The Republican journal., 1903-12-10
MODEL FARMS OF CHILL.
HOW AGRICULTURE IS CONDUCTED IN
THE FAR SOUTH. SERVANTS ARE
BOUND TO REMAIN WITH THEIR
EMPLOYERS WHILE THEY OWE A
PENNY

Special Correspondence of The JournaL]
SANTIAGO DE GRILL, Nov. 3, 1908.
We journeyed due south 100 miles
mostly by rail-to visit model hacien-
la. for the express purpose of being
able to tell you how the typical CHILEAN
arm is conducted The estate in ques-
ION is owned by gentleman formerly
rom New England, who, as his name
viii show, belongs to numerous and
ighly respectable family of the United
>tates-Mr. William Henry Smith; but,
eng married to a Chiliana, it is here
rudered Senior Don Guillerno Henrique
FeIretio. Speaking of nomenclature,
ne most common and prosaic of our
.Qrthern names becomes positively
eilitlous when translated into this
aaetic language. For example, our
La where he hailed from, Mr.. John
5mes Tinker--is here addressed as
~enor Don Juan Santiago Latinero.
-btian William becomes Guillermo:
lenTy, Henrique; Charles, Carlos; Ned,
Tiuardo; Jim, Santiago; Peter, Pedro:
n-tk, Ricardo. and so on to the end of
chapter
IN the other hand the native cogno-
ms when rendered in English are
ten comical if not absolutely shock
Not only people but saloons,
arI oh
,med in honor of the Savior, the
eSsed Virgin, the Holy Trinity and
the Saints in the calendar. There
The Crown of Thorns Street and the
}udy of Christ Street. | have seen
.A,oon dedicated to the Mother of
asus: another to Santissima Trinidad
Tie Sacred Trinity, and another to
Love of Jesus. In Chill, as in
.aer Spanish-Catholic countries, every
lid is named in honor of the Saint
nose anniversary comes nearest to
t day on which be or she happens to
born, and that is the reason why SO
any men have girls names and vice
-rsa. | know number of ladies
ned Guillermina, female for Will
AM: Juanita, "little john: Antonio,
.-s.: while Maria, Isabel and other
minnie names are equally common
mong men. The name Naca, cow
.ecurs as often in Santiago as Smith in
United States. A young lawyer of
acquaintance, who was probably
I'm near Christmas day, is called
-sus Christie Vaca, and his beautiful
-ter is Benedicta Rafaela-COw. We
ed in hotel where the bare-footed
and boy was Jesus Maria Goyen
Hera-and how wicked we felt when
.r~r obliged to shout his name down
e passage. Luckily for sensitive
~ings the word is pronounced Hay
Us. which makes it seem little less
se blasphemy. A former governor of
province of Valparaiso is named
umiugo Zorro Sunday Bull; and the
OF Cotiapo was christened Dolares
erreis-SorIoWful stomach. There
.r wee tOddIers in the neighborhood
10 are weighted with names longer
AN themselves. What would you
nix of calling girl-baby Ubaldna
4uviers Cisdenpee, or Echeverria Isl
ii Yazaza Cusicanqui, and a knee
Iii little gentleman Hitpolito Leon
no Osvaldo Zanpartu, or Eduyijes
nZaIeZ Lopez Luz?
SUIT to return from this long digres-
On to the model farm. Senior Smiths
tate comprises five hundred acres, all
closed within one fence, and so pom
erous is the latter-being ten feet
III. three feet thick and rooted like a
ouse-that it reminds one of the great
vail of China. By the way, barbed
re has never been patented in Chilli,
0ugh the government is fencing its
llways with that commodity, brought
.om the United States and if some
-nterprsing Yankee would come down
IRE and secure a patent on it his for
me would be made. Rails are never
,ed in this country for fencing, except
the far south where timber is plenti-
,l. Stones are sometimes piled up into
Nalls, but always in combination with
me and sand, making them solid.
hose that are universal in Chill look
>trong enough to defy old Father Time
;or centuries, and are as picturesque as
mdestructible. This fence of our friend
ierreiro is fair sample. 1t is made
If mud which has been nodded into
uge squares and dried in the sun. The
creat adobes are then piled into place,
md while yet moist earthenware tiling
IS Embedded in the top-of rusty red
rolor like that which roofs the houses.
Tie object of roofing the wall is to pre-
yent the long continued, heavy rains of
winter from soaking into the adobe
and reducing them to their original
ud.
Like most gentlemen farmers of
hill, Don William Henry does not live
IN his country estate. but in the city,
.Oming out once or twice month to
see how things are going, and in the
lmmer time bringing his family for
Of couora1 xSaakc Rut fhpra is q