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THE
OF THE AGE
The People's Rights A Representathe'Ecrr.cciacy TheUnion and the Constitution JVithout Any InfracUons.
VOL. L NO. 45 WIIOLE NO. 4496.
SATURDAY. MARCH 5, 1913.
SFIIR1T
bi the Mosqpiie
f5S
Thls ls one of the vcry fcw photographa ever taken of the Interlor of a
Mohammedan mocque. It showa the Turks at thclr noon wornhlp In the
mosque of St. Sophla, the beautlful hulldlng In Constantlnoplo whlch ls In
danger of collapse owlng to the damage caused by recent earthquakes. The
dcimo of the mosque ls supported by four arches, whlch In turn aro supported
by 107 glgantlc and beautlful plllars of green marble arid red porphyry,
wlth capltals In the Byzantlne atyle. It ls belleved that In the vaults under
the church there He superb treasurtn of clascical art thrown there by Otto
mans when they conquered Constantlnople.
JOW UTH FREAKISH HOOFS
A. O. Davls of Donnysvllle, Mo.,
Iwna tho "frcak cow hero plctured.
I'ho nnlmal has four hoofs, each one
If whlch ls no Iess than twenty-two
Inches ln lengtb, nnd so badly twlst'4
1(1 and contorted that the anlmal can
Inly walk wlth dlfllculty, When a
Balf eho devoloped ungalnly hoofs.
rhlch grew aa sho becamo older; and,
jiougli tho horny growth was fre-
uently pared away, It roturned agaln
ad agaln, untll at last tho owner gavc
p trylng to offect any lmprovoment :
tho creature's anatomy, and beganj
take Uor round to local falrs and
Ixhlblt hor as a curloslty. The hoofsJ
ro of a deep green color, and closely j
5IGGEST OF THE MAFMOTHS
Tho skeleton of a mammotu' Jdst sel
P at Stuttgart ls tho largcst oyer dls j
vreu uones were lounu in tne ami ,
al dcposlts of the rlver Murr. Ir
wabla and months of work slnco then
avo Lcen rowarded by the obtalnlnf
nd removrl of a nearly complcftaltel
ton. Tho groat slze ls lndlcat J b
ie fact that tho skull welghs nearh
irce-fourtha of a ton, white tho, up
cr forcleg ls four and one-half feo :
ng. Tho speclmen ls rcmarkablo fbi
o grcat length of the logs, the-gei j
al ll.htnesa of framc, and for thi
lortness of tho curved tusks-i-lcs,
lan clght foct long, It seoms to rop
sent a translUon type between thp
ost anclent.,mammoth And the fleet-
r and smaller modcrn elephant.
fl
r.,..-ii.. i .i,n..n . i
C Trescoe
he Itles of Slelly. Aa Its nnme sUggests, It waa bullt In the tlme of Crom-
'en, and even after all these yeari
taterlxt tn- l,n fram
f the hlll above It, and belonged to the royallsts, and was called Charles'
;attle. CrBmu.m. ,.t .,nrfc ahout alxtv feet hlah, wlth walls twelve
eet thlck and ralsed on arches. T-e
irmed wlth a battery of nlne-pounders. On tho top there ia. a parapci wan,
md at the base (next to the sea) ls a stone platform, whlch was also .rmad-
iianaing out a little way In the harbor (on tne rigni oi tne ...
ihotcnraph) ls a small rockv Island called Hancjman's Island, yvhero he pai
lamentary forces exccuted thelr royallst'tPrlecners.
of St. Sophhi
KOW SOME PEOPLE SLEtH
Tho Japaneso otrctches.hlmself on
a rush mat on the fioor and puts a
hard squaro block of wood under- hls
head.
Chlneso beds aro very Iow, scarce
ly rlslng from the floor, but aro often
carved exqulsltcly of wood.
Tho Inhabltanta of the troplcs often
curl .themselves up llke monUoys -at
Iho"lower anglo of a suspended ham
mock and sloep very soundly that
way,
The RusBlan llkes no sleoptng placo
so well as tho top of the blg soap
stono stove ln hls dwelllng. Crawllng
out of hls bltsterlng bed In tho raorn
ing, ho dellghta ln taktng a plungo In
a cold streain, oven tf he has to break
through the lco to do so.
