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THE SUNDAY. OREGQXIAX. PORTLAXDr 31ARC1I 3. 1907.
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American Newspaper Correspondent
Writes About One of the Richest
Provinces in North Africa and How
the French. Are Developing It.
Once the Granary of Rome, It Is Now
the Wine Bottle and Bread -Basket
of Paris.
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. RAN. Wcslfirn Algeria. Feb. 15.
I I (Special
left Mo
cial Correspondence.) I have
4orocco and am now traveling
in Afn.an France. I iirckO at Oran
three weeks ago and have already made
my way through the ricii lands of the
Tell, across the high piuteaus which are
upheld between the ranges ofxthe Atiaa
Mountains and down into the Desert of
Sahara. I am now hack In Oran. the
c hief seaport of Western Algeria, and am
about to start on a i'O-mlle railroad jour
ney eastward to Algiers, the capital.
Refore I begin describing my travels I
want to tell ynu what the French have
1n Africa. Their possessions include more
than one-third of the continent, a terri
tory several hundred thousand miles
larger than the whole TTnited States, to
gether with Alaska and our outlying colo
nies. Practically the whole of the Sahara
west of the T,ibyan Desert belongs to
them, and that alone is half as big as
the United States proper. They have an
enormous district south of the Sahara
which is known as French Central Africa
and several colonies along the Gulf of
Ciulnea. The French Congo, which is
north of the Belgian Congo, runs north
ward bo as to take in a part of Lake
Chad, and covers, all told, an area ten
.times as large as the State of Illinois.
It la inhabited by 15.000.000 people, 'the
most of whom are Jet black negroes of
the most debased types.
The richest of the French possessions,
however, are along the south coast of
the Mediterranean Sea. comprising the
wo great states of Algeria and Tunisia.
Of these Tunisia Is a protectorate. It is
almost absolutely governed by the French
and they are rapidly developing it. Al
geria, on the other hand, is 'now a part
f the Krench Republic. It Is a French
state; It holds its own elections, and
It has three Senators and six Deputies
In the Parliament at Paris. Its Governor
General is a Frenchman and most of
Its officials are natives of the French
republic.
The Best French Colour.
Indeed. Algeria is by far the best piece
of property France has outside her own
boundaries. It is her great Winter gar
den, which furnishes the chief vegetables
for all the French cities and the granary
which supplies a large part of her flour.
Fa-st steamers carry the garden stuff
Herons the Mediterranean in a day and
In hours It. Is for sale in the Halles
Ceneral In Paris. Some of the best wines
used In France are made in this country,
and Algeria, gives France Imports to the
amount of sixty odd million dollars a
year. France herself annually sends $40,
nnn.nno or JSO.noo.000 worth of her wares
to Algeria and the trade between the two
countries steadily grows.
Many look upon Alge" la as a little strip
of mountain and desr :-t. The truth is
that part of it lying along the Mediter
ranean and running hack lo the foothills
of the Atlas has some of the richest sifil
upon the earth. It Is only from 30 to 10)
miles wide, but. is .several hundred miles
long, including a territory almost as large
MAKING OF A SUCCESSFUL WIFE
By Caper S. Yost Xo. VIII When His Ma Comes to Visit.
MX DEAR UTTI.E GIRT.: I don't
wonder that the coming visit of
William s mrther makes you a little
bit nervous. It is an ordeal that nearly
every young wife looks forward to with
a certain decree of apprehension, if not
dread. She feels that she is going to be
held up for Insertion, that herself and
her methods are about to be subjected to
a critical analysis by a 'stern and preju
diced household martinet, a perfect para
gon of domestic virtues. His ma has
probably been extolled as the originator
and chief exponent of the fine art of run
ning a home, the one woman who knows
exactly how to do things. Of course,
she's nervous. But. bless your dear little
heart, there's no real reason for it. Bill'!
mother, like every other man's mother, is
ahcut on-fourth woman and three
fourth's imagination. Did you ever no
tice how big a man look When he's com
ing toward you through a fog? You
think it's the boss giant at the circus
HPfil he gets up close, and then you find
it's little Smlthkins. who weighs 110
pounds with his Winter overcoat on. A
man. no matter what his age. sees his
mother through the mists of childhood
and youth, and the suns of his life shin
ing through the haze envelop her in a
radiance that to him is pretty near divine.
