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The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15
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Long Beach, Calf, Oct. 14.- B. M. Scott, commercial agent for the Salt Lake railroad is an auto mobile owner who inclines his ears to the purr of the motor
 While driving here today Scott noticed a peculiar sound emanating from beneath the hood. It worried him. He turned into garage and told the mechanic to look for the trouble. The mechanic opened the hood Out stepped an angry mal- tese cat.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15

More than one-half of all the wo- men in England between the ages of fifteen and forty-five are unmar- ried
The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15

Attempts to make hay the day before the sun shines are as apt to he failures as those of the morning after. A.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15

The king of Greece pulled off a regular Gov. Hays stunt.
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Old Francis Joseph is pulling off his annual death-bed scene.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 14.- This city has solved the question of play grounds for the kiddies, by designating certain streets that will be closed and for play during cer- tain hours of the day.
The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-15

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 14.- Police complained today that chicken thieves are using chloroform to quiet chickens protests during the stealing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

The state of Matte Crosse contains
more than half a million square miles.
Americans who have recently travelled
over it locating the railroad routes tell
me the land is excellent. The popula-
tion of Matte Crosse is now only two
tenths of one person to the square
mile. You could drop it's population
into New York. Chicago or Philadel-
phia and neither city would notice the
difference.
Just east of this state is Goyaz, where
the future capital of the country is
to be located. plans having already
been made to that end. Goyaz is the
center Of Brazil. The state is bigger
than Texas. and it's population is just
about one-tenth the size of the latter.
A great part of the country Is high
and the land is rough. 1t is rich in
minerals and is said to have iron by
the hundreds of millions of tons. 1t
also yields diamonds.
One of the most interesting states of
Brazil is Mnas Geraes, which is more
than four times as big as New York.
It lies east of Goyaz. 1t is bounded on
the north by Bahia and on the south
by Sac Paulo. while separating it from
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perhaps one-fourth. little more than
one-half million, live in the city of
Sac Paulo. The state has many mil
lionaires, and it is altogether about the
most progressive STAGE in Brazil.
South of Sac Paulo are three states
of considerable size, all of them high.
healthy and fitted for the homes of
white people. This includes what is
known as West Deutschland or Ger
man Brazil. some parts of the country
being largely settled by Germans and
the chief farms and industries belong
ing to them. These states are known
as Parana. Santa Catharina and Rio
Grande do Sui. They border on Uru-
quay and Paraguay and have vast
pastures and wheat lands. They are
being largely developed by the Brazil
Railway Company which is pushed by
Americans.
In addition to the states have named
there are nine others situated in the
great cotton, tobacco and sugar belt, of
Northeastern Brazil OF these the most
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times as large as Argentina and more
than four times as big as Russia in
Europe. Brazil touches every country
in South America except Chile. 1t has
almost half of all the land on the con-
tinent, and far more than half of the
lands fitted for population. The coun-
try is SO wide from east to west that
If it were laid on the United States 1t
would extend from New York to far
beyond Denver. and its Atlantic coast
line would equal the distance between
Boston and San Francisco. with 500
miles and more added thereto. 1t is
longer from north to south than from
Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. and its
climates include those of the tropical,
semi-tropical and temperate zones.
The common idea of Brazil comes
from the Amazon valley. Many look
upon 1t as a low plain, hot and IN
healthy. The truth is the most of the
country is made up of highlands. and
more than half of it is an elevated pla-
teau the mean altitude of which Ia just
about that of our Appalachian noun
tains. The plateau is two or three
thousand feet above the sea, with peaks
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But the Amazon is only one OF the
rivers. Brazil has a score Of others
outside the Amazon basin, the length
Of which added together would give
total waterway amounting to $4,000
miles. 1t has some rivers thousand
miles long. the names of which are not
known to the man on the street. The
Parnahyba Is longer than from New
York to Chicago, and the Araguary
would reach from Chicago to New Or
leans. The Parana, which is a part OF
the Brazilian system. is as long as from
Boston to Salt Lake, and tho Rio Sac
Francisco has q length Of 1870 miles,
and you may ride upon It in steam
ships for days. Some Of these rivers
have mighty waterfalls. The Sac Fran
cisco has one drop Of 2es feet, or 100
feet more than that Of Niagara. The
1guazu Falls are said to surpass those
Of Zambesi in South Africa, and in the
state Of Sac Paulo alone there are
100000 horsepower in tho yet unde-
veloped cascades. The length Of tho
Iguazu 10 1872 miles. the 1tapiouru lows
$50 miles. the Juguininoh measures
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gions of drought, but there are no
great deserts like our highlands of the
west, the Sahara and Kalihari in AZ
RIGA, or like Cobb, Arabia, and the pla-
teau of Iran. The plateau of Brazil is
cut by great river systems, and as to
the Amazon its waters carry much of
the floods that fall from the heavens
Two-thirds of the main stream of the
Amazon runs through Brazil. and the
country has other mighty streams, the
names Of which we hardly know. The
waterways of the Amazon alone are
long enough If stretched end to end to
reach around the world. and it's navi-
gable length, II laid upon the United
States, would form a mighty canal
from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate. The
Amazon has 100 tributaries in addi-
ton to the River of Doubt. which Theo-
dore Roosevelt has exposed to the
world. The main stream and the tribu-
taries have over thirty thousand miles
of navigable waterways. If you could
conf1ne them in one canal starting at
San Francisco they would go clear
around the world and leave enough
over to reach on to China.
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FARM SCENE IN MAIro CROSSE.

