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isiuilUiUidll.
THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN BIOS
BRUSH COUNTRY.
Where Sunshine and Fertile Sell
Await the Umlng of Canal-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant Har-
C. 3. Blanchard.
TCL PASO. Tex. (Special).—On the
Southeast border of the Oreat Ameri
can Deeert, where our slater republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
Texas on the East and the progres
siva old-young territory of New Mex
ico on the North, stands tho “largest
city In the largest Congressional dis
trict of the largest Stale of the great
est Nation on tho oarth.’’
To the Easterner who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
ity which Its citizens know so well
bow to extend, the question Is upper
most, what makes a city here? After
Journeying more than COO mlies across
Western Kansas and,the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
It la all one vast cattle fango, down
Into the adobe hills nn<l sago brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there
Is a reason for ashing tills question.
You natural!y want to know from
whence cornea all'this hustle and bustle
with nil these evidences of progress
and substantial growth. All your no-
huins or old Spanish enunen.
tlons long held and regretfully let go
of, are tbat this sunny land of the
border la the land of manama, of to
morrow; that Its day of awakening Is
not yet come, well, wako upl Ufa
Is Just as real. Just as earnest and as
strenuous In El Faso aa In New York
or Chicago, and when yon rub tip In
business against the El Pasoan you
need all your ahrewdness and business
acumen. r.
Tho Old and The New.
El Paso la old—very old, and El
Paso Is new, too—very new. This de
lightful paradox la full of surprises
and charms. Bight up ngalnst the old
Spanish dwelling of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and Its
patio In the center, you are llitoly to
find a modern office building with do-
gators and electric lights.
-Something of a feeling ot living In
the past oomea over you when you en-
tor one ot the old churches, down here
—churches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
orisons of countless thousands anil
softly Intoned aves wore echoing here
long before the eyes of the Anglo-
S'It* for the
Gnat
Rio Grand*
Dam.
v‘ icetess
...—as ana threatened to transform
thousands ot acre* ot fruitage aad
bloom Into its original state—that of
the desert As the water grew scarce
there sprang up hostilities between tbs
citizens of the whole Rio Grande Val
ley. Neighbor began to be arrayed
against neighbor; there were even fam
ily rows over tbo water. For years
these conditions prevailed. Mexico
made respectful protest against the use
of the waters ot the Bio Grande In
Colorado which deprived the ancient
canals of the Republic of their rights
long established. The Comity of Na
tions was threatened.
To Build a Huge Dam.
It waa the passage ot tho National
irrigation act which wrought a won
drous ebango. In the conditions and
knit together In one brotherhood all the
citizens of tho lower valley, Imbuing
them with a spirit of co-operation and
enthusiasm. Tho Reclamation ficrvlce
took hold of tho project and worked
out a plan to store the vust Rio Grande
Hoods which were annually a source
of much loss to tho valley and which
were wholly unutilized. This plan the
people have accepted as a salvation.
Ono hundred miles above El Paso tbo
Rio Grande Hows through a deep nar
row canyon. A dam 255 feet high
across Its lower end will create tho
largest artificial reservoir la this coun
try, It will make a lalto 40 miles long,
1% mils# wide and from 100 to 176
feet deep. It will contain water enough
to cover4,000,000 acres a foot deep. .
Into this vast msorvolr the greatest
flood the Rio Grande has ever known
will quickly disappear and later when
needed by 200,000 thirsty acres la the
valley below will bo released and led
through a net work of canals and
ditches through New Mexico Into Tex
as, clear down Into Old Mexico.
The Settlers Pay tHe Cost.
It will coat millions to do this work.
