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Show It Is reassuring to be Informed that the "Haytlcn Incident" is satisfactorily closed. This incident, It will be remembered, re-membered, was the stoning of the French and German Ministers, by members mem-bers of the palace guard at Port au Prince. It seems that the atone (or stones) thrown was merely a gentle reminder re-minder to the Ministers that the guards were there "and don't you forget It." There was no intent to express any anti-foreign anlmuy, nor to hurt anybody, any-body, and ample apologies followed, which were accepted with wine. The first explanations, that the palace guards, angry at a bank defalcation for which they blamed tho German and the French directors, and through which the guards lost their pay, it appears, ap-pears, were not the true versions; the official versions, that Is; for probably that first account was the correct one. But it is well that all are content with the official statement, even if it Is bo- |