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I'VE had heard of the high prices of
living in the American capital said Sc
nora Pena, land we were prepared for the
worst. 1t has, however, not been nearly
so bad as we had expected, and l am in
clned to think that foodstuffs are eXorbi-
tant the world over. A recent English
writer on Uruguay tells that when he first
went to the country, some thirty years
ago, that meat was a drug on the mar
ket. Mutton was considered beneath the
acceptance of the neediest beggar. and
no family of consequence ever served any
thing but the youngest and most delicate
kind of lamb In my own time l know
that sheep were slaughtered for their
wool, and to thin out the f1ocks which
on the mountain ranges until
they became unwieldy, the carcasses,
after only few parts like the ribs. kid
neys etc. were taken out, were used for
fuel, being cheaper and more easy to oh
tain than wood. Cattle roamed the noun
tains and plains it seemed in reverend
ing numbers. Houses were built of bones
and the horns and other parts were used
for pegs and such necessities. while the
hides were stretched over roofs and even
the hoofs played part in upbuilding the
homes.
"All this has passed away. Now cattle
are scarce and high with us. that is when
it comes to purchasing meat in the cities.
and mutton is accepted as part OF the
menu and no longer despised. especially
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the cable and telegraph only were the
means of rapid transmission, these dread
ed storms were watched carefully as soon
as they appeared. and their approach
was announced by from twenty-four TO
forty-eight hours in advance.
The great Porto Rican hurricane of
August, 1899, swept the entire southern
Atlantic seaboard I'm indescriba BILE fury
and after it once started swept it rapidly
Had it's approach been unknown the loss
Of life and property would nave been
frghtful. but the bureaus signals went
up along the coast in some sections as
early as two days before its grip was
felt The saving in marine property
alone, due to vessels that would have
sailed into its teeth, ran up into almost
unbelievable figures.
The recent Savannah-Charleston hurri-
cane confirmed tne belief which had its
inception with .he Galveston storm and
others of similar nature. that the only
effective way 70 guard against them
would be to secure observations at sea.
The first indication OF the approach of
the storm did nUa come until its center
was bounding along at lively rate direct
for those two cities and the bureau could
give but twelve hours notice. Observa-
tons 30 to 100 miles off shore would
have enabled the bureaus warnings to fly
twenty-four hours or more in advance
TO take these added precautions the bu-
reau has established a regular observa-
ton service on certain vessels equipped
with wireless telegraphy that ply the
Atlantic coast from New York southwark
These vessels will send reports daily at
Z am. and Z m while en- route through
the various naval and commercial Wire
less stations lining the coast, in which
will be a full account of the meteorolog-
ical conditions prevailing at the time
Should storm be approaching, they will
report every two hours.
These reports will not only go to Wash
ington, from where the special forecast
will be sent out, but also to New York,
where they Will be entered on the big
chart to allow the mariner to see for
himself. Thus if such a storm is ap-
preaching our southern coast the sea-
farer. the owner. the importer, the un-
derwriter and hosts of others may note
from the chart each two hours the con-
ditions that may be affecting a vessel i'm
that region in which their interest may
be centered.
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hrs. HAVEN1TH, AMERICAN W1PE or
NV bELG1AT1n INNS TER @custD~s,

Athens, the Queen of Greece became
closely attached to the American bride.
Then, after she and her husband had
shared in the court life of other distant
capitals they went to Bulgaria. where she
became distinguished for directing the
charity work in behalf of the Christian
refugees from Macedonia who had fled
from the cruelties of the Turks. Their
next move was to Japan, where in 1903
NJ Bakhmetieff, now a full-fledged am
bassador to a great world power, had the
delicate task of peacemaker in the. days
Immediately following the Russo-Japanese
war.
He returns to Washington with the
open sesame to a number of mansions.
wherein. without further ceremony. he
will meet the wealth and genius of the
capital. These are the homes of John r.
