Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1892 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, “TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1892.

P&&' rn^ :

For iiutiinro, tb« lafpari, who draw alon» Oakia vrajr to school, h«ar* this sort ot thing:

Oh—sax—horn!

Why did I corn*? Study till ioorBooss are a boro!

0 bow I wish

1 could run off and flth! Be*', there’s the brook, Here’s Hoc and bock.

■H

1 some facts about CHiute^-jvs.^7 only giro back the reflection of the p.nes • ! it wa* a hoax.

and cedars that tfloomily overi.ansr it. I " ” | These are some of ChiU'a weaknet»et. In spite of Biy arowed disbelief cr^ocern- THE COUNTRY US RESOURCES aE ^ feathers show her direction in the

*“—*** ’ * * • * * ' * * • present crisia. But she has weaderfnl poa-

sibilitles, and her oominw acbiceemeats

What’s that you sayt

Hurry op—eat Ob—nnni—hof 8‘pose I must (to, Study till four. Books art a bore!

ing the tale wkieb I had heard, 1 inroiautarily shuddered ss we neared the low, dismal structure. It was situated in a ionely spot oo a bend of the small riser which wended its wav through the beautiful valley in which Moraine lived. At this point n dam still existed in a fair state of preservation, while the distillery, moss-covered and dilapidated, was situated on the river’s bank, and almost hidden from view by a dense growth of cedars, from which the place had received the name by which it «M known and shunned throughout the

country—Cedar Bend.

Not fosoiritintr at its best, as seen in tbs

should do,

Comes brayoly along with sachel and books. The breeze in hi* whistle, the eun in bis looks. And these are the thoughts that well up like

a song,

As be bears tbs old ball with its faithful diag-

doug:

* Cling, clans, cling! i’os so glad I could sing!

Heaven so blue.

Duty to do!

limit in the air, Every, blag lair.

Even a boy

Finds study * joy!

THE COUNTRY,

AND TRAITS OF ITS PEOPLE. will constitute the glory of her future. She has just now come up ant of great tribulation and deserves national consideration for what she has done, and from none should she receive more generous forbearance in her prescot impatience and peevishness than from Americans. She baa emerged partially from the hard bondage of the Homan Cath-

. . . _ . * • , i die church. A struggle between this .Philadelphia Presbyterian. 1 hierarchy and the liberal progressive eleThe hifitorr of a nation must always ba * ment has been goiiifr on for years* so that considered a factor in accountiui: for us now the power of this church in politics

has been overcome. In Peru the Clerical

Contras: s and the Shadow* cf Prosper ty — The P< pa tion I* a

M xtnre—A Fertl.e Geulnn— Ech/.es of BaLmaceda.

in Chili established, yet the Liberal party ha* a majority in Congress, and

Then the boy who loves to be faithful and

WIIO «h^r| , Ao* t hi * , * r * ,,t * thiBk ^ light of day, oow, in the shadet of evening, * conduct, and usually iittie else will be the place ia iUelf eugzeated aucancy . net4e<i In tne alienation now existing be- party w dominant since iu lau disasters, thoughts, and the moaning of the w,nd in twtea Chjil kod U]e Lulled tft5 . the country is coin* backward.

iVurr b vSi;.*^7;sv^ h .! : »»■** <»-»»> -<«>>•— ■»- some combination. i terogiionai comity. Chili was ongica.iy an We were not to be balked m oar enter- 1 Indian country, and of the peeuianties of prise, however, but entered the dismantled ; *neh a country Americana nave bad exbuilding and took our stat on in the main ''pcrirnet.ta; knowledge, lielore 14.>J it was inroom, commending a view of the door and habited bv Indian#, a remnant of whom still also of the interior of the .mall office in reBia ca ;ied A.apucbe, “children of the which the diftiilcr wmb to have , » „ L. . * j i lost hi. life. Here, seated in the ; land - They were subjugated through peaosdarknets which was interrupted only at j iui iu«k»ure* by ^upantiui, o! 1 eru. He intervais by a fitful glimmer of mooniicht j wooed them, tribe by tnbe. until within six across the uneven floora# the moon etru^eled I years they were faithiul subjects to this through the murky clouds which filird the | Peruvian ruler. But his victory was shortsky, we resigned ourselves to Our own j Jived and not complete, for he was checked

VALUE OF PHOSPHATE.

MAGNITUDE OF MINING AND ITS RELATION TO TDK SOIL.

Deposits of Phosplyste Earth* Found In Widely It-moved Districts— Distribution in America—Its Value To the Farmer.

When my wori s done

I'm ready for fun. Keener my play

For the tasks o: the day. Cling, ciang, cling -

I’m so glad 1 could sing!

