| Show l 1 I 1 le 1 S w wI I TUNISIA A AND ALGERIA NEED I r nc e 0 r t h iJ i c a l AME AMERICAN IC GOODS r d 1 i t tr i i t lf t R 1 L r I 1 A F L t K r r yf 4 1 s ir 7 r t r 1 r ri i o 4 t Kt tl L f r h f T i i C ft 1 Sr Sri 1 M MI I if P l t 1 r to tor r t r 11 h I t t sv I Ant V t b d Y f s st I J II l t r ra rK Of 10 m ti a 1 K m r d 1 1 IQ e fg jt V f HIS HIGHNESS THE BEY OF TUNISIA lie Ile Is I b h the Ih French l Hut But Gel g n Year for far I flit by hr h Frank G f i rS Special c o of A cars l Gy y I rank Frank IS G l 1 bv h b Frank FrankO Cl U Curp ll I ter Sam Ham should sand and his tits commercial 1 to Tu lu 1 tIsla 1 la and Algeria The Tl i e efrench se tx IW t s n french colonies are ar rapidly in ill In population Tunisia has hils doubled withIn tho Iho post past 10 years cars and Algeria Is growing both bolh by 11 Immigration lion tion and by hy Us lis Increased member ut Ie births bUths If i it wel m tint not li l tor for tic the divorces both would be bc morn maro populous than lhnn they the are now The TIle most of lh I Iho people arc are and antI their marriage laws talta are arc such ouch that u n man can act lt rid of or his Ills superfluous wives tar far more nutty easily than Limn tin Iho I ho American J can van divorce Ida his only one In III South Smith or Ur U Oklahoma There are arc nr now IIO about 10 lu v CUO In Algeria every HIlI till IH th almost half the number of nt mar All that a n haul hat hatto inn to ju du lo to a it 1 separation Is to 10 point paint his wife to tile the door dont and amI and say 1 I dl 11 11 MII v n 11 you J fn I divorce r r you 3 f I dl tor c r S ou nm on OIl she 81 s goes jO go It H Is I not n n l im h better ININ with lIh th Ih Tunisian Jena the 1 he chief difference rn e cr I eIn that the Mo III 1 o right to tn four blip the Ihl lew ran rAil havo lint but ne me Al 1 present plural Is declining clining I In Ity among tin the tho ille of ot living more and n ore expensive and I It Ito ends costs o ts too Ino to In 0 up Ul n ha rein with more than thui one on all this African France as 1111 two to colonies inn uin tailed called hns hua more and moro people from year II to year Jr It n Is a big blK country Al AI Algeria geria gerla Irla outside Ihn tho rust territories t rut fit 1111 French t t t I r i Is III 1 s us i n ns mix all New England with New fork Voik Penn H and und New Now Jar Jer Jary 1 y added thereto und It nan tn a population upon lation larger than any of or our QUI tal a outside Now York Tunisia Is IH Just about size or of Ala AUa a t has as nfl many UK liS ell l The fir fh population oC or the ale Ie two 10 counti Is IH Is fully fUll that of the lilt whole Malted States ond nud the most t the tho th people might 11 consumers ers 11 of American Roods goods So Rn far rill our dear POlle Sam Sim seems scents to be he hIs Ills consular II here herl on the cheap AV 11 hive have n 0 poorly paid pitted consul in UI Algiers and alII within dolt the tho last Ins few months we e 0 hoo havn reduced the vice Ice con enn consulate salute nl nt Tunis to 10 a 11 consular agency This menus means that thai the man n i an who sanu ruts us here In this city elt I of at oe 0 0 0 und n country of ot Z and more nothing for expenses and tint that th t his hl fees Pe amount to 10 only a I fx raw hundred hu nil 1 1 dollars n yem This Tills Is III so se O we lire paying our ur consul of r Morocco several thousand thou and dollar a 11 year ear and nud havn havo r ri rL hIs bis predecessor Mr Gum Oum Gummere mere to 10 the rank of ot a minister with a salary reveral tunes times as n urge e Although we 0 spend only three or roar four thousand dollars In III our mir trade tralle In III these theau two tw rich provinces to Trance France l There the tha t Is I worth many million dollars a n year NII and std t tr three or o four tour times that on the wilds ot or Morocco from which wo o 0 get Ket nothing now and cannot hope hol for much until In III the till future Mitre Stellar Similar conditions