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the close. This Is the breakfast Won also
get at the hotels. As rule, wine is takon
win breakfast, and a small cup of coffee
ait~r II At or in the evening comes
uliiHer. rms Is much like the breakfast,
thiS mlch more elaborate There are a.
ways wines On the table, and there are
man" coul SeS served SeparateIv There arc
soup hsh, entrees rOaSts, game and sal
ads, ending UP with dessert The food is
t@IiieF hedFy, as rule, and the Chilean is
lent food Of all kinds and the tnnoototio,,
Is 10 eat too much. I have never dinad
HoFe generously than in Chile. and have
never visited country where the hnteIs
were uniformly so good
A Butterfly Life,
But 10 return to the butterflies of Chile
lor indeed the lives of many of the rich
people mere are almost as idle as that of
the butterfly L am speaking, of course of
the wealthy classes. They rise at about
or later, and the hours from the time
they get up until breakfast are spent in
walking or driving and attending 70 husi
ness After breakfast they take a rest and
between ) and pm. they are ready to re-
celFe or make calls. At every person of
htte "no possesses a carriage goes to the
Couslho Park. All are dressed in their
beSt clothes. the men wearing silk hats
frock coats and well-cut suits and the
women having on Paris-made gowns and
bohnets or halls. AT the park they parade
IN tlielr carriages up and down the princi-
PAL dflVCS ana stare at each other. After
about thirty minutes by a sort of common
consent they all make for the Alameda.
Where they form a procession of carriages
three or four abreast and parade up and
down this street for a distance of about
four blocks, still staring at one another
Inc drlVing Is superintended and guarded
Evening star., 1898-09-10

nave only to look at the well-dressed peo-
pie on the streets and the fine turnouts
which pass our tram as we ride through the
Alameda to see that Santiago is very
rlch city. The same thing is noticeable in
the business streets. There are as fine
stores here as you will find in an European
capital, and the costliest of diamonds
sparkle in the jewelers. windows This is
one of the best diamond markets, and the
costliest Of all kinds of goods are in de-
mand. The show windows are well dressed
and Santiago, as We see on our way to the
Plaza de Armcs, has several great arcades
rooted with glass. which cut through some
OF the big business blocks from one side to
the other. The plaza where the car stops
Is the ganiionic center of the Chilean capi-
tai. About 1t are the chief business streets
on one corner is the cathedral, on another
the post office. and all around are portaIes
or corridors filled with booths and walled
at the back with fine stores. The plaza it
self is beautiful little park containing SOW
eral fountains, palm trees and many t-opi-
Evening star., 1898-09-10

thing of the sort, from a bottle of cham
payne to special variety of cocktail which
was introduced into Chile by former Sec
retary of the American legation. 1t is the
one thing American that now holds and
that will always hold its own in Chile
During these intermissions there is visiting
going on among friends in the boxes. and
the whole affair is indeed more a social
occasion than a musical one. The Chileans
do not have as close social intercourse as
we DO, ana | have yet to hear of women's
clubs in Chile. The people are fond of
dancing and the president often combines
tions. At such. times the display of dia-
mondS on the part of the ladies' Is gor-
geous In the extreme. Quarts of these pre-
cious stones are dragged out of the vaults
anu their priinancy vies with that of the
electric lights. At recent reception one
lady wore eight diamond stars and another
large bouquet of diamonds There were
chokers of diamonds, buckles of diamonds.
anu, IN 1act, almost every kind of diamond
ornament you can Imagine. None of the
ladies wore such common things as roses
though one or two had on bouquets of or
chids so rare that in New York they would
have cost as much as Jewels
Sunday Races.
Another social feature of Santiago is the
races. which are held regularly every Sum
day afternoon during the season under the
auspices Of the Club Hipico This is the
event of the week. Gentlemen come out
dressed in tall hats, black frock coats. light
or dark pantaloons and white kids The
ladies put on their handsomest street gowns
ana they call upon one another betwee:
the heats. The race course is inst hack of
the Park Cousino, in the heart of the city
1t is right under the shadow of the Andes
and is one of the finest tracks of the world
The horses are excellent and race in San
tiago is one of the great sights of south
America FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1898-09-10
Because He Wos Bald.
From the London Telegraph.

