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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-25
Mstnesday Feb 81

court on account OIL the CllICOr
damage ssnt taking up so much
time Of the court.
Mrs. George Hopkin and
children are visiting Omaha
friends today.
Mrs. j. H. Wilkinson and sen
went to Grand junction this
morning for a few days visit
with friends.
G. C. Williams left this
morning for Excelsior Springs,
Mo, where he will test the
curative powers of that health
re.:ort. He does not know just
when he will return.
The district court is still en-
gagged in the Clifton damage
case against the town Of Mo-
dale. 1t is expected the case
will go to the jury some time
this afternoon.
DR.. and Mrs. White went to
Logan today for a visit with
friends.
Mrs. Garrett, sister of Chaun-
ceT Walker, who has been Wis
ting here a few days, left this
morning for Boston.
Mrs. Mary Wade went to
Alien, Neb., this morning for a
visit with relatives.
Attorney j. S. Holland was
in Omaha on legal business to-
day.
Only one remedy in the world
that will at once stop itchiness
of the skin in any part of the
body; Doan's Ointment. At any
drug store, SO cents. f29
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j. j. Thomas, of Mondamin,
was in the Valley today.
Deputy Sheriff j. M. Berry,
of Logan, was in the Valley to-
day on business.
Fireman C. E. Griffith has
been transferred to Chadron,
Nebraska.
There is nothing new from
Des Moines with reference to
ditch legislation and it is not
known today how the matter is
progressing. If no news is
good news everything is pro-
crossing finely. 1t is to be
hoped that something definite
will be done this week. Just as
soon as the bill passes legalizing
the existing contracts just that
soon work will commence on
the dredge at Mondamin. Not
only that but many improve
ments will be made in the Mis-
souri, Valley and hundreds of
acres Of land will again be put
in cultivation with more assur-
ance that a crop of grain in
stead of a crop Of fish can be
harvested.
Married, Feb. "a, 1904, at the
Methodist church, Arthur Nc
Gee and Miss Lydia Fox, Rev.
Williams officiating. The young
people are we'll and favorably
known here, the groom being
a brakeman on the railroad.
They left this afternoon for a
short visit at Shenandoah, Iowa.
All ladies Of the End division
of the Presbyterian church, who
have not paid the 25 cent as
sesment are requested to do so
as early as possible. Payment
to be made to Mrs, Geo. S. Green
Secretary.
w. A. Phillips is now located
with his real estate office with
A. R. LeGrow, on west Erie st.
Engineer Dell Stevens, a for
mer we'll known resident of the
Valley, has been visiting with
his mother here this week.
Mrs. w. H. Fensler is visit
ing friends at Omaha today.
Is it a burn? Use DR.. Thomas
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-25

Joseph Brown, of Lusk, Wy,
who has been visiting with his
son John Brown and daughter,
Mrs. John Bratley, returned to
his home today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-25

Dick Friend and wife, who
have been visiting at Pisgah,
Iowa, returned today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-25

:, Fran FRANK R'ltaaadywig aadyw! Of Modale wss
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-25

I. A. Harris went to Cali
fornia junction on business to-
day.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1904-08-03


