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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE : SUXDAY , OCTOBEtt 2 , 1808. HIGH LIFE ON CHILIAN FARMS A Visit to Two Immense Estates Owned and Managed by Women , HOW THE PEONS WORK AND LIVE Their Wonilrrful SlrniKtli nml Terrt- lilc .Morlullty Kuril Turiity Out * a Pny nml 11 WrHtly Drunk on Alcohol , ( Copyrighted , 1S9S , by Frank 0. Carpenter. ) SAN ROSENDO , Chill , Sept. 1. ( Special Correspondence of The lice. ) The Chilian farmers are perhaps the richest of their kind In the world. They live like feudal lords upon their great estates , and number their retainers by the hundred. They have flocks of thousands of sheep , vast droves of cattle and horses , and their cowboys are massed like an army at the annual round-ups. They ralso every year over 23,000,000 bushels of wheat , millions of gallono of wine and the finest horses and best cattle on the western coast ot this continent , Some ot them have the most modern machinery , and men who own a dozen American threshing machines are not uncommon. Fully one-halt of the population of Chill is devoted to agriculture , but only these | nabobs are the landowners. In the whole T/ultcd States , with Its 75,000,000 Inhabitants , only 81,000 men own farms of 1,000 acres and over. Hero a 1,000-acre farm Is llttlo more than a garden patch. I meet dally men who have 10,000 , 20,000 and 30,000 acres of land , and I have visited a number of estates worth more than $1,000,000. I have , n geography of Chill , Just published , which ' Rives the government valuations ot the I farms of each province. There are Jmnj j | drcds In nearly every state worth over $100- i 000 , and in the country thcro are scores valued nt more than $1,000,000. I am now nt the llttlo railroad and farming town ot San Roscmlo , In the central valley of Chill. San Roscmlo Is about 300 miles south of Santiago and about 1,200 miles south' of the Peruvian frontier. Ileuuty of the Country. In coming hero I rode through one of the chief agricultural sections of the country. This valley is from twenty to 100 miles wide and about GOO miles long. It extends from above Santiago to hundreds of miles south of this point On the cast of It are the snowy walls of the Andes , with hero and there the great cone of u dead volcano ris ing above the other peaks , and on the west nro the lower mountains and hills of the coast range , their Bides covered with green. Hetwecn tbcso almost parallel but winding walls lies the rich volley of Chill. Its sur face Is rolling and It IB cut by many creeks and llttlo rivers , which , fed by the Andean snows , carry with 'them ' to the sea loads of silt , so rich that it makes fat every Inch of Boll upon which it drops. Iu Bomu streams , such as the Mapo , the amount of silt is BO grent that It Is said to coat tbo lands by 'the ' Irrigation canals to a depth of on Inch u year. Other streams , such as tha Blo-blo and some streams of south Chill , are almost as clear as crystal. The whole of the valley north of this point is Irrigated and the country Is like a vast garden made up of fields divided by canals along which hedges of Lombardy poplars have grown to the height of sixty feet and more. Some of the estates arc walled with stone and It Is only occasionally that you see fences of wire or boards. There are no barns standlne out on the landscape , and the only buildings are the great low ram bling structures of the owner of the estate nml the mean squalid houses of the la borers , which I shall describe more fully further on. Oxen everywhere take the place of horses and mules. Clumsy carts drawn by those beasts with yokes tied to their horns are the farm wagons , and the plows nro forced through the furrow by the eamo motive power. The estates were , as a rule , well kept. I passed vast vineyards , the vines of which , now covered with the red leaves of winter , spotted the landscape with fields of blood. The vines were dwarfed as they are In France , and in many cases were trained upon wires. Every vineyard has , I am told. Its skilled French man as superintendent. The vines are planted in rows about fiv\ > feet opart , and oxen are used to plow them. The Chilian vines , both white and red , are excellent , and the amount exported every year Is In creasing. The climate of Chill Is Just about the same as that of California. The same crona and fruits nro raised In both places , and the conditions of successful farming are about the same , save that In California you find most of the farms very email. How Out * AVoimui FiirniN Iu Chill. What would one of the California women who tells you that forty acres are moro than enough for ono person to take care of think U she were asked to manage a farm worth $1,000,000 and comprising moro than 11,000 acres ? There Is a woman who owns nn estate of this slz8 near Santiago. She . directs it herself , and this notwithstanding she Is now considerably over three score and ten. She keeps her own books , the balances of each page ot which run Into the thousands of dollars , and at tbo