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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

Wonder how some of our extreme
reformers would interpret the follow
ing: THAT which is crooked cannot
be made straight; and that which is
wanting cannot be numbered
Eccl. lis.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

Judge and Mrs. w. S. Bullock and
Miss Alice Bullock left Saturday
morning in their car for Daytona
Beach to spend a few days at the
Breakers.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

BISCAYNE PRODUCE co. Miami,
Fla, solicits consignments of vegeta-
bles, c~antaloupes and melons. ad-3t-w
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

COW FOR SALE-Fresh young Jer-
sey cow for sale cheap for cash. w.
ID. Carn.-ad GIG
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-24

Specialist: Eye. Ear, Nose and
Throat. Law Library ouildins,
Ocala, Fle rida.
Evening star., 1914-11-15

bighters see that they don't know haw
to run things shipshape and navy
fashion,.
One of the newspaper correspondents
who was al Antwerp until just before the
Germans entered il says that he doesn't
believe that the "Jark JohnSons, the
great seNenteen-inch field guns which We
have heard So much about in connection
with the reduction of Belgian and French
foriresseS have any existence except in
the lima gination of a few correspondents.
81 know that the biggest guns the Ger
mans had at Antwerp We're eleven-inrh.
he said land | have never met any one
who has seen one Of the Jack Johnsons
The allies haven't captured amy and they
have samples of every other gun tiNat
the Germans are credited with owning
We have seen one picture of Jack
Johnson and that came from Germany
and looks uncomnonly like the pattern
of their eleven -incher You know how
easy il is 10 fake size in photograph
II is certainly true that no one on the
side of the allies has seen on, of these
great guns and that none mas been
captured. II has been suggested that
the damage done to fortitications by the
German siege guns may be due to some
new explosive which they possess.
u
The London county council is having
great difficulty in finding supply Of
teachers for Its schools owing 10 tne
war No fewer than SIS of its male
teachers are now serving in the forces
and ii has been found impossible to get
properly qualified men to fill their places.
Wonla1i teachers have been drafted 10
the boys schools and the size of the
classes has been Increased, but stu there
is a serious shortage. The difhculties
are being increased by the influx OF
Belgian refugees.
The council authorities have offered
the hospitality of the council schools to
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which is the chief pleasure ground OF
the Chilean capital. and she made
herself famous also for her palace.aho
park at Lota, not far from her MINES
l have visited both places they are
wonders of landscape gardening. that
at Lota having many picturesque ell
fects of both land and sea.
The canal should also give an out
let to the lumber of our southern
states into all the Pacific coast coun-
tries. Chile has A large forest region
but the woods do not compare Win
ours and the country is now import
ing about S0.000,000 feet of lumber per
annum. The most of this comes from
California, Oregon and Nashlilst ton
and it has to go a long way Iarther
to reach the canal than would the
lumber of our gulf states. Indeed, the
increased distance would propap.s
more than offset the tolls charged 10
the gulf state, lumber for passing
through the canal.
Moreover, the outlook is that there
will be an increased demand for lum-
Der in Ecuador. Peru and chile All oi
the ports and the most of the cities VIII
grow and they will need building ma
terials. This will be especially so III
Chlie. where the government Is unneI '';n,,
taking public building operations Which
are to run through period OF zen
years and cost many millions 'of dol
iars. The buildings to be put up ~
clude administration o11lces at the s'aeS
capitals number of penitentiaries ana
customs houses. and many public schooi
buildings. A new presidents palace -
also to be erected at Santiago ana tne
government will remodel the repair
shops on the state railways ana speio
some millions on the harbor at val
paraiso
Indeed, the opportunities for the IN
PRODUCTION of all kinds of American
goods are now at their height our
trade has been steadily gaining over
that of England and Germany oeIore
the war in Europe occurred. In 1913
the increase in American trade was
more than s3,0OO.0O0 while during that
year the decrease in the German trace
was $3.6O0,0O0. and that of England
*l'ao0,00o. At present the importa
tions from France and Germany are
practically stopped, and those OF Eng
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the refugee children. of whom there are
now something like @0.0oo in London. IL
some extent this phase Of the situation
is being overcome by employing th'
refugee teachers. but owing To the Ian
-uaGc difficulty these refuge" teachers
cannot lac employed to teach the Bri'i5,
children.
une of the quaint side issues of the
flight from Belgium 10 London is The
opening of a refreshmcnt stall in. tho
Bank of England. So man! refugee,
Threaducedle street to change theii
Belgian money. for tn" bank ~ tho
only place which will change il. that u
WAS found necessary to provide light
refreshments.
