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'KB ' The Daily Mews and Observer. J SUNDAY : MORNING, MAY 5, . 107. 1' : . . , THE PO J ptff Pf FnANK G; hrht, 19 0 6. by rn.vxiv . '?AmENTfen visn ax old . nojf ax ' cnrv.v oxr tiik " i:PCU O I'V.THEipESERlV WHICH - iu liiaxG . tiXEAimiED BY' the t, ninxcii.i-j; Tlmsad lias Been Bead Fifteen Hun dred "Yearn;: httt It N Xow Coming; to 4fJrcIt'AVjsTvice as Biz 'as IompelI, nnd Had Mighty ! Markets r.nd Baths A 1 Temples, lxok at Its 1 louses a nd V ; Stores-4-the v Ancient Forum and ihe Areh of Trajan;. Have you ' ever heard of Tlnigad, the . mderful - ruined city f Rrtraanr Af f ; ia,-- which the French are now dig- ijr out ; of the sand? I It lies JabouU ji.e hundred and , fifty' miles 'south of .e Mediterranean," and jperhape three ( tndred miles southwest tof Tunis. It t kiusx ovr the mountains from 1 thei sert of Sahara, on on of the lower jpes of the Atlas, overlooking a ;Val- - f which In the. days off Rome, j must ive . been enormously rich. : .' Pompeii ". in existence about-three hundred rs - before Christ, ; and It - was de .. royed by the eruption! of "Vesuvius, '1 1 A. ; D. -,- It ; contained . only twenty t ' thirty thousand people, and ,1V was 1 n nan ine size -01 tnis Airican-city . -jvr being unearthed, j ; v AiH'lent Tliannuradi. iTimgrad was i founded ( Just twenty ne years alter tne estruction . 01 bmpeil.v It was built bjf the Emperor rajan, -whose soldiers (aided In Its instruction. Itf was- then known as - haumifas 'orvThaum(radt wals slt- IIP 1 -Juaied at'the Intersection tt six Roman t roads,; and 'was a fortified camp as well as a great commerc al 'city. ! The i excavations'; show 1 that It' must 1 have . been' a.' social capital as ell. Inhabited by manyi rich people : am I surrounded f by ail -the luxuries- of, : tome at the height of Its glory." ? - yy: 'ir ,.'-v. Later, Timsrad became a religious cfty. ; St Augustine was: orn near it, f.nd. 'In: ; the; seventh centutry,wheti the Arab invasion occurred, ltj had a Chris fMlan church, the ruins oV which stilt : exist; The city was destroyed ty the I Arabs,- and -'since then,: fdr more. than a thous-and years ; the ' rain and soil j of the Atlas mountains nd the dust f nd sands from the Breatj Sahara have ' drifted, over It, covering! its remains ayer . by layer, until t the greater part pf - It has' been lost from view: i ;:- , j ' V, : The ! French 'ExcaxationK. ; I For centuries only a fevf of the niofe prominent of the ruins.!- rose .- above , he surface. - Thr'were columns here Bd there apparently growing, out of the soil. reat mounds covered the half lestroyed buUdinjrs, and it was not un it the french began their; excavations, .long about twenty-five f years ago, hat any , one Imaginod that a great ; ty lay - burled beneath, 1 At present my ; a comparatively small - ; part of tKn-inn. 1 , j 1 w i ew thin a few years the whole city will exposed, to. the fierce rays of this t rican t sun. . 1 ; saw;- gangs of men o-king at the ruins' as u wandered it through -them this afernoon. and lotcgraphed them- a they .raised d columhs out of 4hje soil. "The of v th city still untouched: ;l red far above the height of any .- and " the excavated i streets- run t to the .-edge of - the 1 streets and .lmr8. ' stilt burled-; i I ' iVrlie' Hoad 'to .Tlnicad. , I ratne. here from' Algiers! on the" rail-' rV a distance of about 25 (K miles. , !S nearest' .station - was! Batana. ' u ichri town -- at the entrance . tf the U 'ty: In which Timgad ! lies There, ! ired a carriage - and drove for nty-five miles un this valley to the 1 -i . the excavations.!; The on .y. I ' - n wo passed on the way was-ljam-; s. "4 This was also prominent in the . i4f thP'Romana, and ft has ruins j f f .t .would k be considered; wonderful re 'they not overshadowed . toy the kr-eater ones here. The road to Tlm- L'- was built? by the; French. -and it Is tood.as wai the Applan1 Way; when ;i"ngad and Home, were" still In 'their hne. The grades are so gehtle that f r horses' went on the trot, ; and we -vered the distance In less; than' three fursrH-Wemet rmany y soldiers ;:T at u tmbese;lut outside of them nothing it Arabs. ;) T - -. v- :- 4 iNow we crowded a caravan of cam-- s iroine sullenly along, and now pass- f l villages . of low Drown tents, . tne 1 ?mes of Bedouin -shephferds who '4re feeding - their tiocksvoik the-."'foot-. TST.of the ; Atlas.