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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21
JUNE p.

In sunny New Mexico the only clouds
that ver bothered We're those upon
land titles, and these have nearly all
beer brushed away by the land court.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21
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Santa Fe Postotfice.
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EB-The New MEXICAN is the Oldest news
paperl n New Mexico. 1t is sent to every
Postofice in the Territory and has Il large
and growing circulation among the intelli-
emit and progressive people of the ~southwest
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21

New Mexico is the only section of the
country where any stenographers have
learned to write from dictation in the
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21
MORE MEDICINAL SPRINGS.
(RnsWell RegiSter.l

Nature has bestowed upon this por-
ton of New Mexico a combination of
advantages that are lot to be found
anywhere else in the great southwest,
and yet we say very little about them.
Several sulphur springs flowing water
containing highly valuable medicinal
properties and an artesian well, the sui
phur water from which has already per-
formed a dozen well-known cures OF
stomach and kidney troubles, are tribu-
tary to our town, but strangers rarely
hear of them, except as they learn, aft
er being here some time, that the sui
phur water from the artesian well is
being used by a great many of u citi-
zens and health-seekers staying here.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-21
MESILLA VALLEY FRUIT CROP.
(RiO Grande Republican,

Much concern was aroused on last
Saturday afternoon as to the amount of
damage the hail storm had caused to
fruit interests in this vicinity. The hail
stones We're large enough to do consid-
cradle damage, but the area of the hail
fall was rather limited. A few orchards
in town sustained considerable thin
ming, but investigation proved that it
was the inferior fruit that was knocked.
The large orchards in the vicinity were
not reached by the storm. H. Casad will
probably be able to ship early apples
in two weeks and peaches by the first
of the month. His crop will be very
fine, as the fruit was considerably
thinned by the late frost. This orchard
comprises an area Of about thirty-fve
or forty acres in apples, peaches. etc.
The large orchard of Captain Falkner
at Mesilla will produce an immense
amount of fruit this year. The area. is
about eighty acres, mostly in peaches,
but apples, pears, plums and a few 9TH
er fruits comprise a portion. A force of
fifty hands, including pickers and pack
ers, will be employed later on in gath
ering the fruit, and it is feared the fruit
will ripen so evenly that some must
necessarily go to waste. The process
of thinning out the fruit has been gone
through with twice. and yet the fruit is
rather thick.
This fruit farm contains a we'll
equipped plant for working up second
grade fruit into buffers, preserves and
%jellies.
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SANTA FE LODGE No. 2, X. OF p. Regular
meeting every Tuesday evening at 1880 O'Clock
at Castle hall. Visiting knights given q cor.
dial welcome. ALEX READ,
Chancellor Commander
Len M~UIHLEIsEE,
K. of r. and 8.
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OF Julia Marlowe's return. About that time
iaber and Irving. having enjoyed Paris to
lhe luIi. SAID goodbye to their hostess and
cEaiiseo tneir abode to Versailles which is
an9nt y2 an hours distance by train.
When the day announced bv Julia Marlowa
arrived, Robert Taber reappeared on the
scene He came burdened with flowers which
ne distributed tastefully in the room she
was to occupy. He also went to meet the
tra1n at the station and accompanied his wife
Versailles. ~
Julia .Marlowe's second visit resembled her
first one. She had her meals in her room
was occupied fer the most part with her
dresSmakers, and still seemed depressed and
unllke heTself When she had settled the
farewell a11 went onsher way :.
The incident was closed, but a rent was
iett IN the halo of romance and a glimpse of
truth had appeared.
sailing rome to America. She met there
Some OF her old-time, friends and surprised
them with her changed demeanor She kent
her secret closed tightly in Ter bosom for
the most part, and responded to synpa-
tnetlc inquiries with triflng excuses and ex-
strain 'proved too much for her, and she broke
out 1mpulsively with a confession that she
was Wretchedly unhappy. If she made furth-
er conndences and unburdened more of her
story, the fact has not as yet come to light
Ihat much. however, was not longer a secret
1t came first hand to two or three and they
whispered it about to many. My life is a.
failure she had said, but those words some
times are slightly exaggerated form of
speech.
