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ments concerned. This consent may be
or both"
Another paragraph of the instructions
reads: Bear in mind that you are the
representative of neutral power, whose
attitude to the parties to the conflict is
one of impartial amity."
In the main. however the State De-
partment regards the elaborate ma
chinery which they have instituted on
of keeping open communications between
the countries from which the diplomatic
representatives of their opponents have
been withdrawn, although the question of
protecting the property and citizens of
the nations for whom they will act has
not been overlooked
In this connection, the instructions
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CEMENT GARDEN OF EDEN I'M KANSAS

comes Abel dead, with Cain journeying
into the land of Nod; the next group
shows Cain and his wife and children.
Following evolution on down to mod
ern times there come in succession a
white man shooting at an Indian. who
is following with his bow and arrow
dog that Is after a fox that Is after
eating leaf. Mr.. Dinsmoor proposes
to add other figures as the inspiration
comes to him.
Near the front and at one side of
the house is the cement strawberry
bed. 1t is built like pyramid, with
openings in the cement for the plants
to grow through. A pipe coming up
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Anecdotes Concerning
Well Km@wm People
The Worst.

NHERMANY, with France on one side
~ of her and Russia on the other.
with France drawing her this way and
Russia drawing her that, is In as bad
a pickle as 'Artemus Wards invalid"
The speaker was Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forest Of Memphis. He continued:
ITO Artemus Ward, you know, man
once said:
"I've got a toothache and earache
Could anything be worse?"
"'Oh, yes said Artemus. I know
chronic sufferer of eighteen years
standing. He's much worse. For his
complaint is infiammatory rheumatism
coupled with st. Vitus' dance"
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through the center will furnish the neces-
sary irrigation. There are holes for
$50 plants in the cement bed.
by making it this way" Dinsmoor
said, Il can pick my berries without
crawling on my knees over big
patch of ground"
Dinsmoor, who is sixty-nine. years
of age and still hale and hearty. has
done nearly all the work himself
Twenty-three of his ancestors lived to
be seventyfve years of age and
older. His\ cabin home" represents
the labor of several years. He is four
times great-grandfather -Four
generations of the family live in the
cement and stone house with him.
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onstrate how one beast preys upon an
other and weaker. beginning with man
and descending to the worm.
The house itself Is constructed Of ce-
ment logs. only three Of which are spliced,
all the others being full length 1t contains
eleven rooms, besides a bath and three
halls. Under the back porch is the cave
and electric lighting plant. Over 5000
feet of pressed molding has been used in
interior finishing. The logs are fourteen
inches wide and ten inches thick The
house Is built in the shape Of a cross. A
log joist supports the loft. Some Of the
doors have as many as twenty-six pieces
Of wood In them.
Water Is secured from cement tank
which holds over 100 barrels, and In q
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Establishes a Record.

A BABY two weeks old had his hair
\ cut in Washington barber shop
the other day, and thereby established
a record. not only as the youngest Gus
toner the shop has ever had, but also
as the champion counter-attraction to
the line Of conversation upon which
the shops artists pride themselves.
The head barber turned from the GUS
toner for whom he was making change
to greet a woman with a bundle In her
arms. He asked II he could be of any
service to her. She replied that she
would like to get her child's hair cut
But no child was visible. 30 the bar.
Der. after looking around. asked II the
boy hadn't stopped outside.
The mother laughed. and, unwrapptnG
her small bundle. showed the barber .
little boy with thick black hair about
two inches long. The weather was 70
warm, she explained, that she had de-
cided to have his hat trimmed.
The barber placed the baby On .
board laid across the arms Of his chair.
for the youngster was too small to SIT
in the seat manfashion. Fastening
the huge cloth around the baby's neck
and picking out his sharpest scissors
he then started to work. while the
woman held her baby in his seat
Presently, to his amazement, the
woman suggested that IL would be
cooler for the youngster II the clippers
were used, and the hair cut in real
prize-fght style. The barber almost
dropped his shears. but manfully seized
the clippers and set gingerly to work.
All other work in the shop ceased
then and there. The other BARRIERS. to
a man, watched the operation. And the
customers uttered never a word of
complaint for they. too, were watching
the baby. The youngster seemed to
like it. He cooed and wiggled his toes
and enjoyed every moment of IL. He
probably thought the barber was play
ing some fine new game with him.
And now, the question is, when he
grows up to years of discretion. and a
fuzz on his chin. will he shave himself
or will the barber habit. contracted SO
early in life, be too strong for him2
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The BeIIicose Kaiser.