- At places In ' the llejv we saw Arabs plowing; but the JI is now"eml-arld and it shows bat tie slims of the fertility It rnust have d when -this region was the granary i Home, I imagine that the rainfall , s then 'much greater than now,' and ' may be that the.cuttlng akray of the Vsts v has - changed the feather t of Wia as; has been-, the base - with in; Palestine and otherlands. r I 'rnthe:ltubietf";:citJ Tiavealready been here for ' tho er part of two days; - I jam living lie mtle hotel iwhlch hasj been put for the excavators and tetrangers. tT have been! going over Ithe' ruins Ah an old French soldier, who has ltntd been connected with thb work of unelrthlmr the city. -A ' ; 1 4 f f Almost -despair ; of 'giving' you a otion of the - characten - And ev- of ? the parts aireaay uncovered. It"? rM Roraan houses, like Ithe Jeru ra of the Psalms, were tpmpaetiy rr togetner, and although Timgad :ided only 100 acres It wlas a bee- of humanity, and Its pedple need as space' than many an (American .1 v of one-tenth the size. " T!- StrretA of T'higakl. lie parts 'so far .excavated! were the t .bnslnef a and residence: '; centcrr. i are ? divided up .intot , streets ity feet. Wide, which ' crpss, each r. '':'-v".-,."i-v- , . j-;' t S a critical orHm1 fVirrttiJ-k' 'ki,!,' ha critical 6rriml Ikmnk 7 7'- - r n f v i-j UJ Lt ULULJ UJ ' v - ' - : . f Vis c- .. I. 'i-.-lji.:. .. - -...w... . na EApcuiaui .inuiuer musb pass. wk rii.o fraught wifTk dread paiorV ufferfng and danger; 'that the ry fought of it fill her With apprehcnion and Aorfor;; There ii no reavit7 for the reorodnctioh of lifn t ... h "eo Mothera Frieof o prf pareathe ystera for the coming event ll,t " fc7 parsed without any danger. , This great and wonderful - 1 - Bi vrajr p- . ....... d 1 y I ied externally,; and- -. ' 3 carried- thousand- ; h l I f II : women throun-h the -SJX I yinc crisis without auffefi Tuna u au expectant notbera. 3 ZrziZtH Hr-alatar C.,"At z r 1 EH OF THE SAHARA CARPENTER. Frank Q. Carpenter. other at right angles. There are mile's of these -streets already - exposed, and one tan walk over thm n the sam payments on which the Romans rode In their chariots. 1 tramped much of my way In the cuts cut by the chw riots, and I found the stones of tb roads worn smooth by the feet nf thene peo ple fifteen centuries incc. 1 he main streets are liagged with preat block- of limestone, L about three feet wide and Frank: Qi Carrjenter. often four feet long, fitted- cToscly to gether. Under evfery' street is a deep sewer running from, one end or It to the other, and the -whole city Is uh derlaldV with 'drains. . Nearly every hojase has its dwn. connection with the sewer;'f and 'there, are public conven iences in" all mparts, of , the city, i The streets are lined with tnirbstones and ' the principal avenues have great marble columns on, each side of them. some of ,whlvh arc broken and some almost ' perfect. Many of these col umns are entirelv missing,' but their places beyond the curbstones carv be plainly seen. . One can stand In some of these" streets an'd look far a mile through ruined pillars, easily - pictur ing" tof hinxself the grandeur of Tim gad In' its prime. '."' On thr AVay to the Forum. Let us, make our way along-, the main avenues, which lead through the center of the town, to the Fprum. Ve enter1 one by- a great stone gate deco rated 'with carvings over flagstones cut Into deep ruts' by the chat lot wheels. There are 'pillars on both ifles of the streets, reaching- on -and on to the Forum, arta beyond them oni each side are acres upon acres of ruined bulldi ings ranging In height to that of my head or higher. The ravages of time. 01 eieite. aim ni 1 of siege.' and of the i Mohammedan tieonnoclast have cut away the tops of the buildings.' but enough of" the walls are still left so that one can see Just how they were constructed end can walk irom .room-to room,j tnrougn house after; house. 