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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-01-18
The Affairs
of Europe

are faithfully portrayed in the original and
exclusive cable dispatches which The CHI
CAGO RECORD prints daily from the leading
capitals of the old world. This magnificent
special service is in process of being greatly
extended so as to include every important
city in Europe; and it is supplemented by
the full regular cable service Of The Asso-
ciatcd Press.
The Chicago Record, alone of all American
newspapers outside New York city,
now prints original and exclusive
cable dispatches daily from
the leading capitals of Europe.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
TWO OLD HAS BEENS."
Jim COrbett And Arthur Zimmerman
Give Each Other a jolly.

A special from Asbury Park, N. J.,
says: James J. Corbett is living here
for the summer. Con VcVey, of
Through the Ropes fame, is with
him. The ex-champion plays hand ball
and other out of door games, and Is
suspected by many of having q desire
to return to the ring. A few days ago
street, and the pair had a long talk.
Zimmerman had just returned from
Valisburg, where his sails were trim
med BY Eddie Bald, and Corbett felt in
a rather sympathetic mood, as he had
himself gone one fight too many to re-
tire with flying colors.
81 am sorry, Arthur" saio he, s'but
you know we are nor of US ready to
give up. Now in my case, I believe
of the devil, and I am tempted to put
my science against his Drawn. [ am as
sure as can be that I could lower his
colors. 1 may risk it once more. The
only trouble with me is that am tired
of training. Through all my ring
career I was never knocked out-that
is straight case of down and out. l
was sensible when Fitz got in that
lucky punch that put me out of the
business. There was once upon time
when I would have gone out and run
fifteen miles and liked 1t, but now If l
run a half-mile am doddering idiot,
talking to myself to keep up my inter
est, and all that. 1 believe that 1
could go out on farm for elk months,
toKe things easy and then come back
and be better than 1 ever was in my
life. have q notion to do that, for 1
am still a great big strong man. L
have trained all my life, but look at
me now, am better than ever"
Zimmerman expressed no very decid-
ed opinion in regard to matters other
than to remark that he was still of the
firm opinion that the later-6ay riders
would come to him with little more
practice. 81 shall hammer at them,"
said Zimmerman, land in my coming
contests there will still be chance, for
1 shall not be as nervous. Why, against
Bald 1 was as nervous as in my novice
race, when beat Charlie Murphy. l
won't be so after this, for 1 am now sa-
tisfied and feel better than ever and
more confident"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
kipling On the American Girl.

In his new completed book, From
Sea to Sea-" Kipling says: ''As to the
maiden. she is taught to respect her.
self, that her fate is in her own hands
bound by the very measure of the lib
erty so freely accorded to her. Where
fore, in her own language, she has q
lovely time with about 200 or
300 boys who have sisters of their own
and very accurate perception that, If
they were unworthy of their trust q
syndicate of other boys would probably
pass them into q world where there is
neither marrying nor giving in marri
age. And so time goes till q maiden
knows the other side of the house
knows q man is not q demi-god nor a
mysterious yelled monster. but an av-
erage egotistical, vain, gluttonous, but.
on the whole, companionable sort of
person, to be soothed, fed and managed
knowledge that does not come to
her sister in England till after
few years of matrimony. And then
she makes her choice. The golden
prehension, but the light is golden
none the less. for she makes just the
same sweet, irrational choices that an
English girl does with THE advantage
she knows q little more, has expert
eDce in entertaining, insight into the
business, 'employ and hobbies of men
gathered from countless talks with
the boys and with the other girls who
find time at those mysterious conclaves
to discuss what Tom, Ted,
Stuke or Jack have been
doing. Thus it happens that
she is the companion. in the fullest
sense of the word, of the man she
weds, Jealous for the interests of the
firm, to be consulted in time of stress,
and to be called upon for help and
sympathy in time of danger. Plea
SAINT it is that one heart should beat
for you, but it is better when the head
above that heart has been thinking
hard on your behalf, and when the
lips. that are also very pleasant to kiss,
give wise COUNSEL
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

T;C. Kucher,. St. Louis: J. D. Nc
Kenzie, San Francisco; p. Folomni
and family Chihuahua.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
AMERICAN DATES
An Attractive Industry.-The Palm
Of the AnCients Likely To Be-
come Plentiful In Our South
WeSt.-Irrigation Essential.