These are the song* which the two boy# heard. When tbs school hell was ringing, word for word. Which do yon think was tbe troer song? Wbl«b do y«o hc*r. as you're trudging along? Don't be a laggard!—Jar better, 1 *av. To work when you work, snd play when yon ,*• pl»y! —{James Buckham in Journal of Education. THE IITSM OF CEDAR BESD.

As Unusual Bfarratisn of the Discovery of a Crime.

[New Tors Sen. I

The magnitude snd significance of pboepbate mining and of the manufacture of hrtifictAl fertiiixer* cau hardly be overestimated. The figures involved are enormous

banished priests' and monk, are returning. and *i -wt iucr * d ' ble * “ Though the Roman Catholic religion ia one of the invar *ble constituents of veseta-

thougbt. after a vain sflort to engage .» i by a WHr . ilke tr;be of tne A , av , u .-he. sort most congema. to soc.ai ciidt. ! l ‘ lt: k 111 ! then LLiii, >>Ui t!.e\ too

Aft*-r a time I bejran to feel drow»-y and must have iailen asteep, for 1 was started

int) wakefumess w.th a shudder. There seemed to be a cessation of all life; the wind was hushed, the water over the old darn ce&ied its monotonous #wa?h, and an unearthly silence seemed to brood over tbe place. 1 glanced at rnv companmn who

were repulsed by the invincible tribe wnich had defeated Yupainjui. Eventually nil of C'ntli submitted to Spanish dominance, an«l continued under it until 1»1U, but gained entire independence in l?i.S. The territory of (,'iuli is a valley iyine between tlic Andes and the Cordilleras. It is

now the appointment of bishops is ia the hands o', the President. Congress has declared civil marriage the only valid one. It nas opened the cemeteries to Jew and Gentile and tak u the registry of marriages and births out of the hands of the church, it has established non-sectarian schools and passed a compulsory education bill. It formerly cost $*25 to get married by the rites of .the anarch, j and, as a result, more than half the childrer, bora in Chili are illegitimate. Now a marriage can be secured for 25 cents, and • tiie good results on the side of virtue are everywhere visible. Baimaceda and his j government were bitter y opposed by the

tion, appearing at first chiefly in the tender leaves and buds, and finmily almost wholly in tbe mature seeds. Over t wo billion seven huodred million pounds in weight of phoephorie acid are removed every year from the soil of the United States in the crops of cereals and of hay and straw, or about nineteea pounds an acre of cereals and twelve pounds an acre of gnus. To maintain the fertility of the aoii, this vast amount of this special mineral must sooner or later be returned to it. In early times this end was in part attained bv allowing fields to lie fallow at regular interval#, so that the natural processes of decay wnd absortion mur?: restore

wa# seated bolt upright, and he seemed as J nuiei wide and 2,-jOO roue# long, the