AT the French consulate In Cleveland
the Vicomte Jean de Camp Of Ak
said to a reporter:
This terrible European trouble has all
been the fault of the German emperor.
They who try to exonerate the German
emperor speak feebly. Their apology 10
like the old lady's.
1.-The German emperor said the old
lady's husband, looking up from his news
paper has got very bellicose again
Why said the old lady. according
to his latest photographs he seems much
thinner to me-"
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pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
TOPEKA, Kan, September 9, 1914.
a LOG cabin of stone. a cement
"a Garden of Eden, with cement
IA figures of Adam and Eve, the
apple and the serpent a cement
strawberry bed, row OF
cement trees covered with creeping,
crawling things of cement, and cement
cave, fshpond and fence are some OF the
unique features embodied in the eleven
room cabin home of S. P. Dinsmoor
of Lucas. Kan
An old gray-haired and gray-bearded
man has given his fancy full sway and
has erected a dwelling SO strangely weird
that people have gone many miles to see
It, In his conception Dinsmoor has fol-
lowed the first family straight from the
Garden of Eden down to present-day civ
ilization. 1t is an instructive story in ev-
olution. His animal and bird figures DEM
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A Bureau in the
State Department for
the Collection of In
formation Pertaining
to Matters of Conse-
quence of War-In-
ternational Acceptance
of Good Offices by
This Country Entails
Much Extra Work
Keeping Open the
Lines of Communica-
ton.
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Until.

CENAToR HITCHCOCK, discussing
certain rulings Of the COMMITTEES on
banking, said:
1.-THE committee must be certain sure
that man fs all right before 1t recon-
mends him. It isn't enough to know that
man has been very successful in bust
ness-in fact, has become a millionaire %
Senator Hitchcock smiled grimly.
''In Wall street" he said, they are all
men of probity till you begin to probe"
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HERBERT C. HENGSTLER,
Chief of consular bureau.

dor in London by way Of the department
of war. The United States ambassador
would then make the representations to
the British government.
AS long as there is a direct or indirect
cable between the United States and
Europe. as long as the representatives OF
the American government are empowered
to act for the contesting European coun-
tries, and as long as the department OF
war" is on the job. the lines OF inter-
national communication will still be up
no matter how long the conflict in
Europe may last.
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ECAUSE the United

ECAUSE the United
States has an i'm
portant though not
spectacular part to
play in the ALEU-
ropean conflict, a
I'd e p a r tment of
war" has been es-
tablished in the
State Department.
1t Is a clearing
house for the ma
tons. a bureau for
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liable to be thrown out of working order
by the slightest disturbance. and when
that happens he crew are lucky IL they
escape with their lives. especially in the
heat of battle.
And these experts further hold that
no submarines can possibly survive the
effect of the explosions of its own tor
pedoes; rather that it cannot survive the
explosion of single one, but that
like the bee, which dies after 1t has
struck a blow with Its sting. 1t is destroy
ed by its own act That the submarines
are thus as deadly to- Themselves as to
the enemy is one view takelApy a party
of English experts as a result of some
experiments bearing upon the question
recently made near Portsmouth. England
According to them, the shock Of
torpedo exploding against a ships side
will be sufficient even to cave in the side
Of the submarine delivering the blow.
This presumes of course, that the sub
marine is in the vicinity Of the stricken
ship, but 1t Is necessary for 1t to ap-
proach within q reasonably close distance
in order to inflict its blow. In the ex-
periments at Portsmouth it was deter
mined that a charge of thirty pounds OF
guncotton exploded under water exerted
sufficient pressure to cave In a suoma-
rine at a distance of 200 Feet from tho
point of explosion. OF course. any such
effect as that would render the subma-
rine nothing but mass of junk. These
experts further concluded that shock
far less than one sufficient to cave in the
submarines shell would render 1t useless
and practically works its destruction.
A shock merely sufficient to dlsarrange
the delicate mechanism of the craft wouio
render it unmanageab BILE Its crew Wouiu
be imprisoned under water, utterly hetp,
1nce h1yt har
escape death.
ut was further determined that the
explosion Of a torpedo within SIX OF
seven hundred feet Of submerged eos SUP
in all probability would disturb lts
mechanism to such an extent that II
would be helpless. Yet submarine. ow-
ing to its limited vision. must approach.
as closely as possible to the target yes
sci If it would deliver an effective blow.
OF course, this distance would vary uii-
der the circumstances OF wave ana tioe'
but certainly 1T would have to approach
under ordinary conditions. within
very few hundred feet. The chances
therefore, would be in favor OF the SELL
destruction Of the submarine.
~
"And the submarine is wholly depend
ent for its action, whether in maneuver-
ing or in attacking, upon variety OF
delicate mechanical forms. 1t Is as SEN
sitive as a Geneva watch. Should any OF
these be thrown out of gear or operation
by virtue of shock 1t cannot limp into
port as a surface vessel may. 1t is
doomed. Some of the English experts
who are skeptical about the practical
war value of the submarine. have dub
bed that corps the suicide club.
yet the highest authorities in the
British navy, while admitting the self
danger Of the submarine, have reasoned
that 1t is stin an effective war engine
figure, would build very many sub
marines. and 1t would take q hundred
fold as many men to man one. Accord
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The Base of Success.

