WHAT THE OTHERS THINK THEY KNOW IMPERIAL AMERICA AI From the St. St Louis Globe Democrat It Is as a a. step toward the ultimate control control control con con- by the United States Slates of all of AmerIca Amer- Amer lea Ica north of the Rio Grande that the annexation annexation annexation an an- of the Danish Islands Is sig sig- sig- sig Denmark's little Islands of StThomas StThomas St. St Thomas St. St John and St St. Cr Croix lx which the United States will gain under the treaty trealY soon to be ratified comprise in inthe inthe inthe the aggregate only square squar miles of area which is less than twice that of St. St Louis and th their lr population Is In cant But their position at the entrance to the Caribbean n sea gives them them at al this moment when the the O United States Slates Is about to build a ca canal al across t the te e isthmus a strategic is entirely p put It t f proportion to their area atea a and n h IDAHO'S WHITE PINE I From the Spokane Spokesman Lumbering promises to become one of the most important Industries of northern northern north north- em ern I Idaho Gradually the fhe the value of the great pine belt has become appreciated and lumbermen with an eye to the future future future fu fu- fu- fu ture are securing timber Umber tracts that In a afew afew afew few years will be regarded as tie the tre best sort of property properly in the State Slate There have been been comparatively slight Inroads made in Idaho white pine for the reason that the large tracts have been In out of the way places the local demand for lumber has not hot been large and lack and lack of railroad facilities and high tariffs have made it difficult to get Into the markets of the prairie States WU AND CHAUNCEY From the Commercial Tribune While our own Chauncey remains to tous tous tous us it is Inevitable that he will be our own our onliest and perennial peach but It it is becoming painfully apparent that thal Minister Wu of the tho Flowery Land and a diamond as big as as a walnut Is closely crowding him So close Is the crowding that thal there are times when the belief forces itself that Minister Wu Vu Is Js something something something some some- thing In disguise and not a sure-enough sure Chinaman or Mongolian or Manchurian OL or whatever z-it z It may may be but that thal he Is entitled entitled en en- titled tilled to ra rank k in Inthe the peach class always alays however be it understood after the gay and giddy Chauncey Chauncey-Chauncey Chauncey Chauncey of the Two Trou Trousers ers PRINCE E HENRY From Froth the Chicago Tribune We do not pot ot honor Prince Henry only onh nor his royal roal and Imperial brother only nor the people of Germany only when w we voe extend a cordial greeting to this representative representative of German Ideas and sentiments senti senti- ments In part at least we give expresSion expression expression sion to our regard for tor German-American German citizens at home home In In the United Stat States for we know that their feelings are e enlisted enlisted en en- listed on behalf of the visitor from the Fatherland over the seas and whom they delight to honor all patriotic patriotic- Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans should receive with almost fraternal fraternal fraternal fra fra- affection