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of its people, Rio is in the front rank
of modern municipalities.
l hear it said that the municipal ad-
Ininistration is woefully extravagant and
that the taxation is a heavy burden, but
even if this is true it is cheaper fo: Rio
Janeiro to be healthy and beautiful than
to be insanitary and unimproved. as was
the case not SO many years ago. For
the northern observer there is. as in other
Latin American cities. a little too much
that is ornate and too much display. but
that is the affair of the hundreds of thou
sands of people who live here rather than
of the few thousand observers who pass
through every year.
Picturesque Rio has not suffered by
being made habitable Rio. The old ques-
ton OF whether the harbor of Rio or of
sydney. New South Wales, is the most
beautiful in the world, was settled for
me decisively by the captain of the
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wife. of Indian ancestry +o sb.re , +;t,a
with her in later life For ona axamn1a
there was Sir Ianoas D,,I 90 @
arI;.r 10, ora,tn, es pD!.:I VI 'h
wboss o,,a,, a.. 49,, - Np'uiiia' In,
bl. be,. c,,Itirat;o,1 80 iy ~ ,r Doue.as
- ~ ~ i.Sa.'' a..''i WI anu eiesahee
ei,ai i,ieu Tue coufl VI queen Victoria
i-aoS oua.hcona IN every way-fnen-
taliS, lhtellectuaily and IN personality
was the peer of her husband, for she ad-
Vanced step by step with him in all his
career. British aristocracy accepted her
gladly.
Scotch thrift ever characterized the on
erations of Lord Strathcona. He founded
his gigantic fortune in habits of saving
And vet with il all he was eyer generals
u-;tb , ,rodir.,;t,- ,h.+ ~ -, -.
,mazed tbe u,nr,d ''- e"'
y considerable element OF the British
population, with a vague notion of geo.
graphical and political divisions. has come
a., ro.ora Io,a c,r,+,aa, 49,. ..,,,,- ,,:'.,,
~ i1o'u oh' i9 ''a' iieh
American peer. NO other BRUSH noble
man has given SO largely and SO lavishly
A recent example was his gift to Prince
Arthur of Tack and the Imcbess of rife
on 'he occasion OF their "eooins last
family was the great social event of the
yara,,, ~ .,t o. si,,,ar h,,t a,' s*j,e fnu. o'
niture-van load of household silver.
The strathcona Horse was another
princeiy contr,oution. ms caValfy resi-
for war and ,,rped ovar tn tha enni,,s
1t did notable service in South Africa.
\ monument in the public square at
Montrsal commefnorates I'M, this slft
to WcGil1 I-nivers;tv ('anada;s famons
institution of higher learning Tho Vic
toria Hosn,ta1 AZ iWontreaI is his .ift aud
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Plut0crat VS.. NobIeman.

A PROMINENT society matron, apro-
Z = pos OF an international marriage
that had ended badly, said:
This scoundrelly foreigner ought to
have been treated at the start as old
Gobsa Golde treated the Vicomte
rOisnon.
THE Vicomte fOignon, presenting him
self at Codes cream-colored palace in
5th avenue, demanded the hand of Miss
Lotta.
"Old Gobsa Code shook his head and
pursed his lips. Then, with a kindly
SMILE drawing out his wallet. he said:
.'Oh. no; | can't give you my daugh-
ter. That is asking too much. Here,
however, are half a dozen soup tickets :"
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Short-Story Writers.

tIT ASKED II. G. WELLS. while lunch
l ing with him last month at the
National Liberal Club, in London, why
he wrote no more short stories"
The speaker was an artist. He con-
tinued:
Mr. Wells said that there was very
little money in short stories. He said
that the yarns about the enormous
sums paid by magazines for short
stories were mostly fakes--fakes got
up by editors, which writer's supported
out of vanity.
lin fact Mr.. Wells concluded, in
fact, despite these fakes, you'll find that
all short-story writer's are short"
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could never reach the post alive, the
snow was SO deep. They We're right,
poor fellows; two died from the cold
and the hardships were forced to
endure before we had gone half way.
