JEWS
IN
MOROCCO
How Tfc«y Are Mode io Suiter, and glow
They Punl.h Their Op|»reOM>re.
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MORAL COWARDICE.
Wights and Htwnca In On« at th« World'«
r
Oldmt Cltle*.
An Inrldrnl Connected with ths tntrodno-
tloii of Ufa Jacket».
landing at Joppa, Dp. Gelkie begins
The Jews of Morocco are to my mind
A man often illustrates by his own
at once the most interesting and the his observations at once. Joppa is one behavior the difference between moral
most trying race of people I eyer met. of the oldest cities in th« world, and and physical courage. He Is brave
Subject to restrictions in their life and the first possible landing place us one enough calmly to face dangers that
business whieh would exterminate an sails north ward“from Egypt. Yet there threaten his life, and yet has not
ordinary race of people in two genera­ is difficulty in landing., Reefs of rocks sufficient courage to encounter the
tions, they have grown, prospered and defend. the shore, the bay ia shallow, ridicule of his comrades.
in many places are masters of their sharks are not unknown, and the coast
An illustration is given by the deep-
masters. It would take more room is much exposed. Your vessel anchors* sea fishermen who supply Isindon with
than I could give to tell you the story half a mile out at sea, and a throng fresh fish. They trawl on the Bugger
of the Jews in Morocco, so I must be of flattish-bottomed pobles soon sur­ back, a shoaliin the German ocean be­
with the whortedt sketch pos­ round the ship to carry passengei-s tween England and Denmark. It is
sible. No one knows just where the through the opening In the reefs to about one hundred‘ and seventy-
Moorish Jews came from, but of course land. A babel of cries, unintelligible miles north and south by «lxty-nve
they have been connected with the to Western ears, fills the air; but by de­ miles east and west. Afcout twelve
lost tribes and all that. The main grees'the motly crew of deck pasven- thousand men are employed in this
•f.-fneti* are that they are in- M ofocco gers. at the'ffiost. varied nationalities, fishery■ an,l each smack _ stays jight
without knowing'themselves juBt how veiled women, shawl-covered Arabs, weeks-on the blink, and then returns
they got there. “Among the anomalies black Nubians with their red fezes,brown to ]M>rt to refit.
connected with them is that they are Levantines, turbaned Syrians, or Egypt­
The catch of fish, packed In one
hated and despised by the Moors, sub­ ians with their fibwing robes of all hundred pound boxes, is sent every
ject to every insult and degradation shades, ull drift by degrees into tho -two or three days to Billingsgate by
that can be imagined; yet they are boats, and for a time at least you see steamers. The boxes’are transferred
recognized as such necessary members th« last of their red or yellow slippers, from the smacks to the steamer in
of society that there is a law, which is and hear their noisy jargon no more. small boats, and in rough weather the
actively enforced, forbidding Jews to I’hejAyou, who have shrunk I possibly transshipment is such dangerous work
leave the country under any circum­ from this crushing crowd of Orientals, that many lives are lost in the ferry­
stances. The Jews, outside^of one or have your turn, and the skillful and ing-
two coast towns, are treated worse strong-armed oarsmen whisk you|
A benevolent gentleman who Baw the
than the meanest and lowest animals; through the opening in the reefs across process was so much impressed with
and, whether in the way of retaliation the shallow harbor, and then suddenly, Its perilB that he spoke to the owner
or the means which in the first when you are twenty or thirty yards off of u large licet, about lessening the
place secured them this brutal shore, you are seized and carried in the danger.
treatment I am not competent to say bare arms or on the the back of a boat­
•JlVe lose, on an average, thirty-
Xhey in return treat the Moors man, through the shallow water to the five men every year in ferrying fish,”
tumbled-down
old
quay
built
of
stone
with fairly devilish cruelty when they
said the owner.
get them in their power, as they often from the ruins of C:esarea,and at last you
“But don’t you think many lives
do through money transactions; for, find yourself treading on the eoil of the could be saved if life-belts w;ere worn,”
as in other lands, the superior cunning Holy Land,
asked the gentleman.
•
Not a very dignified entrance, pet*
of the Jews makes them the bankers of
“No doubt, but the men won't wear
the country, and, with a debtor’s law haps, but the boats could not approach them; they are afraid of being laughed
which allows the imprisonment of a- . closer, and you have fared no worse at and called coUtards.”
man until his debt iB discharged, there than the bead-eyed Greeks or the hook­
“la.Qther words, they won't wear
aye ample opportunities for the Jews nosed Romans did thousands of years them because they are cowards,” sug­
ago.
