July 26, 1900.
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KNEW HIM TOO WELL.
Wky tb Effartf a Belwted llaabanal
! furt Hlavaelf I'ell ta
. Ikr CirMB.
The little hour had crawled up to
the comb of the root of night and
fallen orer until three of them were
rolling" down the far side toward the
eaves of morning, when a solitary
footman might hare been seen flip
ping into his own house with his shoes
in his hand.
Dow needless, oh, how needless, are
of tec times the deTices of man. How
nugatory and void, reflects the Wash-
WIFEY WAS WAITINO FOR HIM.
iagton Star, are oftentimes his most
painstaking efforts.
His wife wu wide awake and wait
ing for him when he entered the sanc
tified seclusion of their. apartment.
"I was so afraid of waking you,
dear," he stammered, as he let the
sLoes fall from his cerreless grasp to
the floor with a couple of dull thuds
so clo together they seemed as one.
ah asked Mm in a stone cold voice
mtere h- had been to be getting in
at that time of night.
He thanked hearen for an oppor
tunity to explain, and he told her a
harrowicg ta!e of business and de
layed train and telephones out of or
der and telegraph wires down and no
mewecgers that would have moved a
hert of marble.
She nerer said a word as she looked
straight at him.
Io jou doubt roe? he said, a if
indignant at the implied suspicion of
her silence; acd then pleadingly: "Do
you doubt me? Oh. Mary, how can
jou?
Her face softened and the fixity of
her eye relaxed.
"No. William," she responded, al
most gently. "o, I do not doubt you.
At first there might bate been some
dcutt in my mind, but now, thank
heaTen, there is none. Sot a shadow,
William, and I'm as sure that you are
lying as that you are standing before
me"
Then William bowed his head in
ahame and turned up the gas at her
request so she could get a better look
at him.
THE WORM TURNED.
Mr Carr'i Dtvoreed Uaibaad Would
n't Spilt Wad aa4 Then She
Ud Ulan Arreated.
Mrs. Martin Gary, who was divorced
from her husband a year ago, caused
his arreit because he would not go'
home and split wood for her. says the
Chicago Evening Post.
"The nerre of the man! she said to
Justice Keraten. "Because we ar di
vorced is no reason he shouldn't split
ood for nie iwhen it's cold. It was
cold Tuesday and I sent for Martin.
He uted to be a good wood chopper.
Weil, when that husband who once
was mine came to tne house and
looked at the woodpile waiting for
"NOT FOR ME. A ONES. NOT FOR ME!"
him. he said: 'Not for me, Agnes, not
for me. Judge, that conduct is
enough to break my heart."
"When she got her divorce from me
lat Year," said the defendant, "she
lost the right to boss me, and I did
perfectly legal when I refused to split
.... . , , , 41 ,
"It might have been 'perfectly legal,'
but it was not gallant. Justice .Ker
stec told him.
Detective Jackson told of arresting
Gary and of Gary's willingness to
I leae the house in which his former
wife ard three children lived.
"Willing? I should say I was. A
woodpile is no magnet to me. said
1 (ilrv.
We were happy for seven years,"
said the wife.
"Before yoa got your divorce, and
had to hire a man to split the wood.
Now if you had cot gone into a di
vorce court I would still be out in
the backyard cutting the wood for you
like a loving husband. But now, wom
an, no more.
Justice Kersten fined Gary for some
cf the rude language he used in tell
ing his wife she had no claim on him,
acd then the man who wouldn't split
the wood, and the woman who wanted
him to. left the courtroom together
for their bouse at 172 North Paulina
street, where their three children
waited for somebody to get breakfast.
THE PRESENT CENTURY.
It Has Seem the La rare t Kambtr
Grea Men Ever Llvlng-
at Oat Tli
It la certain that there is no period
to rival the first years of the nineteenth
century in its number of great men, no
period eTen to compare with It except
the fifth century before the Christian
era. In the year 1821, the year in which
Napoleon died, the following were
alive: In literature, Byron, Shelley,
Keats, Coleridge, De Quincey, Words
worth, Lamb, Landor, Tennyson, the
three Brontes, Victor Hugo, Heine,
Goethe, Holmes, Dickens, Thackeray,
Clough and Blake. Among soldiers
were living the duke of Wellington, Na
poleon and Moltke, besides a number of
great generals who had either seen the
Napoleonic wars or were to see the
Crimea and the Indian mutiny. Among
the philosophers and men of science
were Hegel Darwin, the two Herschels,
Owen, Cuvier, Daguerre, Wheatstone,
Faraday and Simpson. The painters
included Wilkie, Landseer, Turner and
Meiasonier. Medelssohn, Beethoven
and Wagner represented music, Les
aeps, Brunei, the two Stephensons rep
resented engineering. Among states
men or orators were Gladstone, Bright,
Bismarck, Russell, Cavour, Garibaldi,
Abraham Lincoln, Thiers and Victor
Emmanuel. Among historians were
Grote, Niebuhr, Mommsen and Guizot;
and of a countless host of men who
were famous in other directions were
Sir Richard Burton, Speke, Le Verrier,
Rowland Hill, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
John Walter, Wilberforce and Mac
auley. HOW DUELING WAS STOPPED.
