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MAGAZINE SECTION.
THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906.
PAGES 1 TO 4, V
YOJHG DIPLOMATS.
CHILDREN OF AMBASSADORS AND
MINISTERS AT THE NATION’S
CAPITAL.
They Constitute Quite a Foreign Col
ony. Representative Types From
the Courts and Governments of all
Nations. —
The city of Washington has among
Its Inhabitants a colony of foreign
children who bring to our Republic^
the manners and customs of mahy
far-off lands They are the sons and
daughters of the officials known as
diplomats—men sent by the various
governments of the world to act as
their agents at the headquarters of
Uncle Sam. Quite a number of these
children of foreign parents have been
born In this country and a few years
daughters of Yung Kwal, a Chinaman
who acts as interpreter at the Legation
whose wife Is an American formerly
living In Springfield, Mass.
The daughter of the Minister la
known even to her Intimate friends
as Miss Liang. Like other Celestial
women of high station she |ias a given
CHILDREN OF MINISTER FROM PARAGUAY,
ago a Chinese baby opened-Its eyes In
our capital city on the Fourth of July,
and was named Washington.
Another youngster who la a native
of the United States Is the little son of
- Scnor Queaada, the Minister or Envoy
from the Republic of Cuba.. Senor
Queaada and his wife have two chil
dren, both strikingly handsome with
large dark eyes and the Olive complex
ion.of the La tin-American. Their cous
in, a young girl whose home la in the
city of Havana Cuba, spends her va-
ations with them and they never tall
a giro a
1 great childrens’ party In her
honor every time she visits Washing
ton.
name but the Cblnbse area very for
mal people and the Minister's daughter
Is seldom addressed by her first
name even by her father. Minister
Liang’s two sons who now speak Eng
lish almost as fluently as their father
adopted American dress from the day
they took up their residence in Wash
ington but the daughter of the Envoy
still clings to her native dress con
sisting of loose blouSo and trousers.
Chinese fashions have not changed
Inventories but Miss Liang's costumes
are made by a Chinese tailor connect
ed with fbe Legation. Her costumes
are of the richest silks and satins,
black and white being her favorite
colors. The quaint Chinese shoes that
she wears cause this young lady to
walk In what appears to American
eyes, A rather -awkward fashion but
she has not the small, deformed feet
such as have prevented some of her
predecessors at the Chinese Legation
from walking without assistance.
Young Chilean Ladles.
Two young people who have made
many American friends during a long
term of residence In the United States
are the daughters of Senor Don Jba-
quln Walker-Martinet, the Minister
from ChllL These young ladles have
been living under the Stars and
Stripes for nearly five years and have
attended American schools. They
have the clear olive complexion, dark
hair and eyes and rich coloring, typi
cal of the Latin Races.
As has been mentioned, above there
are many young people In the house
holds of the envoys from South and
Central America and the West Indies.
At the Legation of Haiti, are the
Misses Bourke, popular young rela
tives of Minister lager, who by the
way Is oqe of the veteran diplomats
at Washington, having resided In this
country continuously for ten years.
GOLF STREAM SWIMMERS,
THEY ENCOUNTER JlANt UN
KNOWN AND SINGULAR DENI
ZENS OF THE DEEP.
Starling Experience of a Moonlight
Swim In the Great Ocean Current
Accomplished by Shark-Scared Big
Fish Away,
The wharf rats of New York and
other large cities who seem willing
to brave the wrath of the officers of.
the law are but<the making of many
of the most fearless swimmers of the
world. A commercial traveler who
Journeys, not only all over the pre
cincts of the United States, but In
foreign lands as well, In speaking of
his happy boyhood , days when he as
sociated with the daring swimming
population of the Metropolis, said that,
however pleasant and enjoyable his
youthful excursions, they were not to
compare with a swim In the Gulf
Steam—the Gulf Steam, teeming with
life, that only one whose nerves are
In absolute consonance with the
ocean can escape. Wrlgglng and dart
ing things grip unseen at the swim
mer’s breast and arms. Silvery flashes
before his face tell of fish turning
their glittering sides sharply as they
leap away at his approach. Big and
little, rising out of enormous depths
to sink again half seen, all conspire
to make that sunlight splendor a place
of sudden terrors to any except the
fearless.
light swim here again after that, eh?"
said one of his hearers. '
“Oh, we were'kind of scared, all
right,” was the reply, “but It wasn't
that bad. Only I will confess that we
sat around for nearly an hour getting
our nerves straightened out before we
swam back."
GREAT CULEBRA CUT.
Biggest Piece of Digging Ever Under
taken—A Huge Mexican Drainage
Cut. - .