In Lapland the natlve crawls, head
and all, Into a bag made of relndeer
skln and slcopa warin and comfort
ablo wlthln lt.
Tho East Indlan, at the other end
of the world, also has a sl'ecplng bag.
Its purposo la to keep out tho mo
squitoes rather than to keep lts occu
pant warm.
AGES THAT ANI1VIALS ATTAIN
Undoubtcdly tho longest llved anl
mal on eartb ls tho whale, lts span
of oxlstence bolng catlmated by
Cuvler at 1,000 yeara. Tho ncxt
largest nnlmal, the elephant, wlll. un
der favorable conditiona, jlve 400
years.
Tho average ago of cats ls 16 years;
of equlrrela, 1 or 8 ycafs; of rabblta,
7j a bear rarely excecda 20 years;' a
wolf, 20; a fox, 14 to 1C. Llons.nro
comparatlvely long llved, Inatances
havlng been recordod where tjioy
reached tho age of 70 years.
Plgs havo been known to llvo to
the ngj of 20 .yeara', and horses to C0,.
but tho average age of the horso ls
25 to 30. Cnmels Eomotlmes 110 to
the ago of 100. t'
Eagloa occaslonally and ravens fre
quently reach' tho ago of 100 years,
and swans have been known to llve
300 years. A tortolse has been known
to llvo 107. years.
.itimfrH on the Island of Trescoo In
tt ie in excenem rcj... .
nnnlher CSBtle. Whlch StOOd On the tOD
roof ls bomb-proof and flat, and was
COLONEL'FEARED HIS FATHEn
Hooeevelt WrKes of Valn Fllaht From
P'aront VVhen, as Boy of Four,
He Blt Slster on Arm.
New York. Thero haa been only
ono man of whom Theodoro Roosevelt
uvor waa afrald. That was hls father,
who inapired a tcrror.ln the bouI of
hls son when tho lattor was four
yeara old that remulned wlth hlm over
afterwanl.
In Roosovelt's "Posalblo Autoblogra
phy," now appearlng as a magazlno
Borlal, the colonel relatea liow ho btt
hts oldor elster's arm, and, conacloua
that he had commlttcd a crlmo tried
vnlnly to escape punlshment. flrat
, escaplng to tho yard.
"From the yard," he wrltes, "Iwent
irfto the kltchen, got some dougb
frora tho cook and crawled under the
kltchen tablo, In a mlnuto or two my
father ontered frora tho yard and
16sri'jBmft3 : , JvjSi v 'ixHOf&.
Col. Theodore noosevelt.
asked where I was. The warm-heart-ed
Irlsh cook had a characterlstin con
tempt for 'lnformers,f but althougb
sho aald nothlng, Bhe compromlaed be
tween lnformlng and ber cbnscience
by casting a look under the table. My
father lmmedlately darted under the
table. I feebly hdaved the dough at
hlm, and, havlng tho advantagc ol
hlm because I could stand up undei
the tablo, got a fair start for the
stalrs, but was caught half wny up
them. The punlshment that ensued
fltted tho crlmo and I"hope-7rand be
lleve that lt dld me good."
USED ENGINE T0 SAVE WIFE
8wltchman Summoned Home by
Spouae When Robbera Break
Into Home.
Chlcago. "Jlm, burglara are break
lng Into tTie house. Corao homo qulckl"
Mrs. Jamea Powers, wlfe of a ewltch
man on tho Rock Island rallroad, llv
lng at 9G18 Houston avcnuo, telo
phoned' the meeaago to her husbaud at
the rallroad yards, elght mlles away,
Mrs. Powera was alono. She had
heard some one prylng open a wln
dow ln' the back of the house. She at
onco tlptoed to tho telephone. Tben
she returned to her room to walt,
She heard. two men walklng through
the dlning room. In a moment thcy
had dlscovered her. She was bound
and gagged and thruat Into a clothes
closot.
Then tho robbers took a sheet from
her. bed nnd atarted lllllng lt full of sll
vcrware and other family valuao'ps.