same time manages all the details connected with har household and Its numerous guests. This woman Is tome mo ono of the remarkable characters of Chill. Her name Is Sonora Emilia Herrera de Toro. She belongs to ono of the oldest families of Chill , and the estate has been in her family for hundreds of years. It lies i within two hours by train of Santiago , and , as Is tbo caeo with most of the wealthy farmers of this country , the family live upon It only during the summer months , spend ing their winters In their homo at the capi tal. It was In company with our American minister and his wife that I visited Madame do Toro and had ono of the most pleasant and Interesting experiences I have had during - ' ing my stay In Chltl. . Leaving Santiago on the train , wo rode under the snow walls of the Andes , through hacienda after hacienda , by vast vineyards of blood-red vines , by walled fields filled with herds of cattle and sheep until wo came ' to the station of the "Agulla" estate. Hero wo were met by a spanking team of bays ftnd , driven for a mlle or so on the estate before | wo came to the home. This consisted of i many long , low one-story buildings , with toofs of red tiles and wide porches floored with brick , running about patios and gar dens. A grove of trees at least 100 feet high looked down upon Jt , and the long leaves of a great palm a hundred years old rustled a welcome as wo stepped upon the porch. There were , I Judge , at least 100 large rooms In < the house , and all on the ground floor. The furnishing was with regard to comfort more than to the extravagance of show , which you BCD in all ot the Chilian city homes ) , and wo at once were made to feel that wo wore In "Liberty Hall , " and were free to go and come and do as we pleased. There were about thirty children and grand children ot Madame do Toro visiting her , as well as several other guests. We were duly Introduced , and later In the. day drove with Senor Santiago do Toro , who Is the chief manager ot the estate under his mother , over the great farm In quite royal style. In thu CnrrliiKc or n Klnti. Our carriage was a three-seated drag which once belonged to King Louis I'kll- ! llppc , and of which the counterpart or mate I i Is now the property of Queen Victoria , and j Is kept In tbo Windsor stables. Scnor do Toro bought the vehicle In Paris after tbo deposition of Louis Fhllllpe , and It has been so kept that it looks as well today as when a king was Its owner. We had six horses managed by three postillions In livery and outriders , and thus drove for mlle after mlle through wide avenues of Lombardy poplars , by the two lakes which supply the family with fish , frightening the ducks and swans which were there floating , on to the rose garden , which contains more than a hundred varieties of roses , past meadows uoon which grazed great flocks of sheep and by many Irrigated fields being made ready for next year's crops. Here was a forest of cucalpytus trees planted for their lumber , thcro an orange grove , the trees still bearing their yellow fruit , and further on a vineyard of well-kept vines. The most of the fields were sur rounded by well-made stone walls , and every part of the estate seemed carefully and economically managed. I noticed In ono nlace a Chlcaso windmill , and Scnor do Toro told mo ho used American plows and other American machinery. This estate is to a largo extent a dairy farm. It has nbout 2,000 cattle and 300 milch cows. The cows , I understand , produce something llko $0,000 worth of milk and $3,000 worth of butter a vcar. Upon the estate are 200 horses , although all the farm work Is done by oxen , which are the only draught and farm animals of Chill. These are chiefly for breedlnc and the uses of the family and guests. It Is necessary to have a very large number of horses for family use , for often parties of fifteen or twenty go horseback riding at the same time , and the Agulla estate Is managed more for the comfort of tho. family than for profit , although In a financial way It Is a very profitable farm. Heir She Trent * Her FrloiuU. Madame Emilia Is fond of giving presents. For Instance , she has ono man busy all the year round maklnc baskets to be used in sending to her friends and to be given to guests with fruit when they leave. She raises for sale 500,000 oranges a year , but nO.OOO are always left on the trees for ttie use of herself and her guests. All of the mutton eaten on her estate Is of her own raising and the 800 sheep she keeps are chiefly for herself and frclnds. She raises great quantities of onions , squashes and other vegetables to give away and sends them to the Santiago hospitals and her friends by the ox cart load. I saw piles of such vegetables stacked up for this pur pose back of the house. There was enough to have fed a good-sized American town for a year. Mountains of pumpkins , great plies of squashes , bags of walnuts and car loads of corn all awaiting their shipment as gifts. She delights In the old ways of doing things , and the table Is chlelly supplied from the estate , the Ice cream being made by means of snow brought from the mountains In bags on the backs of her peons. It takes them several days to make tbo journey and she could Import Ice more cheaply by train from Santiago , but she prefers the old way father than -the now , and her estate Is kept as much as possible as It was In the days of her girlhood. Each ot her many grandchildren has his own pony , and I saw a lot ot the llttlo boys and girls between the ages of four and fourteen gal loping about the place and holding their scats llko men and women. The meals on such an estate are , of course , excellent. You get up when you feel like it and have your coffee or tea and toast In your room. At 11 or 12 o'clock all of the household meet at breakfast. This Is what wo would call a course dinner , beginning with soup and end ing with coffee. Then at 7 o'clock there Is dinner , with perhaps a lunch or tea at 4 o'clock and supper late In the evening. "The Chilian families , as a rule , keep very late hours , and there are usually some at Agulla who stay up chatting till long after mid night. MiKlnnic Couiliio'n SniitliiKO Ilnnch. I also paid a visit during my stay at San tiago to the famous estate of the late Madame Couslno , known as Mocul. You have beard of Madame Couslno. She has been' much written about in the newspapers as the richest woman of the world , the Chilian woman who had millions of acres of lands , mines of copper , silver and coal , towns nnd factories , and an Income of | millions a year. These statements were j much exaggerated. Madame Cousino was very rich , but there are today women in Chill who are richer than she over was. She has , however , been a heavy spender , nnd her estate , which through her death in Paris a few months ago Is now being settled up , will not aggregate , I am told , $10- 000,000. She was nevertheless a re markable woman and fond of all things modern. Mocul was one of her best farms. It contains about 5.000 acres and cost when Senor Couslno bought It $600,000. I ven ture * o say more than that amount has been spent upon it , and it Is now valued at over a million. Upon it are 100 ot A Little Fuel go i a long way in a Jewel Stove or Range. That's because they are built upon scien tific principles. The saving in the cost of operation the WE wet saving in the cost of repairs makes a Jewel Stove or Range an investment that gives you life-long comfort and satisfaction. Famous over thirty years over 3,000,000 now in use. Ask the dealer for Jewel Stoves and Ranges and look for the trade-mark. [ LARGEST STOVE PLANT IN THEWORlDi Jexvtl Slov * * re lolil by A. O. nAYBIISIlf JBI4 FAUNAS ! ST. I the I finest of blooded horses , the choicest ot sheep i and 200 of tha best ot cattle bred , from 1 Imported Durham stock. It has a i vineyard which contains hundreds ot thous- j npJs i of vines and which produces millions of i bottles of wine a year. American plows ' and other machinery are used upon It , and 1 It takes a regiment of peons to do the work. The estate Is kept llko a prize farm , and lines of tall poplars mark out the course of each Irrigation ditch. The water rents for Mocul cost about $5,000 a year. | The cround Is very rich and all things j grow luxuriantly. Along the poplar hedges I saw blackberry bushes thirty feet high. , They were wild blackberries and bad grown . up between the poplars. The park of Mo- j cul Is ono of the finest In Chill. 1 doubt whether In some respects there Is a finer In the world. It has long avenues o * trees 100 feet high , the branches of which meet overhead and form arbors reaching almost as far as you can sec. At places other avenues meet these and you stand and look down these long arbors in four different directions. There are groves of acres of great trees planted so regularly that every way you look your eye runs along the straight Hues of one of the rows. Thcro arc lagoons which wind In and out among mossy rocks and beds of flowers. Swans and other water fowl swim upon the lagoons and over their dark waters orange trees , palms and weeping willows bang. Hero you pass over what seems a natural bridge , In the center of which there la a rustic tabla under a , canopy of bark , nnd there a water fall splashes over the rocks and as you look upward you see bronze statues of Neptune and his wife where the silvery drops are spraying before they flow onward to their falls. Hero Is a winding cave and there a ' lemon grove laden with yellow fruit. There are hedges of roses nnd other flowers , great green houses filled with orchids , and , in short , such a variety of beautiful things that I might fill a column in mentioning them. It takes thirty men to care for the gardens ot Mocul alone and ISO men are employed in Its vineyards. I'cona or Fnrm Hanclx of Chill. Ono of these big farms always has Its manager or major dome. It has Its sub- overseers and Its army of laboring men or rotos. The farm hands of Chill are called rotos. They are the cross formed by the union of the Indians nnd Spaniards. They are the laboring class of the country and corrrespond to