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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01
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ieuey has written a letter urrInF
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01

other appointments.
Jesse Fry has been an excellent
United States attorney and there 10
little reason 10 believe that Rooae-
welt can be persuaded that any
eh augc Is necessary there.
A for the superintendent Of the
assay office the deputy collector Of
Internal revenue and eolloctorahip
Of customs
Roosevelt may or may not listen
TO senator Piles IN making these
laplbint meuta.
Tho Tacoma postmastershlp has
been promised 10 both George Crom-
we'll. present incumbent. and State
Senator lie Crone. aud unless Eos
ter and Congressman Cushmau can
aErro before Foster retircs. piles
may play a hand In this game
The federal judgeahlp for the
eastern district Of the state is q
new Job and depends altogether on
whether congress will pass the bill
dividing the state in that way
Ia case congress does. the naming
Of the Judge will probably be in the
hands Of y =. Croker or Charles
sweeuy. as a result Of the Sweeny-
Piles combination made at Olympia
the night before Piles election.
Representative Lindsey. from
| Spokane. Will probably have no op-
position for the position OF district
attorney In the new district An
eastern man will be selected for
United States marshal and Marshal
/ Hopkins will remain on the west
side
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01
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blacksmith Joe Wilson aud M
ehiuist J Wilson. according 60 their
Statements. are being held hy the
police 90 explain the possession Of
guns found ON them Thoy were
arrested at 6 o'clock thia morning
ON First avenue south by Patrolmen
LOCKER Decker and MeCIurK. Their
actions were suspicious. the police
say. but no charge has yet been
placed against them The cunald
cradle sum 81 money found on them
gives rise to a probable hold up
theory and the guns are he'd 60 sup.
port it.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01

WASHINGTON. Feb The
house committee on judiciary au-
thoriKsd a favorable report on the
Lttiefleld bill. which requires all
corporations 10 file annual reports
70 the department OF commerce.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01
HOCH HAD
20 WIVES
ny sertup, wsw. Assuy

CHICAGO. Feb Four wives of
Johann Hoch have been discovered
since yesterday. making a total Of
- One o. these - Mrs. LouRhken
H0ch. Who was welded u Hoch in
san Francisco four years ago. She
Is said 10 have died suddenly.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-02-01

WASHINGTON. Feb. Pred.
dent Roosevelt this morning an
nduneed hiH intention 10 retain
OF Patents Frederick
Allen. q New York. In his present
Ollie
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
C. ]. Blanchard.

Ell PASO, Tex. Especially ON the
Southeast border of the Great Ameri-
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
Texas on the East and the progress.
sive old-young territory of New Mex.
leo on the North, stands the Largest
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict Of the largest State of the great
est Nation on the EARTH"
To the fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
tty which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes a city here? After
journeying more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
it is All one vast cattle range, down
int5 the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes of eastern New MexicCN there
is reason for asking this question
You naturally want to know from
whence comes all this hustle and hustle
with all these evidences of progress
and substantial growth. All your no.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
lions long held and regretfully let go
of, are that this sunny land of the
border Is the land Of manama, Of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening Is
not yet come. Well, wake upl Life
is just as ZEAL just as earnest and as
strenuous in El Paso as in New York
or Chicago, and when you rub up in
business against the Ell Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business
acumen.
The Old and The New.
FL Paso is old-very old, and FL
paso is new, too-very new. This de-
llghtful paradox is full Of surprises
and charms. Right up against the old
Spanish dwelling Of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and its
patio in the center, you are likely to
find a modern Office building with ele-
vators and electric lights.
Something of feeling of living in
the past comes over you when you en-
ter one of the old churches, down here
churches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
prisons of countless thousands and
softly intoned ayes were echoing here
long before the eyes of the Anglo
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
TIE 1TEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select
Genuine One.

A story is told of smoker who spent
eight of the best years of his life trying
to color a meerschaum pipe, keeping it
enclosed most of the time in case so as
to prevent it getting scratched and its
finish being dulled by the oil and moist
ure from his hands, only to find at the
end of that period that he had been
tenderly nursing an imitation instead
Of the genuine "ecume de mer." The
best imitation is composed of the par
ings of genuine meerschaum, combined
with a mineral clay. These compost
tons can usually be determined from
the genuine meersehaum by their
greater weight, but there is no abso-
lutely certain test for distinguishing
the counterfeit. One method of test is
to look for slight -fmperfections. Com
position bowls never exhibit these
slight blemishes, which result from the
presence of foreign bodies in the natur-
al meerschaum; however, as the blem-
ishes do not usually manifest them
solves until after the bowl has been
used for some time, the test is not of
much value in buying new pipes.
Meerschaum is a silicate of magnesia.
and preparatory to carving it is soaked
in composition of wax and oil. The
wax and oil absorbed by the meer-
schaum are the cause of the coloring
Of the pipe due to smoking, and in con-
nection with the further absorption of
nicotine. Where meerschaums have
been smoked for some time without
having acquired good color, they can
frequently be improved by rubbing,
when warm, with beeswax.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
Weakness of English Colonies.

