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it had occurred five minutes carlier, when there would have been somebody in a signal-box to | hear a warning bell ring, Bat the argument that Spain lost Cubs and the Philippines be.

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the same situation in that service as to-day offers its growing menace in ours." Register goes on to say that we aball discover that no man can be trained to thoroughness in The secret story of the Spanish-American

a great variety of distinctly important tasks. war is leaking out page by pige, and nothing The idea is alluring, but the best results must could be more dramatic or mora intensely continue to be achieved by those whose business interesting. Both nations, it would seem, were it has been to give thought and study and re- waiting for their powder; neither was quite sumrch slung deslnite and prescribed lines. “No ready to strike when the iron was red-hot.man cas serre efficiently many masters, and re ope can hope to attain distinction in anything Only by keeping Spain waiting by little when he is confined to nothing." On this diplomacies could America get its sealed train ground the plan is described as impracticable across the continent, transfor_ile_cargo_to_a_ like the Americae plan. “Wenza macely in the steamer, and ship it to Hongkong in time to ho position of applanding the British adoption of FURNISHED HOUSE to be let at PEAK of use; only by keeping Amerion waiting could eat me on the principle that misery loves

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importance, and it is strange, in reading of the care against the Scottish shipbuilders, te remember the time when wars did not come. about so quickly as now. The old diplomacy hand much in it perhaps that was good, but there were some drawbacks to a system of commusication which entailed delays of many weeks and montla. An example of the difficulty comes to mind from the fifties, when in a speech in the Don Pacifico debate, Sir Robert Peel called attention to the delay in the negotiations with Greece.

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