iNiii Auc i<phuou telegraph.
Not often Is Badness advanced as Z rsa-
son for refusing a room to a lodgcr. one
would have thought that loss of hair i'm
phed such promise Of Quia.nass and soHri-
ETY. Of conduct as TO have served almost as
a reconmeEdaticn to landlady This may
De so With some, but evidently there are
offers TIE latter apparently included airs
hayes, who sued a Mr.. Myall for twelve
sflillngs rent alleged to be due The de-
fepdan' however, said h had no cause TO
pay, as the moment he entered tn. hoils,,
he was asked 10 leave. The plaintfT Vas
requested to explain this statement, ana
she then told Judge French Of The shore
cltch county court that she had let the
room under a misapprehensiou.
when MT. Myail engaged 10 take II ha
Kept his hat on but judge Of her asronisI-
nent and dlsr3ay when she af-.rvarl Ui.-
covered that her tenant was halL Sh,. had
a very select party Of young lodgars, and
certainly objected to letting her rooms To-
men whose hair had grown into pure in
t4lIect. Her lOdgers were n tla aahit .f
having dinner together, bat when she saw
the newcomers badness she determined
that she would serve him his -uaaIs ~
himself, but he saved her The trousle Nv
taking himself of. His honor most ria.4t-
eCusly decided that the defendant had act
ed very properly In leaving so inhuspit lbla
a host, and gave Judgment n his favor
Evening star., 1898-09-10
SamOa'S Snake siyas,

From the London Mail.
Samoa, it is well known, is one Of the
very few islands in the Pacific where
snakes are found in plenty.
None Of the reptiles here however, are
venonous, and in consequence the natives
show absolutely no fear of them.
Their indifference TO the reptiles is made
most markedly manifest at the hamlct OF
IVA, on the northeast coast Of SaVaii.
The dancing girls of the place are i'm the
habit Of employing the snakes tor per-
soraI adornment in their dances. They tie
them about their neCks, their ankles and
their wrists, festoon them in their head
dresses, and tuck few extra ones In the
belt in readiness to replace such as may
escape in the dance
At their best these siVas danced by the
Samoans are revolving shows of sayagery
1t can be easily imagined that they are
made no more attractive by the village
maid and her crew of attendant girls
careering round adorned with an assort-
ment OF writhing red snakes.
Evening star., 1898-09-10