each others character to a unity
that will make them bear with
each other, for nobody is free
from defects, it will intensity
their pleasure and make their
common burden light to bear.
The snow-white linen that was
the girls companion from infancy
is now the angel Of her leisure
hours, upon it fell the first tear
she ever shed in her early home,
it was the witness of her early
lover and it formed the scope Of
childish ambitious. Her old
home contains her early efforts
and the perfected designs, the
church is ornamented with some
of her productions, very soon her
new home will be covered with
her work. If death visits her
humble home and she is left a
widow without any means, her
needle will clothe her, and her
children, and if the worse should
come, she will keep the wolf
from the door by working for
others at 3 or A reals a day.
These are the wages of one third
of the women that make the
beautiful drawnwork and Brazil
liam point lace that are so much
admired by the world. The wo-
men are happy in their poor lot
because they are not strangers
to hard work and they have
centered most of their pleasures,
hopes and ambitious around their
family tasks. If they happen to
be well to do or wealthy, they
ply their needle to pass the time
away and to ornament their
homes. They copy from the
humble daisy on the hillside, the
wild flower, the modest violet or
forget-me-not, from the wind
mill and the herd of cows in the
/ field and draw abundantly from
the inspirations of Religion.
Modern Machinery outside of
Mexico is now initiating the work
of our women, but the limitations
will always be to the original
work what ordinary mould-made
crystal work is to cut glass,
what any machine made article
is to one that is a creation Of
human genius and energy, bear
ing the imprint of human indus
try. Weaving has been one of
the oldest industries in our coun-
try. The rich grass blades that
grow in the gulf coasts, the
sugar cane. the maguey palm,
the pita or hemp, sisal, cotton
and wool have afforded the ma
terial. Panama has the honor
of giving the name to the IA
nous woven hat that is also ex-
tensively made in Yucatan and
Just as well as in Panama, an
ancient industry of early spanish
settlers all along the coast and
suggested, like many other
articles, by the requirements of
the hot tropical climate. The
sugar cane fibre is very extern
sively used for the weaving of
mats and furniture; hemp and
sisal for mats, hammocks, bask-
cts and many other useful arti-
cles. For the finer goods they
used cotton and wool, with these
materials and the great variety
of colors with which they can be
dyed, our artists literally spread
themselves, until some few years
ago they used the ancient Span
ish handloom. They wed with
the rainbow in their beautiful
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ment schools is based upon the
same general principles as the
public school system of the Unit
ed States 1t is within the reach
of every family, it is we'll organ
lied and we'll conducted. Each
state is. divided int scholastic
zones, each zone being under the
supervision of a superintendent
appointed by the general state
superintendent. School funds
are all drawn direct from state
funds according to the needs of
the zone, there being no special
loves on the people for school
purposes. The Federal Govern
ment contributes to the school
fund with a per cent of the re-
ceipts to custom houses. The
Compulsory Educational law was
framed in the time of president
Comonfort, but it was never dut
into actual operation until the
time of president Renito Juarez.
Parents are obliged under the
penalties of the law to have their
children attend schools for fonr
years. After that time they may
use their judgment about it.
The country districts are well
looked after as well as the In
dian towns. In this State of
Chihuahua, governor Terrazas
has paid particular attention,
since he assumhd his office, to
the schools for Indians, as he
opened twenty five new ones in
different towns. The native In
dian of this country is talented.
Some Of the great men in Mexi-
can history like Gen. Benito Jua-
rez, and several others, were
full-blooded Indians. The con-
dition of slavery, under which
the natives were, during the
three centuries Of Spanish rule,
crippled and Stunted their natu-
raj talent.
One good feature Of the
schools of Mexico in the practi-
cal part of it, in the many of
them the studies are almost auxi-
liary branches, all being directed
to make the boy or girl acquaint-
ed with home industries and the
ordinary callings life, a system
that will enable them to earn a
living. In all the schools, girls
are taught, cutting, sewing,
etc. The schools of Arts and
offices" that are conducted by
the government in the principal
cities, are modelled after the
German and French polytechnic
schools. AS the teaching of
trades and useful arts in them is
free, these schools are eminently
useful to the people.
1t will take some time how
ever, before these educational
laws, will bring about the full
beneficial effect they are intended
to produce in the nation at large.
But even now, for the higher
education, Mexico has good Law
and Medical schools, painting
other fine arts so that young
men with higher aspirations
need not g; to foreign countries
as they did formerly, to fit them.
selves for a profession.
With regard to the sanitary
: conditions of the Republic, it is
: a we'll known fact that the whole
republic, and more particularly
: the states lying all along the
central mesa of the Sierra Madre
is one of the most healthy coun.
7 tries in whole world. The mild
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has ambition to show something
of its on creation, it has ideas Of
the beautiful, of symmetry, of
proportion of form and figure, it
has self respect, elevated ideas
of family and social morality,
and, in due word, it has a latent
power that if circumstances
were favorable they could make
a man of its possessor. By these
gifts the latin race is superior to
the savage races. Still. the in
termarriage between the early
settlers of the uneducated clas-
sess and the native indians,
made a peculiar type that, all in
all resulted in a race better than
either parental stock. Indian
blood lent cunning and activity
to the somewhat indolent and
dull mind of a Spanish settler.
Indian character was in ex-
change clothed with finer senti-
ments, higher ideals and became
a possessor of a human breast,
for the savage seldom felt the
finer impulses of parental or
marital love, to any great eX-
tent, especially among lower
classes.
Such intermarriage was forced
upon many of the early settlers
both by the lack of Spanish
woman and by the colonization
laws of Cortez which were wise
in this respect. In his allotment
of lands to soldiers and settlers
he made it an indispensable
condition for the possession of a
title to the land, that said SOL
diers or colonizers should be
married, helping by this law,
both the morality of the colonies
and the safe increase of the po-
pulation.
AS we said before, leisure in
Mexico gives rise to the cultiva-
ton of the nicer arts upon a