the peons of Peru. They are , however , of a different make from the Peruvian laborers , although fully ns drunken and shiftless as to money-making and money-saving. They nro bravo to excess and will not tolerate abuse nor Insult. You can kick a Peruvian peon and he will smile , the Bolivian servant Is afraid that his mas ter Is angry \\\th \ him if ho does not thrash him once or twice a month , but the Chilian would bo likely to resent such treatment with a stab or a blow. These men all carry knives and they do not hesitate to use them. They care llttlo for life , and , I am told , many of thrtn would kill a man for a del lar. On the other hand , they are fond of the men they work for , and It Is hard to get them away from the estates where they were born. Most of them are In debt to their masters. They live on the estate , get ting a hut and a couple of acres of ground for themselves and being paid from 40 to GO cents a day for their work. This Is In Chil ian silver , so that their wages are really from 14 to 20 cents a day. They receive food In addition to their wages , but this Is only for themselves. Their first meal Is usually a double handful of toasted wheat flour , which they mix with water to form a mush or bake In a cake. At noon they have a bowl of hot beans , and for supper , or dinner , as they call it here , they get a second bowl of beans , with , perhaps , some moro toasted meal added. The last two meals they eat In the fields , with what ex tras their wives bring from homo. Thct ; sit down on the ground to eat , nnd their only eating utensil Is an Iron spoon or , what is more common , a mussel shell. Still , on such food they will work from sunrise to sunset and will carry enormous burdens and do the heaviest work. The huts which form their homes are llt tlo better than our pig pens. They nro usually Just high enough to get Into and not over fifteen feet square. Their walls are of wattled twigs , sun-dried bricks , or In the south of boards , and the roofs are usually of thatch. The dirt forms the floor and In many cases the bed of the family. A boxer or two and a table Is nbout all the furniture. There are seldom partitions In this one room. The people herd together like pigs and sev eral families often occupy the same room They All CJet Drunk. The chief end of the Chilian rotos1 life Is to get drunk. He works only for this , and nine-tenths of his kind nro in a state ol beastly Intoxication nt least once a week. Ho stays drunk and will not work as long as his money lasts. For this reason Mon day is called the "rotos' holy day , " for he Is so drunk on Sunday that he has to take Monday to taper off. The men , women and children of this class all drink together. None of them seem to have any deslro to better their condition nnd all seem to con tinue In this state till they die. The liquor they use Is the vilest of alcohol , made of potatoes nnd rotten vegetables. It would as one of their employers Bays , kill the or dinary man at a thousand yards. They gulp this down in great quantities and drink , not for the pleasure of drinking , but to get drunk. The result of their excesses , of their poor food and the unsanitary condition of their houses is that the mortality among then Is very great. They breed like Australian rabbits and their babies die like flics. The children who live are only the strongest The peon child who has constitution enough to grow up in Chili has constitution enough for anything. It la perhaps for this reason that the peons as a class are as strong as any people of the world. I have seen them all day carrying bags ot nitrate each weigh ing 300 pounds and tossing them about like bags of feathers. Four of them will lift up a piano and trot off with It , nnd In the mines a peon will carry a bag of ore weighing 15 ( pounds up a notched stick that serves as a ladder all day long. Comparatively few o them , I am told , have gone through the marriage' ceremony , but nearly all have wives , and they are , as a rule , true to them They are kind to their old people and al ways ready to help ono another when In trouble. They have the humor of the Irish and the superstition of the Chinese. The : are ns great fatalists as the Turks. They are as treacherous In their enmity as the Spaniards from whom they are descended and will stab you In the back If they are offered the chance. It was thought that the system of common schools Inaugurated by the Chilian government might attract the peon. It has not done so to any extent , anc today of the 3,000,000 people in Chill lesj than one In four can read and write. FRANK 0. CARPENTER. The MldilK-AKcil Sinn. "I find , " said the middle-aged man , "tw things : That I need Just about so much sleep , and that I need It at just such hours What suits me best Is to go to bed at 1 o'clock and get up at 6. If I go to bed a 12 I am likely to wake up in the niornin at 6 anyway , or teen after , and then I ge a flhort night's sleep , which Is bad for me and even If I sleep over , until 7 or 8 o'clock so that I get my full amount of sleep , 1 does not