Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1878, Page 12

. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNG: SUNDAY. JULY 14~ 1878=RTXTEEN PAGES L'Exposition Universelle Inter- nationale de (878"---That's French for It. I‘The Brilliant Exhibition at Last Complcte in Every Great and Little Detail. A ““Gideon” Survey of This Latest of World's Fairs--3 Show That Is Certainly Worlh One Frane to Visit. { Yankes-Tand Does Not Cat So Bad o Figure After All—How England, 28 Usual, Buns Things. "French Artistic Genius as an Offset to French Bombast. From Our Own Correspondent. Pants, June 23.—It is, of course, necessary L ebould write about the Exposition. Anybody visiting Paris, and able to link English into in- tellizible sentences, who docs not get bis or her impressions ¥ of 'Exposition into print, must ‘be unacquainted with an cditor, and conse- -quently of po account. Sometimes the writcrs *do the entire show up in a single Jetter, like the “lazy deacon, who, to avoid saying grace over each picce of meat as it came upon_ the table, “blessed the whole pork-barre! and had done with 1t. Others cxtend their obscrvations through an interminable “ series,” doing the thing tenderly aod systematicaliy, like the man who had not the heert to torture his dog by cutting his tail off all at once, and so lopped aa inch every day. A patient American public undoubtedly bolts all this, and is perhaps anxions for more. At ‘ any rate, 1 lave preferred waiting until this :last of world’s fairs should be actually com- plete in its every detail before seeking to inter- est so sensible 2 constituency as that of Tax TRIBONE in my account thercof. It is ouly within 2 very few days that the latest exhibits have been arranged, and that the Paris Interna- tional £xhibition of 1578 can be said tobea symmetrical entirety. A somewhat close familiarity with WORLD'S FAIRS OF TUE PAST, incloding an almost daily visit for nearly five aonths to the one at Philadelphia, gives me, perhaps, a right to eay my say about this, + " Imprimis: The international show business is growing prolix. . For great European cen- tres Jike London and Paris to be aissatisfied with the regulation quota of traveling zeese that flock to them for perennial plucking, and to prepare spocial bait to lure greater numbers thither, is just a little too much of & good thing. For those Expositions that have been already held there was honest excuse. They were nov- clties. They served to familiarize the workers and traders of natious ‘with cach other. They elevated industry, and to some extent broaden- ed commerce. France was cutitled to one or two. So was England, America, Germany, and some of the smaller countries. But. thisin Paris is confessedly for the pur- pose ot drawing au additional swarm of strang- ers here, and of skinning them. For those who suffer the flaying,—and we all come in for more or less of it,~1 hiave no pity. People who will ‘not visit 50 nodle a city as Paris unless coaxed by the fancicd extra inducement of a Lazaar of nations, ought to be robbed. Why, here is Rome, glorions, everlastine Rome. aunouncinz a world’s fair in 1851 ft 15 like offeriug people a cbromo to persuade them to read the Bible. - . ALL FUTGRE CUROPEAN LXPOSITIONS ey be safely taizen to mean that the countries giving them are merely anxious 10 play iuto the Pockets of hotel ana shop-keepers. 1 joy in stauing that even in Paris the sun shiner alike upon the just and the unjust. Pa- risians themselves are now groaning over the ‘prices they are oblized to pay for everythil One of them told me this morning thut this Ex- ‘osition was another siege of Paris, and thay necessary family eXpenses were nowW amounting Toneariy asmuch as when the ity was beleagied by the Germans. He is a geutieman, but I would sort of like to see him driven to eatinz monkeys ag: It migut thin out the erop ot his grinuicg youns countrymen who think Awmeric and Englizh girls die of delight il a ZFreocliman lanzuishes at them. Few Parisians, however. ailow themseives to believe that the Exposition, or any of its con- comitsnts, §s otber than asource of grundenr and viror to themselives and cuvy tothe remain~ der of mavkind. Is it uot held in Paris, und ‘was there ever anvthing in Paris not more en- trancing than therest of the world could equal? French vanity gets comfert ott of its Commune horrors_aud its trouncings Ly Gerinany. It re- rards its disasters as providential evidence of its erreatuess, und believes other nations mourn that they cannot have siwmilar terrors. ‘There” is npothinr too objectioncble to mar thetr complacency so long AS IT IIAPPESS IN FRANCE, and nothing of tueir owu too trivial to be am- plified iuto more thav ordinary magnitude. Their grandiloquence aloué is o mateh for their vanity, and 1t reaches to every detail of their social economy. They even ake their finaneial units of Value smaller than those of any other large country, in order to have the sums give a good loud nng in the agrrecate. “The Parisian intorms you, with a lordly wave of the cigar he is pufiing, that he gave 70 centimes forit. That sounds princely. until you figure minute and find it cost less than 14 cents of our money. Aunother assures you that his annual home rental is 4,500 traucs, and you fancy bim Tor the nouce the pink of prosperitv. But divide it into our doilars and it shniuks to sixth-tloor spartments at S900 1 year. The French are enjovable folks to Imow, bat 1 berieve theéy thivi their fleas beticr than other ‘people’s butterfies. : THE LAND OF THE BRAVE, ETC. Considerablt: unnueessary criticlsm has been squandered unon the Unitéd Stutes exbibit by most correspondents. The showing, as a wholé, -1 comprelensive and satisfactory. It is prac. tically tie second largest of all the foreign dis- _plays, England only exceeding it fn extent of useful goods shown. But England is ouly just across Lhe chanvel, while the nearest point in the United States is 3,000 miles fromn France, and some of 1t is 6,000 miles away. Add totlns . Darrier of distance the fact that we have lately finished a splendid Exposition of our own, and that a Presidential-election fever, financial dis- tress, railroad riots, and other unusual pests have recently been plaguing us sorcly, and it is evident that, under the circumstauces, our con- tribution deservesa desl more potting than Kicldog. 1o all but its art display, which is simn- iy coutemutible, our country bas no cause for shame. Commendation for THE UNITED STATES EXIUGIT is the rule among 41} Europeans who inspect it. 1t is getting Lo be fashionable aiong people on this side to know something_about Americe. Few Europeans now locate New York City ou the banks of the Mississippi, or talk vagueiy of Chicago =s the Capital of the Rocky Mountains, ¢ Le Departement @ Amerique? is inquired for flatteringly by most visitors, and no- ereat as- tonishmeos S wanifested whep they find that ourhandsome marines on guard there bave a white skin aod only five finzers to cach hand. . Among the lines in which the United States &specially excels, and that too in 8 way that is creating “something of a sensation, is iu fine silverware. Tiflany & Co. show nore novel apd besutiful ‘desiens, aud a hisher perfection of finish, in their -silver £00ds than is found in the best of the French or English displays. I bate to commend this firm, for their prices at howme ure mostly outrageovs, and some of thefr New York clerks amazingly impertinent. But that does not hinder the ware desizned, made, and here exhibited by them from beins as unique, dainty, and artistic 4s was that o: Benvenuto Cellini in the best dsys of the Florentine school. The whole of this exhibit will have been sold by the time the Exposition closes, and to very :€well purchesers. The Prince of Wales and Prince Leopold of England, Archduke Ludwie of Austria, the _editor of the ifoniteur, Baron Kothschild of Vieuns, two or three Russian Princes. Count de Flancers, and other pre- sumably go(&i‘ Jjudges, are