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I am a college woman" she said. serious
ly. "It is my greatest regret that / am
not. My sisters and brothers all went
to college, but I was my fathers boon
companion, and when the time came for
me to go he could not bear to think Of
the separation. So 1 consented to remain
at home with him, and We finally went
travelling instead.
II am especially fond of politics. How
could I help being, though. living as
do in Indiana? That state is hotbed
of politics One day my postman told me
that on his route he delivered mail to an
ex-Vice President Of the United States
and Judges and senators too numerous
to mention. Think of it, all living within
the path of one postman in one city.
told him that we should induce Mrs. Har-
rison to come from the other part of
town to live on our block, then he could
add Presidents wife to his list. But it
is true that in Indiana we hear politics
all of the time. My boys say that | can't
keep out of the discussions. In Virginia
they insisted that 'butted in on the po-
ntical debates"
Mrs Kern is a warm admirer of Presi-
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MI INDIANA, A NATURE ENTHUSIAST

dent Wilson. She told him at a recent
reception in Washington that she would
have to withdraw her allegience from him
II he did not stop calling extra sessions of
Congress.
"A congressman's wife has no time
with her husband at all these days she
said. IT want to be with my husband
in the winter and summer. too. but fee
that I must give my time to my grow
ing boys. If we have summer sessions in
the Capitol it spoils our vacations. Then.
too, the President must conserve his own
energy. He has been in office year and
has not had what one would call a real
play day yet
Mrs Kern has spent very little OF her
time In Washington, The interviewer
could not help but think that II the cleo
tfons of 1908 had turned out differently
Mrs. Kern as the wife Of the Vice Presi-
dent would have graced the position with
enviable dignity and poise. She is pleas
ing conversationalist. and Involuntary
draws an audience to her only an in
telligent and handsome woman can. Not
alone when one is with her does her
magnetism appeal. Long after she has
gone the imprint of her frieudliness re
mains. She has the enthusiasm of youth.
She Is a splendid optimist.
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and clear: her hair is light-the perfect
complement to her blond type. She is
forceful and intensely individualistic.
She has her own ideas about everything:
She is however. just and cons.derate OF
the interests and feelings of others. She
has infinite capacity for affection.
Her two boys are her comrades. Their
hopes and dreams are hers. She encour-
ages them in the cultivation of all re-
fined tastes and ambitions. Not long
ago they took a night walk together in
the country. Afterward. John. the elder,
wrote a little short story, in which ne
mentioned that maidens eyes were the
color of moonlight shadows. Mrs Kern
asked him if he had thought Of this all
himself and he answered. Weil, IT does
sound rather like Evangeline, doesn't
ft?' But at the same time he Is also very
original and Mrs. Kern has hopes OF his
becoming a writer.
II have no patience" she said, with
the saying that boys will be boys. That
is a fallacy that has been In vogue long
enough. Boys must Of course. have an
outlet for excess energy, but 1t Is not
necessarily true that 1t must be q mis-
chievous expression or that they are by
nature rough and wild.
..Now, it IS said that children. boys es-
pecially, do not care for classical music
and that they demand ragtime because
they can understand II. I do not agree
with that statement. My boys love classi-
cal music Their natural choice OF pieces
includes the best Of classical music. Ihey
are sincerely interested, too. They listen
for the trills and expressive runs. We
have ragtime evenings often. but notice
that the boys really care for the better
class of music.
'.In reading, the same thing Is true.
They love poetry as well as stories OF
adventure. No doubt they inherit this
trait from me. Poetry is my favorite
form of reading. They do not read poetry
only, however. They read all sorts OF
books They curl up on a big chair with
one Of the volumes of literary gems and
spend an entire afternoon going through
it.
MY boys have been tutored a great
deal, but only because they were not well
enough to go to school. l believe.
though. in schools with all my heart. l
also advocate bringing boys UP in the
country l think it should be insisted
upon that children, however, do their
home lessons in the evenings without
outside aid. This evening study should
serve to fasten in their minds the les
sons the teacher has taught during the
day. Or, il 1t be an advance lesson. they
should have been SO clearly instructed
that the teachers hints are enough to
guide them. In this way children learn
to depend on themselves as the best
source of power"
Mrs. Kern is not a college woman, but
her reading has been so universal and
serious that she can take her place with
out dispute among the ranks of the adept
aud clever.