refresh me as the same amoun does taken at my accustomed hours : 1 don' feel the samo. "Here Is another thing that I observe : I I get a short night's sleep I seem to hav to make this up. That is. one full night' Bleep after a short night does not bring mo i back to feeling quite like myself again. It : takes me two or three nights of sleep to I get back to normal. I "All of which means that I find I can work to the best advantage on regular sleep I1 at regular hours , and I don't believe I ami alone In this. " | j The | Ak-Sar-Ben King- In j his triumphal entry Into the city will not pass a window tluit will show a * , inut'li shoo beauty ns our west window , thnt has just boon Illled with the ab solutely ( now ladles' footwear thorc Is the llnuiui man fashion , the military hist j , the cushion sole , the Webster last- have | you seen this oneV the Derby welt , the Ilanan Leamler , the Foster new opera ( arch and custom last with corl : sole , the pugtoo. the dollar toe , ease and comfort , style and beauty In every pair ' , and the astonishing part Is that the prices are the kind that arc usually put on J old shoes at the end of season Just look ] In the window while waiting for the parade. Drexel Shoe Co. , coIf Oiunhn' * I'p-to-dnto Shoe Home. If 1419 FARNAM STREET Honest Carpets- carpets that are all wool that nave no shoddy that have cheerful colors that won't fade that have natural , restful designs that arc worth every cent that you pay for them these are the kind we ask you to buy and the only kind we have to sell the IICAV fall patterns and colorings are oven more beautiful than those of last year. Omaha Carpet Co Omaha's Exclusive Carpet House , 1515 Dodge St. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CONCLAVE Preparations for the Twenty-Seventh Triennial Meeting at Pittsburg. SOMETHING OF A PEACE JUBILEE of ( lie Army , the Nnvy anil Civil I.lfc KMivctcd and .Social Features of the tiiitherliiK. PITTSBURG , Sept. 30. This city Is bus ily preparing for a military display which , Insofar as the exhibition of gold lace and Iho , other decorative insignia of such gath erings Is concerned , will cause the entire equipment , field and staff , of the American and Spanish armies engaged In the late war to seem pale by comparison. The occo- slon of this outbreak of swords and plumes and gorgeous trappings Is the twenty-sev enth triennial conclave of the Knights Tem plar of the United States , which Is to beheld held here on October II , 12 and 13. The fact that many of the returned heroes ot the war are sir knights who will attend In that capacity , and that the officers who have the affulr In charge have decided to Invite others In the endeavor to make the gather- lug a grand peace jubilee , will give the meeting a widespread general Interest , aside from its Importance In the annals of Masonry. It Is estimated by the members of the committee of arrangements that no less than 25,000 knights will be In attend ance , and that the number of friends whom ] they will bring with them will test the hos pitality of the city to Its limits. The greatest drawing card , so far as the attendance of outsiders Is concerned , Is the announcement by Grand Marshal General J. P. S. Gobln that he Is negotiating through the secretaries of war and navy for leaves of absence for prominent military and naval officers who can reach Httsburg in time for the meeting. These leaders , with their laurels fresh upon them , are to be on the staff of the grand marshal. Among those who have been Invited to be present In this capacity are General Miles , General Joe Wheeler , Colonel Roosevelt , Captain Slgs- bee and a large number of other military and naval officers. Municipal Ilecorntlonn. To do fitting honor to this assemblage , the city will decorate Itself In gorgeous at tire , and the decorations will bo on the most elaborate scale. Befitting Its position as the homo of the great electrical com panies , electricity will play the leading part In the scheme of decoration. Already the CO.OOO-horso power which forms the limit of the city's ordinary supply has been far exceeded In the demands for extra power to supply the display designs which will be erected on almost every block. According to the present plans , Masonic emblems formed by thousands of electric lights will be visible everywhere , on the roofs nf high buildings and on the surround ing hilltops. Probably the largest of these will bo a cross 100 feet high , with a cross bar sixty feet long , which is to bo placed on the tower of the county court house. It is expected that the city will resound with the music of martial and national airs , as the committee has already secured the attendance of the Sixth Cavalry band ( mounted ) , the Marino band of washington - ton , the Annapolis Cadet band of the naval academy , and regimental bands from San Francisco , New York , Chicago , St. Louis , Cincinnati , Detroit and other cities. The grand parade of the meeting will be he'ld on Tuesday , October 11 , and It la expected that 25,000 swords and plumes will bo on exhibition