$7,000,000 Is tbs figure, but what of
that? Tho settlers will gladly pay for
It. Under tho magic of Irrigation Me-
sllla. La Palomas and El Paso val
leys, now only dotted hero and there
with green verdure, will spring Into
full fruitage, producing harvests unri
valled In quality and quantity. Ten
thousand now homes will cover the
desert plain, and El Ptso, the central
point for transportation and the great
est market In the valley, will wax into
a city of 100,000 souls. Twenty thou
sand acres ot Irrigated land anpport a
splendid city now.- What shall It ba
when 200.000 acres are added to tbe
crop producing area ot El Paso terri
tory?
AN ACKNOWLEDGED TRAIT OF
JAPANESE MERCHANTS.'
They Have^Wo Regard 7©r a Con
tract — Sfhklng Contrast With
Chinese Traders*
THE lSTELLIGKNCEOF ANIMALS.
An English Naturalist Believes That
It May be Far Greatar
Than Imagined.
Sir John Lubbock has brought more
popular attention to tho subject of the
mental capacity of anlmals than any
other writer. He has conducted many
careful Investigations on tbe senses, In
stincts and Intelligence of animals and
Insects. An Interesting query pro
pounded by tbe English scientist re
lates to tbo existence of other organs
of aenso than ours.
“We find," ho says. “In animals com
plex organs of sense, richly supplied
with nerves, but tbs function of which
wo are as yet powerless to explain.
There may ba fifty other tenses as dif
ferent from onrs ns sound Is from
sight, and even within tbe boundaries
of our own senses there may be-end-
With the treaty of peaces Japan has
seen tbe accomplishment of a task
that has been the ambition of the em
pire—to hold front rank In the fam
ily of nations. Tbla has been brought
about through such military achieve
ments as have evoked tbe admiration
of tho civilized powers, but now It
seems that Japan has still before her
a problem which means harder work
and a greater task than that which
she bad before tbo commencement of
tbe Russlan-Japancso war. -
Tbat task, Is to redeem the commer
cial reputation of her traders, a repu
tation which Is not enviable. Joseph
Walton, a member of the English par
liament, a man who has spent much
time In travel and knows tbo pooplo ot
tho East tborougbly, says In his book
on tho Orient:
"Japanese traders are not special
ly distinguished for honesty, particu
larly !n their business relations with
foreigners. We have, in tills a most
striking proof that tbe character ot
tho people Is largely formed by tho
nature of their surroundings. For hun
dreds of years tho trading class In
Japan has occupied a vchy low place
In the social scale. In the last thirty
years, since the feudal system has
geen abolished, the position of tho
traders hss greatly changed, and now
some of those who were nobles arc en
gaged In trade; and I am told thero
Is rsasbn to hope tbat shortly busi
ness affairs in Japan will be conducted
ou more honest lines."
Peculiar Business Dishonesty.
Tho progress which tho Japanese
have mado In tho past fifty years
•hows thorn to be a pooplo self-
reliant and determined to keep on ad
vancing towards tbe highest piano at
tainable, yet travelers In the East
havo been surprised that the traders
of the Occident are so notoriously dla-
honest, tor while tbe Japan*** or* far
superior to the Chinese as regards
achievement ot national strength and
D*n*v*rano* yet the reverse Is true
In the matter of commercial honesty.
It appears that the Japanese mer
chant* bar* no regard for A eentroet.
It la laid that the moat prosperous
commercial houses of Japan are man
aged not by Japaneae but by Chinese.
Tbe averago Cblncso merchant is high-
'y esteemed the world over for his hon
esty; In fact a president of one of the
-trgest corporations ot tho United
States once told that he would not be
afraid to ihlp a barrel ot gold coin to
a Chinese merchant with lnstrnctioni
to make not of It In trade, but at the
end ot tbe year be would receive a de
tail statement of where every cols
went, but If this were done to a Jap
anese merchant, he would consider
himself lucky to get back the empty
bimle
It 1* believed tbat the hard task
accomplished by the Japanese In the
war lust happily brought to an end
will be a beginning to bring out the
genius for wblch tbe Japaneso have
been noted in war to a utilization of
peace and commercialism.
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
“ Foreign end Washington Notes.