the weather just as our bureau at Wash
ington. 1t has the cheapest telegraph sys-
tenn / have ever met with in any country.
The telegraph is owned by the government,
and you can send a ten-word message to
any part of Chile for about cents of our
money. There are now about 5000 miles of
wire in the country and all of the large
cities can be reached by telegraph. The
postal service is good. More than sixty
million letters and newspapers are sent
through the mails every year, and the
mails are safe. Girls are employed post
al clerks, and when | register this letter for
the United States it will be a Chilean maid
en- who will lick the stamps and give me the
registry receipt. She will only charge me
sum equal to three and one-half of our
cents for doing and the postage to the
United States will be less than you will
Pay our post Office to send your letters to
Chile.
High Life in Santiago.
L wish 1 could take you into some cf the
big houses of Santiago and show you how
the wealthy Chileans live. Every one here
is now talking of hard times, and am told
that many of the supposedly very wealthy
people are mortgaged to the eyes How
ever that may be, they spend enormous
amounts OF money and live like very
princes L nave been in houses here which
had upward Of fifty rooms. and which were
furnished as extensively some Of the
palaces of Europe. Many Of them have
their billiard rooms and ball rooms. ahev
contain fire paintings and statues and ele-
giant furnishings. The curtains in one pal
ace on the Alameda cost S2OGnoO, another
house is q reproduction of the Alhambra in
Spain, and third. situated in a garden of
I'VE acres, has a series of beautiful! HALLS
ending in Moorish bath room. with
marble pool in the center of the fiaor big
enough TO form the bath tub of an ee-
phant. The most of these immense houses
are or one or two stories. the rooms run
ring around patios or gardens. They have
ceilings which are fifteen or more feet
blgh. and they are furnished with more
regard tc striking effect than to comfort
Much of the furniture is plated with gold
leaf and the general style of the hanginSs
is french There are no fireplaces nor
stoves nor chimneys with which thcy
could be connected if desired. Still. San
ueso has temperate climate. 1t is as
cold here Just now as at Atlanta in the
winter. and | am writing in my room at
the hotel with my feet in fur bag and a
poncho over my shoulders. The Chilean
gentlemen keep on their overcoats and the
ladles their furs in their parlors, ard it is
rot ar uncommon thing for men to wear
their top coats over their dress suits when
at dinner.
What They Eat and How They Eat It.
The meals of rich Chilean family are
dlferent from ours No one comes down
stairs for his first meal. This is served in
the bed rooms. and is usually eaten in bed
1t consists of coffee and rolls without but
ter or extra spread in the way of lam
This meal is called desayuno 1t is hardly
| considered a meal but l am CHARGED 10
cents day extra for it at my hotel Break
tast, CT almuerzo, is taken at II or -
O'Clock. 1t consists of a SOUP some fish
ana some meat, with perhaps pancake at
Evening star., 1898-09-10

OUR BREAKFAST
this morning was by
no means elaborate
Ten million other
American families
Jared equally well.
Yet that simple meal
which cost you only
a few cents repre-
sented the combined
labors of hundreds
of thousands of
workers and brought
into USE capital ag-
gregating thousands
Evening star., 1898-09-10

by mounted policemen, and the scene is i'm
posing, although it seems rather stiited
and fantastic to a stranger. The vehicles
are of all kinds There are high drags
yictoriaS, landaus and fOur-in-hands
some driven by their owners and some by
coachmen in gorgeous liveries. The parade
continues for perhaps half an hour, during
which time no one speaks to another. but
merely bows to his friends. After the pa
rade all go home to dinner. some one car
riage breaking the lire and the others fol-
lowing suit on the trot.
Santiago ut the Theater.
After dinner the swells of Santiago go to
the opera. There is here one of the largest
opera houses on this hemisphere. 1t is
known as the Municipal Theater, and Ii is
subsidized by the government. Every year
it has season of Italian opera, the COM
panies being brought from Italy The sea-
son lasts for eighty nights and nearly every
person of prominence has his box for the
season, which costs him 81 200 in Chilean
money, a sum equal to about 800 Ameri-
can gold Each box will hold six people
and all of the boxes are taken, although
two of the galleries of the large theater
are divided up In boxes. Ladies and gen.
tlemen always wear full dress at the opera
and the ladies are usually resplendent with
diamonds As a rule the swells pay but
little attention to the music, devoting most
of their time to looking at each other. For
this reason the lights are never turned
down during the acts. The ladies take their
hats off when they enter the boxes. The
men keep their heads bare during the act
ting, but as soon as the curtain goes down
every man puts on his hat. Between the
acts both ladies' and gentlemen go out and
promenade in the lobbies of the theater
Here there are restaurants where the ladies
can have ices and to which the gentlemen
go to get refreshments. not lees. All kinds
OK liquors are sold, and YOU can have any
Evening star., 1898-09-10

Is THE
capital of Chile. 1t
is almost as big as
Washington, and in
many things it COM
pares fayorably with
it. w ashington is
six hours ride from
our chief seaport,
New York. Santiago
is about SIX hours by
rail from Valparaiso.
the chief port of
Chile. The way to
1t is over tho c14s+
Evening star., 1898-09-10
Apparently.
Fren Puck.