among the buyers of nY £oo : I miss the American pianos, and the pisno ;nn:n who were wont to make things so lively for THE MUSICAL JURORS at past Expositions. Allof the leading Ameri- can makers haveatlast_found that the game - was not worth the powder, and the wild tight for medals that characterized the vlano exhibits 8t Paris in 1507, Vienna, and Philadelpbia is waged no more. | 5 . Thecrafty Stefniay, patriarchal Davis, pom- -pous Chickering, and fidgety Weber findit more profitable to berate one another at home, and will let *firet prizes,’” ‘ certificates of distinc- tion,” etc., zo begging for claimants hereafter, ‘The professional musical jurors will be the oaly it tery, with his name and Vienna duck whose name bewins with a have forgotton the rest of it—can o back to their trade of -piano-tuning ayrain. Otbello’s occupation is played so far as levying on Amer- ican manufacturers is concerned. Gen. McCormick is praised pretty gencrally by the American exhibitors, but he caunot do everything, and his corps _of assistants are non- entifics. A sample of their inefliciency is seen in the arrangement of the United States ma- chinery annex, which s been_ built without a particic of chance for ventilation. This, in a blazing Parisian summer, has resulted in turn- ing the most important American section into s young Tophet. B An Enclish manufacturer of ventilators bas taken pity on the roasting Yankees, and is fro- ‘nations to wet wut of their swadding- ing to ship some of his wures and atlix them to the root. England can furnish wind enough fur all the rest of the world. - Iam notin A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER VEIY, but writing of America forces me to say that, cverything considered, I cannot sec us tots Exposition cquals the one at Philadelphia. There i3 more of it uuder on¢ arsnd roof. In i ifts, and such It bas more But pinched, artiticial Chawp de Mars is_a ‘poor apology for the generous srea and lovely sadjuncts of Fairmount Park. Then, it should be remembered where the United States is; 3,000 miles of Atlantic on one side, 5,000 miles of Pacific_on the other; tremendous distauces for Old World denizeus to stride. That they did it: that they cawme to a land a baby iu years to theirs; that they were fittingly welcomed, and given un Exposition so varied and complete as 10 be still aThewe of pleasant remembrance to them, proves how full was the measure of our success, ‘This French World’s Fair is magnificent; but noblesse oblige. There is every reason why it should be. “Yet I do uot see that, carefully studied, it reveals anyibing to the world ours did mot, aud that, with all its imposing scope, it is _ more attractive than the oue at Philadelphia. Had the latter dispiay been held in' Paris, with all of the latter’s staudard allurements, mankind ‘would have voted it the better of tue two. BRITANNIA RULES TUE WAVE. She likewise gets ber work in on land, par- ticularly in_the wnatter of international fairs. English exhibits are always sccond only to those of the country in which each Exposition is betd. ‘This rule is invariable. Here the English display is fully one-fourth of the whole, while Enclish infiuence is para- mount. Exhibitors of other nations are callivg it *The English Iuternational Exposition at Paris.” The pronounced interest taken personally in the aflair from the outset Ly the Prince of Wales has led to an English ascendeney in overy detail of mauagement, ~ The medals’are to go as the English jurors dictate. This is certai Ever since the possibility of a foment with Russia, the Prince of Wales, with some of the choicest of English aristoerats and commons at s elbow, has been the best kind of a French- man. The Exposition bas babpened handy for him;, aud he has been its devoted patron from the start. He has allowed his Parisian super- n of the preparations to be a point around all mavner of French seutiment might ‘When the possibility of armed ANGLO-FRANCO ALLIANCES, with Berlin for a new Crimea, have been hinted atin his presence, he has done uo denying, has not, of course, sald nor dont an; mittal or ridiculons in that line, but he bas Jet lx;s lim"iy-f:\ncicvl hosts imagine as much as they pleased. “To ull this add that he really likes Paris, and slips over here whenever possible; that he is a man of uncommonly enzazing personal man- ners; and that he lias petfed” the Exposition, and hierded losal Britons to exhibiy bere in un. precedented array., and the reasons why England now rules the roost are obvious cnouzh. Qne examnple of Euglish intluence fs as good asa thonsand. There will probably be no pub- Jic trial of harvesting-machines, because En- glish wakers do not banker to cowe in practical competition with the Americans. ‘The latter are slashing around briskly, and doiug all pos- sible 1o foree a field trial, hut John Bil! ji say 1o, aud donbtless that settles it. o tell what a mowing-msehine willdo witout putting it out into a fcld of graia 1s like judsing an orgran’s musical worth by smelling the pipes. 1 thought upon one pair of Enshish legs Did march three Frentlunen, was sald in Henry Vs, tine, but it is nothing to the rule to-dav. © Upop ibe Prince of Wales' legs marches the whole Exposition, Frenchmen and all. Whenever ablufi chap, sparse with bis H's, comes prowling around su American - oxhibit, the man it charge 15 REMARKABLY CIVIL TO 1113, for the visitor is likely to be a British juror in- colrnito. ‘T'nis lordly Enzlish manner ot taking hold of a ihe way, from a i T iference or an Interna- Gly rasping to outsiders. Bui the same ussurance. ripened into Yaukeo cheek, has nelped conquer a coutinent in America in less centuries than it takes most othes. A Freich Exposition run by England is an aw- gravating sorg of a novelty; but we have much the sume sort of stuff m us the Enelish arc made of, and it is better to be nosed around by one's brother than a stranger. { We witl et wedals enough. After our genteel Eubmission 1o the Hulitax award no Enzlishman czn have the nerve to treat us shabbily. L& DELLE FRANCE. S But, though practically manawed by the En- glisb, this is a Areuch Exposition, and the vis- itor is mot allowed to lose siwht of that fact. Onc-half of the mighbty structure is taken for France at a slice. "Then the City of Paris must needs have a special building, Jarge and showy, in the grand court. French mosaics, French y, Freneh hortieuitural tion. You eee a choice fower-patch near one of the foreign restaurants, and approach it only to find that the estimable widow of Monsteur Violet will be happy to sell you gimilar bulbs at her shop in Arrondisement St. Luzare. Not but ull shown by the French is inviting and worthy of sentiment; but one wearies even of ambrusia. Itis like the” excessiveness, so to speak, of French ciphering. When, for 95, you are forced to literally say “four twenties and fif- teen,” you fuel it is 100 inuch aritumetic for tho money. So, after having Frauch. elezance and novelty thrust insidiousiy or Lrazenly upon you in every nook and corner of the Exposition, you at last realize that it is possible to have Loo much of France for one frane. But inall that is luxurious: in all that can make 3 rich wan's surroundings royal and a ‘poor man the more envious thereof, SHOWING OF rrfNcE in this Exposition is supreme. Kings of a cent- ury—vyes, of fity years aro—could command no such magnificence as Freuch artists and artisaus now place within the reach of tolerably well- tilled purses. When Gobelin tapestry, Sevres porcelatn, and an bronzes and paintings improve upon their historieal verfection, it s Lime to stop Jaughing av the idea of painting_the lily. Yet that is what they are actuaily doing. The old museum at Sevres has wueh in it that isinferior 0 the superb new porcelain now suown here, sud the marvelous Gobeliu pieces for the opera~ Bouse butfet, Luxembourg, and other orders, now displaved for the 1irst time, are scarcely equaled in the best exnmples of similar work so sacrediy cherished 1 the palaces of Eurcpe. God shaken into the Latin races the abil- ity to evolve more that is unique ava lovable in art than Las yvet mude itself abparent in any other tribe of men. Something was necessary 10 atone for their eternal caprice and almishty vapity, and this something has been furnished them so liberall, the westhetic creative faculty that the lighter-baired nations will never quite get over berradmng thern it. Wo of En;i'llsh untecedents are just now in the thralls o A ‘‘IIOME DECORATIVE' AGONY. It breaks out chictly in affecting stiff-backed chairs, dingy wall-paper, rectangular Eliza- bethan bedsteads, muddied Turkish rugs, and cracked crockery of Duich descent. \vo talk bookishly of the ** depraved Rennaisance school of surnishing. 