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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-24

SUBSTANTIAL Despite the fact that this is nearly mid- summer. the circulation of The Advertiser fs holding it's own. Following are the net figures for the month of May:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-24

VACATION TIME
 If you expect 10 take a vacation during the summer, don't forget to have The Aa- Dc changed as often as you like. The rate is IS cents per week or eS cents per month, all orders to be paid for in advance.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

canals. Mexico, Texas and New Mex
leo were arrayed against Colorado
which robbed them of their priceless
heritage and threatened to transform
thousands of acres of fruitage and
bloom into it's original state-that of
the desert. As the water grew scarce
there sprang up hostilities between the
citizens of the whole Rio Grande VAL
ley. Neighbor began to be arrayed
against neighbor; there were even fam
lily rows over the water. For years
these conditions prevailed. Mexico
made respectful protest against the use
of the waters of the Rio Grande in
Colorado which deprived the ancient
canals of the Republic of their rights
long established. The Comfy of Ma
tions was threatened.
To Build Huge Dam.
1t was the passage of the National
irrigation act which wrought a won
drous change in the conditions and
knit together in one brotherhood all the
citizens of the lower valley, imbuing
them with spirit of cooperation and
enthusiasm. The Reclamation Service
took hold of the project and worked
out plan to store the vast Rio Grande
floods which were, annually source
of much loss to the valley and which
were wholly unutilized. This plan the
people have accepted as a salvation.
One hundred miles above Ell Paso the
Rio Grande flows through a deep mar
row canyon. A dam 255 feet high
across its lower end will create the
largest artificial reservoir in this coun-
try. 1t will make lake 40 miles long,
~ miles wide and from 100 to IT'S
feet deep. 1t will contain water enough
to cover 100000 acres a foot deep.
Into this vast reservoir the greatest
flood the Rio Grande has ever known
will quickly disappear and later when
needed by 100000 thirsty acres in the
valley below will be released and led
through a net work of canals and
bitches through New Mexico into Tex
as, clear down into Old Mexico.
The Settlers Pay the Cost.
1t will cost millions to do this work,
$7,000,000 is the figure, but what of
that? The settlers will gladly pay for
it. Under the magic of irrigation Me-
silla, La Palomas and Ell Paso val
leys, now only dotted here and there
with green verdure, will spring into
full fruitage, producing harvests unri-
vailed in quality and quantity. Ten
thousand new homes will cover the
desert plain, and FL Paso, the central
point for transportation and the great
est market in the valley, will wax into
a city of 100000 souls. Twenty thou
sand acres of irrigated land support
splendid city now. What shall it be
when 100000 acres are added to the
crop producing area of Ell Paso terri
tory?
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up 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 Miss Lee, of New York, and as
serts most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where she succeeded IN
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 Czar 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 utterance.
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
Warrington Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam
lily, finding no rest. still haunts the
churchyard, 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. G. Corbin, and
niece of the great railroad magnate
of that name. is at present travelling
in this country. van Calava.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

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 totally
different place to other animals. To
them it 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 it 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"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
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, ,462. The whole
island continent has less pepula ton
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, it
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 it's
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."
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
OLD DESERT JOURNEYS.
MODERN CIVILIZATION, THRIFT
AND ABUNDANCE IN SAGE
BRUSH COUNTRY.
Where Sunshine and Fertile Soil
Await the Coming of Canal-Borne
Water to Laugh Abundant Har-
vests.
g. J. Blanchard.

Ell PASO, Tex. (SpeciaD.-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
ity which its citizens know so well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes a city here? After
journeying more than 800 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
it is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico, there
is a 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.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.

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 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-
mitted 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 fleet 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 surgical operation performed, in
creasing her feet to the size nature
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
tions 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 up! Life
is just as zeal, just as earnest and as
strenuous in Ell 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.
Ell Paso is old-very old, and Ell
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 it's
patio in the center, you are likely to
find 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 800 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
orisons of countless thousands and
softly intoned aVes were echoing here
long before the eyes of the Anglo
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
THE INTELLIGENCEOF ANIMALS.
An English Naturalist Believes That
1t May be Far Greater
Than Emagineds

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
stincts 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.
eve find," he says, sin animals COM
plex 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
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Saxon had looked upon Plymouth