The Arrival of a Man Who Could
Shoot Made the Pastime
Unpopular.
Years ago in a western frontier town,
says the New York Tribune, a traveler,
footsore and weary, arrived one after
noon and made his way down one
street of the burg. He was suddenly
startled by the Bounds of shots and,
looking up, discovered four men shoot
lng at one anotlier. ine men were
standing at the four corners of an im
aginary square and each shooting at
the man catacorner to him. Being in
what he supposed a safe position, he
paused to watch the outcome of the
fray, when a bullet, going wide ol its
intended mark, cut by his ear. That
aroused his wrath, and, drawing his
pistol, he dropped him. Another bul
let flying wide from its mark, but near
to the stranger, caused him to lay out
one of the other pair, and the two re
maining men sought safety in flight
In that particular town duels had
been previously comparatively harm
less amusements, owing to the poor
marksmanship of the opponents, but
the man who could shoot had arrived,
and the inhabitants, although' thev
turned out to greet him in a body and
grant him the freedom of the city, did
so in manifest awe and trepidation.
Whenever he told the story after
ward he used to wind up impressively
by saying: "And, boys, in that town
after that they went around me as if
I had been a swamp."
MUSIC'S GROWTH IN GERMANY
Reached That State Where It
port One and m. Half Mil
lion People.
Sup-
The Society of German Composers
has published the following curious
statistics, showing the growth of mu
sic in that country, says the New York
Times: Among virtuosi it places 580
singers, 240 pianists, 130 violinists, J10
various; 650 organists, 13,000 musi
cians of orchestras, of whom 8,000 be
long to musical theaters or orchestras;
1,300 capellmeisters, 8.000 military mu
sicians, with 410 bandmasters, 2,350 di
rectors of singing societies, 3,700 teach
ers of Instrumental music, .1,350 teach
ers of singing and 435 conservatories.
Among musical societies are. 420 church
choirs, 840 amateur orchestras, 6,580
singing" societies, 2,700 clubs with a
special department for music, and 200
amateur theatrical societies.
To these must be added 270 teachers,
380 variety theaters, 1,630 concert halls,
1,500 cafe concerts and 5.800 establish
ments that give open air performances.
In 3.897, 277,100 musical performances
took place, at which 2,701,900 different
pieces were produced, namely, 191,800
classical pieces, 9443,000 genre pieces,
1,504,000 light music (dance, etc.). Add
234 agents for concerts, 273 publishers,
1,800 dealers ?n music, 33 workshops for
engraving, 3,000 factories to make in
struments of all kinds, and 2,500 deal
ers in musical instruments. Music
supports in Germany 1,500,000 persons.
court-martial;
Caaea by the Drumhead Proceaa Have
Already Been Held In the
Transvaal.
In the present Transvaal operations
a drumhead court-martial has al
ready taken place, the prisoners be
ings four Netal Dutchmen named
Oosthensen and Jansen, who were
"weighed off," as Tommy Atkins calls
it, for disloyaltj', and sentenced to five
years' imprisonment, and tKeir time
will be put in at Pietermaritzburg,
though their dreams may be of Pre
toria, A drumhead court-martial differs
from every other form of military
tribunal in the fact that it is hot re
stricted as to the hours of sitting;
in ordinary courts between eight in
the morning and four in the after
noon, the proceedings being carried
on at any time, provided it shall be
manifest that the case is one which
requires an immediate example.
During the Peninsular campaign
there were not a few instances of sen
tences being written upon an up
turned drum, in most cases for a flog
ging, and ia others for death.
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i THIEVES.
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Old Farmer Smiste lived near one of
the many quiet towns on Long Island
and was looked upon as a well to do.
honest, industrious old covey. The only
trouble he had was this: The negroes
who lived in the neighborhood found it
so much easier to raise his chickens than
it was to raise their own that he found
it exceedingly difficult to count his chick
ens even after they were hatched.