The huge excavations for the Pana
ma Canal across the Culebra divide
will be by far the greatest furrow In
the earth’s surface ever made by
human agency. This statement Is made
News, In a com-
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTE
THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT: BUT
BAS ONLY
DEVELOPMENT BAS
JUST COMMENCED.
No Section of the United States
Offers Productive Land So Cheap.
Opportunues for Many Millions of
Rural Homes.
BY WILLIAM E. 8UYT1IE.
Moonlight Swim In the Tropics.
“One evening," said the man of
commerce, "after I bad been in Ja
maica, having a week of the Joys of
swimming this stream, I proposed to
a couple of my friends that we break
the monotony by taking a dip In the
water by moonlight. One of them con
sented, and we were soon disporting
ourselves In the clear moonlit water.
“We were going along easily and en
joying the swim immensely. Rarely
have I seen the water so phosphor
escent Every stroke made fire whirl
■ From the Antipodes.
An exceedingly pretty little girl Is
Frau Matilda Bussche, the daughter
of that blonde giant Baron Bussche,
Secretary of the German Embassy and
his dark-complexioned South Ameri
can wife whom he married while sta
tioned In the Argentine Republic St
- the other end of our continent Little
Miss Bussche has a striking combina
tion of dark eyes and flaxen hair and
despite her tender years she speaks
two different languages.
Other South American children In
this odd community In Washington,
are the two sons of Senor Baex, the
Minister from the little known
publie of Paraguay. The new Mexican
Ambassador and Senora Casasus have
seven children; Hector, aged eighteen;
EvangellnaTflfteen; Horaeio, fourteen;
Margarata, thirteen; Mario, eleven;
Leon, nine and Jorge, seven. At the
home of the Envoy from Costa Rica
there are half a dozen children; the
Minister from Haiti has two dark-com
plexioned sons; there are several
young people In the household of the
first Minister from the new Republic
of Panama; and live attractive young
sters enliven things at the residence
of the new Ambassador from Brazil—
the first Ambassador (a diplomat of
hlgher'rsnk than a Minister) to come
to the Unted States from any South
American country. These young people
from Brazil, speak the Portuguese
language whereas the Junior citizens
from all other Pan-American countries
speak Spanish.
Chinese Children.
Conspicuous among the Juveniles of
•11 nations gathered In Washington
are those from China. The present
Minister from the Celestial Empire, Sir
Chentung Liang-Cheng Is a widower
Who has a large family but only three
MISS MATILDA BUSSCHE.
Deuohtcr ot Secretary of German Embawy.
The agent of the Republic of Bolivia at around ns, and one#, when I looked
Uncle Sam'* seat of Government has
a very pretty daughter, Elena Calderon
by name, and there are several girls
In the large family of Senor Calvo, the
Minister from Coeta Rica.
Son A West Pointer.
Minister Cairo, by the way has a
son who Is a cadet at West Point and
Is rendering s most excellent socount
of himself, standing weil toward the
head In all Ms classes.
The new Russian Ambassador to the
United States has s decidedly pretty
daughter, Barohess Elizabeth -Rosen
and the only daughter ot the British
Ambassador constitutes another Im
portant member of the foreign colony.
The last-mentioned young lady. Miss
Josephine Durand, Is one ot the partic
ular chums of President Roosevelt’i
eldest -daughter, Just married. The
Turkish Minister Cbeklb Bey has two
young sons who wear American
dress and speak the English language.
over at my companion, who waa swim
ming abreast of me probably a hun
dred feet away, he seemed to be ab
solutely Immersed In sparkling flame.
Bat that same moment I became aware
of v third area of swiftly, moving phos
phorescence between us; and the next
Instant 1 realised that it was made
by a big shark, a good three feet
longer than I am.
by tho Engineering
prehenslve discussion of the great
excavation projects of the world. The
big Panama cut la so large that the
mind falls to grasp Its real magnitude,
and it can only be appreciated by
comparison with some familiar object
A question of considerable Interest re
cently raised by a correspondent re
lates to the largest existing artificial
excavation which is at all comparable
with the Culebra cut Great amounts
of excavation were done, ot course,
on such works as the North Sea Canal,
the Manchester Canal and the Suez
Canal; but all these were built through
comparatively level country.
So far as It has been able to dis
cover. tho only deep cut at all com
parable with that to be made through
the Cuelbra divide Is the great Nocbl-
stongo cut through the hills which
surround the Valley of Mexico. This
huge excavation waa begun in 1610,
for the purpose of affording an outlet
to the flood waters which had Inun
dated the City of Mexico and destroyed
a great part of the city and its In
habitants. For more than a hundred
and forty years labor on this great
work was the cMef task of the Mex
ican nation, and It was not until the
year 1789 that it was finally completed.