At
one
period
Venice
organized
to act as fiends incarnate.
gested the gentleman.
In return for this a Moor thinks no a ‘ spring and autumn packet-service
“Yes, I suppose that is the truth,”
,
more of killing a Jew, if he can do it (how strangely modern that sounds!! ,said
the owner, with a smile.
quietly, than of killing a rat. The to Joppa and built a mole to protect thex" It was the truth. The brave fisher-
Jews arc not allowed to carry arms of shipping; but since tho reign of the "un­ men were wanting in the moral cour­
any kirtd, nor to ride upon a horse, speakable Turk,” every thing has re­ age which chuld face ridicule. The
mule, donkey or bullock, but must lapsed into a state of nature. And so gentleman made a note of the fact,
make all journeys on foot; neither are from the earliest tipms Phoenician and and when, at a later day, fishing ves­
they allowed to wear any foot cover- I | Egyptian. Roman artd Crusader. Eng- sels came under his control, he made
ng outside of their own quarter,^where -lish and American, all have to acknowl­ it a rule not to engage a man unless he
they are herded together like animals, edge the power of the treacherous wa­ agreed Uf wear a Tife-jackdt while
their dross being regulated and re­ ters.
ferry ifig fish. His action prompted
Pursuing our way through the street, other owners to provide life-jackets
stricted so they may always be known
from the believers at a glance, and j wo find it rough enough*’-- Once paved, tfor their men and to Insist that’they
they are forbidden to build any places I j the stones have long since risen or sunk should be worn.— Christian
Work.
of worship or to hold religious services I above or below their propef ieuei.
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SPREADING
MANURE.
I
Dust-bins
and
sewers
being
apparently
of any kind—which command is re­
ligiously disregarded, services being aliko unknown to the idle oriental, - ryd-FaMhloned Opinions Which Aro Not
' held regularly in their houses, with, every kind of foulness bestrew;sthe way. •A
Founded on Careful Testa»
in some cities, a guard posted to in- Tho buildings aro of stone, with little ’ The practice which is becoming
form of the approach of strangers, If or no wood anywliere, timber being ‘fibre common, of spreading fresh ma­
there is any nasty work to be dono, as scarce in Palestine. The arch is, hence, nure on land and allowing it to remain
for instance the embalming of heads of universal. As you ramble on,, j^u see through winter till the rains and melt
executed rebel, so that they may hang, tiiat_.no light enters the shops.excupt ing snows carry the soluble portions
the longer at the traitor's gate, the from the front—that they are,, in fact, down into the thawing soil early in
Jews are pressed into service; if the something like miniatures of tipi gloomy spring, is still opposed by some on the
Syltan, or one of the) officers, wishes a holes sometimes made out of ¿railway ground that the enriching portions are
few thousand dollars to meet a sudden arches in Englands
thus washed away from the land and
Tables Tpf cakes or sweetmeats line wasted. This opinion appears to be
demand, some wealthy Jew who has
paid the least for protection, is seized tho narrow streets. Rough awnings of founded on theory, and not from careful
without1 notice and thrown into a dun­ mats.^pfton sorely dilapidated, or tent- test. In one ease heaps of fresh manure
geon until he has been squeezed out of cloths* or loose boards resting on a were placed on steep hillsides covered
rickety structure of poles, partially with grass. The rains washed the
a proper sum.
If a Jew meets a Moor, no matter shade the roadway. Now we meet a heaps, And carried the liquid manure
how low the position of the latter, he turbaned water-carrier wjjth.a huge about five feet at the furthest down
is obliged to step barefooted into the skin bottle on his back, The bottle is, the hill,-and by that distance it was
filth of the middle of the street so as in fact, a defunct cslf, with water in- all absorbed by the earth. A part of.
