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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26
.PAsO VALLEY IS DESTINED
To Be GREAT TURKEY PRODUCER
Contributed By an Ell Pasoan For 81 Pasoans

~ UTE a number of ranchers up
and down the river declare
their intention of going more
or less extensively into the raising of
turkeys next year. Already they are
casting about for stock and it is my
loads of these fowls will be exported
from this point, while at this time
nearly all of our supply is imported
from other points less favored than we
for their raising.
OF all seasons of the year this is
the lazy season for chickens Old hens
are on strike. ROSTERS are losing
their plumage and all = young stock
and old are lounging in the shade. il
there is a shade.
This is moulting season in earnest
and the eggs laid by the average hen
for the next so days will not pay for
her keep. The moral is: Sell or eat
every hen which you do not care to
keep to lay another season. And right
here we will Incidentally remark that
all hens that have passed through the
second laying season have, as a rule,
passed their period of usefulness as
layers of market eggs and should be
sold off unless on account of her stock
or individuality she is priced as
breeder. Early Matched pullets are now
beginning to lay and it is to them we
must look for high priced winter eggs
and the man who. has a few hundred
of them will not have to work unless
he wants to. They will work while he
rests
I have just heard two very unusual
complaints from amateur poultrymen.
One says that two half grown puppies
of & neighbor took to his flock of
months old chicks which he had raised
from high priced eggs and practically
put him out Of business
Another says that an unfriendly
neighbor scattered poisoned dough and
bankrupted him as poultryman.
Both of these men think their fates
hard ones and that there is nothing
in the chicken business for them. At
first brush each case does seem a
hard one on the poultryman, and yet
on closer analysis each man should
blame no one but himself The trouble
in each case was. that he began at the
wrong end of the business. Each man
got the bird before he got the cage
egs without any provision in the way
Of a yard or a house.
One allowed them to run loose, an
easy prey to the neighbours puppies.
and the other permitted his to depre-
date on his neighbours premises,
scratching up flower beds. ETC.. until
she, in a fit of desperation, poisoned
them. The victims should take 1t
philosophically and blame themselves. |
The poultry business is a school in |
which q man learns to look ahead |
1t is business. in which a man must. |
at the very start. have everything !
planned months ahead and the very |
day his business gets ahead OF his |
plans, disaster will certainly overtake |
him. A bank can be run in a hap |
hazard manner more successfully than !
4 poultry ranch. To handle success
fully even a city lot of chickens, there
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26
RANGEL RECOVERING
AND MAY BE MOVED
Is Impatient Patient-Pris
oner Whom Magonistas
Would Rescue

Jose M. Rangel. alleged leader of
the Magoistas, prisoner patient,
but hardly a patient prisoner, in the
Libertad hospital in Ciudad Juarez. is
recovering from his wounds and will
be moved in short time to the Jail
to await the action of the court in his
case.
Priciliano Silva, the other Magonista
who is in the hospital suffering from
bullet wounds. is also getting better
and he likewise will be moved to the
jail.
Rangel and Silva were wounded at
the battle of Carrizo ranch and were
captured by band of cowboys at Villa
Ahunada, who turned them over to the
military authorities Rangel had re-
ceived bullet wounds in the Jaw and
forearm.
When Range1 and Silva are moved to
the jail. the insurrecto guards will be
taken from the hospital
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

