OLD DESERT JOURNEYS. MODERS CIYIUZATIOX, TUN I FT ASD A1WXDAXCE IX SAGE BRVSU COCXTRY. Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil Await the Coming of Canal-Borne Water to Laugh Abundant liar 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 ico on the North, stands the "largest city in the largest Congressional diS' trlct of the largest Slate of the great' est Nation on the earth." To the Easterner who first tislts this charming city and enjoys the hospital lty 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 Fanhandle of Texas, the short grass country, where it is all one vast cattle raDge, down Into the adobe hills ana sage brush wastes of eastern New Mexico, there is a reason for asking tnis question. You naturally want to know from whence comes all this hustle and bustle with all thess evidences of progress and substantial growth. All your no fry CJLJLVX RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH, tions long held and regretfully let go of, are that this sunny land of the border is the land of uianauia, of to morrow; that its day of awakening is not yet come. Well, wake up! Life is just as i eat. just as earnest and as streauous in El Paso as in New York or Chicago, and when you rub up in busiaees against the El Pasoan you neea all your shrewdness and business acumen. The Old and The New. El Paso Is old very old, and El a'iso Is new, too very new. This de lightful paradox is full of surprises and charms. Right up against the old panish dwelling of adobe wita long, i )w windows, heavily Barred, and its i atio ia the center, you are likely to find a modern office building with ele vators and electric ligats. Something of a feeling of living In the past comes over you when you ea ter one of the old churches, down here churches erected more than 300 years a?o. The solemn silence of these shaaoTy halls has been broken by the orisons of countless thousands and 6oftly intoned aves were echoing here long before the eyes of the Anglo- I. iZaJi '.i.-.BIMk... -. Saxon tad looked upon Plymouth Rock. In the first half of the Sixteenth Century the Spanish Conquistadores seeking new fields of concjuebt for the glory of Spain, swept up the Rio Grande Valley. They found pastoral settlements of Pueblo Indians prac ticing agriculture through the aid of irrigation, carrying the precious waters of the Rio Granue out upon the desert and i apisg iarvests from fiolds which bad been in cultivation beyond the traditions of the oldest members of the tribe. Spanish settlements followed the conquerers. With the ready adap tability of the early explorers they utilized the old irrigation systems. Thresh by Trampling of Goats. The unprogresslveness of the Span lard is no where more strikingly re vealed than in the Rio Grande Val ley, where the descendonts of the early Spanish explorers are to-day engaged ia agriculture in just the same man aer as their forefathers practiced it, ass iadeed with methods strangely like those in the days of 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 tho lower valley. Soon their long lines of broad canals began to make sad inroads la the water sup ply which was needed tot the old I J- ;: ; i ."T ".- ' .1- . - VV C Site for the J f Great j ' Kio Grande Dam. canals. Mexico, Texas and New Mex ico were arrayed against Colorado which robbed them of tlulr priceless 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 ley. 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 ncalnst 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 National irrigation act which wroupht a won drous clmiiKO in the conditions ami 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 tSraude 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 Kio 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. li miles wide and from 100 to ITS 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 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 mllllors to do this work. $7,000,000 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 va":ley, 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 adJcd to the crop producing area of El Paso terri tory? THS IXTELLIGEXCEOF AXIMALS. An English Naturalist Believes That It May be Far Greater Than Imagined Sir John Lubbock has brought more popular attention to the subject of the mental capacity of animals than any other writer, ile has conducted many careful investigations on the senses, in stincts and intelligence of animals and insects. An interesting query pro pounded by the English scicutlst re lates to the existence of other organs of sense than ours. "We find," he says, "in animals com plex organs of sense, richly supplied with nerves, but the function of which vre are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as dif ferent from ours as sound is from sight, and even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be end- 1 A New Mexican Irrigation Scene. less sounds which we cannot hear, and colors as differt-iit as red from green. Of which we ha ve no conception. These and a thousand other question re main for solution. The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. Jo them It may be full of music which we cannot Lear, of sensation we cannot conceive. To place stuffed birds and beasts in glass cases, to arrange In sects in cabinets, and dried pluuts 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, as it seems to we, at least, the true interests of natural history, and may even give us the clue to senses and perceptions of which at present we have no conception." Celebru Hag 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 tilting jousts given by