| Show u I THE GREAT DESERT THE AREA OF SAHARA NEARLY EQUAL TO THAT OF EUROPE I A narrlif I tkt rri > rM of Cltlllill Which EBllnnlnr kill II Tilnf 10 I I Orrmn Th Impaal Idol I lb I l llll > n flho Aide Problem l We have bulla lOOk upon the map to IM how large iv rae upon too world I urface tlilt ml hly dmrt tokM lo It nlf It corer more equate mile than the whole of lh locIlrahMh If It were lr < D > pntt l notoM that Ma It I would eillngoUh Kuror for It I haD keen computed that If Jon lento out Bcaniilnirla It would marly com Ibo whole of It It It were only I lInk In the HI tbJ warn would roll over It and It would In lerutuiberej no loot tot ever nrDot It lintel on lowplog 1 III bM < 1 oboe water and aliuve ground crowd Inn oat f tlllo portion of Ibo earth while Ita UrrMiMM render t It unfit lot human habitation Tb re title on Ibo lace of AfrlN n huge Murk pot de netted by ruin lilt em tob reiirta by Oat No mm hew 1 M by It I or willingly will-ingly putt the toot thereon ETUI the lowly > 1 cararan that ikliiu It like nblfil learn 110 trick behind It any more thin thin lied In tin air or DM ihlp on Irn MI It WWM mil li gone tearing nut a trio of Ills In man or bunt or Mnl i or any living thing Ho far ae w can eee th dnert li I an utterly worthlew belt lion of the glob Wills orh an Inllln coming full half of northern Africa there would > em to be tlttl hope ot making anything any-thing out of It nine the calico which render IK conilltlon n hoeleea cannot l > 0 removed You cannot abolish the desert any mora thin you can alwluli the ift Them It li I and Hint II will remain forever Yen lint you can not over I ho IM in hlr or under It by teln graph I 10 that 1111110 longer a bar lo thlotorur at notion li thetnany nay of lamina the desert or olulnl It au that It > h ll no longer boa I barrier the proRrei of clrlllintlonl rule U I the rnoct Important qnettlon lobe ttleJa bearing upon the tulu of Afilca Of courio If It I were left lo Ibo native Inhabitant all thing would coutlnno at they were from thebeglunlnR of cr v tlon Nor bAl Europe at Urge any In latest In IL Dot there Icon European power that till an lulet In It Frnnrn Im largo potMttlona on ltd Ma of tho Medlteiranean Algeria and Tunli together to-gether make n country a Urge as one of the kingdom of Europe which Franc hat the ambition toeulatgo itlll further roan to have n great African empire I M England hit her Indian empire em-pire AIarl of tho material for thli ahe bn another greet dependency In tVnfgambla on the western eoait n country covering 400000 iquiro mile If thli coned In any way IM I united to AlgeriaIf the two could coMolldated lb ner am A Ire would at noM as one vast ptoportloni But the Jewel block lb way It VUIa the prolueal empire Ilk n weJie It cannot be re moral but U I there not tome mop III which It cm lw convert Into obey lone for lie mighty arch that le l to ipau the continent from Ike MnlllcrranMi 10 I the Atlantic Tint li I Ibo problem which hit long citrclicd the mllull of KrDth ililiimen and which tiny In torn hire referred 1 lu their rnglmvn who are among the but In the world with what remit may bo briefly ludl cattd FIt of alt they bare ihown that It li voiilbl to convert portion of Ibo deceit Into OHM by the ilnkltiK of nr teilan well A hundred and 1 forty mile loath et Illikra II I Ibo nails of Tajgatt which h > long mpporteil thouiand of Arab with their flocki and herd but which wa nearly de troyed tome Jim aloe by the well becoming choked up at to no longer furolih inpply of water Vegetation wither until the wretched people itilpped of what wa to them Ibo very water of Ilfo and 1100 Ignorant to Iw able to renew the apply were In deipalr and begin to leuro the country Thou Ihe Frtncti engineer took the matter In hand and Initead of trying to clear out Ibo old well coinnmnceil Lor lag Ihu lolld 1 earth and In Ave weeki itrnck water to i ohn n goal pnrpoM that A river nuM forth that 11ldod l double the quantity furnlihrd by the grant will of Crenelle at Iarl To the Arab It teemed miracle ud they togas to-gas to ling and d aoro In the wIldest manner to eiprcia their Joy The rolr ucle li one that can b 0 wrought whur ever nea are willing to take Iho labor or to bear the oipeme Of cearie to ue ooupllili a largo result In the way of pailutage or agriculture would hare to be repeated on n iuendoui wale lintor the piirpotoof uulllnKthe Tail territorial of Algurla nnd Benegam Ua the tint ueeewlty la 1 that of dltKt ninmuulcatlon which can only boo by n railroad acroaa tho dart of Sahara la inn whole toe Lunai cl IIoly Nobodya opinion li nf any value OJ opt that of an engineer and 1 Ihat I hare tried to obtain In Algleri the American Amer-ican cetiiul took me tome Mr Jlroill tale who bit mule a fpeclal iludy of the mbjeot and taken long ji > nrney Into the desert to surrey the field of battle lie did not oonceal from hlmwlf the mormon dlfflcultle of traveling 1800 tnlln with the want of motels the want of wood for railroad lien the want of everything He looked In the face thfl intelblllllMof Iheee rand storms thlch might bury n railroad train nl they have bnrlnl a Ihonaand carnrnm All this he I had taken Into comlderatlon and yt looking all obstacle and all danger lu the far he did not Imitate 10 iieore tae that In hie railroad rail-road I aero the dewtt of Hflham wit qnlte within the rewniroM of inwletu oegileer log lint wet the dream already fulfilled the desert crowed and the tide of truest III foil roniM the whole African prole lee would not be viral TIll would Lo on itu toward J itCur K > nngell |