Meanwhile condolences were made ON the
other side Of the chasm. 1t was not long
after j lila Marlowe had started back on her
way to America that friends of Robert Taber
began to repeat what they had heard An
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RoUNp ABoUT p1RApo-
Queer Aspects and Man in the Wids of Paraguay

speed that a hungry dog tied to the
rear of the train might keep up and
masticate the axle grease on the engine
without trouble. 1t stops long at the
stations, and you have as much time
as you want for your meals, the train
being only ready to start when the
last of the passengers is through drink
ing his coffee. l understand that the
road has just now gone under new
management, and it may be improved
by the time this letter is published. The
rolling stock is in a bad way, the most
of it having evidently been made dur
ing the last generation.
The prices of the tickets were very
low and differed according as to wheth-
er they were first, second or third
class. The first-class cars are much
like ours in that there is an aisle run
ming through the center with seats on
each side. The seats are cushioned
with wicker and are not uncomfortable.
The Second-class cars are about the
same, but those of the third class have
windows like a street car, with two
other benches running back to back
through the center of the car.
The third-class cars were filled with
women and men. the most of whom
were smoking and chewing. There were
more women than men and more Smok-
ers among them. Some of the gir,s
were very pretty, but almost all, from
those of twenty to little tots of six,
had big cigars in their mouths.
At every station 1 saw women smok-
ing cigars and women cigar peddlers
came to the car windows and offered
me punches OF cigars at the rate of o~e
cent apiece. I noticed that most of the
girls had fairly good teeth. and l cou q
have fallen in love with their creamy
faces, dark, lustrous eyes and soft
black hair had it not been for the to-
bacco they were so disgustingly using.
l spent some time among the third
Class passengers, now and then going
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much like the country houses, Of Japan
in this respect.
The larger farm houses sometimes
have two rooms with a thatched roof
connecting them and an open space in
the center Such a one is that on the
Dig farm OF DR.. Charles Chase, Bos-
ton man. who keeps a drug store in the
town of Villa Rica as a means of MAX
Ing money, and follows photography as
an amusement.
LIFE IN THE INTERIOR.
The Paraguayans are very hospit
able. You can call at any hut in the
country and you will be made perfect
ly at home. You may see a lot Of nak-
ed babies and some naked children who
are considerable older than babies. for
in the back districts boys and girls up
to the age Of fourteen often go naked.
If you can speak the Guarin language
the Indian tongue which is in COM
mon use among the lower classes-you
will find the people quite intelligent
though exceedingly simple and ignorant
Of your world. You will be given q
cigar to smoke and will be asked to
take part in the puchero or boiled beef
and vegetables which constitute the
usual meal. Your food will be cooked
out of doors, and the women may
pound the corn to powder in wooden
mortar before they cook it for you.
When you first enter the hut you will
probably be offered glass of brandy
called cana. Every one drinks and
every village has it's brandy distillery
woman and child in Paraguay could
drink two gallons of cana a year and
not exhaust the supply.
In visit of this kind you will learn
that the people are eontented with
their lot. Most of the men are philoso-
pliers, who regard foreigners as fools
because they wear their lives out
working for money.
I found some Americans in Villa Rica,
and my stay was made pleasant by
them in this out-of-the-way part Of
the world. One was our vice consul,
Mr.. William Harrison, and another DR..
Charles Chase, the druggist. A third
American is Capt. Hunter Davidson,
an unreconstructed Southerner, who
left the United States at the close of
the Civil war and finally got to Para
quay. All these men are well-to-do and
much respected, Mr.. Harrison and DR..
Chase having married Paraguayans.
Villa R1ca is the biggest town in
Paraguay outside of Asuncion. 1t has
more vacant lots than buildings, but
Its better classes live in large one-story
brick buildings rooted with red tiles,
which form very comfortable homes.
One of the most interesting sights is
the market, where there are hundreds
of sheeted women buying and selling.