I'WrHtsn for The Indlanapo!;* New#, i It was in the antumn of 18H3 that tbe writer made a long promised visit to an old fritud, Dr, John Morsins, living a: that tints in a small village in one of our youthirn BUtes. This visit holds a vivid pla<*e iu my memory because of the •ingular. CvepU which marked it, in relating which years afterward, 1 made no eflort to explain, simply rehearsing them a# iher wore Been by me, and leaving tbe reader to draw his own conclusions. in ordei' to make my narrative perfectly clear, it become# necessary for me to relate th« circumstance* under which 1 first made tbs acquaintance ol Dr. Moraine, or .luck as 1 familiarly called him. Wa first met some five years previous to the time of which I speak while he was attcuding medical lectures in Chicago, and 1 was a law student ib tbe same city. From our first acquaintance wn seemed drawn to one another; our friendship due in part perhapi'to the fact that totally unlike in most points, yet we were both deeply interested in the “uncanny science." When Wo called upon each other, as we frequently did in our rooms, we often sat till near tuoruiug discussing some bliuse of this, to us, deeply interesting topic; and while we were aikbelievers in ghosts, ''hunts” and such other superuauual visitations, we were never weary of discussing the tonus of superstition characteristie of the diller•tit races and countries. lu course of tune Moraine had moved Nouth and married a wealthy Bouthern lady, while l engaged in the practice of law in my native Mato of lud'auA During this interval, we had pot lost truck of each Other but corresponded regularly and trequently. ; Alter this brief resume of the nature and growth of our friendship—to ugum take up the thread ot my story. 1 was induced to make this visit to Jack in hi* Southern home by the contents of a letter received from him. Among other things he said: , “You remember, old boy. the learned discussions which you and 1 used to have on spiritualism, superstitions and kindred subjects, thinking uursuives savant* when ws really knew next to nothing; Well, owing to pressure of business ot a more substantial nature since coming here i have had Title opportunity to pursue my investigations on that line, alt hough, a* you know, this is a region peculiarly rich in the lore of the wonderful and marvelous, However, 1 uwa that 1 mu greatly interested in a‘hant’which lias made his headquarters in this vicinity for several years anil appears, if we arc to believe the people living near the pluou, to be extraordinarily lively at this particular time. The poor whites and negroes iiave a horror •f the place, and on uu account will they wo near it iu the day, much less after dusk. Now ia the time for you to make your long deferred visit, and ' if you retain any of your old zeal in such matters we will make a thorough investigation into the character of hie epookship. What say you?" Thia letter htul the stleot ot deciding me to run down and see Moraine, especially as I was uot very busy just nt that time umt had been thinking seriously of taking a week or two of rest. Accordingly I wrote that i would be with him in a day or two, ' and hastily packing a small grip—i had no family to coneider—1 followed my letter by the next train. Jack was delighted to see me, presenting tne to his beautiful wife, w ho gave me her hand with a cordial smile rad bade me welcome to their home, W« entered into a general conversation; tea was announced, and after partaking ot a light repast of fruits and other delicacies of the season, the light were lighted and Mrs. Moraine withdrew to the drawing-room, while her hushaud aud I repaired to the library lor a •moke and old time chat. Before long the conversation reverted to the topic mentioned in his last letter to me. The etory in brie! was this: In a solitary ravine, some two miles from Jack'* place, waa located the habitat of this particular gtiost—an old distillery. This distillery was formerly owned and operated by a wealthy man who, on account of his uureaaonablc distrust of banks, had always been in the habit of keening his money and other yaluabiea secreted on the premises, the opinion being advanced by some that a hidden nook or cranny of the old butldiog served as his treasure vault. Be that as it may, the idea must have excited the cuuidity of some one, for one morning old Mart StatTord was nowhere to be found. Upon searching the building evidences ot a bloody struggle were teen, but no traces of the body were discovered. In accordance With the popular belief, therefore, the troubled spirit would continue to frequent the place until the body should be tound and prop#rlv buried. Some ten years had passed and still no clew had ever been, obtained as to the fate of the old mau. The place had since been deserted and was the eubject of many a wild tale told at the fireaide* of the neighborhood. With the conclusion of the story 1 proposed, having no faith in it mrself, that we wo to the distillery seme favorable night and “lay" for hia ghosUhip. The Doctor took as little stock in it as 1 did. aud said be thought the ghost was personated by •ome one iu the neighborhood for the purpose of playing on the ercduiitv of the *uperstitiou*. We decided to follow out my proposed the following night, and in the meantime said nothing to any one about •ur intention*. We eo« Id not have selected a time better adapted to our puroose. It was a typical BigatTor ghosts; the dav had been a*rainy one and tie air was damn and chilly, while the elouds were beginning to break op and roll across the sky in leaden masses, promising but little wore of summer sunshine before the winter with its dreary rams phonld become a familiar guest. We armed ourwtvea to be in readiness for any type of ghost that might appear, and proceeded to the distillery shortly after dusk. The pi*-'* did not have a cheerful aspect At any t m \ for a great hill )st the eonth eau xept off the morning sun, and the place, which old man Stafford had a for hia distillery, derk end gloomy, tbe river, a* it •--'uad around the foot hill, had a ialien look and neyer

dumbfounded av myself.

1 was paralyzed, powerless to move. I tried to speak, but the words dud on my lips. Then gradually a hary iii?ht began lo fill tbe little room adjoining, and indistinctlv I sew that it wa* furnished a» it wight have been in the ui tiller’s dav.

mo t dvTghtful country on the irlobe, abounding iu the products of both the temperate a id tropical zones. It is a country of boumlie** weii.t!'.—seen ana unseen. Its nitrate mines, which were captured from Teru, would fill its treasury if

More and more the Hvnuie iight increased j under Chilian control, instead of Le-

until 1 could plainly *cc tbt* figure of nn old man seated at a <le#:; busily engaged in

counting a roll of money.

•Sitting thus, speii-bound and unable to move, 1 saw two men creep in at the iow* door and advance cautiously at the back of the unsuspecting person who was thus ah-' sorbed. Theie was a rush, a sharp stt uvgle, and the old man sank to ttie floor with a groan, his skull cleft by a blow from a hatchet iu the hand of one of his assailants. The money was then secured and a c.msuiiation, apparently bad as to what should Fie done with the body. They finally carried it from the building, and, in plain view from where we silt, they removed some Finish from the dam and, placing the bod v in the cavity, covered it again find weighted tlto bru«b down with mane lur^e stoner. They tlien left it and returning to the distillery began to search the office for more

plunder.

