoy the cooling
| breezes from the Atlas mountains.
| The city of Mekinez might be called
the monument of Mouley Ismael, the
great contemporary of Louis XIV, who
| even dared sue for the hand of a
| daughter of the great French king
His mania for building is everywhere
| in evidence. For miles along the roa(
| leading TO the quarries 70 the nor
! great blocks Of stone can still be Sc
| lying, just as they fell from the han
of the slaves when they heard ii
their tyrant sovereign w&s dead. ]
melancholy interest is attached
these great buildings. for it must
remembered that hundreds of Chr
| tian slaves to:.ea and died on the.
! gloomy walls.