ZEN TASKER BLISS was praising at
~ Fort Sam Houston the marching
qualities of the German army:
"They march the best" he said. be
cause they take the best care Of their
feet. Pedicures. you know, are attached
to every German infantry regiment"
Gen Bliss smiled and ended:
For Germany realizes that an army's
success depends more on its feet than its
arms"
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power communicating with a hostile
nation from whose capital the powers
have been withdrawn. 1t
is another matter entirely and the cable
will probably be called upon to do the
work. Now that the department of war
is in full operation should Germany wish
to communicate officially with England,
it is more than likely that the representa-
ton would be handed to the American
in Berlin. BY him 1t would
be cabled to the State. Department here.
and find its way back again across the
Atlantic to the United States ambassa-
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SUBMARINE MOST FULFILLING WAR MACHINE

ingly. though the crew of the submarine
is doomed to certain destruction. men
are thee heapest things in war. and
though dozen submarines were de-
stroyed in comprising the ruin of
single battleship of the enemy. the net
result would be in favor of the sub
marines"
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~F all the modern war engines now
being tried out in the present
~ European conflict, the submarine
is the most enigmatical. The rapfd-fire
gun. the aeroplane, the dirigible have all,
to a great extent been practically tested
in times of peace under conditions closely
Stimulating war and the effect of their
action. both upon themselves and an
enemy, in great measure foretold. The
submarine alone remains riddle.
mo practical experiments approach
ing actual war conditions have ever been
made with the submarine, because, Tor
reasons wherein 1t is impossible to go
into in detail. It has been found impos-
sible to reproduce those conditions, as to
the war action Of the submarine IN time
Of peace" said an officer Of the American
navy. whose name. for obvious reasons. Is
not given. And 80 this new vessel. per-
haps the most dangerous, yet perhaps
the most harmless to the enemy. goes
into the fight as an utterly untrted factor.
No battles Of recent years give US the
two naval battles Of recent times0the
battle of Santiago. between the American
and the Spanish ships. and the battle of
Ten Straits. between the fleets of Rus
STA and Japan-were both stra1ght' stand
the greater size Of ships and guns from
the battles of Trafalgar and Mooie Lay
Never yet in naval combat has anything
even approaching the action Of a subma-
rine been tried.
"As to the part the submarine will play
in naval fights Of the future-and es-
pecially in the present war-naval experts
are divided into two camps as far apart
as the poles. Only on one point do they
agree-that is, that the submarine will
not play any intermediate or auxiliary
part It will either be utterly worthless.
or worse, or 1t will be supreme over every
other form Of sea-fghting craft
1.-The latter party, who hold that the
most powerful dreadnought will be at the
mercy of the submarine, base their opin-
ion upon the fact that the latter, APP
preaching, concealed beneath the sur
face, can silently approach its bulky
enemy within striking distance, whence.
launching its deadly torpedo. 1t can sink
it with one blow. Then. turning within
ship. it can with like blow send 1t to
the bottom. Still, again. it can direct
another torpedo against any surviving
enemy-and SO on until all the eneny's
ships are sunk or the submarine exhausts
its torpedoes. In short. each torpedo in
the submarines magazine will be equiv
alent to the destruction Of one battle
ship. Just as the bowmen of Edward Ill,
each Of whom carried twelve arrows,
boosted that they each carried twelve
Scotch lives in their quivers.
ION the other hand. however, very
formidable number of naval experts
claim that, while the submarine Is dead
", it ie deadly only to its own crew. Its
limited range. Of vision. its action. car
Red on in almost complete darkness.
render it as impotent and as dangerous
nitch-dark road with load of dynamite.
Furthermore, the delicate mechanism Of
the submarine and its uncertain equipoise
beneath the waves render it peculiarly
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its head thrown back, watching a
freed cat. In the tree nearest Adam
are two large storks. from under the
wings OF which little babies are look
ing out. There is knothole,
which is the home of little cement
bird which rests on a limb near Eve
About twenty feet up in this tree Is
a swarm of bees. The bee gum Is in
the tree and the bees go in and out
through knothole. Back of this tree
stands the devil on a stump, with his
fork poised on one Of the babies that
have Just left the stork. All the trees
and the DEVILS head are wired for
lights.
AFTER Adam and Eve and the devil in
the garden. with the snakes. storks
and babies, come Cain and Abel; then
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~F all the modern war engines now
being tried out in the present
~ European conflict, the submarine
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
PRINTERS GIVE
TO LABOR FUND
Make Contribution For En-
tertainment Of Dele
gates in June.