1 At the right, side of this main street, faclhsr the Forum, ran a cov eredpassageway.f the top iof which rested- upon these pillars; .This was for foot passengers who could there move along without danger! from the throng of. chariots and horses in tne street : outside. At the same time the-people could see o'ut between the eolttmns. "On the other fide of this facade or passageway the j Residences faced, and on the pppos te side of the roadway the houses came close up to the column-lined street. On the Vio Decumanua Maxim us, which cuts the street, I have descrlb ed at right agles and leads ;from the great arch of 'Trajan to the Forum, one ide is lined with stores. The greatest number of stores are right near the Forum, -and tiey i probably formed the chief mercantile houses of the city. Jiach establishment had a main room -facing the street, with another; in the, rear, .which was prob ably ueed as :a ' warehojuse lor as a private room for - Its owner. The Decumanus Maxlmus had dep ruts In 'the flags from one end of It to the other; and it is easy to imagine It filled with the gay throng of the days of the ? Emperors ! Trajan; and ' Marcus AureiiUS :-' :. . T- -"" ' - f ' " In the5 Homan Butclier Shops. . I walked through store after store in this' quarter; and then !went to another part iof the city where was the . -.Roman market.- The r market jlace"fwas surrounded ' by columns, and It' still 'shows many -evidences that It was was a beautiful place when the peoplefrom all the country , about came here .to buy and, eel!. The stalls of the meat market- were on a plat form, running In : a half-mooh facing the market place. The marble coun ters behind which 4 the butchers stood are: still intact, and they bear the marks - of 'the cleavers used in chop ping off the steaks of the past; " These counters are marble slabs, each about a foot thick, and about, five feet in length. .1 '. crawled under, one; and stood in place r the butcher trying to imagine j the customers . who waited outside tor spring chickens, roasts of lamb and rump steaks fifteen hundred or more years ago, and In my mind's eyeT could see :Mrs. Caesar testing- the breastbone of; a fowl, and Madame Cicero telling the boy to cut her a steak": off the Join and watching ' him to; see that he did not cheat In the weight. t Later on I saw ; In the museum ihe weights which' were used to measure the .'meat. ' They are baits of stone- ranging "In size from that of my head to a marble. ' , A' City of Luxury. Some of the houses of Timgkd were magnlflcenL . They had marble benches, beautiful frescoes and floors No woman s haornV lr ;t can be complete without children it ii her nature to love TCM VliCUJ mucbsoMir U lore the bean- -i . $ f tifl Ui l-2j--:-i? 'ft.- Ui -.-Z.--.-i v.t-. J . ' ?r UUUiJLrr US of. mosaic. . The museum has many .mosaics equal to almost anything, dis covered at Pompeii. ; ; They are made of bits of etone, some of which are ho bigger than a baby's finger nail so fitted together that they seem one solid block. They are of many col or and represent the famous charac , ters of mythology. One about fifteen I feet saare shows . Venus riding through the sea on a centaur, while the dolphins swim about below. Another represents the triumph of Neptune, and others show various scenes connected with the gods and goddesses of' old Rome, j Right near the Forum I explored a j palace which contained about sixty odd rooms, some of which are still decorated with marble columns. When I came in the floors seemed to be nothing but plaster, but as I scraped my fett on them I saw the mosaic be neath. Thfa house had a wide en trance porch, the floor of which was a little above the level of the street, and the stones at the front showed plainly the marks made by the car riages as they drove out and in. It had bath rooms with hot and cold chambers, the floors of which were of mosaic, such as : are now in the museum. , The Baths of Timgad. If it be true that cleanliness Is next to godliness, these old Romans were not ungodly. There are ruins of bath 8 