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ports with all parts of the Tell.
Algeria alone has now more than
1000 miles OF railways, and its vail
way receipts are between S6.000,00O
and S7000.000 year There is a
heavy freight traffic. ana the second
and third class passenger cars are al
ways we'll hllcd. There are sleeping
coaches at high rates between Olan
and Algiers and one can go across a
great part of north Africa by sleeper
In Tunisia, which Is almost MS big
as the state Of Illinois, there are
now something Ike 500 miles Of rail-
roads, They are mainly confined to
the northern part Of the country. all
though there are some lines running
down the east coast and inland to
fertilizer deposits which lie there
These roads are all French, and the
Tunlsian government has recently au-
thorlzed large appropriations for tnelr
extensions.
part Of the Algerian system be-
longs 20 the government. and another
part rs IN the hands OF some of the
French railroad companies This is
so of the road from Oran TO Algiers
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FREIGHT TRAIN OF THE CENTRAL sAHARAs


and he has trouble investing his sur
plus. He proposes TO build a railroad
from Egypt to Tripoli, which may be
extended on around the Gulf OF Gabes
and thus connect with the railway sys-
TEN of Tunisia.
Another scheme is to build line
through the Atlas mountains of Mo-
rocco to Tangier, the two projects conf
pleting "A great trunk line from the
Nile to the Atlantic, The Morocco
scheme cannot be attempted in the
present condition Of that country, and
IL is doubtful whether the travel ana
freight Of the region between Tripoli
aud the Nile would ever make that
part of the road pay The length Of
this trunk line. all told, would be about
as long as from New York to Salt Lake
City, and fully two-thirds of II remains
to be built. Here I'm Algeria and
Tunisia there are roads running east
and west about as far as from New
York to Chicago and in Egypt the
khedive has already built something
like 60 or 20 miles from the Nile vest
ward
on THE LIBYAN DESERTS.
a part of this route goes along the
Mediterranean through the Libyan des-
ert. The rhediYe has travelled on horse
back over this section and was sur
prised to find that the country has a
rich soil and that II once supported a
large population. Everywhere he went
he saw the remains OF the Romans
There were ruined towns and villages
and enough stones in them to build a
hundred new settlements. Here and
there he crossed rich GASES, and he has
advanced the opinion that his road will
pay. The part already built is now do
ing so, ana he has wldened the gage to
accommodate the traffic. If 1t should
ever be completed to Tunsia, and the
Morocco extension rpade. it would bring
Africa within four hours of Europe by
way Of the Strait of Gibraltar and
there will be a probable connection with
Asia by road which might be built
from Cairo TO connect with the lines now
going south through Damascus and Jo-
rusalem.
MORoCCO'S RAILWAY POsSIBILI-
TIES.
As to Morocco, that country will
eventually form a live field for railroad
engineers. IT is now in such an unset
tied state that the powers will have 10
take hold of II within a short time. Both
life and property are unsafe, and II is
impossible for foreigners to travel
through 1t.
Morocco is one of the richest countries
OF Africa and one of the worst gov
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way system; Egypt is gridironed with
tracks, and trunk II rs are being sur
veyed in the Soudan and in the Congo
valley.
AFRICA VERSUS THE WORLD.
In fact, railroad building Is now go
ing on in Africa about as fast as in
any other part Of the world. The con-
tinent is increasing its mileage at the
rate of over so per cent per year. and
while II has yet the feWest lines OF any
of the grand divisions OF tho globe, It's
means OF communication are rapidly
growing.
At present the chief railroad contin-
ent is North America. 1t has between
250,000 and 100000 miles Of iron tracks.
Next comes Europe with less than
200 900 miles, and after that Asia with
something like 10000 Australia has
10000 miles of railroad lines, and Africa
a little over $1,000. OF all the coun-
tries of the world the United States
leads In its iron highways We have
more tracks Than all Europe and three
times as many as all the continents
outside ours,
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ments are comfortable. l am travel
ing first class, and l sometimes have
a compartment for myself and son.
The cars are divided into little box
like rooms by partitions, which run
across from one side to the other. They
are usually entered from the sides, ana
II is not possible TO go through
whole train, as in our country. The
seats are well cushioned and as the
sides are walled with windows the OPP
portunitles for seeing are good. The
second and third-class ears are divid
ed up in the same way, and the second
class is almost as good as the first.
The third class seats are bare board
benches. and they are usually filled
with Arabs, Moors and Kabyles, with
a sprinklng of private soldiers. The
latter receive wages of only about one
cent per day and hence cannot travel
in luxury.
EATING ARRANGEMENTS.
