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are to be found in the Sierra Madre
mountains, the entrances being protected
against the weather and wild beasts by
stone or mud walls. Some of the caves
are very large, and are reached by lad
ders, or by stairways cut out inside the
he uses. Others of the houses are of stone
and some are of adobe. with roofs of
thatch.
The Tarahumares, both women and
men, are noted for their long, flowing
jet black hair. The men pull out all the
hairs from their faces. They say that
w!liskers are sign of wickedness, and
they believe that the devil has always a
beard These people are said to be me
greatest runners on record, and instances
are known of where men have run 10
miles without stopping. They go on a
slow trot, and keep it up for hours. The
women can run fast and as well as
the men, and both men and women have
moonlight races and other athletic sports.
They sometimes race by torchlght
The Pima Indians, who are found in the
same locality, are much like the Tara
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Fur Farming in Canada


Fur farming, an industry that has re-
Gently attracted much attention in some
parts of Canada, Is the subject of a book,
compiled by Mr.. ]. Walter Jones. b. s.
A., which the Dominion commission Of
conservation has printed and issued.
Conditions such as cleared the bison
from the great North American plains
have been operating to reduce the supply
of every kind of wild furred creature,
whether of the land or water, and this at
time when the calls of fashion and the
growing wealth of the people caused the
demand for the finer varieties of skins
to greatly increase. table of prices
paid at the Hudson Bay company sales in
London shows that between 1882 and 1910
muskrat pelts advanced from 16 cents to
81 cents, mink from 73 cents to $634 dark
red fox from s311 to $16.65, and large lynx
from s4.S7 to $685.. Such rare skins as
black fox and sea otter are not quoted.
their value being fixed beyond ordinary
commercial ratings, the former having
sold, it is stated, as high as $2600, and
the latter at times bringing $500 and
$17OO.
The demands of the market and the
skill of men who prepare and dye skins
led to the practices that may hardly be
held to be in accord with strict honesty.
Some SO,0O0,O00 rabbit skins are imported
every year into London. They figure
later in workshops and store windows
as sable, electric, Red river, Hudson, and
other seals" as ermine. chinchilla, etc.
Other skins are manipulated into sables.
bears, mink, fox, etc. The London
chamber of commerce even issued list
of substitutions which are designated as
"permissible" CThis list was published
in Daily Consular and Trade Reports for
March II. 191D.
Raising animals for fur is not so new
as might be thought. The karakule
sheep. which some have lately spoken OF
introducing into Quebec. is the source of
supply of Persian lamb and broadtail. 1t
was the domestic sheep of its Asiatic
habitat. but now has greater value. Ex-
periments have been made in both Eu-
rope and America to adapt it to the new
surroundings, and crossings with Lin
coin and Cotswold lustrous wooled sheep
are spoken of as promising.
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ADOPT THE
CHINESE METHODS
OF WHEAT CULTURE

Paris, June 2S.--(Special)- )-Great interest
is taken in France just now in new
method by which the yield of crops per
acre is enormously increased. In one test
case the yield of wheat has been three
times above that grown in similar SOIL
in the same neighborhood.
The remarkable value of the method Is
indicated by the statement that it has
made 20 grains of wheat produce 100000
in one year.
The method consits in preparing seed
beds in widely spaced lines on very mel
low land, and at the end of two months
dividing the tufts springing from each
grain, replanting each of these rooted
shoots thus detached and finally in hoe
ing and earthing up these new plants
many times.
The system is not really new, but a
very ancient one, used immemorially by
the Chinese, and to 1t is due the enor-
nous yield of their fields which have
been treated like gardens.
While our farmers throw broadcast
handfuls of grain on the narrowed earth,
offering rich pasturage to pillaging birds
and rodents, the Chinaman, after fur
rowing the earth with his wooden plow-
share, without turning it, crumbles each
lump in his hands until it is fine like pow
der. This done, at planting time he
walks slowly down each furrow, carry
ing grain drill which is marvel of
ingenius simplicity.
The sower pushes the drill in front of
him, incining it now to the right and
now to the left, in such way that each
inclination causes the issue of single
seed, which is instantly pressed under
by the track of one foot or the other.
Each grain is thus planted at a distance
of 16 to 20 inches from its neighbor in
every direction.
At the end of few weeks a germina-
ton begins. When the young plant is 10
or u inches in height there are a score
Of stalks about it's stem, each provided
with a fringe of rootlets. The farmer
covers each with loose earth by means of
careful hoeing, thus raising the level of
the furrow.
Each stalk soon has Is to 20 new stalks
around it's stem, which detach them
selves. All are the indirect issue Of a
single grain, which proves, therefore, to
have been the parent Of 600 or 400 stalks
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The Ruins of Militia
Fen1j11isn1's Tril,1phs In Russia