store and and 10 cent store This
block cost over $4,000.
Mitchells concrete stores are the
first fireproof buildings in town. They
were built of reinforced concrete
throughout, and cost about $4,000.
The Masonic lodge is just compret-
ing a modern temple that will cost
the lodge $4,000 by the time it is
complete; this temple gis brick with
double roof and modern fronts 20 the
office rooms on the ground floor,
while the second floor. Will be oceu-
pied by lodge room and club rooms
that viii make the temple not only. an
ornament to the town, but also pro-
viding a place for Masons and their
families to meet and enjoy a social
function in comfort.
All Modern improvements.
Residences and farm houses erect
ed in the upper valley during the year
will show a total of more than $780,
600. which will bring the total cost
of buildings over s1S0.0o0.
Las Cruces has nearly 10 miles of
granitoid and cements sidewalks, over
four miles of paved and macadamized
streets and roads. A water system,
electric light plant and ice factory.
The town has just voted bonds
amounting to $4,000 for an up to
date sewer system and water plant to
take the place of the plant now under
private ownership.
The local electric light company has
issued bonds for SIS. 900. to make adj.
ditions and Improvements in it's
plant which is made necessary by
the increase in population and the
demands made for electric power.
Land Values Increase.
Land values have increased .since
the start was made ION the dam, until
today you will pay $3.50 per acre for
valley land three miles from town.
that was offered for $50 per acre less
than five years ago.
M. H. Peterson, of Toronto, Can,
came to the valley in 1905 and bought
the Newcomb ranch of 70 acres, at
that time considered out in the coun-.
try, and selling at $4,000 for the 70
acres. Within the last two years the
above tract has been subdivided into
lots, and several sales made recently
of lots at $3.50 each, place the value
of the land at $4,000 per acre, and an
offer OF $4,000 cash for the entire
tract was refused by the owner sew
eraI months ago. 49,
Homesteaders in I.urk.
Homestead lands taken UP under
the homestead laws and costing the
settler s1-25 per acre at the most,
have sold at 800 to s125 per acre
within the past II months, and these
lands are producing crops that pay 10
percent interest on loans for so per-
cent Of the value beside a good profit.
to the owner which will eventually
pay for the land
James G. Stewart Of Mesilla.5 bought
35 acres of orchard for $4,000 and
the fruit crop the next year netted
him $4,000, picking over 10000
bushels Of fruit from the trees In this
one season.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

must be system from the very start,
and II there is no system, there will
soon be no chickens This is why the
best thing you can do for your boy is
to buy him a few chickens and inter
est him in them. He will learn from
them that a business will not run
itself, but requires his cons tant and
intelligent care. He will learn from
the care of them to look ahead, lay his
plans and work to them. 1t will teach
him the necessity Of constant applica-
ton to business If he would succeed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
THE FLORA BUST.
A Book Pronouncing 1t Forgery.

From the London Daily Mail
That German art circles are not content
With the present state of the Lucas
Leonardo controversy and with Dr.
Rode's stubborn insistence on the great
FlOrentine's authorship of the Flora"
wax bust, now i'm the Berlin Museum, Is
proved by book on THE Leonardesque
Flora. n Nineteenth Century Forgery"
published recently by Otto Wigand in
Leipzig. What lends particular piquancy
20 this publication is the fact that It's
author. Herr Martin Schauss, sculptor
by profession, is one of the experts in
vited by DR.. BOde himself to be present
at the ''post-mortCm' examination Of the
interior OF the bust.
In his book of some seventy closely
printed pages. with twentyfour illustra-
lions, the result of personal research car
ried out i'm London, Paris, Lille, Dresden.
Munich. Innsbruck, Florence, Verona.
Padua and many other art centres, Herr
Schauss not only proves concluslvely
that the bust at the Berlin Museum was
cast by Il. Cookie Lucas, but he advances
an entirely new theory as to the author
shin of the clay model, from which the
wax cast was taken.
ON fine strength Of some ingenious but
NOT altogether convincing arguments, he
ondeavors 10 prove that the model for the
Flora bust was produced about ls4o IN
the studio OF Girolamo Torrini, the
master of the famous Bastianini whose
limitations of Renaissance busts have
more than once been bought by public
museums as original works. Bastianini
was not forger, but unscrupulous deal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