The total length of the Nochlstongo
cut is twelve and one-halt miles. Its
ireatest depth Is 197 feet, and its great
est width Is 361 feet The total amount
of material excavated was about 54,-
000,000 cubic yards. In comparison
with this the cut at Culebra will have
a considerably greater maximum
depth and width, even for the project
with the elghty-flve-foot summit level.
The total cube of excavation at the
Culebra divide was estimated by En
gineer Wallace as 186,000,000 cubic
yards tor the sea-level canal and 111,-
000,000 cubic yards for n canal with
a slxty-foot summit level.
While In mere size ot excavation
the cut through the Panama divide Is
by far the larger, the-fact that the
Nochlstongo ent waa made with abso
lutely no aid from machinery or me
chanical power, but wholly with hu
man muscle, makes our task on the
Isthmus seem like mere child's play
In comparison with that accomplished
by those patient tollers under the tor,
rid sun of Mexico two centuries' ago.
When one recalls that this deep, arti
ficial valley, more than twelve miles
long, was all dug by the labor of In
dians, who excavated the material
with the crudest band tools and car
ried It la baskets on their heads to the
place of final deposit, the great cut of
Nochlstongo Is entitled to rank, with
the Pyramids of Egypt, among the
world's greatest wonders.
It Is a comfort to us to look forward
to the day when our children and our
grandchildren will be fullfledged citi
zens of the Republic? Will they have
the same chance or an equally good
chance with us, or. the chances that
our fathers and our grandfathers had
to enjoy the blessings of our free in
stitutions? Will they have, the chance
that we have to make or secure, each,
a home of his own?
It has been said that the true test of
statesmanship Is the provision'which Is
made for the comfort of posterity. The
present population of the United State*
WILLIAM E. SMYTHC,
Is 80,000,000. A generation more, at
the present rate of nlcreaae—and If
will be 120,000,000 or 180,000,000. A
The children of some of us, anyway
our grandchildren, will live to see that
data Will the United States then he
able to sustain such a population? No.
nor half that number, even with every
arable acre cultivated according to
present methods. It is estimated that
with every such acre cultivated after
the preteat manner, the toufitry could
produce only enough to austaln 144/
000,000 people. What about the r*
malniug 856,000,000 souls of which our
children or grandchildren will be a
port?
Do we ever stop to think that thi
lettlemenl
What Governs Prioo of Dogs.
matter for organizing rural sell
throughout the United States—of
’Building the Unfinished Republic,’’ II
you please—Is not merely a matter of
Increasing material prosperity, or even
a matter of making homes for the
homeless, but something which la ab
solutely vital to the very existence of
the Nation In tlmea to coma and to
come very shortly?
8omebody must look ahead; som*
body must take account of the needs
of the future. This Is a.portentous
question which the future must'an
swer, and which the future elmply
The price paid for a dog seems to be
governed not so much by the value of
the animal as the sentiment of the pur
chaser In the vast majority of cases,
and, as a rule, the sporting dog brings
the lowest figure. Doubtless this Is
due to the fact that the man who want*
a gun dog Is n practical person, while
the seeker after the “show dog" pays
for running the "show." It Is granted
right here that many a good gun dog
also shows well, but the highest prices
go for the show animal, pure and elm-
pta.
At a recent sale-of pointers and set
ters st Birmingham, England, one ot
ration begin* to organ!
tbo systematic and sc
J || . scientific
meat of our enttfs- fund Of natural
wealth .nor even.then unless method
are devised to prevent waste and 0.
Increase efficiency In every direction
■ The Prophecy of Malthus.-
A century ago, one Malthus, startei
the world by depleting the horron
which would some day come Iron
over-population. His theory was tha-
tho number ot human beings lncreaset
much faster than the mean* ol
subsistence; hence, that dlsastet
must come In the natural course 01
events. It was not given him to foresee
how vastly the means of subsistence
would be.lncreaeed through the Inven
tlon of labor-saving machinery, the die
covery of new cropa and methods oi
cultivation, and. the Improvement ol
the means of distribution.