Philip the Good of Rurgundy in lir,2, in which Philip's son broke the lances of six teen opposing knights in the presence of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy. . COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY. AS ACKXOWLEVGED TRAIT OF J A PAX E SB MERC11AXTS, They Have No Regard For a Con tract - Striking Contrast With Chinese Iraucrs. With tho treaty of peaco, Japan baa sccu tho accomplishment of a task that has been tho ambition of the em piro to hold front rnuk In the fam ily of nations. This has been brought about through Btich military achieve ments as have ovoked tho mluitrntlou 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 had before tho commencement of tho Russian-Japanese war. That task. Is to redeem the conimicr clal reputation of her traders, a repu tation which Is not enviable. Joseph Walton, a member of the Eagllsh par liament, a nau who has spent much time in travel and knows the people of the East thoroughly, says ia his book on the Orient; "Japanese traders are not special ly distinguished for honesty, particu larly in their business relations with foreigners. We have la this a most striking proof that the character of the people Is largely formed by tho 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 thelast thirty years, since the feudal system has oeen abolished, the position of tho traders has greatly changed, and now some of those who were nobles are en gaged in trade; and I aw 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 ia the past fifty years shows them to be a people self reliant and determined to keep en ad vancing towards the highest plane at tainable, yet travelers is the East have been surprised that the traders of the Occident are se notoriously dis honest, for while the Japaaese are far superior to the 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 Japaa are man aged not by Japanese hut hy Chinese. The average Chinese merchant is high 'y esteemed the world over for his hon esty; in fact a president of one of the .argest corporations of the United States once said that he would not he afraid to ship a barrel of gold coin to a Chinese merchant with instructions to make use of it in trade, but at the end of the year he 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 lucky to get back the empty barrel. It is believed that the hard task accomplished by the Japanese la the war just happily brought to an end will be a beginning to bring out the genius for which the Japanese have been noted ia war to a utilization of peaco and commercialism. Close Now. Harold Co-Opcratlon. . this is your fifth Urth- day party. W hom do you love beet, your father or me? Father, sure, But, Harold, rou loved me you said yesterday that Lest. Yes; but I'v e slept over ft. and I realize that w g'.thtr. o men must stick to- THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE. Almost Impossible to Select a Genuine One. A story Is told of a smoker who Fpent eight of the best years of his life trying to color a mecrs liaum pipe, keeping it enclosed most of the time in a case sas to prevent it getting scratched and its lini.sh beinsr dulled by the oil and moist ure from his hands, only to find at the end of that period that he bad been tenderly nursing an imitation instead of tho genuine "eeume de nier." 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 the counterfeit. One method of test is 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 compositiwu of wax uud oil. The wax and oil ubsorbed by the meer schaum are the cause of the coloring of the pipe due to smoking, and in cou- Ttut'tnn U'ith fllt-tlm,. oiuinpritlnn ft nicotine. Where meerschaums have been smoked for some time without having acquired a good color, they can freauentlv be lmoroved bv rubblnir. when warm, with beeswax. W'euknesB 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 l'JOl was 3.771,715, the increase being &'J7,402.- The whole island continent has less population than the city of Greater New York. Long a dependent upon England, It has not de eloped Internally. "Were Australian ports," says the Sydney Hulk-tin, "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 which to print its journals, Australia would have to beseech the grace of some master, crawl to the band of whatever power Was for the time most strong, or lapse Into savagery," COSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS. Foreign and Washington Notes. The Sultan of Turkey seme short time since, granted an audience to Senaor Bacon, et Georgia, nod was se much charmed with that genial Amer ica grntleman that he conferred upwn hla the grand cerdeu ef the Chef coat, and presented Mrs. Bacon with a lot Of porcelain manufactured in tho Im perial petterles. It remains to he seen whether the Georgian Senator will ask permission from Congress te he per mitted to accept the order of the Sultan. Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, wife of the for raer Chinese Minister to this country, has dctlcd the time honored traditions of her native land, by relurnlug to China with her "feet enlarged" to a normal size. When she came to thU country w ith her famous husband, Mrs. Wu had her feet tightly bouud, ns U the custom among women of her rank la China, While In this couutry nho had a surgical operation performed. In creasing her foct to tho size nature MADAME WU TIXU FA NO. Intended them to he. Mrs. Wu'o 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 tho lato Corman Field Marshal, Count von Walderseo, commander of the allied troops during the Roxer uprising In China, Ms in signia of the Order of the Hlack ICaiiM. set with diamonds, was sold for th.' benefit of the needy soldiers In hU old regiment. Count von Waldcrsoe's wifo is a Miss Ie, of New York, and as serts a most powerful Inlluenco at tho Berlin Court where ti succeeded m securing promotion after promotion for her husband. Dr. Wallason. tbo Czar's American dentist, lires 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 the Grand Dukes are. they always send for Dr. Wallason, and he Is kept busy traveling from ono end of the big Rus Bineniptre to the other. In the same way. Dr. Thomas, an American dentist at Vienna, has been for many years an Intimate friend ol the Emperer, and has nver betrayed the Emperor's confidence hy 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 tines round the church before bis remains are tin ally laid to rest. The origin of this queer custom, according to family and looal tradition, is that Horatio, second earl of Orford, destroyed the tomb of the Scalmers, former possessors of Mannington Hall, in Norfolksblre, 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 drlvo of the hearse round the churchyard takes place on the occasion of the obsequies of every Karl of Orford. The present Iord Orford, whose wife Is Louise Corbln, daughter of I). C. Corbln, and niece of the great railroad magnate of that name, Is at present traveling in this country. van Calava. The liartboldl Fountain. Among art work displayed In one of the public reservations In the Immediate shadow of the Capitol, is the Iiartholdl Fountain, which plays in the National Botanical Garden. Its -IV f fjjt rtiJls , ' - :J BARTUOLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER GAIta 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 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 cannot, Dorothy," said mamma, smiling at the 'little one's per slsteney. "Well, anyway, mamma, It seems to me that you're yery. cheerful about ,LV ESGl KIM AS 117 Til lil'MOR. How He Held III I IrM Johaml More over Got a Maine In Wnges. Herbert Kelecy. ono of the lending" nctor of the present time. U an .. '., . - !... till. llHUIll tilt' l.ngiixuuiiiii, win, u.'v -- from the llnu hn deP "' r humor, lu speaking of nw ursi virn v this country, he describe hi exper ience something like this: "Yes. 1 was u bit gr.cii when I ci no over to thl couutry. and I 'ad to tike banvtblnk In the v y of ft Job. I got started lu n department UI1 avenue, and tho tloorwalker s'y to un 8 ""'Now, 'Arry, we'll give you three trials, mid If you let three people get away without selling thctn, we ll nve to lHiuneo you.' "Well. 1 came down Jolly early on Monday, took my pllee be'lud tho counter nnd Wind for customer. Pretty soon n Inly walked up and nl;wd mo where she should tlki Hi tram for New Uoehello. I didn't know, and she went nw'y. I looked at lh tloorwall.er nnd the floorwalker o looked lit inc. That inldo one." hold ing up n lean foretlnger. "Then it man came along and stopped to nrsk yu where V could buy n 'at I told mi where the 'at counter wa, nnd V went Tl,,. tnl.t.i two. JollV Poor luckwasn't It now? I looked at tho floorwalker, and that noorwnmr. 1. w vl iii 1 nt tint ill:. i VII but what could I do? Then another lidy came along as 'ad n large piece of goods to match, and she wauted another yard of tho ni inn I lixi V ll nnd nulled out hevery- think on the shelve, but there wu no more or it left. I wa lu n bit or n .t,,,, i. ,., f,. if l l..t Vr co without tnlklug ft sale I would lose my Ji I "'Wlte ft bit, lldy; I'll see If we are any upstairs.' I went up. aud neeiug there was no more there, either. I Ju cut n yard off her own goods an. brought the two piece down, rolled them up, took the luoury, and sb went nw'y. I nd plenty of eiistoin-r after that, but I didn't feel just com fortable, doii't you know. "The same afternoon sbo came back nnd nked for the tloorwalker. "'Ere,' sey, she, 'I brought flv yard of good 'ere to match thl morning and bought u yard more, but when I got home I found oidy fur yards In mv own piece. Cau you ex plain that, please V" "I Vmiiied an' 'awed nnd tried to measure the goods and Uattempted to tell the lldy that she must bo mistaken about er own pleee. but she oi.!y glared nt me, nnd In a JIlTy ho wu hup to the iloorwalker d'nlif the eondltl n of affairs. 'Fr tone blndl cated that she wa mad, and I said to rues. df. '"Arry. you're a dead 'un." "The floorwalker culled me bout, I I ':kI to t !1 'I'u all iiLout It. 'ow the first party wanted ft tram car. a:i I lie- IK'U a 'at, and this one vaut-.l r:inre goods w In n we 'ndn't any. I 'ml to s.'ll Vr soine'ow, or lost, my J.b. so I give Vr n bit from Vr own pleee. The tl.xirwalker looked so blooinln' mad for a bit that I thought my tliu wa come for sure, but then o Mnrt.'d to lnrf,- nn I V larfed till 1 thought Vd bust. Then 'e se.. 'Arry,' se e' "I guet-s we'll 'ave to kwp you, and ralne jour wages.' And 'e did." Wonder Work of the Auelculs. Modern quarry machinery caa handle single stones larger than any of the monoliths of ancient Egypt. The really surprising thing, howevur. Is how 414 i he ancients bundle their monoliths v.ith only their crude luacblnes. Agents, Wanted 'To Canvass for tbe United States Senator Number i NOW PUCLISHED. The Issue contains portraits of the NINETY MEM11EKS two from each State in the Uulon. This i '.iiicuun was luailo frwtu recent exclusive aitiiiigs lur tho BOSTON BUDGET The Pictures 12 x 8 inchesl n size are protected by copyriKht and ran not be repruUuced legally cowui-re, 1 lie Kuup forms tliu iiiotl valuable colli'ctiuu of hlitlca inen ever offered to tlie Ameru:n people. 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