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I
YOUNG DIPLOMATS.
daughters of Yung Kwai, a Chinaman
light swim here again after that, eh?”
wealth ,nor even then unless me:.’
who acts as interpreter at the Legation
said one of his hearers.
are devised to prevent waste anu
whose wife is an American formerly
Increase efficiency in every direclts w
“
Oh,
we
were
kind
of
scared,
all
living in Springfield, Mass.
right," was the reply, "but it wasn’t
CHILDREN OF AMBASSADORS AND
The Prophecy of Malthus.
THEY
ENCOUNTER
MANY
UN
­
The daughter of the Minister is
that bad. Only I will confess that we THEY ARE MAGNIFICENT ! BUT
MINISTERS AT THE NATION’S known even to her intimate friends KNOWN AND SINGULAR DENI­
A century ago, one Malthus, st'
DEVELOPMENT HAS ONLY
sat around for nearly an hour getting
the world by depicting the h„
as Miss Liang. Like other Celestial
CAPITAL.
ZENS OF THE DEEP.
JUST COMMENCED.
our nerves straightened out before we
women of high station she has a given
which would some day come
swam back."
over-population. His theory was t
They Constitute Quite a Foreign Col* name but the Chinese are a very for­ Starling Experience of a Moonlight
No Section of the United States
the number of human beings increa
•ny. Representative Types From mal people and the Minister’s daughter
Offers Productive Land So Cheap.
Swim In the Great Ocean Current
much raster than the means u
the Courts and Governments of all is seldom addressed by her first
Opportunités
for
Many
Millions
of
Accomplished by Shark—Scared Big
GREAT CULEBRA CUT.
subsistence; hence, that disaai-
name even by her father. Minister Fish Away.
Nations.
Rural Homes.
Liang’s two sons who now speak Eng­
must come in the natural course o»
BY WILLIAM E. SMYTHE.
The city of Washington has among lish almost as fluently as their father
The wharf rats of New York and 1 Biggest Piece of Digging Ever Under
events. It was not given him to fores«« '
Ms inhabitants a colony of foreign adopted American dress from the day ' other large cities who seem willing taken—A Huge Mexican Drainage
It is a comfort to us to look fo. «oard how vastly the means of subsistence
Bhlldren who bring to our Republic, they took up their residence in Wash­ • to brave the wrath of the officers of
Cut.
to the day when our children and our would be increased through the inven­
(he manners and customs of many ington but the daughter of the Envoy the law are but the making of many
grandchildren will be fulltledged citi­ tion of labor-saving machinery, the hi «.
The huge excavations for the Pana­ zens of the Republic? Will they have covery of new crops and methods of
tor-off lands. They are the sons and still clings to her native dress con­ . of the most fearless swimmers of the
daughters of the officials known as sisting of loose blouse and trousers. world. A commercial traveler who ma Canal across the Culebra divide the same chance or an equally good cultivation, and the Improvement cA
diplomats—men sent by the various Chinese fashions have not changed journeys, not only all over the pre­ will be by far the greatest furrow in chance with us. or the chances that the means of distribution.
governments of the world to act as in centuries but Miss Liang’s costumes cincts of the United States, but in the earth’s surface ever made by our fathers and our grandfathers had
So that many of the present-tlmi
(heir agents at the headquarters of are made by a Chinese tailor connect­ foreign lands as well, in speaking of human agency. This statement is made to enjoy the blessings of our free in­ writers, having In mind the
Uncle Sam. Quite a number of these ed with the Legation. Her costumes his happy boyhood days when he as­ by the Engineering News, in a com­ stitutions? Will they have the chance of science, speak in no little deroak
Children of foreign parents have been are of the richest silks and satins, sociated with the daring swimming prehensive discussion of the great that we have to make or secure, each, tlon of the teaching of Malthus ■■
horn in this country and a few years black and white being her favorite population of the Metropolis, said that, excavation projects of the world. The a home of his own?
narrow and grounded upon ignorano«
colors. The quaint Chinese shoes that however pleasant and enjoyable his big Panama cut is so large that the
of the vast, ever-unfolding resources
It
has
been
said
that
the
true
test
of
mind
fails
to
grasp
its
real
magnitude,
she wears cause this young lady to youthful excursions, they were not to
of the world. Nevertheless Malthus’s
walk in what appears to American compare with a swim in the Gulf and it can only be appreciated by statesmanship is the provision which is warnings were not entirely unjustified
eyes, a rather awkward fashion but Steam—the Gulf Steam, teeming with comparison with some familiar object. made for the comfort of posterity. The and as applied to ourselves it must bfl
she has not the small, deformed feet life, that only one whose nerves are A question of considerable interest re­ present population of the United States conceded that the thoughtful people q*
such as have prevented some of her in absolute consonance with the cently raised by a correspondent re­
the United States have no more urgent
predecessors at the Chinese Legation ocean can escape. Wrigging and dart­ lates to the largest existing artificial
business than to make broad outletfl
from walking without assistance.