There are hundreds of others going to
and fro with burdens upon their heads,
not few of whom are water carriers
bringing in water from the springs
back of the town. The vessels used
are of all sorts, from geurds to Stand
ard Oil cans. Frank G. Carpenter
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period, and took a prominent pa:t for years
in a series of boys performances given In the
basement Of st. AIMS church. in this city
lie made his debut on the real stage when
ne was Il, Playing the roe of Silvius in "As
You Like 1t" with MDdjeska. at a benefit
Soon after he adcoted the theater- as a pro-
recognition
After two years with Modieska he ioined
Julia Marlowe's company, where he pIaved
the leading parts ON the road with consider
announced in the spring of 1894. They were
married very quietly at st. James Protestant
episcopal church. in Philadelphia. on May
n OK that year.
THE GRAVE OF ROMANCE.
some people, it is true. es they look back
over the broken romance may find word of
bia1ne. But it will be directed against the
theatrical specnlater who accomplished their
separation. All managers have their busi-
hess to attend to, no less than other people.
ana business Is a practical matter governed
oy facts rather than romantic fancies. Young
SSoup'es So.I 9 on tne stage have been separated be-
Iore now, and will be separated often again.
6y the shrewd Judgment of practical man
ager James K. Hackett, another young
actor. with his romance, too lust begun
was permitted to leave the Lyceum COMPANY
last year through the wisdom of a manager
He is roaming far and wide in pursuit of his
career, while. his little wife, Mary Mannering.
is constrained by her interests to remain be-
hind Fritz Williams and Katherine Florence
are another pair of young people with q
romance happily begun. They, too, found
their union while playing in the same COM
pany, and have since been separated by the
same effective calculation. 1t has been
rumored that E. H. Sothern and Virginia
Harmed will head separate companies next
year. The rumor can be denied now and
cannot yet be verified But ether Instances
are thickly strewn in the past and more still
waiting the sentence of the future. So kind
hearts cam pause once more and unsatished
yearnings for the glamor of the footlights
may find consolation. as they look on and
reflect that his life Of mimic romance is not
all rose -colored With the radiance of un-
dimmed happiness.
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line stock, and this will eventually be
the case among the Paraguayans. The
most of the stock here feed out in the
open without visible care. I have seen
no herding, although on some of the
farms l have watched the cowboys
rounding up the cattle and branding
them. The cattle are thrown to the
ground and the brands put on with
red hot irons. Upon rising they are
wild and revengeful. and frequently
attack the cowboys at such times If
they can catch them on foot.
THOUSANDS OF ANT HILLS.
One of the queerest things to me in
this country is the ant. 1t is the only
thing that turns Paraguay upside
down. 1t is the only busy thing in the
work everywhere There are fields
here covered with thousands of ant
hills. Some hills are as big as hay
cock and yard in diameter. Others
are not as large as sugar loaf. They
are red or brown according to the soil
of which they are made. These halls
spot this landscape as the burial
mounds do that of China. They are
found in the cultivated lands and in
the pasture fields, where you see long
| horned cattle eating the grass among
them. Sometimes they are only few
feet apart and sometimes fifteen and
twenty and more. Each of these hills
is an ant village. 1t is an ant cata-
comb populated by thousands of ants.
There are as. many ant works be.OW
the surface as above it. and when a
! field is to be cultivated the first work
is to get rid of the ants. The only way
to do this is to dig out the ant hills
and burn them. Then only can the
field be plowed. These ants burrow
into the houses. They make their way
up through the brick floors and build
sand hills there, so that a woman may
go to bed with house as clean as a
Dutch kitchen and awake the next
morning to find her floors covered with
great cones of sand in which are thou
sands of ants q EaF5 =
COUNTRY HOUSES.
The average country house,, however,
has no floors except the earth. Nine
tenths of the houses you see outside the
city are huts of poles, which are woven
together and tied with withes or
strings. They have roofs of thatch,
which extend out at one side or end,
forming an open shed or ROOM Often
the shed is larger than the closed part,
for the latter is little more than the
sleeping place for the family. Many
such houses have orange trees about
them and palm trees waving over
them. AS you pass them you see that
some have red walls and some walls of
brown or white. At first you think the
red ones are painted, but soon see that
the soil with which they are chinked is
red. This is the color of the best land
of Paraguay. The contrast of this rich
red and the soft velvet gray of the
thatch is harmonious, and the houses
are exceedingly picturesque. They are
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SEPARATION OF IDEAL LOVERS.