Within the past year or so dining
cars have been put on some of these
Algerian trains, Others stop at the
stations for luncheon and dinner, and
at every station there is lunch room,
called a buvette.
The usual rate for dinner is about
40 cents and for that sum one gets an
excellent meal with Il quart bottle of
cons are often put up and brought to
the cars at a cost of about 80 cents
each. For that one gets two slices
OF roast beef or a half chicken. several
boiled eggs, and also cheese sweet
cakes and fruit There Is always
chief depot manager, baggage mas
ter. telegraph operator. a ticket SELL
er, and number of porters. 1t takes
a hait dozen men to start a train. The
engineer whistles, one of the guards
rings bell and others run from car to
car and shut the doors while they
cry Get on, gentlemen, IL you please"
On the cars themselves there are many
employees. There are engineers fire.
men and brakesmen galore. Every
train has its mail clerk and its bag
gage man, and often an express mes
senger as WELL
NEW RAILROADS FOR NORTH
AFRICA.
The railroads OF Algeria and Tunisia
at present have a length OF almost 5000
miles. The new lines projected number
many thousand miles more. and in the
near future the railroad system OF this
part of the world will probably be
several times what it is now. One of
the most remarkable of the new
schemes is fathered by the young khc-
dive of Egypt. His majesty Is rich
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It belongs to the Paris, Lyons and
Mediterranean corporation, and its
chief offices are in France. The Sa-
hara lines are largely military and
they could hardly exist without gov
eminent support.
RAILWAY TRAVEL IN ALGERIA.
Railway travel in northern Africa
is far different from that of the United
States. In comparison with us these
people are still a century or so behind
the times. Express trains do not
make more than Is or 20 miles an
hour and the railroad clocks AZ the
stations are purposely kept i've min
utes behind every other time in order
that passengers may not get left.
The methods of ticket selling and
baggage checking are such that one
should be at the train at least quar-
ter of an hour before starting, and
he viii then have to wait his turn
with crowd of Arab soldiers and
others, each of whom consumes at
least two minutes at the ticket office
and twice that time with the baggage
master. II the ticket is return, the
agent figures out reduction Of 30
per cent off the regular fare, and
makes memorandum of the amount
on ledger as we'll as on the ticket IT,
self. The ordinary tickets are some
what tlke ours, nut inc returns anu
excursion certificates are OF the size
OF a legal document and quite as i'm
posing.
BAGGAGE ARRANGEMENTS.
Only about 10 pounds of baggage
are allowed free, and everything must
be weighed. There is a tax of 2 cents
for checking baggage, and the agent
registers the weight whether 1t is be-
low 40 pounds or not. The checks are
not made of cardboard or brass, as in
our country. They are merely receipts
on u thin tough paper 80 arranged
that one-half of each receipt can be
given to the passenger and the other
doubled up and tied with q string to
the baggage.
Most OF the natives carry their be-
l0ngings in bags not unlike coffee
sacks. and much of the checked lug
gage Is Of that nature. At the depotS
the poorer Arabs throw these bags
over their shoulders and march off
with them.
First and second class passengers
take numerous valises and bundles
into the cars. ! am now travelling
with nine packages. and they all go
into the car. At every stop and start
the porters take all my stuff in and
out for me, and the rates are so low
that the cost OF handling Is little. Four
cents is a big enough fec for one
man. and one good lusty Arab can
carry my baggage.
IN THE CARS.
The first and second-class compart-
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Music IN orr Grin Room every even
Ing from 6 10 S-Royul cafe.
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RUSSlA'S NOTED PRIEST,
SAINT OR CHARLATAN?

CONTINUED on page fourtoen)
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Three Already More Than Five Hundred Mile Track Ihe
PossbinyThe Tlh Soundan
and The Roads which the French Building the Nesr-AG Becoming Rail
Railways he Atlas and how French Mana3 Three lhrou-
sand Miles of Iron Track Algeria and TQuer Features Of RAILWAY Travel
Panso
TunkLine Clear Across Northern Africa
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GRAND OPENING WANDAMEnE.
Y. M, d y. J.. "a. l. A. May gl.
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I.
gay and picturesque, with an Amer,-
can for a hero and any amount VI ua
venture to lend it spice In the MINUS
of very clever author, VINO comes
into notice at once as the writer Oh
u most interesting novel, that pe"rs
the impress of finished worker ana
nothing whatever Of the literary noVsse'
The book Is bound IN gray ana soiu,
with border of violets, ana Birl
face looking out from q miniature on
the cover. the illustrative ana desisn
work being done by Harrison fishor
and Martin Justice.