The bank. by the way. under 1T
charter of 1884. has the right TO sell
beer and spirits without a license. hut
this is the first time that ii has eA
ercised lhe privilege. Its alcoholic re
freshments. however. are limited to
light wine.
From Ireland comes the story of COM
plaint about the scarcity of Roman
Catholic chaplains at the front. In
ordinary times only the Irish reSi-
ments are supplied with Roman Catho-
lie ehaplains. but in this war there hs -
been "A great rush of lrishmen to Ioin
the regiments. whether Irish or not.
going on active service. and no one
prizes the minist rations of his religion
more than the Irish Catholic.
The Irish bishops have met TO dis
cuss the situation and they are work
ing out a plan to he presented to Lord
Kitchener for the appointment of un-
paid chaplains with most of the rcEi-
ments. They realize that in these times
it is difficult and probably would re-
uuire legislation, to increase the pald
non -combatant establishment o: the
army, but there seems to he no reason
why the war office should not recoG-
nize volunteer chaplains and give them
official rank and standing.
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the best farming part of the couh'rS-
1t has railroads going north and south
through the great central valley, and
extensions are proposed which will
cross the Andes and Argentina TO
Buenos Aires. 1t already takes a large
part of our American exports and farm
machinery and tools of all kinds from
the United States are for sale in its
stores Not far from it are the great
coal mines of Lota. and within a short
street car ride is Talcahuano. the chief
naval station OF the republic.
Conception is the third largest city
OF Chile. 1t is surpassed only by VAL
paraiso and Santiago and it is rapidly
growing. The town lies on the Bio
bio river not far from the sea A low
range of hills separates il from the
ocean. When il was first founded 1t
lay right on the beach. Then came
an earthquake that swallowed the city
as the Whale swallowed Jonah. Ccncep-
cion disappeared into the NAV of the
Pacific II was wiped out like Port
Royal. Jamaica. and there is now only
d bat athing resort OIL that spot In re-
building the people chose the present
site. where the hills keep out the
waves. SO that in spite of the earth
guakes the city sti1l stands.
l say in spite of the earthquakes, for
there are SO many that the land moves
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most split in twain. At the time this
earthquake occurred I was in the
household department of the Mlkado,
having an interview with the high
court chamberlain concerning the EN-
press about whom ! was to write
magazine article. The building was
modern. and after the style of the pup
lie buildings of our country. HAD IL
been Japanese it would probably nave
stood, but as it was the earthquake
threw half of il to the ground. we
saw the walls moving and felt the
floor rising and falling. when the hiSh
Japanese official said: There is an
earthquake and I think we had better
get out" At the same time the nails
were filled with flying clerks. We
rushed out and had barely gotten clear
of the building before about one-haiI
of il fell to the ground.
On account of earthquakes nearly all
the buildings of Conception are of one
story. The town covers great deal
of ground. II lies On fiat plain at the
edge of hill known as the Caracol.
1000 feet high. 1t is the public park
of the city and rises up almost like
a fort over the houses. | climbed 1t
today for the view. Walking through
wide streets lined with one and two
story buildings. L crossed the Alameda
and went up the winding slopes. The
road was lined with mighty pines and
il made me think of the great Coryp-
tomeria avenue that leads up to Nikko,
Japan. Mixed with the pines were
mimosa trees now in full bloom. There
were many green shrubs, the vegeta-
tion rising like wall on one side of
the road. BY and by we came to the
top. We were now high over the city
of Conception and the valley of the
Bio-bio. We could see the houses of
Talcahuano. the naval station, and the
ocean beyond. We could pick out the
Bio-bio river. as it wound its way
down to the sea. and the bridge across
il. the longest and largest in Chile.
