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MODERN CIVILIXA TIOS, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTR V.
Where Sunshine and fertile Soil
Await the Coming of Canal-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant Har¬
vests.
C. J. Blanchard.
EL PASO, Tex. (Special).—On the
Southeast border of the Groat Ameri¬
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
Texas on the East and the progres¬
sive old-young territory of New Mex¬
ico on the North, stands the “largest
city in the largest Congressional dis¬
trict of the largest Btale, of the great¬
est Nation on the earth."
To the Easterner who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital¬
ity which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the Question is upper¬
most, what, makes a city here? After
journeying more than 500 miles across
(Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
it is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sago brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there
is a reason for asking this Question.
You naturally want to know from
Whence comes all this hustle and bustle
With all these evidences of progress
and substantial growth. All your no¬
li VINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
lions long held and regretfully let go
of, are that this sunny land of the
border Is the land of nianama, of to¬
morrow; that its day of awakening is
not yet come. Well, wake up! Life
is lust as leal, just as earnest and ns
Btrenuouis In El Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the El Pasoan you i
need nil your shrewdness and business !
acumen.
The Old and The New.
El Paso Is old—very old, and El
Paso is new, too—very new. This de¬
lightful paradox is full of surprises
end charms. Right up against, the old
Spanish dwelling of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and its
patio In the center, you are likely to
find a modern office building with ele
jvators and electric lights.
Something of a feeling of living In
the past comes over you when you en¬
ter one of the old churches, down here
•—churches erected more than 300 years
Ago. The solemn silence of these
uhadowy halls liss been broken by the
prisons of countless thousands and
softly Intoned aves wero echoing here
Jong before tho eyes of the Auglo-
■ 'anals. Mexico, Texas and New Mex¬
ico were arrayed against Colorado
i which robbed them of their priceless
I heritage and threatened to transform
thousands of acres of fruitage and
| bloom into Its original state—that of
the desert. As the water grew scarce
there sprang up hostilities between the
citizens of the whole Kio Grande Val¬
iev. Neighbor began to be arrayed
against neighbor; there were even fam¬
ily rows over the water. For years
these conditions prevailed. Mexico
made respectful protest against the use
of the waters of the Hio 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 was the passage of the National
irrigation act which wrought a won¬
drous change in the conditions and
knit together in one brotherhood all the
citizens of the lower valley, imbuing
them with a spirit of co-operation and
enthusiasm. The Reclamation Service
took hold of the project and worked
, out a plan to store the vast Rio Grande
Hoods which were annually a source
of much loss to the valley and which
| people were wholly have unutilized. This plan the
accepted as a salvation.
One hundred miles above El Paso the
Rio Grande flows through a deep nar¬
row canyon. A dam 255 feet high
across its lower end will create the
largest artificial reservoir In this coun¬
try. It will make a lake 40 miles long,
\V 2 miles wide and from 100 to 175
feet deep. It will contain water enough
to Into cover 2,000,000 acres a foot deep.
this vast reservoir the greatest
flood the Rio Grande has ever known
will quickly disappear and later when
needed by 200,000 thirsty acres in the
valley below will be 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 cost millions to do this work,
17,000,000 Is the figure, but what of
that? The settlers will gladly pay for
it. Under the magic of Irrigation Me
silla. La Palomas and El Paso val
leys, now only dotted here and there
with green verdure, will spring into
full fruitage, producing harvests unri¬
valled in quality and quantity. Ten
thousand new homes will cover the
desert plain, and El Paso, the central
point for transportation and the great¬
est market In the vadey, will wax into
a city of 100,000 souls. Twenty thou¬
sand acres of Irrigated land support a
splendid city now. What shall it be
when 200,000 acres are added to the
rrop producing area of El Paso terri¬
tory?
THE INTELLWENCEOF ANIMALS.
An English Naturalist Believes That
It May be Far Greater
Than Imagined*
Rlr John Lubbock has brought more
popular attention to the subject of the
mental capacity of animals than any
ether writer, lie has conducted many
careful Investigations on the senses, in¬
stincts and Intelligence of animals and
insects. An Interesting query pro¬
pounded by the English scientist re¬
lates to the existence of other organs
of sense than ours.
*‘We find," lie says, “in animals com¬
plex organs of sense, richly supplied
with nerves, but tin- function of which
we are as yet powerless to explain.