Until now I had Fjecn a# one petrified, but with a mighty effort L regained se tcontrgi. Beixing my revolver, 1 fired twice ut the figures of the men, which could ud have been fifteen feet distant, -suddenly the light faded—died out—there were no men to be seen. Had I been dreaming? That couid uot be possible, us ti.e whole thing had impressed itolf upon my mind too vividly to be a dream. Furttiernioy, Jack hud seen exactly the same—had experienced u like helplessness, and bad recognized in the old man the distiller whose photograph he Imd often seen. He had also identified * the assassins as two dissolute character* of the neighborhood. Neither of us were loth to leave the place and it was with a sense of relief that 1 found myself in the open air. We walked about till daylight, it was thru near 1 o’clock, ducussing the strange happenings of the night When it was fully dav we returned to the scene of our adventure, but found no sign# of di#tnrl>ance in the office. Proceeding to the' dam we were able to locate the place where we had seen the body placed. Carefully removing the stone* and brush. we were horrified to see before us staring up through the water, (Fie remains of the unfortunate distiller, which in spite of the ten years that had elapsed since the perpetration of the crime, bad been perfectly preserved by tbe influence of the running water, in a state of petrification. There was the very fact* which we Find seen during the night, the look of agony that distorted the features ns he #nuk to the floor, and the skull was split open ns if by a hatchet. - After a hurried consultation we decided to inform the proper authorities concerning that which we had seen and found. The story being told in full, u warrant wax issued lor the arrest of the two men w ho were connected, in our exper euce of the night, w.th the murder, although they had never before

been *u*t>t*ctid.

We accompanied the sFieriff to the house of one of them, where we found him without any trouble. The accusation was so • unexpected that lie weakened and confessed bis part In tlie tragedy, implicating the xithor. With the second wo were not so successful. He liad in soma way received warning and fled, but was shortly apprehended, and he also acknowledged tlie crime. The trial was a mere matter oi form, as iliey were confessedly guilty, and their career was ended by lynching before the day set for the execution. E. X. G.

mg leased t > foreigner?, and trie profit wou.d he beyond computation. Even now they yield annually over $k),V'0J,0 *0. Chili abounds in all that can make a people mater ally prosperous, it i* divided into four parts—the ugr.cultural, the in.neral, the fisheries, and tne great timber belts. Tncre are forests enough untouched to last the w rid a century. The country abounds in inetai*—gold, silver, copper—the latter being found ;n greater abundance than

elsewhere in the world.

But there are always dark contrasts—the sha'iows of prosperity. Cbili is the land of earthquakes, aud the people have always ;he cloud of a great Gar upon their laces, in 157U Concepcion Wits destroyed. Tour time# thu has been us late. Santiago nas also been oveithrown, so that its very oust quivers .u fear oi the thing* coming

on the earth.

The population of Chili is a mixture. It ia tiecoii-iiig a mongrel rave, perhaps iu some respects for its betterment, but us Fuid eflects are now most apparent. Its population is less than 2,500,000. its soldiery is drawn irom the middle or agi'i-

C ericals, who had much to do with his ! some of the lost phosphorus; or bv the rotadownfall, not that tiiey expected to better | tion of crops, which periodically substituted *' i -.-— i-♦ *" 1 "' “ '"“ for a crop requiring mueh phosphoric

acid a crop that needed less than usual. Subsequently various manures were employed as fertilizers; but not until •ome fifty years ago was it proved that only the phosphoric acid in them and uotliing else, ueitner lime uor geiatiu#, renewed the exhausted laud. Now there have been dis-

_ covered in various parts of the world, in

this country wa that our manufactures i Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, Norway, were in tiieir ioiancv, and a taritl was nec- j Russia and North America, in rocks of difessarv for them until thev should have ob- ; f* rei, t formations, deposits of pnosphatic ta.ne'd strength enough to do without it. : earths or rocks of various and disputed Even then a h.gb tariff was not asked. Iu j or, g in . when cleansed and pulverthe beginning, a lariii not u quarter as high ; or boated with acid, yield phosphoric a* tiie present one was deemed sufficient ' a ci 'i iu a form readily assimilated by grow-

for tlie protection of infant industries.

their condition, but to take revenge on his

liberalism.

UIOH-TAIUFF REASONS. The Different Arguments That Have .From Time to .time Been Used.

-Boston Herald.!