here and there that run up to seven
thousand feet. and one that reaches
nine thousand. or higher than any
peak on the eastern side of our coun-
try. Brazil has four different ranges
of mountains. There are some at the
north between the Amazon and the
Orinoco. There are the Andes at the
west. and also the several ranges that
run through the eastern part of the
sea and you Jump from the tropical
lowlands to a climate that Is fitted for
white men. There are vast tracts
which are similar to California or our
southern states. Take the port Of San
tos which until the new sanitary work
was inaugurated was SO unhealthy that
1t became known as the white mans
grave. Santos lies on the sea in a land
of bananas. pineapples and sugar plan
tations. You can take a train there,
and in two hours be on the plateau of
San Paulo. whose climate 10 as hne as
that of Los Angeles.
Brazil is ono of the best watered
lands under the sky. 1t has small re-
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important is Bahia. Bahia is about as
big as Massachusetts and California com.
bined. 1t has 1855, 600 square miles and its
population IS two and one-half millions.
The capital is the port of Bahia which
was once the capital of Brazil and which
now has about 100000 population Bahia
is noted for its tobacco. 1t raises about
100000 pounds year and turns out
more than 100000 cigars. The state
is said to be rich in minerals and agri-
culturally it is only partially developed.
North of Bahia is Pernambuco, state
noted for its cotton: and still further
north is Ceara, as big as Ohio, which
produces cotton, cacao and coffee.
The state of Parahyba is about as big
as South Carolina. 1t yields cotton and
sugar. Algoas is another little cotton
state, and SO is Rio Grande do Norte.
Maranhao, which lies next to Para, is
bigger than any state of the Union
outside Texas, and 1t has only one rail-
road, about fifty miles long. Its land
is fitted for cotton. The same is true
of Plainly, another large state which
adjoins it on the east. All of these
states are now raising more or less
tobacco, cotton, sugar and cacao. Much
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Virginia and almost as mountainous.
1t has over two million people, of
whom half, or more than one million,
live in the capital, the city of Rio de
Janeiro. This state is noted for its
factories, leading the republic in that
respect. 1t is the chief state in COM
merce and is agriculturally rich.
Espirito Santos at the north has only
1900 square miles, being next to the
smallest of all the Brazilian states. Its
population is 100000.
The chief coffee states of Brazil are
Sac Paulo. Minas Geraes and Rio de
Janeiro. with Sac Paulo far in the lead.
(Sao Paulo is more than twice as large
as Illinois and its soil is said to be
equally good) 1t is the best farming
state. 1t produces three-fourths of all
the coffee used by the world, and in
addition almost million bales of cot
ton. hundreds of thousands Of sacks of
sugar and some millions of pounds of
tobacco.
The whole state has just about as
many people as Chicago, and of these
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Must have been a second German
visit" said the schoolmaster.
Up came broken pottery.
"Malheur!" doomed voice from the
bottom. I've crow-picked a good
amphora!"
Up came the great jugs: they were
empty. The wine had evaporated a
thousand years ago. Bourseire's wife,
at the flower store, sold them for $40
artece, empty.
Anyhow, It's wine the Germans
didn't get" said the mayor. using
colloquial expression. What a repu-
tation for a neighbor!
Then dirt and clay again, debris and
bricks. dressed marble, chunks Of
Roman cement, tiles. fat Roman
bricks-we're back two centuries
acknowledgements of statues. bronze
busts and the blue mud Of the treas
ure, in the midst of more charred wood
and human bones.
We took off our hats to those early
French patriots, who died defending
their hearths.
"And here's some gold the Germans
didn't get" called Bourseire, washing
out Of the blue mud two rings with en-
graved sapphires, Nero and an Agnus
Del, which sold on the spot for $175.
Next came marble and bronze statu-
cites, gold stickpins with mosaic heads
(sold ridiculously cl<eap at SIS each),
a massive gold mask representing n
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NERIS. near Vichy, France. .