There's nothing wrong about that, my
dear. On the contrary, it's one of the
most brautiiul facts in creation. But
when other people look at his mother
ihey see just a common, ordinary little
woman, no better and no worse than the
average. You'll find that to be the caso
whn Bill's ma steps in. You won't be
sbie to see any halo around her head.
You won't be able to discover her won
derful superiority to the rest of woman
kind. Bill sees them, but you will find
rhst she has her faults and her failings
like other pcorle, and her failings are
more likely to give you trouble than her
virtu est
How About Wife's Mother-ln-raw?
And that brines up a question that I
have pondered over pretty considerable
and never found but one answer to it.
Why It fou never hear anything about
tb wife's mothcr-ln-law? That's the
question. The mther-ln-law has been a
subject for jokes and satire and derision
for goodness only knows how many thou-f-incis
of years, but it's always the man's
mother-in-law. One would think there
was only one kind of them. They poke
fun at this one kind in the funny papers
wnd the almanacs and on the stage, and
ihey don't seem to have ever heard that
there's another brand of mother-in-law,
just as numerous, just as busy and once
lit a while Just as taetiesn and meddling.
The wife's mother-in-law is absolutely
imknown in literature, while reams and
volumes and whole libraries have been
written about the husband's mother-in-law.
Why" is It? There's Just one an
swer. Tt Is because man have been do
ing all the writing, and the only
mother-in-law they knotv anything
attont Is their own. That their own
mothers are also mothers-in-law seems
never to have occurred to them. If It
had there probably would be one sub
.('st less for the joke-writer and one of
the greatest institutions in the world
would have had a better reputation.
For it is a fact, my dear, that
mothers-in-law, taking them In a
bunch. are one of .the most
beneficent gifts of a mysterious but
all-wise Providence. There are ex
as New Tork and Massachusetts com
bined. It has more good land by far
than both of those states. This land Is
known as the Tell. Tt runs clear across
Algeria and on Into Tunisia. It has been
for centuries the granary of this part of
the world. The Phoeneclans and -Carthaginians
built empires upon It. and it
was for a long time one of the principal
bread baskets of Imperial Rome. It was
fought for by the Vandals, the Greeks
and In the eighth century was' conquered
by the -Arabs, who made the country
Mohammedan, as it Is today.
A Bird soy e View of Algeria.
Alg-la consists of these rich lands of
the Tell, of the high plateaus of the
Atlas Just below them, and of the foot
hills running down to the Sahara. .The
country Is jtlst about as long from east
to west as from Philadelphia to Cleve
land, and as wide as from Washington
to Boston by way of New Tork. It con
tains altogether as much land as all New
England added to New York, Pennsyl
vania. New. Jersey and Louisiana.
It is divided Into three provinces, each
beginning at the Mediterranean and cut
ting across to the Sahara. The largest
of these is at the east and is known as
Constantlne. It is almost ae big as Min
nesota and it has several hundred thou
sand more people. The next is Algiers,
which Is not far from the size of Mis
souri, with a population of 1.600.000. and
the "other is the western province of Oran.
where I am writing. Oran is Just about
the sle of Pennsylvania and its popula
tion is more than 1,000.000.
The total population of the whole coun
try now approximates 5.000.000. and of
these almost 400,000 are French. There
are several hundred thousand other
Europeans, made up of Spaniards, Itali
ans. Maltese and Jews. The rest of the
Algerians are Mohammedan. Africans,
and three out of every five of them is an
.Arab There arc also about 700.000 white
Africans known as Kabyles, and about
53.000 Jews.
Here In Oran there are a large number
of Spaniards and many negroes who were
originally brought across the Sahara as
slaves and sold In the market of Algiers.
In some of the Algerian oases the peo
ple are about all negroes, 'and I see many
here In the town. The negro women often
act as shsmpooers In the Moorish bath
houses, and many of the men are beg
gars who dance about singing weird
songs to the clashing of queer cymbal.
One such followed my carriage today,
and I made n photograph of him. H9
dance was a sort of Nautch dance, con
sisting of a continuous contortion of the
hips and twisting of the wafet.
Oran, Chief .Seaport of Algeria.