But "Jlm" had recelvod the mes
sage, Calling hla frlend, John Alling
ton, an englneer, -he uncoupled a lo
comotlvo from a frelght car. Jamee
Hern, a fireman,and two"othor swltch
men were tnken aboard. The englno
and lts crow thundered down the track
to Jlm Powers home. The rallroad
rlght of wa ls 20' feet from the Pow
ers home.
The husband had a key to the front
door. Ho opcned lt and entered, nc
companled by the two' swltchmen
Warned by the nolsc of tho englue, the
robbers had stopped thelr work. They
heard the door open, and, leaving thelt
loot behlnd 'them, jumped out of the
back wlndow, through whlch they had
entered. Powers aoarched the rocma,
found hls wife nnd llberatcd ber. The
pollce of South Chlcago were notlQed.
SAYS NEW YORK IS "AWFUL"
Never Heard of Worse Place, Penn
sylvania - Farmer Tells Gotham
Maglstrate.
New York. Mlchael Casey, thlrty
llvo years old, a farmer of .Athens,
Pa., told Maglstrate O'Connor. ln the
west sldo courV that as a reault bi
hls oxperlence stnce he nrrlvod here
he has come to the concluslon that
New York ls the worat placo ho evei
heard of.
Accordlng tp Casey's Btory he had
been horo but one day, had taken a
drlnk wlth a atranger and awoke ln a
hospital mlnus $100 and a gold watcb
Latcr three men relleved hlm of 90
conts, all the money he had lcft.
At Thlrty-etghth Btreot and Elghtb
avonuo an ofllcer arrested two of the
men and Casey nppoared agalnst them
Offers Prlxe to Bables.
Barnegat, N. J. A aavfngs bant
horo wlll glve every baby born her
thls year a bankbook and a nest egi
depoalt of )1S.
Leaves Spouse, Cat and Old House.
Laurel, Md. Mrs. VVIlIIam A. Rug
gin lefther husband a worthless house
nnd soventy-two cats, and beg,ue&th,ed
BELIEF IftONE'S 3ELF (
Fominine Vanity the Foundation
of Charm.
Not by'Any Means the Reprehenslble
Quallty Many Would Have Us Be-
lleve Better a Little Foollsh
Than Too Senslble.
The woman wtthout vanity ts rarely
ttractlve. She lacks that understand
lng of her good polnts whlch would
glve her cohfldenco and polse Such
a wcman acorns boudotr caps. and
frlvolous frllly negllgecs, nnd attrac
tlvo sllppcrs. and sllk stocklnga. and
all ecemlngly unnccesaary thlngs
whlch mako her dellclously femlnlno.
She has a tendency towards stlff pom
padours. and flannelctte klmonos, and
Bhe may bo Been at almost any bour In
Btarchcd shlrtwalsts when 3oft cllng
Ing gowna would becqme hor better.
Do you remember Pleasant Itlder
hood In Our Mutual Frlend? How
ahe "shared wlth moat of the lndy ln
habltants or the Hole, tho peculiarlty
that her halr wna a ragged Unot,, con
Btantly comlng down behlnd." nnd that
Bhe "never could enter upon any un
dertaklng wlthout flMt twlatlng It Into
place." The Impresston that we galn
of her slatternly ways' does not com
mend her to our admlratton.
The womnn who stares Into.' her mlr
ror wlth dull eyes, and says "What'a
tho useT" and who feols that there ls
nothlng ln her to adr.ilre, need not ex
pect to charm, Olven a little beller In
heraelf. and ahe wlll progress toyvards
an Jdeal, she wlll map out n program
whlch wlll Include an occaslonal vlslt
to the halr dresser and mantcure.
Sho will mnke a study of becomlng
colors, and fragra'nt creams and tollet
waters nnd bath tablets and pure
foapa whlch glVe the flnnl touch of
dnlntlneaa to one's personallty.
SIx months of concesalons, to such
little vnnltles wlll change nn unattrac
tlve. woman Into an nttractlve one,
espcclally If she extendB her reforms
bcyond her personal appearjnce.