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NER1S. near Vichy, France. August "a.
1915
E1HE story of the spoon of Neris.
Also Faustina's fountains Of
q 1 found the spoon in a well.
amid Jewels. coins and other gold OBJ
jects. hidden 1900 years ago against
the Germans.
So the present war is, entire, In the
spoon of Neris-though Neris is a
peaceful town of roses, little one-horse
watering place in central France. all
up and down, built on green mounds.
The spoon is witness of crime. 1t
has waited 1900 years to testify.
The green mounds cover the richest
baths of antique Gaul. All Neris is
subterranean treasure house. Ameri
cans some day will flock to Neris to
see a new Pompeii, to dip in Faustina's
fountain of beauty.
The French government has only to
uncover the mounds and a. ruined city
of marble villas, fountains, mosaic
floors and statues will surge out. We
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Diaz's Prophecy.
7X' n

DRESIDENT DIAZ, who ruled over
u Mexico for more than a quarter Of
a century as an absolute dictator. be-
lieved that only such iron rule could
bring peace and progress to the half
civilized millions of that country.
In 1909. when his power was still ua-
broken, an American. who was on in.
innate terms with him, ventured to
suggest that the Mexicans were now
prepared for a more liberal form OF
government and limited that his rule
was too severe.
The stern old man stiffened his gaunt
figure and ran his fingers through his
locks, now white with years.
when these SHOWS melt" he said.
prophetically. the mud will be deep
in Mexico"
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Sunday Special Correspondent France Writes Gold and
Out
Garden Village Subtnanean Hhe Spoon NenThe Ponpen of
BaubA
Marble Statues W 500 Years Ago,
the of Gaul
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lais. A broken inscription records how
"Lucius julius Equester Cimbar, twice
duumvir, and his two sons erected tho
new palace of the waters. splendidly
decorated, and built the new shops and
porticoes." Barbarian Germans ped
died furs.
Then, suddenly. rumors. terrors.
flight
The barbarians!
The first horde of Goths was down on
them.
Germany made her debut in the
world.
And. as the Latin poet tells US, ''all
Gaul was ruin. wailing and smoking
ashes"
Neris was Quilted and burned. Like
Louvain. Termonde. Dinant-there has
been no particular Improvement.
And you know how things are done
in panics. Some tried to carry away
their valuables, and met the visitors.
Some hid their precious things In clos
ets-they were lost among the ruins.
Others had Just time to gather into
their cash box any hastily picked up
jewelry, gold. etc. and fling 1t into the
well. The caskets, boxes, etc, rotted
long ago.
They flung in bronzes. statuettes, fur
niture even, the marble statues Of their
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o srATUARY.