Tiie original argument for protection in

Henry Clay advocated this view as iate a# 1S40. but lie declared then that ten years would do ail tne necessarv work of protection, aud, when the ten years had passed, he announced ttiat he had ceased to ask for further protection. Horace Greeley took up the cause, but on anoiher ground; namely, that it was necessary to establish manutactures in order to build up a home market for the farmer. This

ing plants.

The great wheat lands of the Mississippi valley, which to-day are the granary of the world, owe their fertility probably to the number of centuries during which they, have been deforested and accumulating from the overarching aud the underlying influences ot sky and earth a store ot mineral plant food, which, accord ng to Professor Shaler, will in no long time be exhausted. The slow disintegration of the glacier-

lasted a* the high tariff argument for a i crUiilblciJ granite rocks of New England

may keep its farms—which, for the mo-

period, and was, m its turn, abandoned for another. I* successor was the wages argument. Up to this time it had not occurred to these men who were in search of excuses for this legislation tFiat the tariff had anything to do with wages. -Suddtulv they discovered that everything tiiey were doing was in the interest of the laboring man, to give him higher wages. They ran this for a period, and we obtain i reiniimcenoe of it now occasionally, but it is

being displaced bv tiie hew c a m, just at

cumiYai (daises 'wtio'ure'iTa idYeY-Vlndma ! that we alluded to in the opening and ifianisii, and are possessed of tbe blood-j ^'' s nuiael - v > t‘ ia t the present

;liitklv bravery of both. Thev have no

meut, arc so much despised—permanent y, if only moderately, fertile; hut, as the years nas*, agricu tare in the middle Western States will depend more and more on anific al fertilization, a* agriculture along the Southern Pacific slope must ever depend on artificial irrigation. The question of the possible supply of phosphates becomes then of extreme importance. Fortunately deposits of phosphates are numerous and extensive, whether derived from the remains of minute marine shellfish or from fossil guano as in Florida, from

.cur of dentil, and are great lighter* at short range. Their uivoritc weapon, which is aiways witli them, i* a long, crooked kiiiie, which is used by them a> the Irishman use- hi* fihiiialuh, but witn a more iatai ending, lluhr mode of battie is a rush. I hey empty tFie.r guns and then tnrow themselves into personal encounter, and use their terrible knives. Their army is restricted since l'b8 to b.8 -b men, and a citizen contingent of 47,Odd. Their navy, of winch tiny are very proud, consi'-t* of about thirty vessels of ail descriptions, and they do uot for a moment doubt that they are masters of American seas. Their contempt of the United fetates in this respect is

high tariff lowers prices. ^ ie bones of mammoths and the eoprolites Ti*'game of biuii is being largely used j ot beast* of extinct species as in Canada, for this purpose. The tariff is not the only j from the bones and scales of aquatic egeuev that affects prices, increased taxa- creatures in tlie river drift-beds of South tion uiuiera lariff makes prices liigher than | Carolina, or from chemical compounds of they ntl.ei wise would be as inevitably as j U urelv geological formation as in South increased cost alvvava add# to what is com- i Carolina and Canada. In Ottawa county, peiied to be charged for an article; but ^ u «oe e . ““d in five count! s of Ontario, tiiert? mav he coincident elfects that reduce ! anatite, a comhimUion ot phosuhorus with prices on certain articles at the same time j Uuorine or chlorine, is mined to the extent that the tariff increases them, a B : ot over twent 7 t . Wo t,lousand tons a . v « ar b T

there may be also over-importation or overproduction to produce tiie same result, instances of tin# kind, necessarily temporary in.aheir nature, muy operate upon price* for.tlie time being; but tiie, steady stream of increase goes on, bec ause- men can not

beyond description, and i* often expressed ! l' ftV hi ‘ fl1 tft * fe3 °» whal ,. tU ? y ,lnd 8t l» m thn i*nrl r\i the lijifi and the shruir ot dispose of them for us little money if

But their naval power ! th 'TP aid lo ' v taxes or no taxes at all.