ing things grip unseen at the swim­ excavation which is at all comparable
for surplus population upon the soil
mer’s breast and arms. Silvery flashes with the Culebra cut. Great amounts
and to train the rising generation so
Young Chilean Ladles.
before his face tell of fish turning of excavation were done, of course,
that it will know how to make the
Two young people who have made their glittering sides sharply as they on such works as the North Sea Canal,
best possible use of natural resource*
many American friends during a long leap away at his approach. Big and the Manchester Canal and the Suez
now wastefully employed or altogether ’’’:
term of residence in the United States little, rising out of enormous depths Canal; but all these were built through
neglected.
Necessity, the prolifle
are the daughters of Senor Don Joa­ to sink again half seen, all conspire comparatively level country.
mother of Invention, will doubtleafl
quin Walker-Martinez, the Minister to make that sunlight splendor a place
So far as it has been able to dis­
continue to place in our hands new
from Chill. These young ladles have of sudden terrors to any except the cover, the only deep cut at all com­
tools which will multiply our power of
been living under the Stars and fearless.
parable with that to be made through
production; but if wo would escape
Stripes for nearly five years and have
the Cuelbra divide is the great Nochl-
grave trials and hardships we must do
Moonlight Swim in the Tropica«
attended American schools. They
stongo cut through the hills which
thoroughly and well the work which' '
“One evening,” said the man of surround the Valley of Mexico. This
have the clear olive complexion, dark
needs to be done in organizing pros»
hair and eyes and rich coloring typi­ commerce, “after I had been in Ja­ huge excavation was begun in 1640,
perity for our people by means of
maica, having a week of the joys of for the purpose of affording an outlet
cal of the Latin Races.
rural settlement.
As has been mentioned above there swimming this stream, I proposed to to the flood waters which had inun­
are many young people in the house­ a couple of my friends that we break dated the City of Mexico and destroyed
The rural settlement, and all that
holds of the envoys from South and the monotony by taking a dip in the a great part of the city and its in­
this term involves in its broadest an-
Central America and the West Indies. water by moonlight One of them con­ habitants. For more than a hundred
pllcation—the division of land into
i
At the Legation of Haiti, are the sented, and we were soon disporting and
smaller farm homes, sufficient for the
forty years labor on this great
CH4LDREN OF MINISTER FROM PARAGUAY,
Misses Bourke, popular young rela­ ourselves in the clear moonlit water. work was the chief task of the Mex­
support of a family from the soil, the
“We were going along easily and en- j ican nation, and it was not until the
diversification of crops, and their ut­
ago a Chinese baby opened its eyes in tives of Minister Leger, who by the
joying
the
swim
immensely,
Rarely
way
is
one
of
the
veteran
diplomats
most cultivation and the improvement
year 1789 that it was finally completed.
■ar capital city on the Fourth of July,
seen
the
water
so
phosphor-
have
I
at
Washington,
having
resided
in
this
and breeding up of plants so that they
The total length of the Nochlstongo
■ad was named Washington.
will yield their greatest product, the
Another youngster who is a native country continuously for ten years. escent. Every stroke made Are whirl cut is twelve and one-half miles. Its
utilization of every waste and unpro
greatest
depth
is
197
feet,
and
its
great
­
at the United States Is the little son of
ductlve acre—in short, the settling of
est width is 361 feet The total amount
fcnor Quesada, the Minister or Envoy
WILLIAM E. SMYTHE.
the entire country into small rural
of material excavated was about 54,-
horn the Republic of Cuba. Senor
homes, so that each family shall own
000,000 cubic yards.
In comparison ,
Quesada and his wife have two chil-
is
80,000,000.
.
A
---------------------------
generation
more,
at
a piece of land from which he may
with this the cut at Culebra will have j the present rate of ulerease, and
(ren, both Btrikingly handsome with
if
secure a living for himself and hl«
a considerably greater maximum . will be 120,000,000 or 130,000,000.
large dark eyes and the olive complex-
■R
family—this is the work than which
depth and width, even for the project century hence, it will be 500,000,000.
tai of the Latin-American. Their cous-
there is no more Important question
with the eighty-flve-foot summit level. The
!
ta, a young girl whose home is in the
children of Borne of us, anyway before the country to-day.
