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also had good dreams, and invariably she managed to calm her fears and would finally drift off to sleep whis- pering tender words to Jean in low voice as if he was in reality nt her side; she would whisper to him words of love till the blessed slumber came
 Thus, all the hours of the day passed, ono after another, and all the hours of the evening. and all those of the night, and all those of the morning. Thus. Hhe waited-waited for Jean. She had prayed to the Virgin Mary and the good father of the parish had consoled her with encouraging words, but Jean never came. Waiting, always waiting, without knowing anything Oh, God she prayed, when would the moment come when she truly need wait no longer? The postman continued to pass with only n cheerful nod.
 Despite tho consoling reasonings ot the villagers. many of whose womon- folk wore also carrying with bravo mien the canker of constant worry in their breast, Mnrthe had grown pale under tho strain. She became more detected and her step heavier Very often while Babette played within hearing of tho house. Msrthe would go over tho belonging of her beloved Joan, and some inementoes of thoIr betrothnl. Shc would sigh and then turn to her sewing, as winter was ap- preaching
 Some Letters Received
 It was the second week of OctobHr No word had been received from Jean, No word had been received of any of the brave lads that had gone forth on tho first call in early August. Marthe was on her daily walk to the village to listen to the gopsip and the verbose talks of the mayor. Tho day was like summer. only fl was somewhat melan- choiy for Marthe. Still tine day wss so beautiful that had 1t not been for the dead leaves that fell in moundful shower along the roadway, Marthe could readily havo thought that 1t was June Tn the center of tho village thoro was excitement. Marthe hurried.
 Sorne letters had been reoelvedi
 Out of respect they had boon handed 10 tho mayor to read and tho womon- folk were all assembled about him. The good father. and the old toothless mon also stood around. first on one foot thon the other In their nervousness to hear the news. Tho mayor read In nonorous tones of hardships. battles In which blood fiowed like water In tho river and then opening long offiolal envelope he read
 "Marcel I.ebsun, Killed at chantliiy.--''
 IL YRS the first direct thrust ot tE9 war to Martha and the other villagers, Marine had known Marcel Iebrun from childhood and also his bride of a few months. She had teen to hts wedding. Anu TOW hs was dead. dsad--sisvsr to
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RTIST LEYENDECKER of the Saturday Evening Post, who drew the above picture, desig-
 hated no title for it; if he did,
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dispense with the artificial watering oi tho crops. Much of the country Is slightly rolling. It is cut by many creeks and little rivers which are fed .hy the Andean snows. Some of these streams carry down a great deal Of silt. making fat the lands over which they go. Others such as the Bio-bio arc as clear as crystal from one years end to the other.
 Riding southward through this coun- try, the scenery Is far different from that of the richest parts of the union. There are crops in sight all the way, but the fields are divided by rows of tall poplars or eucalyptus or with walls of mud and stone rather thaa fences. It is only along the railroad that there is any barbed wire. The chief buildings to be seen are the great rambling structures. the homes of the haciendados and the mean mud walle tch-roofed huts of the laborers. There are no barns standing out on the fields, and no elevators at the stations for storing the grain. There are plenty Of cutie and horses. but very few sta bles or outbuildings. The weather is sJ mild that the stock graze out of dQprs all the year round and this is 70 al the way from Santiago to the Strait of Ma gellan. Therefore there are no haystacks of strawstacks. Such grass anl alfalfa as are cut are put up in bales and shipped to the cities or north
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nos away from the farms. It teaches them what 1t is to have board floors to walk on and good beds to sleep in. They get a taste for the better food of the army and do not like to go back to their beans and toasted wheat that until then have formed large part of their diet. As result after leaving the army many go out to seek work otherwheres
 You find them as laborers about the ports. as the employees on street car lines and other railway construction and doing all sorts of common labor in the cities. More over. they are natural mechanics and they soon learn the various trades.
 It Is somewhat owing to these changes that a modern labor element is develop ing in Chile. There have recently been several strikes on tho state railways; the hands upon the wharves have their unions and are, I am told, growing very inde- pendent. These men in tho nitrate ports struck the other day because they were not allowed to use grapplins hooks to handle the heavy bags. They had seen such hooks used for dragging about cot ton bales, and they found it easier to move the nitrate the same way. The hooks make holes in the bags and for this req son the exporters Of the nitrate object.
 A similar unrest among the laboring element is going on all along the west coast of south America Peru has been sending agitators to Chile. and Chile has
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return. and what Of Jean? She rushed home. her heart breaking with polg- nant sorrow. The dead leaves contiu- ued to fall. to dance about in the fields.