here, which show that this old town of Timgad. ranging In size from fifty to one hundred thousand people, had better accommodations of that kind than any of our largest cities of today. Just outside the chief en trance . gate stands the ruins of an enormous building, covering almost two acres, which wes devoted to bath ing and gymnastics. It was built of brick, and some of the mosaic floors are .still to be seen. ' I pent some time in these baths. K large part of the outer walls are still intact, and the rooms, although they are broken in places can be easily traced. There are thirty-five of them running about a grand hall forty feet wide and seventy-five feet long, where the men went through their gymnas tics xr rested and loafed after bath ing. There were many hot chambers for steam and vapor ' baths, and sev eral cold plunges with large swimming pools- The hot rooms had mosaic floors, with underground flues and fires. The. ruins of the heating ar rangements are such that even now they could be repaired and the baths Used as in the past. In the southern part of the city, are' other baths, and In-many of the houses so far excavated there are remains of private bath rooms. ' A Theater Seating Four Tliousand. Timgad had a theater which seated more,, than four thousand people. I wonder how many towns of fifty thou sand in our country have amusement haljs that slase. Th is theatre was la the upper part of the city at tho edge of 'the hills. I went through it this morning: and sat for a time in one of the boxes which faced the marble ros trum forming the stage. The audience came In through a covered passageway made of stone, and there Is a covered passageway for exit. The actors had their own entrance, which led directly to the stage. There was no roof over this theater; the audience sat out In the open, with a magnificent view of the valley and mountains ever before them. The seats are of stone, and they run around the arena In the shape of a half moon; rising tier above tier. The orchestra played In the cresr cent below. - : I was also much' Interested In the library, or public lecture room, of this ancient town. I do not suppose that ancient Thaumgadi had an Andrew Carnegie, but Its ruins show that this building would have been a worthy monument to any corn king of old Rome.- It has the shape of a half cir cle, with steps running round It, and shelves in the walls, where the scrools of manuscript were stored. Another curious structure was a building de voted to the selling, of flowers with fountains to keep the flowers fresh. TIh Forum. The Forum of Timgad has been en tirely unearthed, and It bears evidence of having been far larger and more beautiful than that of Ppmpeii. Its stone courts are almost . Intact, and many of the tall marble columns wich surrounded it are still here. It bears every evidence of -having been a magnificent place. It is reached by stone steps. About it on every side were covered passageways upheld by pillars of marble. At one end. behind marble columns, .was a great .stone rostrum. I suppose for the speakers, and there was an extensive lobby and retiring rooms somewhat- as In our capitol at Washington. Adjoining the Forum was a chamber of commerce built of marble and lime stone. This building is supposed to have served as a sort of stock ex change and tribunal of justice com bined. It had a etatue of Justice In it. a part "of which still exists. The Temples of The City. There are -several "ruined temples in TImgad.xOne was devoted to Victory and another to the Jupiter of the Cap itol. The walls of the latter are six feet In thickness, and. are made of great . blocks three and four feet in length. Some of the enormous col umns which formed, the back of this structure still standi They are on a high platform . which overlooks the whole city. Each column Is fifty feet high; it is fluted and carved: and its capital is pf wonderful beauty, t I";llmbed up: to the base of these great columns and took a bird's eye view of the ruins. With the broken marble pillars here and there among them, the half broken houses looked more like a palatial cattle yard of