The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-11
RECENT DISCOVERIES IN TIE
RUINS or THE MOST FAMOUS
CITY or THE aNClLNf
WORLD.

RUN or THE MOST JANUS
CITY or III ANCIENT
WORLD.
rounded b.. G. 2781, 1t Wa the Chi
capo of Its Day-It- Mighty TX
tent and Its GoIonic=-It7 Rich pco-
ME and It's business Mcn-Ron1an
carthage, Which Became the Build
ing Quarry Of the Mediterranean
The CapitoI Of Christian Africa-A
Look at the A~nphitheater and ITS
GadiatoriaI Show-Amongst the
Tcmbs- Cofins Containing the
Ashes of Burnt Ra bic Together
With Something About the Gay Girls
Of Old Carthage As studied from the
Rouge Pots, Pcrfumcry Boxes and
Gold Earrings Iaound in the To1nbs.
(copyright, 1907, by Frank G. Car
penter.)
TUNIS, 1907.
T have spent the whole Of today
among the ruins of Carthage. Inc
French have been ~e4cavating there,
ana are lildhll46 tAAA 49, -
ruins lie on the shore of the Aled1-
terranean sea beyond the lake on
which Tunis is situated, and cover
some thousands of acres. The center
of old Carthage was about tWeiFe
miles from this city, n the PhOeni-
oten capitol reached even 70 Tunis it
nrlf The city had q wall Wenty-thre
miles long to defend that part Of it
which was back from the sea; and 1T
is said to have had more than a
million inhabitants in the helSht OF
its glory. When it vas destroyed, al
ter sits long war with Rome. it con
tained more than seven hundred thous-
and people, and during that war 1t
furnished armies Of enormous SIZE.
When Hannibal went from Spain 70
invade Italy he took 10000 men ana
FORTY ~lephant with him over the
pvrenees and the Alps; and during the
first Punlc wal a feet started out from
Carthage with $50 ships of a capacity
Of 10000 troops. Each of the ships
had an iron beak to ram the boats of
the enemy, and the sailors were the
best of the then world.
Carthage the Mighty.
That was during the closing lays or
Carthage the Mighty. A short time lat
er the Romans destroyed and ployed up
the ground upon which it stood. Later
still they founded a city upon its site
and made it their capital of Africa,
and it was for a long time the third
city of tbs world.
Farther on in this letter | shall tell
you how the ruins of Roman Carthage
are still to be seen Here.
Far more interesting to me is Car
thage the Mighty. that famous city
which was favored by Juno. Jupiter's
henpecking wife, and Ounded by Dido,
the Jewish princess of Tyre. Dido
husband had been assassinated by her
5000 ~ T--- ~ / 4 hnl
fed and come to this part Of North
Africa. Like that other JeWess of fic-
ton, Jessica, old Shylock's daughter,
she did not go away empty handed,
but loaded her ship witt, the treasures
of the royal palaces Of herself and
brother and took enough people, along
with her to start a neA empireA
Queen Dido's Big Barga IS
When she first set foot on African
soil Quen Did bought some land OF
the natives and by a real estate Frick
obtained this big tract upon Ehich
Carthage TODD for a song. When our
forefathers purchased the site of New
York of the Indians the price was a
peck of glass beads and brass buttons;
it is said that all Chicago was once
offered for a pair of old boots: and
that the ground upon which Mel
bourne, one of the richest cities of
Australia, now stands was sold for two
old Woolen blankets. The thrifty Dido
bought the location Of this greatest
cisy of antiquity at q sOmeV hat SINH
lar price. According to tradition, She
told the natives that she only wanted
a patch of Ian big enough to be in
closed in q bulls hide and they made
q contract of sale on those terms. u
Queen Dido cut the bull's hid into
leather shoestrines, and, tying them
together, took il what seemed to the
natives ali out of doors. The tract
a around a beautiful harbor, incIos-
ing the whole peninsula bet.feen the
lake and the sea. 1t was gently sloping
with a little hill here and there and
with great rocky mountains in sight in
the rear. The land itself was exceed
ing1y rich, and the country about it
produced so a~bundantly that it was for
centuries one of the granaries of the
world.
\ Great Business City.
AS / drove out to Carthage today
saw several American windmills on
great towers of steel, agitating the air
Inhabited by the ghosts Of the old Car
thaoinians. The Windmills came from
! Chicago, and the city on whose site
they now stand once ranked far
greater than Chicago does. It was the
chief business center of the old world.
and 1t had its captains of industry and
trust magnates just as Chicago has
now. Founded by Did 2.7S7 wears he
fore Christ, it was prominent when
Athen was young. and long before
Rome had begun to be.
The Carthaginians had their colonies
throughout the known world. They
owned the greater part of Sicily and
many other Mediterranean islands.
and had large settlements on the
Spanish peninsula, More than two
thousand years before Bartholomew
Dlaz or Nasco da CANA started our TO
explore Africa, HanGO, the tina
1an. mad sailed ont Of ~ 60
gibraltar with sixty ships and some
tnlng IKE 10000 men. He had made
ms way down around the west coast
OF this continent to the Gulf Of Guinea
and had brought back stories Of
ebony negroes, mighty elephants and
gorlllas. For centuries thereafter
many OF his tales were thought to he
lies, but they have since been proved
TO be true. The C~arthaeinfan5 estab-
llshed colonies on the west coast of
erica, They sent their shire to Great
Britain and they had commercial co.,
ters everywhere. They were af,onc