-
not to touch the garments of a follower stead of veal wittiip. and without . legs.
the liquid was washed away from the
•of the Prophet, and he is not allowed head or tail, and offering a most forci­ heaps before the ground was thawed
ble
illustration
of
the
reference
to
the
under any circumstances to enter the
and »while it wasyet in the condition
street upon which a mosque is situated. placing of new wine in old bottles.
of ice. But as soon as there was
Further on we see a bare-armed and enough water to dissolve the soluble
The punishment for the disrogard of
any of those laws is simply terrific, bare-legged individual in ragged skull­ manure, "there was at the same time
ranging from burning to death to bas­ cap, cotton jacket, and cotton knicker­ quite enough soil thawed to absorb and
tinadoing. Of the peculiar marriage bockers, chaffering with some roadside hold it. There was no difficulty what­
arrangements of the Jevu* I shall have huckster for some delicacy, costing a ever in the process, for the rain did not
more to say later,' as well as of their farthing or two, from some of the mat come down like a running brook over
household arrangementB, and in chang­ baskets on the table; the bearded vend­ the whole broad surface, but the rain
ing the subject I may add that the use or, also bare-armed and bare-legged, drops sprayed it gently, and the thaw­
■ of the bath, either for the face or the sits as he ti-ies to sell, bis herd swathed ing earth could easily absorb all the
body, is totally unknown among the in a white and red turban, and his body fertilizing parts, which constituted
Jews, except the hand bath before in pink and white cotton. Of course but a small portion of the liquids. If
eating, at other times the face being thore is a lounger at his side looking the heaps had been thrown into the
simply rubbed with a dry cloth yvhen on.
bottom of a brook, the result would
Thon again we see an Arab in “kefi- have been different, but farmers would
it becomes unpresentable. The Jews
yer"
or
head
shawl,
with
a
band
of
cam-
of Morocco look upon themselves as a
not make such mistakes unless they
persecuted race, but from my own ob­ ol’s-hair rope, very soft, around his did so on purpose.
servation 1 think 1 had rather be a head to keep the flowing gear in its
This question was discussed last win­
Jew than a Moor, as far as persecution ' place, and a brown and white-stripped ter at the annual meeting of the West­
is concerned, for his deadly hatred of "abba” for his outer dress; he is bar­ ern New York Horticultural Society,
the Moor, coupled with his own super­ gaining for a bridle at a saddler’s, and when, in answer to this objection, Mr.
ior cunning, gi ves him in the course of trying to lQheapen it; and the saddler
his life-time a chance to return oppres­ sits crossdogged on a counter and un­ J. A. Root said he had found a great
sion for oppression, and to my certain der a shady projection of wood and benefit to have land covered in winter,
knowledge the dungeons of Morocco reeds, which gives him much-needed and that it was better to place the
manure on the ground than to Allow it
are filled with Moors rotting to death
in payment of debts owed to this shade. And thus we see glimpses of to waste. Mr. Rupert said that a
ordinary every-day life in the old town farmer near him draws out manure
same persecuted race.
of Joppa.— Qu i ver.
and spreads it on a steep hill-side,
Put down the day of the month in
with a descent of forty-five degrees,
which you wore born, multiply by 2,
and he could see no effect of the
add 7, multiply by 50, add your age in
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
manure two or three feet below. A-
years only, subtract 365. multiply by
—Robert Grant, the story writer, h strong soil would, however, retain.it
100, add the number of the month you
were born In, add 1500. The result a Boston lawyer with a country reai- much better than a light gravely or
porous one.— Country Gentlemans
will be the first (one or) two figures deuce at Nahant.
will givo you the day of the month of
—About the hardest-worked man on
your birth, the next two your age in the Century Magazine is the reading
—“Doctor, I hear that Brigsby has
year*, and the last two the number oT^editor—the Master of Manuscripts, as started a new paper.” “So I am told,
the month in which you were born, il It were. His name isC C Bnel. and but I haven’t seen a copy.” “He told
he holds tho fate of many literary as­ me the other day that it would be bold
no mistake is made.
pirants in his hands.
and aggressive. I wonder if it’s that
—A Georgia man has a throe-liffjxed
—Nr. Alcott’s gravo is in Sleepy
chicken whieh. it is said, grows tired Hollow Cemetery, at Concord, between kind of a sheet?” “I guess it is. I
of walking on two legs, corkscrews it­ the graves of Thoreau and Emerson, sewed up a scalp wound for him this
self over and hops along on the third and not far from that of Hawthorne. morning.”— Lincoln Journal.
in a highly entertaining and original His oldest and only surviving daughter
manner.
