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OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTRY,
Where Sunshine and Fertile Soll
Await the Coming of Canal-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant Hare
vests,
C. J. Blanchard.
EL PASO, Tex. (Special).-On the
Southeast border of the Great 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-
fco on the North, stands the “largest |
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict of the largest State of the great.
est Nation on the earth.”
To the Easterner who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospitals
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 sage 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 thesa evidences of progress
and substantial growth, All your no-
TE iin 20 3 ah db ET he LS Te
URCH.
canals, Mexico, Texas and New Mex-
ico were arrayed against Colorado
which robbed them of their priceless
heritage and threatened to transform
thousands of acres of frultage 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 Rio Grande Val-
ley. Nelghbor 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 Rio 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 Natlonal
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
floods which were annually a source
of much loss to the valley and which |
were wholly unutilized, This plan the
people have 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,
14 miles wide and from 100 to 175
feet deep, It will contain water enough |
to cover 2,000,000 acres a foot deep,
Into this vast reservoir the greatest
flood the Rio Grande has ever known
will quickly disappear and later when
needed by 200,000 thifsty acres in the
{ time in travel and knows the people of
{ly distinguished for honesty, particu-
| dreds
COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY,
AN ACKNOWLEDGED TRAIT OF
JAPANESE MERCHANTS,
They Have No Regard For a Cone
tract Striking Contrast With
Chinese Traacers,
With the treaty of peaco, Japan has
seen the accomplishment of a task
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
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Foreign and Washington Notes.
The Sultan of Turkey some short!
time eince, granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was so
much charmed with that genial Amer-
jean 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 Le geen
whether the Georglan Senator will as)
that has been the ambition of the em-
pire—to hold front rank in the fam-
{ly of nations, This has been brought
about through such military achieve.
ments as have evoked the admiration
of the civilizeq powers, but now {
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-
llament, a man who has spent much
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the East thoroughly, says in his book
on the Orient:
“Japanese traders are not special
larly In their business relations with
foreigners, We have in this a most
striking proof that the charatter of
the people Is largely formed by the
nature of thelr surroundings. For hun-
of year the tradin cla in
Japan has occupied a ry low place
in the social scal In last thirty
Years, the feudal system has
peen abolished, the ition
traders has greatly a
y anged
some of those
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of
who were
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and ne
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the
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y below will be released and led
rh a net we of canals and
8 through Ni Mexico into Tex-
as, clear down into Old Mexico.
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The Settlers Pay tHe Cost.
It will co i do this work, |
$7,000,000 is figure, but what of
that? The settlers will gladly pay for
it
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el Paso
now only dotted here and
green verdure, will spring into
fruitage, producing harvests unri-
1 in quality 1 quantity,
thousand new hom: i
desert plain, and El
point for transportation and the
est market in t vailey, will wax into
a city of 100,000 souls. Twenty thou-
sand acres of irrigated land support a
splendid eity now. What shall it bel
val
there
love
vs,
with
fll
fui
vall "»
Val iio a
pa
a
great-
tions long held and regretfully let go
of, are that this sunny land of the
border is the land of manama, of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening 18 |
not yet come. Well, wake up! Lito |
is just as real, just as earnest and as
strenuous in El Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the El Pasoan you |
need all your shrewdness and business
acumen,
The Oid 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
and charms. Right up against the old
Bpanish dwelling of adobe with long, |
low windows, heavily barred, and ite
patio in the center, you are likely to
find a modern office building with ele-
yators 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
wchurches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
prisons of countless thousands and
softly intoned aves were echoing here
fong before the eyes of the Anglo-
| erop producing area of El Paso terri-
tory?
THE INTELLIGENCEOF ANIMALS.
| An English Naturalist Believes That
| popular attention to the subject of the
mental capacity of animals than any
other writer.
careful investigations on the senses, in-
stincts and intelligence of animals and
insects,
pounded by the English scientist re
of sense than ours.
plex organs of sense, richly supplied
with nerves, but the function of which
we are as yet powerless to explain.