"I'd rather a woman would be a blt
fcollsb than too senBlble." snld a pro
fesslonal man not so long ago. "You
can talk as you plense nbout woman's
poasibllltles In Intellectual llncs of en
deavor. but In the end you'll have to
admlt that lt's her miaslan to brlng
bauty Into the world. and we mascu
llnea loo her for her fans hei fiills.
her furbelows, her lacea and.her laugh
ter You wlll flnd .10 poet dclalmlng
the charms of angularlty"' nnd awk
wardness. TLe, dalrity "womancharms
And to be charralns she need not be
empty-beaded The bralny woman
iBhould not doff the dellghta of feml
nlne vanity Sho ahould rathes mokp
them serve her own end8. 8o that she
shal! dellghi the eye as well aa' thp
intellect." Exchango
Plant Immlprants Help Feed Us.
After experlments coverlng n'lneteen
years the Smyrna flg was lntroduced
In Callfornla. where -It now la belnn
successfully grown ' More ban one
half the rlce now grown In Loi'laluna
and Texas ls the Klushu :',cc of Jnpan.
Imported hero ln 899 The Coralcan
cltron, a superb varlety, haa alko been
naturallzed ln Callfornla; udo, a Jap
aneso Balad plant of great value, Ip
now belng grown here; experlmcnt?
aro bolng made by tho burcnu of
plant Jndustry wlth the dato palm
ln nrld reglans of the west; the caroli
tree, or St John'a" bread, from tht.
Medtterranean reglon, ln flourlBhing
near Los Angelea. Egyptlan cotton,
lntroduced ln the Colcrado rlver val
1ey, may mako that terrltory the
Amerlcan Egypt: the dovelppment of
nlfalfa ln the west la well known;
the malln horaeradlBh from Bohemla
la belng grown In New JerBey; the
mangoateen, a dcllcloua troplual frult,
ls new In Porto Rlco. aa well as In the
Panama canal zone through tho efforta
of tho bureau Leslle's. '
Asklng Too Much.
The atage property man's llfe la not
strown wlth rosea, nor la there any.
ttlng even about tho tenor of hls- way,
aays'the Youngstown Te.egram.
One of them was rccountlng hls cx
perlcnces. "I havo lmltated all klnda.of anl
mals and mechanlcal etfecta In the
wlngs," he aald, "and 'javj danced
wlth fcoubrettcs, aaslated Jugglers.
banded objects to wiro walkcrs and
atarted tho awlnglng trapeze for gym
nasta, but tho extreme llmlt was
reached today."
"Now. what'a up?" Inquired a acene
ehlftcr..
"Ono of the conlcdlana-Juat came up
tp me," he replled. "and wanta,m"o to
act as an Infurlated mob " .
Magnetlclans Sent to Tlmbuktu.
Jhn department of terrestrlal mag
netlsm of the Carnegle Instltutlon of
Washington' haa' dlspatchod two mag
retlclans, Berky and' Sawyer. from
t'ilakra. Algorla tb Tlmbuktu Thej
are accompanled by a caravai.
party, tnd wlll apend four "or llv.
months In the trlp, In tho course of
whlch lmportant ndditlona wlll be
ma-le td the great body of magnetlc
data that the department ls gatherlng
from unBettled and unclvllized reglona.
Thlrty-flvo Knot Torpedo Boat.
Tho Brltsh destroyer Lurcher, dur
lcg an offlclal sea trial of elght houra,
achloved a mean speed of 35.34 kuots,
or 3.34. knots above the contract npecd
of 32 knots. The trial of coursn was
run ln deep water Tho Lurcher ls
one of three destroyera 265 feet In
length by 25 feet 7 Inches ln beam.
They aro drlven by twln Parsona' tur
blnea, and these vocBela wlll con
stltuto tho (aataat of thelr nlass In the
worW
WAflNS ALLEUROPE
Italian Paper Declares Llnlcing
of Americas ls Mcnace.
Forelgn Natlona Are Urged to Con-
Ider the Growlng Power of Unlted
8tates Over Peoples of the
Hemlsphere.
Rome. That Amerlcan "Dollar' DI
plomacy," worklng hand ln hand wlth
the great prlvato flnanclal lnterosts of
tho Unlted States ln tho commorclal
dovelopment of South and Ceutral
Amerlca, ls creatlng tho most sorlo'uB
problem faclng the entlre world to
day, ls tho dcclaratlon of II Popolo
Homano, the ofllcial organ of tho Ital
ian governmenL
In a leadlng attlcle, in whlch a Ben
ulno noto qf alarm ls souuded, tho
paper declares that the contlnuatlon
of thla Amerlcan uollcy means the ln
evitable formation of a glgantlc com
merclal federatlon of the three Araer
lcaa ln whlch tho Unlted States would
naturally play the- predomlnatlng
part.