Ell Paso printers at the meeting of
the local Typographical union Sunday
afternoon contributed per capita Of
% cents to the entertainment fund Of
the state federation Of labor, which
will meet here in June. The meeting
of the printers union was well at
tended and much business was trans
acted
Firemens union No. 664 held a spe-
cial meeting Saturday afternoon at
Union Labor nall at which there was
business of Importance.
The members of the carpenters un-
ion who are finishing the carpenter
work on the Alberta annex, are: A.
r. Webb, foreman. Walter Highsmith,
Otis Jones' Charley Borden, George
Borden, Jim Hamilton, O'Rorke and
Dickson.
The members OF the carpenters IN
ion employed by contractor Neff on a
residence on TularOsa street are: Max
Gum, foreman; Jim Anderson, Bert
Anderson, sam Leroy, Wiley TUrbey-
vile, William Courtney, Arthur Neil
son and McElroy.
W A. BoyntOn, a member of the
carpenters union. is working for con-
tractor J. s. Norris, on residence on
Bliss street.
The regular meeting of the cooks
and walters union will be held Mon
day night at Union Labor hall.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
LIVESTOCK

Chicago Livestock. LlOSc-
Chicago, III, March 0.-Cattle-Rects.
$1,000: market mostly 10c lower. Beeves.
$685. @ $50; Texas steers. 81. 0S.25; west
ern steers, S70OGS15; stOckers and feed
ers. $3.50 SOC; cows and heifers, $3.50 g
sac; calves, $500 q 500.
Hogs-Rects. $4,000, sc above Saturday s
average; bulk. $S.609S.75 light, $3.50 SIS;
mixed, $S.45 q SIS: heavy $50 gS-I5;
rough. SS5OGSz5; pigs, s7-35 G8-65.
Sheep-Rects $4,000; market strong Ma
tive, $685. q SIS; western, S5.S5 q $50; year
lings. Sc. IS a 760; lambs native, S1-55 q $40
western. s7,55 q $50.
Kansas City Livestock. Close.
Kansas City No, March 30.-Cattle-
Reefs. Ii, 900: market steady to 1Oc lower
Prime fed steers, $S.SO@S SOS: dressed beef
steers, SS.40GS.50; western steers, SI25 q
$40; southern steers $3.50 q 500; cows, 81 80
6750; heifers $G.5Q8S75; stOckers and
feeders. s6.500S.OOi bulls, $500 G75O; calves,
S6.5O@9.50.
Bulk. $500 SIS; heavy, $3.50 $3.50; pack
ers and butchers, $3.50 $50; light $500
$50; pigs, s7509S.00
sheep-Rects. 5000; market steady
Lambs, $3.50 q SIS; yearling. $3.50 q 3-25 .
wethers, $5.75 $3.50: ewes, $3.50 6.25.
Fort Worth livestock. Close.
by Zeiger HoteL)
Cattie-Rects 1900. including 800 calves
Steers, top. S735; straight grassers, $1,000
7.25; stockers and feeders. S5-75 a $50; cows,
top, s615; bulk. $500 500; helfers. s5.85 q
75oi bulls, top. S5.55; bulk, $3.50 g 5.25;
calves. SA5O9T5o.
Hogs-Rects. $500; top, $S.S5; bulk. 1885
sheep-Rects. $500.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
MONEY AND METALS
NEW YORK MARKET,