afoot , on horseback erIn In carriages. The line of march will extend to Schenly park , where a formal welcome to the grand encampment will be given by the most eminent grand master , W. Li Rue Thomas , Mayor Ford of Pittsburg and Mayor Geyer of Allegheny. Thereupon the encampment will EO into session in Car negie Music hall , where the business meetIngs - Ings will bo held. , Another important feature of > the meeting will be the grand reception and ball to be held In the Duquesno summer garden. Grand Marshal Gobln will deliver the address of welcome on this occasion , and Governor Hastings , who Is to attend with his stalf , probably will extend a welcome on behalf of the state of Pennsylvania. As a market ot courtesy the committee has Invited Sir Knight William McKlnley and Mrs. Hobart to lead the grand march at the ball. During the three days over which the meeting extends the grand commandery , state grand commanderlcs and local grand commaudcrles will be constantly re ceiving and entertaining guests , and the Pittsburg commanderlcs will keep open house throughout the entire - tire week. The headquarters of the grand commandery will bo In the Monon- gahela house ; that of the executive com mittee in the Department of Public Safety building on Sixth avenue , and that of tbo escort committee of the reception committee In Old City hall on Market street. The first-class hotels down town are all filled up already for conclave week. Hut members ot the executive committee say that whllo these hotels will hold only 12,000 guests , there are 215 other hotels with ac commodations for 12,000 more ; 10,000 more can bo taken care of In private boarding and rooming houses , 15,000 In sleeping cars , while 3,000 are to bo received as guests In private families. The railroad companies have assured the executive committee that they can take care of 1,870 sleeping cars without putting down additional side tracks , and some of them will run special accommo dation trains every half hour during the day and night to transport visiting knights and their ladles to and from their cars with out cost. , HKLIGIOI'S. ' Vatican statistics state that from 600 to 700 converts to Rome are made every month in England and Wales. The Methodist Review declares ) that the strategic points for the conquest , of the world are the cities. It Is stated that Spain supports from her treasury 117,000 monks , nuns and other per sons under religious vows. The population of China Is now pet at 350,000,000 , and nearly all parts of this Im mense empire are open and ready for the gospel missionary. Bishop Satterloo of Washington has se- cuied $245,000 for an Episcopal cathedral near which Mrs. Hearst Is to erect a diocesan cesan school for girls. The aggregate Increase In the holdings o : institutions aided by the American Baptist Education society during the last ten years has been $1,133,513.33. The enrolled membership of the Methodls church In Canada la 280,537 , one-fifth of the i entire population of the dominion. It Is 1 stated that the Presbyterians and Methodists In Canada are in close affiliation. There are In Spain 126 Protestant schools with sixty-one male and seventy-six female teachers.'They ' instruct 2,500 boys and 2,100 girls. There are eighty Sunday schools. The Protestants publish In Spain six Journals In the Interest of Protestant religion. The object of the Zionist movement is the return of the Jowa to Palestine. One million dollars , all in sums of $5 , have already been subscribed to the proposed fund of $10.000- 000 with which the leaders propose to carry on the movement. The sultan of Turkey has sent n telegram to the president of the Zionist congress with his cordial assurance of good will. The finding of $32,000 in gold and securi ties left by the late Joseph Alblnger , pastor of the Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Victory in West Mount Vernon , N. Y. Is a surprise to the people of his parish and throughout Westchestor county , where ho had always been regarded as very poor Since the money was discovered It has beet learned that Father Alblnger also owned two houses and a farm valued at about $21 , 000. Tho'farm is in Nebraska. Both housei are In New Jersey , one at Greenville ant the other at Union Hill. CO.\MIIHALITII3S. A Missouri man filed as nn answer t < his wife's suit for divorce an aRreemen signed by both "to disband. " Mr. Woodruff , the New York man \vh tas accumulated fifty wives , simply make Chicago's Bates-Gates of seven wife note rlety look small. "I have always had a desire to go on the stage , " says the St. Louis young woman who was married last Saturday and Is now seeking a dlvorco. She not only wants t go on the stage , but she wants to begin a n star. Cupid , Instead of Davy Jones , kldnappe Miss King , whose mysterious dlsappenronc from Coney island recently created such stir , and now she has returned alive , wel and a blushing bride , seeking the parcnta blessing. Robert Qulncy and wife of Parkersburg W. Va. , have separated because of the lal ter's fondness for onions and the