"White Europe la laborlng wlth all
its power ' to reaolve the problem of
the Balkan adjuBtment, on whlch de
penda ln a large meaauro tho entlre
continontal peaca, and white to ln
sure for ouraelves the boneflta of in
ternal tranqullllty we aro compelled
to spond our best forces ln mllltary
preparations, tho younger Unlted
States, on whlch tho gravo problema
that harasa Guropo do not fall, glves
ltself to works of growth, of expan
slon and of dovelopment of the meana
of communlcatlon and transportatlon
between the republlca of the contl
nent, and to creato that unlon, whlch
ln timo wlll be obllged to constltute
ltselt as tho Groat Amerlcan Federa
tlon, under the ausplces of the Unlt
ed States of North Amerlca.
"Toward tho carrylng out of- thls
conceptlon, ln both lts polltical and
economlcal aap.ects, the glgantic un
dertaklng of the Panama canal,
whlch wlll ehortly bo oponed to tho
commerce of 'the world, and tho pro
ect of a rallroad to connect the con
tlnents a project whlch ls already
on its way to completion wlll play
a. most lmportant part
"In addltlon, there has recently
been created, under tho lnltlatlve of a
powerful banklng syndlcate, a com
pany for putting Into dlrect and lapld
'communlcatlon tho republlca of Ura
tll, Uruguay, Argentlna and Bolivia.
"Coupled 'then wlth tho toavlgatlon
Df tho Pbnama icanal, lt wlll be an
sasy matter for tho Unlted States to
come Into cloae commerclal as wel'
as polltical contact wlth tho republlcF
sf tho south by means of the groal
rallways, already under conatructlon
whlch wlll llnk up the two contlnents.
"What ls the end toward whlch thls
tenaclous work on the part of the
Unlted States ls leadlng? It ls an
3nd that can be Been wlth the nakcd
aye. White the Unlted States btnds
aioro closely together wlth its ties of
iteol the two parts of tho continent.
ind at the aarae time nBSorta more
strongly than ever lts predomlnatlng
Economlcal and commorclal lnfluence
ln the two Americas, it ls to be caslly
seen that the Unlted States w'lshoB
Dtily to exclude frooi the Americas
the governmonts of Europe, and to ex
erclso on .the entlre Amerlcan contl
nent a monopoly for lts own proflt.
"Thls in fact today creates the
most serlous problem that ls now fac
lng Europo, whlch has ln Central and
South Amerlca not only a glorlous tra
dltlon apd record of Kuropean clvlllza
tlon, but also.,glgantlc lnterosts com
mercially and ecbnomlcally.
"At the prcsent moment thte la not
an itnmedlato danger; but It would
ncvertheless be well for Buropean dl
plomacy to bogln to occupy ltself wlth
the problom a problem that. at leaat
accordlng to our polnt of vlew, ls
Vastly morov lmportant than that pf
the present ono of tho-Balkana."
FAMILY CAT THWARTS R0BBER
Mr. O'Meara Qlvea Hls Pet Credlt for
Savlng $4,000 by Actlng as
Burglar Alarm.
New Rochelle, N. Y. A useless aort
sort of a white cat curled up in a chair
at the home of Wllllam O'Meara, a
manufacturer. None of the family, at
30 Elk avenuo, Forcat Helghts, could
lee much' good in her. Today Mr.
O'Meara knows her valuo ls $4,000.
No one elao would say sho was
worth $4,000 becaUBo hor crles early
tho other mornlng saved that amount
Dnly for Mr, O'Meara. She played
tho si)ccessivo rbles of detectivo.
guardlan of the family valuables and
alarm clock; she lltted her volco ln
one forebqdtng yowl and a strong man
3aw vislons of prlson walls.