The Sultan of Turkev some short
time since, granted, an^audlence to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was so
much charmed with that genial Amer
ican gentleman that he conferred upon
him tbe grand cordon of the Cheiccat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with a lot
of porcelain manufactured In the im
perial potteries. It remain* to beseea
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
permission from Congress to be per
mitted to accept the order of the
Sultafiip? ■ . . ■■
mc l r Ir chmeso''MBIto?tothto?555t5I
has defied tho time honored traditional
of her native land, by returning to
China with her "feet enlarged" to a
normal size. When she came to this
country with her famous husband, Mrs,
Wu hod her feet tightly bound, os la
the custom among women of her rank
In China. While In thle country she
bad a surgical operation performed, in
creasing her feet to the size nature
Saxon bod looked upon Plymouth
Rock.
In the first half ot the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Oonqulstadorea
seeking new fields ot conquest for the
glory ot Spain, swept np the Rio
Grande Valley. Thoy found pastoral
. settlements of ' Pueblo Indians prac
ticing agriculture through the aid of
Irrigation, carrying iho precious waters
ot the Rto Grande oat upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
mod been In cultivation beyond the
traditions of the oldeet member* of the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conquerors. With tbe ready adap
tability of tho early explorer* they
utilized the old Irrigation systems.
Thresh by Trampling of Coats.
The unprogress!veness of tho Span
iard is no where more strikingly re
vealed than In the Rio Grande Vol-
4ey, where the dtecendents of the early
Spanish explorers ora to-day engaged
In agriculture In lost the some man
ner as their forefather* practiced It,
and Indeed with methods strangely like
those In the days of Abraham. Yoa
can see them-reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper tees bee of tho ltlo Grande In
later yean, showed email regard for
the settle,■» In tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
to make aad Inroads in tbe water sup
ply which was seeded for the old
lees sounds which we cannot bear, and
colors as different ae red from green,
of which we have so conception. These
and a thousand other questions re
main for solution.' Tbe familiar world
which surround* us may be u totally
different place to other animals To
them it may be full ot music which we
cunhot beer, of sensations we cannot
conceive. .To place staffed birds and
beasts In glass cases, to arrange In
sect* In cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, la merely tbe drudgery and
preliminary of study: to watch their
bablta, to understand their relations .to
one another, to study their Instincts
and Intelligence, to .ascertain their
adaptations and. their relations to the
forces of nature, to realise whet the
world appear* to tbem-tbeee con
stitute, as It seem* to me, ut least, tbe
true Interests of natural history, and
may even give ns tbe Clue to eenees
and perception of whlch at p re root
we have no conception."
CmlabrattngRatgttmroHapwluioa.
Among the festivities organised for
the celebration ot tbe seventy-fifth an
niversary of Belgium's independence
ta the tslthfol reproduction of one ot
the tilting Joueta given by Philip the
Good Burgundy In 14K3, to which
Philip* aon broke the lancea of six-
teen opposing knights In the presence
^Isabella of Portugal, Du&.s.ot
Burgundy. -
Cloto Co-Operation. ,
Now, Harold, this I* your fifth birth
day party. Whom do you lore boat,
your fatbar or ma?
Father, aure.
But, Harold, you sold yesterday that
you loved m* best
Ye*; but I’ve slept over It, and I
realise that we men must stick to
gether, -—
TBE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select a
X story Is told of a smoker who spent
eight of tbe best year* of his life trying
to color a meerschaum pipe, keeping It
enclosed moot ot tbe ttoioja a cose eoo*
to prevent It getting scratched and lte
finish being dolled by tbe oil and moist
ure from bis bonds, only to find at tbe
end of tbat period tbat be bad been,
tenderly tinning an Imitation instead
of the genuine “ecume do mer.” The
beet Imitation I* composed ot the par
ings of genntoe meerschaum, combined
with a mineral clay. Tbeee composi
tions can usually be determined from
tbe genuine meerschaum by their
greater weight but there Is no abso
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit One method of test is
to leak for slight Imperfections. Com
position bowls never exhibit tbeee
■light blemishes, wblch result from tbe
presence of foreign bodies In the natur-
I) meerschaum: however, at the bleat-
Isbes do net usually manifest them
selves until after tbe bowl bus been
used for some time, tbe test Is not of
much valuo to buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is a silicate of-magnesia.
