COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY.
canals. Mexico, Texas and New Mex­
ico were arrayed against Colorado
which robbed them of their priceless
heritage and threatened to transform
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT thousands of acres of fruitage and AN ACKNOWLEDGED TRAIT OF
bloom into its original state—that of
JAPANESE MERCHANTS.
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
the desert As the water grew scarce
BRUSH COUNTRY.
there sprang up hostilities between the
citizens of the wnole Rio Grande Val­ They Have No Regard For a Con­
Neighbor began to be arrayed tract — Striking Contrast With
Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil ley.
Chinese Traders.
Await the Coming of Canal-Borne against neighbor; there were even fam­
Water to Laugh Abundant Har- ily rows over the water. For years
these conditions prevailed. Mexico With the treaty ot peace, Japan has
vests.
made respectful protest against the use seen the accomplishment of a task
of the waters ot the Rio Grande in that has been the ambition of the em­
Colorado which deprived the ancient pire—to hold front rank in the fam­
c. J. Blanchard.
canals of the Republic of their rights ily of nations. This has been brought
EL PASO, Tex. (Special).—On the long established. The Comity of Na­ about
through such military achieve­
Southeast border of the Great Ameri­ tions was threatened.
ments as have evoked the admiration
can Desert, where our Bister republic
of the ciyilized powers, but now it
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
To Build a Huge Dam.
Texas on the East and the progres­ It was the passage of the National seems that Japan has still before her
sive old-young territory of New Mex­ [ irrigation act which wrought a won­ a problem which means harder work
a greater task than that which
ico on the North, stands the “largest drous change in the conditions and and
city in the largest Congressional dis­ knit together in one brotherhood all the she had before the commencement of
the
Russian-Japanese
war.
trict of the largest State of the great­ citizens of the lower valley, imbuing
That task, is to redeem the commer­
est Nation on the earth.”
of co-operation and cial reputation of her traders, a repu­
To the Easterner who first visits this them with a spirit
The Reclamation Service tation which is not enviable. Joseph
charming city and enjoys the hospital­ enthusiasm.
took hold of the project and worked Walton, a member of the English par­
ity which its citizens know so well out
a plan to »tore the vast Rio Grande liament, a man who has spent much
how to extend, the question is upper­ floods
were annually a source time in travel and knows the people of
most, what makes a city here? After of much which
loss to the valley and which the East thoroughly, says in his book
journeying more than 500 miles across were wholly
unutilized. This plan the on the Orient:
Western Kansas and the Panhandle ot
have accepted as a salvation.
“Japanese traders are not special­
Texas, the short grass country, where people
One hundred miles above El Paso the ly distinguished for honesty, particu­
it is all one vast cattle range, down Rio
flows through a deep nar­ larly in their business relations with
into the adobe hills and sage brush row Grande
A dam 255 feet high foreigners. We have in this a most
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there across canyon.
its
lower
end will create the striking proof that the character of
is a reason for asking this question. largest artificial reservoir
this coun­ the people is largely formed by the
You naturally want to know from try. It-will make a lake 40 in miles
nature ot their surroundings. For hun­
whence comes all this hustle and bustle 1% miles wide and from 100 to long,
175 dreds of years the trading class in
with all these evidences of progress feet deep. It will contain water enough
Japan
has occupied a very low place
and substantial growth. All your no- to cover 2,000,000 acres a foot deep.
in the social scale. In the last thirty
Into this vast reservoir the greatest years, since the feudal system has
flood the Rio Grande has ever known Deen abolished, the position of the
will quickly disappear and later when traders has greatly changed, and now
needed by 200,000 thirsty acres in the some ot those who were nobles are en­
valley below will be released and led gaged in trade; and I am told there
through a net work of canals and is reason to hope that shortly busi­
ditches through New Mexico into Tex­ ness affairs In Japan will be conducted
as, clear down into Old Mexico.
on more honest lines.”
OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
The Settlers Pay tHe Cost.
Peculiar Business Dishonesty.
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.
The Sultan of Turkey some short
time since, granted an aud ence 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-
initted to accept the order or tlie
Sultan.
