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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1907)
‘•“■I s tr L: Ik ; K' tf ■ V m i f ' i if* vtailo. 'i H 1 " k , i 1 ! — Pi X f \ i \ *‘ ‘i #< mS* . ; r; f Lou in () lobe lirm«rrat. Cubi! ! I’aaaittS? bauto Domingo? When Uncle Sam villa the roll of hia poiiewions in tf»e C>ari%be«n here after, these three localitie* will answer Present' The tnahty just ratified by * Santo Dotlingo's ^ongfess places the United State* m^jinanrial control of the island, and thi4 da^Mar- with it a , Rood deal of political sleay. W e are supieme at the cunom Kouaes of that pSepubKc, ^olledkj^ its rerenues, de- H nder ,he but < he > COtn * «° po^qiC .45 per dent s»f theta in a J U * .Umaua ha* said less bank inNew YorM f<M the benefit of the island £ONemn?m passage into the Caribbean. Our guardianship over Cuba gives us the keys of the Windward gateway into that hag sea. . The Panama protector ate places the isthmus practically under otsr fUi*. and makes ouf com ing short-cut hetweer rhe world's two great Oceans a United States watet~ way. It will be Haiti's turn neat to follow bet neighbor into the United $(bteaifofd. Ipetunark's islands would not ho quitd iw> valuable an accession oo us *s the^ i would have been, in the did dav* ihen Reward and <xher statesmeh Wanted to bring them First Passenger (in a first-class car riage of the Pans-Nice train)—Are you goislg as far as Monte Carloc 1 Second Passenger—Yes, 1 go there every yedr. “Playit little?’ ‘ 1 , t i “Once in the morning and once in the afternoon regulafly every day.” .TBit you lose?' “No, ( always gain." “What is your system?" of which is the the other 45 ikv cekrt #<* the are handed o\er xs eminent. For ovrr half we did tnis K'JrtOili..** r c, " , lr{ h *M 11 nitL Safe, .nj f ,h * N <f )l*'Kir«h tc 4 1 r«. customs Q. D. FEED $ LI Tucker STABLE *• A very simple one. violin and nothing Lototrs. ; t» 1 play the that,”—Not The Only QtLble on Main Street. FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS. THE ONLY I TIRE CARNAGE IN BRYAN. 4T RUBBER r I Hostels (to geesUF—My dear Bar- e To ts •he President Roosevel ate in Washtnguin island's gov- year and a ukase of rhe sen- mpelled to either end or indorae ch*« financial re ceivership, at last ratified it by treaty. Santo Domingo’s congress now US’* given it its approval, aia the trustee ship which has boen m provisional operation for a little oxer two years receives final arstk official sanction from the govenMedM of the two countries. | tj * T (Jen. (jtant takes a glance at eei^ily things to-day he will rejoice at this outcome in the Dominican re public. 'One pf the earliest mepsures of President (irint’s administration was a project for the annexation of banto IXmnngo. FV>r at least three feasons Grant wanted the bland. Its harbor at bamana l»ay would gi\e us -a good coaling autum. and would furn/sh us a tine Irahdrayyus for our navy. The Dorriirecjui |i«H>p e fasored annexation, and the project received an overwhelming rr.gjdrity of the popelar vote of the Island. Grant feared that; if we refused to annex it the bland would rAvbntbklly ibout anpei^tKM to the United States recently thati it did a fe*v years ago, but the UuT political gravitation jj'which is drdy mg all of the Caribbean islands to u*. cannot be suspendetl many more; decades, ftoosevelt is 'i..t changing boundary lines on the American continent so fast as Bona parte did'in ,Kurope after AusteHitz, but he is furnishing a good deal ~oi work to the map-makers. he tHh n age. j No one could possibly guess it. Hostess’ Small San - Well, 1 could, only I can't count past a hundred.—* Rirfr. j J| ’"t ' Husband—Wout| you like to die with me. 5 Wife—Oh, no. dear, l would rath er live a litrle longer so that 1 might mourn for you.— Boii Vivant. , Wife—Good gracious, there are tHra* Apaches? Have you your re volver with you, Felix 5 Husband—Yes, bijt 1 think 1 had better not show it to them, they might take it from me. — Bon Vivant. Ferdinand de besseiis was against all forms of One dwy* when he had sottl^ friends to :h the servant dropped, a price less Sevres, cup, which felT in i a thousand pieces on the fl<>or r ‘ Ob, hdw unfortunate^'j said Mme de I.esscps, wlio, Unlike her husband, wias rather superstitious, two more (of ^hem are Certain to get broken now. It altrays hap pens so. Ji 1! I Officer** Gaston, what W' “If you 4te so sure of that,” re-j j^ .plied Count de Lesseps, who had often tried ;to cure bis wijfe of this fault, “wejliad Ijclter get all your misfortunei over togetheir.’’ Say- ’ She—Oh, dear, 1 am so worried My hhir is beginning to fall off. You don’t know a good remedy for bald ness l suppose, do you? Her—Well, try wearing a h»t. kifjeyr J* ]m you were shot in the ing an engagement 5 'Ciaptoh' Fall over, sir.-t,llir« i ing weich flung theti Vivant. (e seized tVv ct:p« and to the grqi«id.—lion Master (engaging valet »-i^Andj i i ft In . - • * ill r- f! Work I epc lied, and njy master objected to it. Jsvery one; has his tastes, of course. ~Nos Ix>isirt. get into . j. iruubl. which woul^ 1W. ,, u.uer * h >'f ’T ^ Tr . _ . 117 . \ alet-^^’ell, sir, after I had fin- the sway of some fing F.uropean * . . n*non. He «w «Ke im- J Tl ’T"” pc rt ,n« ol hevilk » ,re„ Frepeh hon. befafe *oin K to station in the CariDhean as a defense for our gulf Coast ifi c ase pf war with some byt European nation. Cirant Iff did not foreftte rag events of thirty years later, which’.filaged Cuba vir tually and Pdfto V|*ico. absolutely under our flag, nor did be dream of the issue which was io place Panama Nindsf. our control. ;.NoUliiImiIcm. if he could take a look.at the situation m the Caribbean nb«^'he would say that our supremacy m Santo l)o- mingp is of more consefuence to us in 1*>7 than it would' have been in 186*A when he stane| to. bring it about. The Panama canal, which was only H J ream to the world of a geneititioa Zgu, is tLday in sight,*and U is tit be part of die toast line of the United States, j This makes the • ,>; juredl tone, im. 1 l, lyon I a vi atjurt:, ai »»ttnqv 3 Prof. Jdnkin —Do foil tin eiving an aci(uaint- a terrible bore Coui- bim crossed over the ! t the bore saw him and | ha-, retreat asked him in why he was avoid- A man a nee who ing toi 10*1. cutting an inj ing him “Well, |yon see,” replied the 1 other, "I gm a very wearisome per- j son by natxine, and I didn't wish to' . inconvenimoe you,’’ —Nok Loisirs. . _ xh^. Leading Druggis ; BRV kN t TfiXA5\ Stationery, Tobacco hIL Articles of all kinds DO YOU NI Uniform Troi life, m ■ *i . .If, 9 ill The Can make them fob| Cleaning, Pi w > j : | - ' AKK DOK T FDEOET th® PLAl — 5D A NEW PAIR OF ;ers or Uniforms . i j ) l ON A KKW DAY^’ .NOTICE- ling and Repairing ■HIA M'KCIAlTIKS. v If—NORTHof OATHRIOHT HALY* n Si J,] if: THIS SPACE outposts in rest much formerly. Roosevelt piece as it the br, lit l possession of great Inaval our Mediterranean of the more important to as than Our tenure under the scheme is not quite so coir would have been udder annexation plan of 1864-70. which Spmiser defeated, bet in War time it could be made absolute, enough for all exigencies. VI 1 When, much more than a century ago. Jefferson predicted that rhe islands of the Guff of Mexico and the Caribbean would one day form themselves into a gr*t confederation, unde* the prot of the United Suites, he tnay hav r-casted more wisely than he knew. The league preliminary has not appeared, but several of itie islands of j : our southern sea have placed them selves under our swagh By the an- -11 Moot ion of Parto Rico and the quasi- polttical receivership which we have established over Santo Domingo we hwve gained control -of the * Mona (working at toard) derstand that, Mi,' Giesecke?} , • j Giesecke-^Naw, sir. ♦ Junkin-FIf you let a little thing like that j stump you,, you never will get married. (Giesecke paints) ; The chi|l ten’s mother hah married for the sec ond time a man with slight- i ly bowed legs, and on hdr return j she commanded them to kiss their new papa. fcUse- ()h, but mother, he isn’t quite new. ,j . ' Mother -‘‘What do you mean 5 fclise—Look, his leg is all bent.— Bon Vivani. Ui t; FOR J. M. CAL - ELL BkVAN,TEX; Give you? i rder for CLASS rim All jrinda ef Watches at Jeeel r y .nf all .hind*. Hand | est !inf df China in Bryan. RINGS CLASS! PINS And all repair work to J. M. CALDWELL The Jeweler n Clock* at (tie .lowest price*. China, Cut Glaai; and .lilt I . m 4*•.•F 4*1*1* 4* ■ <* 14*1:4* 4* 4* 4* 4*’4- if HE “You bote me with your dangers of fore, i alcohol kook at me. I a* 76 and always taft^two absinthes every day.” “Ah, my friend, probably if you hadn’t done that you would be a cen tenarian byindw.^—Bon Vivant if Pissenget -When does the last train come inf! Porter ▼-Not during your lifetime. 1 expect. —Nos Tain*. mi & ifr* II iTJ|n j X 1 \ i >71 Is 6) at any ' > * time. ilv i n< I r’9^ m i / ru ^ c PRICE ( T Wt 1 M 1 J \ ] :, I ), Students are requested to have their money ceive their iWhen la^TI they ! . fi . i ri A