The other succumbed when We were over
100 miles from the post
Il went on alone. / don't like to think
of that time, it was too horrible. How
ever. my rise in the Hudson's Bay Com
pany was very rapid after that. l am
glad / took the trip
BY 1868 Donald Smith had risen to the
head Of the company. Thirty years Of
work and thrift had brought him out
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For Your Pet Dog.

THE dog which one does not care to
house in winter should not be neg
lected and exposed to severe cold A
good-sized doghouse can be made of a
sugar barrel by cutting a round hole in
one end Throw an old carpet over ii
and place something inside for the dog ia
sleep on. Set the barrel in a sheltered
place where the sun will shine on 1t dur
ing the day. After the dog learns where
his sleeping place is a piece of carpet
can be tackled over the top of the door to
make a storm door.
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amounting to one shilling and some odd
coppers.
At eighteen Donald Smith secured an
appointment I'm the service of the Hud-
son Bay Company, that famous crown
chartered corporation of which Prince
rupert was the first directing head. His
nrst work was in bleak Labrador. where
lie laid the foundation for his subsequent
fame as one of the best fur traders in
the cornpanys service, and acquired that
intimacy with the Indians that served
him SO well when he became the chief
administrator of the company
One winter, being threatened with
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after Donald Smith was known as Graf
gel-lachie" Smith.
So it was that when, November Z, 1855,
Donald Smith drove the last spike ON the
railroad. the spot was named "Craigel-
lachie" and so remains.
1t was in the '7Os that Donald Smith
won other distinction by lis daring in
tervention in the first Louis Riel re-
bellion in western Canada Riel had SET
the Indians and half-breeds of the west
afiame He had captured Fort Garry.
In perfectly matter-of-fact way Donald
Smith set out to visit Riel and talk sense
into his head if possible. The trip was
jaunt of 2,Go0 miles in winter over
land from Montreal. Riel made him pris-
oner in Fort Garry and held him there
two months.
Finally, through the well affected
French and French half breeds Smith
prevailed upon Riel to permit a meeting
of the people. In the open air. with
temperature of 20 degrees below zero
and in circumstances where one wrong
word would have meant death, he Won
the people from the rebel leader
When, later. Sir Garnet Wolseley ap-
peared at the head of a military eNpedi-
ton, the first Riel rebellion was at an
end. Though no orator. Smith had talk
ed rebellion out of the hearts of the
untutored savages, just as he subsequent
ly was to talk a loan of So, 900 out
of the British government for his trans
continental railroad.
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the most notable and picturesque figures
in the British empire
The cables told us last Wednesday OF
his death from prostration. the result of
Il severe attack of catarrh troubles. at
his home in London. Ninety-four years
old. he was known far and wide as the
Grand Old Man of Canada
You will live to be a hundred, if You
don't stop work i'll the meantime" is
what his physician told him several
years ago. Work was the only medi-
cine this sturdy old ever took. He
throve on it through all his long and
busy life.
But since the first great sorrow of his
manhood years came upon him last No
vember. when he lost his wife by DEATH
work did not have the same zest for him.
Tales that come from London are that
he moped about his Victoria street Of
fees. Before that, as high commissioner
for Canada. he labored industriously at
his task. He declined to take it as a
purely honorary post. He insisted upon
earning the $1,000 year salary, and
he earned much more than that. The
money. naturally, did not attract him,
as his fortune was estimated at some
S40,OOO,OO0 But the habit of thoroughnesS
III work acquired in seventy five years of
incessant activity dominated him.
1t was in very early manhood that he
took to himself the wife whose compan-
ionship he so recently lost He was then
a minor Servant as their employees are
called. of THE Company OF Gentlemen
Adventures of England, Trading Out of
Hudson's Bay otherwise, for short the
Hudson's Bay Company. His post was
in the distant barren lands OF Labrador.
Priest or clergyman there was none in
800 miles. and SO, following the custom
of his fellows. he married by the simple
native rites the halfbreed daughter of
one of the factors Of the company.
A lifetime later, when the British crown
for his services to the empire conferred
upon him in 1897 the barony from which
he takes his title. a question arose as to
offspring, daughter. To settle it the
aged couple were remarked with the full
ritual of the Church of England.
Lacking a male heir the title of Lord
Strathcona ordinarily would have lapsed
with his death. But in recognition of his
gift to the empire at the time of the Boer
war Of his famous regiment of Strathcona
Horse a special reminder was granted,
which insures the perpetuation of the title
through the female line 1t passes to the
son of his daughter now a lad of eight
cen.