There may be fifty other senses as dif
ferent from ours
sight, and even within the boundaries
of our own senses there may be end
when acres are added to the
SO HOO
eet
It May be Far Greater
Than Imagined.
Sir John Lubbock has brought more
He has conducted many
An interesting query pro
ates to the existence of other organs
“We find,” he says, “in animals com-
as sound is from
A New
Mexican
Irrigation
Scene.
Saxon had
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new flelds of conquest for the
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley, They found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
icing agriculture through the aid of
frrigation, earrying the precious waters
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from flelds which
&ad been In cultivation bevond the
A&raditions of the oldest members of the
&ribe, Spanish settiements followed
_4he conquerers, With the ready adap-
' &abllity of the early explorers they
utilized the old Irrigation systems,
looked upon Plymouth
less sounds which we eannot hear, and
colors as 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
differen! 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 wateh thelr
habits, to understand thelr relations to
one another, to study thelr instincts
and Intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and thelr relations to the
forces of nature, to realize what the
Thresh by Tramnliag of Goats.
The unprogressivencss of the Span-
fard is no where more strikingly re-
vealed than In the Rio Grande Val-
«dey, where the descendents of the early
Bpanish explorers are to-day engaged
fn agriculture in just the same man-
ner as their forefathers practiced it,
and indeed with methods strangely like
those In the days of Abraham. You
oan see them reap with the slokle and
fhrosh by the trampling of is.
ve Americans settling in the
upper reaches of the Rio Grande In
Iator years, showed small regard for
the settlers In tha lower Yalta). Hoon
their long Mnes of broad canals began
to make sad luroads in the water su
| 4Ply which was needed for the
world appears to them-these con-
| atitute, as it seems to me, at least, the
true Juterests of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
{and perceptions of which at present
{we have no conception.”
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Celebrating Belgian Independence.
Among the festivities organized for
the celebration of the seventy fifth an-
niversary of Belgium's independence
Is the faithful reproduction of one of
the tiiting Jousts given by Philip the
Good of Burgundy In 1452, In which
Philip's son broke the lances of six
teen opposing knights In the presence
of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of
Burgundy,
| gaged
noble ar
in trade:
I am told th
ason to hoj it shortly |
Japan pe
: A
and
th
1} orn
re
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ne
nn m« i HI
no
permission from Congress to be per-
mitted to accept the order of the
| Sultan.
Mra. Wu Ting Fang, wife of the for-
mer Chinese Minister to this country,
{ 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.
Wu had her feet tightly bound, as is |
the custom among women of her rank
{in China, While in this country she
had a surgleal operation performed, in-
creasing her feet to the size nature |
{ hanythink
Peculiar Business Dishonesty,
The ich
pa
a
+
1 £1
ss wil ty
fif
1
progres
made in
them
Japane (
1 £5) 1
ermined to k
the highest plane
yetL travelers im the E
been surprised that the trad
¢ Occldent are so notoriously
for while the Japanese are
sui the Chir AS rogar
achievems of nati strength
perseverance, y the reve in
in the matter of commercial honesty
It appears that the Japan
chants have no regard
It is sald that ti
commercial hous
aged not by J:
The average Chin
ly esteemed the worl
ity; in fact a president of one of the
argest corporations of the United |
States once sald that he would not
afraid to ship a barrel of gold coin to
a Chinese merchant with instruetic
to make use of it in trade, but at the
end of the year ho would receive a de.
tail statement of where every coin
went, but if this were done to a Jap
anese merchant, he would consider
himself Jucky to get back the empty
barrel.
It is believed that the hard task
accomplished by the Japanese in the
war just happily 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 sald yesterday that
you loved me best.
Yes; but I've slept over it
roalize that we men must
gether.
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far
guperior to o is |
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THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE,
Almost Impossible to Select a
Genuine One.