The United States mails are some
times used for rather curious purposes.
A number of years ago several wagons
drove up to the postofice at Washing
| ton, d. G., and deposited number of
large tubs containing handsome palms.
Having delivered themselves of their
freight, the wagons drove off.
The post-offj &c people went out to
see what the performance meant, and
found to their surprise that these palms
were to be sent through the mails. The
local superintendent at first said that
the office would not send them. 1t
was pr sposterous, he maintained to
mail such things. Each tub, full of
moist earth and a good sized palm, was
as much as two men could handle and
on account of the foliage they could
not be packed to any advantage.
Nevertheless, there were the tags on
the tubs containing the crank" of tie
department of agriculture and the
proper addresses: Las Cruces, N. M;
Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz Pomona,
Tulare, etc., California, and the Only
thing for the Washington postoffice Of
ficials to do was to m all them. So this
was done, although it necessitated
special arrangements to care for and
water the palms.
Thus practically commenced date
growing in the United States.
OF these trees, about 40 are now
living and thriving, Is Of them having
blossomed. Only of these however,
are pisttllate or fruit bearing trees.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

A French scien list has carefully COM
puted the amount of solid and LIQUID
food the average man eats in lifetime
OF sixty years. OF bread, the staff of
life, he omputes that AT pounds are
eaten each year, or a total in sixty
years of $4,000 pounds. OF meat, about
half that amount, or ZOO pounds, is
the average ration. Everybody con-
sumes more liquid than solid food.
The average daily consumption is at
least quart and half dav, or in
sixty years 22,S5O quarts of all kinds of
liquid. If it was all put into an enor-
nous pail a man would have to climb
up ladder twelve feet high to look
over its brim. Adding together all
kinds of food, liquid and solid, the
Frenchman reache the conclusion that
man consumes in sixty years 1880
times his own weight,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

T;C. Kucher,. St. Louis: J. D. Nc
Kenzie, San Francisco; P. Folomni
and family chihuahua.
ST. Charles: Mrs. A. F. Miller, Ell
Paso: ]. F. Cook, Socorro; G. M. Riv-
ers, S. McMichael, Chihushua; S. Nc
Neal, Mexico: Miss Wright, o. A.
Ludlow, Pueblo: A. M. Storey, Mrs. L.
Woodward, Hutchison; U. B. McCurdy
and wife, Mexico; S. P. Creasinger,
Commercial: Jesse Stewart, San
Francisco; P. Gist, Salt Lake; ]. A.
Bennett, Alamogordo; ]. h. Conlon,
Donough, b. Marion, City; 81. G. Hall
Los Angeles; Geo. McClelland, Buffalo:
L. J. Harvey. Los Angeles; J. Stein
kamped, ST. Louis; j. E Walsen, Pres
colt, A. T.; J. h. Campbell, Mexico.
Lindell: Paul Warren, Albuquer-
que: W. Holloway, G. c. Harris and
wife, Stephen Herda, Joseph Muessli,
chihuahua; Thos. Moore, Shafter; G.
E. Vaughan, Tucson. Ariz.; Jack
Boyd, J. w. Jackson, Globe, A. T.; 81.
B. Hamilton, San Francisco; John o.
Davis, Erastus Davis, Colonia Juarez
John Colthorp and wife, Jsrilla; A. T.
Jones, New York; George Curry, Ala
mogordo; 81. L. Rynerson, Las Cruces.
Orndorff: l.. B. Keefar, Lancaster,
Pa. o. L. Sutherland, N. Y, U. S.
Vac Gordon, Morenci, A. T., W. L.
Noyes, Shafter. Tex, ]. L. Scamonds.
Tucson, A. T. w. L. Gatewood, Maria,
Tex, Fred. A. Logan, Dallas; G. r.
Mclean, Los Angeles; Zoa F. Walker,
Alamogordo; Jno. A. Gray and wife.
Canton, ILL.,. ). G. Harry, Silver City
Bert Gillett. Silver City; A. G Rogers
u S. Navy; w. Farwell. Chicago; Jas
Connors, Albuquerque; J. r. Holden,
r. Drake, Tucson; Raymond A. Bond,
White Oaks; B. Purdy, Victoria, B.
c.; Ned p. Purdy, Vancouver, B. G
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