In the society of certain lands a half
breed wife is not regarded as a distinct
social asset. But in this respect aristo-
cratic Britain is less narrow minded than
some Lord Strathcona was not the first
Hudson Bay Company servant with a
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blindness, Donald Smith, with three
Indians, made a journey of 1000 miles
by dog-sled to Montreal, where an opera
ton on his eyes was performed His
friends tried to dissuadc him from re-
turning. because the winter was eN-
traordinarily severe
But / had my duty to perform he
said, not long ago, in telling the story.
Every thing must give place to duty, you
know. The Indians insisted that they
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but the contract has been let just the
same.
San Paulo is growing proportionately
faster than Rio. Not SO long ago its peo-
pie pointed with pride to d population
of a quarter of a million and told Of
the time not 50 very far back. when
there were only 10000 inhabitants. Now
the population has grown beyond 400. 900
and the half million mark has been set
for achievement within the next five
years.
The growth in San Paulo is the sequel
of industrial development. As the me-
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DRIVING THE LAST SPIKE COM
HORNE
AT HISRI

of the wilderness and made him financial
king of Canada. Through the Bank of
Montreal he controlled, with Lord
Mount Stephen, the great financial re-
sources of the Dominion Most men
would have retired. But Donald Smith
was not like most men.
He turned his thoughts to transporta-
ton problems. Prior to that he had be-
come acquainted with James J. Hill.
then dreaming trader at st. Paul, and
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tions. waiting the chance for advance
ment.
| was told of two graduates of a New
England college who came down on
prospecting trip without any position in
sight. but who found employ nent with
the light and power company as handy
men.
The moral of these instances of univer
Sity graduates is that in the expansion
of American foreign trade and American
constructive enterprises i'll foreign cotin-
tries the college man is the man most in
demand. He has the greater breadth of
view and is the better adapted to the
broader field than the man who has con-
sidered that the time spent at the uni
versity is lost in the career of practical
affairs.
Another constructive enterprise which
may be fairly GAINED as American is the
building of the Madeira Mamore railway,
which opens up SO large area of the
Amazonian interior to commerce. 1t was
Percival Farquhar who in conjunction
with the Brazilian government, carried
this project through to completion. and
in doing it American engineers had d
large share of the responsibility.
::
Mr.. Farqulhar's railway enterprises in
central and southern Brazil are also re-
ceiving many recruits as engineers and
in other capacities from the United
States. The land and cattle enterprises
of the same companies are in charge of
Murdo Mackenzie. one of the best known
cattemen of the United States.
These instances answer numerous ques-
tIonS as to the opportunities for Ameri-
cans in Brazil. There is plenty of op-
portunity for Americans who have the
qualities of the pioneer.
While American constructive enter
prise has played and is playing so
large a part in the development of
Brazil. it is Brazil herself that is doing
the most for her own advancement
The harbor and other public Improve
ments are very largely of Brazilian
conception and of Brazilian execution,
although most of the actual work is
being done by foreign contractors
Reconstructed Rio is the result of
the progressive national spirit which
began to manifest itself twelve or fif-
teen years ago. DR.. Lauro Muller, the
present minister of foreign affairs
who last year visited the United
states, was at that time minister of
public works. Under his direction the re-
construction of the city began. | was
he-e when the work of widening Cen
tral avenue so that the fresh air could
sweep up from the bay through the city
IN currents of greater volume than lit
tie tube was started. Now the avenida
Rio Branco, as it is called in honor of
one of Brazils greatest statesmen. is as
splendid a boulevard as can be found in
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any city. There are other broad avenues,
although the Rua Ouvidor the narrow
shopping street, still remains.
Taken as a whole. Rio de Janeiro has
become a modern capital which can be
compared to the capitals of other coun-
tries without suffering by the compari-
son. 1t is perhaps the best example of
what can be done in making tropical
port clean and beautiful city. 1t is
better lighted than New York and is kept
far cleaner than Chicago. The santa
ton and the measures by which a popu-
lation of 100000 is kept sanitary are real
ly remarkable. In everything that sper-
tains to municipal administration as re-
lates to the health comfort and pleasure
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y American enSi-
neer I + a V c ] i II &
ahead OF the rail-
way line. asked a
Bra lillian country
man at whose hut
he stopped for a
glass of water how
far il was to d VIII
lage W II i c h II e
named.