In ht same other parts ot of o Atria Africa D DATE A AF A Tunisia and 1111 Algeria AI crI urr ure a PIt part of ot up UI Africa Ate I ca They Tile Th urn uro still I 11 behind behil t u the times es but hut they the thc are rapidly rn t 1 Idl I t t tn r nil all modern 5 1110 and property In them from the Mediterranean to hi far Jar down Into the Sahara n naf sate safe af there Ire tiro police re anil the people are tre re paying less leas fuses thin linn ever before brOlo The rh facilities f fa of ot ate arc 11 rapidly rill hI I Tho Tito two Ip 11 the tho of or H Hof of railroad thousands of ot miles lulles ot of ged R ci country roads made and nud hundreds of II rut if It electric tramways I One can now no travel though Tunisia nod for tOI foru forit u n as tl great ns os from Washing Washington ton to II cattle Beall In lit nn an and ind 1 that Hint over oer roads better hetter than Ir of ot tho tha country of ot till the United States The soil Is largely l with limestone and the mails have hae been bren from rom ono one end nt or the Iho load land to the th other As H to the tile telegraphic possibilities the Ihl wIre now in to use It n In Algeria would a n 1 girdle around the tho earth nud till the tele graph poles are enough tn to supply KUI ly a aline i iline line lute through Its renter center A telegraph route rout across alro the Ihl th Sahara has ha just juat been b 11 surveyed and within it II short time till tin French l province of or tho th Soudan vt will III be he Joined to Algeria by II 2500 2600 miles of ot wire Ire A A Trade of O A Year Which is ie Gobbled by Europe Europ Openings for r Our ot Cottons of 3 I and Farming and anil Mi n i it in ru Machinery Tunisia is 18 Governed The Bey Ivey and His Hie Sheiks t Worked by hy the French The Postal Telegraph and Banking ii The Native Courts Court and Why the th Jews Jew do How not Like Lkc them Italians Overrunning the Country Countr vv v nn Tin rTe ic err nrc telephones In Iii nil all the Ih lh f IM 11 f 1 Mr g rl i In n win morp 1010 a than Hum I r tt t telephone in tur him your 11 1 it ItI Its Inns I rill I distance Were e morn mor t thiu b 1 I I 1 low win u u has hns a n n nIl lyMen sl n Il Il i ul I can LAll III In the I her u IL a l I he be unit wi I h the tho fur for or 11 1 II n in uw i ind md 1 I have haxe 1111 t teu ell eu u of or Hie 1111 mi Irl tans They fhe lire are tar fur 10 I than ar tie WI have In r 1 I I ui eu euI 11 semi seal u n win will from here h l t ta III Trance France Fran lor lori 10 I i n c e nt i a tiny tend I 1 could do the Iho snot nm w t k 1 I GO below 1110 w In It I Iho t Desert D 1 n 1 e Itt of or 1 i If H I l i T nr 1 to about 10 c rill 11 a n xi n Ill iid 1 from lo to Still n ll Fla ho is n and no message a c Is IN tint Int far fOI fars 1 I ss s thill tl A vent 5 li enn th the Ihl r u hinge per li Is I 10 ID rents cents and Amid mine mie 4 n i 1 i r I l h lph tn to I Britain Italy Ui n I aI rn n II lot 01 fir far U It ILs han t W rn cal 1111 l n it I IhS nOl our Dar ini nn ill cut Th Ch rho telephone cairn In Algiers r nr ni i p ut eta fin to hirer t trents and 1111 S 5 rents fro fri fr long messages m 1111 anges out nut It The flU i hares hargea In hI Tunisia aie ae tin 1111 s a ne fir neA sA A GOOD anon POSTAL HI nIC Bolh of these 1 have n it 1 II n s Sr Th fh m rn are p t In hi t CW r r 1 r tour low of o lute Isle tilt the hn hit h bep i ou flu runnels lo to titan 1111 ny of tI the Ih ii aWl I PV of th thO the dp ert The let letI tw tr I i r ui ru A 11 Iu n I soil ee fliT arc ern amt pads I orders nr up 1111 in 10 Int 4 mux ii he hI a for foi t n cent n t I up tip to 10 r f t fi r tout cents I ran inn 11 tiny huy 1111 ii rn postal 10 orde on OIl to the amount oC or orro JU rot foi 2 and the Ihn situ rate Ii is I given nn fro fot 01 F I l 1 J India I and There nr are Illmo t dally mulls mails from flom hi hr he r tn to cnn can lie lC rr n lied haul either l Tunis Curie or 1 n lelA lelAIn In Jurt ju a 24 s 4 lr rp The Th business in is R