How Manager Came Between Robert Taber and
Julia Marowe

From the New York World.
In the mimic tragedies to which they give
such romantic interest on the stage there
is nothing more pathetic than the definite
separation of Robert Taber and his gracious
and gifted young wife, Julia Marlowe.
Both of high breeding fine instincts, STAIN
less lives and unusual success, they are both
unhappy.
Mr.. Taber, the "best Romeo on the stage, -
one OF the most promising of American actors,
graduate of Princeton, is in London very i'll
with pleurisy.
His sweet little wife, Julia Marlowe, has just
won success in new play, "Colinette,'' in
this country
The young couple have many friends, many
admirers in this country, who have proved
only too ready to applaud them in moments
sympathy at the spectacle Of their private
happiness. In these busy, practical days a
little romance appeals to the Imagination as
gently, as effectually as 1t ever did, and the
young lives of Robert Taber and Julia Mar
lowe could be readily construed to supply an
abundance of the requisite elements
Romance in well ordained fiction is usually
rounded off nicely with the wedding cere-
mony, and the sequence Is allowed to suggest
itself in vague halo Of unending bliss Real
the halo has spread itself prettily in the i'm
agination life keeps a-going, characters de-
velop, facts creep in and frequently the halo
fades away completely to disclose a common
place or disheartening truth.
Such appears to be the case with Robert
Taber and Julia Marlowe.
1t appears that bread-butter necessities are
not what are keeping the young wife from
rushing to her husbands bedside across the
waters and tending him fondly. There would
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Nothing very satisfactory offered itself in
America, and after time he set sail for
London to seek his fortune there. Henry
Irving took him in at the Lyceum. He got
his opportunity in Peter the Great and
rose to it beautifully. The English press
and the public hailed him with unstneed
American to second him in his elaborate re-
vival of Macbeth and again he rose to
the occasion with a conspicuous personal sue
cess. Just recently he was put at the head
OF the new company at the London Lyceum,
and expectations formed for another per-
sonal triumph might now have been verified
had not his sudden illness intervened.
Julia Marlowe in the title role of Colin
etc." center of undivided approval in
New York, and Robert Taber, the newest
star in the constellation of London actor
managersmsuch may be the message the
all goes well. Each is fulfilling the promise
of brilliant career, shining in their own
light with undisputed possession of the CEN
ter of a stage.
But Julia Marlowe is wretchedly unhappy,
and Robert Taber far away on his sick bed,
persists in believing that. though his lips
may utter pardon, his heart can never, nev-
Julia Marlowe is now in her thirty-third
year and Robert Taber is just one year old
er. That means that they are still very
young people, when their prominence in the
theatrical world is borne in mind.
Julia Mariowe was born in England and
her real name is Fanny Brough. Her parents
came to America, however, and settled in
Kansas when she was very young. Her
taste for the stage eyinced itself when she
was still mere girl. 1t was not until she
was % that she first attracted attention, in
small way, by starring in a production of
.'Ingomar' at New London; Conn. She has
played In great variety of plays, however,
during the past ten years, more of them clas-
sic than modern; and In nearly all she has
met with steadily increasing admiration and
approval.
Robert Taber was born on Staten island and
comes Of an excellent New York family.
He received careful education and was
graduated from Princeton college. He also
showed vocation for the stage at an early
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Copyright, 1899, by Frank G. Carpenter)
PIRAPO, Paraguay, Jan. 14.-Have
you ever heard of Pirapo? 1t is at the
tail end of the railroad at this tail end
OF creation. 1t is in the very heart of
South Paraguay, about seventy miles
north of the Upper Parana river a-d
15e miles away from the town of Asun-
cion. Vast pastures surround it, for
it is right out on the prairie, and great
droVes of cattle gather about the sta
tion and Craze in the town. The place
has, all told, not more than fifty inhab-
itants. 1t has a half dozen low huts
made of woven poles chinked in with
mud and rooted with gray thatch. The
railroad depot is about fifteen feet
square, and the only hotel is made
of mud and poles and rooted with cor
rugated iron.