" P e r h a p s one
! g a G u c, perhaps
-ArI,a,,r Tn,tr~ nor.
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tropolis of the great coffee-producing
state it always would have a certain
measure of commercial importance. but
the development of manufacturing in
dustries is of more significance. The cot
ton mills are spreading all through the
outlying districts of the city. but there
are factories also, including the bagging
mill and the cottonseed oil mill. The
most significant industrial movement.
however, is the establishment of a big
packing house plant by one of the Ameri-
can companies. This means that the
beef which it was thought could be sup
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The Growing Ameri-
can Colony of Rio
de Janeiro College
Graduates Who Have
Made Good X Amerl-
cans Identified With
Various Constructive
Enterprises and With
the Railway Develop
ment-The Two Great
Cities of Brazil.
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haps five leagues, more or less was the
countrymans reply.
Conservatism of the same kind is neceS-
sary in telling how many Americans there
are in Brazil. Usually the answer to
rhe question breaks off with the sug-
gestion, "A thousand, more or less" To
have the general judgment that there are
a thousand Americans in Brazil indicates
very marked progress
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Special Correspondence OF The star
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil.
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LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL

AIN Donald Alexander Smith
he was in his youth; then Graf
gellachie' c'Stand Fast'D Smith.
and finally Lord Strathcona and
Mount Royai G. G. NJ {, ono Of
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The report of the commission may he
laid before the Brazilian congress at tho
session in May. Then. IL the congress
follows its practice of former years. tho
report will go over to November. II II 10
adopted at all and new tariff enacted.
this will have to be done before the end
of December, 1914 Whether anything
will be done no one seems to be ready
to make predictions.
Trade relations between the United
States and Brazil would be strengthened
by the negotiation of reciprocity
treaty. With 500 per cent of her products
admitted to the United States free OF
duty, 1t may be thought that Brazil has
no reason for wanting reciprocity
treaty But there are sentimental and
political reasons why she might find l.
reciprocity treaty covering a period OF
five or seven years desirable. The United
States, in view of being the best market
in the world for Brazilian products and
of admitting 3e.3 per cent Of these
products free of duty, should receive
some substantial tariff concessions from
Brazil. CHARLES NJ. PEPPER
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In connection with these enterprises it
is worth noting the part which college
graduates have in them. Some are grad
yates of Harvard and other universities,
while others are from institutes of tech
nology, but the college education is at
the foundation of all. Mr.. Huntress the
general manager of the Rio plant. jotted
down for me offhand the names of eight
or ten men filling responsible positions
and noted the universities from which
they were graduated Some Of the col
legs men are also found IN minor posi-.
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January :. 1914.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-26
DisraeIi and His Wife
When the Great Statesman Was
Despised, His Wife EncOur-
nged Him and Helped
to Make His Fame.
BY Madison 4. Peters
BY Madison Z. Peter

~ ISRAELI was nearing 80 when
late in the august of 1888 ne
married the widow Of Wyndham
Lewis, who was 50. He had met her
seven years before at Bulwer's. 1t was
"by particular desire" that the meet
ing took place and her first impress
sion was thus expressed: Gifted with
a volubility which I should think I'M
equaled and of which can convey no
idea" Through her good offices Dis
raeH became her husbands colleague
in the representation Of Maidstone.
When Mr.. Lewis died he left his
wife, besides the house at Grosvenor
Gate, about 1000 pounds year. The
seVerest of critics, but perfect WIFE,
is Disraeli's well known tribute. He
declared: Il do owe her all think
have ever accomplished because she
has supported me by her counsel and
COnsoled me by the sweetness of her
disposition" He declared there never
was a better wife. "She believed in
me when men despised me. She re-
lieved my wants when I was poor and
prosecuted by the world"
Few Friends; No Intimates.
Disraeh had few friends and no IN
Inmates. His birth, ancient as it was,
was his disadvantage, his dress and de-
meanor were as eccentric as his style
y
had failed in his maiden speech and
was looked upon as an unsuccessful
adventurer. But his wife had as much
faith in him as he had in himself and
gratitude made him devoted husband.