There may be llfty other senses as dlf
ferent from ours as sound is from
sight, and even within the boundaries
of our own senses there may be end-
S/fe for the
Great
Ri't> Grande
lhim.
'<ci: G
<S , ■
A AV.v
Mexican
Irrigation
Scene.
less sounds which we cannot hear, and
colors ns different as red from green,
of which we have no conception. These
and a thousand other questions re¬
main for solution. The familiar world
Which surrounds us may be a totally
different place to other animals. To
them it may be full of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations we cannot
conceive. To place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases, to arrange in¬
sects in cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, is merely the drudgery and
preliminary of study: to watch their
habits, 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 realize what the
world appears to them—these con¬
stitute. ns it seems to me. at least, the
true Interests of natural history, and
may even give us the due to senses
and perceptions of which at present
we have uo conception."
Celebrating Belgian Independence.
Among the festivities organized for
the celebration of the seveutv-fifth an¬
niversary of Belgium's independence
is the faithful reproduction of one of
the tilting jousts given bv Philip the
Good of Burgundy in 1452, in which
1 htlip s son broke the lances of six¬
teen opposing knights in the presence
of Isabella of J’orUjvaC, Duchess of
Burgundy,
Bnxon had looked upon Plymouth
Kook.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Oonqulstadores
■•©eking new fields of conquest for the
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley. The\ found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
1 ■ tleing agriculture through the aid of
Irrigation, carrying the precious waters
Of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
•ud reaping harvests from fields which
•tuul been In cultivation beyond the
-traditions of the oldest members of the
; tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the eonquerers. With the ready adap¬
tability of the early explorers they
•otilizid the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by Trampllvg of Goats.
\ The unprogresslvcness of the Span
tard is no Where more strikinylv re¬
pealed than tu the Rio Grande Val
v ie.v. whore the doscendents of the earlv
Spanish explorers are to-dav engaged
in agriculture in just the same "man¬
ner as their forefathers practiced it.
and indeed Wtth methods strangely like
those in the days ot Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches of the Rio Grande In
later years, showed small regard for
. the settlers in the lower valley. Soon
I their long lint's of broad canals began
to make sad inroads in the water sup¬
ply tviiieh was needed fq the old
1 COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY.
AN ACKNOWLEDGED , TRAIT OF
JAPANESE MERCHANTS.
They Have No Regard For a Con¬
tract — Striking Contrast With
Chinese 1 raoers.
i With the treaty of peace, Japan has
seen the accomplishment of a task
that has been the ambition of the em¬
pire—to hold front rank in the fam¬
ily of nations. This has been brought
about through such military achieve¬
ments as have evoked the admiration
of the 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 had before the commencement of
the Russian-Japanese war.
That 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 the people of
the East thoroughly, says in his hook
on the Orient:
“Japanese traders are not special¬
ly distinguished for honesty, particu¬
larly in their business relations with
foreigners. We have in this a most
striking proof that the character of
the people is largely formed by the
nature of their surroundings. For hun¬
dreds of years the trading class in
Japan has occupied a very low place
in the social scale. In the last thirty
years, since the feudal system has
been abolished, the position of the
traders has greatly changed, and now
some of those who were nobles are en¬
gaged in trade; and I am told there
is reason to hope that shortly busi¬
ness affairs In Japan will be conducted
on more honest lines.”
Peculiar Business Dishonesty.
The progress which the Japanese
have made in the past fifty yeais
; shows them to he a people seL
reliant and determined to keep on ad¬
vancing towards the highest plane at¬
tainable, yet travelers in the East
have been surprised that the traders
of tho Occident are so notoriously dis¬
honest., for while the Japanese are fur
superior to tho Chinese as regards
achievement of national strength and
perseverance, yet the reverse Is true
in the matter of commercial honesty.
It appears that the Japanese mer¬
chants have no regard for a contract.
It is said that the most prosperous
commercial houses of Japan are man¬
aged not by Japanese but by Chinese.
The average Chinese merchant is high¬
ly esteemed the world over for his hon¬
esty; in fact a president of one of tire
.argest corporations of the United
States once said that he would not be
afraid to ship a barrel of gold coin to
a Chinese merchant with instructions
to make use of it in trade, hut at the
end of the year lie would receive a de¬
tail statement of where every coin
went, but if this were done to a Jap¬
anese merchant, lie would consider
himself lucky to get back the empty
barrel.
