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6f7HE furore raised by the song ITS
a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.
a music hall ditty, chanty or bal
lad, in which music-trained people could
at first find nothing to stir the blood and
imagination of fighting men. has brought
forth many reflections on three tunes
which have swept through American
armies and made the hot blood of Ameri-
can soldiers tingle in their vens. The first
of these tunes was Yankee Doodle
Dandy" the second was Dixie" and the
third was 'There'll Be a Hot Time In
the Old Town Tonight" Not one OF these
tunes was music, or good music, II the
lofty-souled musical critic is to be be-
lieved, yet they thrilled and inspired hosts
of brave men and there are memories
clinging to these tunes which today make
the pulse of many men beat faster
Yankee Doodle had its day a century
and more ago. 1t lifted the feet OF pa
triotic soldiers. shortened weary miles OF
bad road and cheered the men on the
eve of battle and perhaps in the battle
Most men today cannot feel the thrill IN
that tune, but it was there fer our great
fathers and their mothers, sisters and
their sweethearts. The words were nom
sense, but the psychology of song is not
so much in the words as In the tune
'Dixie' cast its magic spell over all the
armies Of the Confederate and United
States, and it has not lost its thrill yet.
A brass band playing Dixie" at psyche
logical moment will make men yell and
cheer today. It is curious Musicians
say it is atrocious music and the words
are almost without meaning, yet 1t gets
into mems blood. Great marching and
fighting tunes were Tramp. Tramp.
Tramp, the Boys Are Marching" when
Johnny Comes Marching Home" 1.-The
Girl 1 left behind me-" Marching
Through. Georgia" and THE Bonnie Blue
Flag That Bears a Single Star" But
Dixie was the tune Of the civil war.
A good many we'll meaning efforts
have been put forth by poets to JIM
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covered with moss as deep as your
waist and there are mighty ferns with
fronds as long as your arm and longer.
The most of the trees are evergreens.
They are small. but are so thick on the
ground that you can walk on their
tops in snow shoes. The ground there
is saturated with moisture and when
/ tried to make my way through the
woods l sank in as though I were on
one of the bogs of old Ireland. 1t
rains there every few days Indeed. l
am told that it rains thirteen months
every year.
And this brings me to the lakes of
the Andes. The western slopes in
southern Chile have bodies of fresh
water that will compare in beauty with
the lakes of the Alps. Lake Manuel
Huapi. which is about $500 feet high,
is like a Norwegian ford. with water
falls flowing down the steep walls of
the basin in which it lies. Lake Esmer-
aida is another beautiful sheet, and
Lake Llanquihue Is an inland sea sec
ond only 10 Titicaca in size. All of
these lakes lie in ravine or along a
pass which will some day be one of the
routes over the Andes. They are In
southern Chile. and are sometimes call
ed the Switzerland of the south.
The Andes in north Chile have no
water except alkaline deposits, some
Of which are so bitter that they would
poison the man who tried to drink
them. Among these are the great
borax lakes, one of which is twenty
four miles in length. 1t skirts the rail-
road track which runs from La Paz
Bolivia, down to Antofagasta, and II
contains enough borax to wash all the
heads of the human race. I saw this
lake on my way from Bolivia down to
the coast. and the crust of borax upon
it was so hard that one could have
skated over it as though upon ice. The
crust looked like ice and the boraX J
saw taken out was for all the world
like the finest of white spun SILK Wao-
ded or woven into Jumps.
On other lakes in the neighborhooo
of that desert region 1 saw mirages
such as you find in the deserts or 50
hara and Libya, and these bodies Of
salt water seemed to have green islands
and ships floating on them, while
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sent rifle shot into a glacier from
the baggage-car door as l rode over
the pass that leads to the Morocochs
mines, at an altitude of 1886 feet
above the sea. That Is the highest rail-
road point of the world and the gla-
ciers lie within stones throw of the
train.