former' Inability to stand the smell of that vege table. The husband is seeking a dlvorc and the wife Is with her parents. They hav several children. When J , A. Paulsell. a veteran of bet the Mexican and civil wars , and now S years old , married a woman of 22 years few days ago , ho used a novel weddln ring. It was of brass and was made fron n bit of cannon used bv the Mexicans i Chepultepco and destroyed by the Amerl cans. Ardent In spite of his 80 years , Francl Walking of Anderson , Ind. , proposed t Lydla Bethel , a good looking young woma of Bethel , 0. She accented him and the Intended to elope , but his daughters pro vented. Then the aged lover became coo and the result wAs a $10,000 breach-of promise suit , which ho has Just corapro mtsed for $3,000. Mrs. Polly Owens , who was lately marrlec to William Owens of White River township near Noblesvllle , Ind. , Is now living wit her thirteenth husband. Mrs. Owens ha six children as the fruits of her forme marriages , no two having the same name She is over 60 years old. She was separ ated from the larger number of her bus bands , She Is part Indian , her mothc being a half-caste. At the Piedmont exposition , held In At lantu , one of the features of the show wai the marriage of two couples who were clat In cotton bagging. The couples were mar rled In the presence of a vast throng o people , who laughed and made merry at th novel spectacle. One of the brides on tha occasion has now been arrested in Atlant charged with keeping a disorderly house And this Is the sequel to the exposltlo romance. "We believe , " comments th Richmond Times , "that such exhibition should not only bo discountenanced , bu that they should be forbidden by law We do not believe that any exposltlo should be permitted to trifle with tht holy ordinance. It would be surprising indeed , if the marriage under auch clr cumstances should turn out well , " IAIIOH AM ) I.Mi.STHY ; , The Detroit Steel and Spring works nf tb Detroit Steel and Spring company are belnr operated twenty-four hours a dav. The Pennsylvania Tube works of Pitts burg , Pa. , have an order from the Standar Oil company for forty miles of elRht-lnch line pipe. Experiments made in Paris Ebovr that a I A Monday Special Kor one day Monday wo are o offer an upright mahogany piano learly new just IIM good as new full Ize In the latest pattern of carved ase , duet desk and roll u.'mo boarder or $11)5.00 ) ou the easy terms of ? 'J3 ash and only ? S a month , This Is u great snap and If you want It come > nrly also we have a nearly new ilmball piano wo will sell for ? ' _ > IH ) and ? 2t)0 ) Is a mighty cheap price for n Clmball piano. t A. HOSPE , Music and Art. 1513 Douglas Too Early Perhaps : o talk bnso burner but we're not going to let you go by without telling you about the Jewel base burner last year It was a beauty , but you should sco the ones wo show now you remember we didn't carry a single base burner over last fall these are not only Im proved In looks , but they 2.tve all the inprovomcnts that can be made per fect self-feeders and fuel savers throw out more heat to the square Inch than any base burner you over saw. Now that you have time , Just come In and let us show yon the real thing In base burners It Is going to enow some day. A. C. Raymer , WE DELIVER YOUR PURCHASE. 1514 Farnam Street. Maybe You Don't ' Know How but you can learn It's easy to take pictures by tlash light It's just as easy as pushing the button you strike a match and the powder does the rest there's going to bo lots of chances tlTTs week to use your kodak. We have the supplies and the cameras too , If you haven't one. Every camera that we can recommend we sell and we have many , many different kinds , sizes and makes. We offer out-of-towii visitors the free use of our dark room and burnisher. TheAloe&PenfoldCo Photo Supp' " tHonie. IttS Farnam Street. Futon HoteL A TALEJH ; LOVE If You Love the Girl That's ' Your Business If the Girl Loves You That's ' Her Business. IF YOO WANT AN ENGAGEMENT RING That'll Our IlunliieH * to Supply It We IIlive Tliem Set with Any Stone You May I'nncy From Gnr- iicti * nt 92.00 to Uln- inomlN nt ! ? llir > . And wo have made special provision for a little later on when It's your friends and her friends business to send congratulations and a token of remembrance. We have all the latent and most beautiful designs in Ster ling Silver Berry Bowls , Bon Bon Dishes , Tea Sets , etc. Solid Silver Tea Spoons at (2.75 for pet of six ; Berry Spoons , $3.00 each ; Butter Knives and Sugar Spoons , $1.60. And a largo selection ot rich Cut Glass. RK- MEMBER THE MAIN-spring of your watch. If anything Is wrong with It take It to IIE.VKV COI'LISY , Wares of Gold and Silver. 