It is believed that the bard tap:
accomplished by the Japanese in t*e
war just happily brought to an end
will be a beginning to bring out the
genius for which the Japanese have
been noted in war to a utilization of
peace and commercialism.
Close Co-Operation.
Now, Harold, this is your fifth birth¬
day party. Whom do you love best,
your father or me?
Father, sure.
But, Harold, you said yesterday that
you loved me best.
Yes; but I've slept over it, and I
realize that we men must stick to¬
gether.
THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost impossible to Select a
Genuine One.
A story is told of a smoker who spent
eight of the best years of his life trying
to color a meerschaum pipe, keeping it
enclosed most*of the time in a ease seas
to prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oil and moist¬
ure from bis hands, only to find at the
end of that period that lie had been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
of the genuine “ecume do mer.” The
best imitation is composed of the par¬
ings of genuine meerschaum, combined
with a mineral clay. These composi¬
tions can usually be determined from '
the genuine meerschaum by their
greater weight, but there is no abso¬
lutely certain test for distinguishing testfis
the counterfeit. One method of
to look for slight imperfections. Com¬
position bowls never exhibit these
slight blemishes, which result from the
presence of foreign bodies in the natur¬
al meerschaum ; however, as the blem¬
ishes do not usually manifest them¬
selves until after the bowl has been
used for some time, the test is not of
much value in buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is a silicate of magnesia,
and preparatory to carving it is soaked
in a composition of wax and oil. The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer¬
schaum are the cause of the coloring
of the pipe due to smoking, and in con¬
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine. Where meerschaums have
been smoked for some time without
hav ing acquired a good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubbing,
when warm, with beeswax.
Weakness of English Colonies.
The new commonwealth of Aus¬
tralia docs not seem to he getting on
very well. The population in the ten
years ending with ilk) l was 3,771.715.
the increase being r>i)7.U»2. The whole i
island continent has less population
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, it
has not developed internally. “Were
Australian ports,” says the Sydney
Bulletin, "shut by hostile warships
to-morrow, the 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
whhh to print its journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace of
some master, crawl to the hand of
whatever power was for the time most
strong, or lapse into savagery.”
GOSSIP Of THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.
The Sultan of Turkey some short
time since, granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was so
much charmed with that genial Amer
Ican gentleman that he conferred upon
| him the grand cordon of the Chefecat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with a lot
of porcelain manufactured in the Im¬
perial potteries. It remains to be seen
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
' permission from Congress to be per¬
mitted to accept the order of the
Sultan.
Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, wife of the for¬
mer Chinese Minister to this country,
i has defied the time honored traditions
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.
I Wu had her feet tightly bound, as i3
the custom among women of her rank
in China. W T hile in this country she
had a surgical operation performed, In¬
creasing her feet to the size nature
MADAME WU TING FANG.
intended them to he. Mrs. Wu’s Wash¬
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up a steady correspondence, state that
she is able to walk now with com¬
fort.
By the will of the late German
Field Marshal, Count von Waldersee,
commander of the allied troops during
! the Boxer uprising in China, his in¬
signia of the Order of the Black Eagle,
set with diamonds, was sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers in his old
regiment. Count von Waldersee’s wife
is a Miss Eee, of New York, and as¬
serts a most powerful influence at tho
Berlin Court where she succeeded in
securing promotion after promotion, for
j her husband.
Dr. Wallason, tho Czar's American
dentist, lives in St. Petersburg in a
palace in a quarter reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambassadors. It is furnish¬
ed with such exquisite things that each,
room represents a fortune in itself.
Wherever the Czar or Czarina or tha
Grand Dukes are, they always send
for I)r. Wallason, and he is kept busy
traveling from one end of the big Rus¬
sian empire to the other.
In the same way. Dr. Thomas, an
American dentist at Vienna, has been
for many years an intimate friend of
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
the Emperor’s confidence by a single
indiscreet utterance.
The German Emperor’s American
dentist not such a very long time
since committed suicide.
Each Earl of Orford, at his burial is
driven in his hearse three times round
the church before his remains are fin¬
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, according to family and
local tradition, is that Horatio, second
earl of Orford, destroyed the tomb
of the Scalmers, former possessors of
Mannington Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam¬
ily, finding no rest, still haunts the
churchyard, always searching for the
remains of her relations. It is to mol¬
lify her spirit that this weird drive of
the hearse round the churchyard takes
place on the occasion of the obsequies
of every Earl of Orford. The present
Lord Orford, whose wife is Louise
Corbin, daughter of D. C. Corbin, and
niece of the great railroad magnate
of that name, is at present traveling
in this country. van Calava.
