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JLL R THE OMATIA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 21. 1M7. Anti-Grazing D Agitation is Regaining Irish Land irniJN, Jun rtt-The Irish t,.... arts hv trlumph'ii Thy tn fTd upon a war to Ruin the sounds of hattlo .rn .tin tiprrl lif-ro and IIlto their M.tory hail neon nm plete. This win ,p thp last yoar ot tlia giax'er as a tenant of tha r-t nraa f.irma, fur both landlord and cattle owner have made up thfir minds thct i-attlo ranrhlna- la a thin of the past. It rannnt he noniMl that thn I.lhe'al government of Ijinlund has materially helped the people. 1'nat admlnlstratlnnl would have sent to jail by order of thi coercion rourt every man found In ron rplrmy nualnat the arajtW r and the li' d lord; but the present rules adopted anmh r courne. They haulrd out aa an Instrument of punSnment an at-t passed by King Edward HI., which doe not Imprison but n-- : wm . SK . ivs cure It Mr. Croker tolls me that a measure of home rule would In his opinion 1m an adequate remedy, lie believes that with If-Kovernment Ireland would revive. In dustries would be started, employment would be provided that would k'ep the youth at home, agriculture would Improve, and he Is confident that many Irish-Americans who have made fortunes would like hlmaelf make an eastern course over the Atlantic to spend the evcntlnie of life In a contented Ireland. The nationalist political physician aprrrs that home rule will real ore the patient to health, hut the Independent onlooker at the patient s bed sees complica tions that will retard the cure. Without union we are told there can be no hope of obtaining the home rule medicine from the English dispensary. This unity Is becoming tnore and more remote, vigorous of the politicians and their doc trines have taken a Arm hold upon tha country. So popular la the movement that it Is declared by the politicians that the I'nltcd Irlfh league can only thrive by fall ing In with the organization and following Its lines. Ai the Vnlted Irish league Is controlled by the Parliamentarians, the lat ter will admit that they are on the horns of a dclimma. since they refuse to march shoulder to shoulder with Sinn Fein. Ad ded to this, the party hns the refusal of Messrs. llealy and O'Hrlen to re-enter their fold and a further split In the camp caused by the desertion of n trio of Sinn Fein mem hers of Parliament because Mr. Krdmond refused to withdraw from Westminster to lead a vigorous campaign In Ireland. Thus stand the fighting forces at the moment. There is a pause In the opera- i i-Jr T- r !M : T-, . . -; ,--, itvx-,' sXfwpwc " fv . . ' - . . . -V. -V"-'; "r i- : -''''itv' ' . .' " . v '. ,' "' r r - 'v v ; - "'. J' : :rv;---..; :'K 'aq ,v- -...V - . 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The constabulary ninn la a mixture of peaceful persuader and cowherd, and the whole thltiK In only fun to the people. Fun and profit. For the grazier nnd the landlord have at last reconl7.el that the transfer nf the land must he full and com plete that the land comnilHslon Vnust buy for the peasantry not only the boR land In the country, which haa for long been given over to KrazinK. This land question dates fur back. It Itoea away to the days of Oliver Cromwell, who Invaded the country nd hrunhed hack the Irish. Aa history relates, he told them that they must no either to a warm place or to ConnauKht. and to Connaunht he drove them. The worst curat) the peasant can heap on his enemy la "the curse ot Cromwell," and no matter where you find the battered ruins of a castle In the coun try you hear that the masonry gave way under the Rtina of the vandal Oliver. Then Cromwell was not always able to py his army In cash, so he mailt) the soldiers grants of the lands that had been con quered.. and the officers bought the share of the privates for a small consideration. Thus came Into being the Irish landlord. The old stock Irish were driven to the weatern bogs and the stony mountain side, and there they remain until this day, when a government department la considering how they may b taken away from their barren surroundlnKs and planted on profit able land. What Cromwell did not do the I havo found people living on "farms' that are subject to periodical floods, on land that cannot be drained, on unproduc tive soil, on holding which they have actually made by clearing away rocks and stones and conveying the land up by don key load. More, I have seen hundreds liv ing on the brink of a horrlblo dlsas'er. Those people In the bogs In hilly districts are In wet seaaona ever under the shadow of the boghurst. Ttie rain descends nnd sinks under the peet. An underground lalre Is formed; there Is a tremble, a shiver, and In a moment the bog comes sliding down In a mass of black liquid mud to over whelm everything In Us course. There have been many fatal bngslldes In the past and several In the recent past. In one, peat rush which the writer saw the ooze flowed down, fortunately, In the daytime so that the people had time to escape to safety. The bog moved, It encircled the cottages In lta course; It climbed up them; It burled them. The most comfortable houso of the or dinary peasant met In two provinces was a thatched stone structure with an opening In place of a chimney. It was but a single room, and tn It lived five human beings, some fowls and a goat. Other houses had not the live stock In them; hut they were not atone houses. The man with a stone cottage is well on". The man near a town who has a eottago with tiles on the roof weighed upon steelyards nnd paid for at Twenty years, ten years, even Ave years Tn Its lecert turning Ihe potirval kaleldo- ago those trains would have disgorged loa.ls scope had evolved the Sinn Fein party, of muscular, strong limbed young