and preparatory to carving It la soaked
In a composition of wax and olL The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer
schaum are tbe cause of tbe coloring
of tbe pipe due to smoking, and in con
nection with tbe further absorption of
nicotine, Where meerschaums bare
been umoked for some time wltboot
having acquired a good color, they can
frequently be improved by,
when warm, with beeswax.
Weakness ot English Colonies.
The taw commonwealth of Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
▼try well. The population to the ten
years ending with 1801 wo* 3.771,715,
the Increase being 697,482. The whole
Island continent bos lei* population
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, It
hoi not developed Internally, “Wen
Australian porta,” say* the Sydney
Bulletin, “shut by boatlle worships
to-morrow, tbe commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for Its
troops, without ships or the means of
making them, without fabrics for
clothing, without machinery for mine
or railway, without-even paper on
wblch to print Its Journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace of
band of
some master, crawl to the
whatever ]
streamer
power was for the tin..
' laps* Into savagery.*
MAriAim WU TING FANG.
Intended them to be. Mr*. Wu’i Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
op a steady correspondence, state that
sbt It able to walk now with com
fort
By tbo will of tbe late German
Field Marshal, Count von Woldersee,
commander of the allied troops during
the Boxer uprising in China, his In
signia of the Order of the Black Eagle,
set with diamond*, wu sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers to his old
regiment Count von Walderaee'e wife
Is a Miss Lee, of New York, and as-
■erta a most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where eh* succeeded in
■ecuring promotion after promotion for
her husband.
Dr. Wolluon, tbe Cur’s American
dentist lives to St Petersburg la a
palace to a quartor reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambueadore. It is famish
ed with such exquisite things that each
room represents a fortune to Itself.
Wherever tho Cur or Curina or the
Grand Duke* are, they always tend
for Dr. Walloon, and he Is kept busy
traveling from one end of the big Rus
sian empire to the other.
In the same way, Dr. Thomas on
American dentist at Vienna, hu been
for many yean an Intimate friend ot
the Emperor, and bu never betrayed
tbe Emperor* confidence by a stogie
Indiscreet utterance^
The German Emperor* American
dentist not such a .very long time
since committed oulolde.
Each Earl ot Orford, at bis burial Is
driven to Ms heareo thru times round-
tbe church beforo Ms remain* are fin
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, aoeordlng to famllyund
local tradition. Is that Horatio, second
carl of Orford, destroyed th* tomb
ot the flcalmers, former possessors of
Minptoiton Hall, to Norfolkshlre, and
one of the unhappy ladle* of this fam
ily, finding no rest still haunts the
churchyard, always searching for the
remain of her relations. It to to mol
lify har spirit tbat tMs weird drive ot
tbe hearse round tbe churchyard takes
place on the occasion ot to* obsequies
of every Earl of Orford. The present
Lord Orford, whose wife to Louise
Oorbto, daughter of D. O. Corbin, and
niece of to* groat railroad magnate
of tbat name, to at present traveling
in this country. van Calsvs.
The Bartholdi Fountain,
Among art work displayed to
one of to* public reservations in to*
Immediate shadow of to* Capitol, to
toe Bsnboldl Fountain, which pluyi
to toe National Botanical Garden. It*
BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER
GARB.
designer and sculptor wu toe min who
made - tod Statue of Liberty, which
Franc* preeentsd.to th* United States
and which stands In New York harbor.
The Bartholdi Fountain performed Us
first lervlo* to tola country at toe Phil
adelphia exposition, at the clous of
which U wu brought to Washington.
