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claims O American citizens Against tlfel0
been long delayed. The peculiar position -
they have been placed, and the desire the paft
my predecessors, well myself. to grant them the
utmost indulgence, have hitherto prevented these
claims from being urged in manner demanded by
strict justice The time has arrived when they ought
be finally adjusted and liqudated and efforts are
now making for that purpose.
1t is proper to inform you that the government OF
Peru has in good faith paid the first two instruments
of the indemnity OF $50 900 EACH and the greater por-
ton Of the interest due thereon, in execution OF the
convention between that government and the United
States, the publications. OF which were exchanged at
Lima on the 3lst OF October, 1916. The Attorney
General OF the United States, early in August last
completed the adjudication OF the claims under TINS
convention, and made his report thereon, IN pursuance
OF the act OF the 9th OF August, 1916. The sums 10
which the claimants respectively entitled VIII be
paid on demand at the treasury.
invite the early attention oil Congress to the pres
ent condition OF our citizens IN China. Under our
treaty with that power, American citizens are VIII
drawn from the jurisdiction, whether clvll or criIiai
OF the Chinese government, and placed under mat OF
our public iunctlonaries in that country by these
alone can citizens be tried and punished LOT Tue
commission OF any crime by these alone can ,lues
tons be decided between them involving the nights oil
person and property and by these alone can contracts
be enforced, into which they may have entered Win
the citizens subjects OF foreign powers.
The merchant vessels OF the United States lying III
the waters OF the five ports OF China open to foreign
commerce are under the exclusive jurisdiction VI PHI
+
establish competent tribunals to try and punish crimes
and to exercise jurisdiction in civil cases IN ,innh'
American citizens there are subject to no law what
ever. Crimes may be committed win ilhpuhi,y, amu
debts may be contracted without any means to enforce
their payment Inconvenience have already resulted
from the omission of Congress to leglsiate upon Tue
subject, and still greater are apprehended.
The British authorities IN China have already COM
planned that tins government has not provided ior t'le
punishment OF crimes, or the enforcement Oh con,luS's
against American citizens IN that country, WniII'
their government has established tribunals by "hicN
an American citizen can recover debts due from Brt
ish subjects
/ Accustomed as the Chinese are TO summary justice
they could not be made comprehend why cIiihiila'
who are citizens Of the United states should escape
with mpunity, in violation OF treaty obligations, Tit
the punishment OF Chinese, who had committed an.
crime against an American citizen, would De iisol'
ously exacted. Indeed, the consequences m,Sht Q,
fatal to American citizens IN China, should
crime be committed by any one OF them upon Ohl
nese and should lral and punishment not follow nc
cordng to the acquisitions ot the treaty Inns h'gh
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PoKrRY--Dr. Charming says, "Poeuy,
far from injuring society, is one Of the great
instruments Of IFS refinement and exalla
ton. 1t lifts the mind, above ordinary life.
gives il a respite from depressing cares, and
awakens the consciousness Of its efficacy
with what is pure and noble. Ia its IeGti.
mate and highest efforts. it has the same
tendency aud aim with Christianity; that IS
TO spiritualze our nature. Poetry has a
natural alliance wilh our best affections
Its great tendency and purpose is, to CARY
the mind beyond and above the beaten
dusty, weary, walks Of ordinary life, to M
it into a purer element, and TO breathe into
Il more profound and generous emotion. Il
reveals to us the loveliness OF nature, brings
back the freshness Of early feeling, Ievives
the relish Of simple pleasures, Keeps IN.
quenched the enthusiasm which warmed the
spring time OF our being, re6nes youthful
love, strengthens our interest in human ma.
ture by vivid delineations Of its tenderest
and lofiesl feeling, spreads our syInpathies
over all classes Of society, knits US by new
ties with universal being, and through the
brightness Of its prophetic visions, helps
faith to lay hold on the future life"
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Of casual passengers was asked, whose pre-
scriptions were quite as likely to answer as
images, relics, snskesoup, or milk oil al
monds or asses -
.And. doctor, do you really think
That asses milk ought TO drink
II cured yourself, grant, Is true,
Rut then 4 was mothers milk TO you.
Many of the prescriptions Of Spain are
local. and consist ofsome particular sPrlng'
some herb, some animal, or some particular
air. or place, or bath is recommended
which, however, is said to be very dangerous,
unless some resident local medico be frst
consulted. One example is as good as .
thousand near Cadiz is Chiclana, to which
the faculty invariably transport those pa,
tients whom they cannot cure, that IS, abou'
ninety-five in the hundred; so in chronic
complaints, sea-bathing there is prescribed,
with a course Of asses milk; and II tnal
fail. then broth made Of long, harmless
snake. which abounds in the aromatic wastes
near Barrosa. We have forgotten the gene
rio name of this valuable reptile OF Escula
pius. one Of which our naturallsts should
take alive, and either breed from It IN the
Regents Park, or at least investigate hi
comparative anatomy with those exquisIt:
vpers which make. as We have shown, suci
delicious pork at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Spaniardrs and their Country.
