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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
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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
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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
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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
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juredl tone,
im. 1
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atjurt:, ai
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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. .
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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.
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fore, i alcohol kook at me. I a* 76 and
always taft^two absinthes every day.”
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tenarian byindw.^—Bon Vivant
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