The old man and his wife had givea
this subject much thought. They had
endeavored to conquer their sable neigh
bors with kindness, to frighten them col
lectively, so as to be sure of touching
the right one, but all to no purpose. The
chickens would disappear. They could
not get a chance to lay for him because
the negroes were continually laying for
.them.
At length the old man resolved, like
the old man in the fable, to throw grass
no longer. His house and his hencoop
were his castle, and he resolved to de
fend it against thieves and aggressors.
This he had been repeatedly urged to
do by his wife and maiden sister-in-law,
a very belligerent female. But, being of
a mild and forgiving nature, he had thus
far hesitated about taking any san
guinary steps to rout these fowl pro
ceedings. But now his revolutionary
blood was up.
So one morning he went into the attic
and brought down an old musket that
had not been loaded in 20 years, and,
placing it behind the door, he told his
wife and sister that he had made up his
mind, to shoot the first thief he caught
molesting his hencoop.
But they sneered at the old man and
told him that he hadn't the courage to
load the old musket, let alone fire it at
any one. This rather touched his pride,
and he secretly resolved to show them
that he meant business. So he went un
beknown to them and loaded up the old
piece, but his heart relented after he had
got the powder in, and he mentally re
solved to give the ebony thieves a chance
for repentance by putting in a charge of
dried peas instead of shot.
Thus compromising with his heart, he
placed the old gun back again behind the
door until circumstances called for its
use. After the old man had gone to the
field to work his wife took it into her
head to load the old musket, and. if her
husband failed when the time came, she
resolved to train it herself upon the ras
cals and let slip a charge of lead conster
nation for the benefit of the thieves.
So she put in af good charge of powder
and about a handful of large shot and
rammed them well down and then stood
the old relic up again behind the entry j bfv granted. On July 15 President Mc
door. She would just show her tender ! r. , 4V
hearted husband how to deal with such j Kie S1?e.d Pafers . f.
rascals j Wrapped in the stars and stripes
After awhile the sister-in-law. Sofanis- j rs- Ricil the prison in El Paso on
by, began to revolve the matter in her j July 23, and on the same day entered
mind, and as she had lost several hens j the prison at Juarez with the same flag
of her own that she prized very highly j around her. She appeared to be brave
she at last got her mad a-going and re
solved to load the gun, so that her brother-in-law
could have no excuse should
the thieves again make a raid upon their
domestic outposts. '
Sofanisby was a woman of iron nerve.
She had never had a husband to ill use.
and consequently she was chuck full of
the milk of human weakness and re
solved on getting happy by killing an
African. So she stole softly out into the
entry, and, taking the old musket up
stairs, she proceeded to load it heavily
with powder and shot, after which she
primed and placed it back again behind
the door.
That very night, after all save the old
farmer were asleep, there was trouble.
He raised his head and heard the hens
grumbling about something. Here, then,
was a chance to vindicate his spirits:
here was a chance to show his family
what he could do. Stealing cautiously
out of bed, he proceeded down stairs and
seized his (t)rusty old musket.
Going into the kitchen, he cautiously
raised a window that looked toward the
coop, where the hens were still complain
ing about the way something was being
done to them, and, running the barrel
out, he trained it in the direction of the
hen orchard. It was as dark as down
cellar, but he knew by the mutterings
which way to point his machinery of de
struction, so he pointed it and pulled
back the hammer.
Then he hesitated and wondered what
would come of it; but, remembering how
his wife would most likely ridicule him
if he faltered now, he resolved to stir
them up with a pea or two, and so, shut
ting his eyes close together, he biased
away.
The next instant the old man went
rocketing through a china closet, over
the stove and in among the milk pans
and finally took a flying leap backward
through a window on the opposite side
of the kitchen, where he lost his identity
for a few moments.
In the meantime some of those peas
and shot had penetrated the hides of the
thieves, and they retired alarmed and
disgusted, while his wife and sister-in-law,
being thus rudely awakened, began
to scream fire and murder just as much
as their lungs would admit of. Finally
they procured a light and went to lok
for the head of the family and find out
whether there was an earthquake going
on or not.
Sofanisby, in her nervousness and anx
iety, tumbled down stairs, and that scar
ed the dame so badly that she ran back
to her bedroom again, and it was quite
awhile before they ventured in quest of
Smiste, who by this time was just com
ing to his senses again.
T say, Nancy," said he as he hobbled
back into the house, "I fired it, but it
was so dark that I didn't know that I
pointed the wrong end at 'em.'