Mclean. who married Nine Bakh-
metfeff's sister tnee Emily Beale):
of Admiral Dewey. who married Mr.. Nc
Leans sister; of Nine. Bakhmetieffs
brother, Truxton Beale, our former min
lister to Persia, Greece. Roumania and
Servia, and of Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh,
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.DoMlNc1o DA GA1TA
New BRAZILIAN r1BASSADoR
@ctiNEDiNSr

widely among and mingle freely with
Americans of note and i'll public adj
dresses, after-dinner speeches or private
conversations, conjure up i'll the Amerl-
can mind pictures of a new Russia lately
emancipated from absolutism by self
sacrificing and progressive ear. At the
same time he will strive to gain for
Russia financial footing in America
and to attract our capital to the develop
ment of Russ.a's vast internal resources
That he is the right man for this task is
attested by the fact that NJ. BakhmetieH
speaks English fluently. has a wealth of
native wit and saving humOr, and an
American wife who. by right of birth. has
an entree into the most influential circles
of her native country. Washington's So
ciety of a generation ago remembers her
as Mary Beale. daughter of Gen. Edward
Fitzgerald Beale who lived in the big
Decatur mansion on Lafayette square.
and had to his credit a military. diplo-
matte and financial record as veteran
of the Mexican, Indian and civil wars, as
Grants minister to Austria and owner
of large sheep and cattle ranch in
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CRESPO

whose daughter married madame 5
nephew, Edward Mclean.
Japan, too. will have a new ambassa-
dor here, Baron Chinda. who has just
been serving with the same rank at the
kaiser's gay court, in Berlin. Like M.
Bakhmetieff, he understands America and
its language. having been partly edu-
Gated in our country
Direct opposites in marital status are
the other two ambassadors who will now
make their first bow to official society.
That of Brazil Senior da Cana, is a
bachelor, while that Of Mexico, Senior
Crespo, has been the father Of a dozen
children. But despite his single blessed
ness the new Brazilian ambassador. who
is immensely wealthy, has leased on 10th
street a fine mansion, with both a roof
garden and sunken garden, and which
augurs that he plans some brilliant hos
pitalities.
It Is rumored that the new Mexican
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and paUnS against the President OF the
United States and the premier or MS
cabinet.
Most conspicuous of these new con-
testants is his excelency, George bahh-
metieff, the big white cars ambassador
who has just brought back to our shores
the opulent American wife whom he we'd
ded at our capital back in the admins
tration of President Arthur. when under
that popular Muscovite minister, NJ de
Strive he was secretary of the legation
OF Car Alexander Jul.
He will at once take up the vexed
question of the validity in Russia or
passports which our State Department
issues to Jews travefng in Russia, and
which that empire has not honored hith-
erto-a question over which those two
wealthy capitalists, John Hays Hammond
and Jacob Schiff, have lately titled.
The car is said to have selected M.
Bakhmetieff as the man best qualified to
dispel our ti-Russian prejudices en-
xendered by the long catalogue of cruel
ties to Siberian exiles. by the bloody
massacres of the Jews and by other
atrocities of the days of absolutism- In the
performances of this delicate function the
new ambassador is expected to travel
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was colonel and on drill days used to
button his Manchu qGeuc inside his
shirt. In those days he was n student
attache under Minister Yang and afte-
earning his sheepskin in Washington took
q collegiate degree at Cornell In the
past fifteen years he has held. in China.
public Offices of increasing responsibility.
He is now in his mid-thirties and knows
Amerca better than any of his prede
ceSSorS.
Among other ministers who Will now en-
joy their first season in official society
here are Senior Antonio Rivero of Cuba,
Mr.. Romulo S Naon of Argentina, Senior
General Pedro Mel Ospina of Colombia.
DR.. Alberto Membreno, Honduras: DR.
Carlos Maria de Pena, Uruguay; Senior
Don Eduardo Suarez. Chile: Mr.. Solon
Menos. Haiti. and Mr.. E. Havenith of
Belgium.
Like his predecessor Count de Buis-
secret. the new Belgian minister. Mr..
Havenith. has an American wife. who is
a daughter of the late Charles Ffoulke,
millionaire art connOiSSeur of Washing
ton. She married the young diplomat
when he was an attache of the Belgian
legation here under Baron Moncheur, who.
too had an American wife, the daughter
OF Powell Clayton, our former anbassa-
dor to Mexico.