Conception itself lay just below us. Il
great eXpanse of terra Gotta rooted
houses with plaza on green in the
center We could sec the cathedral
on one side of the plaza. 1t
is large building with an audience
room covering half acre The streets
go out from the plaza. They are wide
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British army and it's allies America
made strong bid for the business.
but was defeated by man without
capital, but with unbounded enthusl-
asm. This man is A. f. Hill, former
newspaper man. who for some wears
became interested in the art OF the
farrier, and finding that the trade had
no mouthpiece, started little mohtnlS
paper called The Farrier He studied
his subject and soon became an en-
thusiast, and when the London county
council decided to start school OF
farriery in connection with its teen
nical education courses Hill was Sc
lected to organize it.
When the war office found itself up
against the demand for milIloh
horseshoes month 1t asked LOT the
greatest expert in England. and was
told to send for Hill. When he ar
rived he was asked if he could organ
jze an army horseshoe department. and
he replied at once that he could He
was told that number OF fhlladel.
phia firms had submitted bids. but
control of its own supply, and he as
sured Kitchener that he would 90 the
work at less cost.
The result was that he was appointed
at once director of supplies, with
the rank of colonel. and he is now
looking for farriers and getting them.
too. The writer is told that the war
office has a new pattern shoe for
winter work which is great improve
ment on that used by the Germans.
Britain is not above learning from
the Germans. however. when they
really have a good thing. The writer
happened to drop into the office or d
cutlery firm in the city the other day
and he found the principal examining
with interest Il combination knife and
fork, which attracted his attention at
once because it was about the ruStleSt,
dirtiest and generally most disrepu-
table thing he had ever laid eyes on
The friend said that it was the utensli
supplied to the German troops and was
much superior to the British artlcle
in convenience and compactness- the
war office had asked him if he could
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throughout southern Chile and through
the farms of the great central valley.
During my stay at Conception l have
investigated the opportunities for
American coal by way of the canal.
The best coal mines of Chile are sit
uated not far from here on Coronel
bay. The coal lies about the bay and
extends far out under the ocean. The
seam is about five feet thick and the
rock above is so compact that the
water does not seep through Indeed.
the submarine tunnels are so clean that
one could walk through them in even
ing clothes without danger. The mines
are equipped with modern machinery.
They are lighted with electricity and
the coal is carried out on electric cars.
The amount now being mined is about
1000 tons per day, and the total out
put runs into the hundreds of thous-
ands of tons per year.
The supply of coal furnished by the
Lota mines does not begin to lChile's $
demands. The country is now using
more than twice as much coal as it
produces and it has been exporting
one-half of its supply from Australia
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the few people who happen TO be with
in the radius of the bombs they drop.
The rumor factory is busy with these
aerial raiders. of course Hardly
night passes that one does not hear OF
some one who has seen some one who
has seen a Taube or Zeppelin over
Buckingham Palace or the houses of
parliament. but they always get away
without being spotted by the men
whose business it is to watch for them.
The writer met a sailor the other day
who had just come ashore from one OF
the destroyers which are patrolling the
channel. and said that the job was
something like foretaste OF hell.
These little craft are not exactly com
Portable sea boats. and hot food most
of the time is an impossibility. Dry
bedding is also an unaccustomed lux
ury. but the informant said:
Our chaps are all right We don
mind il if we get Whack at the kali
ser. and when We came ashore Nester-
day and lined up for medical inspection
the doctor told us that he was aston
ished that we were so fit. Never saw
a better lot in his life. he said
These little boats are patrolling in
relays fortnight on duty and then
eight. days shore leave-and the men
all as Keen as mustard
An amusing story about the discipline
on some of the auxiliary ships of The
fleet which are commanded by royal
nava! reserve men-merchant Shippers
most of them--who have volunteered Tor
duty. came out yesterday. The regular
navy men who form most Of the petty
officers and crew resent having merchant
shippers placed over them. and they show
their resentment by obeying orders TO the
letter. "Of course. we wouldn't do it
when there was serious business on
hand" said the informant. Its just n
little way of ours to let these merchant
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make 100000 of them at once, and he
was just figuring on the cost
I'VE can reproduce the pattern ex-
actly," he said, but l think we will
make a better article This is bit
fimsy for our ideas of what good
work should be-
The London rumor factory is one of
the wonders of the war. Where it IS
situated no one knows, but every day
some astonishing lie is set atoat ana
spreads like wildfire all over London.
