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.

Cape Horn, you will see if you look on your map, is the extreme southerly
point of South America.

=Copyrighted 1897, By WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON.=

There are so many storms and fogs there, that the Horn, as it is called,
is much dreaded by sailors.

Since the invention of steam, all the steamships go through the Straits of
Magellan, and save the passage round the Horn; but there is not enough
wind for sailing vessels in the rocky and narrow straits, so they still
have to take the outside passage.