Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — They Did Not Know. [ARTICLE]

They Did Not Know.

The young woman who reckoned Anon among her favorite authore mu it have been a sister of the officials f the French government mentioned by Alexander A. Boddy In “To Kairwao. the The commissioners were sent through Tunisia to ascertain the names of the rivers, mountains, ruin* and so forth-

On the completion of the mafr made by the officials, it was found that a. very large proportion of places bore i-e same name—that of Ma’arifsh. It seemed strange and unnatural that somany mountains, rivers and ruins, should be called alike. Yet the explorers solemnly assured the authorities that Berber, Zlass and other Arabs had been carefully questioned, and all gave like response. The truth was that all the mountains, rivers and objects were labeled on the map with the interesting name* in Arabic, "Don’t Know,” "River Don’t Know,” “Don’t Know Mountains,’” "Clued Ma’arifsh,” "Djhbel Ma’arlfsh! ”