IT suppose hypnotism is entirely unknown
in Spain.''
why do you think so?''
1T has not been offered as an excuse for
any Of the Spanish defeats"
Evening star., 1898-09-10
The Queer Features of Life and Busi
ness There.
| BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SANTIAGO
Palaces Which Cover Acres and
Cost Thousands.
HOTELS ARE GOOD

Copyright. 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
SANTIAGO, Chile. August :. 1898
Evening star., 1898-09-10
OUR FOOD SUPPLY
What 1t Costs to Feed the People
for a Year.
INTERESTING FACTS and FIGURES
Enormous Capital Invested in Pro-
ducing Each Meal.
WHAT THE FARMS RAISE

Copyright, 1898. by the S. s. Mcclure co.,
Written for The Evening Star by Geo B. Waldron
Evening star., 1898-09-10
SuSpe Sc.

Dora-"Can you keep a secret?"
Cora-"No; what is it?"
Evening star., 1898-09-10

cal plants and flowers. 1t is surrounded by
a heXagonal walk or promenade sixty feet
wide. which is as beautifully laid any
tiled floor of a Washington vestibule.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-18
Utilizing the Nile Cataracts.

The far-reaching effects which would
follow on the carrying out OF the plan
lately proposed for utilizing the water
of the Nile Cataracts give exceptional
interest to the scheme. Prof. Forbes,
who has gone over the ground to be
covered by the prospective operations,
has made special examination into the
needs of the cultivators. He has al
ready tabulated eighteen distinct indu
tries which would be developed and
made prosperous and profitable by the
harvesting of the Nile. He survey ed
the river from Assouan, the site OF the
first cataract, to a point not far from
Abu Hsmed, at which the fourth cat
aract is situated. There is between
the fifth aud sixth and last of the fam
GUS cataracts q stretch of country OF
which more will probably be heard in
the near future. 1t lis formed OF an
cient Nile mud, and although 1t has
been decided by the government Of
ficials engaged in the survey to let II
alone for the present, it is believed
that scientific irrigation would make it
one of the ichest tracts OF land In
the world. Only a rough survey was
made between the third and
fourth cataracts, the serious and
detailed Investigation being con-
fined to the first, second and third
falls. The question to be settled was
whether the force of the waterfall at
these three points could be utilized for
driving power. This famous river,
from half a mile to mile in width,
flows through country for the
most part mountainous, sterile
and sandy on both banks
beyond the narrow strip of a few
hundred yards on either bank. which
is cultivated. The new scheme, as
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These cars are Clean. Well Furnished and
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Tickets are now on sale from Ell Paso to
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Boys.
Memphis c numerical Appeal.

