Under the Southern cross in South America . last farewell into the folds he loved so well, for whichhe fought so well, and for which he gave up his life. Alas, thestruggle was in vain! There is no indication at present that Peruwill ever regain her former greatness. Unless some untoward andunthought of circumstances arise to compel her, Chile will nevergive up the captured territory. Although Peru has had her siege of Paris and her Sedan, andlost, too, an Alsace and Lorraine, like France she is also emergingfrom the shadow of the valley into a brighter day, even if her sunmay never shine again
Under the Southern cross in South America . last farewell into the folds he loved so well, for whichhe fought so well, and for which he gave up his life. Alas, thestruggle was in vain! There is no indication at present that Peruwill ever regain her former greatness. Unless some untoward andunthought of circumstances arise to compel her, Chile will nevergive up the captured territory. Although Peru has had her siege of Paris and her Sedan, andlost, too, an Alsace and Lorraine, like France she is also emergingfrom the shadow of the valley into a brighter day, even if her sunmay never shine again with the brilliancy of a former glory. Sheis trying to forget the bitterness of defeat and is beginning to makethe best of her present situation and conditions. She is developingher industrial resources, opening copper and silver mines, erectingcotton mills, building sugar refineries, drilling oil-wells, makingroads, irrigating her plains into fertile fields, constructing steam-ships, enlarging harbors and in a hundred other ways bringing. CATHEDRAL AND PLAZA, LIMA
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