The volcanoes of the Andes are num-
bered by scores. and many of them are
still splitting out ashes and flames and
molten rock. There is no other place
in the world which offers SO good a
field for the study of geology. There
are new formations at every step. and
the skin seems to be torn from old
Mother Earth and her inner workings
laid bare. AS I climbed UP the South
ern railway of Peru 1 rode for many
miles through lava about the slopes of
and on my way from Bolivia to Chile 1
saw great windrows of lava near the
volcanoes of St. Peter and st. Paul
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ing icebergs during the trip, and that
now and then we could hear the ooofi
of a great ice block that had broken
from a glacier. We had to sam care
fully so as not to be struck by the
bergs, and at one place we stopped ana
anchored beside one in order TO preak
off a chunk of ice weighing seVerai
tons, which by means OF Derrick we
loaded on to the ship. This ice was OF
a beautiful opalescent green with a
cover of frosted silver. We wrapped
log chain around it, and the steam en-
CINE hoisted it to the deck. little
later the butcher killed tat pig whish
our vessel was carrying, and 1or the re-
mainder of our voyage we feasted on
sausage, pork chops, spare rlos anu
Scrapple. s. -.
the far south. The vegetation on the
vest coast of the Andes is peculiar.
From the Strait of Ma agellan to almost
a thousand miles northward the noun
tains are heavily wooded. Thefe. is Il
dense jungle also at the north. running
from Panama to the southern boundary
of Ecuador Between these two places
it is all desert and the foot hills of the
mountains have country as sanuy anu
barren as the mighty Sahara between
them and the sea. There the rain never
falls and it is only on the eastern
slope that you find dense vegetation.
In the southern Andes there is
heavy rainfall. This comes from the
winds of the Pacific. which blow in that
direction. A little farther north the
winds come from the east They are
loaded with the waters of the Atlantic.
They drop a part of their burden on
their way across South America and
the rains pour all along the eastern side
of the Andes. By the time the winds
get to the top they are dry and there
Is nothing but snow water. which melts
on the high peaks and flows down in a
stream here and there through the
great western desert. Farther north in
Ecuador there is heavy rainfall and
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prove the words of Dixie. but the ef-
forts do not take" A couple or so
years ago the proposition to change
a riot at Columbia, Mo, in a meeting
of ex-Confederate soldiers. They in
sisted that there should be no change
in the words. yet there was no con-
sistency in the words as sung during
the civil war. A Chicago newspaper
several years ago recalled that the
words of Dixie" as written by Dan
Emmett and sung in New Orleans in
1859 were these:
wish was in de land oh cotton;
Old times dlr am not forgotten
Look away, look away. look away Dixies land.
In Dixie land where was born in
Early one frosty mornin'.
Den I wish was in Dixie,
In piGie:. 9Geasi land nSpfri iii took my stand.
To lib md die In Dixie.
Away, away.
Away down south in Dixie.
Away down south in Dixie.
Commenting on this at the time of
the Columbia Confederate reunion, an
editorial writer in New York said that
in this version two verses were omitted,
as he remembered 1t, and he had the
story of its composition from Emmett
himself, and copy. not then available
Of the words in the authors handwrit,
ing. The two missing verses contained
references to the gay deceiver" and
'Will the Weaver"
Following is T. NJ Cooley's version,
sung during and after the war.
Away down south in de fields of cotton,
CHINA mon seed and sandy bottom,
Look away, look away,
Look away, look away.
Den way down south in de fields of cotton
Vinegar shoes and paper stockins.
Look away, look away,
Look away, look away.
Den wish was In Dixies land,
Oh-oh, oh-Oh.
In Dixie's land I'll take my stand
And live and die In Di1ie's land
Away, away, away.
Away down south In Dixie.
The nonular chorus Of .pixie" during
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not taken that attitude in cases where
important newspapers have omitted
through inadvertence tn submit matter
to him.
1t is betraying no secret to say that
Sir Roger Cas- ement's trip to Germany
has caused a good deal of concern in
loyal political circles in Ireland, al
though he is likely to be much less
harmful in Berlin than in Dublin, for
he is man of real ability and, given
favorable circumstances, might become
an Irish De Wet. There is some con-
ISOLATION, however. in the fact that the
Ireland for-the-Irish party in Ireland
is now safely out of the way.
Copyright, 1914, by Curtis Brown)
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.,reat in area as some of our largest
states, and at the far north there are three
ranges, from one of which branches OH
the spur which drops down into the
C.ulebra cut at the Isthmus of Panama
The Andes run southwark from mere
to the Strait of Magellan, and, jumping
that strait, are found again In the
mountains of TERRA del Fuego, ending
at last in Cape Horn, a mighty rock
which is as high as Mount Washington.
