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For the second time in its history, a fundamental change had been wrought in the political system of the nation without a resort to war! The United States of Brazil accordingly took its place peacefully among its fellow republics of the New World. Meanwhile Argentina, the great neighbor of Brazil to the southwest, had been gaining territory and new resources.
"But you must swear that what you tell me is true and that Juanita will join you in Argentina. Honour of a gentleman." "Honour of a gentleman," repeated the voice; and the hand of a blacksmith came through the leaves, seeking Cartoner's grasp. "They are turning the lights out," said Cartoner, when the bargain was concluded. "But I will wait until it is safe to leave you here.
One night a Chileno pulled his knife on another who cleaned him out, and when the police got busy the casino shut down. I pushed across for Argentina, but my luck wasn't good, and I made Las Palmas not long since on board an Italian boat. On the whole, I like the dagos, and reckoned I might try Cuba, or perhaps the Philippines "
To the south of Terra Firma the Viceroyalty of Peru extended itself, bordered on the south by the Province of Chile; while to the east, occupying the remainder of the Continent as far as the Brazilian frontier, and stretching over the fertile plains to the south, was the great Province of Paraguay, which included the territories now contained in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and part of Bolivia.
I know, señor, I who have been' he touched them off on succeeding finger-tips 'gaucho in Argentina, cowboy in your country, a soldier in the Chilean war, horse-breaker but I have not fingers sufficient I who have roamed far, I know men. And Torellas but you have seen him, señor? Ah-h then you, too, know. Is he not a man? Ah-h and surely a man can be but a man.
Against these rude gipsies the refined grace and Goyaesque elegance of La Argentina stand forth in high relief, La Argentina, in whose hands the castanets become as potent an instrument for our pleasure as the violin does in the fingers of Jascha Heifetz. Bilbao, too, with his thundering heels and his tauromachian gestures, bewilders our highly magnetized senses.
In October, 1918, the Cuban government announced that it had 25,000 troops ready to send to France, but the armistice was signed before arrangements could be made for their transportation. The only active service rendered by Cubans was in the field of aviation, where several individuals won high distinction. Of the A B C powers Argentina and Chile remained neutral. So also did Mexico.
In the Argentine there are some of the finest forest regions imaginable and then you can travel a thousand miles across level plains and never see a tree. The southern part of Argentina used to be called Patagonia. This is the Alaska of South America. The extreme southern point is the island of Tierra del Fuego, which is divided between Argentina and Chile.
The National City Bank has branches in Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Italy, Porto Rico, Russia, Siberia, Spain, Trinidad, Uruguay and Venezuela, all of which have been established since 1914.
Anthony Fahy, with whose name the advancement of the Irish in Argentina will be forever identified. This great patriarch was born at Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1804, and made his ecclesiastical studies at St. Clement's convent of Irish Dominicans at Rome.
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