Show 01110 llltO An encouraging Word came almost dlrtcll from the White Notions on Thursday It was In the effect that In about two days Porto Itlcu would bi under the control of the United States The time serious rather fchort for much n Yast ummatlon hut so rr friend In charge seent to have un drnrtood their I soapiness thomuglily and made few It any mlstake l Btlll Rome allounnee Must be made ft n poslble mlscalculntl n It will be I a Brent achievement P for thin country even If the time required for Its accomplishment ac-complishment phoull be mtefldpd for n few days although ns things are going U seems that nothing Is now I likely to bo last by halite Porto RICO Is the most rnslerly IMinJ of the Orratcr Antlllofl It Is I situated at whal might bo termed the tllwv of a group extending from Cuba easterly some 1003 hlllon the continuation of the group Wing southerly and ending at Ilia Isrtiittf Trlnldail oft the northwestern north-western coast 01 South Amrloa It It JG5 miles long hi Its Innocent part and Is I about forty mrtfn In Width the total square mileage being 3800 Its population Is I 1 not definitely knon but Probably equals fcoo 000 A great number num-ber of navigable lagoons appear on Iho norlhcrN coast hlid fit tertaln times i of the year moot of the rivers emptying Into the sea are navigable A range of Inountninj runs though iorto Illco from east to west the mean height of which Is about Itoo 1 feet but there Is I one peak 3 GTS feet high Ilx tensive plains are to be fount In the interior and there are tracts nr fertile land from three 10 tell Allies In nrdth hloong 1M coast The Atilit In I very fertile fer-tile the yield of sugar Iwlng greater to a plyen number or acres that III tiny other part of tire Antlllen The miniMs mini-Ms found are gold silver copper and largo quantities of salt The Island was illscovfred h l y Colum bus In IID3 and fallen posstsmIon of by Spain In 1500 Iomhalln accordance kvith Spnth usage in late years anti decidedly In line Illi Its toileI during Wriest or the lortervcphvii time the ol loy of extermination wn adopted and In t1 few years tile natlvCA had all flue climbed to the murders prscullooo nAl vile lraeUce lu which they were huljorclea Iw tilt Invaders Th capital li RAn J4an containing robbly sooO people 11 Is I oltuatM on an Islet of the horlhBel coal anti la coooeto with the mainland variously It IN I a Irongly fortified iplite IsAd has been four times attacked 1 at-tacked by Oritl Britain onlY One ot the assaults rolng uoloeslul TheiO lvor Mm time hirco and whole the iorllOatloni Are IUIOly weaker now than then It musk Filed he remembered thAt no such linglInes or dlruelloll Ire In xlolnc In these days o wIll flOw bbrodxht 10 beer upon the de rnca or the lotto Rican allltl IU balititre Is I not counteA hpon As n rahy difficult 1nlortdkn but undoubtedly un-doubtedly II will l resist 10 the last |