scale proportionate to the sphere
of the artists, in the same man.
ner it does in the prosperous
countries on a large scale. 1t
makes possible the manufacture
of artistic goods that would
never come to existence if the
value of work, material and in
vention would be appraised on
reasonably marketable values.
One example, The beautiful
needle work of our women, who
stand today at the head of the
list, for beautiful, delicate mimi
table thread works, could not be
possible if their circumstances of
early training, family relations
and general bent of the mind
were not controlled by general
surroundings such as described
above. The life of a mexican
woman or a mexican lady has
only one sphere, one world, one
universe and that is her family.
This is an invariable rule. Her
early training is in the hands of
her mother, an inseparable guar
dian of her conduct until she
goes to school. The school years
are conducted with a view to fit
the girl for the family circle hcr
needle is her compass all through.
She is fought at school all the
essentials of family industry from
patchwork to embroidery and
music, and from washing floors
and dishes to the better trick:
Of culinary art.
The girl generally takes hel
place as the mistress of a new
home at a very early age, but
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called zarape, tilma, jOrango,
pancho, pabellOn, bOcamanga,
labor-orilla, etc.
The most admired Of all the
Mexican arts and the one that
has merited the most praise from
foreign artistic the clay industry,
the talent by which a man with
out any education, models or
instruments can reproduce the
human form or the form of an
animal with all the perfection Of
form and proportion with clay or
any other material, is the faculty
of a genious. A rare gift of
nature. Such as the talent dis
played by the Guadalajara clay
workers or 'alfareros."
They reproduce by innate ms
tinct what sculptors in all other
countries could not create but
after many years of patient train
ing and practice.
Another of the beautiful arts
of our men and a great time
killer is the art of filigree, silver
or goldsmith will sit down and
excite with silver and gold
threads as many delicate and
intricate designs as our women
do with linen threads.
Feather work, is an industry,
Aztec in is origin and as beauti-
full as it is simple and ingenious.
Wood carving are favorite occu-
patio S in some parts of the re-
public both of them giving bet
ter returns to the dreamy artist
than most others.
With regard to education in
Mexico, this branch of the social
economy of the country has
been lacking in Mexico, until the
last twenty five years, in the
peculiar circumstances that it
has always been in the mother
country, Spain, since the centu-
ries were young. We have to
start with the distinction of clas-
ses, wealthy, well-to-do and poor
or rural classes. Until a few
years ago, good school education
was practically beyond the reach
of the poor classes, which make
up in Mexico, the great bulk of
the population. Mexico always
had good normal schools, col.
leges and universities, but cir.
cumstanees placed them within
the reach-of only the great po'
pulaF minority that enjoyed
means, and either lived already
in tina cities or could send the
children to live in the cities t
attend schools. The rural popu
lation had to resort to private
tuition, engaging teachers a
home for each family, or if sew
eral families could club together
would form a humble nucleus o.
a school where the element,
could be taught to their children
The families of the wealthy
well-to-do farmers or miner:
and land owners were Away:
very lavish in spending for edua
cation of their children. Ever
before Mexico enjoyed railroad
facilities thhy would ride hun
dred of miles through the rougl
and bandit ridden royal roads
las they were called) to reacl
the educational centers of tn,
country. Mary of the profes
sional men of Mexico, doctors
lawyers, civil engineers, states
men, artists were; and are still
educated in European schools
Of late years hundreds of younl
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been the special object OF study
and solicitude Of the Superior
Board Of health in the city of
Mexico for the last ten or fifteen
years and the government has
spent large sums of money to
stamp out disease and better the
conditions of the country. The
Superior Board of health in
Mexico City is composed Of emf
nent physicians, and the presi-
dent, DIR. Liceaga, is a man of
international fame. The qua
rentine that the Board of Health
of Texas established against
Mexico few months ago was
childish and unwarranted by
facts, as subsequent events pro
we'd it to be. It was in full force
only one week and in a few days
it was removed entirely. Vel
low fever is a thing of the past
This year only a few isolat-
ed cases have been reported by
the Superior Board of Health in
the extreme further southern
coasts, and perfectly under con-
troll. The epidemic of small pox
is handled by the Medical profess
sion in Mexico as well as is done
in any other country and the ra-
wages of the disease are not
fercer than in any other COM
munity, and he climate, all
other things being equal, is a
great factor III stamping it out
migration into Mexico be-
comes larger every year especial
ly from United States. Ameri-
can capital inverted in this coun-
try is reaping a rich harvest as
lands are wonderfully fertile and
labor cheap or reasonable. Pro-
fit net from 10 to 400 per cent
on the investment, according to
the nature of the business. The
industries that bring the quick
est and largest returns are those
concerned in the necessaries Of
life, stock raising and agricul-
ture. Beautiful lands can be
purchase today at very nominal
prices with oil the natural adj
vantages that nature can give
for all useful purposes.
All in all Mexico is a land with
a future before it. Everything
points to great financial, social
and educational prosperity.
Agriculture industries, the
fountain head of permanent pros.
in any country are growing,
Mining interests are increasing
to colossal dimensions. The live
stock business is greater than
ever, the beautiful climate is in
viting a very desirable class of
population who come either in
quest of their lost heath or sim
ply to live in this privilege
lands of Anahuac. The govern
ment is encouraging forign in
vestments and immigration with
open-handed generosity. 1t is
easier today to acquire good IT,
ties to either land OF mining pro-
perty in Mexico than elsewhere
and the protection accorded by
the government to land-holders
or investors in any legitimate
: business is as good as in the best
governed country in the world.
Long may the red white and
green float in peace from Jua-
rez to Merida and from Vera
Cruz over the range to where
: the last ray of setting sun gilds
, the roofs and towers of Maza-
tlan, and long may it greet in
friendly grasp the Red White
and Blue over tibet ur-
bulent waters of our Rio Grande.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19
THE LOSS AT BALTIMORE
An Opinion That It Has Been Cut
 Down to $40, ,000,00