rapidly iii lun There are arc like ilkI con oon O 00 sent 1 through the Alger el elI r ri i l a i II every er year yem enl and fully full belt ludt I that hil I macy mar 1111 through I the t h post ot of o ln MONEY AND D HANKS II IS Both noth of or the provinces have xII exiel Every olry town or of nn size has Its Ita banking e meats inn and the Titles cities an represented liy by 1 the tI chief baulks of ot I I able to draw money at al down downIn In lit n the faha In mill nud 1 I h hll W e hid hart no trouble In III my III lel le leter le lettI ter of lit credit cashed The Iho Bunk o ot 01 Algeria Is with the th sot government eminent has hR u n capital of ot n orI Its paper note I me airi lit r for gold Bold 01 l In III l any part of If these e French r col c ol 01 doles The Th Ih Credit hn lugs hi 9 In all it II the Algerian cities II eq rind uit the same fame In is I true Irne 1111 of the Rank or Ii I Tun Tuntola tola Isla t la us lIS to t the rules dills of o that Tile The money used u ed Is I French In Al Ali Al I i cerla erla and aul In hui but it il ilIs ItIs Is li all rati nl nn min II the French decimal system and there l Is no trouble ranking i linns In Tn addition to the hanks above men there ore oro 11 agricultural banks In to both Algeria Tunisia which make coke titans loans to farmers and settlers sad and AU AI Berla has Lae banks with of o more than r OW So Ko far nr banking hers here la Is s In Ut Its 1111 In Infancy fancy The hae not ant been l lu III Inking cine ante of or their money monty that They rw do In not nOl like to o toBO ogo BO IO to 10 the thi hanks hAnkH for fear IllI their friends will trill them hard up rap tind tint that their business is s There Therefore fore they then I hc hide their under tender the tho ther rafters or 01 build r them away In some OIlIa part ot or their thell houses Many of them put PUI 1 their tilt t surplus Into miln Jewelry e t Irs and t thin tills Is especially so en of nt the laid and the richer women among whom lira era often loader with gold d 1 I I sliver The rho chief money mOlle lenders outside t the tho Lanka banks are the Jews J II charge uxor rates raten of ur std take lak notes antes for much inept more Hare that Hum the tho loaned loa lied The rhe lea cranes come to 10 the inand house huu and nud the tho th loan lomi there and at ot theo the end often orton gets gels both house e and money In the French rench hanks brumes the Ih of office flee fice houta hows are arc from 8 S to In 11 1 mid trout from 2 until 4 t At noon every on knocks oft off for a II rest now h I OW TREY Tm Y DOE no DO i 1 S Similar hours horns obtain In the largo lareo houses but hUl they tho open opell early curly and with the tha exception of at the lie noon rest real remain open until dark All 11 nf lit the clues cities have hn French stores storell nod and business establishments like those of o Europe 1 The a great bulof bola bul of ot the trade however Is U hone done In ba bazars by snits R of nf petty 1 tI mor mer 1 who OI oc III cells ceU no then u 1 goud Plano piano hex box and hl sit Hit Hiton It on Oil the floor Moor they toll for their th ir customers Such establishments shortly niter after daylight In and close long before nightfall The Tite streets Will whre te they Ihor ore nr located ire limited nu d there 1111 III Is no 1111 e t tafter er lifter after lurk kirk kirkI OPENINGS I L tG FOIL KOU t 1 CLI CLE SAM SUI Tunisia has hns n II foreign trade of ot n f year but Inele 1 Sam gets almost unite none of ot It Wc V sell lieU but hili little to 10 Algeria end and lh that t not 1101 It 11 Its n I to tf nitre moro than per r i This Ii ls n I lars large rode e for fur a It colonial po O ts IJ lon loii und nod it 11 seems eem the thel larger l rg I It Ii Is remembered that the I population hero H is I almost t alto KOI her agricultural and 1111 that thal It II dresses dressea I In fu cotton I set are III tonic gume meats In III store find not n a 1 ten rew 1 of If t f the th french entry