the curl ot

the shoulder*, nut their naval power j . - • ,, has serious drawback* at present. The /^"ures on.y a child s intellect to appretirst is, that thev are poor mechanics; rattier ( cia t e u tact so obi lous^ns this ingenious though not truUworthy in their j UAS * A*TL1> 6*0 Days. work. Hence, it anything goes wrong with ] their ships they have to send them to ! . rhe Eiul of a * Roman's Dreat Affliction Europe to he repaired. it is said that tlie | * Mear at Hi-ia magnificent cruiser Esmeralda, one of the [A1Ientown(Pa . )9 ,, oc!nIl0 phnadcp,,^Rec,^

companies with an aggregate capita of nearly four million dollars. In South Carolina the output of phosphate is over six hundred thousarfd tons by companies with a capital of over six million dollars, wFiile the capital of companies engaged in the saraa business in Florida is over fifty million dollars. When it is remembered that phosphate mining did not begin in South Carolina until 1807, and not until 1888 in Florida, the phenomenal development of this industry is apparent; and although the caui al of tbe various companies is often speculative and artificial, its magnitude is amazing still and perhaps unparalleled. Other depo-ii* have Seen found in the rock* <>f the tertiary era that are formed of the sediment of a

tion, fairly well managed, and her credit n Europe i* high. Her standing is thud among financial nathtna.iiie*, so that in case of war Europe would stand more than ready to lurimh enu-pmeuts and take bonds in payment. Tnis tact also contributes to

their native arrogance.

Tlie Chilians have a line of steamers from Valparaiso up aud down the coast— the fittest ships on tlie I’onfic ocean, hut the engineers and captains are either English or SeotcFi Tiie government owns the railways

It,,,n wi.iemread interest during the sum. I beds of phosphate in South Carolina and

swallowing a morsel or solid tood, and a

♦Inward!

ECongrcaationalist.j

A backward look over the dead year can hardly fail to he tinged with sadness. The memory of its lost time, unimprovedjipportunit es, broken resolutions, unkept promises, unrealised hopes and counties# spiritual shortcomings cast a somber veil over all —even o\u*r scenes tFiat as we p&s*ed through them were bathed in sunlight. Deeper still are the shadows when the backward look is taken through ere# heavy with recent sorrow. The losses from our most treasured inner circle to our suffused ^vision seem for the time to more than ofl•at the abounding blessing# with which the Heavenly Father has enriched our lives all

through the year.

But in such moods the review may easily become morbid, and so should not be long —only long enoutrh to gather up lessons that shall make more wisely.aud largely fruitful the new year opening before us. It is that with which we are now concerned. That uav iie our opportunities. That way duty calls. Before us and not behind lies

tlie only hope of retneyiug past errors.

Onward! There is no time for useless regrets over our shortcomings; no time even for that selfish mourning which unfits us for our appointed work. Onward is the one word for us henceforth, until we hear

the welcome call, “Come up higher!” A Recommendation to Royalty.

Royal and imperial personages who travel incognito often hare unpleasant experiences. During her recent tour in Egypt, the Empress of Austria took a seat one afternoou iu^ restaurant of Cairo and ordered a cup of coffee. Her curiosity being

finest ships afloat, built in England at a ; w . Wh ;, A WMW are rormeu o. me seu.meu# o. a oo*t ol $r,;>00,0t;0, had not bteti in the hands Mrs. Adam Wuchtcr, of White Hall, prehistoric ocean in Virginia North Caroof the native engineers six weeks before her seven miles front here, whose strange ex- | Alabama and Georgia* but the vast engines needed repairs, and her boilers were perience as an involuntary laster created i ’ - - *

ruined.

Tne moneyed condition of the country is good. Her resources are great, and tiiey have been, up to Baiumcedu’s ad mi ni.it racunsklerabie portion of thai time without tasting even liquid nourishment. She is now blind, bed-ridden, paralytic and wasted to a shadow, eagerly awaiting the long-de-ferred day w hich is to end her terrible sufferings. She begau her fast on April 4,

D9i.

tehe was unable to swallow anything at all, except occasionally a few drops of water, until November 2 following. Then after abstaining from both food and drink

for 20a day#, by actual record kept, tbe operated in Chili, but the locomotive en- | faster unexpectedly called lor loud, and

gineers are foreigners. Just before pres;- 1 succeeded in swallowing a few drops of j >r c 'i c y i . 0 m’ t he riTe7 deli V e7ed Jv _ a crusher dential elections these foreigners are d;s- j orange juice, and subsequently some best then passed successively through a dry charged, and native* put in their place*, i tea. After that she slowly mended but Jereen ^ washiSt wraS and a rinsing hut this is done only as long as it is #afe. I was unable to eat solid food. In June, ’ - ■ ’. . . . K

As soon as tiie elections are over, the 1391, however, her condition again gresr

foreigner* are put back again. Tliere is worse,

one exception. The conductor* on street ’ railways are women. So also are tiie hotelkeepers. Women do the street-cleaning, stand in market, and have fruit stand*. But tlie servants aiul cooks aud chantbermaids

are men.