4 Such of us as cau go throush the French ex- hibit biere, and visit French homes, ought to nave some of those Turkish Jackasses walk over our grandfathers’ graves, and our own, too, if we do not forever after hold our peace regard- ing the *‘meretricious Rennaisance.” To see . the easy shapes, noble colorings, elorious curves, und golid finish of this class of work, a5 wrought by modern French genius, is almost. enough to make one wish that Eastlake had never written his book, aud that William Morris had stuck to poc!r{. So long as Frenchmeu can vroduce furniture, vorcelain, hangings, lacee, pictures, and tapes- try §0 admirable they may blow abonut their grande armee till Gabriel's solo drowns all carth- 1y trumpeting. GIEON, & e S— i Selling Ris Coffiin. St Helena (Cal.) Star. : -~ 8t. Helena had 2 curious little sensation last ‘week in the attempted sale by an eccentric party hereof scoflin he had years ago provided for himself. C. Terldldson ‘was formerly a_mer- chant lere, but years sgo retired and has since lived in a secluded and quict manner in the suburbs of the town. He fs eccentric in char- acter, 0dd in Lis dress, 2nd strictly abstemious in nis living, confining himself to a strictly veg- etable diet. ' He long ogo took the fancy to provide for his own burial, and had an elegant filled out with the date of his death. He also bought a coflin and stored it iy his dwelling, ready for the fast day. There it has beea for years, and the neighbors had forzottenall about it, until last Friday they were sinzularly re- minded of it by his_attempting to sellittoan undertaker here. He had somehow got tired of it and wanted to get rid of it, soitwas loaded onadray and sent up to Adsit’s. Ile, not imowing at first whence it came, received it and put it away. His wrath, however, when he Tound out the nature of the transaction, koew no bounds. He at once oraered it removed, and, after several days’ delay, got it started off again, with a bill of $25 damages for giving him the reputation of kecping second-band coffins. A lawyer is cugaged for the defense, but whether it will come into the courts or not re- wmains to be seen. CO-EDUCATION. To the Editor of The Trilune. Cm1caGo, July 13.—The closing exercises of the schools throughout the country which have had their numn\f occurrence during the past two or three weeks have invited the thoughts once more to the subjects- of co-cducation and of the higher education of irls. These themes have becn so much discussed as to be tircsome to many, but to the couscientious parent and teacher their interest is never exhausted. 1t is aquestion whether there is not too much education of both sexes at the present day. I tnean too much conning of text-books and ac- quirement of languages and of showy accom- plishments which are of no practical account in the everyday work of the world. The precious ‘years of childbood and youth ara too often spent in gathering & mass of abstract and theorctical Knowledge which, when the school-days are done, has little actual value. Very few haye any further occasion for it, and it remains an occumulation of dead material in the miad, wasting gradually away until lost fn oblivion. Tut the query to the active business-man or domestic woman, and in nine cases out of ten the answer will establish the statement that seldom, if cver, lave the varied transactions of their life called into use auy of the lore acquir- ed in the schools beyond that of reading, writ- ing, and the four elementary processes of aritl- matic,—adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Itwas Edward Everett, I belicve, ‘who once said tbat a thorough possession of these clements of knowledge constitutes u lib- ecral education. And ke was right. They do form an smple provision of book-learning for the workers who comprise the great body of mankind. For persons destined to enter the Drofessions a higher cducation is, of course, Ge- manded, yet if the doors leading to three at least of the scholarly professions—the Bar, the doctorate, and authorship—could be shut against a majority of the vast throng pressing for admittance, socicty would be much the bet- ter for it. One great objection to the popular mode of education fs that 1t infects the mmltitude with the notion that brain laboris the only honorable form of work. The result of this painful error in such an overcrowding of the higher order of voeations that a state of genteel starvation is the prospect facing a large proportion of those who hope to earn their bread by following them. As observation widens the belief strengtbens that amastery of thethreo R'salong, witha stock of common sense, cnerzy, and prudence, is worth to most men and women incalculably more than _the parchment-roll so freely dis- tributed at our school commencements, attest- ing, in the significant,phases of dead languaze, that the recipient has pulled througn the preseribed studics in the higher school courses. In Eagland there is very prezsed by thoughtful men at the tion of the youth of the middie 1ifts them aby {ful pressure in those aveuues of cmployment where the mind rather than the hands 1s the ut called into servi The only hopeful ng throng of gradustes poured out of the learned instituics of Great Britain seems to be offered in the coionies: yet the refinement of calture bestowed uvon these young men in toelr extended trauing in a freat measure untits them for removal Irom ti: centres of art and literature, and for Ll naratively rongh exocriences of the settlor er in new countries, and hence a donbtful future stretches hefore them. If there be ica, where un { terms, the apph upper classes e ¢ the bigh. ols anil 10 the boune, colieze free of expense. 1do not wish to be understood as deerying the advantages in uny case of a soaud wud jue red cducation. My remarks are our most unwise custom of id system of mtellectual train- to which all children of cted, with n total disre- aptitude or prospective callings, - There is no more sense o justice in this attempt to reduce the diverse minds of human beings to the same habits of thought and action than there was of old in the murderous 2im of Procrustes to conform their physical . beight to one invariavle stand— ard. Iwould substitute instead a fiexibie plan of education which should seek to develop each individual mind ia the direction of its us tendencies. After the esseatini rudiments of knowledze are mastered,—those which 1 already named, and which are necued in e wall in life,—if there be no particular eras for added kuowledge, and no e lower d through ries of the diccered ag maintainin: b ard of thelr spe hin given by the facultics themseives of abilities Tending 0 w particular direction. it should be taken as certain evidence that the ordinary rou- tine of the schools has been. continued long enough, and that training for some one of the industries or connmnon business pursuits should begin. - Only where there isa strong intellestual bent, and a yearning for the enjogments and the uenelits of & higlier education, would I fmpose the toil sud the sacrilice of time necessary for its acquiremeat upon cither boys or girls. We all see enouh every day of the barren results of sending young people of