Needless to say rich American wife
is an invaluable asset to a diplomat ac-
credited to America, and it may be added
that about the only class of titled foreign
ers who make satisfactory husbands Tor
American women are these astute diplo-
matists. whose profession leaves them nc
time for that ideness which is forever
breeding vice in the mobiles of the leisure
class.
Scores of American girls have taken
hands at the diplomatic chess game
ever since. Cornelia, the daughter OF
De Witt Clinton set the example OF
marrying NJ Edmond Genet, one OF
the French ministers accredited TO
Presidents Washingtons republican
court 1t was but shortly afterward
in Jefferson's administratfon-that
the fair Fanny. daughter of Gen. john
CadwaIader of Philadelphia. married
the British minister, David Montague.
afterward Lord Erskine. And there
followed not many years later pre-
cedent for NJ. Bakhmetieff's marriage
to Washington girl This was when
President Van Buren, witnessed the
wedding of the Russian minister,
Baron De Bodisco. to a Georgetown
schoolgirl of sixteen. Miss Harriet
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ambassador, Senior CrespO, will have to
find a embassy that will be large
enough to house his immense family, for.
although three of his twelve children have
died. he has adopted two orphans of his
brother. This great family is one of tai
ented musicians and linguists and the
ambassador himself is collector Of art
treasures, including rare old tapestries
md antique silver plate. He has been
transferred here from Vienna.
BY an odd freak of fate two lads who
were friends and scholmates at the Cen
trail High School. in the early nineties,
have just splashed into international
fame. the crossing from Ame1i-
ca to fill career in the orient
and the other coming from the orient to
fill a career in America. These lads We're
w. Morgan ShQster, who. as treasurer
general of Persia, holding the purse
strings of the boy shah, has lately been
knocking some sonorous growls out of
the Russian bear, and Alfred SEE, who
has just been accredited as Chinese min
lister to Washington. Young SEE was
cadet in the regiment of which Shuster
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- until quite recently the last
official act which the master
mariner performed before he
boarded his vessel and sailed
seward out of New York har
hor was to visit the custom house and
obtain therefrom the papers which told
the world that he had complied with
the provisions of international mari
time law.
Within the past few weeks he has
assumed new final duty which, to
him. Is quite IS important In the
great rotunda of Uncle Sans marine
clearing house there is : big chart
twelve feet long and seven feet high
before which he stops ard makes
minute inspection. Whether he is
bound northeast toward the Grand
Banks and across to England or Cor
many; east. toward the Mediterranean
southeast. to Cape Town. or south, To
the tropics. he gets full information
of what he may expect to encounter
not only in the way of wind and
weather. but of other details which
cause him to be constantly on the
alert.
There are lines that tell him of the
barometer's probable actions and the
general temperature he may look for;
there are arrows that show him the
prevailing direction of the wind along
the course which he Is to follow;
there are figures which tell him the
strength of the wind and number of
gales against which he may have to
fight and the Gains through which he
may sail on smooth seas, and. to-
gether with lot of minor bits of
information, there are shaded areas
that tell him the regions wherein the
dreaded fog turks. In other words
he studies his own future with ad-
vance information that is kept up
daily to within few hours of his
sailing time.
Ordinary intelligence with the barome-
ter and the thermometer in the bands
of the mariner wireless telegraphy bridg-
ing the space from ship to shore and
meteorology backed by the elaborate
system of Uncle Sans weather bureau
have made possible this important factor
of safety for the men and ships at sea.
Barely a half century ago the sailor
went to sea with future before him
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fury. 1t is a land where much history
has been made, and where much history.
especially Of the Industrial kind is still
making. The present envoy and his wife
will he visible tokens of the culture of a
land OF which Americans as A rule know
but little. Though the minister. Senior de
Pena, presented his credentials to Presi-
dent Taft carly in the past sprng. bust
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CHE and Her Four Young
~ Daughters Are a Recent
Addition to the Latin-Ameri-
can Contingent - Senior de
Pena Is a Man of Affairs in
the Southern Republic and
Has Established His Lega-
ton in the Mansion Formerly
Occupied by WI Ting-fang,
18th and Q Streets-Senora
de Pena Will Present Her
Two Younger Daughters at
Tea to Be Given Early in
January.