The total cube of excavation at the
■My of Havana Cuba, spends her va­
our
grandchildren,
will
live
to
see
that
Culebra divide was estimated by En­
cations with them and they never fail
The Empire of the South.
gineer Wallace as 186,000,000 cubic ' date. Will the United States then be
to give a great childrens’ party in her
able
to
sustain
such
a
population?
No,
Now
all this is merely introductory
yardB
for
the
sea-level
canal
and
111,-
honor every time she visits Washing­
half that number, even with every to a discussion of the opportunitlee for
000,000 cubic yards for a canal with nor
1
ton.
arable
acre
cultivated
according
to
domestic expansion in various parts of
a sixty-foot summit level.
From the Antipodes,
present methods. It is estimated that our great country, and of the need of
While in mere size of excavation with
.
every such acre cultivated after private and public enterprise in mak­
An exceedingly pretty little girl is
the cut through the Panama divide is the
,
■Yau Matilda Bussche, the daughter
___
present manner, the country could
by far the larger, the fact that the . produce only enough to sustain 144,- ing these opportunities available for
of that blonde giant Baron Bussche,
the masses of men. First of all, let us
Nochlstongo
cut
was
made
with
abso-
(
000,000 people. What about the re­ look at that great empire which Ilea
Secretary of the German Embassy and
lutely
no
aid
from
machinery
or
me-
,
maining
356,000,000 souls of which our between Mason and Dixon's line and
his dark-complexioned South Ameri­
chanlcal power, but wholly with hu- children
,
or grandchildren will be a the Gulf of Mexico, and, for the moot
can wife whom he married while sta­
man
muscle,
makes
our
task
on
the
.
part?
tioned in the Argentine Republic at
part, east of the Mississippi River.
isthmus
seem
like
mere
child
’
s
play
1
the other end of our continent. Little
Do we ever stop to think that the
A native of New England and •
in
comparison
with
that
accomplished
Miss Bussche has a striking combina­
for organizing rural settlement citizen of the Pacific Coast. I never
by those patient tollers under the tor- matter
1
tion of dark eyes and flaxen hair and
the United States—of fully grasped the truth about the
rid Bun of Mexico two centuries ago. throughout
J
despite her tender years she speaks
When one recalls that this deep, arti­ “Building the Unfinished Republic,’* if South until through travel, I saw and
two different languages.
please—is not merely a matter of came to know things as they are. I
ficial valley, more than twelve miles you
:
Other South American children in
long, was all dug by the labor of In­ increasing material prosperity, or even once thought of the South as an old
this odd community in Washington,
dians, who excavated the material a
1 matter of making homes for the country, vastly interesting because of
•re the two sons of Senor Baez, the
with the crudest hand tools and car­ homeless, but something which is ab­ its historic associations, running back
Minister from the little known Re­
vital to the very existence of to the earliest English settlements on
ried it in baskets on their heads to the solutely
1
public of Paraguay. The new Mexican
place of final deposit, the great cut of the Nation in times to come, and to this continent, but practically deve­
Ambassador and Señora Casasus have
Nochlstongo is entitled to rank, with come very shortly?
loped to the limit of its normal
■even children; Hector, aged eighteen;
Somebody must look ahead; some­ growth and possessing resources in­
the Pyramids of Egypt, among the
Bvangelina, fifteen; Horacio, fourteen;
body must take account of the needs ferior to some other portions of the
world’s greatest wonders.
Margarata, thirteen; Mario, eleven;
of the future. Tills is a portentous Union, especially to those of the Far
teon, nine and Jorge, seven. At the
question which the future must an­ West.
borne of the Envoy from Costa Rica
swer, and which the future simply
The truth is something very differ­
IFAaf Governs Price of Dogs.
there are half a dozen children; the
cannot answer unless the present gene ent. In an economic sense, the South
Minister from Haiti has two dark-com­
The price paid for a dog seems to be ration begins to organize its forces for is a new country, with immense re-
plexioned sons; there are several
governed not so much by the value of the syHtematic and scientific develop­
young people in the household of the
(Continued on next page.)
the animal as the sentiment of the pur­ ment of our entire fund of natural
first Minister from the new Republic
chaser in the vast majority of cases,
•f Panama; and five attractive young­
and, as a rule, the sporting dog brings
piers enliven things at the residence
the lowest figure.
Doubtless this is
of the new Ambassador from Brazil—
due to the fact that the man who wants
the first Ambassador (a diplomat of
a gun dog is a practical person, while
higher rank than a Minister) to come
the seeker after the “show dog" pays
to the Unted States from any South
for running the "show." It is granted
American country. These young people
right here that many a good gun dog
from Brazil, speak the Portuguese
also shows well, but the highest prices
language whereas the junior citizens
go for the show animal, pure and sim­
ple.
from all other Pan-American countries
MISS MATILDA BUSSCHE.