inferior tujents or unwilling dispositions through the uigher schouls, to realize the folly aud waste of over- education. Parents cannot be impressed too seriously: with the duty of watching tbeir children’s schools. - “We shall never learn to respect our real calling and destiny,” says Sir Walter Scott, “till. we huve taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine compared with the edication of the neart.” And fortu- nately the gensibilitics, the affections, und the principles can bebrought to the highest state of cultivation, although the circumstances ulow of only the scantiest. acquaintance. with books. =y - The relatively small number whose ‘mental zifts and outward circumstances warrant the expense of a highér education are not confined to one sex. There are girls as well as boys with robust physiques, marked talents, and inborn proclivitics declaring that Naturedestined them Tor a chiefly intellectual life, and that they are capable of undergoing the necessary training. ‘The world is graduaily acceoting this truth and acting upou it. The recent uguuinz of the Lon- don University to women, and the devate, only a few days a0 recorded, among the principat directors of education In italy over the admis- sfon of girls to the public schools of Florence, :llim iudfces of the progress of the age along this ine. But beeause girls break down just as boys do under the strain of over-education, do not there- fore conclude - their sex debars them from a higher education. Select individual, woren, as you should individual men, for the labor and Dprofic of advanced culture, and under the same rezimen none will cndure as much as the other. But weight the woman with the burdens of modern dress while the man goes free in the simple, readily-ordered, easy-fitting attire cus- tom ordains for him; add to the severer branch- ea she is to pursue in common with bim the ac- complishments of music, drawing, or oruament- al necdlework, which he is never afllicted with; confine ber to the house and to the diversions ot the drawing-room, while he refreshes body and mind with "athletic, out-door exercises; allow her to join in fashionable social dissipations which involve late lours, irrezular, unwhole- some diet and undue excitement of the brain and the seuses, while he atter the mauner of sensible youth refrains from such mental and ‘physical taxation, and their cascs seem to be parallel. What * wonder if she lose her Dealth before graduation day and he comes out little the worse for _the wear of four years of arduous study. It is not the differcnce in sex which produces these sadly diverse results in a majority of instances, but it is the difference in habits working heavily against the woinan’s chances. Do not attempt to send to send any girl nor any boy through the higher schools who is not vizorous ‘in body and mlod at the outset, and then all the way alonz sce to it that impedi- ments are not incumbering the gqne more than the other, and the event will show that a woman's organization will sustain her uoder the ordenl of higher education as sarely as the stouter [rame of the wan bears him in similar circumstan As for co-education, that problem has been working itself out in mauny of our iustitutions during a gencration or more past, and with re- sults so decisive that only those who would be wiser than Nature itself can mistake them. The system of co-education in our public schools is accepted with general satisfaction, although the - graduates from the higher prades are seldom under the age of 16. If it be proper for boys and girls to pursue their studies together at that susceptible period of their lives, why.not later or wutil their cdu- cation is finished #* If the mothers of our stu- dents of both sexes bave been faithful to their duties there need be no concern felt at the asso- clation of young men and maidens in the class- roots of our calleges, On the contrary, the effect is wholesome to both. It puts those inclined to rude and care- less manners upon their good behavior,—an irksome discipline to some of the rougher sex, which dountless in’ ereat part explains the dis. like often expressed in the beginnime at the ad- mission of wonien o their ¢las: i ulates the minds of all to their hiwbest effort. Best of all, it affords the most. favorable oppor- tunitics for a complete understanding of the relative capacities of men and women, and of their tastes, disposition and characters. 1t dissipates many of the illusions which are so fruitful in the proGuction of foolish and un- happy marriages, revealing the foibles and the faults as well as the sterling qualities belongine to the sex and the individ- ual. There is no vetter test of the morals aud of the intellect than is_afforded in the daily disciphne of the school,and where boys and girls witness its deyelopmentsin ench other there is smail chunee of theig befug mistaken in theil imates of one another. Having been connected for years with a Union College in one of our Western States, 1 have watclied the experiment of co-education from the hest vantage-point. n important and care- ful observation year after year of the conduct of a hundred or_more students umting in sehiool exert ud in such socinl recreations ss are pet sivle 1o well-ordered students, eon- verted me to the system of co-education, and enabled me 10 spenk from experience rather ti:an theory of its influence and results. A WORKINGWOMAN, —— A JOKE O TWO CHICAGOANS, T tie Editor of The Trthune. 8ax Fraxcisco, Cal, July 7.—The Pacific coast friends of a party of four. including two of your most respeeted citizens, viz.: Charles E. Coburn, of Gillings, Coburn& Cb., and*, , 8 prowinent brewer, and A. Put- ., of Lowetl, Mass., and J. A. Sterry, Est.. of New York City, are enjoying many hearty laugds at their expense which they take blushingly, yet kindly. ‘The story rums thus: They, intending to take a trip to the southern part of Nevada, put their heads together before starting, and céncluded that they little s: em seeure to tae ers At niit, and at the sanie ti those Iittle inconvenicuces that generally subjected to when p that section of Nevada, calivd centipedes, rat- ot and thrantuias. So- they alter due deliveratio supplied themselyes with canyas, hammocks, and lauzbed in their slecyes, think ing of the discomtiture of the reptiles ' before alluded to. s they would be peacefully slecping in: the air out of their reach. The joke of tne matter is that after arriving at their first camp- ing place vhey found that there knd bew i tion somewhere regarding the where- g hammocks to, as the Lrees tuat they found were no trees ab all, but sage- brush! ~ So the hammocks remained folded away, and the two whose Lurn it was to enjoy the privilege of sleeping in the wazon could hold u conversation regarding the deadliness of the bite of the tarantuln or upon some other topic equally soothing o the other half of the party who were sleeping on the eand bencath, 1 believe there will be some hamwocks offered for sulefn Chicago about July 15. OxE Wio Kxows. re are tastes and inclinations, as the mind and charac- ter unfold, fn urder to- discover how much and what kind of cducation i3 re- quired in cach particular csse. This mat- ter cshould mot be trusted to the di cernment of teachers, whose opportunities are too limited to allow of correct judgmeats. Nor can parents too 800 put away & silly ambition o fit their offspring for vlaces of distinction. Nature bas the decision of this matter, and all - the schooling possible will not seat a brilhant mind in a dull brain, vefther will a total lack of earlyadvantages prevent the masterful geniusand the resolute will from decluring themselves in the successes of after life. The aspiration of tho parent shoutd be to prepare each child 1o be as hapoy and as useful as the ionate and well- developed capacities will enable it to be; and for thelarze majority of the human race the larg- est measure of Lappiness and usefuluess are to be found, for