A story 1s told of a smoker who spent
elght of the best his life trying
to color a meerschaum pipe, keeping It
enclosed most of the time in a case soas
to prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oll and moist.
ure from his hands, only to find at the
end of that period that he had been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
of the genuine “ecume de mer” 1 he |
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 thelr
greater weight, but there is no abso
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit. One method of test is
to look for slight Imperfections
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
Meerschaum Is a silicate of magne«ia,
and preparatory to carving it is soaked
In a composition of wax and oll. The
wax and oll absorbed by the meer.
schaum are the canse of the coloring
of the pipe due to smoking, and in con
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine, Where meerschauvms have
been smoked for some time without
having acquired a good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubblog,
when warm, with beeswax,
—
Weakness of English Colonies.
The new commonwealth of Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population In the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3.771.715,
the increase being O07 408 The whole
Island continent has less population
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, it
has not developed Internally, “Were
Australian porta” says the Sydney
Bulletin, “shut by hostile warships
to-morrow, the commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for Ita
troops, without ships or the means of
making them, without fabries for
clothing, without machinery for mine
or rallway, without even paper on
which to print Hs journals. Australia
would bave to beseech the grace of
some master, crawl to the hand of
: oof
years ol
Come
whatever power was for the time most
strong, po vin into savagery.”
ers |
pipes |
MADAME WU FANG,
TING
{ Was
Keo]
intended them to be, Mrs. Wu's h-
friends, with whom sl
Corre ondencs
to walk
gion ghe
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able now wilh com
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By the will of the
Field Marshal, Count
omman f the
er
yon Wa er
ler allied tr ring
au
ier husband.
Dr. WaNason, t}
ntist lives in 8 pe
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ulace in a quar re
mw }
for
Grand 3 are, tl! always
for Dr. Wallason,
traveling from one
glan empire to the
the
ang
. ' » Jus
‘ big Rus- |
an
! , and 1}
he Emperor's confi
ndiscreet utterance,
The German Emperor's American
not such a y long time
nce committed sulcide.
Each Ear! of Orford at his
his hearse t} t
foro his remains
y
years
» v vor fy 1
! Reyer : ©
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ence by a single
a
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fentist ver
burial fs
in rod r v
according
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churchyard, alway
remains of her relat to 1
ify her spirit that this rd drive
the hearse round the churchyard takes
place on the occasion of the «
of every Earl of Orford. The pr
| Orford, whose wife is 1.
Corbin, daughter of D. C. Corl
niece of the great railroad
of that name, is at present travells
in this country. van Calava
——I — sn —
The Bartholdi Fountain,
Among art work displayed In
me of the public reservations In the
immediate shadow of the Capitol,
Bartholdi Fountain, which plays
the National Botanical Garden. Its
wi
oaquiesg
M
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"ne
n
is
tho
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BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER
GARR,
designer and sculptor was the man who
| made the Statue of Liberty, which
| France presented to the United States
and which stands in New York harbor,
| The Bartholdl Fountain performed its
{ first service In this country at the Phil
adelphbia exposition, at the close of
which it was brought to Washington,
————
Cheerful During Trouble.
Mamma had told Dorothy that she
could not 4 out again. The little
maiden made one more plea. “Please,
mamma it jsn't very wet, and I won't
go on the grass."
“No, you cannot, Dorothy,” maid
mamma, smiling at the little one's por.
siste
way, mamma, It seems to
"you're very cheerful about
late Oerman |
o Czar's American |!
AN ENGLISHMAN WITH HUMOR.
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Herbert Keleey, one of the lending
fictors of the presen time, Is an
Englishman, but, unlike the usual type
from t i I lian a dee f
humor. In gpeaking of his first vigit to
country, he deseribes his exper-
lence something like this: |
“Yes, I was a bit green when I came
over to this country, and 1 'ad to tike
in the w'y of a job. 1 got
in a department store on 6th
ue, and the floorwalker 8'ys 10 me,
gyn ‘or
$
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away without selling them, we'll "ave
to bounce you.
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Monday, took my plice be'ind the
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looked me. That mide one,” hold-
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and stopped to arsk me
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