Since this first attempt at American
date culture. the agricultural depart
nent has followed up the question, and
Secretary Wilson during the past year
has had an expert in Algeria, Mr..
Swingle making thorough study OF
this subject and sending home
plants.
The secretary proposes to spend
perhaps $4,000 during the next two
years. Of the money allotted him by
congress for the Introduction of useful
foreign plants.
The dates. now being secured in AL
geria and Morocco are of the very
finest kinds and are shipped in tubs,
the same as was done in the original
importation.
Secretary Wilson states it as his be-
lief that another American industry
will result from this experiment., as he
believes that dates will thrive as we'll
in Arizona as in A rsbia.
The regions in which the date palm
reaches perfection are characterized
by deficiency of rain and q wide varia-
tion of temperature. The summer heat
is intense. 115 degrees or more, though
in winter the temperature may fall as
low as Is degrees above zero. AL
though the date palm requires intense
heat in summer, it will Withstand in
winter temperature that would be
fatal to the fig or the orange. These
climatic conditions are practically
identical with those that obtain in the
more southern portions of the Great
Colorado desert.
So great is the similarity, in fact,
Mr.. Wilson says, that so far as the eli
mate Is concerned. we may reasonably
expect the date palm to fruit satisfac-
tOrily in the arid regions OF the south
through the department show that
probably the soil best adapted to the
date palm is one containing a small
PERCENTAGE of clay. fairly free from
humus, and charged with alkali.
Irrigation and heat are all important
conditions. Water is impossible. The
roots should be moist at all times. An
old Arabian proverb says that:
"The date must have its head in fire
and it's roots in the water"
The water used may advantageously
able alkali. Dates may, however, be
planted along streams, Or by springs
or flood basins, and in such situations
will grow we'll. adding much to the
landscape by their graceful pinnate
foliage.
The future of the date industry in
the United States, however, depends
upon rlSHtiOn, anu upon irrigation
which will not fail in the dryest sea-
sons. Irrigation in the Sahara has
greatly increased the date areas of
Africa and the conditions are so SINH
lar in our own southwest under arti-
fetal watering that the success of the
industry there seems assured.
Varieties of dates are almost in
Vulnerable. They differ greatly in their
color. size, sweetness, delicacy of flavor
and length of time required to mature.
The dates of commerce are usually
light colored, these being better ship
Ders.
The male and female flowers of the
palm are born on different plants, the
= males fonly bearing the fruit. The
. ming period is long one, usual
hous six weeks, but it is always
at, thus escaping spring frosts.
THIS average yield of tree is eight
punches, each weighing about II
although bunch may weigh
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
Don't Buy Harness

Until you have first seen the stock of
the West Texas Saddlery Co., and
their low prices. They have moved to
No. PA South Oregon street and are
prepared to sell goods cheapers than
ever before.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
PERSONALS.