Some people are inclined to think that
the rumors are set afloat by German
agents, for they are always of kind
to alarm the British public. For IN
stance one night last week the writer
was solemnly assured that a message
had come through on the ticker an
nouncing the surrender of Cen Smtth
Dorrien and an army corps to Won
KIuck. whose way to Paris was nov
clear The story was all over LONDON.
but no such message came through on
the ticker, and that very night an Of
ficer told of a letter he had received
from Smith Dorrien saying that the
British were doing their job in france
and doing it very well. and that the
prospects for the allies were uhcom- :
monty bright.
Another of these rumors dealt with
Admiral Troubridge, whom the club
armchair strategists blame for the es-
cane in the Mediterranean of the Goe-
ben and the Breslau. This rumor was
that Troubridge has German wife,
and that his brother in-law was in
command of the Goeben.
1t never occurred to the people who
repeated this slander, to consult wv no 3
Who" which would have told them that
Admiral Troubridge was married twice,
and that both of his wives were Eng
liShw omen.
Another story is that the admlrai re,
ccived a message in the British naval
code instructinE him to allow the
cruisers to escape. The British ad-
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10 and fro as though il had the aSue
The uuakes are almost as common as
those of Japan. We had one last night
that swayed the walls of my hotel room
and set the electric lights swinging. The
first shock awakened me. 1t was about
IL pm The experience made me thlhk
I was in storm out at sea MY peu
rose and fell and a bottle of ammonia
on the edge of my Washstand dropped
to the floor with crash. At the same
time it's pungent scent filed the room
I looked at my watch. 1t was ten
minutes after IL pm. AS the second
hand measured out l minute i rose
and went into the hall. The walls were
still trembling and as ] entered the
portico looking down ON the patio a
smokestack fell down and the guests
of the hotel came running out III their
night clothes for fear that the heavy
tiled roof of the building might fall.
Some of them stayed out doors all
night / waited until the trembling of
the earth ceased and then went back
to bed But / could not sleep for an
hour or more for fear of the second
shock. which often follows first. I
finally dropped off and slept soundly
until 4 O'Clock. when the second shock
came. 1t WAS quite severe, but NOT
so bad as the first The dispatches OF
today's paper show that these two
earthquakes have been felt all over
Chile. They have thrown down one
small town and they created such con-
sternation at the capital that many of
its citizens spent last night in the
streets.
::
l do not like earthquakes. There are
regions where they have some kind
of Il shock every day: but even there
the natives are afraiS of them. and
il is only the ignorant globe -trottine
tende erfoot who says he is not. The
most severe earthquake ] ever expert
enced was in 1894 in the capital Of
Japan. At that time great number
of buildings were destroyed. the high
chimney of the Parliament House
crashed through the roof, and the
American legation building was al
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and cross each other at right angles.
They are paved with asphalt and are
clean and we'll kept. The houses of
the city are, low: Looking over them
we see here and there a cluster of
trees surrounded by walls. The trees
seem to be sprouting from the roofs
of the houses. They are in the courts
or patios around which the houses
are built
Now turn around and look toward the
north. There is nothing but wooded
hills on that side. You might imagine
yourself in the midst of Il wilderness,
did you not know that the city of Con-
cepcion lay at you+ back. The town
shows signs of it's sport-loving charac-
ter here from the mountain. You. can
see the golf links. the polo grounds and
d race course, with a track more than
a mile long. The bands play in the
plaza every evening and the people
come out in their best clothes and
walk about and look at each other.