But letme give you a picture of this
town of Oran. It Is the chief seaport of
"Western Algeria, and is the second city
of the whole country in size. It contains
about 100.000 people, and H Is more
French than Algiers itself. H is situated
not far from the borders of Morocco, and j
almost directly' south of Cartagena In
Spain. The Strait of. Gibraltar is about
as tar away as the distance between
ceptions that seem to justify the at
tacks made upon the class, but they
are exceptions, and even with them. In
nine cases out of ten, it's the smart
Alexander sons-in-law who are most
to blame. So. while; I have wondered
why we have but -one variety of
mother-in-law In literature I have al
wa vs been mighty glad to hear the
other kind - remained undiscovered.
Maybe Providence has something to do
with that, too. At any rate, little
girl, getting back to your own case,
your mother-in-law is nothing to be
afraid of or to stand in awe of. Her
idiosyncrasies 6r pccadillos or. get
ting down to plain American , her
eran kfness. may give you some trou
ble, but all the same she's a mighty
important factor In the making of
your domestic happiness, and if you
olay your cards right she'll prove a
blessing that you'll be thankful for all
your days. I don't know Bill's ma, but
I'm willing to bet dollars against cold
muffins on this proposition.
In the first place you want to recognize
the fact that she Is Bill's mother, just
the same to him as your mother is to
you. and you must respect his feelings
in regard to her. In the second place
you- mustn't forget that, being his mother,
she naturally thinks a heap of him and
may be jusj. a little bit inclined to the
Idea that no girl is quite good enough
for him. Also you should bear in mind
that, like Bill Smith's chum, she's "older
and had more 'sperience" than you. So
all you've got to do, little girl, is to re
member these three points and act ac
cordingly. 1 lacks a whole lot of being
as easy to do as It is to say it. I'll admit
that. But it's worth the price. The love
and good will and help of his mother
is a mighty precious possession and you
can't go to too much "trouble M get it
and keep it. She can be a friend to you
like unto no other friend except your
own mother, and the time will often come
when you will thank heaven that Hill's
ma Is by your side, holding your hand and
helping you over the rough places.
How She Can Cook!
T don't doubt that he has bragged about
her a good deal. He'd be a funny son if
he didn t. He s, told you what a wonder
ful manager she Is, and how sh can
cook. laws-a-massy ! how she can cook.
There never was anybody could make bis
cuits and mince pies and doughnuts like
Bill's ma. But don't let that worry you.
There's just as much imagination about
iha's pies as there is about ma from his
viewpoint. There's a halo about her bis
cuit, too. but nobody can see It but Bill.
I'm pretty sure you can make just as
good ones, and I know your mother can
beat her, hands down. But don't you let
on. It won't do to tamper reckless!
with her ideals. Wait till she comes and
ask her to show you how. That will
plcae Bill and tickle the old lady half
to death. If she isn't any great shakes
as a cook William will find it out for
himself then, and coming in that way it
wont hurt him. Hell Just think his
mother is losing her grip and, he'll be
all the prouder of you.
On the other hand, if she is really way
up in G in the kitchen, drop your cooking
school methods like a hot flatiron and
gel next to her system. I know that you
learned a good deal from your mother
that the culinary professor wasn't able
to get away from you, though Lord knows
she tried hard enough and to my notion
there isn't any woman on earth who can
come under the wire alongside your
mother when it comes to cooking; but '
New Tork and Boston, and it takes about
two dajf? tft so by ship from here to
Marseille. The port has a fine harbor,
consisting; of a beantifu! bay with a hljch,
rascped mountain looking down upon It.
East of the mountain there is a sully
or canyon with low hills extending off
to the eastward, and in and on th aides
of this ia the town of Oran. There is
some flat ground for the wharves, but
hack of them the building of the city
climb the hills, in three preat terraces,
giving every house an outlook over the
Mediterranean Sea.
Down near the port are great ware
houses filled with alfa arrass?. bags of
wheat and outs, great hogsheads of win
and oiher stuff ready for export. The
wharves are plid high with such wares:
and immense drays, each carrying four or
five tons, are hauled up and down the
hills by mules. I have seen here seven
thuge hogsheads of wine on one dray j
drawn hy four mulec hitched up tandem. 1
and other drays carrying loads that
would seom an imposTribiHty in the
United States. All traffic here goes upon
two wheels, and that from the load of
five tons on a cart with a bed 20 feet
long to a bushel or so in the little store
boxes on wheels, hauled by donkeys not
much larcer than Newfoundland dogs.