Ch.ii being a republic, it will throw light on the iatc i risis to know the qualification for the exercise of suffrage. It rests on a uroperty ba-is, and »o of necessity the government is more or less an ol gareby. It ha> tiie semblance of a popular government,

The Evening Is Superior. |St. Louis Post-Dispatch, i

Among !8t. Louisans it is necessary to discus* tlie question of the comparative advantages of evening and morning journalism. Tiiey know tFiat the live evening newspaper prints the news on the day of its occurrence, twelve liours in advance of its morning competitors; they know that it is

years, a demand that is calculated at «everal million tons a year of phosphates aud

superphosphates.

About one-third of the yearly produo- ! tion of raw phosphate in South Carolina i is used by local compauies for th« mauubfacture of artificial fertilizers; while | almost all the high-grade rock and the river-drift phosphate is exported to Europe. ; The raw material for export or for use ia an unmanufactured state is treated by a simple and ingenious automatic process, whereby a continuous series of buckets full of the phosphate is hoisted by a dor-

screen, and thence very slowly through a drying screen that revolves in a heated

ebamber above a fuanace.

The processes for the manufacture of superphosphates are too complicated and various to describe; but the end in view is to transform as much a* possible of the phosphoric acid present from an insoluble torm into forms soluble either in water or in citrate of ammonia. This, speaking very generally, is effected by grinding the raw material exceedingly fine, blending it when neeesiary with a certain amount of carbon* ate of lime, and mixing it with aulphurio

hut there are in the two and a quarter million mnabitants only forty thousand voters;

the newspaper which goes to their homes at a time when thev have opportunity to

read it: they*know that when rightly con- j acid of «0 per cent, strength, or with dilute ducted it is the most prosperous aud popu- phosphoric acid. TFte result is & porous,

on far beyond the appreciation of the people. Costly buildings were erected where tbe people cared nothing for tiieir advantages, and looked upon education as extravagant. Under the influence of the priest* popular educat.on was made an

occasion oi undisguised hostility. Baimaceda seems to have been inspired

by sonic noble ambitions, hut be was an enthusiast who thought Cbili could be changed into the line of progress by means of an administration which other nations had employed for centuries. He was also blamed for being lonilv, haughty auu autot craiic. Despising restraint and ignoring j the two Houses of Congress, he restrained ! or ignored the popular will, aud this j led to his overthrow. The victory has i turned the heads of the Chilians,

. , , f , and, like all people flushed with sudden excited by th« peculiar color of the drink j ^ larv vlctorieS) are readv to fight nnv

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iUU IUIiUL’lUllll.9 U*!A> 1 I»T l V kljUUftailU VUtUr*. V ^ ; v., Wives li.nt so it can hardly be said to he a eovernmeni lar £onn <>* P urD » lmu - “by tlie people and for the people.” Pi.fall* of Our Mmdy Saxon.

\\ bat are the hopes for its uuuroveraent? x he English language is full of pitfalls First, its intense loyalty to a republican | f or t i, e foreign student of its intrica. ies. form of goverumeut; second, its system of , q-^e Boston Commonwealth tell* that a

popular education, which, under Bahna- p r j vat e tutor recently showed a young Ger- This great business, that is of so ret cedu * government, was a hobby aud carried pupil’s rendering of the familiar lines: origin and has already grown to such

Tell me not in mournful numbers traordinary proportions, is one of tbe most Lite is but an empty dream. notable illustrations of the practical imporHis pupil bad bent all his energies to the tance to mankind in general of abstract work of translation, and this was the re- scientific research. Not until tlie actual

friable mass, which is dried in hot air aud passed through a disintegrator. One peculiarity of this process is that only half of the phosphoric acid is rendered solubla, and that only by almost doubling the bulK

of the new raw material.

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part taken by phosphoric acid in the functions of plant life was positively ascertained was it possible to utilize with intelligence the masses of natural fertilizers that lay unsuspected beneath the feet of the seedy farmers of Florida and Booth Carolina. Even now the need of more careful

The Reformers.

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The author of a great reformation is always unpopular in hia own age. He gener- i attention and more accurate’scientific ally parses his life in disquiet and danger, knowledge is becoming all-important. Much It is therefore for the interest of the human I valuable material has been wasted by igno-

race that the memory of such men should rant maoipaiation. be held in reverence, and that they should ‘ '

was. “That,” said the mau standing near Her Majesty, “is absinthe. And if little Madame,” touching her familiarly on the shoulder, “would drink five or six glasses of that a day she would become thicker

and stronger than she now is.”

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South, which had persuaded itself that one Southerner could whip sight Yankees, nor do they know half as well tbe strength of the United States as the average Southerner knew the strength of the North at tbe

beginning of our civil war.