 An Autumn Morning
 one morning, true autumn morning with cold mist ovor the earth. the rising sun found Martho awake and ss usual putting the household things In crder. It was going to be an unpleas- ant day. she felt as she heard the narsn rustic of tho cold wind outside. She dressed Babette with her usual care and cleanliness
 But there was something different about this particular morning aside Of It's unpleasantness, Marthe had dropped her mirror and 1t had broken to bits. She knew that something had hap pened; that today was the day of all days. and she would know by nigntfaC the fate of Jean.
 It was early afternoon. the clouds were hanging low and hiding the suu Like a great shudder. gust of wind was heard and the batter of dead leaves falling on tho roof sounded like rain, the wind tossed trees were losing tholr foliage. Martho suddenly stopped her sewing. She heard through the mur- murs of the wind and falling leaves the calloping horse of the postman.
 Today the postman stopped ant sravely handed Marthe long envelope. She thanked him simply and went in- side. He logged on,
 Shc did not see that 1t was tho samc kind of envelope that the news of Mar eel Lebrun had come in No. she was too excited to reason anything. A lss- ter had como and 1t must contain news of her beloved Jean and with joyous laugh. hurried hug md tumble of words of papa to Babette. she opened the letter and road:
 "Jean Tureotte Killed at St. Mlhiei---'
 The paper fiuttered to the floor n tho position as seen in the picture. Fabrtte stood with finger in her mouth watching mamma. as Marthe sat on thu edge of the rickety chair her body leaning forward to her head on ths tnblc nestled dejectedly on her fora arm, while her other arm ia stretched in hopelessness over tho corner of the table and the hand hangs impotently.
 Tha. is. tho story that Artist Leyen- decker suggests to tho writer in his cover picture on last weeks issue Of tho Saturday Evening Post It is in reality the story in hundreds of French hcrnes. in hundreds Of Beirian, Eng lish. Austrian. Russian and German horaes. It is tho story of war
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and he lets each of the workmen have small tract to cultivate and also pas turage for his stock If he has any. This tract may consist of two. three. four five or 10 acres, and 1t may be only enough for house and garden. In re- turn for the use of the land the in qriiino agrees to give one mans work to the owner when he requires 1t. This means that he pays rent for the house and grounds of about S2.50 a week. and at the same time has a house for hia family to live In. In some cages small wages are paid, but as a rule the man is expected to furnish one hand for his labor If his family does work, they. of course, receive an addi- ttonel payment Many of the inquillnos are In debt to their employers, but the laws here are not like those of Peru and Bolivia. which make the peons al- most debt slaves.
 The huts of the peons are of the rud- est description. They arc seldom more than 15 feet square. They have walls ot sticks covered with mud and the roofs are of thateh or rude tll The huts are seldom lighted except from the front, and some have no light, but from the door. The ground forms the floor, and, in many cases the bed If tho family Boxes usually take the places of chairs, and if there is & bed stead. it consists of a, ledge of sticks built up from the ground. The bed stead may be separated from the other part cf the room by a curtain.
 l would say, however. that some of thu farmers are paying attention to the better housing of their worlmen. On the santa Ines estate they are building tenant houses of concrete and on some others of the haciendas they arc put ting up what are called model houses.
 I am told that the inquilinos are con- tented with their lot. They seldom strike and seem satisfied 1T they can get enough to eat and wear and plenty to drink. One Of the great evils of tho country Is alcoholism. Nearly every one of the lower classes is addicted to 1t, and this is so In both city and coun- try. A census of saloons of Santiago was recently taken and it was found to have 6000 places where liquor was sold. while Valparaiso was reported to have more cases of drunkenness than Eng fish cities of 10 times its size.
 It is thls custom of drinking added to tDnulllUIS ul ANluS lllal lS responsible for the great mortality of Chile. The, death rate is enormous and that among children is so high that I fear to quote the figures which have been given. Dead babies are called lit- tie angels and are supposed to go straight to heaven, but no one supposes that this has anything 10 do with the deaths. It is said that 55 per cent of the children of Santiago die before they are five years of age, but I do not be- lieve this to be true.
 There is one institution in Chile now that promises to bring about . change in the conditions of the inquilnos. This la the army, and the law provides that every man in the country shall spend at least one year of his life in the serv- ice. This year is at abount 19 or 70. All of the boys are drafted, and no matter whether they of the working class or not they have to spend this one year as 0 soldier This brings the young inauili-
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RTIST LEYENDECKER of the RZ Saturday Evening Post, who xoSsSa drew the above picture, desig- yk2S$SS) hated no title for it; if he did,
 it was not printed. In reality, a title would have been superhuous. All who look at the picture at once find a name for it in their hearts. for the story told by the art Of Mir. Leyendecker reaches to the heart.