Tho burglar lcft by the wlndow
through whlch ho had entered' and
Mr O'Meara reached tho slll to flnd
tho cat upon it, alnghig a requlcm, but
only for hlB dcparted coat and trous
ors. The rest. $150 ln bllls upon a bu.
reau, a gold watch and several ttiou
sand dollars' worth of stlver and Jow
elry, remalned at home.
Mr. O'Meara found a trall of burnt
matchea from room 'to room untll it
reached the butlcr's pantry,. where tho
llght fell on a partly consumcd cpld
chlcken, tongue, cake and an empty
wlne bottle On the floor was' another
ptece of chlcken, untouched, to show
that the cat had acorned brlbery. Fol.
I towlng the trall wlth the disconsolate
Ncat, Mr. O'Meara roturned to hls dreas-
lng room to look upon a sbabby coat
and palr of trousors, together wlth
aoleless shoes. where hls. own attlre
rad plac4 th niht
QU3INES0 8Y8TEM REORUANI2CD.
Thb Unlted States treasury on Feb
l rovolutlonlced lts buolneaa syBtem
tnd placod the ordlnary flscal tranaao
.lons of tho federal government on
aodora basls. Tho chango, lt ls de
jlared, wlll prevent In large moasun;
;he tcinporary tying up in the 'vaults
f the BuVtrcasurloa of a large amount
)f money avaiiablo for clrcualtlon
jvlthout lncreaslng the doposlta of the
(overnment in tho banka.
The dally government recotpts frbm
tustoms, lnternal revenue and other
lourcca are now placed wlth the na
lonal bank doposltorles to tho credlt
)f the treasurer of tho Unlted States.
All checks of govornment dlsburs
ng ofllcera are drawn on tho treasurer
ind wlll bo payable at any sub-trcas-iry
pr natlonal bank depoaltory In
iny part of tho country.
A natlonal bank deposltory paylnc
me of these checks may lmmedlately
elmburao lts speclfled government
iccount from dally recolpta of customs
tr lnternal rovenue doposlted wlth lt
ind forward to tho nearest aub-troas-iry
only the remalndor of tho recelpta.
Thla extends tho clearlng houao prln
slplo to tho' government'a bu8ineas
lyatom.
In tho paBt all" recelpta ln tho shapn
)f xhecka for customs dutlos or lnter
lal revenuo taxea have been forward
)d to tho sub-treasuriea for converalon
nto actual cash. Thla process, whlch,
t ls BOid, drew money Into the treas
ary unnecessarlly for a llmlted timo
it leaat, wlll now be avolded.
Also. It ls declarcd, tho chango wlll
bvlato tho payment by penaloners
tnd othera of exchange on govcrn
nent checks.
NAVY RECRUITINQ OAIN8.
The uavy department has announced
:hat hereafter it wlll be posslble for
tppllcants for enllfttment ln the navy
jo be examlned ln cltlcs where there
tt a marine recrultlng offlce, but no
lavy recrultlng offlce. The new order
vill npply ln Poorla, 111.; Rock Island.
,11.; Lanalng. Mich.; Tlffln, O.; Front
oyal. Va ; Grand Forks'. N. D nnd
3t. Joaeph, Mo. Thero wlll, however,
jp no recrultlng for tllo marine corps
tt rinvy ofTlces, aa the complement of
:he marine corps ls filled. Men whose
sreference la for the navy may apply
n nny of the cltlea mentloned and be
(Iven a prellmlnnry cxaminatlon, It
tccepted they wlll be sent at govcrn
nent cxpenao to the nearest rccrult
ng Btatlon to complete thelr enllst-nent,-
The navy now. ls short about G.OOO
nen, or-between 9 nnd 10 per cent. of
.ts authorlzcd alrength The Brltlsh
lavy is short about 12,000 men, or
tbout the same proportlon, but the
nritlsh faco greater dlfflcultlea. be
aiiB9 thelr larger number must bo
Irown from areas ln whlch recruita
prevloualy have been gathered and
ire thus practically exhauatod.
Recrultlng in the Unlted States
lavy is found to show a docldcd galn.
:ho grcatest slnglo factor In enllst
aente. accordlng to navy offlclals, be
lng .tho recommendatlon of men in
:ho eervlce or who have - been dls
jharged. RETAIN THE LARIAT.