215 S. Kith St. , 1'uxtuii lllk , Onialin. electric wagon costs 47 per cent less to run than a horse wagon and 32 per cent less than a petroleum motor. Coventry is the center of the British cycle Industry. Compared with this time last year the firms there are said to bo em ploying about 4,000 fewer persons , while thousands of employes are now working only thirty hours weekly. Tbo Northern Pacific railway shoos at South Tacoma have practically suspended the building of the 300 flat cars. Two hun dred of the cars were finished , and then it became Impossible to get enough material to complete the others. Houston Is the only interior cotton market in the world that ever received 35,000 bales of cotton In one day. Sixty per cent of the Texas crop will pass through Houston this season and the total gross receipts at this point are expected to exceed 2,000,000 bales. American manufacturers wlshlne to send goods Into Turkey in Asia are warned bv the consuls that their circulars and letters must bo written In Turkish or French , ore- ferably Turkish. To write or nrlnt them In English is simply a waste of time and money. It Is estimated that the combined tomato pack of Salem and Cumberland countlep. New Jersey , this year will not bo less than 12,000,000 cans. The averace outnut of canned tomatoes In the United States from 18D3 to 1837 was about C.250.000 cases or 126,000,000 cans. The largest tin plate establishment In the world Is to bo moved from Wales to the United States. Formerly this country Im ported annually from $20,000,000 to $30.000- 000 worth of tin plate. As the result of a moderate protective duty the Importation last year was less than $4,000,000. The Metal Works , a trade paper , nays that forty-one tin plate manuacturlng * establish ments In the United States , with an aggregate of 250 tin mills , turned out In the six months ended June 30 , 1&98 , 414,115.439 pounds , or 184,873 tons of black plate for tinning and 359,468,301 pounds , or 160,477 tons , of finished tin plate. The ccnsul at Liverpool sayn that Ameri can manufacturers have an opportunity to supply the English middle classes with fur niture , but only If they make It In the Eng lish style. Hitherto they have made the mistake of endeavoring to popularize the American style. Canadian makers , on the contrary , have built up a tremendous trade by manufacturing furniture In accord with drawings gent over from England. You Invite disappointment when you ex periment. DeWltt's Little Early Ulcers are pleasant , easy , thorough little pills. They cure constipation and sick headache just as sure as you take them IIOI'KS WOVEN MY SIMD12IIS. Intended fur I'He ; on French Military Ilullooim , Spiders must now bo counted amone the necessary helpmates ot balloon manufac turers , ' .Many experiments made with tpliler web as a substitute for silk have proved the far-reaching possibilities of the new material. The thread of tbo spider was found Invaluable In the production of so-called reticles , crosses or nets of fine threads olaced In the focal piano of tele scopes , to determine the exact position of an observed object. Some ten years ago So Many Tell Us That there's n gotthercltlvencss about the City Steam Laundry that mnkes It stand out ns the one perfect laundry In town. That's what wo nro after. Wo know It's as near perfection HB a laundry can bo , but If the future develops n possible bet terment , tlmt betterment will bo made no matter what the coat. Correct launder ing only satlsllcs us. Isn't such u laundry worthy of your patronage ? Drop a postal and the wagon will call. CITY STEAM LAUNDRY SHIRT WAISTS A SI'lUCIAI-TY. Laundry , 11th nml Fiimiini. Uptown Olllee 1B17 Fnnuim. ' 1'hoiie US-I. IRON AND BRASS BEADSTEADS The best and cheapest iu town Over 1,000 patterns. Dewey & Stone furniture Co. , 1115-1117 Farnam Street. French missionary started the systematic rearing of two kinds of spiders for their web. web.Now Now the Industrie Textile announces that a solder web factory Is In successful operation at Cbalals-MeuOoii , near Paris , where rones are made of spider web In tended for balloons for the French military aeronautic section , The spiders are ar ranged In eroupu of twelve above a reel , by no means easy work * for the spiders , for they are not released until they have fur nished from thirty to forty yards of thread each. The web Is washed , and thus freed of the outer rcddlah and sticky cover. Eight of the washed threads are then taken together , and of this rather strong yarn cords am woven , which are stronger and much lighter than cords of silk of the same thick ness. These spider web ropes are very much moro expensive than silk ones , but It In hoped to reduce their cost somewhat In ttia future. A Heiiuirlcnuln ICi-xoiir. Mr . Michael Curtain , Plaltifield , III. , makea the statement that the caught cold , which nettled on her lungs ; she was treated for a month by her family physician , but grew worse. Ho told her she was a hopelctui vic tim of coimimptlon and tliat no medicine could cure her. Her drugglat duggoated Dr. Klng'B New Dlicovery for ConHuroptlon , she bought a bottle and to her delight found her self benbflttcd from IIret cloae. She continued Its use and after taking elx bottlra found herself sound and well ; now dot tier own housework and U aw well as she ever WUH. Free trial bottlcn of this Great Discovery at Kubn & Co.'A drug store. Large bottle * 60 ccntu and $1.00.