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taking the risk l pulled out the guarantee
and handed it to him in silence.
He glanced at the paper and after pre-
tending to read it, escorted me back to
my car. This operation l repeated at
Cloves. where every article in my lug
gage was examined in scrutiny, and the
scheme worked At o'clock l boarded
an electric ear for an hours ride to
Beck, on the Holland border, and began
to think that the worst had been ex-
rcrienced. But | was In error After
proceeding a half hour we were uncere-
moniously told to vacate the car. as the
soldiers needed it, my luggage was
dumped out upon the public road. and the
tram moved on, leaving us in the park
and in an unknown locality.
Finds Donkey and Cart
Asking my companions to guard the
luggage, | strayed around until / found a
peasant who had donkey and cart
After some bargaining and many explain
atoms he agreed to let me have his ami
NAL and vehicle for the transportation OF
the baggage, but I sIfed a wheelbaIrow
in his yard which I pressed into service
and for two miles we moved as veritable
caravan down the road the man trundling
the baggage and l following with my
companions.
Ar 10 o,oIocl. VIC reacbad tho f.arr,.n
line NJ troons and I fo,,nd Tho MOI, ,,rs-
ing and knocking the civilians around In
most brutal manner The ladies in my
party We're separated from the men and
esoortad into n tower fo, 1yh.t n,,rno.a
I have never known ana another eva,,,-
ination ~ tho ha egapa was iranourated
rrbo sao,.ot hov,a,,er Yrae f,,ita q oar-
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s,ai1iar, go s,,n,,iad ,,ith eand1as onl1,
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still sang national airs as they passed
along the thoroughfares, but there was
a tone of sadness In the voice and birth
of heartiness in the song. There was
a reason for this-for upon the side
walks and trottoires a throng of weep
ing women and sobbing children com
panloned the marching men. That
throng was composed of the wives,
children and parents of those who We're
going TO do battle.
Patriotism is nowhere more keenly
olive than in the breast OF the Ger
man, but this patriotism was being
tempered by the sober query as to why
the war. The question. what the nation
was being called upon to fight for,
found no ready answer. 1t had been an
open secret that for five years Ger
many had been preparing for war and
1t was much mooted subject whether
such preparation was inaugurated to
contest England's supremacy or to
combat the Monroe doctrine of the Uni
ted States.
Then again II was asked whether the
sudden plunging of the nation into
war was the arrival of the psycholog-
ical moment or whether the doing to
death of the Austrian crown prince was
but pretext for the precipitation of
the conflict The military world might
be able to answer the question intel
ligentlv but to the masses the stu
atom was an enigma. No wonder that
those who were being torn away from
home and loved ones demanded to
know whether it was in response to
natrloflsm that they We're moving or
merely TO crafty an imperial military
caprice.
German Soldier Does Not Think
The German soldier is perfect ma
chine. He knows absolutely nothing but
obedience to superior authority and NE
in a barracks. So deeply imbued with
this sentiment of submission is the pri-
vate that as an example of its prevalence
it is related in all seriousness that nom
commissioned officer to whom had been
assigned the duty of drilling the awk-
ward squad one day found his squad
consisting of but a single individual ana
sent that individual to the Suardhouse
upon his refusal to form a hollow square.
lie found the command in the book or
tactics and the inability of one man to
go through such maneuver had never
entered his brain. Another instance OF
such an idea of submission Is reflected
in the recent escape of three Engllshmen
who We're being detained as suspected
spies They We're surrounded by guard
of Y Germans who had been commanded
by their officer to stack arms and watch
their prisoners while the officer sought
instruction from a higher authority as
to what disposition should be made OF
his charges. During the officers alb
sence the Englishmen quietly and de-
liberately walked between the German
soldiers and made good their escape, as
not one of the privates dared take up
his arms until commanded by his superior
SO to do This characteristic Is well
known to the English and French who
in the present conflict make it a special
object 10 pick off the officers of the
German army during battle for when the
officer is Killed or absent the men be-
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and various kinds of American ma
chinery. Nearly all handle farming i'm
PIGMENTS and are ready to take orders
for American goods of any description.