brick and stone than a city. Th'.s, however. Is only at first. The ruins of the famous old city spring at once into view, and the wealth of the past every -where strikes " your . eye. The houses are' now little more than wall ed pens," and the -streets, the roads through them. "Just v below me wer great blocks Of 'marble.' ;j:eces of broken statues. could aee the stone tables upon which the Roma"nsi Offer ed their sacrifices. aidv beyond ' them the homes of the city. The columns beside me were as big around as , a hogshead and they rose above me ;to te height of a; four-story house. Tfiei were made In" blocks, each , of. which must have weighed many tons.; They were probably; chlsled out on - the ground, .but how1 : thew ' were raised so high- without ! the aid. of modern machinery' cannot 'Imagine.,, Thrs temple had twelve columns in front of It. and twenty-two pillars of these enormous proportions on the platform above..' Tho Arch. of Trajan. At the entrance, of the. Vlo Decuma nus Maxlmus now stands the remains of the Arch of. Trajan. The city, as I have said, was founded by Trajan, and this arch is a splendid monument to his memory, it must be eighty o one hundred feet in height. It Is of sandstone, with columns of marble; it has aged by the . weather, and a the sun ahone. ifpon - It this -mornlng - it took on the color of old gold, mak ing' a great frame standing " out against the blue sky. The arch has three entrances, twpatthe. side for foot1- passengers andone 'lH' the center for carriages. The road through Spent $300 on Doctors and Rem edies Which Gave No Relief Skin on Limbs and Feet Rough and Sore1 Work Often Impossibles TRIES CUTICURA, .. , WELL IN SEVEN DAYS "Cuticura ' Remedies have entirely cured me after all other remedies had failed. Up to a week or so ago I had tried many other Ijemedies ana several doctors, and spentabout three hundred dollars, without any success, but this is to-day the seventh day that I have been using the Cuticura Remedies (cost ing a dollar and .a half), which have cured me completely, so that I can again attend to my business. I went to work again to-night. My trouble was as follows: Upon the limbs and between the toes my skin was rough and sore, and also sore under the arms. I am a chef for a large cafe on Broadway, and I had to stay at home several times because of this affection.' I had been suffering for eight years and have now been cured by the Cuticura Remedies within a week. I am much indebted to Cuticura, and shall . certainly recom mend it to all my friends and colleagues in. the kitchen. Fritz Hirschlaff, 24 Columbus Ave., New York, N. March 29 and April 6, 1906V HAIR FALLING OUT Very Bad Dandruff on Scalf), Pimples Cover Face, Cuticura Cures. I used the Cuticura Remedies with great success. My face was a mass of pimples and the dandruff .was so bad on my scalp that my hair all began to fall out, and a friend of mine told me of Cuticura and I began to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Before month I saw a great change for the better, and now 1 am entirely cured. I bad no physician in charge. My little girl is now four years of age, and knows the use of no other than Cuticura Soap. Her skin is perfect and her hair remark', able for her age. Mrs. W. C Howard, 132 N. Tenn. Ave,, Atlantic City, N. J Jan. 22. 1906." Comptete External and Interns! Treatment tor Ever? Humor of Inbuiia. Children, and Adulta ponslata of Cuticura Muap 2&c ) to Cteanae th Skin. Oitt-ura Olntmmt (SOc.) to Hral the Mun. and CnUrura Rrntwat (50c.). or In tba form of Otocnlat CMtrd PH Is. iSc . per vfai of 00 , to Purify th BkWd. Sold throughout' Urn world. Potter Imtmt Cnem. Oorpu Hoi Propa Boston. Mass, a-atailed Free. How to Cure Sfcio the central arch fiaa been cut dcc.! by the chariot wheels. Birds were flying . about through this arch as I visited It today, and. looking beyond It. over the plain. 