the latter carried off the prize. As TO the
sum that was paid, there is no nee1 TO 20
into details: suffice II to say that II greatly
exceeded that which was paid for the
Venus" and approached the almost fabu-
ious sum which Major Holford recently OBJ
tanned for his "Olivares."
To come to the picture Itself. 1t Is
marvel OF portraiture and a marvel of
color, and. absolutely untouched as II is, II
shows at every point the unm's.aEable
hand OF VelasqUez himself Every COM
petent critic will agree with Senior Beruete,
who, having had the picture submitted 10
him, and having carefully examined IL,
writes as follows 10 the new owners
Your picture has none Of the faults that
| have noticed in the Dulwich pictu~e-the
drawing is far better and the head Is bet
ter put on the shoulders and held up
straiChter. The slope Of the left shoulder
is far better drawn and puts a look Of
character into the face. which IS most
characteristic Of VelasGuez, and which does
not appear in the Dulwich picturr ut all
The left hand. beautifully modelled and
thinv rainted. is a very different article to
the left hand in the Dulwich picture which
IS so habby and vulgar looking. Besides
the silver ornaments on the dress. the
wrinkles in the sleeves and the hilt OF the
sword have all that snap that one asso-
ciates with the master and which cannot
ever be COMPOUNDED with the work Of any
other ;"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
ART IN PARIS.
The Chauchard Pictures at the
Louvre-Millet at His Best.
Paris. December 30

Paris, DcCeIlUCE OOs
Four large rooms containing the Col
lection Chauchard" have just been
opened in the Louvre Museum To reach
these rooms, situated next the Rubens
Gallery and occupying that portion or
the palace where the Ministry or the
Colonies was installed until last July, the
visitor has to pass through the galleries
of Rembrandt. Murillo. Velasquez. Van
DYKE and Rubens. The new gallery
faces on the north the gardens Of the
Tuileries and the Louvre, and on the
south the Seine and the Pont Royal.
There are 10 numbers In the catalogue,
published by Plon. which gives useful
notes and a brief history of each work.
The dominating features OF the collec-
ton are the paintings by Millet and
Corot. These two masters, hitherto in
adequately represented in the French
national museum, here stand forth pre-
eminently.
The works Of both have that 'inspi-
ration Of solitude" which would be gro
tesaue unless carried out by men Of
e, MUS. The vigorous, massive austerity
Of Millet, essentially virile artist, makes
an admirable contrast with the delicate
symphonies Of Corot, whose pastoral
poetry In subdued color tones Is almost
feminine In Its dainty conception
The "Angelus" Of Millet, as famous In
the United States as In France. may here
be seen near 1.-THE Winnower, The
Shepherdess." 1.-THE Girl Knitting" THE
spinstress," and other paintings charac-
teristic of him at his best 1t is curious
TO note that the two models used by Mil
let in the "Angelus," which he painted
in a potato patch alongside the road
from Chailly TO Barbizon, lived until
few years ago, and are still remembered
by the village folk. The peasant GIRL
praying, was a maid-of-all-work In Mil
let's family for four years. Her name
was Adele Moschner, and she married
peasant named Marier. She was known
afterward as the Mere Angelus." Her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
Mr.. METcALFs LANDSCAPES.

A srecial need Of appreciation is due to
the arr who not only refuses TO follow
routine 1ut works with such energy and
zest e.. 70 convey an impression Of con-
slant progress. The pictures in the col
lection which Mr.. Willard l.. Metcalf Is
showing at the Montross Gallery are not
by any means Of uniform excellence, but
II is nevertheless made plain that he is
still steadily moving forward. as he has
been for several years past. The secret OF
his exceptional vitality appears TO lie in
the frequency with which he trusts him
self TO the inspiration Of the moment
When he pauses TO reflect he is on
ground less sure. The fact directs atten-
ton once more TO the old and always
amusing problem Of picture making as
picture making.
For every artist it means reference to
pretty well established laws of design.
Selection is imperative and the choice
made may be determined by thousand
different accidents Of taste and training
But in the long run even the most in
genious Of theorists is certain to throw
many Of his carefully pondered IDEAS
overheard and to follow with blind do
cility the bidding Of his own tempera-
ment. That way, in many a case. lies
salvation. If one may judge from Mr.
Metcalrs work il is his temperament
to seize with delight upon some episode
i'm nature, refashioning II, in a measure
to suit his pictorial purpose, but at bot
! tom letting himself go, so To say. with
| the Passing mood. Hence the sweet and
! intimate character of his best land
scapes. the artlessly sylvan charm Of
such pictures as The Woodland Brook"
the June Pastoral" or 1.-THE Trout Pool
November His shining LEAKAGE, his
sparkling skies, his careless tangles OF
boughs, lure us most persuasivelv when
with all the spontanClty IN the world
they merely happen In his pictures.
When ambition lays hold upon him and
he sets about putting too carefully ball
anced pictures together, as in his four
largest canvases, Blossom Time" The
Falls" 1.-THE Golden Carnival" and "The
Rapids," he leaves us cold, for he gives
us only an accurate portrait Of place
and not his JOY In it, once, TO be sure.
In this group. we are almost. but not
quite, persuaded. The stream in the
foreground of The Golden Carnival js
painted with a senstiveness which very
nearly wins us to forgetfuness of the
rather commonplace handling OF the ris-
ing ground beyond. But a divided inter-
est cannot last. We go back to the
fresher, more direct Impressions the
swiftly painted records OF bits Of Ameri-
can landscape whose raciness is worth
any amount Of skilful composition. More
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
EXCAVATIONS IN CRETE.
rom The London Globe.

