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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.
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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 *
,
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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.
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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.