Cheerful Boring Trouble.
Mamma had told Dorothy that the
could not go oat again. The little
maiden made oh* mer* plea. “Please,
momma 4t Isn’t.very wet, and I won’t
co on tbe crass." -•
“No. yotToumot, Dorothy," said
mamma. amUtag at the little one* per-
1 anyway, mamma, it seems to
you’re yery cheerful about
AN ENGLISHMAN WITH HDMOR.
How He Held His
' over Cot a Raise in Wages.
Herbert Kelcey, ono of the leading
netors of tbe present time, is an
Englishman, but, unltae tlm usuaJtJIW
from too Island has a deep sense ot
humor. In speaking of his first visit to
this country, be describes hls_exper-
lence something like this*
1 “Yes, I was a bltgreen when I enmo
over to tola country, and * *“5
banytolnk to the Wy of s Job.1 got
started to a .department store on 6th
Uranus and the floorwalker tigs to me,
“’«* Now, ’Any, we’ll give you three
trials, and If you Jet three people get.
away without eelllhg Sent, we’H ave
to bounce you/ *
"Well, I came ttownJMly ear
Monday, took my pllce be’lnd toe
’counter and w*lted for customers.
Pretty soon a Mr walked up and
asked me where she should tike the
tram for Now Rochelle. I ditto i 1 •“SI;
and she went nWy. I looked attbe
floorwalker aad the floMWJ*®, *
looked-at me. That mldeone," hold
ing up a lean forefinger. “Then a man
came along and stopped toarok me
where ’e could buy a ’at I told Jm
where tbe ’at counter was, and e went
aw*. Tbat mide two. Jolly poor
luck, wasn’t It COW? I loPked Stth*
floorwalker, and that floorwalker
looked at me like ’ell, but what could
I do? Then another lldy came along
as ’ad a large piece of good* to match,
and she wanted another yard ot the
same. I took It and pulled out bevery-
think on the shelves, but there waa no
more of It left I waa In a bit of a
flunk then, for if I let ’er go without
miking a sale 1 would lose my Job, so
sex:
“■Wit* a bit Udy; HI see If we av*
any upstairs.’ I went up, and seeing
there was no more there, either, I Just
cut a yard off her own goods ana
brought the two pieces down, rolled
them up, took the money, and »bo
went *w’y. I ’ad plenty of customers
after that but I didn’t feel Just com
fortable, don’t you know.
"The same afternoon ebe came bock
and asked for the floorwalker.
“"Ere,’ eex ebe,,‘I brought five
yard* of good* ’ere to match tola
morning and bought a yard more, but
when I got home I found only four
yard* to my own piece. Can you ex-
pl’ln that please?”
“I >emmed an’ ’awed and tried to
measure the goods and hattempted to
tell the lldy tbat ehe must be mistaken
about ’er own piece, but she only
glared at me, and to a Jiffy she waa
Imp to tbe floorwalker expl’nlu’ the
condlU n of affair*. ’Er tone hlndl-
c&ted that she was mad, and I said to
meself, “’Arry, you’re a dead ’un."
“The floorwalker called me hout
and I ’ad to tell Mm all about It ’ow
toe first party wanted a tram-car, and
the next a ’at and this one wanted
more goods when, we ’adn’t any, I
’ad to sell ’er aome’ow, or lose my Job,
so I give ’er a bit from ’er own piece.
The floorwalker looked so bloomin'
mad for a bit that I thought my time
waa come for aure, bat then 'e
started to lnrf, and 'e larfcd till 1
thought ’e’d bust Then ’e sex, * ’Arty,’
set e’ ‘I guest we’ll ’ave to keep you,
and raise your wage*.’ And* did."
Wonder-Work ot the Ancients.
Modern quarry machinery can handle
■Ingle atones larger than any of toe
monoliths ot anclent Egypt The really
surprising thing, however, to how did
the ancients handle their monoliths
with only their crude machine*.
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