the women in domestic life, and for the meu in some calling wich involves handswork or the cxercise of practical traits— such as shrewdness, forecast, thrift,ete.,—rather than in the professions. where keeu intellects and the highest cultivation are requisite for vie- tory 1n the desperate strusle. “*Qualify the hands of your children for deft exercise aud skilled Iabor,” I heard a sagacious, experienced man of the world remark not long ayo. “Iseemore and more as I o on in life that they who have nimble and dexterous tingers, able to do well and quickly what they under- take, are much more certain of a livelihood than those who have hed simply intelfectual culture. They encounter much less competi- tiou, and are sble to command surer and more satisfactory employment.” These,were words of wisdom which deserve to be considered. But pecause onedoes not o throush the scliools and obtain what is called a **finished tducation” one necd not by any means be un- der the highest standard of intellizence. Many of our most iliustrious men aud women, thie decpest thinkers, the best writers, and the moss distinguished in exalted and exacting positions, have worked their way up without help from the colleges. The two Presidents of the United States whose names will ever be mentioned with the tenderest reves- ence guined in their youth ouly the os- sential elements of education. Georze Wash- ington was serving in the fictd under Braddock ‘when little more than 16, and Abraham Lin- coln was engaged in the hard, humble toil of flatboatman, while other—and as the world reckons—more favored boys of his aze were turning over their dog-eared grammars and algebras. It wasin the stern school of life that these and a muititude more of great men learned the lessons .thatmade them truly en- lightened. & word, it is the development of the charac- ter and the discipliue of the will that zive man- Kind efliciency in the work that is set before them to do, and these may be gained to a far greater degree throuzh wise and” caretul home training then in the whole rounds of the TWILIGHLHOUR, iy The fun s sinking in'ine West, Sweet t Birds* voices soon wail be at rest, At evening-shades draw near. The suri bids us a calm good-nizht, As he tips the tree-tops tall With one last gleam of yolden light, Ere spreads o'er alt nizht's pall. All nature scems so peaceful o Our hezrts are free from cart; Sott breezes fan the heated brow— i We teel their magic there. . The day hag had some sad mishaps, Lut they are now all zone; ©Our huuds lie idly in our laps, While we dreamn on and on. W build our castles in the air— Not castles wrongit by hand— So bright, 2o besutiful, 80 tair, They stem from Fairyland. And little fairice hov'ring seem Around ue 1 their ply, As s0ftly now the tast dim glesm OF daylight fudes away. The shadows ronad us deeper fall; And lo) up from the East The woon comea o'er the mountain tall Aud birds their songs have ceased. The stars peep oat around the moon, The night is growing chill; Our happy dreams arc gone 100 800D, But peace they've givea us stitl, ¥or the Father, in Fiis bountcous love, Sent us that hour sa dear ‘To point us to the Home above, Our lot below to cheer. e Royal Marriage Celebrations, New Orieans Picayune's Paris Lelter. There wili be five silver and one golden mar- riage celebrated in the courts of Europe in 157: The golden marriage will be that of Duke Max- imilian of Bavaria and Duchess Ludovica, father and mother of the Empress of Austria and of the ex-Queen of Naples; it will be celebrated on the Yth of September. The silver marrinzes are those of Duke Ernest of Altenberx (25th of Avril); Landerave Frederick of Hesse (30th of May); King Albert of Saxony (18th of June); King Leopold 11. (22d of Auust): Duke George of Waldeck (26th of September). ‘This year there will be celebrated the twenty-ifth anni- versary of the accessiou of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar (Sth of July) and of the Duke of Saxe-Altenberg (34 of August). In 1S79 the golden marriage of the Emperor of Germany will be celebrated (11th of June), and the silver marriage of Marsnal de Macahon (Iith -of Mareh); Duke Frederick ‘of Anbalt (22d.of Inmis. hie ~at last the Prince rises to hi: April); Emperor of Austria (24th of April), and Prince Frederick Charles of Prussja (20th of No- vember). The 2d of March, 1880, the Czar will celebrate the twenty-fitth anniversary of his ac~ cession. . i B EUROPEAN GOSSIP. AN ENGLISH STATE CONCERT. London eek. The palace concert-room is o noble one, and 1t appears at fts best when flooded with light from ceiling pendants, and window casings (ftted with gas tempered by ground glass front-works), and the fourteen great golden candeiabra. The gorgeous crimson satin panels give depth of color, the blue and gold bring brilliancy, and the reflecttng mirrors around the walls repeat the scene through endless vistas. 1n the forefront stand in a row, curving slightly inward, the golden, or it may be the gilt, chairs which none but Royalty dare sit upon. Imme- diately behind are the crimson faufeuils, occu- pied by Cabiner Ministers, Archbishoos, Lord Chancellor, and Judges, and other such high and mighty dignitaries, their wives and daugh- ters. On the right stretch the Pecresses? seats, but scantily occupied to-nizht. On the left are those sacred to the diplomatic service, and in the body of the room are athered together the @eneral company, with many a lovely face light- ing up the circli At about 10 o’clock the company begins to arrive, slowly at first, but soon in a compact and seemingly never-ending stream. The assembling of the guiests is by no means_the least pleasant part of the entertainment. Everywhere arises the picasant buzz of chat and gossip. Every- where you may uotice strange and pictunesque groups,—a bevy of fair English maidens pauses to exchange salutations with the Chinese Am- bassador; an elderly Duchess detains a well- known Cabinet Minister in ajfable conversation, sorely against his will, as all can sec cxcent her Grace; and, over_in toe diplomatic rauxs, brill- jant. as a parti-colored flower-bed in early sumn- mer, Musurus Pasha, having by right of seniori- ty taken possession—beati possidentes I—of the “‘top” front seut, is gazing carnestly up at Count Munster, who is detailing, as one may well imagine, the latest particulars concerning hfs Imperial master’s progress toward recovery. At length expectation is aroused; thereis agitation around the Royal entrance. The gold- sticks show signs_of activity. The conductor stands, and raises his baton. the audience rises, and forth from a preliminary cloud of ob- sequious, backward-walking officers of the houschold, ladics-In-aiting, chambeclains, zold- sticks and silversticks, beams forth the gracious presence of the Princess of Wales. Halting on the threshold, as though so brilliant a spectacle might well cause amazément, the future Queen of England bends low to her gueste with a huppy grace that of itself, by mere power of zentiencss, would impress a stranger with a senseof her sweet and foving nature. Advane- ing, as 1t were palf timialy, the eraccfal gesture is amain aud usain reépcated, with answer- ing “obeisance from all round, Musurus Pasha’s mallantry causing bim almost to brush the Roval robes with his fez-crowned head. [mmediately n the Princess’ wake come the Priuce of Wales, leading Princess Christian, towhom is mwven the place of honor between ber Royal rclutives and entertainers. Then fol- low Prince Christiau, Princess Mary .and her husband, the Duke of Connaught, and Hassan and Ibrahim Pasna. The Royal party being seated, the bour being ten minutes short of 11, at a signal from the Prince the concert com- mences. We append. the programune, whic is fairly representative in more respects than one. The programme is made up of selections from the works of Wagner, Mozart, Macfarren, Don- izeted, Bellini, - Auber, Beethoven, Benedict, Halevy, Flotow, and Gounod, and the singers are Mile. Albadi, Mme. Gersier, Mme, Patey, Herr Hensciel, and Sigoori Foli and Gayarre. There_1s also a chorus and an orchestra led by Mr. W. G. Cusins. Of the thirteeu pieces included in the con- cert, only onc—the chorus and soli from Prof. Macfarrén’s “ Lady of the Lake,” and_that not particularly representative—can be credited to a native composer. OI the singers, only * Mad- ame ' Patey, aud “Signor Foli,” as Mr. Foley thinks proper to call himself, are of any but forcign stock. But there can be no question as to the fituess of the selections as regards the artists concerned. Mme. Patey can display to the fullest advantage her mand voice, and revel without let or hindrance in her C's and D’s. Signor Foli sings lhis great bass mn a way that clearly moves the audi- jor Gavarre proves low peril- ously mear vocalization can appro: Q to harsh, strident sound. Albani’s impe voice is heard to great advantage. Lach piece eomes to an end amiidst dead silence, forming a curious contrast . 