So that many of the present-tlms
writers, having In mind the advance
of science, speak In no little derogn.
tlon ot the teaching of Malthus as
narrow and grounded upon Ignorance
of the vast, ever-unfolding retouroea
of the world. Neverthelest Malthus’s-
warnings were not entirely unjustified,
and as applied to ourselves It must ba
conceded that the thoughtful people of
the United States have no more Urgent
bualness than to make broad outlets
for surplus population upon, the soil —
and to train the rising generation so
that It will know how to make the
best possible use of natural resources - ''
now wastefully- employed or altogether -
neglected. Necessity, the, prolific
mother of Invention, will doubtless
continue to place In our hands new
tools which will multiply our power of *
production; <<„t if W e would escape
grave trials and hardships we .must do
thoroughly and well the work which
needs to be done In organizing pros
perity for our people by means of
rural settlement
The rural settlement and-til that
this term Involves In Its broadest an-
plication—the division ot land Into
smaller farm homes, sufficient for the
support of a family from the soli, the
diversification of crops, and their ut
most cultivation and the improvement
and breeding up ot plant* sqtbat they
Will yield their greatest product, tbo
utilisation ot every, waste and unpro
ductive acre—In short, the settling ot
the entire country Into small rural
homeu,' so that each family shall own
s piece of land from-which h* may .
secure a living for himself and his
family—this Is the work thin which
there is no more Important question
before tho country to-day.
The Empire of the South.
Now all this Is merely introductory
to a discussion of the opportunities for
lug these' opportunities available for
the masses of men, First u f ;
all, let us
look at that great empire which lies
between Mason and Dixon's line and
the Gulf of Moxlco, and, for tho most
part, east of the Mississippi River.
A native of New England and a
citizen of tho Pacific Coast, I nevor
fully grasped the truth about the
South until through travel, I saw and
came to know things as they are. I
once thought of the South as an old
country, vastly' Interesting because of
Its historic associations
to the earliest English
this continent,' but pr
loped to the limit of its
te limit of
growth and possessing resources In
ferior to some other portions of the
Union, especially to those ot the Far
The truth is something very dltfer-
the moot Important sales in years, tho
tire lot—t
CHILDREN OF CUBAN MINISTER,
of them accompanied him to this
country—a daughter aged about seven
teen who is famous in Washington for
her superb Jewels and two sons one
of whom te not yet twelve yetis ot
ago while the other te stfll younger.
In the same household are tour halt-
A—riowi children, the little eons and
- A Lapland Birthday Present.
As soon as a Lapp baby 1s bora a
reindeer te presented to him. This
reindeer te literally hte start in Ufa
for not only that deer, but all its
young; and as they grow up, all their
roung deer, belong to the child. When
lie 1s of sga he has quits a herd of
his own.
This custom b of much greater use
to him than If every aunt, unde and
cousin he had In the world presented
him with tbo heaviest Mirer spoon
to bo found.
Shark Waa Carney.
“I splashed hard, but the shark,
contrary to the habits of bis kind,
did not turn tall. He kept right on,
and then my companion saw him and
became nervous. He began to swim
unevenly, and I knew at oncq that he
might not keep Ms head If the big
fish should really try to annoy him.
So I struck straight across at right
angles.
"Jnst as I got half way over, the
shark-put on spied and forged head
down on me. For a moment, as I
saw that green, submarine streak of
fire, with the glistening dorsal fin
sticking up higher than niy head, com
ing straight for me like a shot, I was
nearly panto stricken myself.’ But I
turned/alrectly at him pounding and
lashing the aea with hands .and foot
and blowing the water to make a bel
lowing noise. The man-eater sank be
neath the surface, and I could aee hte
faintly Illuminated outline going down,
down, slowly, till It glimmered fath
oms deep. Then I got my hand under
my companion’s armpit and helped
“I guess you don’t ever want s moon-
;wo scon or more—told for
1,086. The highest price. paid was
36, for the famous female pointer,
_ ronstlon (four and a half years) the
winner of many championships: while
among the. setters the choice was
Ightfleld Bang (four and a half years),
a great field trial winner, who brought
only 6186. American purchasers
would have thought thee* dogs cheap'
at 81,000 apiece,
In contrast with these price*, tn*
bull terrier Wood cote Wonder sold In
New Haven for $6,000 to a San Fran
cisco purchaser. Richard Croker. Jr.,
paid $3,000 for hte Champion Rodney
Stone, and Frank Gould paid as high
as $6,000 for a St. Bernard. These are
real price*—unlike many of the
amounts running np Into the thousands
togged on to bench apace, of not a few
30-cent do^. exhibited at tome of the
kennel show*, where it It believed neo-
to have something attractive.
Highest Salaried Woman.
Miss Kate Holliday Claghora, ot
Brooklyn, has been appointed to be
registrar of the tenement house depart-
woman In the civil service of New
State, her eatery being $8,000 a year.
At a competitive' examination, the
OjUy other person to pass was George
veteran In the department,
■—Is lets than
whose are rag* was a little
that mad* by hte successful rival.
— — " tea very pretty young