Show A PIPE DREAM DEAL The Neues eues Wiener a lea leading ling paper papel of Vienna has made a a. remarkable discovery in the nature of a mares mare's nest It claims to have haye I learned on undoubted authority that the impending impend impend- ing visit of Prince Henry to this country will be for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of arranging the details of the cession of the Philippine islands to Germany It asserts that negotiations to this end have been in progress for some time As soon as His Royal Highness I completes the deal with President Roosevelt he be hei i will h hurry back to the Kaiser with a bill of sale il in ii his pocket and then the transaction will be announced announced an an- from the White hite House roof 7 w We e are glad that the Neues Wiener Tage Tage- k blatt hiatt has not made us transfer the archipelago o without a little compensation because that would I he be mortifying to our pride and detrimental to our reputations as a sane business nation It is pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant therefore to learn that we are to be paid partly partly part part- ly Jy in cash and partly in political and commercial concessions Our ur paper informant assures us that the other otha powers are fully cognizant of the matter and that Russia rissia and Great t Britain are going to raise an awful row about it Let us us all be humbly h grateful that we are not chickens when the axe w i falls |