1 6 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



up huge ships for purposes of destruction ! No, no, let 

 monarchies play this game as long as the people toler- 

 ate it, but for the Republic '' all her paths are peace," 

 or the bright hopes which the masses of Europe repose 

 in her are destined to a sad eclipse. 



Travellers know the character and abilities of the 

 men in charge of a Cunard ship, but have they ever 

 considered for what pittances such men are obtained ? 

 Captain, $3,250 per annum; first ofHcer, $1,000; second, 

 third, and fourth officers, $600. For what sum, think 

 you, can be had a man capable of controlling the pon- 

 derous machinery'- of the Servia ? Chief engineeer, 

 $1,250. You have seen the firemen at work down be- 

 low, perhaps. Do you know any work so hard as this ? 

 Price $30 per month. The first cost of a steel ship — 

 and it is scarcely worth while in these days to think of 

 any other kind — is about one-half on the Clyde what it 

 is on the Delaware. Steel can be made, and is made, in 

 Britain for about one half its cost here. Not in our day 

 will it be wise for America to leave the land. It is a 

 very fair division, as matters stand — the land for Amer- 

 ica, the sea for England. 



Friday, June 10, 1881. 



Land ahoy ! There it was, the long dark low-lying 



cloud, which was no cloud, but the outline of one of the 



most unfortunate of lands — unhappy Ireland, cursed by 



the well-meaning attempt of England to grow English- 