defend" It, while their brethren went
plundering and burning down to Spain.
1t was the first real pacifst move
ment.
Did any good come Of 1t?
Much good, much ILL., The equations
Of God run through the centuries.
Forty years later, a new invasion,
more terrible than any, brought Attila
and his Huns (worse, even, than the
Germans) to crushing defeat at Troyes
by the Roman Gen Aetius and Chris
tanned Goths, Germans. Visigoths,
Franks and Alamans The oriental
wave was broken by the semi-bar
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gardens. roof tiles copper pots and any
old debris, on top, to hide them.
There was fire. There was death
Charred wood and bones testify. beside
the spoon.
II did not wish this war" said Ger
many.
1t had been long preparing Early in
the third century the Germanic peo-
declarations and organized for war of
conquest against civilization.
In AID. 256 they passed the Rhine.
burned seventy cities in France, and
were driven back by Aurelian and
Probus. In AID 80 Constantine stop
ped them in Belgium-like Joffre.
Later Julian delivered Gaul, and Va
lentinian fortified the Rhine. Then.
for fifty years. the kultur talked it
over in the Kneipe. When all was
formed two fronts-as today.
On the east front. under Alaric, they
in extorting 1000 pounds Of gold from
Rome got 1t, burned and plundered
again. demanded 5000 pounds of gold.
10000 pounds of silver. 1000 silk tu
pounds of spices. besides everything
they could lay hands on; took 1000
hostages of noble families-and then
tore up the scrap of paper. What
about the future of the Gothic people?"
said the kaiser-I mean Alaric. That's
the main thing, not these gewgaws."
And he started burning and plundering
again. Rome was sacked for ten days.
On the west front innumerable Ger
man hordes devastated Gaul. down to
Civilization might have stopped them.
Gallo-Roman generals hit on a sys-
tenn Of letting in patches Of 10000 or
10000 on tempting virgin territory and
surrounding or exterminating them.
Then an extraordinary thing hap
pened.
Up rose the peacemakers
Not the pacifists.
Pacif1sts are foreigners. sitting safe
ly at home, who tell the French and
Be1gians. sitting in their ruins, that
they ought to call 1t square.
ep 9rom Both sde hs Tnsy
their enemies-not other peoples
enemies. They give UP their lives,
homes and lands for the love OF Jesus
Christ.
The French did It,
Those early Christians Of Gaul. led
by their bishops, rose up against the
war of self-defense!
Poor German barbarians." they said,
they know not what they do; they
have not the light of our Lord Jesus,
being worshtpers Of Odin. or benight-
ed Arians God has sent them to US.
Give them lands, cattle, farms. gold
and a bath. Let US become their slaves,
anything to soften them and lead them
by our example to become Christians"
u
This is history, mind you.
With contemptuous good nature the
hordes accepted baptism, took the
land, the gold, the farms. the cattle.
the best of everything and accepted to
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v 1877 OEnMANSs A. ROSs
Gaulish gods head, quantities of gold
coin of Trajan, Julian and Honorius,
two gold figurines, thin gold chain.
three gold bracelets (all sent to New
York;, and two jewel seals represent
Ing the Fish and Angus Del (for which
$3.50 was refused), carved ivory stick
pins, beautiful iridescent glass phials
and the spoon.
The spoon of Neris.
1t is excessively rare. All antique
table utensils are excessively rare;
being thin. they regularly crumbled,
except when of gold Silver spoons of
the same style are seen in the treasure
of Boscoreale at the Louvre. Ivory
spoons figure in the st. German COL
1ections.
I myself picked the spoon out Of the
blue mud and charred stuff, a formless
mass, which I cleaned with delight.
And, tell you, the spoon is a wit
ness-witness of a crime. 1t has waited
1900 years to testify.
Now is the right moment.
AS we washed the spoon. the scene
rose before US. It is fixed, admitted
history. We saw Neris, richest baths
of Christian Gaul. frequented by the
Roman court. In their litters and
chariots 2atrician danes paraded from
the fountains of beauty to the forum,
and from their white villas to the
shops of Greeks, Syrians and Marseil-
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barian. And the dark ages-the feudal
world-set up.
White Christianity of love and mar
tyrdom gave place to the ideal of the
bloody Christian knight.
The butchering Lohengrin,
He claims (always) to battle for the
right, but he must battle and plumber.
1t was beautiful to yield to him.
heather.
But now that he knows better, tut,
tut!
So deposeth the spoon of Neris.
1t has waited 1900 years to testify.
STERLING HELLO.
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70 THREE-FouRTns