Our chief typewriter companies have
their agencies here and our phono-
graphs and graphophones are distrib-
uted throughout every city and town.
The Singer Sewing Machine company
is in evidence everywhere and the Ma
tional cash register keeps not only the
accounts of most of the stores. but even
the cash of the telegraph and postof-
fices as we'll
Many of our great combinations of
capital have long been planning to
work the South American trade, and
the present situation finds them ready
to take advantage of 1t. The United
states Steel company has had its agents
In every country of the west coat and
Tor some time it's own ships have been
soing from New York to these ports by
the way of the Strait of Magellan They
VIII now go by the Panama canal. and
their return freights will be such goods
as have hitherto been carried by the
steamers of Germany. France and Great
Britain. The United States Steel COM
pany already sells more than half of
all the steel used in Chile. and 1t Is
rapidly absorbing that class of busi-
ness throughout South America. A
large part of the building now going
on is in steel. and the new railroads in
course of construction, will now be de-
pendent upon us, rather than Europe,
Tor their rails and other materials
The Bethlehem Steel company is in
Sltiennld n N g.
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soldier who had arrested men % lake me
IN charge and ! thought | was bound
fei the suardhonse j asked the English
speaking stranger where / was to beA
taken and he informed me to the trolley
car 10 be sure tina; left town | marched
hack to the car uadei. GUARD and eft for
Flushing. That escort may have been
intended to ns.ire my Immediate de-
Ialture but ! have alHays had a suspi-
eion that It Was to pioseet me from bodily
harm as a dozen OF the popuiace fui-
lowed me to the car. 1T least stall ever
thank the Holland officer along these
lines.
Steamship Sails Away
| drew ions sign OF relief as my
steamship sailed AWAY from Finishing.
but aias. ] sighed too soon, for when
just half way across the channel Il cloud
OF smoke appeared upon the northern
horizon- In almost less time than IL takes
10 relate IL that cloud was metanorphosed
INTO smokestaeks and in a tfice we could
distinguish four ships approaching us. ON
,heS came, each PROV dashing from either
size roaming volumes Of water apparently
as large as good sized two-storl house.
haa never dreamed that sea vessels
couiu travel with such rapidity. gray
mounds OF the ocean. wolves of the sea.
lhey bore down upon us and the spectael,.
was an inspiring one
soon the conventional shot was fired
across our prov and ii is unneceesa,v
10 say mat we came to an immedi-
are standstil The ships were Brit
lsh cruisers and they cireled around
us the commander of the salsadrnn a.
minded through megaphone our ma
tlohahty and destination The inforna-
tlon furnished By our captain was SAT
lsfactory and we were allowed to pro-
eeeu upon our way. Thus upon land or
sea there was no surcease from annoy.
f,I. al. alf. ff,,,,
lied the truth of General Sherman's as
serticn that war is t
Mobilizing in England
W ale L found less decentralization of
train service in England, the nation
was modifying its troops and there
was the same amending tramp of
troops, the same unceasine lines Of sol
diers. Hyde Park was converted into a
huge camping ground and Tommy At
kins was ubiquitous. The British sol
dlef generally wears his cap upon the
side of his head, always sports "A cane
and Usually smokes cigarette.
In the evenings he is generally PROM
enauing with. some 1assie and is in
striking contrast to the German SOL
der who. booted. son1bre and serious,
reflects the military life and garrison
al atmosphere THOUSANDS of Englishmer
are responding to the call to arms
niorelv to obtain food and livelihood
q Hu tnouSdHuS OF them nave never n3u
a gun in their hands so that the young
recruits which I saw will be naught
save fcod for the rifle and cannon of
the Kaiser's army. British strength and
superiority lie in her navy. not in her
land forces. 1t is my own opinion that
we must look to Russia for the turn
ing OF the tide of battle upon land. The
reuton breads the Slav. who has
learned much from his war with Ia
PAN and upon that Slav the allies must
Gepend for successful issue of the
conflict.