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southern California. During the year that
her father represented us at Francis Jo-
sephs autocratic court in Vienna, Mary
Beale had her first taste of diplomatic
life and it was six years later that she
married the young Russian secretary to
Washington. who converted her to the
Greek Catholic Church.
Some officials yet in public life remem-
Der their picturesque wedding-how they
knelt side by side with jewel-studded
bridal crowns upon their heads: how they
exchanged wedding rings of both gold and
silver: how the Greek priest handed bread
and wine to the young bridegroom. who
handed both to the bride, and how. in
furtherance of this quaint ceremony, they
both held lighted candles while the SOL
emn prayers were said.
1t was not long after their nuptials that
the couple set off for Europe, where the
husband became minister to the Grecian
court and during their stay there, in
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EOUR New Ambassadors
L And Nine New Ministers
Now to Take Their Places at
the Board-Two of Them
Bring Rich American Wives
Careers of Romance and
Glitter-Two Boys Who Met
in Washington Public School
Suddenly Splash Together
Into International Fame
One Comes Back as Envoy
of Great Oriental Power
Japan's New Ambassador a
Baron-Mexico's the Father
of Twelve Children-Brazil's
a Wealthy Bachelor-Grow-
ing List of American Wives
in Foreign Diplomatic Corps
Why Diplomats Make Good
Husbands-Germany Forbids
It's Diplomats to Marry For
eign NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
Favor of American Women
Reasons for Making Them.
RY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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III Ia u ! ~ ! ~ III a TIC
c Ii e s S game re-
opens at Wash
inGton with four
new ambassadors
extraordinary. nine
ne " ministers
plenipOtentiary and
dozens of new
secretaries and at
tacileS at the
board. ready to
play the pieces
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RTGI-AY. though
smallest OF the III
dependent republ cs
Of South America.
ir. nevertheless. one
o. the most inter-
e-tins and progress
sive OF the coun-
tries which broke
away from the do
n.nion OF Spain in
the early part OF
the nineteenth cen
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most efficient and valuable member of
that body. His success led to his ap-
pointment in Washington. the most i'm
portant post in the gift of the presidents
of the South American republic, and he
has already attained prominence among
the numerous ENJOYS from the Latin
states Possessing wealth and culture,
the legation of Uruguay. hitherto "A neg
]igible quantity socially considered, will
be one of the gayest and most hospitable
OF the foreign homes. and Washington
mans at least will learn at first hand al.
about the country, of which at present
only its great seaport, Montevideo. is
known.
I'VE are all very proud of our first city.
Montevideo, which is one of the seven
greatest seaports of the world" said
Senorita Maria Manuela de Pena, the
eldest daughter of the minister. but it
is not our entire country by any means.
1t is something like the idea which for
eigners have of New York. They imag-
ire it comprehends the entire country,
and they are amazed to find so many
other fine cities and such a diversity OF
charm. Montevideo is the largest city,
and it Is now near the half-million point
in way of population. In 1860 all of Uru-
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ness of Importance made it incumbent on
him TO live in New York and 1t is oniy
within the past fortnight that he mas
selection of a legation home, that man
son on the corner of 18th and Q street
for years the home of t. Franklin
Schneider. The mansion is illustrious IN
social annals the home of Wa Ting
fang, that astute Chinese philosopher
and statesman. More recently the home
has been the scene of the Inequalities
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most frequent and where it tapers on 10
only occasional occurrences.
Normals that are founded upon as
great an accumulation as twenty year
or more of observations may be regarded
as nearly free from an appreciaple
change. Tracks of Individual storms are,
however kept up to date, those storms
which are of the greater note being chart-
ed each month. These are shown by Solld
red lines, throughout which clrc.es marx
the point of origin and the daily progress
sion and show the mariner just what
peculiar traits characterize each one.
Marine meteorology is not a new
science, but with the bureaus marine
meteorologist Henry l.. Heiskell, at the
helm, it has made rapid strides across the
sea of doubt within the past six years
Prior to that time the normals were Few
and uncertain; at the present time they
cover all phases and are CONSIDERED most
accurate and valuable.