The Bartholdi Fountain.
Among art work displayed in
one of the public reservations in the
immediate shadow of the Capitol, is
the Bartholdi Fountain, which plays
in the National Botanical Garden. Its
BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER
GARB.
designer and sculptor was the man who
made the Statue of Liberty, which
France presented to the United States
and which standsTn New York harbor.
The Bartholdi Fountain performed its
first service in this country at the Phil¬
adelphia exposition, at the close of
which it was brought to Washington.
CheerFul During Trouble.
Mamma had told Dorothy that she
could not go out again. The little
maiden made one more plea. "Please,
mamma .it isn't very wet, and I won't
go on the grass."
"No, you smiling cannot. Dorothy,” said
mamma, at the little one's per¬
sistency.
“Well, that anyway, mamma, it seems to
It” me you're very cheerful about
; AN ENGLISHMAN WITH HUMOR.
How He Held His First Job and More¬
over Got a Raise in Wages.
Herbert Kelcey, one of the leading
ac-tors of the present time, is an
Englishman, hut, unlike the usual type j
I from the Island has a deep sense of |
humor. In speaking of his first visit to
this country, he describes his exper¬
ience something like this:
“Yes, I was a bit green when I came
over to this country, and I 'ad to tike
hanytkink in the w’y of a job. I got
started in a department store on 6th
avenue, and the floorwalker s'ys to me,
s'ys 'e:
“ ‘Now, ’Arry, we'll give you three
trials, and if you let three people get
away without selling them, we'll ’ave
to bounce you.’
“Well, I came down jolly early on
Monday, took my plice be’ind the
counter and w’ited for customers.
Pretty soon a lidy walked up and
asked me where she should tike the
| tram and she for New went Rochelle. I looked didn’t know, the
aw’y. I at
floorwalker and the floorwalker ’e
looked at me. That mide one,” hold¬
ing up a lean forefinger. “Then a man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where ’e could buy a ’at. I told ’im
where the ’at counter was, and ’e went
aw’y. That mide two. Jolly poor
luck, wasn’t it now? I looked at the
floorwalker, and that floorwalker
looked at me like ’ell, but what could
I do? Then another lidy came along
as 'ad a large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard of the
same. I took it and pulled out hevery
tbink on the shelves, hut there was no
more of it left. I was in a hit of a
flunk then, for i? I let ’or go without
miking a sale I would lose my job, so I
sez:
“ ‘Wite a bit, lidy; I’ll see if we ave
any upstairs.’ I went up, and seeing
there was no more there, either, I just
cut a yard off her own goods and
brought the two pieces down, rolled
them up, took the money, and she
wont aw’y. I ’ad plenty of customers
after that, but I didn’t feel just com¬
fortable, don’t you know.
“The same afternoon she came back
and asked for the floorwalker.
“ ‘ ’Ere,’ sez she, ‘I brought five
yards of goods ’ere to match this
morning and bought a yard more, but
when I got home I found only four
yards in my own piece. Can you ex
pl'in. that, please?”
“I ’ernmed an’ ’awed and tried to
measure the goods arid hattempted to
tell the lidy that she must be mistaken
about ’er own piece, but she only
glared at me, and in a jiffy she was
liup to the floorwalker expl’nin’ the
conditi n of affairs. ’Er tone hindi
c-ated that she was mad, and I said to
rneself, “’Arry, you’re a dead ’im.”
“The floorwalker called me bout,
c"d 1 ’nd to toll ’im all about it, ’off |
the first party wanted a tram-car, and
the next a ’at, and this one wanted
more goods when we ’adn’t any. 1
’ad to sell ’er sonie’ow, or lose my job,
so X give ’or a bit from ’or own piece.
The floorwalker looked so bloomin’
mad for a bit that I thought my time
was come for sure, but then, ’e
started to larf, and ’e larfed till 1
thought ’e’d bust. Then ’e sez, ‘ ’Arry,’
sez e’ ‘I guess we’ll ’ave to keep you,
and raise your wages.’ And *e did.”
Wonder Work of the Aaeients.
Modern quarry machinery can handle
single stones larger than any of the
monoliths of ancient Egypt. The really
surprising thing, however, is how did
the ancients handle their monoliths
with only their crude machines,
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