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SPANISH PREscRIPTIoNs.-The prescrip-
tons of these welldressed gentlemen are
somewhat more old-iashioned than their
coats. Their grand recipe in the first in
stance is to do nothing beyond taking the
fee and leaving nature alone, or, as the set
phrase has il, dejar Ia naturaleza. The
young, and those whose constitutions are
strong, and whose complaints are weak, do
we'll under the healing influence of their
kind nurse, Nature, and recover through her
Wis medicatrix, which, il not obstructed by
art, every where works wonderful cures.
The Sdngrado will say that Spanish man
or woman is more marvellously made than
a clock, inasmuch as his or her machinery
has a power in itself to regulate its own mo-
tons, and to repair accidents; and there
fore the matchmaker who is called in, need
not be in hurry to take it to pieces when a
little oiling and cleaning may set all to
rights. The remedies, when the proper
time for their application arrives, are simple,
and are sought for rather among the vegeta-
bles OF the earth's surface than from the
minerals in its bowels. The external re-
cipes consist chiefly of papers smeared with
lard, applied to the abdomen, sinapisms and
mustard poultices to the feet, lamentations
Of marsh mallows or camomile flowers, and
the aid Of the curate. The internal rene.
dies, the tisanes, the Leches de Ainendyds,
de BuTas, decoctions Of rice, and so forth,
succeed each other in such regular order,
that the patient scholar has nothing to dc
but repeat the medical passage in Horace's
'Satires. In no country, however, can all
the sick be always expected to recover even
then, since "Para TODD hay remtdio. SIM
para la niaerte" -''There is a remedy fol
everything except death" If by chance
the patient dies, the doctor and the diseass
bear the blame. Perhaps the old Iberiar
custom was the safest; then the sick wer'
exposed outside their doors, and the advic,
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"Deserte ct multa querenti
AmoleXus ct OPEN tulit."

In the case Of seduction, the justice of
compensation is not so palpable; but we
think that on inquiry i; proves to be quite
as sound. ''Volenti non fit injuria' must
be taken with a qualification willingness
must be accepted as being limited to that
which the willing party really understands.
Ina cases Of seduction there is a remarkable
inversion Of natural Justice the worldly
experience Of the man usually much ex-
ceedS that of the woman, while the evil
consequences to her are altogether in ex-
cess Of any risk which he may run; in the
great majority Of cases, the victim is quite
ignorant of what she incurs; the man it is
that knows the consequences, the woman
that endures them. Now, the worst con
secuences-th degradation, the loss of So
cial position, and Of opportunities for world
ly advantage--are penalties decreed by the
will of society. Society, therefore, would
be quite right to see thai its penalty does
fall on one alone Of the offenders, and that
one probably the more innocent; it has q
perfect right to enact, by its juries, that il
the immediate responsibility is to be lasten-
ed on the woman, her accomplish shall be
required to aid her in sustaining the bur.
den.
1t is pity, however, that the law should
come before juries in so confused and i'm
perfect state. The women, the party
injured, has no direct claim for damages
but they can only be extracted from the Sc
ducer by virtue OF legal fiction, under ia.
yor of which parent may sue for damages
to compensate the presumed loss OF a daugh
ter's services" Now that is question
wholly beside the justice Of the case, and i
is only by kind Of stretching Of the Law
that juries can really attain 70 substantial
Justice. This they endeavor 10 do; but tn,
task Of virtually remodelling the law in tina
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The Three Voices.

What saith the past to thee Weep!
Truth is departed:
Beauty hath died like the dream Of a sleep,
Love is faint hearted;
Triaes Of sense, the profoundly unreal,
Scare from our spirits Gods holy ideal
SO, as funersl-bell, slow and deep,
So tolls the past to thee! Weep!
How speaks the present hourl Act
Walk, upward glancing;
So shall thy footsteps in glory be tracked,
Slow, but advancing.
Scorn not the smallness Of daily endeavor;
Let the great meaning enRoble il ever;
Droop not DER efforts expended in vain
Work, as believing labor is gain.
What doth the future sayl Hope.
Turn thy face sunward.
Look where the light fringes the far rising slope
Day cometh onward.
Watch, Though so long be twilight delaying
Let the first sunbeam arise on thee praying;
Fear not for greater is God by thy side
Than armies Of Satan against thee allied
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The Real "Proaeclion Of Femaie-.-

THE progress Of wiser humanity on the
subject of social questions is strikingly
shown in the verdicts which iuries give in
actions for two classes of injury to women
for seduction and breach Of promise Of mar
rage. In both kinds OF actions, juries,
with increasing steadness of perseverance,
award large damages as compared
with what would formerly have been thought
reasonable. The better reason, however,
lies with the present practice; and il is well
to strengthen the practice by unfolding the
enlightened iuries with approval.