II do not like to have you ask me II
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She Prefers Life at
Her Country Home in
Virginia to Social Hap
penings in Washington
Virtually Designed,
Built and Decorated 1t
Herself "A Charming
House-Her Two Bows
and Her Ideas on Rear
ing Them.
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TIE Ar1E.R1cAN LEGATION M LIZA

sions from the tops of the mountains to
the Amazon valley, and what is known
as the McCune scheme requires only the
signature of the president to bring it into
existence. This road is to extend from
the Cerro de Pasco line to the Ucayal
river, distance of little more than 2oo
miles 1 am told that it will cost some
thing like eleven million dollars to bulio'
and that ARRANGEMENTS have been made
for American capital to undertake the
work as soon as the concessions have
been completed. There is, however,
hitch between the President and MI
McCune, and just now the president
has refused to sign the papers, although
they have already been sanctioned by
congress.
I understand the President of Peru
thinks that the terms given to the Amer
ican concessionaries are too liberal and
that Peru is now too poor to carry them
out. According to these terms, Mr.. Nc
Cune is to have 1900 acres of forest for
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each kilometer of track and also grant
of $500 acres for each vessel of 500 tons
that he places on the Amazon and its
tributaries.
Another provision is that the subsidy
bonds to be issued are to be guaranteed
by the receipts from the tobacco monopo-
", and that this is to be in the hands of
Americans. The government manufac-
lures and sells all the tobacco. and the
income therefrom is something like
$1,000000 per year. AS to the value of
the railroad, no one doubts but that 1t
would be of enormous good to Peru, but
at present there is no indication that the
president will let it go through.
l find American goods for sale here in
all the stores. The merchants are mostly
English and Germans, with some Peru
vians and quite number Of Chinese and
Italians. The hardware stores carry
American axes, hatchets and other tools
of all kinds. Much of the cotton prints
come from our country, and there are
many American canned goods. There are
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IN The PORTALS OFLTrIA

them are travelling commercial mu-
scum showing the benefits of American
trade. Take the mines of the Cerro de
Pasco. the officials of which are spend
ing millions of dollars year in bring
ing in and distributing supplies. They
have a great warehouse at La Fundicion.
on the very top of the Andes. where
they carry everything in the shape OF
mining and. smelling machinery, as we'll
as all sorts of supplies for their men.
They have a company store at which the
natives can get American goods and they
are importing all sorts of materials for
use in their work.
Take the item of lumber. As | visited
the mines. l saw near the shaft which is
now taking out something like 100000
pounds of copper a month. great lum-
Der yard. stacked high with Oregon pine.
aud 1 was told that 1t was cheaper to
bring the timber over its long ocean
ride and then carry it up the Andes by
railroad than to freight in the eucalyptus.
which is far away from the railway, but
not over 200 miles from the smelter.
Another living example of the benefits
of American manufacturers is the Cerro
de Pasco railroad. This runs on the
which has altitude of 1900 feet. to
Cerro de Pasco. 15 miles away and 1000
feet higher The road is made of Ameri-
can steel and the ties are of Oregon pine.
The track is as smooth as that Of the
New York Central from Buffalo to AL
bany and it has comfortable cars of
American make. The bridges come from
the American Bridge Company at Pitts
burgh, and its locomotives are Baldwins
and Rogers. The engineers and conduct
ors on the road are Americans. but the
road was built by natives under Ameri-
can superintendents and the f1remen and
all the common employees are Cholos and
Indians 1 am told that the road paid for
itself within the first two years after
building. and that its traffic steadily
grows.
Nearly all the leading railways OF Peru
were planned by Americans. The IA
nous Central road back of Lima, which
1 have described, was the creation of
Henry C. Meiggs of California. and this Is
so of the Southern Railway OF Peru and
of nearly every line in the country. Since
Meiggs' death there have been many ex-
tensions. Most of the roads use Amer
lean rolling stock, and are run after
American methods With the exception
of the Cerro de Pasco lines, they are un-
der the Peruvian corporation. a financial
institution with its headquarters in Lon
don, but the subordinate officers are
largely from the United States. The su-
perintendent and general manager of the
Central Is Mr.. j. T. Feehan, an American,
who was for a long time one OF the chief
officials of the Mexican Central, and the
Southern railway is under the superin-
tendence of Mr.. L. S. Blaisdell, a Texan
who has also been connected with rail-
roads in Mexico.