 The principal figure is that Of a young woman-presumaby a French peasant. paral, bandnnna handkerchief and white headdress all betolsen the peasant of La Belle France.
 She is weeping It, must be so. as her head is nested on the forearm in q most dejected attitude. Her other arm stretches forth Imply on the table. and the hand overlaps in impotence ovor the edge. Hoi body appears oonvulsed with despair. slie ls tragedy personined And the other figure Is of child. A peasant child. Note the riahod l.nes skirt, tho heavy woolen stockings heavy shoes and tidy ,,snids: the round check, fiie finger in tho mouth. the r.zz,od {. year-old wondering at ihe distress oi mother. sYes. the weeping young wor,cn is ths childs mother. And the little xfrl Is very much worried oyer 1t all. It must be something awful about papa. who has been gone long time. Now what can that be? What could have happened to papa that n,an1s.1a should be huddlcd uu 1n terror and despair? The child does not see the folded paper with the Red Cross uppermost in n cor. nor Of the picture. If she did she would not understand The mothe-, though has seen inc papcT. The postrian had Brought 1t.
 The Story
 jean and afnrtbe had beo., :.inrr;cd fivo years. Affairs had gcne well with ths N~aznnt folk cf aeuthorn France. The ,na had been plentiful: tho inrder wei locked and hereditary thrift had sar- kered mary sou and franc in the Credit kyennais Jean and Mn-tha were the average youth of tho southinnd and ur b last Araust had managed well. anA It's echoes reverberated thr6ighout the hills and vaiiays of the wor:d-even ln tho Y!aainad hnvaH of Jean and Mar- the ard tAair child. Bpbette.
 Jeaa, wjIg was effusive, ispp-eesiena5fe, 9gbbesed i0y yetsy at tho cal to the eei6rH. , Tbpa hc ss..i:sd ruofuily at hie own sif. tituaaeni. He Had HothinE against the Germans assd Ha was sura thnt thsy had nD anger against h!m, lie had ssesi aFi 'Nl'emahd" once, and thpfa surely WAS ne harm in ths biue-eyed, fiorid faced. Fe- tHnd bellied individual whe praferfed beer @ has beloved wine. But then, h Paris,
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v ICtb lHe past week 1 nave been
 travelling here and there through
 S.{ the central valley of Chile. This t1eWSy extends from Santiago to Val
 divia. more than 900 miles south 1t contains the largest and best estates an the republic. although there is an e.z : tensive wheat-crowing region below it in which great forests are now being cut down and the clearings turned into farnis.
 The central valley of Chile is one of the garden spots of tile globe It will grow anything if it can only have water. As one of the haeiendados said to me. ''All you have to do is to spit on the ground and drop in a seed, and, presto. , there is a tree" There is no part quite so fertile as that, but trees do grow here three times as fast as in North America. have seen groves of eucalyptus that are 100 feet high. and still only 10 or 15 years cid. have already described my visit to Santa Ines, the fields of which are walled with poplars as high as church Bteeple. There are thousands of trees on that estate as high as any in the eastern part or our country, and they have all been planted in the past 9 years It fs the same with all kinds of vegetation. In. the irrigated sections, peach trees bear nt one and two years and grains and grasses. including alfalfa, are wonderful, ly luxuriant. This Is so, notwithstand- ing some of the land has been under cul- uvatfon for many generations. The lands about Santiago have been titled for 300 years. and today among them are num- bered some of the fine farms of the world.
 But before I describe the big hacien- das let me tell you little more about the region in which they are seated. The central valley is wide strip of low land ranging in width from 15 to 100 miles, and about 700 miles long. It begins above Santiago, and winds its way south through about one-fourth of Chile. On the east of 1t are the snowy walls of the Andes, with here and there the mighty cone Of dead volcano rising above the ether peaks and on the west are the lower mountains and hills of the coast range, their tops almost a desert. but their foothills covered with green The average width of the valley, all told is about 30 miles. and it's area is some where between those of West Virginia and Maryland. This country is settled throughout. It has many large towns along the state railroad, which runs through It from one end to the other. and the most of its lands are divided up Into large estates
 In the north these estates are all un- der irrigation and 1t Is only in the far south that the rainfall is sufficient to
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Babette was alarmed by the scream of her mama but was reassured when told that 1t was only q bad dream and not to ask questions or she, too, would have q bad dream.