of their soil is rich and 1t may be that
they will some day compete with the
cotton lands of the Union.
FRANK G. CARPENTER, ,
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the Atlantic on the east are the small
states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirlto
Santos and a bit of Bahia. This state
is high and healthy and has one OF
the best agricultural and pastoral dis
tricts Of the republic. 1t supplies the
butter and cheese of the capital and
quantities of eggs, poultry and bacon
as we'll. 1t exports 100000 head OF OF
cattle a year and great NUMBER OIL
pigs.
Tho state is noted industrially, It's
manufacturing establishments turning
out product Of something like S22o.-
100000 a year, and Its factories being
numbered by hundreds. 1t Is rlch IN
which American capitalists are now
negotiating.
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t4uo~oufd be moro chan 2.ooo:ooo.ooo.
a. more Than an the people on earth.
w1th enough added TO equal every man.
woman and child now on the continent
o6zEurope.
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Copyright. 1915. by Frank G. CarpenterJ
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil.
new world of Brazil,


RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
F1HE new world of Brazil!
l write of one of the mightiest
II countries on earth and of one
x OF the least known. Brazil has
an individuality of its own and 1t is
a world in extent. 1t is SO large and
so rich that it could feed the whole
human race and have exports enough
left to load an aerial feet for the
planet of Mars. If Brazil were as
thickly populated as Italy, she would
have more people than the continent of
Asia. II she had as many people as
France her inhabitants would be one
third more than those of all Europe.
and If as many Germany the num-
Der would be equal to all the people
of our hemisphere and Europe. Africa
and Australia. leaving 200, 600. 900 70 spare.
If she were as well settled as Belgium
at the time the war began, her popula-
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THE SPOON OF NERIS, FOUND. IN
THE EXCAVATIONS OF THE
CALIFORNIAN WELL. TOGETHER
WITH SEVERAL VASES.

shall soak in the alabastar tank where
Nero took his radium waters without
knowing it was radium, and the lovely
but wicked wife of Marcus Aurelius
made the trip from Rome to renew her
charms.
There is no railroad. You take the
auto bus from Montlucon. In 1852
Neris should have beaten Vichy. Never
was there such a chance to uncover a
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possibilities
try compared with that OF certain lands
We know well. might give 1t in fg-
urea, but figures slide of the back of
the intellect, as water slides of the
traditional duck In actual square
miles the number is more than a.200,-
900. This means that Brazil is greater
than the United States. nto including
Alaska. 1t is fifteen times as big as
Germany or France, thirteen times the
st1e of Italy and about 290 times as big
- Belgium. 1t has more land than all
Australia and Oceania. 1t Ia eight
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The state is the most thickly popu-
lated of tho republic. 1t has four or
hve million Inhabitants, but no towns
OF moro than forty thousand and only
two Of over thirty-five thousand.
Rio dc Janeiro 10 ono of the small
states. It 10 q little bigger than West
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Since then Brasil has been moving
straight onward. It has been growing
industriaily ana politically, and Il 10
now on q arm financial and industrial
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1870 miles The Doce. or Sweet river.
If it could be lifted to our country
would reach from Washington to Cleve-
land.
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This is history, mind you.
With contemptuous good nature the
hordes accepted baptism, took the
land, the gold, the farms. the cattle,
the best of everything and accepted to
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The whole state has just about as
many people as Chicago, and of these
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Saloniki. Nov. 1.-THE serbim
town Of Kalkandelen has been recap
tuHed from the Bulgarians By the
Serbs. The Serbs took $50 prisoners.
Kalkandelen ID 20 miles west Of Us