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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-11-14

The new greenhouse. s0s N. KY, is
open for business. O0t26s
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-11-14

See Jake Pierce for your meats.
Phone Sc, Star Meat Market. 19tf
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-11-14

L. B. Boellner. the JeWeler. sells
It cheaper. 7stf
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10

like three hundred acres, and it had mag
nihcent mosque, with a minaret or tower
10 feet high This tower was decorated
with green porcelain tiles, and it was a
wonder Of beautiful workmanship. The
ruins of it still stand, the most of the
tower being intact, but the mosque has
long since crumbled to dust.
The great walls of Mansoura are still to
be seen in some places solid as when
first built and in others broken down and
crumbled The whole space covered By
the city is now a rich .ineyard. the vines
growing close up to the walls and hugging
the foot of the great tower. crowd of
Berbers were picking the large white
grapes into baskets as | drove through the
ruins and tried to people them with the
great army and the gay throng of 600 years
ago. 1t was impossible amid such sur
roundings to rebuild, even in imagination,
the immense edifices, the magnificent pal
aces, the great houses and the gardens
traversed by streamets as described by
the historians; but the scenes recalled to
me some of the verses of Omar Khayyam,
the great Persian poet, about the evan
essence Of all things earthly. Yakoub's
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sidI Bou MedIn.

One of tho most interesting OF the
mosques lies several miles from Tlemcen.
on the side of the mountains. 1t Is that
of sidi Bou Medin, one OF the most famous
scholars of the Moorish civilization OF 800
years ago This man studied at Granada
and Fec, and then Travelled to Mecca He
lectured at Bagdad, Seville and Cordova,
and ended his career by lecturing here.
This mosque is a wonder of fine workman
ship. II Is fioored with mosaic its doors
are OF bronze and It's decorations are OF
Moorish lace work of wonderful patterns
Near il there was a famous Moorish col
lege and while I walked through the
mosque itself l could hear the boys sing
ing out their Koran as they swayed back
and forth, going over and over the Arabic
sentences written on their wooden states.
l found many turbaned worshippers at
prayers inside. and the red-faced keeper
grew quite angry when l asked II l might
make their photographs.
on my way back 10 town stopped at an
Arab cafe and drank cOffee with a half
dozen dark-fRced Berbers who had Just left
the mosque. They were bearded and tur-
baned. They had taken on their slippers
as they sat down TO drink, and l observed
that their bare feet were clean and the
toe nails almost as well cared for as
though a manicure, or rather a pedicure.
had worked upon them. The men looked
strangely at me from under their turbans.
and evidently thought me as much a curl
osity as l considered them. Nevertheless.
they were friendly, and We drank our eof-
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10
Ruins of TIemcen.