The story is woven about the princess
of little European Kingdom. VINO IS
heir to the throne. but whose CLAIMS
are being fraudulcntly opposed
An American named John converse
espouses her cause and Mt FISK or ms
life obtains for her the proof rhht
shows the other aspirant to the throne
to be an impostor.
After the wrong Is righted ana inc
Princess Hilna made queen, her Amor
lean lover proves himself a man ny
giving up his own hopes and desires
and exiting himself, that he may no'
bring disaster to his queen or uhhap
plncss to her Kingdom and people
The book Is full of spontanelty anc
movement. One does not stop W uuos
ton probabilities. for ono Is siliipi9
absorbed in tho interest OF the STORY
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y, :
Mr.. Taft, Secretary of War, was first
civil Governor of the Philippine ISL
ands His first chapter sets forth the
duties OF citizenship, viewed from the
standpoint of a recent graduate of a
university.
The second gives the viewpoint OF q
Judge on the bench; the third, the
standpoint of colonial administration
and the fourth, that Of the national
executive.
The name of the author given, the
book needs no further communication.
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FOUR ASPECTS OF CIVIC BUTY, BY
William Howard Taft. Charles
Scribner's Sons, New Iork, through
Bell Book and Stationery Com
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which he has handled. however, with re-
markable skill. But his strong story by
suggestion, the beautiful manner of It's
telling. and the charming euphony
throughout will establish MIR Wilson's
place in American literature long after
his sun has set and the critics of tho
creed he teaches are all forgotten.
The poem Is truly q twentieth century
poem. 1t Is told in the first person of
the pronoun, and, strange to say, we
know not even the name of the man who
is telling such n wonderful tale relative
to himself.
The real purpose of the story lies in
the consiium or advice, and the whole Is
n most powerful protest against the mis-
alliance of Beauty with rich, lcentious
Age---a stroke against the repulsi4e
money marriages that we see every day.
The scene of the entire STORY lies upon
the island of Manhattan, and carries with
1T a poetic dedication to the statue Of
Diana, on the tower of Madison Square
Garden, but Is inscribed to the poets
personal friend, Hon. Frank d. Creamer
eX-sheriff Of Kings county
Mr.. Wilson's characters are drawn true
to the times, but his poetry is that of
another and far more poetic age.
EAST OF suEz. BY Frederick Court
land. The Century Company, of
New York S2.O0.
IF books of travel We're not writ
ten" says Mr.. Frederick G. Penfield. in
his introduction to East of Suez," the
stay-at- home millions would know lit
tie of this beautiful world; and 1t is
surely better to have u vicarious
knowledge of THAT is beyond the Wis
ion than dwri' in ignorance of the
ways and places of men and women
included in the universal human fam
fly"
What Mr.. Peniields previous book,
"Prcsent-Day Egypt" did for the
would-be or the actual traveller to the
land of the Pharaohs. East of Suez'
does for those who would journey in
mind or body to the countries beyond
"the worlds turnstile" at Suez TO
most readers the Great East is an ever
alluring theme; and Mr. Pentield's book
is happily out of the beaten track
The reader is carried through fasci-
mating wanderings in Colombo, the
Ceylon hill country, Bombay, Jeypore,
Bcnares, Canton, Macao, and the
worlds most exquisite buildings But
| the book is unusual in telling not alone
7, what the writer's trained and sym
| pathetic eye saw but in laying stress
| especial in the closing chapters, upor
/ what he should have seen, but failet
| to find "What the American zig-zag-
! ging up and down and across that
I boundless region spoken of as east
| of Suez, fails to see Is the product of
1 Uncle Sams mills, workshops, mines
| and farms"
/ Why this state of things is altogeth-
er wrong, and how Americas real
/ trading opportunity lies In Asia, are
| dealt Wilhelm a preface of strong pa
| triotic appeal and in descriptive chap
| tiers of much interest. East of Suez'
| is a book worthy the consideration OF
every American interested in foreign
trade.
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THE PURPLE MAN.
He Is Expected to Be on View
NJny+ Summer.

Those who have never seen pur-
pie man, and would rather see tllun
be one, will have a chance 10 nuke
the choice next summer. IL Is heeu.
less for Anglophobes to deny tha a..
styles for mems wear are hXeo IN
London, as those for woman are cree
ated in the shadow of the Vendome
column. And from high sartorlai
authority comes the ukase that bright
purple will be "the fashionable color
for mems summer holiday and loung-
ing suits" The adoption Of the color
connected always with imperialism
may grieve the souls of those who
see in every new idea, presidential or
otherwise, a covert assault upon re-
icttv y their protests
will not avail. If purple is the only
wear in Hyde Park and Piccadiliy,
Broadway and Fifth Avenue VIII FOL
low the English suit.