0 the usuel experiences of concert- -asionally the Prince nof ence. Si: s his sat- orof sound, and the silence is uubroken. Though, uone siie less, it must be'n splendid 11, 83 Ot unfre tly hapoens, an Albani or a Patticua sw i ence with cmuoti % can override etiquettd und motiy. i numbers suceeed eachi other, until eryone fol- cxawple, and the Antiiem is 0, next as a yuartet, nod final- The concert is over. The towly to the piatfori, has a gracious ord, of com- 1ows b sung, first Iy a5 grand chorus. titree PP by the Priuce. word, end sometimes mo mendation [or the singers., in quite a lone chat with AY ulaung bier upon her ruznore wol—and then the Roy nce that, whether itsell u compliment. le: did compauy, av twen! minutes to 1, seck the attractions of the supper-room. THE FANDANGO JN SPAIN. A contributor to the New York Evening Post, in deseribing the district around Malaga, Spain, writes as follows: **On our return to the villaze we found it full of life and motion. There were to be two balls given in honor of the oreat national saint’s day. ‘There was u fin moon in a cloudless sky. Groups of idlers in zala dresses were walking 1o and fro, and,from many a window lights shione forth, and the sound of werry-making could be beard. - We proceeded first to the fonda or vil- laze fun. Here, o a dingy apartment, o emall bar held forth enticements in the way of coffce, suardiente, liquore, ete., to all wito entered, and in close proximity to the conrtyard, its en- trancedecked with a solitary lantern, offered the scene of operations for the night. But the crowd was great, the region " of the roughest, and thie company of that lively, demonstrative class wno might bave tossed Sancho in his blan- ket in the anys of old, and, having brokeu his veck, thouzhi of - it afterwards as only a trivial cusualty. We decided, therefore, to seek a less plebcian scene at the, village schoolmaster’s ““‘Che sehiool-room, where the aristocratic ball was to be held, was a long, low apactient, well liziited, and packed with young old; about the open door loitered a cr of riff-rall, over wiiose battered sombreros a boy on horseback craned his neek to see what was oing on. At one cnd of the room stood the master’s desk, und the walls were decorated with maps and samples of pemmwanship; at the other end shone resplendent the family fire-place, bright with suspended pots and pans and eaudy delf. As strangers, we were cordially received, and places given us in the front row” of seats, at the very feet of the dencers. Now, one characteristic of a Span- jurd is that if becannot praise and boust of himselt he will of his own friend, and so shine by horrowed tustre; and we have heard ali day to our inflnite amusement the explanations of our compauion to his villaze acquaintances asto who and what we were—‘ Americans,” he had emphatically announced, *from the great Re- puolic.’ [ learned that I personally had been Sceretary to the President, and last, but far from least, that both of us knew Latin! To kuow Latin is, in the estimation of a Spanish peasant, equivalent to being next door to Heaven and first cousin to the parisa priest. So it is easy to imagine how e shone! ““But to the dance! The music on the present oceasion consisted of two pair of castanets, a vair of cymbals, “and a violin, accompanied by the singing of u stout woman in the corner, and. the rbythmic clapping of hands, thrown in like a gratuitous blessing by the surrounding spec- tators. Immediately before us sat a number of pretty young girls, neatly dressed, and with those usual adornments of Southern women,— magnificent black hair decked with flowers, and sparkling soft eyes. A voung man occupicd the floor, or, rather,-the very small part of it Icft by the crowd for the performance of the dance, walle another sat in reserve near. by to relieve him when faticued; for, thoush therc were a dozen or more female dancers waiting to per- form, there were unly two partners to be divid- cd between them. The fandanzo, or national dance of Spain, portrays the passion of love, and ~its successful rendition depends as much on the individual talents of the perform- ers as that of a play upon its sctors. The young man before us was of a fine athletic form, well displayed in his Andslusian costume, with a crimson scarf bound tightly around his waist, a velvet sombrero, a jaunty vest, and white sto ings reaching from the tasseled knee, glittering with its silver buttons, down to his shapely fect. Hestood alfttle while looking around “Col. with 2 bandit alr, and then approached a young girl and signified his lordly will to dance. She rose, and they fell back into the miadle of the arenn. Then bezan the dance, for which the audience composed themselves, with nearly us much anticipated pleasure as for a bull-fight. With castanets in either hand.and arms rising or falling at the moment’simpulse, the daucers be- fan swaying backward and forward, now ad- vanciog, now retiring in languid, undulatory movements; sometimes there would be a sud- den passivnate start, subsidingin to a coy reluc- tance; sometimes a sweep around each other’s persons, thus changing their point of attack or vantage ground ; sometimes there would come a quick and impetuous moveinent of daring, en- treaty, or coquettish allurement, relapsing into the wave-like dance, charming beyond expres- sion, while through it all the shrill, crude music shricked and whailed, the beating of the hands told time, and sharp cries of ‘Ola! Ola!” rang through the room as the audicace waked to the passion of the play, and the actors warmed into the true dramatic meauine of the dance. When, subdued by the mimic suit of her partner, the maiden touches his shoulders on ether side with ’Lhe tips of her fingers, the fandango ends.” A LOST POCKETBOOK IN RUSSIA. A correspondent of the Sheflield Zeegraph relates the following story, which Le says trates forcibly one phase of life fn St. Peters- burg: A young Scotchman from Edinburg, Mr. B— by name, passed a few days here for pleasure. Oneday he weat into the Post-Office to purchase apost-card. Having written this card, which was simply to inform his friends of the time at which he expected to reach his home, he left the office. He haa scarcely got outside when he tound thut he had forgotten to take up his pocketbook, which, while writing, he nad ptaced on the table fo the office. He returned imme- diately, and found the clerk in charzevery bus counting the bank-motes and 20-mark picces, which were the chiefl coutents of his pocketbook. “ Excuse me,” said Mr. B—, in German, “I have forgotten my Dpocket-book; will you' be so kind as to give it back to med” The Russian official kept the book in his hands, and stared at Mr. B— as if he did@ not understand him. He who had spoken German auite fluently only a few mo- ‘meuts 2¢o, now could ouly shrug his shoulders, as he put away the forcign money in the re- cesses of his capacious Russian pocket, Mr. B-— thien addressed himself to the” other clerks, and ope of them vried in an imperious voice, “‘Take off your hat.” The Englishman bad forgotten that in_his hurry, and immedi- ately complied with the rudely-expressea dic- tate. He then asked ouce moré for his packet- book. “The book,” was the official’s reply, * you cannot have just now; you must, in the first place, give satisfactory Dfoof that you are the vwner.”” Well," said the young man, *look then in the pocketbook and vou will find my passport and other belongings with my signature,” which, of caurse, ite was not prepared to write Tor the benefit of the oflical. “ Not now, sir,”” was the Russian’s answer. “¥e shall examine your papers to-morrow; ¥ou may then come acain.” “* But I want to start to-morrow," replied Mr. *¢ That is no business of ours,” replied the Russian geatleman, Very much put about, Mr. B— continned to insist on the usclessness and inconvenience of pucting off till to-morrow what so easily could have been done at the time, but he could met :zl?