womens higher courses for both the
branches.
Theology is, therefore. the only do
main from which women aspirants are
excluded. The universities have no theo-
logical faculties, and grant no degrees of
divinity All male candidates for priest
hood are educated in priests seminaries.
where they live as boarders, and this
makes it impossible for women to claim
admission Russians have a strong pref
udice against women preachers. The main
obstacle, however. is that practically no
women want to become priests Women
aspiring to higher education are nearly
all of the specialized 'intelligentsiya"
type, who thirst for an active fruitful
life, and look upon the journalistic and
corrupt orthodox church as offering a ca
reer only for the more idle among the
moujiks.
Russian womens progress in higher ed
ucation is not surprising to those who
know that in admitting women to uni
versities Russia led all Europe In 1861
Alexander II issued a decree declaring
that "the girls gymnasiums secondary
sities so that in future girls and boys
may enjoy university education in COM
mon." AT that time no university in Eu-
rope had opened it's doors to women: and
as a fact progressive Germany did not
do this until 80 years afterward. Alex
ander IFS plan did not come wholly to
fruition. Women's higher education re-
mained In the main restricted to medicine;
and then not in the universities, but I'm
special COURSES" organized by university
professors, and mostly subsidized by
wealthy friends of deminism. The
courses" turned out well educated wom-
en- doctors, and they created in ltera-
ture the type of the "coursistka," the
short haired, spectacled. untidy, violent
ly progressive girl, which is now disap-
pearing in a newborn enthusiasm for
sport and soap In the last years Alex
anders initiative has been revived. First
ly, the courses. or womens medical col
lege, founded in 1897, was recognized as
equal to the mems universities; and given
the right to grant diplomas which have
the same value to applicants for state
employment as the diplomas of mems uni
versities The most distinguished profess
sor in the medical college at present is
a woman. This reform did not get passed
until after furious feuds, caused by the
opposition of reactionaries. The duma op-
position was led by the notorious Kursk
Right deputy, Purishkievitch, who caused
a terrific scandal by declaring that girls
matriculate at st. Petersburg university
in order to live with students as their
mistresses.. Deputies Schubinsky, Count
Uvaroff and many others stood up for
equal rights and the well known special
list, G. I. Turner, of the Military Med
ical academy helped the cause by de-
claring that women doctors will be even
the battlefelds of the future.
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almost unanimously in favor of women
being admitted on equal terms. In most
other countries professional men resist
such emancipation for reasons of pock-
ct, but with Russians progressism is
stronger even than self interest and
fear of competition.
Finally the women them selves are at
work. Last year they lost by death
Anna Pavlovna Philosofova, the origi-
nal creator and foster mother of the
Russian feminism, the woman who
pushed forward the movement in the
sixties of the nineteenth century when
1t had few friends. Now the friends
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The Huicholes of Tepic