 But if Marthe had bad dreams she
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the gleaming bayonets. the roaring. fire-spitting cannon. the whistling scream of shrapnel and bullets, and the harsh commands of sword swishing officers as they drove masses of im- potent humanity forward in an inferno
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What AiIs Jones

From Judge
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BY RICHARD F. LUSSIER

of carnage and blood. She saw Jean!
 He was smiling as he mounted an en- o trenchment. Then--she shuddered as | her vision pictured rushing cavalry n man plunging his lance in the breast of h
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HOW THE BIG FARMS OF CHILE ARE MANAGED


 matters in tho cities of Peru. Moreover. some of the politicians of the several re- publios are catering to the laborinR e,e- ment. and among the latter is the forrn.r president of Peru. When BflIlnghurst wa. President. he boasted that he was tha friend of the working man. and did every thing he could to get their friendship and supporr. At one time he sent com mand to the head Of the Peruvian cor poration which manages the Central ral- way that he must at once rr'-> ..- of all his employees 25 per fa feial replied that this coul Bjilinghurst insisted, wher shown that such an incres asasf.s aIaa the running of the road, f ns rsaf would not leave enough f tla.a## on Drlr bonds after run ia- as. 4s were paid. He also shot Billinshurst what an outer a.asa asa from the people if the train ahas a.r5s to stop. The President il he would lose moro than by such q proceeding. an, was dropped. It was mi actions that brought sbou uon that ended in his being office,
 Tree Bears Human sal From the San. Francisco Essr#H
 Los Anseles,N Cal--Chok face was so black that sl taken for q pielsaninny. girl was found lodged in r she had apparehtly been qnince orchard at Wester Monica avenues early vest Ing. While detectives are Its real mother, n dozen fo 4f4# nurses at the County hosp tf dcrly croonins over her a attng with the tiny suffe m skinned nose. Despite her ment the girl will live. all quests for adoption of ii come to the hospital stan.
 Early yesterday morning when tho child was still In the air. ]. Bansana, who has leased the orchard, and who, with his family, Is camping among the trees, went out to gather lgindlings and houghs for the breakfast fire. It was then about o'clock. Bending to pick up a chunk of wood. hia attention was arrested by 6 scarcely audible wall. Ho stopped and listened. rhen, believing went on with his task. Again he hes l tho strange cry. This time there was no denying If. He ran in the direction from which he thought tae cry had come and nestling in among tho sprouts of an old quince tree, he found tho babe. It's only protection from tho air was l. thin calico night gown in which 1t wGR wrapped.
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-03
Social, Club and Personal Items
Elizabeth Thomas Phones II2Il874

yam, Charles Marvel, Walter knolien-
berg. Howard Dill, E. P. Truebiood, }.
r. Giles, Arthur Murray, OF Ham
mond, Ebert Russell, Charles Druitt.
Robert L. Kelly, Ben Kelly, FRED
Bates, Wilfred Jessup, B. 3. Johnson
W. N. Trueblood, J. f. Catneil, A. =.
Bernhard, Gertrude Hill. James Juo-
son, Wilbur Hasemeier, Misses Ter
trude Bartel. Camilla Bockhoff' Kate
Miller, Elizabeth and Clara ComstocK'
Anna Bradbury, Ethel Huber. FRANCES
White, Marguerite Hill and Miss Mills,
of Earlham college.
The active members OF the CLUB
are: Mesdames Thomas AMI q. =.
Bartel, Fred J. Bartel. Paul Benfeldt'
]. Herschel Coffin, Edgar Fisher, Ed
ward Harris, Edgar Hiatt, Harlow
Lindley, w o. MendenhaH, ii. X.
Robinson, Isaac Wilson, Misses Caro-
line Carpenter, Elizabeth Conrad.
Margaret Starr, Mariana Stuobs and
Edith Tebbetts.
An election of officers was neid
Thursday afternoon When the WON
ans Aid society of the Reid Memorial
hospital met with Mrs. Horace Kra-
mer at her home on East Main street.
L
President-Mrs. +. q. Hill.
First Vice President-Mrs. o. F.
Ward
Second Vice President-Mrs. A. w.
Roach.
Secretary-Mrs. Horace Kramer.
Treasurer-Mrs. Eugene Price.
Chairman Board of Managers-Mrs.
George Eggemeyer,
Chairman of Work Committee
Mrs. O. F. Ward
The society will meet again in a
month at the home of Mrs. Jennie
! Yaryan on North Tenth street.
A meeting of the Aid society of the
First English Lutheran church was
held Thursday afternoon at the
church. Several important business
matters were considered at this time
Thirty members attended the meet
ing of the Aid society of the Trinity
Lutheran church held Thursday after
noon with Mrs. George kemper at