The two kinds Of cases do not rest ex-
actly on the same grounds. The require
ments Of equity in the instance Of breach
of promise are clear. A promise TO marry
is like any other civil bargain, with the
difference that it affects the prospects Of a
whole life Certain injuries cannot be
remeded, and they are often the severest
No amount Of damages could have con-
soled Julia Of Verona for the loss Of her
beloved Proteus-pitiful rascal as every
reader of Shakespeare may think him. Dis
appointment at losing promised fortune,
though it may be bitter, is scarcely fit sub
jet for compensation, inasmuch as the gift
of inrtune is not a thing necessarily I'M
piled in marriage. The proper object of
compensation is implied by the nature Of
the injury so far as il is the breach of civil
bargain. When a woman accepts prom
ice Of marriage she usually valves all pros
poets Of settlement in life that may lie in
other quarters-other suitors receive no en-
couragement, and the property in her afec-
tons is reserved to the promiser. That is
the quid pro quo and it is often a very
large guild for a very worthless quo. If the
courtship lasts long time-and in case
reported this week il lasted for ten years
the lady consents, on the faith of the bar
gain, not only to waive opportunities that
she might otherwise have, but probably to
pass without using a single opportunity in
that part of her life when her attractions
are in the fullest flower Whether the
courtship lasts long time or short, she
becomes deserted woman--a ''leavings,
and obnoxious to that cowardly contempt
which prevails with the common run OF
people for all who have been sighted.
Hence, her prospects Of settlement else
where are seriously and obviously damaged.
The eDdeavor of compensation should be
as nearly as possible to place her in stalu
quo. That cannot, of course, actually be
done but an approximation to equity can
be made. If the mise-breaker is COM
PEELED to give her the minimum of income
which as his wife she might have expected,
not only IS she secured a fragment Of the
bargain which he refuses to fulfil, but by
giving the possession Of some little means
the law in degree restores her attractive
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DoMEsTIc HAPPIEEss.-'"The great end
Of prudence" said he. ''is to give cheerful.
ness to those hours which splendor cannO,
gid, and reclamation cannot exhilerate
those soft intervals OF unbended amusement
in which man shrinks to his natural d.
mansions and throws aside the ornament,
or DISCUSSES which he feels. in Privacy. to be
useful encumbrances, and to lose all eGec,
when they become familiar. ToBe haDD,,
at home is the ultimate result Of all ami
ton; the end to which every enterprise and
labor tends, and OF which every desire
prompts the prosecution. 1t is, indeed, a.
home that every man must be known. by
those who would make a just estimate Of bis
virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroide.
~ are alike occasional, and the mind is Of.
ten dressed for show ia painted honor and
fictitious benevolence. Dr.. Johnson.
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way ought not to be imposed upon them.
The law itself might very equitably pre-
sumo that the seducer intended to bear his
due share OF the responsibility. and that II
he neglected to do so he had practically
committed breach Of implied compact.
II may be said, we know, that to recog-
nize direct claim would be a premium
to vice, by removing part Of the penalty on
seduction. A saying very partially true
and very generally false. Exactly as 1t
mitigated the punishment for one, such a
law would entail responsibility on another
il would operate as check on seducers, and
powerful one-for all deceivers of wo-
men are mean men. The prospect ef hav
ing TO pay heavily for their successes
would convert many Don Juans into SciPIos
And be it remembered, that in appealing e
the motives Of the seducer, the law would
act at once upon the first offender. Sucf
responsibility, indeed, would do more Iea
good in any single county than bill like
Mr.. Spooner'sis likely to effect all owe
the kingdom.-London Spectator.
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DAYS BEFORE BooKs.--In the old igno-
ranttimes, before women were readers, the
history was handed down from mother to
daughter, &c, and Williem Of Malmsbury
picked up his history, from the time oil
Venerable Bede to his time. out OF old
songs, for there was no writer in England
from Bede to him. So my nurse had the
history from the Conquest down to Charles
I. in ballad. Before printing, Old Wives
Tales were ingenious; and since printing
came in fashion, I'LL little before the Civ
il Wars, the ordinary sort of people were
not taught to read. Nowadays, books are
common, and most Of the poor people IN
derstand letters; and the many good hooks
and variety Of turns Of affairs, have put all
the old fables out Of doors. And the d.
vine art of printing and gunpowder have
frightened away Robin Good-fellow and the
Fairies.-Aubrey.