In these southern ranges there are
many low passes, and in half dozen
places Chile is planning to build rail-
roads connecting the oceans. The noun
tains gradually fall as they near the
them are of great depth. and the An
des with their rocky heads still tower
high above the waters.
During the past year my travels have
been largely confined to the Andes, and
in this and in other trips I have made
to South America 1 have Travelled
through them from one end to the
other. 1 have never set foot on Cape
Horn. but have seen the mountains of
TERRA del Fuego, and in a coasting
steamer have wound my way in and out
among the glacial peaks of Patagonia
and through the Strait of Magellan at
the southern end of the continent.
The Strait of Magellan is merely a
pass through the mountains. Cape
Pillar, which marks it's western end,
terminates in two massive rocks 1,50U
feet high, and the great archipelago of
TERRA del Fuego consists of mighty
mountains, which are more than half
under the sea. I know of no finer
scenery than that of the islands which
border the western coast of southern
Patagonia 1t is like riding in a ship
amid the snowy peaks of the highest
mountains. l wound my way through
in a small vessel, going through passes
so dangerous that we dared not travel
at night. The distance was three or
four hundred miles, and we coasted
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ECRUlTlNG i'm SECTIONS OF IRELAND

broadcast in Ireland, while English
newspapers are rigidly censored. The
difference in treatment Is due to the
fact that Kitchener has the English
public at his back, but cannot count
upon a United Ireland. Irish members
of parliament have been urging the
government to take vigorous action.
4 ,
Mr.. Birrell, the Irish chief secretary,
when questioned about the matter in
parliament, has turned it off with a
joke, and Sir Stanley Buckmaster, the
chief censor. made the pitifui plea that
the matter was not submitted to him
before publication, and that, there
fore, he could not deal with it. He has
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>atures of Ane1ean Home Life and Travel

1t is also good for stomach trouble and
the wife of an American miner tells
me how she was cured by using 1t. The
lizards came from an old Indian. who
prescribed the raw flesh chopped up
with the blood in 1t. This was to bc
drunk with the addition of little
Chicha. the common beer Of the country.
My lady friend tells me it cured her
dyspepsia.
Chicha is the common beer of tho
Andes and the best is made by chew
ing up grains of corn In the mouth.
The natives have chicha parties. where
the young girls come together and sit
down in a circle. In the center is a
basin of wood. AS soon as they arc
seated they begin chewing the un-
cooked grains of certain kind OF
Indian corn. They masticate this until
it is reduced to a pulp and is saturated
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Copyrighted. 1914. by Frank C. Carpenter)
IOC ANDES Chile

Copyrighted. 1914. by Frank C. Carpenter)
LOS ANDES, Chile.
q AM high up on the Chilean side of
the Andes, ready to cross over the
mountains from the Pacific to the
q Atlantic slope of the continent. My
next letters will be from Argentina, and
will describe the greatest bread and meat
lands of the .uture. ! am now on the
roof of the continent right in the
shadow of Mount Aconcagua and within
plain sight of the highest peak on our
hemisphere. To the north OF me this
mighty range extends as far as the dis
tance from Boston to San Francisco.
1t rises and falls in a mighty wall
whose average height is more than two
and one-half miles and whose width is
greater in many places than the dis
re between Philadelphia and Boston.
In some places there are two mighty
parallel ranges that uphold plateaus as
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with far larger number of recruits
in proportion to it's population .han
England, Scotland and Wales. Only
Newcastle and Derbyshire in England
have done better than Ireland. and
most of the Newcastle recruits are
Irishmen- However. they seem to have
firm grip on large section of the
country and 1t is impossible to conceal
the fact that recruiting in this section
has been disappointing.
1t is only fair to say at once that
all these men are men of high personal
character, and that no one suspects
that they have personally been bought.
Every one is convinced, however, that
their propaganda is being financed
either directly or indirectly by Ger
many or by lrishAmericans. A man
who has just returned to Dublin from
a trip all round Ireland says that
there can be no doubt that large guam
titles of money are being spent here
now and have been spent here for the
last three or four years.
Little weekly papers, like Sim Fein,
Larkin's Irish Worker Prof NacNeilFs
Irish Volunteer and Irish Freedom,
which, before the war, had Il weekly
circulation of a few hundreds each
and a struggle to exist, are now being
carried in thousands throughout the
length and breadth of Ireland in motor
cars and distributed free. Motor
cyclists, with side cars full of the pa
pers and of seditious pamphlets ema-
mating from their offices, have pene-
trated the mountains and glens of
Connemara, Donegal and even Antrim,
scattering the literature broadcast
among the peasantry.