The Algerian mule has an odd harness
The collar ends in three horns; two of
them are as long as cow's horns and ex
tend out from the shoulders, while the
third Is just over the neck and is shaped
like the horn of a rhinoceros. The latter
elands straight up above the neck of the
mule, and is usually about-two feet in
length. These horns are hung with bells,
which jingle as the animals go. I ob
serve that the mules have leather blan
kets tied hack of these horns. They may
be for hot weather or rain. Some of the
better animals have their hair clipped
from their backs and sidcf?. Many wear
Phoes which extend out about half an
inch beyond the hoof all around. Tlio
shots of the donkeys are made in a
triangle wtlh no opening at the back, as
is the case with our horseshoes.
Residents Mostly Europeans.
Mf-re than four-fifths of Oran is com
posed of Europeans. The town contains
40.JOO French, 30.000 Spaniards and 10,000
Jews. The buildings are almost all of
French architecture, and were It not for
the Moors, negroes and Berbers, which
are sprinkled through every crowd, one
might imagine himself In one. of the
smaller cities of France.
4ie port has ail modern landing facili
ties; Including steam cranes and-electric
that isn't the point. The main business
of a wife is to please her husband, just
as It should be the main business of a
husband to please his wife, and if his
mother knows a trick or two that he
thinks great you can't do anything better
to please him than to. make them yours.
As a matter of fact she probably has a
whole bunch of housekeeping tricks up
her sleeve that it will be worth your while
to get acquainted with. Housekeeping is
a science, but it lacks more of being a
fixed science than any I know of, and
no woman can have bossed a home as
long as Bill's ma has without accumulat
ing a lot of facts not down in the text
books, besides making some original dis
coveries of her own. So I'd earnestly ad
vise yMi, little girl, to let her know at
once lhat you want to take a post
graduate course under her. Somewhere
in your copybook or your grammar you've
seen the saying that imitation is the
stneerest flattery, and I ain't letting out
any state secrets when I tetl you that
sincere flattery makes more friends than
a stuffed club. Go to school to the old
lady and you'll get closer to her heart
in three days than you could in six
months sitting up In. the parlor and run
ning a pa blest. At the same time Wil
liam will be climbing the golden ladder
to the seventh heaven of delight, and if
he isn't already certain about it he'll be
convinced that his little wife is the great
est that ever happened.
Make Her Feel at Home.
But that isn't all. When his ma comes
take her right in out of the wet, figura
tively speaking. Don't drop Jier down
on a spindle-legged chair in the drawing
room. That also is figuratively speaking,
for I'm pretty certain you haven't got a
drawing room, and I hope to conscience
you haven't got any spindle-legged
chairs. I remember once but that's get
ting off the main road. What I mean to
saj- Is draw her Into your arms just as
you would your own mother. Make her
feel at home. Make her feel, in fact,
that WiHiam.'s wife is her daughter and
worthy in every way to be so considered.
Show her the respect at all times that is
due to her age. and if she has any cranky
notions humor them. She'll have them,
all right. She'll be a wonder for sure
if she doesn't. Mighty few people can
come down the homestretch of life with
out developing a few kinks that try the
patience of others. Even your old daddy
has them. Yes. I have. ' WUy, I bet if
you could get one jt these here radium
photographs of my mental process it
would look like one of those wiggledy
hairpins you use to keep your sunshine
from getting loose. That's right, my
dear. So don't let her kinks bother you.
You can't straighten them apd they won't
do you any harm if you let them alone.
Lt her see, too, that her boy is in good
hands. That's an important point, for
itls something she'll be most anxious
about, but It will be an easy job for you;
rather it will be no job at all. for I'm
mighty certain he couldn't be in better
hands. He'll say so himself. If he didn't
I'd be after him with something . la-ge
and heavy to throw.
Just a minute now for the other side. A
man's love for his mother begins at his
birth, and lasts until his death. It is '
not the great consuming passion of his ;
life. That is reserved for the other :
woman who becomes his wife. But no !
matter "how mucu greater his lore may
be for his mate, it never eclipses that j
earlier affection for his mother. Side
b"-'de they should move, the sun and I
the moon of his worship, to the end of J
! f antics anfl llstenlnsr. to their talu: there
IWMmWL Z&rZ 3IMB11I ttaVtrTeT: war-earlVn, and "le"
" otner fe8ture of the ff f
t , ? I ne native. Such black villages or native
' IV.i. . ' quarters are found connected with all Al-
Jf" w g A gerlan town?. The rTench quarters are
. JTMy ---a .Jl almost altogether Yench. but one has
ffhf llif iSaZZT'i only to go to the outskirts to find all
if-i' - y ' t3' ''I-. 'he motley characters who Inhabit North
:-"V Oa- : imiii: '3 I ti"?j- ; I have ppent nome time liere looking
I 1 U I II MWW ' HTMWUMI' WiiL m hi
lighu". A long breakwater has been built
out at the west, and the stormy Mediter
ranean dashes Itself against it in vain.
