Title:  The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

Author:  Various

Release Date:  March 11, 2005 [EBook #15325]

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    Vol. 1 February 18, 1897.  No. 15

There is a new cause for supposing that the Treaty with Great Britain will either be defeated in the Senate, or else delayed for some time to come.

This new trouble concerns the building of the Nicaragua Canal.

It seems a remote cause, does it not? but it only shows how closely the affairs of one nation are bound up with those of all the others.  No matter what our speech, our climate, or our color, we are all a portion of the great human family, and the good of one is the good of all.

The Nicaragua Canal is a water-way that will cross the narrow neck of land that makes Central America.  It will connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

With the help of such a canal, ships in going to the western coast of North or South America will not need to make the long and dangerous voyage around Cape Horn.