_ other auswer from the Russian officfal than is 2 +We don’t care,” and * We have no time.” Finally, Mr. B— went to the English Con- sulate and stated his case. The Consul went with him to_the Post-Office, but_was told that thie book, with the money, had already been sent to the Police-Otfice. ‘Then to the Police- Oflice went the Consul and his companion. The book and money had not been neard of; no doubt they were still at the Post-Oftice. "And thus for three days the Consul and Mr. B— were kept running from the Poiice-Office to the Post-Utlice, and Trom the Post-Oflice to the Police-Oflice without gettinz auy satisfaction. At Jast, when the British Consul became very serious, the Russian_authorities gave back the pucket-booi to Mr. B—, but how? The —Gospodin Talkoy, we may call him—kept back £7 of the moaey, sud this simply because the pocket-book wis lett for a few moments on a table in 2 Government office in Russix. Imagine such a thing lufipn:n- ing in Eneland or in Germany. -Mr. B— asked for what reasou this sum—aboat & third pocket-book—was ian added insult to ln- jury 0 not want your mouey,” he said, “but { like to make ar. Englishinan’ give o do- nation to the new volunteer Russian fleet; that is where your zold will be seut.” Mr. B— had to pockct the affront, sud the ian pocketed the money. i MERCEDES, ossip about the dead Quecn: The scpersti- tious recall that, s sie entered the Church of the Atocha on her marriaze-day the bearer of nier irain stumbled, a bad omen; also, that at fie bull-fizht next day a veteran torero, many vears azoa favorite at Madrid, opeved the 2musement by turaing to the Royal tox and claiming to the Queen, ©May your Majesty Tive 160 years!” Next moment he was tossed by tise bull. The Queen dicd at dagbreak in the arms of her husband and io the presence of her parcuzs, the Infanta Christin, and the Minis- ters. Cardinal Mareno administered the last 1ites to the dying woman, who preserved her tcarness and serenity of mind. * Does your jesty regret leaving this life?™ he asiced. Yes,” she replied, “I do, but it is Alfonso and my parents' sakes.” Alforso telezraphed ~ to his mother the death of his wife in these terms: “ My be- loved Mercedes is in Heaven. Pray for hers an inconsistent but earnest dispat At the time of the wedding, five months before. the ox- Queen Laabella praved, ou dity . the Church of St. Pierre de Chailot that evil mizht follow the Montpensier family, Tne Pope scat Kine Al- fonso an autozravh letter of condolence, and Queen Victoria. teiegraphed bim as follows: Dear Brother, my heart bleeds for you, What an awfnl misfortune it bas pleased God to send you! May He mve yon strength to bear this terrible foss.” Tlhe Queen’s remains rest temporarily beside those of the Bourbon Princes in the vaulis of the Escurial. On the day of the Tuncral, throushout all Madrid, almozt all the shops were partially closed. The people eener- ally wore mourning, and business was entircly suspended. More than 50,000 persons visited toe chiapel Wwhere the remains luy. WELLINGTON A FRENCH MARSHAL Parie Correspandence London Times. A singular controversy is joing on between the France and some Legitimist orzans. The former, fa reply to some sneers st the subordi- nate position of France at the Congress and the supremacy of Prince Bismarck, remarked that tie Republic had not acted like Louis XVIIL, who made the Duke of Wellington a Marshal of France for bis victories over his own country. Thisallezation the Legitimists indignantly deny; while the #rance justifies its statement by cit- fuz M. Dupin, the President of the Chamber of 1851, who cuts so unenviable o figure in Victor ’s “Mistore d’un Crime,” and who, In . penned the following note: “Prince Holenlohe, a forcigner, is made a Marshal of France. One learns also that the Duke of Wellinizton has received that title from Louis XVI1)." "The France also appeals to De Chesnel's *Military Cyclopedia,” which, under the head of * Wellington,” says. “ Frunce caanot_without a_painful feeling of shame see King Louis XVIIL. make Welling- ton a Duc de Brunoy and a Marshalof France;!? likewise to the ‘‘Dictionnaire ‘de Bouillet,” which says of Wellington, *Louis XVIIL. in his gratitade went as far as giving him the title of Marshal of France.” “Che . Lemitimists, of course, cannot prove the nesative, but they dwell on the absence of :mg officiol document audon the silence of English biographers, Hu: ht AN EARTHLY PARADISE. 2 Loniton Telegraph. 1t is worth while to look a little closer at Cy- prus, which, havinz “been so important jn an- cient times, may thus, perchance, recover its fame aua celebrity. Nearly 150 miles long, with a2 breadth of from fifty-five to fifty-even miles, it is an ample dominion in itself, and one of the most beautiful and capable in the world. Its allezed malaria 8 a calumny founded on the habits of u few rash travelers who expose them- selves and eat imoroper food. The birtholace of the queen of zods 4ud men 15 a3 salubrious, with Just d)rctnnllcns, a8 jt is beauti- ful, albeit - decldedly hot in the summer months. This heat, however, iz tempered hg the winds irom the snowy summits of the Karamanian Mountains, and eternal sea- breezes cool the littoral plains. The ficlds pro- duice, even with a Jazy husbandry, wheat, barloy, catton, silk, madder, olives, carobs, and splendid ‘vines; while in the North and West are maeni- ficent forests full of game, and the wild cattle and swige descended from those which have strayed from the fold and styes of old eiviliza-, tion. Larnaks, the-principal port, gives travel- crs a wrong fmpression of the lovely and fertile islund: for that town, which owes its existence to o good auchorage, but was chosen too hasti- iy on this account by the crusaders, stands in the worst regions of- Cyprus, and presents a very different aspect from the exquisite dist around E%Bcool, Kuklia, and Baflo,~the ap. - 05, tique Pap! ‘BATTLI_') OF THE BOYNE, The Horitage of Bigotry and Strifo Trans. - planted to America, St. Zouls Globe-Democrat, July 11. There is a geographically inconsiderabls stream in lreland called the Boyne, rising inthe Barony of Carters in the County Kildare, and falling into the English Channel about ten miles south of Dunany, after a course of abont sixty miles from its source. But petty as the stream isin both volume and length, its name bas beeg the rallying point of more bizotry and cirii etrife than that of the Rhine or the Danube, the Thames or the Seine, or in fact of any other river in Christendom. Tt was in July, 1650, that Wiliiam of Orange, who, with his Qucen Mary, the eldest daughter of James 1L, liad been aceepted as King of Great Britain ang Ireland, met his father-inlaw upon the Boyne water. numbers, according to some chroniclers, nearly equal upon either bank of the river. Dy the Irish had acquired a discipline not nearly cqual to the united forces brought against them. The commanders, also, of the opposing Tosts were as dilferent as two men could possi- bly