Inspired by a rather vague and often formless yearning towards adventure in new lands, a great many men in the University, and in other institutions for higher education in America, are preparing themselves somewhat in learning, and a great deal more in hope, for trade in South America.

It would be useless, as it would be ill advised, to enumerate the scores of Americans stranded destitute in the great capitals of the southern republics, who went in the love of romance to find the idealized Utopia of all men dreams, hoping with a little ingenuity and some work to achieve the golden success of life. In any country such adventurers will be found.

In South America, as in any country there is opportunity for the intelligent, and a tremendous premium upon brains. It is somewhat of a question whether there is any larger opportunity or any greater stress upon mentality in South America than in the United States.

If a man feels the desire to see new lands, to break away from those places which his ancestors cleared from the wilderness, then there is no doubt but that, given a due amount of Saxon intelligence and grit, he may make good in foreign countries. But unless he has that restlessness of the blood he would do well to look at the opportunities that lie before him in his own country, where his own tongue is spoken, among people, who are in sympathy with his ideas, and whose ideas he may appreciate.