All this is not in Italy, Greece or India,
the countries to which we look for the
monuments Of the past. 1t is in this black
continent of Africa, on the edge OF savage,
turbulent and warning Morocco. thirty miles
south OF the Mediterranean and about 100
miles from Oran, the chief seaport of
western Algeria. 1t is so far out of the
line of travel that strangers seldom come
here, but Il is one Of the most interesting
places on the continent.
The Tlemcen Of today Is a city Of, per
hRps, 1900, situated in a beautiful valley,
at an elevation about as high above the sea
as the average height of the A1leghenies
1t has behind 1t great bare rugged noun
talns, which are capped with huge rocks,
making them look like Notifications thrown
UP by the gods. and their strength as for
tllcations was probably one of the reasons
for the site of these ancient cities.
Another reason was the valley and plains
lying below. They are among the richest
in Algeria. Standing upon the walls here,
as far as the eye can reach there is moth
ing but vineyards and orchards and rich
fields of grain. There are hundreds Of
thousands OF olive trees loaded with fruit.
There are rich gardens and fields of 20
tatoes below the city until II meets the hills
on tho horizon. White roads cut here and
there through this expanse Of green all
lead UP to the walls of Tlemcen.
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here at long intervals, but now it has
been proved that the whole bark can be
tapped without i'll effect. 1t would seem
that the latex has very little TO do with
the trees nourishment and in one season
a good specimen will yield seven pounds
of fine rubber.
A series of oblique cuts are made across
the stem and a cup Put at the end to re-
ceive the milk This is the herringbone
system and may run from the trees base
to a point six feet up Some of the finer
trees have yielded as much as sixteen
pounds of ane rubber in a year, but this is
exceptional.
The profits Of rubber culture are tempt
ing. Thus an investor who acquires one
acre of G-year-old trees at say 1900 may
look for an income of that amount from
the milk of his trees. These will live for
100 years, and It seems that the older they
get the more hardy they become and the
larger and more certain their yield.
1t will be many years before the new
plantations Of Ceylon and Malaga are
ready for tapping, and the most accessible
regions of the Amazon have been tapped to
death, as the dealers of Para put It. The
BRAZILIAN export is now stationary, al
though collectors have gone further and
further afield into the Amazonian jungle.
Already the Germans are planting at
Saluafata, near Apia IN Samoa; and even
I'm far off BOrneo 10000 Young trees have
been planted within the last year or two.
The great demand and limited supply ac-
counts for the enormous profits derived
by King Leopold Of Belgium from the wild
rubber vines OF the Congo forests.
There is a vast rubber concern operating
in the Upper Congo, which in turn is d.
vided into smaller concerns One OF these
operates in territory 1900 miles in ex-
tent, and a 500 share In II is worth to-
day 5000 In four years this minor COM
pany paid 100000 in net profits.
The milk is brought 20 the preparing
house I'm cans and there poured into pans
with few drops OF acetic acid to induce
coagulation. Then the rubber pancakes
are rolled by hand or put through a mangle,
and after drying they are ready for ship
ment.
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Among the Nntives.

But let me describe the Tlemsen of today.
A live dog is better than a dead lion and
the Algeria of the present is more inter
esting than that of the dead centuries of
the past. l like the swing and go of this
French colony, the jaunty air of the SOL
ders as they strut about I'm their fat. red
pantaloons and short jackets and their tall
caps of blood red; the stately walk of the
Arabs as they go on slippered feet through
the streets; and above all the long gowns
and tall hats of some of the native gentle
men of Tlemcen. We think s. much to
pay for derby and IS a big price for a
black silk tile but these Tlemcen natives
pay quite as much for straw hats. Their
hats are however, gorgeous beyond de-
scription, and they stand from twelve to
eighteen inches above the crown of the
head. They are made of straw as finely
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10

One Of the industries of Tlemcen is max
ing such hats. The town is quite manu-
featuring center. The natives-I mean the
Berbers and Moors-seem to be all engaged
in house industries of one kind or other.
went through street after street lined with
little shops, lighted only by the doors at the
front, containing men and boys weaving
clothes, embroidering caps for women and
hats for men, sewing on slippers and shoes
and working at the various other trades Of
the country. The weaving is all done with
native wool upon rude hand looms. In the
dirtiest of shops the most beautiful Of white
burnouses are made, and little round caps
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10
Ruined City of Mansoura.

next drove to the ruins Of Mansoura, on
the other side of Tlemcen. That city was
built when Tlemcen was great and when it
had population of 125,OOO souls, Tlemcen
was then noted as a city of light and genius.
Its kings were lovers Of art, science and lit
erature. They had their own armies of dis
cipllned soldiers, and they had a police
force, judges and courts. They coined their
own money, and had schools and colleges.
This was several hundred years before
America was discovered.
1t was Just about that same time that
Mansoura sprang up almost In a night on
the plains An Arab general, Abou Yakoub,
had beseiged Tlemcen and had encamped
with his army about three miles from the
city. The seige lasted seven years, and
Mansoura was constructed during the in
tervals of fighting by Yakoub. For many
years it was rival Of Tlemcen. Its walls
and forts inclosed a space of something
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10
These Hustling Americans

At a recent gathering in Baltimore two
men from different sections of the country
were discussing the capabilities of nervous,
restless Americans" for being most slow
and deliberate. The Marylander claimed
the palm for slowness for the inhabitants
of the eastern shore of his state.
'It is a saying hereabouts," said he,
that IL oysters had been created with legs
the people of the eastern shore would all
have starved to death"
The folks around Mount Monadnock
have a saying that beats yours" remarked
a Vermont man. "Of one man up there IL
used to be observed that IL you were TO give
Hiram Higgins forty yards start ck-still
would catch him!"-Harpers Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10