81. L. Rynerson is in the city from
Las Cruces.
Mrs. Paca went up to Las Cruces
this morning.
G. G. Harris and wife are In the city
from chihuahua.
Las Cruces today.
z. E. Walker came down from Ala.
mogordo last night.
Mrs. A. Scott came up from Sabinal,
Mexico, last evening.
S. A. Barron and wife RE in the
city from Chihuahua.
Mrs. S. Aubertine left via Santa Fe
for San Diego California.
G. Townsend came down from
Organ N. M this morning.
A. G. Rogers of the U. S. navy is in
the city from San Francisco.
10. Bennett and Ed Finley returned
this morning to New Mexico.
Arthur Hinton went up to Cloudcroft
this morning for few days.
Numa Raymond came down to the
city this morning on business.
Raymond A. Bond arrived in the CT
ty last evening from White Oaks.
Mrs. Kneeshaw and daughter left for
San Diego California this morning.
Mics Daisy Smith left for Los Ange-
les this morning over the Santa Fe.
P. Folomni and family came up from
chihuahua last night on the Central.
h. D. Slater, editor of the HERALD,
returned from New York this morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. McCutcheon re-
turned this afternoon from Califor-
mia.
Judge Gatewood, of Maria, and fam
lily have moved to this city to re-
main.
S. Bean, prominent citizen of Las
Cruces, returned to his home this
morning.
E. Davis came up from Colonia Jua-
rez last evening on the r. @.
S. M. & p,
Mrs. J. P. Casey of Las Cruces was
in the city.yesterday and returned home
this morning.
Miss Mamie Sexton has returned
from Colorado, where she has been
spending her vacation.
Messrs. Geo. Curry, Emerson aud
Lawrence of Alamogordo, arrived on
the N. E. last evening.
Miss Alma johnson left for Fort
Worth, Dallas, and Houston this af-
ternoon to visit relatives.
Henry Buchoz of the Kohlberg Cigar
IN is OF
bell ST., with typhoid fever.
II. A. Sager and Miss E. Lenetan
left for their home in Carrolton, Mis-
souri,. this morning over the Santa Fee.
Mrs. Booth, wife of Master Mechanic
Booth Of the Santa Fe, and children,
left for Silver City this morning, to be
gone for several weeks.
THE HOTELS.
Center Block: Mrs. G.. Townsend,
Organ, N. M; ]. Freler, Eugene Yleg-
'ia, city of Mexico: r. EmricE, Chi
.agO.
Pierson: r. L. Priest, ST. Louis: E. |
Il. Rodgers, J. P. Rude, K. c.; Miss B. !!
3ebout, Indiana; Miss NJ. Brooks, Mid |
and; r. W. Curtis, City; W. J. Bruce,
S. A. Barron and wife, Chi |
luahua.
Grand Central: A. Moshunk, N. Y:
drs. j. P. Casey, Las Cruces: ]. F. |
lyle and family, City: P. Prudential, !
las Cruces; Mrs. A. Scott, Sabinal; P |
1. Doll, Las Vegas; F. G.. Meyer, N,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

Botanist Shelby, of the Ohio Agricul-
tural Experiment station, reports that
through years of inattention the vel
lows have got firm grip on Ohio
peach orchards. Only in the Maumee
valley, he says, are the orchards free
from it, while in some localities 80 to
80 per cent of the trees are affected.
The disease, he reports, has been al
lowed to spread without hindrance,
and is now progressing with ''phenom-
email virulence." The laws of Ohio are
not up to date as to the yellows, and
Mr.. Shelby's recommendation of the
free use of the ak may be needed In
some cases and in others not.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

The effort to popularize the gondola
on the Thames has not proved very
successful. The surroundings are too
practical, and the 'gondoliers are said
to be too prosaic, and too painfully
clean to preserve the air of romance
favored the garlic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24
Large Consignment.

The largest single shipment of dry
goods and general merchandise that
has ever arrived in Ell Paso, was re-
ceived yesterday consigned to I. Blu
menthal and company, the wholesale
concern.
The weight of this shipment was
over twenty four thousand pounds.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

Buy your coal from "O'Brten Coal
Co., )" the agents and direct shippers
from the Cerrillos mines. 'Phone 8.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

as much as 40 pounds. In Arizona, I'm.
der irrigation, Seeding trees, seven
years old. have produced upwards OF
200 pounds in single season
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-23

vsntlosai misss lsarp . ussfui issssn
from these Philippine iapidaries.
"Look ysui' again says the woman
and she holds QUE . necklace OF GOLD,
blue -enamslsd, set with gray pearls, the
nnru ony Of stone and sssting perfect.
"Why not amsthyss instead Of pearlss'
one asks, ana she shruRs her shoulders
dsprsoasingly. "Amethyst looks vulgar
with gold, Nina" shs answers.
Fewer rings are TO be notiosd amena
her productions, psrhaps, than any oeher
orname ems, the bstroshal rfngs being al
most universally suameled gold. but ear
rings, necklaces, braoslets, chains, but
tons, small pins and brooches arc seund-
ant
\ These ispidariss combine the ability OF
the Moorish gem worker with the pa.
tienos and originality Of the Chimes and
J or ansse craftsman, rscause they are ADEPT
enamslers, AMI sacrifice even design 70
colcr In this branch OF their work, and
In all Of their Jew elfy . daintinsss and
personality, altogether trrssistibly attrac-
tive, are felt. The longer one looks the
m ore he becomes convinced that the dis
pl ~ before him 10 the expression OF q
m ind the eute,me Of . pyrsona1 ART, and
10 belief 10 wholly satisIying, for. above
II else, 10 10 On undsniabls fnat that q
jewel should be unique.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-23
LIFE INSURANCE AS A CURE.
A Dying bachelor Who Became Very
Much Interested Ina n Novel Plan for
His own Funeral.