Memphis mmercial Appeal.
1t Is gratifying to observe that the
world or q portion of those who live in
the world is beginning to understand
boys and boyish natures and that
good deal of the rubbish with which
boys were formerly surfeited is being
set aside for more wholesome intel
Combe preached and pleaded for
health and sound physical training
for boys: and Herbert Spencer
following in Combe's footpath,. de-
clares that "to be fine animal is the
only solid basis of personal and national
prosperity" In the current month g
Humanitarian Mr.. Andrew Wilson de-
clares that he would make this
apathy about health impossible by
teaching the young that to live long
and healthy means applying little
knowledge to the affairs of our daily
existence, and l say, would begin
with the school, for there you find the
mind receptive, and the soil ready for
the good seed to be sown therein, such
as will bring forth fruit an hundred
fold. Well may thinking people ap-
prove of such sentiments when they
consider the profit likely to accrue
from the establishment OF health
knowledge as . permanent subject
in our educational curriculum every
where. If people object that there
is no time for such teaching, sue-
eest that less pisuo-playing aud less
Latin and Greek might represent
way out of the difficulty. 1t is better
to be healthy than learned when all is
said and done, but see no reason why
the average individual should not de-
velop the learning Of health, as we'll,
as, say, the mysteries OF thorough bass.
or the smatterinR Of French and Ger
man where with most OF US are provid-
ed at school,"
The young, when taught
at all, have been taught
that inaction meant good con
duct. The literature with which boys
were served was q series OF 'don'ts."
The slaziest and fimsiest stories were
crammed into them of the Stanford
and Merton" style-stories of the pro-
per little boys who kept their clothes
clean, who never went in swimming,
who never played hockey and who
never disobeyed an order
and always turned out
well-married the rich mans daughter
and became q member of the firm.
The boy who neglected to do all these
things or who did other things un-
pleasant to grown-up folks, and there
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fore condemned as improper and
vicious, lost the priZe-a stupid story
book-at the archery meeting or was
drowned while fishing On Sunday and
his fate made the text for q dull fun
eral sermon. Byron expressed the
boy feeling when he wrote
IT'S pity, though, in the sublime world, that
Pleasures sin and sometimes sins pleas
Boys have been taught that they
must not do anything they desired to
do; that they must emulate the ex-
ample of the anaemic and impossible
ways had clean hands, well-polished
shoes and an unimpeschable
department. The boys of literature
which used to be held up to the youth
Of the country as paragOns OF excel
lence. and which it was q sin not to
initiate, were such as had yielded to
the teachings of the Mrs. Psrdig-
giles, who had joined the "Infant
Bands OF JOY" and who gave their
money to the hesthen. Bot boys re-
main boys and William Dean Howells
was among the first to admit the fact
In his charming story of IA Boys
Town." OF boys he says:
There is difference between boys
and men, but it ID a difference of self
knowledge chiefly. A boy wants to do
everything because he does not know
he can not; man wants to do some
thing because he knows he can not DO
everything; a boy always fails, ard a
man sometimes succeeds because the
man knows and the boy does not know
A man is better than q boy be ause he
knows better: he has learned by ex-
perience that what is harm to
Others Is greater hiram to him self,
and he would rather not do it. But a
boy hardly knows what harm
is, and he does it mostly with
out realizing that it hurts. He can
not invent anything, he can only imi-
tate; and it is easier to initiate evil
than good. You can initiate war, but
how are you going to initiate peace?
So a boy passes his leisure in contriv-
ing mischief. If you get another fell
low to walk into q wasp's camp you
can see him jump and hear him howl;
but il you do not, them nothing at all
happens. If you set a dog to chase q
cat up q tree then something has baen
done; but If you do not set the dog on
the cat, then the cat just lies in the
sun and sleeps and you lose your time.
II boy could find out
some way of doing good
so that he could be active in it,
very likely he would want to do good
now and then; but as he can not, he
very seldom wants to do good.
The modern idea is not to make a
dollhouse plant out of q boy. The long
golden curls which the mammas wor-
ship SO are out Of date. The real boy
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is man in embryo and must be taught
manly things. He must be permitted
to tumble about, fight. climb. wallow
on the ground inEmor:al combat with
ether boys and become divinely dirty:
The boys who grow up to be world
compellers are those who wear a
stone bruise on their heels and who
can boast a sore toe six months out
Of tho twelve. The breaking of an
arm or leg whilegathering scaly bark
or in less permissible predatory ex-
cursions is really feather in . boy q
cap of more value than the ability to-
tell, off hand. by mental calculation,
how many apples Johnny would re-
ceive if.he were given three-eighths of
Tommy's share which was three
fourths of ten. The modern boy, in
the near future. will be cultivated as a
boy and not as a BOBBY.
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first outlined, involved the construc.
ton OF reservoirs for supplying the
cultivators with q constant supply OF
water for their crops-sugar, cotton,
rice, corn, etc, and as steam power
was found to be expensive,
the engineers of the un-
dertaking turned to electricity. /
the plans drawn out by Prof. Forbes
are approved by the government the
whole of the engines, factories and
works along the banks of the ancient
river will soon be actuated by electric
current, generated by its falling
waters