At a recent sale cf {jointers and set­
•peak Spanish.
Daughter of Secretary of German Embassy.
ters at Birmingham, England, one of
Chinese Children.
the most important sales in years, the
Conspicuous among the juveniles of The agent of the Republic of Bolivia at around us, and once, when I looked entire lot—two score or more—sold for
•11 nations gathered in Washington Uncle Bam s seat of Government has over at my companion, who was swim­ $3,025. The highest price paid was
are those from China. The present a very pretty daughter, Elena Calderon ming abreast of me probably a hun­ $325, for the famous female pointer,
Minister from the Celestial Empire, Sir by name, and there are several girls dred feet away, he seemed to be ab­ Coronation (four and a half years) the
Chentung Liang-Cheng is a widower In the large family of Senor Calvo, the solutely immersed in sparkling flame. winner of many championships; while
But that same moment I became aware
who has a large family but only three Minister from Costa Rica.
the setters the choice was
of a third area of swiftly moving phos­ among
Bang (four aid a half years),
Son A West Pointer.
phorescence between us; and the next a Ightfield
great field trial winner, who brought
Minister Calve, by the way has a instant I realized that it was made only $185.
American purchasers
son who is a cadet at West Point and by a big shark, a good three feet would have thought these dogs cheap
is rendering a most excellent account longer than I am.
at $1,000 apiece.
of himself, standing well toward the
the
In contrast with these prices,
.
Shark Was Gamey«
head in all his classes.
bull terrier Woodoote Wonder sold In
but
the
shark.
“
I
splashed
hard,
The new Russian Ambassador to the
New Haven for $5,000 to a San Fran­
United States has a decidedly pretty contrary to the habits of bls kind, cisco purchaser. Richard Croker, Jr.,
daughter, Baroness Elizabeth Rosen did not turn tall. He kept right on, paid $3,000 for his Champion Rodney
and the only daughter of the British and then my companion saw him and Stone, and Frank Gould paid as high
Ambassador constitutes another im­ became nervous. He began to swim as $5,000 for a St. Bernard. These are
portant member of the foreign colony. unevenly, and I knew at once that he real prices—unlike many of the
The last-mentioned young lady, Miss might not keep his head if the big amounts running up Into the thousands
Josephine Durand, is one of the partic­ fish should really try to annoy him. tagged on to bench space, of not a few
ular chums of President Roosevelt’s So I struck straight across at right 30-cent dogs, exhibited at some of the
eldest daughter, just married. The angles.
kennel shows, where It is believed nec­
"Just as I got half way over, the essary to have something attractive.
Turkish Minister Chekib Bey has two
shark
put
on
speed
and
forged
head
young sons who wear American
dress and speak the English language. down on me. For a moment, as I
saw that green, submarine streak of
Highest Salaried Woman.
fire, with the glistening dorsal fin
A Lapland Birthday Present.
sticking up higher than my head, com­
Miss Kate Holliday Claghorn, of
As soon as a I-epp baby is born a ing straight for me like a shot, I was Brooklyn, has been appointed to be
reindeer Is presented to him. This nearly panic stricken myself. But I registrar of the tenement house depart­
reindeer is literally his start in life, turned directly at him pounding and ment of the city and Is the highest paid
for not only that deer, but all its lashing the sea with bands and feet woman in the civil service of New York
CHILDREN OF CUBAN MINISTER,
young, and as they grow np, all their and blowing the water to make a bel­ State, her salary being $3,000 a year.
of them accompanied him to this young deer, belong to the child. When lowing noise. The man-eater sank be­ At a competitive examination, the
country—a daughter aged about seven­ he is of age he has quite a herd of neath the surface, and I could see his only other person to pass was George
faintly illuminated outline going down, Hale, a veteran in the department,
teen who is famous in Washington for his own.
This custom Is of much greater nee down, slowly, till it glimmered fath­ whose average was a little lees than
her superb jewels and two sons one
of whom Is not yet twelve years of to him than if every aunt, uncle and oms deep. Then I got my hand under that made by his successful rival.
Mies Claghorn is a verv pretty young
age while the other is still younger. cousin he had in the world presented my companion’s armpit and helped
•
woman of modest Ul u n assu ming
In the same household are four half- him with the heaviest sliver spoon him along."
"I guess yon don’t ever want ■ moon- manner.
American children, the little son« and to be found.
GULF STREAM SWIMMERS.
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