It is current gossip that Miss Alice Rooseralt's going will be in response to her own request to her father that he make his permission her birthday gift on the occasion of her reaching the age of eighteen years on the 11th of this month Assurances have been given that England atill extend her a hearty welcome, and that she will be received as one of a tank just below an hereditary princess. The fact that: while she is directly descendant from the ruling head of a nation the headship is not in America hereditary makes the tinction. Her aunt, wife of Commander Cowles of the Navy, will accompany her as chaperon.
Miss Alice Roosevelt is the President's daughter by his first wife, who was, before marriage, Miss Lee of Boston, of @ family of no little distinction and of notabl~ ancestry. When Theodore Roosevelt: was left a widower by the death of his first wife the baby daughter was handed over to the care of his sister. now Mrs. Cowles. and remained her charge until the father married the present Mrs. Roorevelt. Ah is now a girl of almost eighteen years, of about medium height, slight of figure, of simple and pleasing manner She is an exception to the rest of the family in some ways. She is averse to study or literary effort. Unlike her father, patticularly. who is an onmivorous reader, little time to either classic current literature. She is more incl: ned to poetry than to the novel, and especially Tikes Longfellow. As to music, she herself that she always practiced the with the tears of rebellion min: her face. Nevertheless. her education i an adequate one for a girl of her age. She speaks French and German fluently and is well-informed in the subjects that make up the usual college cmriculum. W in personal appearance she does not the impression of robustness, yet she is almost never ill. She thoro door life, and horseback cot pleasure. She often accompanies the President in his daily n "Strikingly characteristic of her are her simplicity and straightforwardness. She meets people of every rank with an ease and quiet dignity that fix the manner of conversation at once upon an assured ans] satisfactory basis.
Cuba was the reason for the Spanish war, and ay Cuba bids fair to be responsible for internal dissension in the Republican party to an extent as yet undetermined. It is pointel out very strongly by the friends of the island people that the presperity of the Cuban people, and with it the stability of the coming independe: t government, are conditional upon a favourable basis of trade with the Tnited States. It is urged that the United States, - having taken the island temporarily under its protection, is morally bound to sce that it pre ple have every reasoveble " py arm ty }to recover from the ravages of war and from the uncertainties of business conditions which have followed.
Cuba's Great Staples are tobacco and sugar. A reduction of the duty on Cuban tobacco meets the opposi-tien of the tobacco growers of New England, though this, relatively unimportant, can be overcome with comparative ease. But the case of sugar is a more difficult one. Fostered by the high tariff, the beet sugar industry has been established and Zerveloped in Several of the States of the Middle West; and the representatives from) that' "section are determined that no law admitting Cuban sugar at re~ duced rates shall be passed if their efforts can prevent. It is urged upon them that Cuba's whole production added to the entire output of the beet sugar regions would not meet the demand of the country; that further imports would still be necessary; and that this fact would keep the price of sugar hrm at its present figure. This inno degree lessens their opposition.
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