PIGMY. PILLOWS OF PIRAPO.
In this hotel 1 have stopped over
night, sleeping in room With four 9TH
er travellers, but, thank fortune, having
bed to myself. And such bed! 1t
was of the kind most common in Par
aguay 1t was a canvas cot upon
stretchers. with a pigmy pillow so
Snlall tn3l Iedfeu II LllSnl get lHlO my
ear and so hard that 1t almost bored
a hole in my head. My roOmmates were
a German cattle buyer a Paraguayan
gauchO and Mr.. William Harrison the
resident agent of one of our life insur-
ance companies. The German coughed
all night, the Paraguayan snored like
a fog horn and Harrison at intervals
cleared his throat and denounced the
others for keeping him awake. 1t was
indeed restful night.
And still it was a good hotel for Par
aguay. The meals We're cooked by a
young Italian, who looked like a butch
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seem to be reasons little suspected by the pub
lie at large and by their intimate friends
The real situation. as it now appears, is
quite as pathetic as the obvious one. 1t Is
much more interesting, too, because it probes
deeper down in human nature and touches
other feelings besides the simple suffering
of hearts,
MISS MARLOWE IN PARIS.
The first inklng of the truth came from
Paris, very delicate and quite in keeping with
well-bred romance.
One day last June Julia Marlowe, accom-
panied by her maid and woman friend, ar
rived in Paris at Nine. Fournier's, 8 Avenue
Hoche. At different times during the last sum-
mer season Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs Jack
Bloodgcod, May Robson and Elizabeth Mar
bury were among the Americans who enjoy =
Mime. Fournief's hospitality.
When Julia Marlowe arrived her husband,
Robert Taber, was playing in Henry Irving s
company in London. She had been separated
ceding year.
Julia Marlowe did not come to the pension
with the others; she had her meals served
time with her milliner- and dressmakers.
She seemed weary anu unhappy, Nine.
Fournier repeated to her friends confden-
TALLY. She had had an exhausting theatrical
season. and as soon as she had finished with
her. dressnakers she was going to Switzer-
land for rest ard recuperation. Perhaps her
husband would join her there as soon as his
work was over at the Lyceum
Julia Marlowe remained about two weeks
and then departed for Switzerland with her
maid and her friend. Other guests came and
vent. and the apartment was practically
Taber arrived from London, accompanied by
Laurence Irving, Sir Henry's son, the author
OF Peter the Great, I" in which Taber had
just made great personal success. The two
young men remained with Mme Fournier
some weeks. The three ddned together alone
most frequently; they talked French together,
went to the theaters and lolled about seeing
the sights There was no talk Of going to
Switzerland and rather perplexing reticence
with regard to julia Marlowe. Nine. Four
n1er is q woman OF tact as we'll as discretion.
One day letter came announcing the dato
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phlegmatic speculator who should attempt to


phlegmatic speculator who should attempt to
tear those names asunder.
Rumors however, continued to appear in
print One day the announcement was made
officially that Mrs. Robert Taber had signed
a contract with a manager to head a COM
pany of her own the following season, and
that she would resume her maiden name for
stage purposes and be Julia Marowe again
The shrewd speculator had made the Of
fer, fattering, tempting one, and when
the wife reported it to her husband his faith
was crushed by her manner, which revealed
the truth with dazing force. She showed un-
mistakable signs of elation at the prospect Of
Increasing her prestige, and accepted appar-
emily with equanimity the advantage to be
gained by untwining her life from his. The
husband responded as sensitive natures are
apt to do under such circumstances. He
swallowed a lump in his throat, held back
the burning tears and congratulated her on
her advancement with full permission to do
she chose
So it was that Mrs. Robert Taber went
out Of existence and carried paradise with
her from the heart and soul of man. Julia
Marlowe was heralded once more as pop
ular star, a public idol, and Robert Taber
looked about him in search of employment