—War will be possible at long range
is Mrs. Pratt, who has two sons. His
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— Sir Morell Mackenzie is nfilicted youngest daughter. May, died in 1879, hereafter. A cannon has been invent­
with asthma and smokes stramonium leavings daughter who still lives. Mr. ed which throws a 500 pound ball
twelve miles.
cigarettes to obtain relief therefrom.
Alcott had no sons.
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THE
RUBBER INDUSTRY,
flow th. H«w C.OBtchou. !■ Made Into
N.at and I’aetul Shoe..
MAKING
E nglish - g
How aridity War EnBlu„ A
I i Woolwlrh Aiw^j/
Supplementary to the great shoe­
Passing on to the gun f,—
making business here is the rubber in­ which is the great renterkTL
dustry, for which Poston is the great
to all vteitor., whether
renter in this country. Forty million
civilian, we find ourselves
dollars' worth of rubber shoes and by huge inaine., of glowi^k*“
boots la soldjn the modern Athens an­
procos, of forging,
nually.
"The ohief manufacturing
shrinking.
or undergo!»? «
towns in this line are Bristol and process of disemboweling
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Woonsocket. R. I., Melville and Fram­ a powerfully-constructed boi»*
ingham. ftltns. Alt the rubber goods
of workmen were busily
made in these plaoes are brought hith­
heating, sawing and plani,« ,
er to market. The raw material comes of
guns of all size« and
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from l’ara. Brazil,, in huge lumps,
which tho natives make by ’dipping are intended for the navy ¿7
occasion may require, and harb^
sticks in the sap of the caoutchouc
home defense. The
tree and turning them »found with fre­ view here at the present time i?7
quent p.lnnges into the heated rubber,
over a hot lire; Those lumps, upon- vide, as soon as possible, fur ft-
reaching the factpry, are cut In of the coaling stations, uno» u?
curity of whieh so much WouldZ
slices, which are run through ljeavy
in time of war. The gm»
rollerd’ilnd pressed out thin and flat, off from the Arsenal «er M J”
like pancakes. The sheets thus ob­
turned out’,' but "the
tained ate next put through other roll­
ers, heated to a high temperature, and constructing a “Woolwich ¡¿.
incidentally amalgamated with a com­ by no menus as expeditious u mu
position of lampblack, sulphur, and desired. This new form of
litharge, which reduces them to a soft not made out of one solid castio,
of several distinct hoop» Or rfÌ
and putty-like consistency. Finally,
in this soft condition, they ai-e passed solid and carefully-prepared steeL
over steel rollers bigger than any that base of the gun is upended lBi
have gone before, and actually incor­ ring after another is fitted up,
porated with the tissue of a woolen while the metal is in 2 red-hot 1
cloth whieh is destined to serve as the fetteh hfop slightly overtanto
lining of the eventual boOt or shoe. ' If other, and shrinking as it cools,
yo"u will'try to pull apart the lining careful preparation ofthemeui
and outer coat of a rubber sandal, you the construction of the splendid
will obtain a notion of the thorough­ chinery for the adjustment of thei
ness with which this part of the manu­ of which the gun is built up an
facture is performed. The rubber tors about whieh ths arsenal anti
sheets, thus prepared, are passed ties are wisely retieent-in fact,,
through a last sot of rollers, on which to 110 information is given in these
are engraved all the markings parimente to visitors, and it is ses­
of sole and to be expected in these days oil
and
corrugations
upper that appear in the com- national competition for the pout
pleted article. The rubber sheets of the best weapon which ca
are now ready for the cutter, who turns made at ahy cost The speeSl
out the various pieces by hand, with Woolwich i» ite' big guns
the aid of a knife, and patterns. The now famous and historic Guls
partw are then put -together by other This particular1 class of gun Is
workmen with rubber tape. When nowhere else. and. in fact, is 1
thig much has been accomplished, the production altogether of the b
shoe or boot is lasted in the usual way, and sinews of the arsenal hands!
and, after being varnished, is allowed selves, the inventor of the mut
to remain for eigh^ hours in agoom portant process connected with
heated to the temperature of 2.85 de­ manufacture being a foreman in
grees. The heat acts the varnish and works. In the weldhig of thesel
tempers the rubber, whieh is then monsters of .^destruction, which
termed “ vulcanized. ” The’stamping curry a ball of a ton weight
of pie firm mtme'on the sole is the con- • tanco of seven and a half miles,
elipling operation, and then the rubber means of whlclF Trafalgar
shoe is ready for sa|e. A good rubber could be bouibprded from a
placed a long way below Gremii
boot has twcup'-iUA pieces, the putting
together of which, when the caoutchouc 011 Sydenham hill, the largest
is warm and readily made adhesive hammer in the world, with ai
with ta]>e along the joining edges, re­ force of a thousand tons, is em
quires no small skill.— Poston Cor. This mammoth tool was set in
by the l’rince of Wales some ye
Chicago Tribune.