81 don't know that life insurance is a
cure for disease" said the retired life In
surancs solicitor. shut know OF an in
stance which makes 1t Look that way. In
the town where / first began business
was . bachelor OF about 90 years. who
was quite alone in The world, and had
some year before taken out a 5000
policy on hirpsslf for the benefit OF a
maiden sister, who had died year before
the events Of this story. de kept his
policy going, however, because 1t was a
coed way to save money. and one day he
was taken down with some kind Of fever.
He grew worse day after day. until one
day the doctor told him that he would In
all likelihood be dead within this next "a
hours.
"rhis suggested his life insurance
money all he had TO leave. and he i'm
mediately began to talk with the doctor
on the subject Of a proper disposal Of 1t
He concluded after some thought that tbs
best thing 90 do with 10 was to blow 10
In ON tremendous big funeral for him
self. including . banquet for all the
people he knew. This was an entirely
new idea for funeral, and when the
doctor left him that night, to the care Of
his nurse, his mind was entirely occupied
with his funeral. He talked TO the nurse
about 1t aud when the nurse made him
stop he lay and thought about 10. In
fact, he became so muoh interested In the
details of bis funeral that he quite forgot
about havin to die to make it possible.
ain the morning whom tbs doctor cams
he found his patient In . wild psrspira-
ton and his pulse teating In much bet
ter fashion than IL had been doing for
some days. He also found the general
condition Of the patient much improved.
He was greatly astonished and &C once
began 10 ask questions. Tns patient told
him with ssper interest Of . lot Of new
things he had thought of for the funeral
and some that bothered him . good deal
and said he hid been thinking Of it all
night. Then the doctor laughed and told
him he guessed the funeral would have
to be postponed for he wasn't going to
OILS, Just then anyhow. Nor did no. and
he isn't dead yet, but be 10 married and
has his policy paid up for mis- wlfe's ben-
sfit."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-23

Perhaps the easiest aud most effective
way to ssttls the question Of poly gamy
in Utah and every where else, In our ter
ritory, with the possible exception Of
the Suiu archipelago, 10 by an amend
ment to the Constitution forbidding
plural marriages. und,r severe penalties,
among which should he disfranchisement
and disqualification for holding office.
Until there ID an enactment of that kind
polygamy IL certain to bs winked at
to tome extent in states where the Nor
mons are In control or may bs in control
in the future, snoh as Utah. Wyoming
and Idaho. for though there may re laws
against 1t As there are now In Utah they
are not likely to be very vigorously en-
forced because the only reliance will be
the state courts which are certain to be
affected by Mormon influence. A Con-
stitutionsl- amendment fortidding poly.
2 my through ut the Union vita appre-
pirate LEGISLATION to enforce 1t will throw
the trial OF violators of 1t into the Unit
I'd States cour S which will be fres from
the taint # Mormon influence ~ least
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-23

" Is the opinion Of the grest majority
OF the mem bers of the executive COMMITTEES
of the National Democratic committee
that the Chicago platform, free silye' and
all, will be rsaffirIned by the national con-
vention next summer. In all probable
ity they are right. Indeed 1t 10 almost
If not quite inevitable that Bryan's re-
nomination should be accompanied by a
reaffirmation of the doctrines which he Is
identified with and which have given to
him his present and past prominence
before the country. Any other course
would be practically q reputation of
him, and not without d,sp humiliation
could he accept nomination oil any
other platform. Yes, free silver will be
an issue in the next election and it will
operate az IL did in the last one to detach
from Bryan's support all the best element
of tho Democratic party while 1t will not
be able to make up that loss, in large
measure, as 1t did In 1896, by drawing
from the uneasy and dissatisfied people
Of the country because their NUN bar will
be insignificant. Never did a party set
out more deliberately for an "open
sravsy ard" than the Democratic party
or the Bryan element Of 1t is now do
ing.