1 could see the black tents of the Be douins with the sheep feeding near them. They were grazing among the heads of ruined columns and on land covering that part of Timgaa which has not yet been excavated. In lic Tliu$Htl' 3Iumuih. All the relics fon.nd at Timgad are kept in the museums here, and tho collection already yives live pictures of the eld Roman uays. Some of the rooms are walled with mosaics, ami they contain enough broken-noseo Mtatues to people a town. There are some cases filled, with gold coin and others containing 4ewelry of , gold, some of which is set with precious stones. There are rouge pots like those discovered at Pompeii, and there ure finger rings of gold. There are sur gical instruments. Including pincer and forceps of steel, beautifully mado Knives of venous Kinds, and, needles of all sizes. There are Roman lamps of bronze o.nd of clay. There ar bronze handles of vases, and beauti ful pieces and vessels of iridescent glas. Altogether the collection I wonderful; but it is. shut up" here away off in the heart of North Africa, twenty-five miles from the nearest railroad, so that few people ever be hold It. During my stay I have photograph ed some of the ruins and have meas ured many of the columns and build ings. I have also talked with the di rector of the excavations. He tells me that the work of uncovering the city is to go steadily on. but that th present appropriation of only about $12,000 is not enough to hurry the work. The excavating Is carefully done., and in the remaining two thirds of trte city yet to be uncover ed many -treasures must lie. Ther must be more or less gold and pre cious stones and it may be also th3 remains of beautiful statues, mosaics and relics which will throw a new light On Roman North Africa. A Land of lloinan Ruins. There are relics of the Romans scattered all over this part of the world. Nearly every town in Algeria of any size has more , or less or them. I have seen the -band of old Rome In nearly every place I havo been. It has left its marks ebout Algiers, Oran and Tlemcen. The lat ter city was ancient 1 Pomaria, and It shows the. remains of a great Ro man aqueduct. I came across the old Roman wall many times -while ex-' plorlng Algiers, and not far from here is Constantine. which was nam ed after Constantine the emperor of Rome, which- has more or less ruins about it. In La m bee. Lambqse, about twenty miles east of here, was built by the Romans A.. D. 125 to form the headquarter of the Third Augustan Legion, and recent explorations show that It wan a large Roman camp. The ruined arches, of the gates outside the' city show that It covered' several " miles, and in? its renter I a building -of stone ninety A wo feet long and seventy-two- feet wide, and as nigh . a a four-story houset ' The facade of this structure has a peristyle,- with hand some Corinthian 'columns. --. - . - : Near It Is a temple which was built during' the reign of Marcus Au- -rellus, and also a' great arch "put up in nonor or Septimus Beverus. There are ruins of hatha at. Lambese. ' from w-hlch have been taken -beautiful mo. half an acre and In one of the forums one of which measured ;- moro -than half n acre, and in one of the forums was a great temple surrounded by a colonnade. - ; On the site of Lambese the French have now built an enormous barracxa for such soldiers as they send to Af rica for correction, and as 1 rode by I passed several companies of French troopg going through their evolutions on the site of the Id "camp. Just as the Roman soldiers did l that same place more than seventeen-hundred years ago. -i. FRANK Q. CARPENTER. in 11 Many a good thing slips through a man's grasp because hfr is too- pre vious. ' Land the Basis of Wealth. (Continued from Page One.) to say that by the middle of the pres ent century, when our population shall have reached the two hundred million mark, our best and most con venient coal will have been so far consumed that the remainder can only be applied to present uses at an enhanced cost, which would probably compel the entire rearrangement of industries and revolutionize the com mon lot and common life. This is not a mere possibility, but a prob ability which our country must face. The MlKhly Iron Interest. The prospect of the. mighty iron in terest is even more threatening and more sure. Our available Iron depos its have been