Among the least known Indians of
Mexico are some in the territory of
Tepic, which lies 'on the west coast,
surrounded by Jalisco, Durango and
Sinaloa. Here live the Huicholes, whom
the Mexicans call the barbarians. They
have little to do with the present trou-
bles, and do not want anything but to
be let alone. They have their homes in
the Businesses of the mountains and
are so warlilSe that 1t was a hundred
years before the Spaniards We're able
to conquer them. They are nominally
converted to Christianity, but they are
practically barbarians and are said to
be Christians only when favors are to
be obtained. Many of them are hunt
ers, and they snare deer in nets
stretched between poles
Some OF the Huicholes look much
like the Chinese, and this reminds me
that l have seen many Japanese and
Chinese faces among the Mexican In
dians. 1t may be that a part of the an.
cient population drifted over from Asia
across Bering strait and came down
here through our country. The Huich-
oles have a wicker chair which is just
like the Chinese cane chair now in use
and they employ it in their religious
ceremonies 1t may be that the custom
of wearing long nails which I have
mentioned came also from China.
The Huicholes are about five and one
half feet high, and their women are
very good looking. They wear short
skirts and tunics of cotton cloth which
they weave upon their own looms Tho
legs are left bare and the skirt is
caught in at the waist by girdle. The
girdle, like the obi of Japan. is moro
costly than any other part of the dress.
The women wear necklaces and they
have beads in their ears.
The Huichole houses each contain
but one room and the entrance is low
and small like that of the Eskimo igloo.
The houses are circular and they are
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are plentiful. The stage in particular
is strongly represented. One feminist
actress is the widow of the famous nov
elist, Anton Tchekhoff, who is herself
a star of the Moscow Art theatre Ma
of her stage earnings to the cause.
There are other helpful women in the
business classes. One, Madame Eka-
terina Jasinsky, has. offered to pay a
third of the cost of erecting women's
university at Moscow. This university
would have five faculties, and make
womens higher education entirely inde-
pendent of mems
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The Girls of Tehuantepec

Indeed, the girls of Tehuantepec ara
among the beauties of the North Amer
lean continent. They are as straight as
a royal palm tree and their forms are
beautifully rounded. They have olive
skins, black hair and eyes and teeth as
white as lime freshly slaked. Their or
dinary costume is a Jacket and skirt, the
former having short sleeves and cut very
low at the neck, so that it exposes their
beautiful shoulders and arms. The jacket
reaches almost to the waist and a strip
of bare skin usually shows between it
and the skirt.
the Burmans. 1t consists of strip of
red cloth several yards long. This is
wrapped tightly around the hips and
tucked in at the waist. In addition to
this every woman has a huipil for Sun
days and feast days. The huipil is a lace
decoration of enormous size, which is
worn as a sort of headdress. 1t incloses
the face or it may extend around the
neck or hang down from the head at the
back like the war plumes of a Comanche
chief. On dress occasions the girls wear
also full skirts which are often heavily
embroidered with lace.
These women do much of the work.
They are thrifty and accumulative. They
are fond of gold jewelry and like espe-
cially ornaments made of American twen-
ty-dollar gold pieces. Girls may be fire.
quently seen thus wearing a small for
tune in gold double eagles, although their
feet may be bare.
The Ruins of Militia
The most famous ruins of this tribe lie
within % miles to the southeast of OAK
aca City. They are about 300 miles south
of the Mexican capital and one can so
there by train in less than a day. There
are fairly good hotels at OaXaca, and
from there one can reach the ruins by
carriage in five or six hours. Or he can
go by train to San Pablo in an houi
and half and stop at the hotel there.
In the latter case he will be right at
the ruins and can easily spend a day
or so in moving about through them.
The ruins are those of the ancient city
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each bearing an ear.
An Algerian French farmer, NJ. Bour-
ol-Humbert, has been planting wheat
and oats in the same fields for five years
without the application of manure. Eie
makes his burrows 36 inches apart and
plants seeds therein at distance of 20
inches from each other. Then he har-
rows the earth constantly, stirring the
soil, destroying its parasite and keeping
it pulyerized.
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in Oaxaca a state whose population is
fully nine tenths Indian Some are to be
found on the Isthnus of Tehuantepec,
where the women are noted for their pic.
turesqueness and for their independent
ways.
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humares and the Tepehuannes. Another
tribe nearby let their finger and toe nails
grow in Chinese fashion. They say that
cutting off the nails will produce blind
ness, and that if a girl sucks the back
bone of a deer her back will grow curved
and she will have the backache. These
tribes are noted for their chastity, those
who fall from grace being publicly
switched
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of the country. Chihuahua has, for in
stance, the Casas Grandes, which lie near
the railroad on the way from Juarez to
TerraZas. These Casas correspond some-
what TO the homes of our cave dwellers
save that they were built on the level
and were of vast extent. They were, in
short, the first apartment houses on
record. The chief building is 800 feet long
from north to south, and POO feet wide
from west to east covering an area of
almost five acres. 1t seems to have con-
sisted of three separate piles, united to
lower buildings. The apartments varied
in size, and the walls in places We're 40
or so feet high, indicating that the build
ings We're in ruins at the time of the
Spanish conquest, and very little is
known of the people who built them. al
though some suppose them to date back
RI the MooIiie
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Some Cave Dwellers of Mexico