The new commonwealth of Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population In the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3,771,715,
the increase being 597, 402 The whole
island continent has less population
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, II
has not developed internally. "Were
Australian ports" says the Sydney
Bulletin, "shut by hostile warships
tomorrow, the commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for its
troops, without ships or the means of
making them, without fabrics for
clothing, without machinery for mine
or railway, without even paper on
which to print its journals. Australia
would have TO beseech the grace of
some master, crawl to the hand Of
whatever power was for the time most
strong, or lapse into savagery.R
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up a steady correspondence, state that
she is able to walk now with com
fort.
BY the will of the late German
Field Marshal, Count Won Waldersee
commander of the allied troops during
the Boxer uprising in China, his in
sigma of the Order of the Black Eagle,
set with diamonds, was sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers in his old
regiment. Count Won Waldersee's wife
is a Miss Lee, of New York, and as
serts most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where she succeeded III
securing promotion after promotion for
her husband.
DR.. Wallason, the Cars American
dentist, lives in St. Petersburg in a
palace in a quarter reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambassadors. 1t is furnish
ed with such exquisite things that each
room represents a fortune in itself.
Wherever the Gar or Czarina or the
Grand Dukes are, they always send
for DR.. Wallason, and he is kept busy
travelling from one end of the big Rus
sian empire to the other.
In the same way, DR., Thomas, an
American dentist at Vienna, has been
for many years an intimate friend of
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
the Emperor's confidence by a single
indiscreet utteTance.
The German Emperor's American
dentist not such a very long time
since committed suicide.
Each Earl of Oxford, at his burial is
driven in his hearse three times round
the church before his remains are fin
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, according to family and
local tradition, Is that Horatio second
earl of Oxford, destroyed the tomb
of the Scalmers, former possessors of
Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam
lily, finding no rest. still haunts the
always searching for the
remains of her relations. 1t is to mol
lily her spirit that this weird drive of
the hearse round the churchyard takes
place On the occasion of the obsequies
Of every Earl of Oxford The present
Lord Oxford, whose wife is Louise
Corbin, daughter of d. c. Corbin, and
niece of the great railroad magnate
of that name. is at present travelling
in this country. van Calava.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

Now, Harold, this is your fifth birth
day party. Whom do you love best,
your father or me?
Father sure.
But, Harold, you said yesterday that
you loved me best.
Yes; but I've slept over It, and l
realize that we men must stick to-
gether,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

Saxon had looked upon Plymouth
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new fields of conquest for tho
glory of Spain, swept up the Rio
Grande Valley. They found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
ticing agriculture through the aid of
irrigation, carrying the precious waters
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
had been in cultivation beyond the
traditions of the oldest members OF the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conuuerers. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by TrampiFng Of Goats.
The unprogressiveness of the Span
yards.is no where more strikingly re-
Vealed than In the Rio Grande VAL
ley, where the descendants of the early
Spanish explorers are to-day engaged
in agriculture in just the same man
ner as their forefathers practiced it,
and indeed with methods strangely like
those In the days OF Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches of the Rio Grande in
later years, showed small regard for
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
10 make sad inroads in the water sup
ply which was needed for the old
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
IN EYcLiSHMAY WITH HUNoR.
How He Held His First Job and More
over Got a Raise in Wages