Wild and cultivated trees rhe collector OF
wild rubber bleeds his trees with sharp
machete and taps only such giants as he
knows Will eXude in a few weeks a big yield
of rubber. The reverse Is the case on a
cultivated plantation, where the greatest
care is taken Of every tree and only a small
quantity OF juice extracted from each, for
the rubber planter does not think so
much Of a trees yield for one year as
for fifty. and accordingly he studies the
trees health. In tapping the bark Is pene-
trated so as to get at the tiny tubes without
inturing the wood. And IL is surprising
what rubber tree will endure.
In the old days tapping was done eau
tiously by means OF an inclsion here and
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Fortified City.

The city is entered by gates. 1t was a
fortified town in the past and the French
have fortified it today. The high walls
have port holes at every few feet, through
which rifles and other guns can be thrust,
companies OF soldiers are always moving
TO and fro through the streets, and the
citadel where the sultans Of the past had
their gorgeous residences many centuries
ago. is now a barracks, prison and hos
pital for the Algerian troops. It's old walls
and gateways still stand, and the min
aret of it's mosque, ninety feet high. over
looks the rest of the city. About 500 years
ago this citadel contained some of the
wonders of the world. II had a clock
which was celebrated two centuries De-
fore that on the Strasburg cathedral was
made, and in one of the galleries, which
was paved with marble and onyx, stood
a solid silver tree upon which were many
species of singing birds made of gold
! and silver.
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covered with velvet and embroidered with
gold and silver are turned out in places no
better than dog kennels.
The whole of the native quarter is mix
ture of the gorgeous and the squalid. A
man will wear an S. hat and at the same
time have bare feet and legs bare half
way to the knee and dirty white gown.
A woman will go along wrapped in white
flannel blanket much the worse for wear
and on her head will be one of these gold
embroidered caps just about as big around
and of the same shape as a tin funnel
such rs is used in our kitchens. The cap
will be hidden by the blanket and she Will
keep 1t so tight about her face that only
a hole the size of a postage stamp can be
seen. Through this hole peeps a liquid
black eye. and it is only when she stumbles
or when the amorous wind tears open her
garments that you see any other part or
her person Even little girls are often 80
draped, although some show their faces.
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grow to an average height OF six feet in
ten months.
The, Hevea brasilensis at the beginning
is liable to attack by all kinds OF insects
and animals The delicate little shrubs are
transplanted a little later. but they require
great care until they are nearly six feet
high. When a rubber plantation is four
years old very little work Is needed; the
trees are much less subject TO pests and
diseases than an ordinary orchard.
In its fifth year the heavea seeds freely
in clusters. and in Ceylon the February
air is scented with the sweet blossom
OF the rubber trees. AS TO the tapping
for the precioGs latex or milk. OF course
the processes differ widely in the case OF
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10

doubt OF its profits, once a really mature
plantation has been established and the
trees are in trim TO be regularly tapped or
MIXED.
Cultivation in such countries as Ceylon
begins by selecting land for the nursery
with a good supply OF water close by.
Jungle growth is cut down and set fire TO
when fairly dry. Next the whole soil is
turned over to a depth Of fifteen inches
and all stumps and stones taken out and
the whole made smooth.
The land is then divided up into beds
of twenty feet by four feet, with inter-
secting drains. The coolies then put the
seeds in by means OF pointed stakes. and
planted six inches apart these seeds should
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CCopyrisht.

(Copyrsht. 1901. by Frank @. Carpentor)
0LEMCEN, Africa, March 7.--(spoc-
ial Correspondence Of The Beef
Come with me and my Moham-
IGDElM medau draEoman. Mustapha. ana
80 take a walk this bright Sunday
morning through the Debit OF North Africa.
We arc in a city which was famous when
Agra was at the height Of its glory, and
enc which has mosques and tombs con-
tanning Moorish decorations which will
compare In their beauty with those of the
famed cities Of India. There are doors OF
bronze in the Mosque OF Sidi Bou- Medln
as beautiful as those at the entrance TO
the capitol at Washington, and equal in
their fine workmanship TO those Of Chi
berti at Florence. There are temples OF
Mohammcdan worship hundreds Of years
old which have n beauty greater than the
mosques OF Cairo and Constantinople and
all were constructed when Europe was still
semi-civilized and hundred years or so
before the new world OF America began to
be Not far from these mosques are the
remains of a ruined city. which surpassed
Pompeii in extent and glory and in an
other direction is the tomb Of the man who
built thai city, with the Arabs praying
In and about 1t today
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New French Towns.