In Chihuahua we have The Tarahumafes
Indians, some of whom still live in caves,
and who are sometimes known as the
American cave dwellers. Similar homes
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22
MYSTERIOUS WOMAN
now FIGURES N
DARROW CASE
Intimated That Feminine In
fluence Might Have Been
Used in Reaching Jurors in
Mcnamara Case.

fny I~nmea wlso - Ev~utsn wsvssai
Los Angeles. Cal. Ian. -. Intina .
tlcns that Is myslariunN woman might
hafe visited prospective jurors IN boz
half ~ clarence s barrow. were
made ioany when the second trini ~
the fottner chief counsel for the Mo
Namafu'A charxtd with jury brihfi q,
waa resumed
whtaion a. GRAY n special prose-
ruiur brought the subject up in cN-
lnhiniNg " 4. spaiford. a venlreman
rteviou.ly temporarily passed ny the
defense
fih1 amy woman visited you IN the
iam six weeks TO discuss AIR. bar
row." asked GRAY. % Spafford.
sNu." replied spafford.
''nnve y0n discussed Mr barrow a.
ga with any woman lu that time
persisted Gray.
spalford replied that hia wife was
ne oniy woman who had received ga,
~ his confidenceN IN that period.
spafford was asked n he ever haH
read any OF lJarrows' writings Ia TIA
Appeal a. Reason" Before M
,oitfs reuiy parrow denined that ne
Rad ever written for that publication
The Jury box held twelve men TEN
porariiy pansed by the defense whe'
court reccfaed IA noon.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22

aso". 80. a. Doepp. bigamy. so.
-, Evans, regulating hours oi ,u
pl"Nment for women SO. 90. paukr.
i"rbidding blncklistng 40. so. Fan
k'y, on kidnapping No. 81 Pankcy.
execution OF persons convicted of
capital crimes. 40. 81. Walton. Gee.
cheated cstutcs SO. 81. Abe,tla und
Walton. making change iu the dis
irihut."n nf funds received from 10
forest service.
Tho house joint resolution inviting
Governor Marshall 20 address th,
Legislature was referred to the ~
nance committee.
House hin SO -. upprupriating
money for Legislative printing. wu.
passed senate BIN Eu g. on purity
of election Judges was rrcommittro
to m. committr" on Judiciary This
was the bin which tho senate had
apparently decided to Nh yrstcrdJ,
but evidently they have changed th,ir
minds Senate bin Nu. q. the driul
Wg cup bin. wac TccommItt.d lui
further consideration
SENATOR Barth presented these nos
bills. So. %, punishment ul persons
convicted OF first degree murder. Nu.
%. prohibiting IA, CARRYING off con.
cctird weapons So. ,t granting uu.
th"rIty Tor srli- government iu cities
"' 1000 inhabitants under th, com
mission plau
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22

