Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

open ocean the passage is perfectly smooth;
yet 1t Ia avoided by navigators because of the
powerful currents and the frequency Of snow
storms that prevail here at all times Of the
year. The few vessels that take this course are
compelled to anchor every night and also to
tie ~" xhenever snow il falling because OF
the great danger OF collision with iceberEs in
some Of the circuitous turns. Sailors prefer TO
take their chances on the open sea, where there
IL plenty OF room and they can keep going by
night az well as by day rather than linger In q
region where the sun sets at o'clock In the
afternoon. Winter IL eternal 90 far south of
year and the line OF perpetual snow begins at
an elevation Of only 900 feet.
GRAND SIGHT.
OF course no other than the channel route
would satisfy rs, especially after reading what
that indefatigable traveller, Vincent who lately
made the same journey, has to say about it.
Among other good things he writes: I'VE had
In continual view range OF magnificent snow
covered mountains, belonging to the same
great chain Of Andes that extends almost I'M
broken from the Isthmus Of Panama to Cape
Horn. The Chilean mountains are of the most
fantastic description. Their contour 10 in
mite. They are peaked, jagged, dome and
pyramid shaped, and the amount Of snow that
adheres to their almost perpendicular sides is
astonishing. There are scores OF glaciers, too,
- splendid 40 any in Switzerland. How can
give you an idea Of the varying colors, the
weirdness and the utter savageness Of this ant
arctic scenery? An artist would rave, poet
would rhyme. At first thought Of Norway,
then OF Switzerland, then of Bolivia and then
OF India; but the unobstructed view Of these
mountains on clear day-a very unusual thing
in these parts-is much grander than anything
IN Norway, quite equal to anything in Switzer-
land, and only surpassed by the ranges of Boil
VIA ana India Glaciers SO numerous and vast,
snow fields SO measureless have never seen in
any other part of the globe. And to think that
all these beautiful and majestic scenes are al
together unknown to the general tourist, and
all but unknown to even worldwide travellers"
MIXED COMPANY.
There are no American steamers in the
southern Pacific, and those Of the French and
English lines pass only through the Strait Of
Magellan or around the horn, SO we chose the
"Kosmos" line Germany which alone sends
vessels regularly through symth's channel
South Americas western ports. Our par
ucular steamer-the newest and largest Of q
feet Of ffteen-an rejoicing under Egyptian
names. is called the ''Osiris." These neat little
German boats are remarkably long and slen-
der, being built on the narrow-gauge plan, 80
to speak, for passage of the fords. About
twenty live first-class passengers just comforta-
bly, NIL the tables and all the cabins, and the
only ladies on board are those of our own party.
Though the diversity Of languages spoken on
S~@AN 40 dAuObt as great d6 t0At WHICH confused
the builders OF Babel, a pleasanter company
never found themselves cooped together in
close quarters for q long and dangerous jour-
ney In the strangest corner of creation. There
are authors and artists and merchants and
mine owners and curio hunters from Germany,
France, Russia, England, Denmark, Peru, Chile.
Brazil, Argentine, Cuba, Spain, but the United
States is only represented by our unassuming
selves.
CHILEAN HATRED OF AMERICANS.
Indeed, it would appear nowadays as If the
nephews and nieces Of Uncle Samuel have no
business down this way, and there are those to
the manner born and to the manner adopted who
are not backward about expressing themselves
to that effect. Having to wait some days in |
Valparaiso for the steamers departure, we had |
numberless opportunities for observing how |
greatly public sentiment against Americans has |
increased in bitterness within the last few weeks
And yet there is not Chilean among them |
who could give any reason for the hate that Is |
within him. Americans have never done any
harm here, If we except few mongrel Ameri- |
politicians who were head and front
OF the late revolution and are just now in high |
favor Jealousy is the moving cause Of Chilean |
hatred-an evil passion, cruel as the grave |
which is being industriousy fostered against the
United States by certain English capitalists |
who have long been making too good a
thing out of Chile to wish to spare any of its |
commerce. Engiishmen have had things all |
their own way here SO long that they have come |
TO consider the undivided loaves and fishes |
theirs by right. The recent pan-American |
congress startled them ont of their fancied Sc |
curity and led them to realize that Americans
must somehow be held at bay. or their days Of |
monopoly are over. Among such combustible |
material as the Chilean masses it requires but |
the tiniest spark to create a confagration. and |
1t sometimes happens that fire, once started |
leaps beyond the control of those who ignited |
1t. The time is likely to come, in the near fu- |
ture, when the United States government for |
the maintenance Of its own dignity and the |
protection OF its wandering sons will be COM
PEELED to teach these conceited Chileans q |
wholesome lesson.
APosTArE AMERICANS.
And what shall we say of those Americans |
who call themselves citizens Of Chile and are
now figuring prominently in the politics of that
country! As rule they are the worst enc
mics TO their own countrymen that can be
found in this misnamed republic. By the way,
why Is il, wonder, that some of you at home
persist in calling these apostatc Americans by
names that never belonged to them? Why, for
example, should that enterprising New Eng
lander, Mr.. Richard Trumbull be dubbed
vania-born Montts, Peter and George, be called
Pedro and Jorge by their old neighbors, or
plain Edward and julius be transformed by
Yankee mouths into Eduardo aud Julio? No
doubt the Spanish rendering of their cogno-
mems is best for the advancement of their own
ambitious schemes in Chile, but VIC Americans
have no reason to rechristen them.
FANNIE B. wAnp.
ORCHID CULTURE.
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