carefully catalogued. All the fields of national Importance have been Known for at least twenty years. Within that time their boundaries and probable capacity ha ire been esti mated, and the whole country has been prospected for this king of min erals. The most reasonable computa tion of scientific authority affirms t3iat exlxting production cannot be maintained for fifty years, assuming that ail the available Iron ore known to us in mined. In fact, the limita tion Is likely to be less than that pe riod. Glance at Great Britain. If any man thinks this prophecy of danger fantastic' let him glance- at Oreat Britain. That nation was not. so extravagant as we. because it dia not compel the instant exhaustion of its resources by a tariff prohibiting such imports, and because Its sur plus population could and did scatter over the globe. But It has concen trated effort upon the secondary form of industry" manufacturing at the sacrifice of the primary the tillage of the soil. Its iron supply Is now nearly exhausted. It must import much of the crude material or close its furnaces and mills. Its coal Is be ing drawn from the deeper levels.- The added cost pinches the market and makes trade smaller both In volume and In profits. .The process of con striction has only begun. None are advertising it. only the few understand It. But already there is the cry of want and suffering from every street In England. From a million to a million and a half of men are hov ering together in her cities, uttering that most pathetic and' most awful ultimatum. "Damn your charity, give us work." And this Is pnly the be- Kinnine- of that industrial re-adjust- I ment which the unwise application of Industry and the destruction of. natural resources must force everywhere. He who doubts may easily convince hlm- solf hv on hmiAiit Invent i caHon of the 1 facts, that this is no sensational pre diction, but something as established and inevitable as an eclipse or the return of the seasons. The most amazing feature of -our situation, indeed is Its vast and com pelling simplicity. i Reliance Upon SolL Every people is thus reduced in the final appraisal of its estate to reliance ucon the soil. This Is the sole asset that does not perish,' because It con- , tains within Itself, If not abused, the possibility of Infinite renewal.-' All the life that exists upon this plant, all the .development of man from his lowest to his highest qualitites, rest as firmly and as unreservedly upon the capaci ties of the 'soil as do his feet upon, Ithe' ground beneath 1 hmi. The soil alone U capable of .self-renewal, through the wasting .' . ot r the ; rocks, through the agency of plant life, through Its chemical reactions "with the liquids and gases ' within and without. A self-perpetuating ' race . must rely upon some self-perpetuating means of support. Our one resource, therefoie, looking ut humanity- as something more than the creature-of a day. is the productivity of the soli. And since that, too, may be raised to a high power or lowered to the plnt of disappearing value, u is or tne nrst consequence to consider how the peo ple of the United States have dealt with this." their greatest safe-guard and their choicest dower. Pre-Elnietly Agricultural Country. This la pre-eminently, and primarily an agricultural country. Its soil has been treated largely as have been the ; forests and mineral resources of the nation. Only - because ' the earth is more lc ng-suf feting, onty because the process of exhaustion la more difficult and occupies a" longer "period, have 'we escaped the peril that looms so large In other quarters. The reckless dia- i itribution or the land; its division (among all the greedy who choose to ask for It; the appropriation of large areas for grazing . purposes, have ab sorbed much of the 'national heritage. Only one-half of the land In private ownership is now tilled. That tillage does not produce one-half of what the land might be made to yield, without losing an atom of Its fertility. Yet the waste of . our treasure has proceeded so far that the' actual : value of the soil ' for productive purposes has al ready deterloated more' than It should have done in 'five centuries of use. There. Is, except in Isolated and Indi vidual cases, little approaching- Inten sive agriculture In' the United States. There is only the annual skimming 'of the rich cream: the exhaustion of virgin, fertility? the extraction from the earth by -the most rapid ' process of its productive powers; the deter ioration of life's sole ' maintenance. And all this with that army of another hundred million people marching ' In plain sight toward us. and expecting and demanding that they , shall- be fed. - ".