The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-30

on the edge of a revolution, the Sultan
cannot control his people, and brigand
chiefs-men like Raisuli, who kidnapped
Perdicaris-are in control. l shall go
from Gibraltar across to Tangier This
is the chief port of the country, where
the foreign ministers and consuls live
and the news center for all matters re-
lating to the Moors and the foreigners.
Raisuli is operating near there, and |
shall be able to give live pictures of the
situation as it is today. 1 shall write Il
letter about the young sultan, who is
one of the most extravagant rulers on
earth, although his people are among the
poorest, and shall tell you about his
harem and his slave girls and wives [
shall have also a story about Uncle Sam
in Morocco, showing the queer features
of Moorish business and trade and how
our goods can be sold there. l will de-
scribe the extortions of the government
and at the same time give live pictures
of the turbulent people.
In African France.
Leaving Morocco / shall next make my
way eastward into the great French colo
MES. France has more land in Africa
than almost any other European power.
She owns something like four million
square miles, or more than one-third of
the continent. A part of this extends
from Morocco clear along the Meditcr-
ranean to the Libyan desert. 1t EN-
braces Algeria and Tunisia, lands which
for ages were the granaries Of the world;
they fed the Phoenicians and the Romans
and are now feeding the French.
France has had control of these coun-
tries for just about three-quarters of a
century, and she has there shown what
she can do in the way of colonization. l
understand that Algeria has excellent
roads and that l shall be able to get to
almost any part of 1t by train or by
carriage. | want to visit the famous
ruins of North Africa to tell you how
old Carthage looks today and to get
down to a ruined city, as old as Pompeli,
which the French are now digging out of
the sands of the Sahara. That city is
Timgad. 1t was twice as large as Pompii
and it's ruins are in many respects far
more wonderful.
In the Sahara.
One would naturally think that the
desert of Sahara could never change.
That vast region of sand and rock, lar
ger than the whole United States would
appear to be acknowledgements deserted
and forever dead. This is not the case
The greater part of the Sahara is now
under the control of France. Its GASES
are being increased by means of artesian
wells. Roads and railroads are being
built into it, and it has become accessi-
BILE as never before. The French have
established large number of military
stations in it, and they have now camel
police, which protects the caravan tracks.
shall first go down into this desert
on the edge of Morocco, where the dan
gers are now greatest and later shall
visit the GASES there and those of the re-
gions farther east.
After / leave the Shara l will de-
scribe desert life in Trpoll, in the desert
of Libya. and also in the great Arabian
desert which lies east of the Nile. In the
GASES / hope to visit the date plantations,
which furnish the chief food of these arid
regions, and to show how they are now
being increased by the new means of
French irrigation.
Sultan in North Africa.
Turkey still has soVe possessions In
north Africa, although Egypt has been
gobbled up by the British. Tripoli is still
untouched, and it is the most Mohamme-