Another Victory For Peace

Almost on the very day when the ar rangenaent was concluded between England anti the United States for the' arbitratlon of the Venezuelan question, provisión was made for settling another American boundary dispute of long standing in the same way. Costa Rica and Colombia, partly through the good offices of the United States, have agreed to leave the determination of their divisional line to the president of France. If he is unable to accept the office ui irbitrator, President Diaz of Mexico will be asked; and if he, too, is unable lo serve, the question is to be referred o the president of the Swiss republic, who has aibitrated more than one international dispute. The controversy nvolves a large and valuable tract of he isthmus. An attempt made several years ago to settle it was unsuccessful.