Saxon had looked upon Plymouth
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new fields of conquest for the
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 conquerers. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by TrampIEng of Goats.
The unprogressiveness of the Span
lard 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 Ssadculture in just the same man
ner as their ferefathers 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 fol
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals bega1
to make sad inroads in the water sup.
ply which was needed for the ole
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE.
Almost Impossible to Select a
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
to prevent it getting scratched and it's
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 mineral clay. These compost
tions can usually be determined from
the genuine meerschaum 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 imperfections. 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
selves 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.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
AN ENGLISHMAN WITH HUMOR.
How He Held His First Job and More.
over Got 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 deep sense of
humor. In speaking of his first visit to
this country, he describes his exper-
ience something like this:
eyes, 1 was bit green when came
over to this country, and 'ad to tike
hanythink in the wy of a job. I got
started in a department store on 9th
avenue, and the foorwalker s'ys to me,
s'ys 'e:
"'Now, 'Arry, we'n give you three
trials, and if you let three people get
away without selling them, well ave
to bounce you
"Well, 1 came down jolly early on
Monday, took my plice be'ind 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 aw'y. looked at the
doorwalker and the foorwalker e
looked at me. That mide one," hold
ing1up lean forefnger. 'Then a man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where e could buy a 'at. I told i'm
where the 'at counter was, and e went
aw'y. That mide two. Jolly poor
luck, wasn't it now? I looked at the
f1oorwalker, and that hoorwalker
looked at me like 'ell. but what could
1 do? Then another Idly came along
as 'ad a large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard Of the
same. 1 took it and pulled out hevery-
think on the shelves, but there was NO
more of it left. l was in a bit of q
funk then, for if let 'er go without
mixing a sale would lose my job, so
Sez:
"'Wite a 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 aw'y. I 'ad plenty of customers
after that, but l didn't feel just COM
fortab BILE, don't you know.
''The same afternoon she came back
and asked for the foorwalker.
"'Ere,' sez she, I brought five
yards of goods 'ere to match this
morning and bought yard more, but
when l got home I found only four
yards in my own piece. Can you ex-
pPin that, please?'
81 'emmed an 'awed and tried to
measure the goods and hattempted to
tell the lidy that she must be mistaken
about 'er own piece, but she only
glared at me, and in a jiffy she was
hup to the tioorwalker expl'nin' the
conditi n of affairs. 'Er tone hindu
Gated that she was mad, and said to
meself, carry, you're dead 'un."
''The foorwalker called me hout,
and 1 'ad to tell i'm all about it, low
the first party wanted a tram-car, and
the next 'at, and this one wanted
more goods when we 'adn't any.
'ad to sell Ter some'ow, or lose my job,
so give FER a bit from 'er own piece.
The foorwalker looked so bloomin'
mad for bit that I thought my time
was come for sure, but then e
started to larf, and e larfed till l
thought ed bust. Then e seq, 'Arry,'
seq e. Il guess we'll ave to keep you,
and raise your wages And e did,"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Celebrating Belgian LndeDendeoce

Among the festivities organized for
the celebration of the seventy-ffth an
niversary of Belgium's independence
is the faithful reproduction of one of
the fitting jousts given by Philip the
Good of Burgundy in 1852, in which
Philips son broke the lances of six
teen opposing knights in the presence
of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess Of
Burgundy. a
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Cheerful During Trouble.

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, it seems to
me that you're very cheerful about
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10

designer and sculptor was the man who
made the Statue of Liberty. which
France presented to the United States
and which stands in New York harbor.
The Bartholdi Fountain performed it's
first service in this country at the Phil
adelphia exposition, at the close of
which it was brought to Washington.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Close Coz Operation.

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 I
realize that we men must stick to-
gether.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY,
An ACKNOWLEDGED TRAIT OF
JAPANESE MERCHANTS.
They Have No Regard For a Con-
tract = Striking Contrast With
Chinese Traders.

With the treaty of peace, Japan has
seen the accomplishment of task
that has been the ambition of the en-
pire-to hold front rank in the fam
lily of nations. This has been brought
about through such military achieve
ments as have evoked the admiration
of the civilized powers, but now it
seems that Japan has still before her
problem which means harder work
and greater task than that which
she had before the commencement Of
the Russian-Japanese war.
That task, is to redeem the CONNER
cial reputation of her traders, a repu-
tation which is not enviable. Joseph
Walton, a member of the English par
lament, a man who has spent much
time in travel and knows the people of
the East thoroughly, says in his book
on the Orient:
Japanese traders are not special
ly distinguished for honesty, particu-
larly in their business relations with
foreigners. We have in this a most
striking proof that the character of
the people is largely formed by the
nature of their surroundings. For hun
dreds of years the trading class in
Japan has occupied a very low place
in the social scale. In the last thirty
years, since the feudal system has
been abolished, the position of the
traders has greatly changed, and now
some of those who were mobiles are en-
gagged in trade; and I am told there
is reason to hope that shortly busi-
ness affairs in Japan will be conducted
on more honest lines"
Peculiar Business Dishonesty.
The progress which the Japanese
have made in the past fifty years
shows them to be a people self
reliant and determined to keep on ad-
vancing towards the highest plane at
tainable, yet travellers in the East
have been surprised that the traders
of the Occident are so notoriously dis
honest, for while the Japanese are far
superior to the Chinese as regards
achievement of national strength and
perseverance, yet the reverse is true
in the matter of commercial honesty.
It appears that the Japanese mer-
chants have no regard for a contract.
1t is said that the most prosperous
commercial houses of Japan are man
aged not by Japanese but by Chinese.
The average Chinese merchant is high
" esteemed the world over for his hon
esty; in fact president of one of the
.argest corporations of the United
States once said that he would not be
afraid to ship barrel of gold coin to
a Chinese merchant with instructions
to make use of it in trade, but at the
end of the year he would receive a de-
tail statement of where every coin
went, but if this were done to a JAP
anese merchant, he would consider
himself lucky to get back the empty
barrel.
1t is believed that the hard task
accomplished by the Japanese in the
war just happily brought to an end
will be beginning to bring out the
genius for which the Japanese have
been noted in war to a utilization of
peace and commercialism.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
Wonder Work of the Aneieats.

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.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-10
The BarthoIdi Fountain.

Among art work displayed in
one of the public reservations in the
immediate shadow of the Capitol. is
the Bartholdi Fountain, which plays
in the National Botanical Garden. Its
The Lamar register., 1905-12-27

man and woman making surround
ings and now find that the growth of
the country and the improvement in
farming conditions have made them
more wealth than falls te the aver
age man Of business.
They started poor. Few of them
had more than enough to enter the
land, build shack of home and
get plough and team of horses.
They have lived the nearest to in
dependent lives and have, uncon-
scionsly perhaps, built up an inherit
ance for their children at the same
time.
1t was not at all a bad thing for
them to do; it would not be bad
thing for others to start doing now.
They have by no means exhausted
the field. There are lands yet open
to millions of acres in
the state-and the same that is be-
ing said of the men of the farms of
today will be to say in few years
more of those who follow their ex-
ample this year.-Denver Republi-
can.