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jin the state has depressed business
but all have confidence tn the
future, and that Florida will have
a steady, legitimate growth from
I now on. Tampa was just on .he
| edge of the big hurricane last
September and no damage result-
! ed here.
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ALGIERS AWES ARABS
Antedates Christianity by
at Least Two Centuries.
(Cmtlitri from Pace 1)
I
Ing bold and fixing up thing*.
Tarpon Springs, 27 miles north
They ara way behind the Pacific
coast state« in that respect, but on the gulf, is the base of the
are making- improvements. Florida sponge industry and a very in
is working out a big road program teresting place to visit. Sponges
that will be an attraction to mo that would not go in a washtub
torists. The Old Spanish Trail is are on exhibition, as well as all
sizes for commercial use. Many
being rebuilt about 600 miles a-
curious and novelties are also on
cross the northern part of the
I sale in the shops. A large open
state, and a road is now under
court with cells of barred doors
construction that will circle around
hold
the
separate
through the southern part. There like a jail,
is a private toll road circling Lake “catches” of the sponge divers, who
Ochechobee and across a section go down as deep as 35 fathoms
of the Everglades,
coming
into for the best sponges, a dangerous
to
Palm Beach, but no road to the occupation, sometimes having
west coast across from Miami, ex- fight sharks and octopuses, while
the heavy water pressure often in-
cept that under construction.
All
permanent
disability,
Tampa has a tourist bureau open flicts
at all times where one can register along the beaches as far south as
and get information. There are St. Petersburg we saw pieces of
water
sponges
washed
desks for writing,
checker
and shallow
-card games going on, and it is ashore, These, however, are of no
generally full. “Bachman’s Million value.
Billy Sunday was just finishing
Dollar Band” plays every afternoon
In Plant Park, where seats ac an engagement at Mobile, Ala.,
comodate several thousand people, when we passed through, as we
and a splendid program is given. learned afterwards, and will open
We attended the concert Sunday here the later part of this month.
evening, and it was delightful to
Under the caption, “Still Carry
sit under the large shade treeB Insurance,” the Orlando Reporter
and listen to the excellent music, Star printed the following: Mayor
with the temperature just right Wall, of Tampa, opposed the lo !
without any wraps. We have seen' cation of the Billy Sunday taber
no mosquitoes here and very few nacle on account that it would in
flies.
crease the fire risk. But Billy claims
Business men admit that
the that the men who take hie advise
collapse of the real estate boom thereby avoid the fire risk.
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Paris.—A mysterious tomb, regarded
with awe by the lowly. Arabs of the
region, stands on the crest of a lofty
hill, about fifty miles from Algiers.
It is known as I.e Tombeau de la
Chretlenne, the tomb of the Christian
woman, although French scholars re
gard It, without proof, as a Punic
structure antedating the Christian era
by at least two centuries.
So little 1» actually known of this
mausoleum that small wonder Is »cca-
sfoned by the fantastic legend handed
down about It In truly Oriental style
throughout
the
countryside.
The
Ara^s themselves call it Khour Er
Eoumia, which «leans European or
Christian tombs, the use of the plural
suggeFting thut they regarded It as a
multiple tomb.
Even their legend
throws little light on the origin vf the
strange edifice.
The mystery that hangs about It is
deepened by current Arab legends,
which Imply the fixed belief that much
undiscovered treasure lies burled in
side.
Al the top of the hill which rises a
thousand feet «above the Mediter
ranean, this extraordinary relic of au-i
rlqufty rears Itself an additional 100 j
fpet. The structure is a circular maanl
of dresi-ed stone, at least 200 feet In j
diameter.
Sculptured Columns.
Sixty engaged columns, sculptured}
In relief and resembling the Ionic In |
style, decorate the lower circumfer
ence of rhe tambour, a drum-s! aped
edifice, originally surmounted ’ v a
I
lofty cone of rock.
At the font car
dinal points of the compass huge false
portals are sculptured.
A design on
each of them, resembling a great « toss .
Is responsible for the present French
DHiue of I he ruin.
In an effort lo discover the treuswe
two small tunnels were long ag< dug
through the center. On one side near
the summit Is a considerable depres-1
Alon made b.v Baba Mohammed Ben
Othmun, pasha of Algeria, in 1776, j
when lie used cannon to demolish the [
I tomb
The French government has
now pur a stop to the work of treasure (
hunters and other vandals and some 1
years ago restored one of the prlncl- 1
pal facades.
Entrance is possible through a low
and very narrow pussage which earlier
excavations revealed in the substruc- 1
»lire beneath one of the false portals, |
that facing the east. This entrance (
leads to a fairly spacious vaulted !
chamber whose solid stone masoned
walls had apparently never horn«- dec
orations. But the right-hand wall has !
small relief sculptures of a lion and ,
lioness.