Pamphlets in Gaelic have even been
ha ri Sh
tricts. Hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars have been spent on this campaign
during the last two months. The writ
er is told that good many of these
colporteurs seem to be returned Ameri-
cans. and one man met two at least
who spoke English with strong Ger
man accent. but who claimed to be
American citizens.
1t must not be forgotten also that for
some years past Ireland has been over
run by German peddlers of books. mu-
sical instruments, gayly colored shawls
and trinkets of all kinds. They have
penetrated into the most out-of-the-
way districts and paid special atten-
tion to the mountains of Donegal and
the coast region Of the north and
was a gaudy lithograph of the kaiser.
who. they always declared. was a true
friend of Ireland. They sold this for
the wall of many an Irish cabin
whose owner has a son fighting for
King George.
In this connection it may be as we'll
to dispose once and for all of a slander
which has received wide currency in
this country. 1t has been stated that
the mine field off the northwest coast
in which the Audacious came to
grief was laid by Irish fishermen un-
der the direction of German officers
Now there are no steam fishing boats
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on the northwest coast except a few
owned in Dublin, the character of
who owners is above suspicion. One
cannot conceive of mine field being
laid by sailboats, and in any case
how could the mines have reached Ire
land? 1t is much more likely that they
were laid by German trawlers flying
Il neutral flag.
that the Irish nation is split on the
subject of the war. The writer heard
of a few cases during the last week or
two in which pedd1ers suspected of be-
badly beaten by the Donegal and Con-
nemara peasantry, and then handed
over to the police. They were able
in every case to prove their innocence.
rious spying have not been seen in
Ireland since the beginning of the war.
few nights ago the Sim Feiners
tried to hold an antf-recrulting meet
bed, and SO serious did the situation
become that they had to appeal to the
police to protect them. They were
guarded in their hotel all night, and
placed safely on train for Dublin In
the morning. Similar scenes have oc-
Cured in other parts Of the country.
What loyalists in Ireland cannot un-
derstand is the attitude of the govern
ment. Reputable newspapers in Dub
lin and Belfast and in all the English
by the authorities for the slightest in
discretion in the publication of news.
There is, of course, no question of dis
loyalty, but only of judgment in these
cases, but the four little weekly Irish
papers which are being printed for free
distribution are allowed to say what
they please.
Larkin's paper, the Irish Worker, last
week spoke of "the gallant German
army" and wished it success in its
struggle against the "cowardly Eng
lish." Even the Turk has become
hero to Larkin, who writes of the
sword of the Turk rousing his suffer-
ing co-religionists in India. Egypt and
Persia to revenge their wrongs" The
brutal Russian robber' comes in for
his attention, and he supposes that we
will soon be hearing of Turkish atroci-
ties which will be about as reliable as
those ascribed to Germany"
Prof. MacNeill, in the Irish Volunteer,
writes:
THE man who says, Better English
law than German in Ireland is as slav-
ish as he who reverses the position.
ireland would be better Off II she
were IL protectorate of the German peo-
pie, who are more advanced in civiliza-
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.,ec,aI Cor,es,o,sepca Of The Star.

special Correspondence Of The Star
DUBLIN, December II, 1914.
ECENT events in Ireland have
IO made it as clear as anything
i'm can be that has not been
q - proven in court OF law that
some one is spending money like water
to seduce the Irish from their allegl-
ance to the British empire. And with
such success that, If the full truth were
known. it would probably be found
that the kaiser was not SO entirely
wrong in figuring on an Irish revolu-
ton to seriously hamper the English
authorities in the event of war
Recently a high official of the con-
servative party said to the writer: "Of
course, we all know the serious condi-
tions prevailing in the south and south
west of Ireland. but We are not talking
about it,"
y good many people were surprised
when il was learned the other day that
Sir Roger Easement, a former British
consul, who is even now drawing "A
pension from the British government,
had gone to Germany and entered into
relations with the kaisers govern
nent, but it was no surprise to those
who had followed Sir Rogers career
since his retirement from the public
service about year ago. He has been
closely associated with the group of
Irish extremists, who have done all in
their power to cripple the Redmond
wing of the home rule party. because
they wished to end the British connec-
tion absolutely and believed that the
only way to do il was by force.