- ' ' ' !"'- : r - : A Vur Cry. -From 1860 to 1900 Is a far cry.- In that time our population . leaped from 31,000.000 to 76.000.000. In that time a' vast area of wilderness 1 was put beneath the plow. Yet. In those same years the area of improved land in the North Atlantic States remained stationary. It is now' steadily -on the decrease. In the South Atlantic States' while the -""enclosed area larger the farming area has. decreased by more than 2,000,000 acres. The test of values Is still more indicative "Every farm properly cared for should be' worth more -money for each year of' Its life. The Increase of population and demand, the growth of cities and markets, : and the "development of di versified' farming-with "density of. set tlement should assure a large-" Incre ment. "' Even - where large quantities of new and fertile land . are opened, these- Influences, together with the lowest J cost of. transportation In the world, should' "make' the growth of values -steady. . Within . ' the twenty years between' 1 869 and 1900 the ag gregate value Of farm lands and Im provements, Including, buildings, de clined In every one of the New Eng and the Middle States except . Massa chusetts alone: : The total decrease ;in values,; for these ten 'States', of theflrrt asset of a"dvllized' people .Is more than' J300.000.000. i Nor is ; the . at tempted explanation by the census bu reau of this shrinkage either adequate or 'convincing. -" This change in the" section - f;s oldest cultiva tion - under modern - conditions i significant." It s- Is not singular.. The soil of the South Is moving on, the same decline, - though the fact H is leas obviotis In the total chapge off agrlcul- .( Continued on Page Thle.). ' v v.-v ' : -. -. . Is certain if yon take Hoods This great medicine cores pimples and boils that, appear at cures scrofula sores, salt rheum ;. or , eczema ; adapts itself equally, well to, and also cures, dys pepsia and all stomach troubles ; cures (rheu matism and catarrh; cures: nervous i troubles, debility and that . tired feeling. - -'' v .y g SarsatabS For those who prefer medicine !n tab- ' ' let form. Hood's Sarsaparilla is now put up la ehoeo- di lated tablets called Sarsatabs. as well as in the usual ,- Mrs. C. K. Tyler; Bnrlirtm. vt liquid form. Sarsatabs have Identically the same mr: "Tb m of farm, no eurave 'properties the liquid form, besides .".litrbk racy of dose, eonvenienee.eeonomy.r-no loss by eymp- down; blood poor and thin:4oMrenn a. oration, breakaare. or leakage. Druggists or promptly littl ulttp. Hood's Krsri-i,. t iv, by mail. C I. Hood Co-. Lowell. Mass. ; . ISJJrt todM?U iTork.r,I,?' Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs jCct," June 30, 1906. 1 No. 321. 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' 1 l'' " " ' " " ' ( '',This season, of the' year ;the housekeeper' U begins , to : give the w home a ' thorough -overhaullnj. velops a worn-out or. packed , you call and see-our ""-' r7?i Hp MM :bUCILli!J0 - lit -1 J-.-i ' 4 r i five" Guarantee this Mattress never to pack ntl t f jrtectly ; thfiictbry.' .'Orders .hy;'mail receive promote cncntlon. . ' - WhoXcsalo : ' ; or Retail IT: Johnson . , - RALEIQH, N0?wTI I C.V.ICV. J.V X mm X j 1 1 i - j j ft ff "f- r fife: tfc - ell ; Sarsaparilla. those.ernptions, - . all seasons; ' Is Yours - . of - " ; " -.- . planting, and some more later . almanac - - free to farmers. If your , ;iortiam.K.a Charleston. 8. C Atlanta. Oa. Savannah, Ga. - Mtmpbia. Tana. Montgomery. Ala. 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