Irishmen, which wants Ireland to stand by her own fit to go anvwhere and to do anything. efforts at home and to withdraw the Parlla- The disease Is there, and It Is for the mentary party from Westminster. The politic doctor to diagnose the case and Sinn Felners are the youngest and most Hons, but the army Is forming up for a further advance, and it Is a noteworthy fact that the people, whether they belong to Sinn Fein or the other side, are Imbued with a spirit equal to that which Impelled Mr. rarneH's movement forward. The re vival of the league la to be puBhed forward and arrangements have been made for the holding of meetings throughout Ireland from sea to sea which will he addressed by the most strenuous speakers that the country can produce. The first shots of the renewed battle will soon be fired and the leaders are confident of victory. The authorities nf Dublin castle are more perturbed over the situation than they have been for the last twenty years. They know that the old physical force Bplrlt has been revived throughout the country and that the men who are about to fight will court the prison cell. They are 111 equipped to deal with the coming struggle. Even now, with the antl-grazlng movement In a quiescent state, they have every avail able constable In tha west and south, whlln owing to the scarcity of men they havo had to call out the military to help the police In the north. Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Page Three.) Is a nabob; he who has a "slate house" and i ssesses a pony and cart Is one to whom hats must be raised. But If the peasants are not well housed It must be admitted that the majesty of the British law Is upheld In structures not much better In many districts. Several "courts" might well be turned into barns or cattle houses. Low ceiled, whltwashed cottages, with leaky roofs of straw thatch, built for the accommodation of a single about 110 a ton. It Is then baled up like hay nnd shipped on the steamers to Knglar.d, where It Is used for making the best of book and writing papers. details as to the character and wealth of told you not to go away from this house, the bride phe goes with her to the hath You know where bad little boys go-, nnd Investigates her beauty; she makes Tommy (sulklly)-Yea, they go flshln' an' such Inquiries at home about her cooking swlmmin' an' have a gen'ral good time, and housekeeping ability as enables her to landlord of a few generations ago did. The 'ar""v- Into such were crowded mugla Some of the great newspaper companies fects of England have put up factories In Alge ria for the handling of alfa grass; and It Is said that Its value was originally discov ered by the I.loyds of Lloyd's Register. It makes a much better paper than wood pulp; hut It Is more costly, and there Is no possibility that it will displace the hitter. furnish a full dercrlptlon. The groom Is supposed to pay a certain sum for the bride, and she is expected to bring him d small fortune In jewelry and household ef- growlng of wheat and corn became un profitable; the raising of cattle became Vastly profitable. Therefore, the landlord drove his tenants oft the good grass lands and turned their holdings Into grazing ranches, which he rented to cattlemen on an eleven months' lease. There came agi tation, then a cong.-ated district hoard to remove the dense bogland populations onto untenanted land, and there came the land purchase act, by which the government Is gradually purchasing the agricultural dis tricts and handing them over to the people, who will be government tenants until the price Is paid off, the people getting their farms from the state on the hire purchase systei.i. The owner of the bogland and the unprofitable estate was keen to sell; he who owned the profitable cattle ranch held back. Hence the antl-grazing agitation, which after a few months has succeeded. Many graziers have bowed to the will of the people, and the majority of the re mainder have given undertakings never to graze cattle amiln. The landlords of the ranches are approaching the government to buy, and the government is quick and anxious to purchase. A drive through Connaught and Munster hows how miserably most of the peas ants live. It Is common to find fami lies grouped In one-room mud hovels situated In black bog where the toiler Is compelled actually to make the land for himself. A pair of goats. a wretched cow and prhaps a donkey may make out a precarious living among the coarse grass nd reeds on the outer bog, and from the miserable anil the peasant by Incessant labor wins a crop of vegetables if the fates are good and draws, blank if the potato blight comes along. The ordinary self- respecting human being would refuse the generally old. with a snrlnklln of land as a gift and would rather go to the mostly old. Of Joyous youth little is seen. trates,' lawyers, policemen, prisoners, the members of the press and the public. No can ever left the Chicago packing houses more closely tilled than the Irish petty sessions court when a case of public In terest Is on. In one In the County Ros common we were tightly wedged against each other from wall to wall; there was no ventilation beyond a small window, and the place was solid with the smell of peat smoke that is borne by the clothing of every peasant In Ireland. One of the most saddening things that strikes the returned Irishman who travel through the mournful west and south Is the depopulation of the country. Where twenty years ago one saw In the towns and villages large populations of vigorous, husky young people, he now finds the peo ple to be mostly very young or very old. Utllo is set n of the old time crowds of strong, well set up youth that were the pride of Ireland. They have scattered. They have gone over the Atlantic or crossed the channel