There are cabs at the wharves, and one
rides up smooth roads, which have been
cut out of the sides of the mountains, to
the upper parts of the city, where the
bet hot-?!s are. The rates for carriages
for two persons are 20 cents? a trip, and
yon can ride all day for 40 cents an hour.
The buildings are just like those of
French towns. They are usually of an
even height of from five to six stories,
built of brick and plastered with stucco
rf a creamy hue. They have stores and
shois on the ground floor and apart
ments above. The most of the people
live in flats or apartments. In every
block there is a restaurant or cafe, with
little, round Iron tables on the street out
side it, about which a motley crowd sits
drinking coffee, wine, absinthe or some
other liquor as they gossip and chat,
play cards or dominoes, or read the news
papers. At the same time there are lit
tle Arab bootblacks moving about beg
ging custom, and Arab newsboys who
will give you the latest Oran daily for one
or two sous. The city has a number of
dailies, and they publish telegrams from
all over the wor'd. u It hae schools, -libraries
and a im&eum.. There are parks
her and there throughout the town.
his "days. They should., but sometimes
they don't. Sometimes the greater love
wanes and vanishes. The lesser love is
Imperishable. I-et friction develop be
tween the wife and the mother, and.
though the man may be true to his alle
giance to his wife, though he may stand
by her side and take her part, that other
love will always be tugging at his heart.
No man can be happy under such circum
stances. No wife who loves her husband
can be happy when he is unhappy. Don't
take any such risks,' little girl. Billy's
ma should be your friend. Make her
your friend. Keep her your friend. That's
all now. Good-bye, honey. , Your affec
tionate father. JOHN SNEBD.
P. S. For heaven's sake, don't let- Bill
see this letter.
(Copyright. 1907. by Casper S. Yost.) .
Why London Has Few Fires.
Philadelphia Public ledger. '
A striking illustration of the value
of an efficien body of fire fighters
and a thorough system of building in
spection Is furnished by the latest re
port of the operations of the London
fire brigade. The number of fires oc
curring in any city is an uncertain
quantity, hut the report named shows
that of the total fires the percentage of
serious conflagrations has been steadi
ly diminishing in London since 1897.
In 189S the percentage of serious fires
was 6.7; In 1905 it was 1.82. There are
in London from 3500 to 4000 fires in
a year. It has relatively fewer seri
ous fires than any other targe city,
and it has not had a fat&4 theater lire
within the memory of the oldest in
habitant. There are accommodations
for half a million people in the heaters
and concert halls of the metropolis,
and It is asserted that the theater-go-,
ing public 1b safer in a London place
of entertainment than in any similar
place in the world. In view of the im
mensity of the city the fire brigade
is not a vory numerous force. Un
der the jurisdiction of the county coun
cil there are 1382 firemen and 80 en
gines. The immunity of the city from
sweeping fires is largely due to fire
resisting building construction and
methodical and constant inspection.
Good "Old Summertime."
James H. Williams, able seaman, in ths In
dependent. W?'ve nailed the salty seas together
Old shipmate, you and I;
And never eared a fllMp whether
We slaved to live or die.
We crossed the wide Atlantic brine,
A tyrant in command:
And our Angers bled, till the sails were red.
On the banks of Newfoundland.
We've slanted through the brimming Trades,
Where storm-clouds never frown.
We've r a iced the Roaring: Forties throuh,
And rushed our Casting down.
We've sunk the Pole-star far below,
Sailed 'neath the Southern Cross,
Where ntful jack-o-lanterns glow.
Nor did we count it loss. J
I rannot tell the deeds we did.
When we were in our prime.
But I think of you. as I do of few.
My dear Old Summertime.
I tell the world my careless tale.
Because I love you well;
Tour voice is vast as a trumpet's blast.