From The London Globe.
The excavations which have recently
taken place In Crete under the superin-
tendence OF DR. A. j. Evans and DR..
Dunkan Mackenzie, have resulted In the
discovery Of some important archeolog-
ical points in connection with the palace
at Knossos. Some wall paintings OF
very fine workmanship were brought TO
light, showing that the whole place had
been richly decorated with scenes OF y
NEUROLOGICAL character. During 80
progress OF the excavations the explorers
came upon a large vault situated under
the southern gateway. AT first IL was
thought that this might have been a
burying place. but DR.. Evans Is OF opin-
ion that Il was a reservoir for supplying
the palace with water. not the one un-
der examination. however, but a palace
OF a much earlier date, which Is known
TO have existed on this site. A num-
Der Of small objects were also discov-
cred. among the most interesting being
a marble votiye altar OF very fine work.
manship and also some interesting rag
ment. of pottery OF the early Mycenean
Dertod
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
VERON

They are the remarkable companion
pieces, a couple Of allegorical subjects
which may be seen at the Knoedier
Gallery. Imposing in scale. these paint
iDgs illustrate the Venetian in his most
sumptuous mood, dramatizing his mo-
lives with all his wonted vigor and. by
the same token. framing his designs with
that large decorative feeling which was
one Of his richest resources. Veronese'
in so far as he was a poet at all, was or
the rhetorical declamatory type, a poet
Of the theatre rather than Of the study.
He moves you by no subtleties Of emo
ton put through a kind OF fun bodied
simplicity. the emotion Of man whose
most imaginative impulses never took
him far away from the mundane specta-
Gle of his beloved Venice. Therein re-
sided his strength. A fine drawn, meta
phvsical Interpretation of q theme would
have accorded i'll with his particular
sense Of form and movement. What he
had 10 say was bound to be stated IN the
straightforward solid terms Of mate
TlalZed SCnelne OF beauty
In his allegory Of a handsome gallant
set to choose between Vice and Virtue
we may recognize the painter, richly
cad and grouped with figures as brill
liant as himself. The whole composition
breathes the pomp and pride OF life. In
its color as in its form IT reveals his
magnifcence. his gusto. his royal sweep
OF energy. AS a design this is. perhaps.
the more charming Of the two decora-
tions. The other Wisdom and
strength" has not the same grace Of
movement. the types have not so much
elegance and the background is little
less happily seen. But here, too, there
IS some beautiful form. the figure Of
Wisdom possessing an opulent dignity.
and I'm the costume OF that figure there
are beguiling passages Of painting. The
canvases go admirably together, and in
some gorgeously appointed hall should
have noble effect II is good to know
that America possesses them. They
have. by the way, an interesting pedi-
gree. Originally in the collection of the
famous Queen Christina Of Sweden, thev
passed thence TO the possession Of the
Due d'Orleans. the Regent, and on the
dispersal Of his gallery were bought by
Lord Hope. From the present Loru
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