The larlat has been retatned by the
savalry equlpment board .aa a pir't of
;he new equlpment of mounted troops'.
Kb cavalry marches for a conslderaote
pcrlod of yeara repeatcdly have tra
rcrsed leglona affordlng facllittes for
rall transportatlon of forage, and aa'
plcnty of forage ls lald down at tho
picket ltncs ln manuver camps, a
rreat many offlcers accept these con
Jltlons aB thoBo that probably always
(vlll prevail Aa a natural result many
Save glven little attentlon to the prob
lem of subslBtlng horses ln tho fleld
under clrcumstances that always have
prevalled ln war and probably always
wlll lack of transportatlon.
There are thoso that have tnain
tnlned that the growth of rall and
water transportatlon ln every dlrec
tlon during recent years has created
the probabillty that our cavalry ln fu
turo wara can look confldently to the
atnplo Bupply of 'forage; and therefore
a resorf to grazlng wlll bo unnecos
lary. Thls vlow has been disturbod
op recently as laBt ycar, when for
severai months our cn.Yp.lry was con
.'ronlcd by the ponalblllty of servlce
In Mexlco. a country strlkingly bar
ren ci transportatlon facllltleB ln moat
dlatrlcts. It la for these reaosns that tho larlat
has been retalned. in order that horses '
under restraint may be put out to
graze.
Maklng an Impresslon Upon Hlm.
Bob Dwyer, fresh from college, opon
ed a real cBtftto offlco in nn attractlve
Buburban nolghborhood and hoped to
make hla fortuno. For daya ho flat
undiaturbed ln hls little offlco, atarlng
out at the dusty roads or twlddllng his
thumbs. On the afernoon of the
fourth day ho Baw a matt crosslng Og
den boulevard dlagonally, headoct fbr
hls door. Surely thls was a customer.
He must be mado tb fodl thnt buslnoas
wao flourlshlng.
Aa the man steppcd over tho threah
old Bob had the telephono recelver at
hls ear and was talklng earnestly into
the tranamltter.
"That's correct," ho sald as tho man
stood beforo hlm. "Rlght We wlll ac-
Cept your flftecn cash tomorrow and
let tho thlrty thouaand remalndor
stand on a ten year mortgage. What?
Yea, I'll brlng tho deed around at 11
tomorrow mornlng. Qood mornlng."
I Bob hung up tho recelver and turn
cd on lmportant vlzago to the vla- '
Uor.
"Why. I Just camo over," said tho
man, grlnnlng, "to connect your tele
phone lnatrumont wlUi tba wlesa.'5
WELCOME THE PEON
Enormous Mtgratfon ef .Mexioam
to th SouthwesL
Laborers Ar. Ndd and Thsra l Hm
"Brown parll" Hlf-8Urved Imml
erant Ope'edlly Bccomsa WH
Ped Amsrlcan.
Accordlng to, the last ceheus thera
noTo la Texas then 128.000 Mexicans.
In Arlzona, New Mexlco and Callfornla
thero aro maay iaaora t thoBBanda.
rhey are mostly otho peon clasa.
How many thonsacds have come du
rlng tho two years stnce the caasus
was taken cannot boaCcurately known.
lt la stated, however, that for nearly
a yoar every pasaenger traln depart
lng for the north ls flllcd wlth tbm.
And thero are ebma people who talk
of a "brown prll."
Only a few years ago lt wu rmr
to'seo a Mextcan ln central or ort&
ern Texas. Now they are to be seea
ln great numb'ers ln every part ef the
itate, all through Qklahoma, and aven
ap In Kansas. and. as tar north aa
Nebraska Rallroad eectloa caaca la
the Bputhwcat are. wado up of Mexl'
:ana. all but the foremaa, who "lords
it over th lowly greaaor," aad shouta
hls ordera In.n mixed patots of Span
Ish and Engllah
"Here, you bombrot Pick ap that
rall, muy prouto and un'dorly along
wlth', lt"
On the, cotton plantatlons of Texas
Mexicans aro rapldly taklng the place
Of ncgroos; thls ls particularly truo of
tho .more southera parts. And only a
small porcentago who como Into Tex
as for tho cotton plcklng season ever
fo back. Between seasons they flnd
employment In' ihe towns 'or oa the
farma. Complalnt ls made that the
younger negroca'are unrellabla. ' .