Baltimore, Feb. Reinsurance ex- perts were in an Optomistic frame of mind today over the prospect that the aggregate insurance loss will be much smaller than at first anticipated. They are now confident the loss caused b. the connagration will not exceed $4O,- eco, GOO and it will not be under $S2,O00,- GOO.
 The first definite estimate they were able to make on totals was through an Associated Press dispatch from A bany printed today, giving the losses of companies doing business in New York. reported officially by them to the insurance commissioner of New York.
 The list includes sixty-eight of the largest American and foreign com panies and the total losses reported by them officially is a little over $16,- 500, 900. Taking these official figures as basis and adding the approXimated figures of the companies authorized to do business in Maryland, but not in New York, insurance men say they cannot see how the total insurance loss will exceed 5,OOOOOO.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19
WILL TAKE VOLUNTEERS.

St. Petersburg, Feb. 1S.-The gener- al staff announced today that the wac office was willing to accept volunteers for service in the far east. They must be under forty years of age, and have had military training. Volunteers will be entered in the reserve battalions un- der Viceroy AleXieff.
 The St. Petersburg Gazette says: What are we going to do with the millions subscribed for a navy? We cannot patch up a useless garment. Let us start afresh. Let the people de- eide how the money is to be spent. The ministers are too busy to give the matter due attention"
 The Korean minister announces that although 36,000 Korean troops are sta- toned about Seoul, his government preferred not to take up arms against Japan, because Korea, is neutral and felt sure that Russia would soon drive out the Jacanese.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19
THEY LOST NO SHIPS.
The Japanese Also Deny that They Suf-
 fered in Land Engagements.