grandfather was a Westphalian hussar.
who came to Fontainebleau with the al
lied armies, and, not wishing to return TO
Germany, deserted. He concealed him
self at Barbizon. where he afterward
earned his living as a weaver The other
figure In the "Angelus," standing erect
in the picture, was a laborer at Barbi-
zon named Mignot, who died only three
years ago. The late Alfred Chauchard
purchased the "Angelus" at a famous
sale in New York for 100000, as is IA
millar to all interested in pictures, but
what is less generally known is that this
famous picture once belonged to the late
Thomas Appleton, Of Boston. who
bought It in Paris for $3.50, and in an
ll-advised moment parted with it for
$3.50.
There are twenty-seven Corots in the
Chauchard Gallery, each Of which mas
its history. There are also a num-
Der of Troyons. Delacroixs. Daubignys.
Fromentins. Isabeys. Henners and Items.
Meissoner is represented by twenty-six
works. Foremost of these is the cele-
brated Champagne de France dS14."
Napoleon on white horse rides amidst
his army of young recruits, followed by
Ney. Berthier Drouot, Gourgaud and De
Flahaut. This is the finest collection OF
Meissoniers in France. BY a singular
coincidence the legacy OF the late Alfred
Chauchard was the means OF bringing
the works Of living painter into the
Louvre. contrary to the formal regula-
lions which require that no picture can
be placed therein until ten years shall
have elapsed after the artists death. The
pictures BY Felix Ziem could not be ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

pected from the legacy without a total
remuneration on the part OF the state.
Consequently his six paintings Of vene-
tan and Turkish subjects bear the label:
Exhibited temporarily" The Chau-
chard collection contains some twenty
eight bronzes by Barge. among the finest
OF which are Charles VII on Horse
back" Tartar Warrior Stopping a
Runaway Horse" "Theseus Fighting the
by Serpent" and groups OF lions. tigers,
crocodiles, bears, jaguars and orang-
outangs. The paintings and bronzes arc
well placed, and the light is satisfactory.
C.. I. B.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08
NAMING PARIS STREETS.
nm The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle.
So great Is the number OF streets IN
Paris named after foreigners that IL was
once suggested that the Municipal Coun-
ell should display a phonetic rendering
OF the names Of these streets. Parisiahs
would then have the pleasure Of reading
such name tablets as Rue Newton (Nicu-
teunne). Rue Cavendish (Keveunndiche).
Rue Goethe (Gueute), Rue Lincoln Cline
colne), Rue Furtado- Heine (Fourtado
Hayene), and so on. This IL was hoped
would not only teach the inhabitants TO
utter the names Of their streets cor
rectly, but also familiarize them to some
extent with the pronunciation OF foreign
tongues.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

been discovered. and. having been pur-
chased by the Agnews. has lately been
exhibited by them in London. to the
prodigious delight OF all connoisseurs OF
the work Of the Spanish master.
We reproduce Mazos copy at Dulwich,
which will serve to show the compost
lion and general character Of this por-
trait of the King in his rich dress OF red
and silver, holding the baton Of com
nand. From The London Times we
uote the following:
II is always unsafe to assume that once
samous picture is mo longer IN existence
unless. that is to say, one knows Tor a
TACT that II has been destroyed. When
3eruete wrote the Fraga picture had not
heen destroyed; it was only hidden away
n the Castle Of Schwartzau. near Stein
cid in Austria, and was the property OF
ne head of the dispossessed ducal family
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

ers did not hesitate TO sell his works ana
presumably his masters as cinquecehto
originals. His now famous bust Of Bent
yieri, for which Bastianini received tl6.
was bought by the Louvre as an early
sixteenth century original for f544.
In spite Of Herr Schauss's plauslole
arguments, those who have compared the
profile Of the Flora" with the proflle OF
the Clytie at the British Museum-a DUST
with which Lucas had occasion tobecome
intimately acquainted at the time when
he was daily working at the museum
will not be easily convinced that even
the original model for the Flora wax bust
was not Lucas's own handiwork.
There is little hope that the contro-
versy will be dropped In Germany until
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-08

Hope they have been acquired by the
knoedlers.
Exhibited with these Venetian paint
ings there are two superb works by
Rembrandt, a pair of family portraits
dating from 1884, which come from the
collection Of Earl Beauchamp. They be-
long 10 the period Of his marriage 10
saskia, when he was young. sanguine'
very happy. and, while still carefully
feeling his way through the limitations
OF his earlier manner, already exercls-