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 cups of coffee at two cents per cup. Surely it is but a trifle in return for a picture that is unique.

OUR VALET DE PLACE

RETURNING FROM A SHOPPING TOUR

But these native cafés are now doomed to give place to a more ambitious amusement enterprise, the Casino of Biskra, which at the time of our visit was nearing completion and is now the center of Biskran gaiety. In this casino European visitors assemble to listen to European music, to watch the native dancers on a European stage, and to play at European games of chance. Nor are the Arabs excluded. It is curious if not an edifying thing to see an Arab Kaid in full