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"7T is q great privilege TO wit
lH1 ness a mighty nation prepar-
49, ing to engage in battle. a
IKWS9I privilege which is accorded
many men but once in a life
time and despite the accompanying
mental anxiety and physical discom-
fort l deem myself quite fortunate to
have seen this summer three great Eu-
rcpean powers mobilizing their forces
-ad nurrying their men to the front.
l CHANGED to be in Vienna when Aus
tria declared war against SerYia and
in Berlin when Germany threw down
the gauntlet to half dozen menacing
nations. The Austrians were naturally
deeply stirred by the assassination of
their crown prince and the declaration
of hostilities was welcomed by them
with delirium of delight that would
brook no restraint. All night long the
frenHied populace paraded the streets
in divers throngs of 5000 and 1000 men
and women shouting, singing patriotic
songs and crying, Down with Servia'
The police tried to control the respect
i've mobs but finally abandoned the
task as the ever Increasing numbers
augmented the surging throng
Madness in Berlin
1t was III ItIilit however llaI the
world went mad when the Kaiser an
nounced that the war was on The civic
authorities distributed the official bull
ietins gratuitously through the agency
of thousands of runners and military
couriers proclaimed the five days limit
for the exodus of all foreigners No
one slept no one ate. no one remained
still for moment. Throughout the
night for a week the cafes and public
lot r l,
patrons who drank and talked nothing
but war The ACCOMMODATING orchestras
rendered nothing but national airs and
anthems which We're received with
deafening cheers and for especially
popular favorites encores were de-
manded. to which the musicians re-
sponded until the repetitions ran into
the scores.
The masses roared rs wild beasts,
tables were overturned, glasses were
smashed by the hundreds coats and
hats were cast to the winds and not
a few individuals who were deemed
ls.kewarm in their demonstrations or
lacking in patriotism Jared roughly
ut the hands of the mob. Indeed, all
foreigners found it to their interest to
at least simulate enthusiasm and par
tfeipato in the demonstration.
People Began to Calm Down
II was not ionSr HpWeNtff WHen Iha
entire atmosphere changed. The public
began to ask itself why and wherefore
the war. Foreigners found themselves
marooned in the cities and all stran-
gers came to be regarded with sus-
picion. The respective embassies and
consGlates We're thronged with fright
ened masses and as a means of pro-
lection all Americans wore the United
States flag upon the lapel of the coat
OF the bosom of the dress. The native
citizens had done the shouting and now
the response to the call to arms con-
fronted them. Men marching to tho
barracks or hurrying to the frontier
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come completely demoralized and wander
aimlessly about as sheep.
Examples of Stupidity
1 had many examples of this stupidity
during my experience in getting through
the German lines. Although an imperial
decree had given all foreigners five days
in which to quit Germany there were in
that country at the time many aliens,
especially Americans, who could not read
German and the hotel proprietors being
loath to lose their patrons had not adj
vsed their guests of the situation and to
those who We're familiar with German
they vouched the assurance that the i'm
perial decree might be ignored with i'm
punity and no consequent disaster.
The five days of grace had expired
when l came down the Rhine upon the
last boat that was to be In commission
and my real difficulties began at Cologne.
l had met upon the boat several Ameri-
can women who had been arrested as
spies at Mainz and had suffered no little
at the hands of the mob. In fact, one OF
the women was in the throes of nervous
prostration.
At Cologne l found myself virtually
prisoner. No trains were running except
those transporting soldiers; all of the
banks and exchanges were closed and at
my hotel the 200 guests We're being served
by but two walters and one cook. Here
perfect pandemonium prevailed. for the
city was thronged with stranded tourists
and taking advantage of the situation
the hotel proprietors were raising prices
TO an exorbitant degree upon their guests
Inhospitable Cologne
l have never liked Cologne for l have
always deemed 1t the most inhospitable
city in Europe and the frigid unconcern
for the visitors displayed by the in
habitants upon this occasion was tanta-
mount to positive cruelty. The thorough
fares swarmed with soldiers and my hotel
being at the approach of one of the larg-
est bridges that span the Rhine l heard
and saw all night long an amending line
of horses being led across the bridge.