to work in the Knglish fields or factories. So few have been left behind that at harvest time the farmers cannot obtain laborers. The country has been bled and lta still bleeding. At almost every railroad station In Munster and Connaught on steamer days you may see mobs of young men and women with their traveling bags waiting to be conveyed to Queenstown to cross to the states. They were so nu merous a week ago that the steamers had to leave behind several hundreds to wait for berths In other ships. Stand at any of the railway depots tn Dublin when the big trains come in with excursionists from the country for the rx hililtlon and you see one of the most strik ing results of the emigration drain. Ths excursionists are mostly women, who are men, also mimt Is to love children, and no, home can be completely happy without them, yet the ordeal through which the ex pectant mother must pass usually is so full of suffering, danger and feai that she looks forward to the critical hour with apprehension and dread. 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The Arabs say that while 1t tak.s five of their people to beat a Jew at a bor galn. It requires ut least five Jews to get the better of one Mozahite. Indeed, many believe that th Mozahites are of Jewish origin. They are the descendants of the old Carthaginians and settled there. Carthage was founded hy Jews, and It was ruled by Queen Dido the Jewess. At any rate, the Mozabltes are superior to the Jews In their trading ability, and they h.ive monopolized certain kinds of trade in the desert. They have seven cities far down below Algiers In the middle of the Sahara, at Just where the curavan tracks cross. They are engaged In commerce there, and also in Algiers, In Tunis and In nearly every trad ing center of North Africa. These men stay away from home only for two years at a time. Their laws require that they rome back every so often, and their wives can claim a divorce If they remain longer. If a man absents hln;s'lf more than two years his wife lias not only the light ti marry tgaln. but she can take possession of all the property belonging tn the family and keep it I am told that the Mozahite women aro true to their husbands. They wear black while their husbands are a1 son', and n;nk great feas's when they comeionie. Among the viands served on such occasions are barhacued ram-Is and sheep. A', the same time a dinner is given to the poor, and this, strange to say. takes place at the cemtery. Here the wife plays th Lady Rounttful. sitting on the tomb of h.-r parents, while she hands out the S'.up and dispenses ln-r alms. I have seen many of the Moz.thltes dur ing my travels. They are short, stout and light compleztoned. with features Jewish In cast. They are noted for their stinginess. Most of them sleep In their shops, where they somotlnn s do their own cooking, sav ing every cent to take home. I ve and Marriage In the Sahara. All the women of the Sahara marry young. A girl Is often !otroth-d at g or she is married at 12 or 13. and is an old woman at 30. At 10 she begins to primp and look at the men, and something is supposed to be wrong with her if she is not married at 17 or 18. As to the age of the husband, that matters not. He may be 1 or 6o. and he may have s-vrral wives. The marriage is usually arrranged by a female matchmaker, employed by the groom, who is supposed to find out all tha Preparatory to the wedding the bride is put through a course of training. She is bathed and greased again nnd e-gain, and her skin Is coated with powder. On tho wedding day she Is wrapped up in so many veils that she looks more like a bundle than a woman, and In this shape she is carried on a camel or donkey to the home of the groom. The first home of the desert bride la with her husband's family: but only when she Is the first wife. If he has other wives she goes to the common tent, and there takes her place as boss of the establishment. She holds this position for a year or so, but after that comes down to everyday llfo and doeB her share of the work. She aids In the cooking, in gathering fuel and In weaving the cloth for tents and the family clothing. Onled Malls. Have you ever heard of the Ouled Nails? They are to be found in jvery oasis, and there is a whole street given up to them in Hiskra, the so-called Paris of the Sahara. They are noted for their beauty und are professional entertainers, much like th' Nautili girls of India, the (Jhawuzl of Kgypt or tho Geishas of Japan. Robert Hlchcns rather effusively describes them In "The Garden of Alluh," making them more beautiful than I have found them either In Hiskra or here. The Ouled Nails sing and dance for money In the Moorish cafes. Any one who will pay for a cup of cuffte can s e tliein. and scores of these dark-faced, tuibaned, long-bearded Arabs will sit and watch them for hours. The girls are paid by the owners of the estab lishments, but they also collect contribu tions trom the foreigners present, coming to them and kneeling down at the close of tiieh dame. Thereupon tho foreigner wets a silver coin with his lips and presses it upon the fi.reliead ol the dancer. The coin sticks and the girl rises and goes through the wild ahainloii ,.f another dance, mov ing her head so gently that the coin re mains wllelei it nai placed. The dance of the Ouled Nails is the well known stomach dance, In vogue through out the orient. It consists of a series of contortions of the bips and abdomen, while the rest of tlie body lemaina stationary or perhaps swuy back and forth. The girls are fully dressed; there Is no exposure of person, and tiny lack the ballet tights of our wicked stag'-. Nevertheless, their ac tions are more demoralizing than those of the worst of our dance halls. 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