Mrs. 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 surgical operation performed, in­
creasing her feet to the size nature
It will cost millions to do this work.' The progress which the Japanese
$7,000,000 is the figure, but what of have
in the past fifty years
that? The settlers will gladly pay for shows made
them to be a people self-
MAD amf . WU TING FANG.
it. Under the magic of irrigation Me­ reliant and
determined to keep on ad­
silla, La Palomas and El Paso val vancing towards
the
highest
plane
at
­
leys, now only dotted here and there tainable, yet travelers in the East intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash­
with green verdure, will spring into have been surprised that the traders ington friends, with whom she keeps
up a steady correspondence, state that
full fruitage, producing harvests unri­ of
the Occident are so notoriously dis­ she is able to walk now with com­
valled in quality and quantity. Ten honest,
for
while
the
Japanese
are
far
thousand new homes will cover the superior to the Chinese as regards fort.
desert plain, and El Paso, the central achievement of national strength and
By the will of the late German
point for transportation and the great­ perseverance, yet the reverse is true Field Marshal, Count von Waldersee,
est market in the vailey, will wax into tn
the matter of commercial honesty. commander of the allied troops during
a city of 100,000 souls. Twenty thou­
It appears that the Japanese mer­ the Boxer uprising in China, his in­
RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
sand acres of irrigated land support a
of the Order of the Black Eagle,
dons long held and regretfully let go splendid city now. What shall it be chants have no regard for a contract. signia
with diamonds, was sold for tho
of, are that this sunny land of the when 200.000 acres are added to the It is said that the most prosperous set
benefit
of the needy soldiers in liis old
border is the land of manama, of to­ crop producing area of El Paso terri­ commercial houses of Japan are man­ regiment.
Count von Waldersee’s wlfo
aged not by Japanese but by Chinese.
morrow; that its <<ay of awakening is tory?
The average Chinese merchant is high­ is a Miss Lee, of New York, and as­
not yet come. Well, wake up! Life
ly esteemed the world over for his hon­ serts a most powerful influence at tho
is just as real, just as earnest and as
Berlin Court where she succeeded in
strenuous in El Paso as in New York THE INTELLIGENCEOF ANIMALS. esty; in fact a president of one of the securing
promotion after promotion for
.argest corporations of the United
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
States once said that he would not be her husband.
business against the El Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business An English Naturalist Believes That afraid to ship a barrel of gold coin to
Dr. Wallason, the Czar’s American
a Chinese merchant with instructions dentist, lives in St. Petersburg in a
•cumen.
It May be Far Greater
to make use of it in trade, but at the palace in a quarter reserved for Grand
Than Imagined*
The Old and The New.
end of the year he would receive a de­ Dukes and Ambassadors. It is furnish­
Sir John Lubbock has brought more tail statement of where every coin ed
El Paso is old—very old, and El
with such exquisite things that each
Paso is new, too—very new. This de­ popular attention to the subject of the went, but if this were done to a Jap­ room represents a fortune in itself.
lightful paradox is full of surprises mental capacity of animals than any anese merchant, ho would consider Wherever the Czar or Czarina or the
and charms. Right up against the old other writer. He has conducted many himself lucky to get back the empty Grand Dukes are, they always send
Spanish dwelling of adobe with long, careful investigations on the senses, in­ barrel.
for Dr. Wallason, and he is kept busy
low windows, heavily barred, and its stincts and Intelligence of animals and
It is believed that the hard task traveling from one end of the big Rus­
patio in the center, you are likely to insects. An interesting query pro­ accomplished by the Japanese in the sian
empire to the other.
find a modern office building with ele­ pounded by the English scientist re­ war just happily brought to an end
In the same way. Dr. Thomas, an
lates to the existence of other organs will be a beginning to bring out the
vators and electric lights.
American dentist at Vienna, has been
Something of a feeling of living in of sense than ours.
genius for which the Japanese have
“We find,” he says, “in animals com­ l>een noted in war |o a utilization of for many years an intimate friend of
the past comes over you when you en­
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
ter one of the old churches, down here plex organs of sense, richly supplied peace and commercialism.
the Emperor’s confidence by a single
—churches erected more than 300 yearB with nerves, but the function of which
indiscreet utterance.
ago. Tho solemn silence of these we are as yet powerless to explain.