Directly underneath these b.is-re- i
llefs another short, constricted pas- 1
sage, which has to be traversed on
hands and knees, leads to seven as
cending steps and then into a spacious
and beautifully vaulted gallery built
of large blocks of neatly dressed
stone. This gallery, spiral In fornj, is
more than 400 feet long. At the end a
third passage leads first into a small I
chamber and then into a larger one.
This was supposed, until recently, to
be rhe exact center of the monu
ment. but it is now known that ft is
somewhat off center, whether through
•accident or design has not been deter
mined.
Place for Cinerary Urns.
The purpose of rhe chambers is also
In doubt. Nothing has been found In
them or in the spiral gallery. It may
be supposed that the first was a vesti
bule to the second. In which three
niches are sunk in the bare walls. It
Is a further guess that the niches were
Intended to hold cinerary urns. It is
pu* slide (hat these supposed mortuary
Chambers are blinds, like the four por
tale. and that the real vuults lire deep
In the foundations, approuclied by
Vertical shafts with lioi'izootal pas-
sages at the bottom.
Tills manner of entombing the dead,
filling up aud disguising the shafts,
after each interment, corresponds with
the Phoenician and Punic practices of
antiquity. If this supposition be true,
the totnb still guards its secret, and
■ the local Arabic tradition of the mul
tiple tomb is not without meaning.
I
The builder, whoever he may have
I been, chose well^the site of his last
i resting place. To the north, a thou
sand feet below, stretches the waters
I of the Mediterranean ; to the south,
I long green slopes reach Into the frult-
I ful valley of the Mitldja. Along rhe
| southern horizon the cedar bearing
i Atlas mountains rear tjieir purple
wail. from which clear streams de-
I scend to make the valley prosperous.
Plant Life It Traced
to North Pole Origin
I
Philadelphia.—The
evolution
ot
modern plants and of modern clirnafea
began together at the North pole some
six or seven million years ago. when
the last of the dinosaurs were still
lumbering about the earth.
It con*
tiuued with increasing speed through
the tertiary uge, which followed, until
the comparatively recent time of the
glaciers. It was during this time, ac
cording to the record of the rocks,
that the plants of the earth began to
show evidences of being divided Lnto
growth sones Influenced by climate;
until then all the earlier plants were
of types such as d * jw grow in ths
tropics, and they were distributed
evenly over the whole earth, Indicat
ing the prevalence of a uniformly
warm climate.
the moo Ung of
Amotjraa
;;
I
tteor.v that the first temperate sone
pl mt life evolved la the Polar regions.
T te higher forms ef (ewerlng plants,
he said, are primarily sdaptatlofib to
u climate of alternating warm and
cold seasons, and their final Invasion
of the still uniformly warm tadplrt
has been recent «nd Is a matter ot
competition with the plants they found
there rather than a response to a
climatic urge.
It Is In the tropica today that the
only relies of the vegetation of an
earlier world, the cycada and aiiullat
plants, remain to eontast with the late-
coming modern plants for a foothold.
Plant fossils of tertiary age from the
tropics are very Utile different from
the living plants of tl>e same aeglons,
whereas tertiary foaslls from the re
gions of the earth where winter comes
show evidences of radical amj rapid
evolution. _________________
lts - p . v ,
March 3, 1927.
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a thj i.> die-
LiZiUi 6Uiili*d. -¡LaC ui.e.c.ij ;
. 6
geo contained lu two te ¿spoonfuls ot
afv cettxrd to be u mere superstition,
water were converted into helium. It
because of the Mchievenieut« thun Car
is reasonable to believe that 200.00«
recorded by science Iu the ascertufn-
kllowujt hours of energy would be
ment <»f radio active substance*.
liberated.
“for example let uh lake a lump I
"It Is my honest conviction aleag
of coal. Scfeuce has ascertained that
scientific lines that the time Is com
the lump is simply hu IncomprvhcA-
ing. suy In about 200 yeurs, when the
albij Urge number of electrical par
energy of the atom will be so con
ticles clustering together.
centrated us to do the work of the
“Now U these particles In that lump
entire human race.”
of coal could be liberated ami con
trolled.
They would provide vastly
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SEES PUVER1Y
ENDED BY ATOM
Scientist Makes Glowing Pro-
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Philadelphia.—If foe alum nuclei,
which speeds through the air at Uie
rate of 1,200 miles per eeeonfi. could
be separated from the electrvua.
which It gather« during the Hight, and
tightly packed together In one sokd
uiass, the weight alone of one cubic
Inch ng such matter would exceed 100.-
000.000 tons, Dr. Karl
Frederick
Beblissel, one of Germany's most vrn
iuent scientists, touring the United
States, and Incidentally attending the
sessions ot tbe Aaiertcao scientists
here, said In an exclusive interview.
I
'The time Is not far distant, only
a few hundred years. In tbe ussier
in which science measures time,” said
Doctor Schllssel, "when, with libera
tion of the atom, man will forget tHt«
ever was such a thing as poverty and
suffering.
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