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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*. .Agents Wanted jjto Canvass for the ' United Statesi Senator Number 'BOW PUBLISHED. The tans cesttalas portraits o< the' NINETY MEMBERS two (ran ascb Stmts In tbs (Jnlon. TMs collection was mads from intent exdtuivo sittings Jar tbs BOSTON BUDGET The Pictures' 12x8 inches! n size afsprptaetsdby coeyrtsbt mid can not bn reproduced legally siacwbers. Tbe group forms tbs most rshuble collection of states men erer offered to tbo American people. 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