Peru has now a number of railways in
projection in which Americans are in
terested. 1t has planned several exten-
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LUMbER YARD
ON Top CE THE ANDES

Grace and It is said to have resulted
in very large profits. 1t now does all
package Of goods to the rolling stock
for a railroad. and it deals in big con-
tracts involving millions of capital. The
Graces have long run a line of steamers
from New York to western South Amer
lea and they are now taking over the
management Of the Peruvian passenger
line which belongs to the government, but
SO far has been run at loss. The firm
has I understand a capital of some
thing like S10OOO,ON. 1t is known every
where for the ability and probity of it's
officials and members and IS an insti-
tuition of which the United States should
be proud.
Another opportunity for American cap
ital down here is in the establishment OF
a good line of American hotels along the
west coast There should be an Ameri-
can-kept hotel at Guayaquil and another
at Quito, in Ecuador There should be
third at Lima, fourth at Arequipa apd
a fifth and sixth at Valparaiso and San
tiago de Chile With the opening of the
Panama canal, there is bound to be an
enormous tourist travel to this part OF
the world, and at present the hotel ac-
commodations are beyond DESCRIPTION
abominable I have been stopping here
at one of a half dozen hotels owned by a
monopoly which charges from five to
six dollars a day gold. My hotel is the
Maury Its rooms are generally nlled
and / understand that it is paying enor-
NOUS dividends. Everything is done IN
the slowest most grudgng and insani-
tary way. The rooms are without baths
and the meals are of Spanish cooking
such as would not be tolerated in any
f1rst-class American hotel The monop'
DIV knows that there is practically nc
conpetition, and II one objects the CLERK
is liable to say that his house does not
care for American customers.
To show the antiouated methods of these
hotels 1 have just paid my bill. l have
been at the Maury for eleven days with
myself and stenograp pher, and the bill as
81 lies before me is s123. OF this SO con-
sists of extras, and l find that in addi'
tion to the regular charge l have beer
= paving IS cents per dish for two poachee
e eggs every morning and little rake-of:
:, :. on every sort of pretense. The meal:
u given me for 50 or so a day have beer
y desayuno, or coffee and bread, upon ris
!. ing, and almuerzo. table d'hote luncl
dinner in the evening. l have pieced ou
II II the bill of fare by buying butter and jan
g on the side and bringing 1t to the table.
g But l started to write of how thu
: hill was paid. I spoke the night be
fore to the clerk. telling him I ex
, pected to leave early this morning ant
= to please have the bill ready. When
- came to the office he had done nothing
J. but he set two bookkeepers to worl
J. and they went through three differen
I. cash books and ledgers and figured
a and figured, making enough calcula
d tions to have involved the buying of :
= railroad. AS they figured. they mad,
= memorandum. and when they had
. completed the head bookkeeper tool
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haps. hearkens to It more joyfully than
does Mrs. John W. Kern. wife Of the
senator from Indiana Her whole being
cries out for the freedom of wood and
vale, and, fortunate woman that she is.
she may indulge her longings to the full
est extent by packing of to Craven Cove.
Va. where stands house which she her
self planned and furnished.
Ii Is most delightful to hear her tell of
it-not only because the story of the
house itself is intensely interesting, but
likewise because one feels in the speaker
"A wonderful capacity for enthusiasm
and happiness in work that many wom-
en- would hesitate even TO undertake.
But not Mrs. Kern. for she is architect,
interior decorator and landscape gar
dener. not only happy in her work, but
capable as we'll
As an evidence of this. she immediate
~ forsook Washington when one of its
early. premature spring days invited in
dolence and holiday to betake herself to
kerncroft to superintend the planting of
a cherry orchard.
Behold. then, Mrs. Kern, lover of the
wilds. playing aid to Mother Nature as
assistant stage manager of the pas
toral pantomime. ready to present the
most delightful tableau, Spring" di-
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ME- CaRpEN7rF AND FRlle l11I1N STEPS OLE GAMoM

also American meats sold in cans and
great deal of American machinery. You
can buy our shoes at high prices, and
American hats are sold in competition
with the English and French
AS to wooden goods. the Peruvians have
mills not far from Cuzco where they are
turning out blankets and underwear, but
the most Of the other woolens still come
from abroad.