There is, hardly, a town la Texaa
that does not have lts Mexlcan colony.
ln San Antonlo, whlch. was orlglnally
occupled aimoit cxcluaively by Mexi
cans, there, Is a very largo Mexlcan
ettlement la El Paso, Austla and
nearly all. the othen larger cllles thn
Mexicans Uye ln coloates, to them
elvcs. In the border terrltory all the ,
smaller towas are dWlded Into Amerl
can and ,Mexlcan"resldehtlal dlatrlcts.
The lexlcan: settlements aro uaually
known mo. "Little Mexlco," -Uttle Chi
huahua'' or by eomo other Moxleaa
deslgnatloa.
There are in Mexlco. approxUaatelr .
i2,000,000 of the lowec peon claaa. Du
ring tho last two yeara war and coa
Boquont bnslness dftprucslon have cora
polled thousanda to seek mployment
In the Unlted States. So great haa be
coiuo thls exodua that the Mexlcan
government haa been studylng how
to stop lt
The Mexlcan peon U.devoted to hte
family. In practically ;evry laatanc
where a .marrled tnan of the'lower
class comes here ha.brlngo wlth hlm
hla ontire 'family. Thelr waats are
comparatlvely few. It is surprlslns
to Bco.,how rapldly they etnerge from
poverty and shabblnesa whea they set
eatabllBhed in homea on thts aide of
the" Rio, Orande. Wlth thekr Jrrt
wagea they buyrehoea all arouad aad
throw aildo thelr; Uimttlng sandaUi.
Thon comes the dlcar(!ln( ot the
blanket.- nnd ln placsupf the white cot
ton trouBors and thln ihlrt of the same
materal there aro donncd'wana sulta
ot Amerlcan clothing. ln a very short
timo tho transformation from a ahaav
bltng, half starved, poverty-atrtchan
Mexlcan to that of a well fed, proa
poroua appearlng man of the laborlng
clasB of tho Amerlcan typo la coto
ploted. The former peon haa found
hlmsolf. He boglna to take pride ln
hls own' ao-callcd Amerlcanlam:
ln Texaa and the southweat ganer-,
ally there la no. antagonlsm toward
the Mexicans who come la. .Aa a scu
eral thlng they aro aa well treated aa
any other worklnsmaa. '-
Nover ln the hUtory of Texaa. Art
sona and New Mexlco waa the desaaad
for common laborera. sreater. So loac
aa thls domand exlsta the Mexlcan
peon wlll be warmly welcomed, Frora
the aUndpolnt of the men who need
laborera there la no "brown perU."
Case of Naceailty.
Speaklng of table etlquette some
time slnco, Oen. B. Bnrd Qrubb told
a gtory about a man who was Jostl
fled ln cating plo wlth a kntfe. Saalth
waaatandlng ln a hotel lobby ono
day, accordlng to the geaeral, talklas
to Jonea, when the convorsatlon turn
ed to a dinner that had been,. glven' at
tho home of a mutual aca.ualataae
namcd Brown.
"You sbould have seen Barton." re
marked Jonea, referrtng to ono of the
gucsts. "I thought - he had better ta
ble mannera. 'Wben the plo was
erved be actually ate tt wlth a
knlfo." ' .
"I -doh't blame hlm for that" , waa
tho Btartllng reply of Emith. '
'You don't btamef hlm?" reptkted
Jonea iri' amaxement-
"No," amtllngly rejolned Ssslth. "1
have eaten plo at "Brown'a raygeil
and lt la a wonder to mo that Barton
dldn't take an ax."
St'oughton Bottleo.
The term "Stoughton bottle" aa a
ynonym -of "burap on a log" or other
deecrlptlon of. ttselese idlencss, orlgi
nated more th'an flfty yeara ago, whea
Stoughton bitters were as coraraoa oa
every bar as vermouth ls today.
They were not aa much nsed, aad
as a coneoquenco the "Stemghtaa
bottle" waa a more or lecs Idte orasv
ment tfnd to the freqtteatar of baf
rooma-there were oo pafea ia thavo.
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daya lt beeaxae bjb Imw fiWWMtfwi
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