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!NMUf -I THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS RUSSIA'S POSSIBILITIES ft V FOR SALE NEW UP-TO-DATE BUNGALOW Eight large rooms with bath, store room and plenty of closets, plastered, hardwood floors, cypress doors, Cathedral glass casement windows, 7 foot stone fireplace, hot air heat, 120 feet of pfirches, 3 sides, new range and soapstone tubs, good water supply, pine groves and small pond on four acres surrounding. Apply to MR. J1LLSON OF THE OUTLOOK or MR. NEWCOMB AT THE GENERAL OFFICE I ; ,,TmMWllf 1SaMM ! ? Ill W ITT Mill .III! M IM I IT- " --tirTTIirM- I1MIII Ill II HMrimimwn -Hi HIGHLAND PINES INN ON WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. A beautiful Colonial building luxuriously furnished and equipped uth the best box-spring beds and hair mattresses; accommodating 200 guests and more than half the rooms have private baths. Greatly enlarged for the present season, orchestra, Country Club, golf, tennis, hunting, motoring, Faulkenberg riding School headquarters ; adjoins the great Weymouth Pine woods. SEASON, NOVEMBER TO MAY. On main line of Seaboard Air Line Railway. Fifteen minutes motor to Pinehurst over Capitol Highway. Write for illustrated booklet. ANDREW I. CREAMER & MILLARD H. TURNER, Proprietors. FIREPROOF NEW MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN HOTEL CONTINENTAL WASHINGTON, D. C. Opposite Union Station Plaza This modern fireproof hotel offers every comfort and convenience at moderate prices. Room wltti detached bath $1.50 to 2.00 Room with private bath $2.50 to $3.00 American Plan $3.50 and upwards Management of A. W. CHAFFEE PINEHURST; THE COMMUNITY Write THE OUTLOOK if you are interested in this all-the-year land of "Liberty and Living." A post card secures the illustrated Board of Trade Booklet. 1L i jpi Gilbert Gronrcnor of CJeograpliical Society CHves Amazing- tatllic SHOWING how Kussia is larger than the entire continent of North America, with the Is lands of the Caribean thrown in; how it occu pies three-fifths of Eu rope and two-fifths of Asia, how its Asiatic possessions are one and a half times as great as those of China and three times as great as those of Great Britain; how it comprises one sixth of the landed area of the globe and one-tenth of the world's population, Gil bert H. Grosvenor, director of the Na tional Geographical Society, has just furnished the members of that organiza tion with a striking pen picture of " Young Eussia A Land of Unlimited Possibilities. ' ' If After giving an im pression of the diversity of the origin of its people, who come from the Orient and the Occident, the frigid North and the tropic South; of its range of climate, which gives the Palm Beach touch to its Crimea and the breath of the North to its "White Sea region; of its vast agricul tural wealth; of the widely varying as pirations of its people, which differ as greatly as those of the Poles and the Mongols, as those of the Confucians and the Jews, as those of the Tartars and the Lapps; and of the vastness of the geographic limits of the Empire, Mr. Grosvenor says: ' ' But with all its geographic greatness Eussia is about as poor in natural out lets to the world as the smallest of the countries of the earth. Holland could be hidden in the vast reaches of the Eus sian plain, almost as a needle in a hay stack, yet Amsterdam does more inter national business than all the ports of Eussia together. Not one free outlet to the open sea does European Eussia possess except on the icebound shores of the Arctic Ocean. The path from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean leads through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles held by alien hands. HMr. Grosvenor next shows how there lives within the bounda ries, of the Eussian Empire enough people to duplicate the population of Germany, Great Britain and France combined, with enough left over to duplicate half the population of Austria-Hungary. Further more, if Eussia grows from 1912 to 2000 as she grew from 1872 to 1912 her popu lation will then be upward of six hun dred million. He then continues: "From such a record of size, of bigness in everything, we should expect Eussia to be an old nation, like Great Britain, with perhaps a thousand years of unhindered growth behind her. But, as a matter of fact, Eussia is a youth among the nations com pared with England, a stripling whose full stature and breath is still a subject of conjecture and speculation. 1f " Eussia is young because she never has had a chance to grow until recent years. Her that for centuries her people were con stantly being enslaved or despoiled by stronger neighbors." If After dealing briefly with Eussia 's remarkable history, especially with the surprising reign of geographical shape or condition was such Peter the Great, Mr. Grosvenor shows that when Alexander II freed the fifty million serfs of Eussia he released from bondage a population equal to that of the twelve leading States of the United States, and a poulation more than twelve times as great as was freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation not very many months afterward. Alexander bought 350,000,000 acres of land for them, permitting them to buy it from the Gov ernment on easy terms. He thereby car ried into effect the most extensive piece of agrarian legislation in history. "Each village conducts its own inter nal affairs through 'town meetings' and not through elected or appointed officials. Their lands are held on the common own ership basis, and is apportioned out for cultivation from time to time. If ' ' With the bulk of its crops raised by the peas antry, and for the most part, employing most primitive means of farming, Eussia is still able to produce a very large pro portion of the world's food supply. In 1913 it gave to civilization nearly a fourth of its wheat, a full forth of its oats, a third of its barley and more than half of its rye. That year its wheat crop was three times as great as ours, and its rye crop twenty-five times as large as ours. If Eussia has more horses than any other nation on earth, with 35,000,000 as compared with our 24,000,000; more sheep than any other nation, with 80,000, 000 as compared with our 50,000,000; nearly as many cattle, with 51,000,000 as compared with our 59,000,000. "The latest authorative information on Eussian educational conditions, that for 1908, shows that only 211 out of every thousand people in the Empire could read and write, and there are two illiterate women for every illiterate man. With our hundred million population, in 1912 we had an enrollment of 19,218,00 school children. With her population of 172,000,000 Eussia 's total enrollment was 7,970,000, and 23 of these were boys for every 10 who were girls. If "And yet the first woman civil engineer in the world was a Eussian, and the educated woman of Eussia enjoys a freedom equal to that of her kind in any other country in the world. They are even allowed to become professors in men's universities, and after twenty years of service are retired on pensions, which continue during the lives of their husbands, if they are mar ried and are survived by the heads of their houses. "The Tsar of Eussia is a well paid ruler. He receives the revenues from the Eussian crown lands, and their area is equal to that of one-third of the United States. Several years ago the imperial treasurer is reported to have advised the Tsar: 'Your Majesty need have no fear of ever coming to feel the sting of poverty. Financially you are solvency n
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