The Chilian is the southern Irishman.

missionaries to the “Heathen Like him he is of fertile genius, and, being Chinee," and vet the most abominable nuie- j i ulck in wit > he is an enjoyable companion, ance in heathendom is imported at preat t T* 1 *™ is * omethine r * fr ** ilin K in to* P* triot ' expehse. Theflrc-crackerisnotonly costly, ' ism . ' ven ** be born of the most arrogant but dangerous, and we pay the heathen for • v k nlt y- The Chilian will cut tbe throat of the infliction. a man who would not ceienrate the anni-

▲ atan of His Word. . [Texas flftlngs.] Debtor—I can’t par you anything this Booth. Collector—That’s what yon told me last month. Debtor—Well, I kept my word, didn’t I? Vise True Value of Time. [Lore Chesterfield,' Know the tfue value of time; snatch, ■ eiae and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination.

versarr of his national independence. Everybody must illuminate and pot out tbe flag. All are united in their love and support of their country. The vanity ol the soldier and naval classes is beyond comprehension. it is said that they actually oflered their services to England through the British minister, when there was a rumorof a war with Russia. One day the English paper in Valparaiso published a satire announcing tFiat the Lords of the Admiralty had selected three Chilian naval officers to command the Bosphorus, Baltic and North Allan tie fleets. The Chilians took it.as a.

be supported against tbe scorn and hatred of their contemporaries by the hope ol leaving a great and imperishable name. Ibsen'* opinion of America. IB. W. Bok In tbe Epoch. 1 An American author, who spent some time with Henrik Ibsen last summer, in Norwav, asked the famous author whether he would not visit America some time. “America?” replied Ibsen. “That frog pond where every frog pokes his head above the surface and croaks at some other frog? Not much.”

Allowed to Vote.

INtw York Weekly.l : ?

Election Inspector (severely)—Sir, bay# voa ever read the constitution of tha

tnited States?

Naturalized Citizen—No. Hava you?

Election Inspector—N—o. Important, If Really True.

Color photography seems to be a fact. AU the beauties of Yellowstone Park hart

been taken by tbe process. Oil Made from Grape otonea.

Tbe extraction of oil from grapestonea promises to develop into a permanent in-

dustry.

Cotton la the apache Counts?. Arizona is trying to grow cotton.

Chemistry is an exact science, of mathematical precision, and tbe proper treatment of tbe raw phosphate is a matter of pure abstract chemistry. Tbe product of the different mines differs greatly in the composition, and with every variation needs a different manipulation to form tha most economical hypophospbate. Only m this way can the least balk be obtained with the highest proportion of available phosphoric acid and the freightage, on acnonnt of its balk, is one of tbe ehief items in the cost of this indispensable aid of tha farmer. As yet the methods used have been crude and by rule of thumb. The business has been much injured by the variety of analyses, by the variations in the samples, and by the prejudicea of fanners. Perhaps it is in the direction of aeientific husbandry that science has still in reserve its greatest services to tha greatest number of the

human race.

President Gate’s Educational Ideals. In an address at tbe meeting of eollege presidents at New York Tuesday evening President Gates, of Amherst, said: “In our general harmony of purpose, each institution is askaa la sound hare Ha own dietioetive key-note ia the higher education. 1 may speak freely of the ideals of Amherst, for they were, formed and were known the world over before X same into those close relations with the eollege, which give me the riftht to speak for Amherst. We seek

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to train elaar, strong thinkers; to make manly men; to send into social and politieal life men who will make their environment more nearly what it shonld be—not men who seek the most agreeable or the most profitable environment, or yield to suid are molded by the environment in which they may find themselves. “To this and, Amherst belters* in thorough and severe scholarship,'sound morality, aud a living, manly Christianitv, This training, reinforced by the systematic development of each man’s physical powers, we believe •end* out into the world each year a powerful body of yonng alumni, who, accustomed to something of self-gov-ernment, and students of oar politieal institutions and oar social needs, prove themselves stanch patriots and useful Christian eitisent."

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Don't fake Klmtty to Kankakee. iCkteago Herald.) Professor J. L. Campbell read a paper before tbe Academy of Scieneeat Indianapolis on Wednesday, iu which ha declared that the Kankakee river would ultimately have to be resorted to by Chicago for pure water. This is absurd. Besides ba-nr a consider, able distance from this city the Kankakee river is on the Mississippi water shed, whereas Chicago’s natural water supply is tributery^to the Atlantic. Lake Michigan water may not be perfeet bat it le surely preferable to that which springe in tha marshes of Kankakee. A Fair Uno'-tloa. [Toledo Uee.) Why should the man who raises beet* to be made into sugar he bounded by the Government any more than the man who raisee cabbages to be made into kraut?

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