The city is q commercial center. 1t
has large business houses and great
deal of agricultural machinery from
the United States is here distributed
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and England. The state railways now
use 100000 tons per annum ana prac-
tically all of the smelling coal comes
from Australia. ! understand there are
other extensive deposits in the province
of Arauco south of Conception, and
they have recently discovered coal near
punta Arenas. at the Strait OF Magel-
Ian Petroleum and natural gas are
known to exist 500 miles south of Val
paraiso, and that in region not far
from the steel works at Corral. by
means of the canal our coal from the
gulf and south Atlantic states ought
to have great market here and coal
might form the return freight for the
nitrates and other minerals that from
now on will be shipped north through
the canal to our country.
1t was these Lota coal mines that
formed the foundation of the great
Cousino fortune. still one of the largest
OF Chile For several generations it
had been known that coal existed not
far from Conception, and it was at the
time that Madison was President that
an American named Wheeiwright who
put I'll" fret steamers "n tho S""tharn
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co.I WINES OF cH1Ir: UNDER THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

dry dock. large enough to hold a dread
nought. is now building, the construc-
tion going on under the water. The
station has the latest of mode rn i'm
provements including a large electric
machine shop, electric cranes and all
the necessary machinery for handliie
great weights.
The Chileans are proud of their navy.
They have two dreadnoughts Of $500"
tons each now building. They haN.
two armored cruisers. the Esmersld.t
and the O'Higgins, which are of seven
or eight thousand tons. and three pro-
tected cruisers. They have three tor
pedo gunboats, thirteen destroyers, five
modern torpedo boats aud two sub
marines. There is also a mine ship
and hospital ship. The total strength
of the navy is about 5000 officers and
men. ...-.
is named after the little boat OF about
500 tons which fought SO well in the
great engagement with Peru about
thirty-fye years ago. At that time the
Esmeralda and the Cavadonga were
lying off the nitrate port of Iduique
when two much larger vessels belong
ing to Peru, the Huascar and 1ndepen-
dencia. attacked them. The Chilean
vessels We're made of wood and the
armament of each consisted of twelve
four-pound guns. Neither was over
$50 tons. The Huascar had more than
1000 tons and its guns shot shells of
300 pounds. The Independence WAS
an ironclad of more than 2.00e tons
and she had twelve seventy-pounder
guns. Notwithstanding. the Esmcralda
blazed away at the Huascar. sending
her little four-pound shells against the
others three hundred pound shells.
She continued until she was almost "A
wreck, and when the Huascar finally
bore down upon her and rammed her
with her great ironclad PROV the
Chilean captain, Arturo Pratt. who
her. leaped to the deck of
the Huascar and called his men to fol-
low him. Before they could do SO the
boats again separated. Pratt fell be-
meath the Peruvian bullets and the Es-
meralda fought on without COM
mander. She was again twice rammed.
She then sank with the Chilean colors
still flying.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Pacific. tried to utilize these deposits
for his ships. 1t was not until 1856,
however that they proved to be of
any value, when they We're bought by
Don Matias Cousino.
The coal is not very good steam
ing coal, but it does well for smelling.
Cousino established smelling works
near the mines and began to develop
the coal properties. He did SO well
that in one year his net receipts were
more than s1.200,000. and in time he
built up a big business. He established
the town of Lota. which has 10000
people. including the most of the 5000
men who are employed in the mines
The town has good homes, church, a
hospital, free doctors and plaza for
recreation.
When Don Cousino died his widow
was said to be the richest woman in
the world and her income was over
$1,000, 900 a year. She had not only
the coal mines. but silver mines and
copper mines. bonds and stocks galore.
She had also a large hacienda near
Santiago and a fine home in that city.
She gave to the public the Cousino Park,
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sentries and spank them, to the great
"lee of their fellow prisoners. No at
tempt was made to escape. Now the
territorials have been replaced by men
of the Grenadier Guards, all six FOOT
ers, with instructions to stand no nom
sense, and not to hesitate to use bay
onet or butt if necessary to preserve
order and their own dignity.
The fall of Antwerp has proved a
great stimulus to recruiting in Eng
land. After the first :IO00oo recruits
had been obtained for kitcheners new
army the men began to come in more
slowly but during the last week the
average number of enlistments per day
has just about doubled. and the author
tiles have al they can do to handle
the new recruits. Some of them. in
deed, are too enthusiastic. One young