Ne" FFench TOWNS
The Tlemcen of today is largely COM
posed of new French buildings. The streets
French streets. There is a square I'm the
center Of the town where the people meet
to walk about, and there is a park outside
it filled with great plane trees and Wild
Bots de Boulonge. About six years ago the
city was first reached by railroad, and IL
now has two trains each way every day.
On my way here I stopped at Sidi Bel
Abbes. a French settlement of 1900 poo
pie, which has grown up within few
years. Sidi Bel Abbes is named after a
Mohammedan saint and It has its Arab
quarter today. The city is built in tho
shape of a rectangle with great walls about
II, and, like most Of these Algerian towns,
II has It's military quarter. This Is inhab-
tied by several companies of the foreign
soldiers employed by the French to defend
Algeria. They are composed OF Swiss, Poles,
Germans and such other riff-raff as can
be enlisted at n few cents a day. The
troops there vary in number. at times
reaching as many as 5000.
Sdi Bel Abbes has its regular concerts
by the military band; It has a theater
where they are now playing BOX and
Cox" and also a cafe Chantant," where
the songs and dances are even more
wicked than those of Paris itself Indeed
things are moving fast in this French Sec
ton of the African continent.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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III a
WI worth nearly $50 a pound and
only 1000 tons year available
ISEEN for use in world that could US
- double the quantity, 1t is no won
der that plantations of hevea and Fiscus
elastics are regarded as so many gold
mines.
Brazil last year provided rather more
than half OF the worlds supply-3s,0OO tons.
Fine Para is stll the markets highest
standard and accordingly to the Amazon
and her tributaries men are lured as others
are lured TO golden Australia. Moreover
artificial planting is in progress all over
the tropics, especially in Ceylon, the Malay
peninsula, India and Mexico.
Borneo and Java, too. are beginning to
enter the markets with crude rubber, and
so are Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
the Philippines Hawaii. the Seychelles
the west coast OF Africa and the West
Indies. Last season almost the whole sup
ply Of the African west coast, about 1890
tons, was sold In advance, owing TO the
great demand for tires for automobiles.
But, like gold nature guards this com
modify with Jealous care and throws about
II the terrors OF fevers, poisonous reptiles
and hostile savages. It is believed that the
basin of the Amazon could supply the
whole world with rubber could only the
natural obstacles be overcome.
The Amazon Indians cure their rubber
for the market by dipping a paddle in the
thick latex or milk Of the rubber tree and
then whrling IL over a smoky fire made
from special kind OF nut until the water
Is evaporated and leaves a thin film Of
rubber This process is repeated time after
time. until a ball OF crude rubber larger
than a mans head Is built up.
on cultivated rubber estates the material
Is coagulated in cakes known I'm the trade
as biscuits. Rubber experts are convinced
that the demand will exceed the supply for
the next fifty years at least; for while arti-
fetal plantations In one region are quite
hardy in others they have 70 be cared for
like a delicate child.
AS 70 the demand. there is perhaps no
article I'm nature in more general use
ranging from a woman's waterproof TO
electrical engineering. The last few seasons
OF motor vehicles have increased the de-
mand for rubber by nearly 100000 a
year
II is no wonder that chemists and in
vehtors have striven for generations to
discover some substitute for natural rubber.
but all efforts have so far been IN vain.
AS to artificial cultivation there can be no
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Through Ruins of Cities Which We're Great Five Hundred Years As