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in the .presence of a distinguish
■ gourdsand "” POTTERY.
pau.v of scientists, who had m
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The 1’robable Origin of a Most Important to witness the effect of its titanic
Art Industry.
upon the masses of molten metal
Every man. no doubt, used his gourd were placed beneath it
us a gourd alone. But as time went
The bullet-machine is always
on he began at last, apparently, to em­ traction to visitors. It is wor
ploy it as a model for pottery also. In the simplest -way by a lad. 1
all probability his earliest lessons in turning a handle, hour after
the fictile art were purely accidental. produces on unending stra
It is a common trick with savages to I these
glittering messenger,
out water to warm on the camp-lire in death, which drop from the lip«1
a calabq^h or gourd with wet clay clever contrivance without cr
smeared over the bottom to keep it from morning till night I h
from burning.
Wherever the clay curious fact in' connection wit
thus employed was fine .enough to English bullets—namely, that«
form a mold and bake hard in shape, in every 174 “finds its billet"
it would ding to the gourd, and be body of the unfortunate enemy
used timo and- again in the same way German average is even lower,
without renewal, till at last it came to somewhat comforting, thereto
be regarded almost as a component think, as one gazes on the silvw
part of the compound vessel^ Traces shower raining from tie lips 1
of this stage in the evolution of pot­ hundreds of bullet machines
tery still exist in various outlying arsenal, that after all every bill
corners of the world. Savages have saw gleaming so viciously in tho
been ■ noted who smear their dishes before us did not repi'esent tho
with clay: and bowls may be foundin' a human being, be he German.,
various museums whieh still contain Kaffir. It is a striking sight to
more or less intact the relics at the the manipulation of the tiny
natural object on which they were metal by the iron fingers and
modeled. In one case the thing im­ hands of the deft machinery in'
bedded in the clay bowl is a human and cartridge-making shops. 1
skull, presumably an enemy’s.
these delicately-constructed to
In most cases, however, the inner turn out, it is said, 4,000,000<
gourd or calabash,, in proportion as it week. The minutest portion
was well coated up to the very top with cap and cartridge is 0
a good protective layer of clay, would examined (as, indeed, ¡1
tend to get burned but by the heat of detail of tho output of the arw
the fire in thy course of time, until at see that nothing imperfect I
last the idea would arise that the way into the pouches Òr bandi
natural form was nothing more than a brave soldiers in the moment of
mere tnold or model, and that the when face to faee with the «0
earthenware dish which grew up the deadly breach” or os th
around it was the substantive vessel. battle. The cartridges whkb
As soon its this stage of pot-making and the bayonets which bent
was arrived at, the process of firing terrible struggles in the So«
would become deliberate, instead of supplied by contractor» and 0
accidental, and the vessel would only arsenal. We had only a fe«
be considered complete as soon as it to spare for a glance »t “«
had been subjected to a great heat portment, where saddles a™
which would effectually burn out the collars and traces, bits a«»
gourd or calabash imbedded ip the sufficient for ten thousand ‘
center.— Grant Allen, in Popular Science always kept stacked and
Monthly.
ready for instant diaprtto^
of thè empire. The wlwe
-Race-Horse—“What a hnndrum the carriage worlds were b
life you carriage-horses lead. Why.,1 large supplies of
am greeted by cheers whenever 1 ap­ structed gun carriages for,
pear, arfil’niy pedigree has been print­ mountain service. ~*j.3
ed in all the papers.” Carriage-Horse
—The word bandam* «
—“Pooh! Any fool of a horse with
long enough legs'can run fast. My Hindustani. Band’ hnu ("
glory is ndt in my speed but in my tie), a mode of dyeing
brains.” “Braina ah?” "Yes, I’ve fabrics is tied in knots so»
been driven by a woman for five years, tho color front ®e
and haven't let her run me into any and thus produce white 4*
thing vet”— Omaha World.
can Notts and
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