The German Emperor’s American
shadowy halls has been broken by the There may be fifty other senses as dif­
Close
Co-Operation.
dentist not such a very long time
orisons of countless thousands and ferent from ours as sound is from
since
committed suicide.
Now, Harold, this is your fifth birth­
softly intoned aves were echoing here sight, and even within the boundaries
long betorb the eyes of the Anglo- of our own senses there may be end- day party. Whom do you love best,
Each Earl of Orford, at his burial Is
your father or me?
driven in his hearse three times round
Father, sure.
the church before his remains are fin­
But, Harold, you said yesterday that ally laid to rest. The origin of this
you
loved
me
best.
Site for the
custom, according to family and
Yes; but I've slept over it. and I queer
local tradition, is that Horatio, second
realize that we men must stick to- earl of Orford, destroyed the tomb
Great
gether.
of the Scalmers, former possessors of
Kit> Grande
Mannington Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam­
Dam.
THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
ily, finding no rest, still haunts the
churchyard, always searching for the
remains of her relations. It is to mol­
Almost Impossible to Select a
lify her spirit that this weird drive of
Genuine One.
the hearse round the churchyard takes
’A story is told of a smoker who spent place on the occasion of the obsequies
eight of the l>est years of his life trying of every Earl of Orford. The present
to color a meerschaum pil>e, keeping it Lord Orford, whose wife is Louise
enclosed most of the time in a case sons Corbin, daughter of D. C. Corbin, and j
to prevent it getting scratched and its niece of the great railroad magnate
finish being dulled by the oil and moist­ of that name, is at present traveling
ure from his hands, only to find at the in this country.
van Calava.
end of that period that he bad been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
The Bartholdi Fountain.
of the genuine “ecume de mer.” The
best imitation is composed of the par­ Among art work displayed _
In
ings of genuine meerschaum, combined one of the public reservations in the
with a mineral clay. These coui|>osi- immediate shadow of the Capitol, is
tions can usually be determined from the Bartholdi Fountain, which plays
the genuine meerschaum by their in the National Botanical Garden. Its
greater weight, but there is no abso­
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit. Ono method of test is
A New
to look for slight imperfections. Com­
position bowls never exhibit these
Mexican
slight blemishes, which result from the
Irrigation presence of foreign bodies in the natur­
al meerschaum; however, ns the blem­
Scene.
ishes do not usually manifest them­
selves until after the bowl has been
used for some time, the test is not of
Saxon- had looked upon Plymouth less sounds which We cannot hear, and much value in buying new pipes.
colors as different as red from gfeen. Meerschaum is a silicate of magnesia,
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth of which we have no conception. These and preparatory to carving It Is soaked
Century the Spanish Conquistadores and a thousand other questions re­ in a composition of wax and oil. The
seeking new fields of conquest for the main for solution. The familiar world wax and oil absorbed by the meer­
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio which surrounds us may be a totally schaum are the cause of the coloring
Grande Valley. They found pastoral different place to other animals. To of the pipe due to smoking, and in con­
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac­ them it may be full of music which we nection with the further absorption of
ticing agriculture through the aid of cannot bear, of sensations we cannot nicotine. Where meerschaums have
Irrigation, carrying the precious waters conceive. To place stuffed birds and been smoked for some time without
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert beasts in glass cases, to arrange in­ having acquired a good color, they can
and reaping harvests from fields which sects in cabinets, and drl.sl plants In frequently be improved by rubbing,
had been in cultivation beyond the drawers, is merely the drudgery and when warm, with beeswax.
traditions of the oldest members of the preliminary of study; to watch ‘their
BAATHOLDI fountain in winter
tribe. Spanish settlements followed habits, to understand their relations to
Ilcakness of English Colonies.
the conquerers. With the ready adnp- one another, to study their instincts
GARB.