How l pitied the noble animals; they
We're magnificent specimens of equine
flesh and each horse was accompanied
by man on foot. l am not sure but
felt more keenly for the beasts than
did for the men. Unknowing of their
fate, for they were to be but food for
the enemy's bullets they went to their
doom so willingly with prancng step,
glistening eyes and arched necks SEEM
fngly proud of the part they were to play
in the conflict and smelling, as it were, the
battle from afar.
Finding that the respective consuls
could tender no advice and do nothing
save issue emergency passports, the panic
stricken strangers in the city began to
resort to the local boats in the wild hope
of getting few miles nearer to the Ger
man frontier and walking through the
lines This mode of transportation failed
to appeal to me- and l decided to try
the local trains which decision when put
into effect necessitated a Journey OF two
days in completing "A course of five hours
under ordinary circumstances and re-
quired me to remain in my day garments
for 60 hours
l had no time to obtain passports and
next morning ] attempted to board a
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VIII go north by the canal and the
ships will be ready for return freights
to Chile.
The Bethlehem steel mines and the
Guggelheim mines will necessitate
large forces of workmen, and the man.
The Guggenheims are now building
houses for their employees at Chuqui-
camata and Braden and they are in
PRODUCING American methods and
American conveniences They will have
a number of American families con-
nected with each property. and these
will be permanent forces for the intro
duction of American goods and of
American trade. At Chuqucamata the
little city now going up will be sur
prise to the Chileans. IT is to have a
theatre, a hospital, two public schools
and a public library and music halls
for the workmen. There will be tele-
granh and postoffice building and a
Protestant and Catholic church. Ev-
crything is being done with a view to
permanency: for the getting out of the
enormous body of ore Will require the
moving of more earth than we moved
at Panama. 1t will require the pay
lnent Of wages which will eventually
will last for generations and il means
permanent American establishment
in Chile. The Chuquicamata mines are
owned by Americans whose authorized
capital is $110.000.O00. of which shares
to the amount of s95,00o.000 have al
ready been issued Daniel Guggenheim
is the president and among its man
ayers are Isaac. Simon, Murray and 5.
r. Guggenheim This shows something
of the kind of money that is going into
Chile
Another big United States company that
will probably take advantage of the pres
ent situation is that which owns the Cerro
de Paseo copper mines of Peru. ! have
already written of it's works in my let
tiers from that country 1t is backed by
millions and it includes such names as
the Vanderbits. Henry G. Prick, j. b.
Haggin and the Hearts. They own a
property on the very top of the Andes
that is said to be worth at least $50, 1000.
and they have spent millions Upon It,
They are now exporting something like
1000 tons of copper month. This has
been going to the markets in foreign
steamers, and it will now have to rely
upon American vessels. The mines are
operated by 5000 or 5000 Peruvians under
American foremen and engineers, and
they have little American town in the
highlands. Thsy have built an Ameri-
can railroad to connect with the line
which goes to the tops of the Andes from
Lima That road is the best managed in
Peru as well as by far the best built.
Indeed, the United States would seem
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An Observing Boy
rom the National Monthly.

From the National Monthly.
\ young student-named Millard-in a
city high school was disturbing the study
period by attracting the attention of an
other pupil to an object laying within
reach on the floor. The pupil near il
reached to lift 1t to his desk when sud.
denly MiIlard pulled it away by an in
visible cord. The teacher in charge of the
DOM at that time was a pretty girl
who asked Willard if he realized that
was a child $ caper and he, replying he did
SO. she suggested that he take a short
course in the primary department, which
he willingly consented to, and she inne-
diately escorted him down there. He re-
manned little while enjoying the chit
dren's work and was on his way back
70 the academic room when he met the
pretty teacher. who confronted him with
the question, 'Well. Willard. how did you
like the primary"
Real well, he replied.
did you learn anything?" she added
Yes: | noticed all the pupils down
there kiss the teacher.
