TOBACCO LEAVES 



of none, tender, and always sympathetic, 

 even faithful in the sense that she is true 

 to all her lovers. 



Does she not deserve my praise? 



DAVID A. CURTIS. 



MINING MEERSCHAUM IN TURKEY 



AT present there are four districts in 

 Turkey in which any one who so desires 

 may enter into the business of meerschaum 

 mining simply by paying the Ottoman 

 government the sum demanded for a li- 

 cense, namely, five piasters. These dis- 

 tricts, as described by the Revue Scienti- 

 fique, are Sari-Sou, Sepetdji, Geikli, and 

 Menlon. The five thousand miners already 

 engaged in this industry are Kurds and 

 Persians, and all of them work according 

 to the most primitive methods. The work 

 is carried on night and day by means of 

 petroleum lamps, the blocks of meerschaum 



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