fny Lca.ed Wire 90 EYcnlng Herald


The colonel was questioned tor
nearly two hours he claupcd hi.
hands and shouted. hurfhh. when h,
stepped down Al times he upbrn d.
ed Judge Dickinson. counsei for tn
government Tor asking questions
about things don't know" and
complained. while counsel argued.
that the hearing was duller than The
Rimono strike"
Asked about his testimony befor,
the Stanley committee. the colonrl
again denied that he had been d.
ceived by MesSrs. FricE and Gary
Tha hearing started shortly aftei
In o'clock. Colonel Roosevelt wa
asked only one question by the coun.
| 81 Tor thu gov0nment namely,
/ whether statements contained m O
letter which a. wrote Co Attorne3
/ General Bonaparte concerning IA,
Tenn. 'ssee Coal and Iron rompan.
deal we're true. The colonel replied
~ the affirmative. '''-"
E. v. Lindabury, counsel TOR th'
steel corporation Then took up th'
cross-examnation.
| Mr. Roosevelt testified that he wa'
aware that the government had un
derIaken an investigation 90 the ste
corporal ON before the Tennessee,
Coal aud Iron COMPANY was tukci
over.
They reported go me unfavoranl.
IN regard tu the Standard uil. bu
favorabiy in regard to the steel cor
porHtion." he said
Mr. llndahury called AIR R0osc
veit's attention 90 letter .n whicl
Reconnaissance Garfield Of the burcn'
az corporations snid h. did not kno'
al sinRi, Instance I'm which IN
steel corporation had refused inior
nation 60 the government. The col
onei said that such was his under
standing of ths facts.
II do uol remember ~ what dat
the gov vnmont Was mad" acpuainte
with the operations ol the steel voF
|, pnrati0n," he explained.
} 1T was not until Mr. Garfield ma
} dertook his work az c"mmi son I
thai had my attention specificail
called 10 the matter.
$50 yop were familiar WITH thrs
affairs when you had your ini"rvl"'
with Gnrg and Frick
Il was familiar With the inFc~it% 40
ton replied tho Colonel
ar l.indtbur, nd th" 'oi"nr'
urstinuT denial
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22

~Aa ftnled ib today vs. senator
oofmAh ~ saw York. senator Ntwt
iaDda 30 Nfstda and Others. who
laItn ne United states hrs fpil nu-
shotiiy nndtf ia Treaties % give nee
rf1Afe ~ Ameflcnn coaplwise traflic
tfnatof oUtfmnn NAs memnrr ~
tNt enhennmiiite which PVT into the
tlcAsocratic platform a Baltimore the
plank tndhrelnE thc frcs toll provi-
flan and hla attitude Throughout the
nNal nshi hah nern vigorously op'
i.e4i % She position taken b. hln col.
oA ue. senator Boot
Tire uemaefallt fsrcnn Ia the house
Ana sonait afe divided aver the qucs.
tom. Observation-Disclosures the 5ssisFatioas
az the rational platfnrm. an nttcmFt
u the senate a. bring about chnnao
ia lhe law al this scHrion probably
wi3 open = ffni more bitter than that
which attended tie original passage %
the causi law
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22
ENTIRE CARAVAN IS
SWEPT TO DEATH
BY FLOOD
Three Hundred and Fifty No
hammedan Pilgrims Wiped
Out by InundatiOn Near
Sacred City of Medina.
VenIne IcrmIdl

ivy Ieasrd Wire 60 Fveuine Herald
. snaklm. Egypt. Jan ~. Three .
. hundred and nifty Mohammednn y
. pilgrims from India ~ Mecca =
. were drowned today hy Hood =
. which overwhelmed the entire =
= caravan az It's encampnient mic =
q why between the sacred ciiy oi
. Nndina, Arahln. and the port az =
0 Y.moo. on The Red sea.
. @N&aeN . go . . =
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22
CHIHUAHUA REBELS
NOW READY TO
SURRENDER
Government Has Re-Assuring
Reports from Consul Letcher
AS to Conditions Directly
Across Border.

Washington. San "a. ,.usI
L"'ohcr ct chihuahua Mexico. rr.
ports that 90" rebels On that state ara.
S'"king pcac, and that peace ,nyo,s
representing the government gr, br.n.
sent hy special ,fulu Co treat vim
them. The proposed surrender Is ma.
d"rsiood to embrace an the rebel
rhioftoins In chihuahua. Whether 10
includes nrolro oud salular tn, con.
sal do's not report
Th" war department ha. relieved
'omp'nics q ami g oi h, Tv,Iub
infantry from dut, near ria Juan,
ON The lower california frnpti,r
where they huv, been ENFORCING ,r.
neutrality laws for about "a wear Tho
~" companies viii return tu Ga, Pre-.
sidI", Mont"rcN CAT \ force of ,un
Mexican federal TROOPS is now un dul,.
ON no westerly Mexican frontier
The gunbuIt Wheeling ha. r,p.rtrd
Q" lh" navy department her Departure
FROM Tampa. Fla, Tor Vera Gnu,
Nhrr" sh" was ordered ~ prnt.r,
Americans. for whose safety fear. az.
entertained because of long continued
d'7"rder ana impending farther out
breaks
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-01-22
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