But dear as a silver bell.
And when I clasp your hardened hand.
Old shipmate. itSW bIIes;
Tour grasp is strong as an Iron thong.
But true as a maiden's kiss.
The wonder is to-all the world.
That are still alive;
We fared upon a barren rock.
For four-score days and five. .
Where shall I And a stauncher friend,
A spirit more sublime.
My last and only sou-roarkee
For sou. Old Summertime!
under the trees of which one sees French
peasant girls sitting and knittfng: there
are many bare-headed French women
moving about, and now and then a
French man in a blouse pushing a cart
just a in France.
Xegroes In Separate Quarters.
If one would see the African side of this
French town he must go back of this
modern section to the hills above it. There
is what is known as the Village Naigre,
which may mean Black Village, or Negro
Village, as one wishes to translate it. The
houses in this quarter. are of only one
story; they are flat-roofed and at African
style.." There Arabs sit on the streets
chatting. Many He at full length upon
mats on the pavement, wra-pped up in
their gowns. There are Moorish coffee
houses where Arabs and Berbers are
drinking together as they sit cross-legged
on the floor, and there are Arab women
moving about, each finding her way only
through a peephole about as big around
as a wedding ring, which she has made in
the. white, sheetlike gown which she
wraps tightly about her. There are also
Berber girls with big earrings, their
cheeks 'and chins blue with tattooing.
-In addition to these characters there
are jugglers and story-tellers, with crowds
of Arab men and boys watching their
A CONDIMENT OF
AFLAT pocketbook never won a
Duke."
It Is appointed unto every heiress to
marry; and after marriage, the divorce
court.
The hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that spanks the world.
A kiss in time means nine more
afterwards.
All the world may be a stage, but a
great many of us have very poor stage
settings for- our performance.
Life Is a question mark and death a
period.
Do not have a pawnshop brain where
other people's ideas are stored, but get
in some fresh ones of your own.
H'e Is i true philosopher who can
look contented without a dollar in his
pocket.
Ctpe satisfactory thing about the day
of judgment is that there won't be any
yellow reporters there to sketch you In
your misery.
The road of life Is not smooth
asphalt by anv means; there are suffi
cient chug holes along it to make it .
PRACTICAL
makes good the deficit. Thifi happens
sometimes, but not often.
The department does not confine its in
sect fighting to the cotton boll veevil by
any means. It has farm-bred, college
trained scientists who are constantly
watching and combating the chinch bugs,
the various, moths and all' the others
which are a dangerous to the crops of
the North as the weevil Is to the South p
greatest crop.
San Jose Scale Locusts. .
Dr. L. O. Howard, the head of the
Entomological Bureau, and C. L. Marlatt,
next in command, are both devoted to the
practical side of insect study. It was
Marlatt who traveled through a large
portion of the Orient to find a parasite"
that would destroy or keep in check the
so-called San Jose scale that has done
such enormous damage in the 24 yearn
fiince it was introduced in California by
James Lick on some ornamentaW plants
Imported from the Orient.
Marlatt found no native parasite, but
his achievement was one of the most
brilliant of its sort ever recorded, nev
ertheless. He found a "predacious"
ladybird a neat footed bug much like
the American ladybird, but black, and
carrying two red spots which, in the
part of China surrrounding Pekin. its
home, feeds on the scale as the mahog
any ant feeds on the boll weevil in
Central America,
The story of the importation of a large
number of these bugs, only a single pair
of which survived the voyage, has been
told, and so has the story of Marlatt1
travels in search of a scale destroyer.
They were largely undertaken as a labor
of love, the Government paying only
about one-seventh of his expenses, and'
for some time after the Asiatic ladybirds
had been established here they did great
work. Neither in Asia nor America, how
ever, can they ever exterminate the scale,
since if the scale is exterminated or kept
below a certain limit the ladybirds die
also, as It !s their sole food.
It was found some time ago that a
for the old Oran. The French have
wiped out all vestige of it. It was prob
ably a port in the days of the Romans,
and it must have had a long history.
We know that the Mohammedans founded
a town here a thousand years ago and
along about 50 or fiO years before Colum
bus was moving about through the West
Indies trying to find a new way to the
Orient a Spaniard wrote that Oran then
had 6000 houses. 140 mosques and schools
equal to the colleges of Cordova. Grenada
and Seville. Some time after this Oran
was taken by Spain, hut it was later re
captured by the Moors and finally ac
quired by the French in 1831.