A nobleman who had not better sense
than to expostulate with him for al
ways taking his wife with him, said
Il can't understand it, you make your
self a perfect laughing stock by always
taking your wife with you" Disraeh
,~4f# H. &c.
it, for no one could ever in the last
and widest excursion of an insane i'm
agination suppose you to be guilty Of
gratitude"
Tactful and sympathetic she knew
how to play the sweet orator. Once
DisraeH was going to parliament to
make an important speech. She accom-
panied him. When the carriage door
was shut her hand was caught in It.
Rather than distract her husbands
thoughts she patiently endured the pain
until the door was opened and stlH
endured it as she sat in the gallery
looking down with a satisfied smile on
her husband that she might encourage
him to Hottest efforts.
From their wedding day the exist
ence of one was merged in that of the
other.
Was n Real Love Match.
She had money, but he had no sOr-
did motives. It was love match and
paved the path OF MS ambition. 1t was
her pride to shine in the reflection Of
his fame. The secret of the spell by
which she held him was that she loved
him with a love surprising that of
woman, and he appreciated as few men
do, at its full value the self sacrificing
devotion And as that perfect WIFE
hood drew near its destined close Dis
raeli said: we have been married 80
years and she had never given me
dull moment" With tears in his eyes
he said to lord Malmesbury after the
death Of lady Beaconsfield: 4 hope
some of my friends will take notice Of
me now. feel as if I had no home.
When I tell my coachman to drive
homer I feel it is a mockery'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-26
? EW YORK, Dec. 26.-With the

Ew YORK, Dec. 26-With the
M fear of a siege fading farther
- and farther into the background,
Paris, with a characteristic rebound,
has turned from the contemplation Of
business inactivity and darkened
streets to the theater, the cafe and re-
newed commerce.
The large dressmaking establishments
which are run by women have not
closed. They have been kept open in
the face Of all the hard times. When
there were no gowns TO make, the en-
ployes were set to work upon the max
ing of bandages and hospital garments,
knitting mufflers and socks for the SOL
diers. In fact, the knitting of some
thing has become such fad that fash
ionable women everywhere are knit
ting.
But as the Germans were driven back
from Paris the call for gowns from the
outside world leaked through and the
designers began to fulfil the demand.
Quite military are some of these new
frOckS. One frock seen recently was
made Of a new fabric on the broadcloth
order, with the same high sheen, but
tWilled weave in khaki color. The waist
was made very simply, and with body
and sleeves in one and full length, fit
ting very closely below the elbow.
There was a seam in the back of the
waist, and the front was cut in U
shape, which was slit from the under
part of the U to the waistline. on
either side Of this opening, which was
filled in with a guimpe of heavy lace,
the edges we're bound with black braid
and large loops of braid and buttons
placed about an inch and half apart
to the Waistline. A high military col
lar finished the back of the neck The
sleeves were trimmed on the under side
with smaller loops and buttons from
wrist to elbow. The skirt was made
with full long tunic with a very wide
band Of self-cOlOred velvet around the
bottom of it. About six inches of the
narrower underslIirt showed beneath
The center of the skirt was slit down
about u inches, the edges bound with
the braid and the loops and buttons of
braid on either side, corresponding to
the placing of the loops on the waist
The whole effect showed the influence
which the uniforms of the combatants
are having upon the fashions.
Another frocS noticeable for its mill
tary effect was made of blue cloth and
an abundance of gold braid.
The present time of year is an excel
lent one to buy clothes. The freak styles
of the early part of the season which
looked as though they might really be
worthy of attention have been sifted
out, and there is not the danger of
buying something which will soon be
out. Now the stores are beginning to
clear out their stock and usually every
thing is reduced to a fraction of what
they were at the beginning Of the sea-
son.
Bear in mind when buying the new
clothes that the various loops and tucks
which draped our coats last year are no
mOre-now the straight lines prevail.
BOdices and coats fit the shoulders
rather plainly as do the skirts at the
hips. although they may flare out at
the ankles to four or eight yards
The tight long sleeve is established
and the short kimono sleeve has had it's
day, although the long sleeve made in