CBy Associated Press.l
New York, March 30.-Cau money steady,
1%Qe
days 2 six months. 39SA.
Mercantile paper, 81 o.
Bar silver. IS.
Mexican dollars, As z.
Metals market. copper steady. standard
spot and May. 1875 014-65-
Tin, easy; spot, 37-T5 G3S-25.
IrOn-Quiet' No, Northern. 15-25@16.o0;
No Northern. 14.50015.00; No. L South
ern. 15.o0815.5o5 No Southern. 1850
Lead. easy: sS7505s5
Spelter, quiet; S5-25 @5-35-
London Metals linrkef.
London, Eng, March 50--The London
metals market closed as follows Lead.
easy, SIS. s17, dc; spelter quiet, E21- 81, dc;
copper steady, spot f6A. SIS; futures E65,
So, d9; tin firm, spot f172- sic; futuTRs, E174,
50; iron, Cleveland warrants, s50, dT5h.
St. Louis Lead and Spelter.
St Louis, No, March 30.-Lead quiet
SIS; spelter dull, 5.121z.
THE LOCAL MARKET.
Mexican pesos (EI PasO buying price)
in small quantities. At.
Mexican currency CE1 Paso buying price,
IN small quantities only, 80
Fl PasO Smelter Quotations.
Corrected Daily
Bar silver. So
Pig lead. $50.
Wire bars 1855
Lead (LOndon) Els. s17. de-
Weekly Averages
douglas Smelter Quotations.
Silver. $500
Copper. 1A1S
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
Plentiful RAIN
LOWERS WHEAT
Opening Prices Followed by
Additional Drop; Corn
Also Falls.

Chicago. H.. March 3O.-Plentiful rain
throughOut the domestic winter crop belt
carried the wheat market today decidedly
lower. Opening prices, which were Is to
4 to q C down, were followed by an addi-
The close was weak, L to rs to IL to
g C net lower
Corn fell in sympathy with wheat The
market opened unchanged to 3 to a low
er. and continued to decline.
The close was weak at 3 to Z to sc
net decline.
outset. Pit spectators were the only buy
ers.
The provision market suffered from lack
OF demand After opening &c off to 2 &c
up, the market receded all around
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
AND ANMUNI
TON TO CHIHUAHUA

The special train which carried Gov
Chao, his staff and bOdyguard to Chi
hUahua, leaving late Monday afternoon.
also had attached two ears carrying
small arms ammunition. ESQ beds for
use in the hospital al Chihuahua and a
large amount of medical supplies.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
SCHOOL CHILDREN
WITNESS PARADE

In order that the children might see
the circus parade. the Sunset Villas.
Franklin, AOy and Alamo schools opened
session at 1880 o'clock Monday morning
The Lamar and Bailey schools, being on
the line Of parade, opened at the usual
time, but allowed the children to
watch the parade. The Villas school
had a half holiday in the afternoon.
since out of the $50 pupils, about ESQ
brought excuses from home so they
might see the circus in the afternoon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
FLAMES DESTROY RECORDS
or COLOR AnO SPRINGS

Fire when threatened to wipe out the
entire business section of this town,
broke out at i o'clock this mOrnipg
and before the flames were subdued
three buildings We're destroyed and the
ciry's official records burned. The FIRE
Quilted the drug store Of DR.. r. W.
Johnson, tewn treasurer, destroying bis
books, then spread to and wrecked a
restaurant and saloon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
Dr.. Paget, dentist. 6Q2 RObertslis386hn,e,


Buenos Ayres. March 90.-Prince
Henry, OF Prussia. brother OF the en-
peror of Germany, and the princess
Henry, OF Prussia arrived here from
Rio Janeiro Sunday. The prince and
princess were warmly greeted by rep
resentatives Of the governmental de-
partment, the German minister and the
various German societies.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
rail Of BANK Robbers Lost.

Tacoma, Wash, March 30.-The
posses searching for the bandits who
held up the bank at Elm Saturday
night and later engaged in q battle
with the officers. have lost the trail
Il was ascertained Sunday that the
robbers overlooked q bag containing
$500 In gold near the cashiers win
dow. It-was also ascertained that the
robbers had been employed at the log
ging camp Of the Port Blal1ely Lumber
company and coshed their pay checks
in Elm Saturday
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-30
John It. I'm. lawyer, a11-12 caples bid.


correspondent of the Times says that
Dr. Parker Of the China island mission,
who had a narrow escape at the re-
cent sacking of King-Tze-K wan. prov
ince of HO-Nan, asserts that White
Wolf" the notoriuos bandit, has de-
clared war on the missions.