'A Tand of Rkfh Farms.
During my stay In the Province of Oran,
I have gone over a great part of it by
rail. The country is wonderfully rich and
much of it is covered with great fields
devoted to grain. Tt Is now Winter, and
pnly stubble to be" seen, but there are
straw stacks standing everywhere on the
landscape and the trains are loaded with
wheat and other cereals. The wheat is
handled in four-bushel bags, which are
piled high upon freight-cars and then cov
ered -with tarpaulins. The grain is
brought t the railroad on big-wheeled
carts with beds 15 or more feet in length.
They are hauled by mules hitched up
tandem, four mules to each cart. The
straw is carefully saved. Some of It Is
baled and sent to the stations, where it is
covered with canvas to protect it from
the weathei. The stacks on the farms
are plastered with mud, the earth here
forming a kind of cement when mixed
with water. This effectually protects
them from the rains, and the straw keeps
as fresh as though under cover.
I wish I could show you some of the
Algerian country through which I have
been riding for the past week or so. It
makes nje think of California. The sun
here is just as bright and It is so strong
that the clouds paint velvety blue shad
ows on the landscape. The sky is of the
same heavenly blue and the clouds fleecy
white. AH sorts of fruits grow as well,
and the crops look much the same.
BY MARCCS V. ItOBBINS.
interesting to most of us as we drive
along.
Some people's ideas are like the
vermiform appendix entirely super
fluous and need to be cut off.
Give some men money and it will
disappear like a snow bank under a
cbinook breeze.
There is almost ah infinitude lying
between the definition as to what con
stitutes a good time, by a lady from
Boston and one by a Fourth-street
tough.
The actor and the author are never
satisfied at the size of type used to
call attention to their efforts.
Hitch your wagon to a star, but
dM't make a mistake as to the wagon.
Ycflirs may be a light democrat rather
than a six-ton lumber truck.
Some men will be 20 minutes late
when Gabriel blows his blast to wake
the dead.
Our manners are like hinges; they
grow rusty and make an ill-natured
noise from lack of use.
No sunflower eA'er amounted to much
in the shade, and the successful busi
ness man has got to keep himself be
fore the public eye to succeed.
Solomon lived at just the right time
STUDENTS
Continued From Page Forty-Two,
spray of lime, sulphur and salt waeh Is
worse than the ladybird for the ac ale,
and the use of the wash has reduced the
scale to sucn numbers that the lady
birds have probably starved to death; at
all events although the pair brought
here In 1902 multiplied many fold. In many
parts of the country, a few of their de
scendants are now to be seen in the
United States.
Mr. Marlatt. like most of the Agricul
tural Department ecientists, was born on
a farm and became interested in Insects
aa a farmer's boy. He lived In Kansas
when young and has witnessed two or
three of the devastating grasshopper visi
tations there. He knows ae much about
the grasshopper and all other locust? as
any man alive. His monograph on the
periodical cicada. Issued as a bulletin bv
the department, is the final authority
upon that insect.
Although knowiv as the 17-year locusts
In parts of the country where it appear
every 17 years. It is the 13-year locus in
other parts where Its period is four years
shorter. In a general way the 17-year
locust affects the Northern States, the
13-year variety the Southern, though
there are 17-year locusts as far south
as Northern Georgia they follow the
high ground of the- Allegheny Moun
tains and 13-year locusts as far north
as Southern Iowa. There are few of
either sort-west of Missouri, and prac
tically none In parts of the country
where pine forests have ever grown.
Despite their periodicity locusts of
this variety make their appearance in
some part of the country practically
every year.' They are divided into
broods, and Mr. Marlatt has looked up
the period of every one. There were
17-year locusts last year in a dozen
states Massachusetts being the most
easterly, Georgia the most southerly
and Illinois the most westerly. This
year the greatest brood ever observed
Is due -in 13 states. It Is of the 13
year period, and the states it will In
fest include some of the states visited
Tn other respects Algeria Is far differ
ent from any part of the L'nited states.
There are no fences and no barns. The
people of the country live In structures of
stone covered with stucco and washed
with the brightest of colors. I saw a sky
blue farmhouse yesterday, ard stopped at
a rose pink one the other afternoon.