And just here 1 wish to give credit to
an American enterprise in Peru that Is
doing more for our trade than any other
single force. l refer to the West
Coast Leader. a weekly paper published
in English here in Lima, and to Peru of
Today, a magazine. which has the same
editor. These English journals are de-
voted to opening up Peru to English and
American capital and to the pushing OF
American trade. Their editor, John Vava-
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soor Noel, was for long time a news
paper man in the United States. and he
positions. He speaks and writes Spanish
and Italian as fiuently as English. and his
papers deserve the support Of our Ameri-
can firms who wish to get trade in this
country.
There is a big opening here for chain
of American banks and this may be the
outcome of the wedge that ]. G. White
& Co. of New York have put into Ecua-
dor. They have taken the contract to
clean up Guayaquil at a cost of O.0OO.- :
600, which may lead to their investing in
railroads and other public works in that
country, with extensions on into Peru.
AT the present time the chief Ameri-
can firm on the west coast is Messrs.
w. r. Grace & Co. 1t has been operat-
ing here for more than a generation and
it now has great houses in London and
New York. with branches in Peru, Bo-
livia and Chile. The business was es-
tablished by Michael P. and w. R.
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u w. KERN, WIFE OF SENATOR FROM

hammocks and talk and talk on all sorts
of themes To illustrate how stimula.
tive of imagination porch sleeping is just
hear what we talked about the last time
we slept there. One Of my boys SAID:
Mother. listen to all of the voices OF
night speaking together And we three
listened. Then we tried to see now many
different voices we could distinguish.
x*
From far off came the cry of a tree
owl-you know the mocking hoot-hoot;
nearby we heard the faint twitter Of
restless mother bird. Then a breeze
stirred the leaves and they rubbed one
another with most mysteriously whisper
ed caresses. We heard the water OF rapid
little stream not far away chasing over
the rocks and the dear old bullfrogs that
many city people dislike called aloud in
their strange way to add to the weird
ness of the night. We 'ieard ever SO many
sounds. and my boy expressed all Of our
feelings as he gently whispered: Isn't it
wonderful, mother. these voices OF the
night"
I'VE have pretty little treetop house.
too. This Is also built of oak WOOD
Mrs. Kern laughingly added. "In fact.
almost everything relating to the COM
fort of the house is complete. 1 am now
turning my attention to the subject OF
my orchard. After studying about trees
and orchard planting l found that soil
of the entire process. So have had the
ground dynamited and cultivated where
i shall place my trees. / am going to
have apples. peaches and cherries. I
want a real old-fashioned cherry orchard.
Ibid I ever have any training along
the lines OF architecture or interior dec
Grating? No. answered Mrs. Kern Il
have read a great amount on these sub
1ects but that Is all. Mr.. Kern says 1
have a knack of matching things. Per-
haps that accounts for the harmony Of
my decorations.
"When we bought this place in Virginia
We built better than we knew. 1t is near
Hollins. the Oldest girls college in Amer
lea We have delightful intellectual COM
panionship and the advantage OF having
so beautiful an old place in the vicinity.
Mrs. Kern is expecting to entertain a
house party of friends before the Won
der of spring will have lost itself in
summer Among her guests will be Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall. Senator
and Mrs. Atlee Pomerene and Senator
and Mrs. Claude Swanson
When Mrs. Kern said that she was re-
puted to be clever at matching colors the
interviewer looked admfringly at her
gown. 1t was of shade Of blue that
exactly matched her eyes. Her shoes.
too, and her jewels were of the same
color.
And. when one stops to think Of It.
harmony seems to be the keynote OF
Mrs. Kern's character. She loves nature,
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I this season the
call of the wild ex-
erts a most potent
charm. The woods.
the hills. the bud
ding green. the
great expanse of
natural country -
all invite the city
dweller with siren
voice. And no
woman in official
W ashington. per-
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HAVE just return
ed from a call
upon our new min
lister to Peru. His
name is Benton
McMillin. and his
native home is
Nashville. Tenn.
He has long been a
figure in Ameri-
can politics. and
for many years
he was one of the
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Copyrighted. 1914. 10y Frank g. Carpsnter.i
LIMA. Peru.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-01-29
CALLS IN FRIENDS
FOR THE FUNERAL
SOLEMN SERVICE HELD LAST
EVENING AT THE TREGLOAN
RESIDENCE.

Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Tregloan,
who have been the proud possessors
of long flat bowl of fish for some
time past, suffered severe loss
Wednesday afternoon when the fish
died. Solemn and appropriate ser
vices were held Wednesday evening.
with the following mourners present:
Mrs. Ed Erickson, Mrs. A. H. Jones,
Mrs. Fancher, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Tar
bell, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Pittman and
Miss McCrate and Messrs. Vale Pitt
man, who acted as chaplain; Stevens,
Frank Pittman, Tarbell and Albert,
who acted as pail bearers; Mr.. Ar
mold, who, with the hostess. rendered
the tango in pleasing style as iie
funeral march was being played Mrs.
A. H. Jones closed the solemn and
patetic services with few touching
remarks, after which Mr. Tregloan
was led to his room overcome.
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provide an additional 25-foot space
for the new theater
The extension, about Is feet high,
was surmounted by roof covered
with dirt for the purpose of rendering
it cool in summer time. On this
there had formed a thick layer of
ice and frozen snow. Cline was en-
gagged on the roof with pick, trying
to remove the snow. Dodge was un-
derneath inside the building and
Stone was also inside, busy inserting
a wooden prop when the structure
collapsed. One of the end walls had
been removed and the pressure from
above proved too great and Dodge
and Cline were buried in the wreck
age.
Stone was working on the prop anc
the falling roof struck this a glanc
ing blow which kicked back agains
Stone and knocked him clear. outside
the sldellnes, landing him safely II
small alleyway between the build
ings. He escaped with few bruises
but the other two men were not Sc
fortunate.
Dodge was buried in the ruins ant
Cline was entangled in the timbers
1t required some time to extricatt
Dodge, whose head was badly tori
and bruised 1t is supposed alsC
that he sustained internal injuries
Cline was injured about the head ant
shoulders.
The victims were taken to thu
Mine Operators hospital, where the!
were attended by Dr. Mcdonnell. wht
reports them out of danger
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Seventy-five miles from Tonopah
and twenty-six miles from Luning,
the nearest railroad station. the old
camp of Goldyke is coming back
with a return of prospectors and
restoration of confidence engendered
by the success that has crowned the
efforts Of couple of men. These
men have faith in the district. They
remained with it from the inception
of the early excitement until they
had proved that the ground would
yield something more than super
ficial speciments of high grade.
During eight years thousands of
feet of lateral and vertical work has
been done, shafts sunk, drifts ex-
tended an lodges crosscut until the
ground is proven to depth of 230
feet. That the values are there
cannot be gainsaid, for they are visi-
BILE in shipping quantities. These
values are not based wholly on as
sayer's certificates, but from re.
ceipts showing a tonnage output
yielding from $50 to $3.50 ton
Goldyke is not a shipping propo
sition nor is it a poor mans camp
The distance from railroad pre-
cludes thoughts of sending ore tC
reduction camps, but the camp has q
manifestly prosperous future through
the erection of mills capable of treat
| ing the ores of the district. There Is
an abundance OF water and more car
be developed for milling purposes
The ore is there in large sharply
cut ledges in the andesite that made
Tonopah famous The difference is
that in Tonopah the operator must
sink to a depth of thousand feet
before he is rewarded with glimpse
of the coveted andesite. In Goldyke
andesite is reaced almost at the suf
|
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into TWO
STRIKES
SUBCOMMITTEE OF CONGRESS
TO VISIT COLORADO AND
MICHIGAN.

thy Associated Presso
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.--Two sub
committees will leave this week for
Colorado and Michigan to begin Fed
eral investigation of the strikes. Fos-
ter is head of the Colorado delega-
tion and Taylor goes to Michigan.
Tho Mines Committee of the House
IS redrafting the measure for Fed.
eral regulation of radium produc.
tion.
Rural credit bills were introduced
simultaneously in the Senate and
House by Fletcher and Moss, members
OF the commission Wilson sent
abroad to study foreign systems. The
bin provides for a Federal bureau OF
farm land hanks. The banks viii be
operated under general state super
vision.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee suspended business In mem.
ory OF Cullom
senator Bryan introduced bill
creating six vice admirals IN the
navy.
The House Judiciary Committee be
gan hearings on the new trust bills
Seth Low will appear "Wednesday