be, James, who, as Duke of York and Lord High Admiral, had shown both courage and capacity upon the seus, seemed to have lost thein all when, after violatinz the laws Bf hig realnl and throwing the great seal into the ‘Thames, he had fled for refuee into France, and had ouly emerged to try the last desperats chance among a people who bad never felt the hand of his tyranoy, and who still remaincd faithful both to the person of the last reigning Stuart and the creed with which his crown and dignity were ailied. William had been brought over to England ha' the defection of the great English lords, aid- ed in the very last moment by the budding gen- ius of John Churcnill, the greatest captain of the age, even then the chief adviser of the Prin- cess, afterward the Queen, Anu, the youngest daughter of the banished sovercizn, whose con- sent in those days of dynastic influence was all important to the thorough aud compiete estab- lishment of the revolution. Subsequent history has proved the part takeo at that time by many of the greut lords, and the vigor of the Jucobin risings in Scotlzud in 1715 and 1745, and the cruelties the Duke of Cumberland cousidercd necessary for the prevention of their repetition after Culloden, would lead most impartial his- torians to refuse to believe that the cause of the Stuarts were utterly hopeless when James landed for the last time fn' Ire- land. Be this as it may, all the rational hopes of the Jacobites must have van- ished forever when the Blues bad strugzied through the stream, and when James Stuart, turning back, and accompanied by but a few personal attendants, made his best way to the nearest_seaport, and_amam took refuge at the court of King Louis XIV., then and until the death of first Mary and then William, and even 80 late as the Treaty of Utrecht, the last hope of the house of Stuart. With the battle of thg Boyne, the Stuarts, had they been wise, would bave accepted their fate. Both James and wife, Mary of Modena, must have been per- fectly aware that nearly the whole of England, with the exception of Cumberland and a few Northern sections of counties, repudiated the birth of the young pretender. The vast ma- jority of the yeomanand the gentry, backed by -the wealth of nearly the whole of the City of London, openly and scornfully called the reputed son of the King they had expelled o _ supposititions child, by fraud and by backstairs influence introduced into the royal bed. The contest should then bave been over. Itwas impossible, perhaps, to restrain until more than half a century after- ward the untaught and unrestrained passions of the Highlanders of Scotland, bat the {rish who bad fought for James at Boyne Water were, so far as politics and prudence were concerned, far wiser than the Hielanduien who tried to conquer England with their claymores and their dirks, witht leaders divided agzdinst themselves, und without moneyin their purse, in 1745, Had wiser counsels then prevailed on both sfdes, with the decided issue at the Boyne, all the struggle would have ceascd. But we can scarcely blame the Irish of the day. They im- agined that their chivalry would forever be stuined and their fealty to their religion forever stirched if they abandoned the position they had ussumed. Unfortunately, the same spirit animated _Protestant as well as Catliolic, and, through all thelr quarrels, the memory of the Boyne bas been bitter and provocative of blood- shed. To this day, it would be as much as a man’s life was worth to march up George street, in Limerick, or any of the zreat towns in the west and south of Ireland, with a vetlow rose in his batton-hole, apon the 12th of July, unless, judeed, he was accompanied by a troop of {friends, and even that very fact would bean incitement to a riot. It would be accepted as an insult as premcditated as wearing Catnolic svmbols wreathed with green. in the most ultra Trotestant streets of Belf2st upon the same day. And to the honor of Ireland, be it said, of late years, however fuithfally ths ‘masses may cher- ish revenge in their hearts, they have learned to reirain from any of the most violent of the scenes and riots of twenty years az0. Unbappily the noxions growth has been trans- Planted to this side of the Atluntic. More than ouce in New York, and in more than one of the Eastern States, bloodshed on the 12th kas only Dbeen averted by the exercise of the greatest vrudence and vigilance on the part of the au: thorities, and to-morrow at Montreal the citl zens of both sides anticipate a sanzuigary quar rel about matcers with which thuy Nave abso lutely notiiug whatever to do from simitar causes. Militia ana volunteers are to be con- centrated in the streets to prevent biood-letiing about an issuc not far from 260 years old, all the acerbity and hostility engendered irom Wwhich should haye heen (long weo) burfed in the grave of the past, covered with oblivion, xud put out of sight. To revive such animosities is not merely au ontrare upon the doctrines which * Catholics und Orangemen alike profess to re- gard. but a very bitter satire upon all the best Krinclmus and ‘rules of action of our common uniavity.” ———— LOVE-SONG. If yoa love me, tell me iraiy. Will you love me thus for aye? ‘Will your footsteps never talter— Ne'er from paths of Duty stray? Will you love me ns the roscs Love those dainty drops of dew? Toen, more sweeter far than roses, Love my Love shall still pursue. Will you love me a3 the song-bird Loves ita dusky little mare? ‘Then, more sweetcr, far more sweater, Love, my Love, shail desigaate. Will you love me 28 the ratnbow Loves to shed its varied hues Then more sweeter, far more swi ter, Love mv Loveshall grow profuse. 1t you love me thus, I'll answer You with more thun conscions prde; 1t you luve me traly, tell me, Wil yoube my bonnie oride? ‘Wil you be my little wirey? Wil you come and live with me In yon dusky littie cottage— on wee cabin by the sea? Spoke she low, and whispered kindly~ _Spoke she more than words cau teil; Never did I hear sach whispars— Ne'er was mortal pleased so well. Youder stands our little cottage; Poorand humble though it be, Grander far than any mansion— Holds 2 blessed boon for me. Joseri D. TURNET. ————— How a Great Desert May Do Fertilizeds 3 Arizona_ Sentinel, "After all, tne great problem of {rrigating tho Colorado Desert may be accomplished by natural means and withoutthe expenditure of vast sums of mouey as has been proposed. The survess made in i873 of the desert Jying west of the Colorado River and extending into Mexico demonstrated fully that it was cut off from the | Gulf of California by the sediment deposited by the Colorado River. ‘The old shore llues are distinctly recognizable away up in San Bernard- ino County, and ereat beds'of oyster and other marine shells attest the presence, at no very re- mote day,.of sea water at places' from which it 18 now 150 miles distance. “The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses this dried-up part of the gully running for over sixty miles at levels from one 10 240 feet below that of the sea. Tne Colotado | River has depostted sand _and mud alous its : course until its bed is, in places, tully 400 feet’ hioier than it was fn the old days when it emptied into the wulf at least 100 miles nearer - Yutna thea it does now. It continued to pile up sediment until 2 dam was formed reaching across the gulf to the Lower California sboré. The head of the guif thus became a lake or salé water, and, beiog fed by no streams, sradually dried up. This dam nowaverages oniy o heignt of twenty-seven fect above mean high tides- The Colorado now flows to the south of it, but some trfling change of its currents may yeb cause it to cut away the dam to the north, and to reconvert the desert into a lake. Dot seem as jinpossible as that the river should abandon its ofd bed north of Yuma, and force, its way through a racky Lil; yet we' all can s¢8 4 The river forces were drawn up g ° ‘This does latter has actually occurred. Pt B