There are excellent roads, but no wagons
upon them. Everything is of the cart va
riety, and there are more mules and don
keys than horses. Oxen are used largely
for plowing. Now and then one sees an
ungainly camel eialking sullenly onward,
and not infrequently a caravan of mules
or a drove of dog-like donkeys loaded with
grain.
Among the beautiful features of the
landscape are the vineyards. They spot
every part of the Tell, and prosper in the
worst lands and on the burning soil. The
Algerian climate and soil are just right
for producing ali kinds rt fine wines, and
it In said that there is not a spot in the
three provinces that cannot be made to
raise grapes.
Algeria is now sending to France some
thing like $30,000,000 worth of wine every
year, and It will eventually export wine
to all parts of the world.' There are 25,
000 vineyards already in working order
and some of theee cover many acres.
Wine Is to be seen everywhere.. Long
lines of teams haul It over the roads and
almost every train carries cars loaded
with hogsheads.
Indeed, wine Is cheaper here than min
eral water. I have two bottles of wine
every day on my table at the hotels, and
If I buy a lunch at a railroad restaurant
a quart of wine is thrown In without ex
tra charge. The wine is good, too, and
Is the pure juice of the grape.
Algeria Is now producing more than
enough wines every year to give two gal
lons to every man, woman, and child In
the United States, and her grapegrowing
lands have as yet barely been touched. I
see vast areas of vacant lands among the
vineyards and new vines are being set
out. X.
I have never seen grapes grow so lux
uriantly and produce so abundantly any
where else. The vines are cut back every
year, making their trunks knotty and
gnarly. The main stems ire not as high
as your knee. From these stumps long
branches come out from season to seaon.
and these bear the grapes. Some of the
grapes are of a rich navy blue, not large,
but full of juice and sweetness. Others
are crimson and others white. The latter
are as big as damson plumsand surpass
in flavor and color the finest of the Mala
gas. FRANK G. CAR PENT RR.
WORDS
to en joy himself. Jf he were alive
now the newspancrs would cartoon
him to the limit and he would have the
State Legislature investigating his
conduct every session. ' ' t
Any one would think after reading
the Book of Job that Job must have
jusc voted the Democratic ticket and
then been sorry for it.
If you see it in some papers you
know it ain't so.
Good morning! Have you paid vour
gas bill?
When In doubt, go" without.
The farmer, he pays the freight.
Hasn't scratched yet, the railroad
rate bill.
Jonathan, the man that made the,
initiative famous.
Biggest circulation on earth, the
Gulf Stream.
The bitterness of life is not meas
ured out to ua in homeopathic doses.
We generally get enough to make
a wry face.
When the primitive man was "nun
pry, he cried for something to eat.
When the civilized man is hungry he
cries for a job; that is, unless he is a
hobo or a millionaire.
- Grant's Pass, Or., March 1.
OF NATURE
by the 17-year brood of 19fl$t Indiana,
Kentucky. Tennessee and Georgia
being among them.
The coming of the broods In future
years has been worked out in the Mar
latt bulletin till 1914.
(Copyright. 1907. by Dexter Marshall.)
Indian Cure for Neuralgia.
East Indian Review.
Here is a simple method of curing;
facial neuralgia. If the neuralgia is In
the right side of the face the left hand
should be placed in a basin of water
as hot as can be borne. Or if neuralgia
Is in the left side of thejface then the
right hand should be placed in the hot
water. Tt is asserted that in this way
relief may be-obtained in less than Ave
minutes. The explanation Is that the
two nerves which have the greatest
number of tactile nerve endings are the
fifth and the median nerves. As the
fibers of these two nerves cross any
impulse conveyed to the left hand will
affect the right side of the face, or -If
applied to the right hand will affect
the left side of the race. This is on
account of the crossing of the cords.
A Dream Girl.
Charles andbur.
You will come on day In a waver of love,
Tender- as dew, impetuous an rain.
The tan of rh bun will be on your skin.
The purr f the breeze in your murmuring
speech;
Tou will pose with a hill-flower grace.
You will come, with your alim. expressive
arms.
A poire of the head no sculptor has caughi.
And nuances spoken with aboulder and nerfe.
Your face in a pass-and-rpass of moou
As many as skies in delicate change
Of -cloud and blue and flimmsrlng un.
Yet,
You may not come, O girl of a dream.
We may but pasa a the world gon by
AnH tak from look of eym into yea,
A film ot hope, and a memories day.