lability of the early explorers they and intelligence, to ascertain their
The
new
commonwealth
of
Aus
­
utilized the old irrigation systems.
adaptations and their relations to the tralia does not seem to be getting on designer and sculptor was the man who
forces of nature. to realize what the very well. The population in the ten made the Statue of Liberty, which
Thresh by Trampli-ig of Goats.
world appears to them—these con­
The unprogresslvencss of the Span­ stitute. as it seems to me. at least, the years ending with 1901 was 3.771.715. France presented to the United States
iard is uo where more strikingly re­ true Interests of natural history, and the increase being 597,402. The whole and which stands in New York harbor.
pealed than in the Rio Grande Vai- may even give ns the clue to senses island continent has less population The Bartholdi Fountain performed its
Hey, where the descendents of the early and perceptions of which at present than the city of Greater New York. first service in this countrv at the Phil­
Long a dependent upon England, it adelphia exposition, at the close of
Spanish explorers are to-day engaged i we havo no conception."
has not developed Internally. “Were which it was brought to Washington
in agriculture in just the same man­
I
*
Australian ports.” says the Sydney
ner as their forefathers practiced it.
and indeed with method« strangely like Celebrating Belgian Independence. Bulletin, “shut by hostile warships
Cheerful During Trouble.
those lu the days of Abraham You , Among the festivities organized for to-morrow, the commonwealth would
can see them reap with the sickle and the celebration of the seventy-fifth an­ be without guns or cartridges for Its Mamma had told Dorothy that she
could not go out again. The little
thresh by the trampling of goats.
niversary of Belgium's independence troops, without ships or the moans of
made one more plea. "Please
Progressive Americans settling In the Is the faithful reproduction of one of making them, without fabrics for maiden
mamma .it isn't very wet, and I won t
upper reaches of the Rio Grande In | the tilting jousts given hv Philip the clothing, without machinery for mine go
on
the
grass."
later years, showed small regard for Good of Burgundy In 1452. in which or railway, without even paper on
"No. you cannot. Dorothy” said
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon Philip's son broke the lances of six- which to print its journals. Australia mamma,
their long lines of broad canals began | teen onnosing knights hl the presence would have to beseech the grace of mstency. smiling at the little one’s * per-
to make sad inroads In the water sup­ of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess ot some master, crawl to the hand of
anyway, mamma. It seems to
whatever power was for the time most me ■ Well,
ply which was needed for the old I Burgundy.
that you re very cheerful about
strong, or lapse into savagery.”
AN ENGLISHMAN WITH HUMOR.
A Tension
Indicator
--
Englishman but ’unlike the usual type
,
,7... iJ.iid has a deep sense ot
[Zot leaking of his first visit to
this country, be describes his e p
ionf‘o «tometliio S like tills.
** “YeM was a bit green when came
over to this country, anu I ad to tike
hanytlilnk In the w y of a Job. I g
started In a department store on Otb
¡venue, and the floorwalker s ys to me,
“’-’•Now, ’Arty, we’ll give you three
trials aud if you let three people get
away XoVselling them, we'll ’ave
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t0"Wefl?ei’Vcame down jolly early on
Monday, took my pllce be Ind the
counter and w’lted for customers.
Pretty soon a lidy
uke *the
asked me where she should tike the
tram for New Rochelle. I didnit know
and she went aw'.v. I looked at the
fl.mrwalker and the floorwalker e
looked at me. That mide one, bold­
inui a lean forefinger. “Then a man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where ’e could buy a ai. I told1 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 lldy came along
ns 'ad a large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard of the
same. I took It and pulled out hevery-
tblnk on the shelves, but there was no
more of it left. I was in a bit of a
flunk then, for if I let ’er go without
miking a sale I would lose my job, so I
“ *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
went aw'v. 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 ’emmed an’ ’awed and tried to
measure the goods and 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
imp to the floorwalker expl’nin’ the
conditl n of affairs. ’Er tone hindi-
cated 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 'Im all about it, ’ow
the first party wanted a tram-car, and
the next a ’at, and this one wanted
more goods when we ’adn’t any. I
'nd to sell ’er some'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
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.”
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