Modern man is a coward about col
oors, however. The adoption of tho
Tyrian tint generally is doubtful for
.tI, In his heart he
is as fond of gay hues as any gallant
beau, buck dandy or merveilleux who
strutted in fine feathers In every
reign from the conquest to George Nv.
But mans spirit was broken when
breaches heightened into trousers,
and gloom settled upon his garments
e'snlf with q
black, cylindrical abominaton.
Color vanished with grace OF line,
r. SIX only feeble
ventures with waistcoats and cravats.
For clothing he dares only grays or
deep blues, browns or greens, close
enough for his comfort to the black,
no feels as safely
hidden from observation as the cut
fetish is in it's ink.
One hope for the purple suit does
exist 1t will be too costly to become
common. Purple was the imperial
color, to begin with, because it was
the most expensive, the Mediterranean
mollusk which supplied it not being
plentiful and the process a secret.
Coal tar products have changed all
that But the aniline dye needed for
the fashionable shade will not last for
many wearings in sunlight without
fading. The Bowery will not favor
summer suits fit Nonly to use half q
dozen times Purple will be q sign
of extravaganza and a big wardrobe
! And by that token it will find many
wearers between Madison Square and
Central Park. The color that origi-
mated with the shellfish of South
Europe will henceforth be associated
with the Holsters of Broadway. Enter
the purple man.-New York Mail.
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HIEMA BY William Tillnghast ED
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$3.50,
An enhancing bit Of romance, fresh.
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MR. cABELL,s NEW STORY.

A comedy in two parts, by James
Branch Cabell, is to appear in the
next issue of Harper's Magazine, and
will bear the title of The Second
April" This comedy is played at Belle |
grade. the Puysange Chateau in Poi
tiers, France, during the mid spring
| month Of 1850.
The star actor in the several scenes
| is an Englishman. man disappointed
| in love. and more than a little dis
| illusioned His cynicism, and his dis
belief of himself and OF tAe world at
| large around him, Is reveale>. by the
| attitude he assumes, lie is grpt
man In his day, the Duke of Ormskirk,
| courtier and politician when he WINS
1 it, but prefcrring p4.-.. > be recog-
| nized for purpose as plain John Bull
| mcr. On the eve of his setting out to
win {. French bride at the Chateau de
! Puysange he pauses and reflects thus:
1.-The real tracey OF life Is to learn
| that 1t Is not really tragic, that YOU
yourself are incapable of any great
| passion. My love for Alison Pleydell
was the one sincere thing in my life,
and it Is deau. l don't think of her
once month, / am only man of
cardboard in cardboard world.
am only mechanism that cats and
sleeps. Some day the mechanism wiil
be broken. And that win be the abb
kirk"
But neither the past nor present can
e!ways forecast the future. There
comes u time when John Bulmer webs
after his own fashion the very
French brlue that he set out so colby
to win. The manner of his wedding
is, to say the least of It, impulsively
unusual. Being so, 1t nevertheless was
the needed touch in the bringing about
of a second april" by a renewal OF
faith and love, fo- the author says
here
And something embryonic in John
Bulmer came. with the knaYe's bene
diction, into beverage. He saw, as
upon sudden, how fine she was; all
tho gracious and friendly youth of her
lie understood that life is by right ar
anthem. unutterably he understood tho
meaning of it and of their isolation II
that sunny and vivid circle; and thu
glade was, to him, an island, about
which past happenings Tapped like ;
fretted sea-
The setting of the story shows TIL,
exercise Of fine literary art and 1t
humor Us subtle and delicate to de
gree Mr., Cabell has done nothing
more entirely individual than this Sc
rial, which Is to be illustrated In colo
by Howard Pyle,
The motif of the romance is given 4
a predatory paragraph, which appear
underneath the title, In these words;
This passion is in honest minds tn
strongest incentive that can move tn
soul of man To luudable accomplish
ments, Is q man just? Let him IA
In love and grow generous. 1t immc
dately makes The good which is 1
him shine forth IN new excelloneie
and the i'll vanish away without TIA
pain OF contrition, but with a sudde
amendment OF heart
HIEMA, BY William Tillinghast El,
ridge, Dodd Mead x Company.
New York publishers PIP, $;
$3.50,
AN enhancing bit or romance, fires
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In presenting "Tho Hypocrite" the pub
listers feel justified in claiming the work
to be the output OF genius. Tho text Of
the work itself is liable TO cause some
discussion, as the poet has made use OF
the Tenth OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES shalt
not covet"-as d vehicle for his story,
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THE HYPocRITE. BY Bingham Tho
burn Wilson. Lyceum Company,
Brooklyn, n. Y, publishers; pages