Show South America is pushing along pretty well Avell in some ways excelling the United States The New NewYork NewYork York World id has condensed a few of th the items touchIng her greatness It recalls that Humboldt Hu in his lis lay day ay found the thin scientific institutions in Mexico superior to those of the more prosperous prosperous United States The New theatre in Nw W York is not no finer titan than the one of San Jose in Costa Rica The University University University Uni Uni- of Buenos Aires has students The Pacific Atlantic-Pacific railway to connect Chile with Avith Argentina Argentin Argentina Ar Ar- gentina under tremendous engineering difficulties hia has las been finished Uruguay y is is the riv river r Rosaria Chile is prosperous Buenos Aires is completing completing com corn a dock dok system far more modern than New York The foreign commerce of Argentina is 70 per capita while that of the Sta States es is but 31 31 And Anti still the great continent is but half There is no spot on earth where young America merica with Avith a practical and imd scientific education could do so well Avell as there for there are arc thousands thou thou- sands of of acres a res of land lima to subdue and cultivate there here aie are roads and bridges to build mines to open I It t grieves us that our own countrymen who ar al' are so so t upon building railroads here do not extend their heir work to that country and by building a road also ilso bu build ld up for themselves an empire Some of cur emigration laws laws laws' are re bungling af- af fairs airs The other da day a woman reached Boston from TOrn I Europe who AVIO ho has but one leg She came over on the recommendation of a great m many ny of her acquaintances acquaintances ac ac- ac- ac and former employers to work as a ac c ccok COk ok for Mrs Eddy the tIle Scientist but the laws topped stopped her at the wharf in Boston and tool took her to the he detention station on Long wharf The law bars I people thus afflicted on the score that they might eventually c become a charge on this country countr The woman did not come as as a pauper There js is no man or 01 or woman who AVIO is s not liable to become Become a a p public charge at some tim lim but she came assured of fine came camen for or a specific purpose wage wage-s. iii in n perfect et health and and the law would be just as effective cf- cf HUll and much more merciful if the dis discretion vas was given to someone to distinguish between a wen well person lerson coming coaling comin to this country with Avith a a situation assured assured assured as as- at good wages and between a n crippled pau paiL pe per I The clergy of Belgium asic for fOl the pra prayers ers of or orthe the he pious for the late King Leopold oId We think that it i a ease case case where if the prayers can Lc Le secured th th-jy th y ought light to b be because old Leopold was a little little tough its ill u some of his iran transactions transactions' au anti and if thero is is e efficacy cacy ill u prayer it could not ilOt be he exercised rl in the place prayers pra ers are a c supposed to do db most niost good any better than on the old m man mans man's n S g soul and if twy y C could uld s succeed it would be a great advertisement for or them beca because if the tho prayers of the good could gather in and ancl save sac a soul OU lp like o s 's he might aught Avell bo advertised as is antidotes for fot wickedness Cf y J |