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Santiago, Chile
%HE great war in Europe and
the completion of the Panama
canal will mark the beginning
l&ElE1M1 of an enormous trade between
the United States and Chile. IN
der the old conditions this trade has
trebled since 1903 and within the past
four years it has Increased 40 per cent.
II already amounts to Si0,OO0,o00 per an
mum. but this is only about one-sixth OF
the whole, and much of the balance is d.
vided among Great Britain Germany and
France. whose factories and ships are
now tied up in this terrible war. The for
eign commerce of this country now aggre-
gates more than s25o,Oo0'ooo per annum,
and the bulk of it is with Europe. In
1913 Great Britain exported $50 .000 900 worth
of goods to Chile. and she took back
in exchange goods to the amount of $25,-
$4,000. Chile's commerce with Germany
has averaged more than S5o,0Oo.oo0 per an
mum, and she has been trading with
France to the extent of $l5,0O0.0o0 Bel
GUM also has had a good slice of the
business. and Australia has been sending
will take up some of the items and
show the mighty openings created by the
war. This letter | shall devote to the
present conditions and describe some of
the big things that Americans are already
doing with a view to the future
Within the past few months the Chilean
government has put it's exposition build
ings at the disposal OF a commercial mu-
scum for the display of American prod
ucts. The government is especially friend
ly to Americans, and within recent years
il has bought a great deal of its rail-
way material from the United States. 1t
now proposes to substitute a line of steam
ers which will go northward through our
canal to our Atlantic ports, and 1t is
anxious to establish the closest of trade
connections with us in view of the loss
of its European commerce
We have already a number of American
ships that are plying between New York
and Chile Some of them belong to Grace
& Co., which controls the largest part
of the American business on the west
coast. This company has eight new ves-
sells in course of construction. They are
large steamers and fitted for the South
American trade. They will come down
through the canal to Valparaiso. The
same firm has other ships plying north
and south along the Pacific coast, carry
ing lumber and flour, and it has many
vessels engaged In the carrying of nj
trates, which from now ON will probably
10 through the canal. The Graces are
especially fitted to handle present condi-
tions. The firm has its branches in New
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most remarkable feat of civil engineering
ever performed. There is not rack and
pinion section connected with it. and
nevertheless ii ascends to an altitude OF
three miles in the course of 100 miles, and
the cars go over comparatively easy
grades to that point.
Meiggs was a big man. and was not
afraid to- deal in bis money. Had he
lived today he would have been in the
same class with j. Pierpont Morgan and
EDWARD Henry Hartman. He offered to
improve the Valparaiso harbor at cost
OF $40,0o0o0o, if the Chilean government
would give him s9-yeac lease of the
sheltered side of the port. The govern
ment declined, and thereby lost Millions
which less it is now trying to repair by
putting millions into the present harhor
improvements
Among other Americans who have made
fortunes in Chile were Don Juan Foster.
whose family is still prominent; Benjamin
Bernstein. who married into the CAUSING
millions, and George Il. Chace, the silver
king. Chaco failed as mining pros
pector in California and came to Chile
He here fell in with an old priest who told
him of a silver mine that had been
worked by the Spaniards 100 years and
more ago. The priest had record of
the mines location in the archieves Of
his little church near Iquique He showed
it TO Chase, and the result was the
1edscovery of the rich silver property of
st. Peter and st. Paul. This gave Chacc
his start. He made money out of the
two saints. and with that bought other
mines, eventually becoming one of the
owners of the Chuquicanata property,
which has since gone into the hands of
the GuggenheiTns. I.
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Copyright, 1914, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Santiago. C'hile
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TIE great war in Europe and
the completion of the Panama
canal viii mark the beginning
of an enormous trade between
the United States and Chile. I'm
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ships will be ready for return freights
to Chile.
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Indeed, the United States would seem
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