Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-02

| SlO.OC0,OO0 She was nevertheless remark
able woman and fond of all the things
modern Mocul was one of her best farms.
| IL contains about 5000 acres and cost when
| Senior Coustno bought it $4,000. 1 venture
| TO say more than that amount has been
spent upon 1t, and it is now valued at over
| million Upon 1t are hundred of the
| hnest of blooded horses the choicest of
| sheep and 200 of the best of cattle bred
| from imported Durham stock. 1t has a
vineyard which contains hundreds of
| thousands of vines and which produces
| millions of bottles of wine a year. Ameri-
can plows and other machinery are used
| upon II, and 1t takes a regiment of poems
! TO DO the work. The estate is kept like 4
| prize farm, and lines OF tall poplars mark
out the course of each irrigation ditch.
| The water rents for Mocul cost about 500
things grow luXuriantly. Along the poplar
| hedges l saw blackberry bushes thirty
| feet nigh. They were wild blackberries and
mad grown up between the poplars. The
| park OF Mocul is one of the finest in Chile.
| doubt whether in some respects there is
| finer in the world. 1t has long avenues
| OF trees 100 feet nigh, the branches Of
winch meet overhead and form arbors
| reaching almost as far as you can see. At
places other avenues meet these and you
stand and look down these long arbors in
| TOUR dlferent directions. There are groves
or acres of great trees planted so regularly
| that every way you look your eye runs
along the straight lines of one of the rows
Ihere are lagoons which wind in and out
among messy rocks and beds of flowers.
swans and other water fowl swim upon
the laSoohs and over their dark waters
orange trees, palms and weeping willows
hang. Here you pass over what seems a
natural bridge, in the center of which
there is a rustic table under a canopy of
park. ana there waterfall splashes over
the rocks and as you look upward you see
bronze statues of Neptune and his wife
where the silvery drops are spraying be-
lore they flow onward to their falls. Here
is a winding cave and there a lemon grove
f~fti hnI ,Yac
OF roses and other flowers, great green
houses filled with orchids, and. in short
Such a variety of beautiful things that
| might I'LL column in mentioning them.
It takes thirty men to care for the gar
dens of Mocul alone and $50 men are en-
ployed in its vineyards.
The Poems or Farm Hands of Chile.
One of these big farms always has its
manager or major domo. 1t has its sub
overseers and army of laboring men or
rotos. The farm hands of Chile are called
rotos. They are the cross formed by the
union of the Indians and Spaniards. They
are the laboring class of the country and
correspond to the poems of Peru. They are,
however. of different make from Ia
PERUVIAN taborerS. although fully as drunk
en- and shiftless as to money-making and
money-savfng. They are brave to excess
and will not tolerate abuse nor insult. You
can Kick Peruvian peon and he will smile,
the Bolivian servant is afraid that his mas
ter Is angry with him if he does not thrash
him once or twice month, but the Chilean
would be likely to resent such treatment
with stab or a blow. These men all carry
knives and they do not hesitate to use
them. They little care for life, and, I am
told, many of them would kill man for a
dollar. On the other hand they are fond of
the men they work for, and 1t 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.
getting a hut and a couple of acres of
ground for themselves and being paid from
40 to 60 cents a day for their work. This
is in Chilean silver, so that their wages
receive food in addition to their wages
but this is only for themselves. Their
first meal is usually a double handful of
toasted flour, which they mix with water