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Special correspondence,

Special Correspondence,
Santiago dc chill Nov g. Owe Jour
neyed due south 100 miles-mostly by rail
Ito visit model hacienda, for the eE-
press purpose Of being able 70 tell you
how the typical Chilian farm is conduct
ed, The estate In question Is owned By
gentleman formerly from New England.
who, as his name viii show. belongs To
numerous and highly respectable fam
lily OF the United States--Mr. william
Henry Smith, but, being married to "A
Chiliana II is here rendered Senior Don
Guillerno HenrIque Ferrerio. Speaking OF
nomenclature. the most common and
prosaic OF our nothcrn names become po-
sitiyely mellfluous when translated into
this poetic language. For example: our
neighbor over the way--ln Pennsylvania.
where he hailed from. Mr. John James
Tinker -is here addressed as Senior Don
Juan Santiago Latlnero. Plebelan william
becomes Gulerdo: Henry. Henrique;
Charles Carlos; Ned Eduardo; Jim. San
tiago Peter, Pedro; Dick, Ricardo. and
80 on to the end Of the chapter.
UNIQUE NOMENCLATURE.
mems, when rendered in English are often
comical II not absolutely shocking. Not
only people but saloons streets, factories
and work shops are named in honor Of the
Savior, the Blessed Virgin, the Holy Trim
ity and all the saints IN the calendar.
There Is the Crown Of Thorns street and
the Body Of Christ street | have seen a
saloon dedicated to the Mother OF Jesus;
another TO santlsslma Trinidad. (The Sa-
cred Trinlty), and another to the Love
of Jesus. In Chill. as In other Spanish
Catholic countries, every child II named
In honor Of the saint whose anniversary
comes nearest to the day on which he or
she happens TO be born, and that Is the
reason why 80 many men have girls
names and vice versa. know number
OF ladies' named Guillermna, female for
william; Juanita, little John" An-
tonla, ETC. while Maria, Isabel and other
feminine names are equally common
among men, The name Vaca, cow, oc-
ours as often In Santiago as Smith In the
United States. A young lawyer OF my ac-
quaintance. who was probably born near
Christmas day Is called Jesus Christie
Vaca, and his beautiful sister IL Benedlcta
Rafaela-Cow. We lived In n hotel where
the barefooted errand hoy was Jesus
Maria GOyenechera-and how wicked We
felt whenever obliged to shout his namo
down the passage Luckily for sensitive
feelings, the word Is pronounced Hay
soos, which makes II seem little less
like blasphemy. A former governor Of
the province OF Valparaiso is named Dom
lingo Zorro Sunday Bulb and the belle
OF Cotiapo was. christened Doares Di-
gereis-Sorrowful stomach There are
well toddlers In the nelghborhood who are
weighted with names longer than them
selves. What would you think of calling a
girl baby Ubaldna Eduviers Clspenpes
or Echeverraia Isidra Ya2aza Cuscanqul
and knee high little gentleman Hitpoto
Leoncico Osvaldo Ianpartu, or Eduyijes
Gonzalez Lopez Luz?
MODEL SOUTH AMERICAN FARM.
But to return from this long DEPRESSION
to the model farm Senior Smiths estate
comprises 500 acres. all enclosed within
one fence, and SO ponderous is the latter
being ten feet high, three feet thick and
rooted like house-that II reminds one
OF the great wall OF China. BY the way
barbed wire has never been patented in
Chill, though the government Is fencing
Its railways with that commodity. brought
from tho United States and II some en-
terprlsing Yankee would come down here
and secure a patent on It, his fortune
would be made, Rails are never used in
this country for fencing, except In the
far south where timber Is plenty. Stones
are sometimes piled UP into walls. but
always In combination with lime and
sand, making them solid Those that are
universal In Chill look strong enough to
defy old Father Time for centuries, and
are as picturesque as indestructlble This
fence of our friend Berrero Is a fair sam
pie, II IL made OF mud which has been
nodded into huge squares and dried In the
sun. The great adobes are then piled
into place, and while yet moist, earth
enware thing Is, lmbedded I'm the top
OF rusty red color, like that which roofs
the houses. The object of roofing the wall
II to prevent the long continued, heavy
rains OF winter from soaking into the
adobe and reducing them TO their original
mud.
Like most gentlemen farmers OF Chill
Don William Henry does not live on his
country estate, but IN the city, coming
out once or twice n month to see how
things are going. and In the summer time
bringing his family for stay OF several
weeks. But there Is resident admins.
trador de hacienda, sub" administra-
dor" several oYerseers and upwards of
n hundred poems. Farming Is carried on
in Chili much as Il was IN Europe IN
feudal times, or as In Ireland today, each
estate having It's retainers who are pro-
vided with tenements, which they pay
for by stipulated number OF days la
Dor every year. AS there is hardly any
middle class In this country-only the
rich and the poor, the landlord and the
tenant-the haciendas are generally very
large, and are owned by nabobs who sell
dom visit them. Each has It's big ram
bling casa, wherein the administrators
and their families reside, chapel
commissary depot, granary, store houses,
wine vaults and a number Of little cot
tages surrounded by garden patches,
where the poems live, The latter are
paid for their labor. generally not In
money, but In orders on the supply store,
where. at prices optional with the al.
minstrador food, clothing, chcha and
small credit at these stores. and are
forever In debt to their landlord As the