The observations necessary TO OBTAIN
these are made on board ship by one OF
the ships officers Once each day, at
Greenwich mean noon, that officer reads
the barometer, temperature of the air
and water, and observes the direction and
force of the wind, the state OF the
weather and the kind of clouds. These
he records on a special sheet.
The observations covering voyage con-
stitute q set which, when completed. is
forwarded to the headquarters in Wash
ington TwentyfOur marine centers IN
the United States and about ninety
American consuls at the various seaports
of the world also assist in the collection
of these data. The number OF vessels
making such observations totals nearly
900, and the number of such reports re-
ceived each year runs up to as high as
80 900.
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AT the weather bureau there are piles
upon piles Of little paper-backed books.
original records that constitute the in0is-
putable evidence of what has taken place
in the years gone before over the sea,
through which tabulators have burrowed
and from which computers have extracted
to form these normals. Marine meteorol-
ogists call a synoptic chart one which de-
scribes the daily conditions in detail.
Each vessels daily reports are plotted on
these charts. A days plotting covers the
greater part of the oceanic highways to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

I;Y MARGARET Il. DOWNING.
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RY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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UNTIL quite recently the last
official act which the master
mariner performed before he
II boarded his vessel and sailed
seward out of New York har-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-17
The Editor

He sits in state from sun to sun,
and hands out wisdom by the ton.
One Anxious Correspondent writes for
something that cures chigger bites:
and Old Subscriber wants to know
a good recipe for canning snow; and
More Anon would like to have for
mula for making salve. From dema-
gogues he takes the hides; he gives
advice to blooming brides; with scorn
assails the idle rich, and oft pre-
scribes for BARRIERS itch. He shows
how wildly congress errs, and tells us
how the cookleburs may be removed
from horses tails; and then with
joyous zest he sails into an estimate
of Taft, or jolts the referendum graft.
His soul with mystic lore is fraught;
he has to be an aeronaut, a poet and
an engineer, pugilist devoid of fear.
He should be skilled enough to shave,
or milk cow, or dig a grave; to
write dirge when some one dies,
and wink three times when some one
lies. He ought to know all things,
and then impart his wisdom with his
pen, and not give way to grief or
fear, if he is busted all the year
Walt Mason.
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Pussy and tha aurular.

A good dog has hitherto been con-
sidered the best protection against bur-
glars, but certain old lady differs
from this view. She believes in cats,
and, her house being broken into not
long ago. she proceeded to put her
theory into practice. and with marvel
ously good results. The midnight hour
had not long struck when she heard
unusual sounds in the hall below. She
slipped out of bed, took her faithful
feline in her arms and walked quietly
on to the landing. She leaned over
The burglar was on the stairs. Sud-
denly in an unlucky moment he struck
amatch upon the staircase. The lady
could see the burglar. but the burglar
could not see the lady. She held puss
up and then dropped her upon the bur-
glars head. The cat uttered an un-
earthly screech and then commenced
to scratch for all it was worth. Puss
was certainly the willing worker. The
next instant the man was outside in
the Observation-Disclosures Guardian
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The Channels Trail.

Every day at noon at Grindelwald
there-is rush Of visitors for the tele-
scopes in order to gaze at one Of the
most interesting natural scenes ia the
Alps, "the chamois trail" Regularly
at this hour herd Of twenty to thir-
ty channels may be seen passing in
Indian file up the yawning abysses of
the precipitous Mettenberg rocks, sep
arating two glaciers the male animals
leading the way. the king Of the herd
keeping twenty yards in advance and
on the watch. at the bottom Of the
Mettenberg. where the slope is freed
from snow, the channels find meager
subsistence when their usual feeding
grounds are under deep snow. It is
a curious fact that the chamois de-
scend to their feeding grounds at
dawn, when there is little likelihood
Of avalanches, and return to their
haunts at an hour when avalanches-
for this portion of the mountain has
frequent avalanches-have already fall
en- and the danger is past.-Geneva
Cor. Pail Mall Gazette.