eide Of the world are clothed. II you saw
a party OF them on the street you would
think they had picked up their bed blan-
ksts and started out for great mas
querade. II you were man you could
not possibly set near enough TO examine
them, but one OF my lady friends has told
me Just how they are dressed. Under those
blankets they have baggy trousers which
come about half way to the ankle. and
above these Jackets of embroidery with one
or two vests under them. They wear
sashes about the waist and undergarments
OF fine gauze
At home the ladies either go barefooted
or wear slippers OF velvet embroidered with
gold They plat their hair in long braids
and tie it up I'm knots behind the head.
They wear the little gold caps have al
ready described and tie them on with
cords Of gold thread under the chin. Those
who can AFFORD It are loaded with jewelry.
They have bracelets and anklets and some
wear gold rings In their ears. Even the
children wear jewelry. 1 see little girls
with earrings almost as big around as tho
bottom of n tin cup and anklets OF silver
as thick as their own little fingers.
The Arab men have gowns of white
wooden material striped with silk bound
in by sashes at the waist. Under this
they often wear baggy trousers and over
# white wooden burnoose of fine texture.
The richer men sometimes have a sort OF
an overcoat of fine navy blue cloth em-
broidered with silk and made In the shape
of burnoose. Some OF the men wear
stockings and some riding horseback have
instead long. red boots of the finest Morocco
leather which are almost as soft as
wool. over the foot they have a shoe
covering the boot to the ankle, and to this
shoe a spur is attached. The poorer Arabs
wear \hiacks, long gowns of a night-shirt
shape, made of camels hair and wool in
white and black stripes.
Many Of the native garments are made
in Tlemcen. This town has long been
noted for its good workmanship and its
lace, hats. shawls and blankets are FAM
Gus. Among other garments are soma
made for the Jews, and especially the
bright red shawls which they use here for
mourning
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Built to Ghost OF Candy Man.

When Tlemcen was in the height of It's
glory II had seventy mosques. One OF
the most famous was built in honor OF a
confectioner saint who preached to the
children as they gathered around his candy
stall and whom, 1 doubt not, he attracted
by giving them sweets. He became 50
popular that the sultan made him tutor
TO his three sons. This angered the grand
wiser, and he had the candy saint con-
demned as a sorcerer and beheaded out
side the gates. Shortly after this the
ghost of the candy saint appeared before
the sultan and made a complaint, and
the sultan tied up the grand wiser hand
and foot and threw him into vat OF &C.
ment As the cement hardened the grand
wiser hardened with II. and he was thus
buried alive in a solid block Of stone After
this the sultan built, the mosque. which re-
mains to this dayi This happened just
100 odd years before Columbus discovered
America / have no doubt It is true, for
I saw the mosque here with my own MAJ
ter of fact American eyes.
Another mosque built in 1928 was in honor
OF an Arab lawyer. 1t contains some of
the most exquisite Moorish work Of the
world and II is perhaps the finest monu-
ment any lawyer has ever had. The law
yer II commentaries is said to have been
a man Of truth.
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Grand Mosque.

Within stones throw of the citadel,
surrounded by buildings which would not
look out of place i'm any country town in
France. rises the mighty mosque DIANA
ell Kebir. 1t was built in a. d. 1896, but
It is in as good condition today as whom
the Moors first worshiped in it $40 years
ago The buildings of this mosque cover
about an acre and the roof is supported
by vast number of columns which end
in great arches hung with many chand?-
liers. The buildings run around the court,
in tho center of which is a fountain Of
onyx about which, as passed through.
the Mohammedans were sitting and wash
ing themselves before going in to pray
We were allowed to enter the mosque,
but had first to put on slippers, and we
walked about through the worshlpers,
who were kneeling on their prayer rugs
and bowling again and again as they
looked toward Mecca
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woven as a Panama and of several differ
ent colors. The brims are covered with
silk embroidery, and they extend for six
inches out all around the hat. These hats
are large enough to be worn over turbans,
so big that 1 was able to put one over my
cork helmet, while my photograph was
taken with my guide, Mustapha, standing
beside me.
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A Land of Queer Costumes.
wish could tell you American girls
iust how YOUR weII-to-do sisters of this
Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-10

TIL crude rubber Of fine grade
worth nearly $50 a pound and
only 1000 tons a year available
for use in a world that could US
double the quantity. it is no won