:. =
Most of these men are idealists, and
tion of a practical man like Sir Roger
Easement gave them an Importance
that they would not otherwise have at
tained. Sir Roger will be remembered
for his work in exposing the Kongo
atrocities and later those in the Putu-
mayo country. He is n man of great
organizing ability, of high character
and is universally respected.
Next to Sir Roger Easement, the best
known figure among this group OF
Irish patriots is Jim Larkin. the labor
leader who jumped into fame through
the Dublin transport workers strike
a couple of years ago. Irish politicians
and British labor leaders soon defeated
Larkin on that occasion. He is a mar
of a good deal of natural eloquence
but of little real ability, and is moi
considered dangerous.
On the literary side the only men o!
any consequence associated with the
party are Prof. John MacNeill who oc
cupies the chair of Gaelic at the Ma
tional University, and Arthur Griffiths
editor of the weekly newspaper Sim
Fein. Both are men of high literar.
attainments.
When these four men have beer
named we have the whole membership
of the pro-German party whose names
are known outside the circle of thei
personal friends. What their following
may be it is impossible to tell, bu
their utmost efforts have not prevente'
ireland from supplying Lord kitchene
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KAISER WILHELM MAY HAVE HAND N

English Writers Emerald Isle May Give England More
Right His Early Statements
and His Followers Who Believe Independent
Daring Efforts to Prevent
Recruiting for Kihnr's Army the
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western slopes often flood the country
for miles.
l was surprised about the rain near
the Strait of Magellan. In some parts
of western Patagonia the ground is
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MEMORIES OF AMERICAN MARCHING SONGS

the civil war. though where it came
from the writer does not know, was:
wish ! was in Dixie!
In D. xie's land I'd take my stand.
I'd live and die in Dixie.
Away down south in Dixie.
An attempt of a serious and credit
able nature was made by Gen. Albert
Pike to dignity the words OF Dixie.
but people who sang Dixie" remained
true to "the fields of cotton. cinnamon
seed and sandy bottom" Gen. Pixies
words for Dixie" were:
Southrons. hear your country call You:
Up lest worse than death befau you.
To arms! to arms to arms! In Df lie.
Io, all the bea on fires are GIFTED;
Let all our hear be now unit d.
To arms! to am >! to arms! in Dixie.
Advance the flag Of Dixie,
Hurrah! hurRh!
For Dixie's land we'll take our stand
To live de for Dixie.
To arms! to arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie.
To arms! to arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie.
Fear no danger. shun labor;
Lift up rifle, pike and saber,
Shoulder pressing close 10 shoulder,
Let the odds make each heart bolder.
Dan Emmett, the minstrel, may not
have known any more about music than
did Joe Emmett, who composed GO to
Sleep, My Baby" Lena Dear, High
Up in the Steeple the Cuckoo Is Call
ing" and other melodious songs, but he
wrought a wide and intense influence
on the American heart. A great many
of these old American songmakers have
warm place in the hearts or Ameri-
cans who are not crazed by the up-to-
the-minute jingles and frivols. There
were Stephen c. Foster. Septimus Win
ner and Nelson Rice of the old Buckley
Serenaders. who wrote the music for
DR.. Thomas Dunn English's poem. Ben
Bolt
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which, like Sorata, looks down on Lake
Titicaca, and Chimborazo in Ecuador
is very near the same height. The
average range of the Andes throughout
is more than $4,000 feet high. 1t Is the
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Look Strait Dense Vegetation Southern Chile
in Outdone
Wonderful VeanoeAconcaga
Wireless Messages the Mountains
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ton and culture than the English. If
the British navy gets the worst of the
coming fight we shall have our German
friends cruising in the Irish sea. The
Irishman who lifts his arm in defense
of the robber empire Is a traitor to his
race. England is our one enemy In the
whole world"
"Sinn Fem has been carrying on
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campaign of almost equal virulence.
and has been devoting itself especially
to hindering recruiting. 1t has been
making an appeal to the morality of
the Irish by depicting the British army
as a sink Of iniquity. and predicting
ruin for every clean-minded and pious
young Irishman who Joins 1t. Il has
also been declaring that the war Office
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has refused to appoint Roman Catho-
lie chaplains to the new Irish regi-
ments.
All this is allowed to be circulated
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The popular chorus OF "Dixie" during