London. February 1S.-The Japanese legation here received an official dis patch tonight saying it was not true that any Japanese vessels had been destroyed so far in any of the various naval engagements, and all necessary repairs had already been made.
 The Japanese fleet remains intact.
 This message also denies the report that the Japanese were driven from the neighborhood of Kinchow after q skirmish in which 150 Japanese were taken prisoners, and declares that the Japanese made no attempt to land d. Pigeon Bay.
 It says the Japanese forces up to the present time have made no attempt to land at any point where they could come in contact with the Russians, and that consequently all reports of land actions and Japanese losses are untrue.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19
THE FATE OF PORT ARTHUR.

Paris, Feb. 1S.-An eminent military authority connected with one of tke embassies, said today that Port Ar thur was practically besieged and it was a serious question whether this would not compel either the abandon ment or the surrender of the fortress, with it's men and material.
 The grounds for this belief were stated as follows:
 Admiral Togo's ships, on watch at the entrance of the port, prevent in- gress or egress, thus establishing a virtual blockade and cutting off chances of relief from seaward.
 The Japanese troops near New Chwang and other points on the Liao Tung Peninsula are able to interrUA: the line of communication and sup plies between Port Arthur and Harbin the result is the gradual investure of Port Arthur within the Japanese naval and military lines.
 It will require a bold action on the part of the Russian forces to prevent the final accomplishment of the inves- titure and slew reduction of Port Ar thur"
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19

company of all the other ships of the second class one cross on each torpedo boat, one cross on the signal station at Golden Hill, which operated under fire of the enemy; four crosses on battery No. 15, three on battery No. 13 and one cross on gunner who, though severely wounded, returned to his battery.
 Our losses were: Of the Squadron, five officers wounded, fourteen men killed, and sixty-nine men wounded: of the fortress and garrison, one man was killed, one man severely wounded and five men slightly wounded
 Tn announcing the above to your majesty, l am pleased to be able to add that the naval and land forces in the far east are inspired by the most heartfelt wish to meet their insolent foes breast to breast in order to fulfil their duty in the sight of their adored ruler, and, firm and unshakable, to fight for the honor and glory of their beloved fatherland.
Arizona republican., 1904-02-19
A TIME FOR PEACE.

Denver, Colo, Feb. 1S.-Gov. Peabody returned today from his visit to the Cripple Creek district, where banquet was given in his honor by the republi- eau club. In an address he said: "I think I have done my duty in bringing about law and order in the Cripple Creek district Now I take the burden off my shoulders and place it or yours. In doing this I would suggest that the olive branch and the hand of friend ship should be extended to the striking miners and that harmony between )em- ployer and employe should be brought about"