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WoMAS.-"As the vine, says Washing
ton Irving. switch has long twined its
graceful foliage about the oak, and been
lifted by il into sunshine, will, when the
hardy plant is rfted by the thunder-bOlt,
cling round it with its oareSsing tendnls,
and bind up its shattered boughsi so 1t is
beautifully ordained by Providence, that
woman, who is the mere dependent and or.
nament OF man, in his happier hours, should
be his stay and solace when smitten with
sudden calamity, winding herself into the
rugged recesses Of his nature, tenderly sup
porting the dropping head, and binding up
the broken heart,
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sUSDERED TIEs.-lt is a painful thing
to think how the purest and dearest lie that
can exist-that which binds the parent to
the child, and the child to the parents
doomed to sever by III. very oOurse of ma
tuIe; that a new and vivid emotion will in
evitably enter the heart Of youth-and be
fore that emotion, how cold and feint seems
all that was held precious before And
yet, so inextricably blended are happiness
and sorrow on earth, that fortunate, thrice
fortunate, are they who have such ties to
sever.
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[From the Literary Gazette. I
BY CHARLES SWAIN,

BY CHARLES SWAIN ID.
HATE those wild spirits that either are Growing
As If of the sun they had more than their
share,
More boisterous far than nOr-wester blowing,
Or sunk in the uttermost depths of despair
Give me the firm nature that, tranquil and fear
less,
Some hope midst the tide of misfortune eau
find; ...
Nor too saaguine to-day, nor tomorrow toe
cheerless,
But reason the rudder that governs the mind
Those weathercock- feelings that ever seem
fated
To change their direction whatever winds
draw;
One moment depressed, in another elated-
Now led by feather, now lost by straw;
Give me the true heart upon which there's re-
lance,
Ere known what the hOur'sPassing humo'
may plan;
One that laughs at slight cares, or can bid then
defiance,
And bear the misfOrtunes, erect, like man
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The Builders.



All are architects Of Fate, --
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great
Some with ornaments Of rhyme.
Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing In its place Is best, l
And what seems but idle show,
Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build
Truly shape and fashion these; ~
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things viii remain unseen
In the elder days Of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.
Let us do our work as well,
Both unseen and the seen
Make the house where gods may dwell,
Beautiful, entire and clean.
Else our lives are incomplete -.
Standing in these walls of Iime'
Broken stair ways, where the feet
Stumble as they seek to climb.
Build to-day, then, strong and sure,
With firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
Shall tomorrow find its place.
Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain
And one boundless reach of sky
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The AGE BEFORE NEwsPAPERs.-I am
so put to it for something to say, that |
would make a memorandum Of the most
improbable lie that could be invented by a
Viscountessdowager; as the old Duchess
Of Rutland does when she is told of some
strange casually. "Lucy, child. step into
the next room and set that down" lord,
Madam '" says Lady Lucy, 1T can't be
true !-"Oh, no matter, child; it will do
for news into the country next post. :"
Horace Walpole.
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No LEARNING WITHOUT PKErARATIoS.
No man can learn what he has not pre-,
paratiOn for learning. however near TO his
eyes Il the object. A chemist may tell his
most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he
shall be never the wiser; the secrets he
would not utter TO a chemist iOr an estate.
God screens us eyermOre from premature
ideas. Our eyes are holden that We cannot
see things that stare US in the face, until the
hour arrives when the mind is rpcnod then
we behold them, and the time when we saw
them not is like dream.-Emers0n.
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TINES CHANGEs.-Nature hath fun
isned one part Of the earth, and man another.
The treasures OF time lie high, in wins,
coins, and monuments, scarce below the
roots of some vegetables. Time hath end
less rarities, and shows Of all varieties;
which reveals old things in heaven, makes
new discoveries in earth, and even earth il
self a discovery. That great antiquity
America lay buried for a thousand years
and large part Of the earth is still in the
urn unto us-Sir Thomas Broirn's Urn
Burial.
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Test OF SEIF.-If you desire to know
your firmly established principles Of moral
worth with much greater certainty than you
can learn them from resolutions and actions,
you have only to pay attention to the Joy
or sorrow which first arises in you, like a
flash Of lightning. on the occasion Of a
moral call Of duty, piece Of news, dis
appointment, &c, but again Immediately
disappears, conquered by further reAec-
ton
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Boys and girls,
And women, that would grOan to see a child
Pull off an insects leg, all read Of war.
The best amusement for a morning meal,
The poor wretch who has learnt his only PRAYERS
From curses, who knows scarcely words enough
To asa blessing from his Heavenly Father,
Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute
And technical in victories and defeats
And all our dainty terms for fratrcide,
Terms which We trundle smoothly Ger our
tongue,
Like mere distractions, empty sounds TO which
We join no feeling and attach no form,
As II the soldier died without a wound.
As if the flbres Of their GOdlike frames
Were gOIed without pang; as il the wretch
Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds.
Passed of TO Heaven, translated, and not killed
As though he had no wife to pine for him,
No God 10 judge him.