Herbert Kelley, one Of the leading
actors of the present time, Is an
Englishman, but, unlike the usual type
from the Island has a deep sense Of
humor. In speaking of his first visit to
this country, he describes his exper-
fence something like this:
"Yes, ! was a bit green when came
over to this country, and / 'ad to tike
hanythink in the wy of job. l got
started in a department store on 9th
avenue, and the tloorWalker s'ys to me,
s'ys e:
"'Now, AIRY wen give you three
trials, and If you let three people get
away without selling them, Wen ave
to bounce you
"Well l came down jolly early on
Monday, took my plice behind the
counter and wited for customers.
Pretty soon a Idly walked up and
asked me where she should tike the
tram for New Rochelle, didn't know,
and she went AMY. I looked at the
hoorwalSer and the foorwalker e
looked at me- That mide one" hold
ing up a lean forefnger. "Then a man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where e could buy a at. / told i'm
where the at counter was, and e went
ANY. That mide two. jolly poor
luck, wasn't it now? | looked at the
foorwalker, and that hooFwalker
looked at me like ell, but what could
| do? Then another Idly came along
as 'ad a large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard of the
same. l took it and pulled out hevery-
think on the shelves, but there was no
more of it left. l was in bit Of
funk then, for If / let 'er go without
mixing a sale would lose my job, so
seq:
"'Wite bit, Idly; I'll see If we ave
any UPSTAIRS / went up, and seeing
there was no more there, either, just
cut a yard off her own goods and
brought the two pieces down, rolled
them up, took the money, and she
went awy. / 'ad plenty of customers
after that, but ! didn't feel just COM
Portable, don't you know.
1.-The same afternoon she came back
and asked for the fioorwalker.
"'Ere,' SEE she, 4 brought five
yards of goods ere to match this
and bought a yard more, but
when / got home / found only four
yards in my own piece. Can you ex-
plin that, pleaseP
81 'emmed an 'awed and tried to
measure the goods and hattempted to
tell the Idly that she must be mistaken
about 'er own piece, but she only
glared at me, and in a jiffy she was
lup to the tloorwalker explnin the
'ondlti n Of affairs. 'Er tone hindu
cated that she was mad, and l said to
neself, carry, you're a dead 'un."
''The foorwalker called me bout,
md | 'ad to tell i'm all about it, 'ow
The first party wanted a tram-car, and
HE next at, and this one wanted
more goods when we 'adn't any.
ad to sell Ter some'ow, or lose my job,
20 1 give FER q bit from 'er own piece.
The fioorwalker looked so bloomin'
mad for a bit that l thought my time
vas come for sure, but then e
tarted to larf, and e larfed till |
hought ed bust. Then 'e seq, AIRY,
ez e 4 guess Wen ave to keep you,
md raise your wages And e did"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

less sounds which we cannot hear, and
colors as different as red from green,
of which we have no conception. These
and a thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be a totally
different place to other animals To
them 1t may be full of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations we cannot
conceive. To place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases, to arrange in
sects in cabinets, and dried plants in
drawers, is merely the drudgery and
preliminary of study; to watch their
habits, to understand their relations to
one another, to study their instincts
and intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and their relations to the
forces of nature, to realize what the
world appears to them-these con-
stitute, as 1t seems to me, at least, the
true interests of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
and perceptions of which at present
we have no conception"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.


The Sultan of Turkey some short
time since, granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was so
much charmed with that genial Amer
lean gentleman that he conferred upon
him the grand Gordon of the Chefecat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with a lot
of porcelain manufactured in the I'm
perial potteries. 1t remains to be seen
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
permission from Congress to be per
United to accept the order of the
Sultan.
Mrs. WI 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.
WI 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
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
THE LNTELLICENCEOF ANIMALS.
An English Naturalist Believes That
Ii May be Far Greater
Than Imagined

Sir John Lubbock has brought more
popular attention to the subject of the
mental capacity of animals than any
other writer. He has conducted many
careful Investigations on the senses, in
stinets and intelligence of animals and
insects. An interesting query pro
pounded by the English scientist re-
lates to the existence of other organs
of sense than ours.
1--WE find" he says, "in animals com
pick organs of sense, richly supplied
with nerves, but the function of which
we are as yet powerless to explain.
There may be fifty other senses as diff
ferent from ours as sound is from
sight, and even within the boundaries
of our own senses there may be end
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03

Mamma had told Dorothy that she
could not go out again. The little
maiden made one more plea. please.
mamma It isn't very wet, and won't
go on the grass"
mo, you cannot. Dorothy" said
mamma, smiling at the little ones per-
sistency.
"Well, anyway, mamma, 1t seems to
me that you're very Cheerful about
itn
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
Honder Work Of the Ancienfs.

Modern quarry machinery can handle
single stones larger than any of the
monoliths Of ancient Egypt The really
surprising thing, however, is how did
the ancients handle their monoliths
with only their crude machines.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
Celebrating Belgian Independence.

Among the festivities organized for
the celebration of the seventy-fifth an
niversary of Belgium's independence
is the faithful reproduction of one Of
the fitting jousts given by Phillip the
Good of Burgundy in 1452. in which
Philips son broke the lances of six
teen opposing knights In the presence
OF Isabella Of Portugal, Duchess Of
Burgundy. 4
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
The BarthoIdi Fountain.

Among art work displayed in
one OF the public reservations in the
shadow of the Capitol, is
the Bartholdi Fountain. which plays
in the National Botanical Garden. Its
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-11-03
BARTHoLDI FOUNTAIN IN WINTER
CARE.

designer and sculptor was the man who
made the Statue Of Liberty. which
France presented 10 the United States
and which stands in New York harbor.
The Bartholdi Fountain performed its
first service in this country at the Phil
adelphia exposition, at the close of
which it was brought to Washington.