curry w sal l nOli There Art rom Chi InO en go in litre rt to c r through nut OUI the Tell lell and Ih Ie lire are Auteri enri tug iii fa II nav In mom oC tiC the eel A As to 10 the oot eol ton lot goods for Ihl these e or ten mil million lion people they come lI front from i r I r J aul I nl the saute ane H Is true Irne rile of or both Loth bothof of or titles lines II II N are arc of our nul nulon on nau The most of nt the trade of ur nil all lids kinds IIII is III ill h Prance France FranceOur Our 1 Ica 1 r Haul Mr I r Proux t uX who is III tune of ot thin the II bunkers of 1 Tunis and anal whose hoo is to of value tells me ate that there Ii Is I nu nn hlll here for fur forIll Ill nil ll Is of III tools tons IlIo He Ile says ays our nor lie to been blOn more mure ileK t I 1101 uio my of IC th the and thul lint several hundred ha have III been sold As s to in 0 American mm ninety mid and the tools In which we 1 file ae so AO strung Ie wh e re tie the people of or 1 Tunisia INa IN h his 1111 rl knot them 1151 ThIs Thin Is I eho ii by II iy our 11 Kales of lt t when wh 11 1 i they the 11 a to 10 I n only 1111 about sent In mania goods to 10 the hc I amount of more Lucre than Hum IK In now n like HUe worth h hot I of ot totems Roods goods to In the liar Algerians ami about boUl half that ihal The Thu timber of If north comes flom orn It II ht be he sent from our rout southern hern stalest The country Is 1 1 I almost Aho 1 treeless nud nil all the of or oft t has to he brought In lu from abroad AMONG IO G Tunisia ln and Algeria once ranee f supplied the bread of or and anti they tare lire now one nile of the bread lo baskets of Europe I produce of nC whet wheat and other grains but hut the Is co so poor pOOl ioor that thit the average yield of or Al AI 1 g grin crio Is la lest less than thun lulus per acre nelc herall ours ourA l I Is 11 l bushels and andu lint hut ot or n the Iho wheat hell belt nf ur Camilla u t something I like Ilk Z bushels With proper machinery thi thin yield in be lie doubled Ille dry diy dl lauds of northern need deep deell cultivation cult II II to tire pre serve the tIll and a It t may tr be III IIII that hut I a it 1 Mist cast amount oC or new lIew land can cuu be hI brought rought Into u use e by h Is now known us as 5 dry dr fa nr nr Al At present the Is j only The plows plow a ate ale so co light that Ihal you Oll could rould one Hue around tro your head as III ItU IH as a 1 well loaded Indian club std the thc often curry carry lurr them to and mid from the on Oil their heh I shoulders They are little tittle more inure titan than forked sticks shod with n 1 thin piece of lion iron hc but one brie handle and ind are IIri so NO made mintie that the II plowman dues does not ant need to press upon them as II he h allI through the furrows The TI result rl IH Is that large lanse bunches ire o of or w or 11 hushes ashes cannot be lie hoUI liei plowed i t up UI std td the tha farmers 1 sack I i In to and t out olit Ih g the They rh have ht ate to t n ru cut l most i of nf their a t tos t hue Ih sickle as It I t would ti l bo lie Ural Impossible os sible I lo tu run 1111 a II through 11 the I he Held FARMING Y It 11 Is only the french settlers wit and ens now nol and then an Ito Iho VI lutfe modern and und It Is III only In Algeria that our Is IH used use W V sell worth or so 1 0 of II n rl cultural Implements there Ih ro every t er year eur this being our OUI share hur of or the of or machinery annually Import lm port Id rd There Is I no nu why wh there should null not bo ho n u Rood good demand for tor Am American m plows and also for tor our mow most mowers mo moes ers es reapers und nod machines At present the grain Brain Is I either cither trodden trod trodden den out nut of or the straw HUI by horses oxen or 01 donkeys s or ground 1 out by b driving sleds about over It II The Tho chuff chaff chaffIs Is IH blown blon anav nI by h throwing o vIng the stra v u Li 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