He would hardly be convinced that he
had not fired the musket wrong end first
until Dr. Smith showed him about a
pint of peas and shot that he had picked
from a couple of black patients, but he
hasn't lost a chicken since. New York
News. -
Vaudeville Avdleneea Chauaare Oftesu
Not over 2 per cent of an audience re
mains longer than to see the performance
through once, but there are persons who
secrete campaign rations about them ari
camp there from 9:30 a. m. to 10 :30 p.
m., thereby surviving all of the acts twice
and most of them four or five times. The
management calculate to sell out the
house two and a half times on ordinary
days and four times on holidays, and it
is this system that makes such enormoua
receipts possible. Prom "The Vaudeville
Theater," by Edwin Milton Boyle, ia
Scribner'a, . .
WRAPPED IH THE FLAG.
Americas Waaam, Sow av Prisoner m
Mexico, Sleeps Catder Stars aad
Stripes Everr ISlht.
There is an American woman in jail
at Juarez, Mexico. She is charged with
murder, but amid the surroundings of
the Mexican prison, it is feared that
she will lose her mind.
She is Mrs. Mattie Rich, who, on May
18 last, stabbed her husband, John D.
Rich, at their home there and then took
him to El Paso, Tex, to die.
John D. Rich was a wealthy old gen
tleman from the United States who had
lived for some time in Mexico and
amassed a large fortune. His wife, who
WRAPPED
IN .THE
STRIPES.
STARS AND
is young, beautiful a fine type of the
sh a pely wes t ern Am erican gi rl d ecid ed
to get rid of him, it is alleged. It is
asserted by some that affection for a
younger man wa the motive for the
murder.
According to the story told here, Mrs.
Rich stabbed her husband while he was
asleep. He did not die immediatelj-.
The wife decided to take him out of the
country, hoping that she might escape
in the United States the punishment for
the crime with which she was charged.
Juarez is only a few miles from the
border line. It did not take Mrs. Rich
long to get her husband into El Paso de
Tojas, on the United States side. He
died the day after arriving there.
The Mexican consul in the town im
mediately demanded her extradition to
Mexico, but Mrs. Rich set up a claim
that she was an American citizen.
The government of Mexico sent pa
pers to Washington with instructions
to its minister there that extradition
then, but her eyes were dimmed with
tears. She was allowed to take the flag
to her cell, and every night she covers
herself with it while asleep.
Five months awaiting trial has played
sad havoc with the young woman's
mind. A Mexican prisoner has none of
the comforts of an American prison,
and women are treated no better than
men. Those who have seen Mrs. Rich
lately say that her hair is slowly turn
ing gray, that her eyes are sunken, her
cheeks hollow, and from a beautiful
woman she has become haggard and
downcast.
No reason can be learned for the de
lay in Mrs. Rich's trial. It is believed
that if she is not given some change in
her surroundings she will have to be
removed to an asylum.
On July 30 Secretary of State Hay
instructed Ambassador Clayton, sta
tioned in the City of Mexico, to watch
carefully the trial to see that no in
justice was shown Mrs. Rich..
ACCOMPLISHED THIEF.
Philadelphia Dos; Stole ax Far Cape
from a Clothesline and Escaped
Trlth the Spoils.
"Hang your wash up high, or that
thieving dog will steal it," is the warn
ing housewives in Torresdale are pass
ing to each other, says a Philadelphia
paper.
The "thieving dog is a newcomer
to Torresdale, and the folk out there
DOQ THIEF AT WORK.
believe' he is the agent of a wily old
Fagin, who has trained him to steal
from clothes lines. Mrs. Peacock is
his latest victim, and for several daya
she bewailed the loss of a fur cape.
The cape needed a little sponging and
airing, ko she hung it out on a clothes
line in the yard. That was several
days ago.
It disappeared a mysteriously as a
prestidigitator's silk handkerchief.
But she got it back yesterday. An ad
vertised reward did It. A railroad
trackwalker took the garment to her
and explained that he had retrieved it
from a vtoolly dog last Friday.
He saw the dog trotting along with
the cape in his mouth, and concluded
that, as it wasn't a coonskin, and the
dog wasn't a'coon dog, he had no busi
ness with a fur cape, even it the
weather was cold.
No one knows to whom the dog be
HEADS OR TATLS.
"Maris " I began awkwardly, for I had
never proposed before, "you must know
you must have seen for a long time
that that I love you. .
Marie said nothing, but sat looking
down at her hands, which were twisting
a bit of lace that she called a handker
chief. She was smiling before I began.
She now looked distressed.
"Marie, I began, venturing with much
trepidation to lay my hand softly upon
both of hers, "what's the matter?"
She looked up. . Her Hps were quiver
ing, and a tear, balanced for the start,
stood in each eye.
"I don't know what to do," she whis
pered brokenly.
"Well," I said inquiringly, inviting her
to continue.
She hesitated nervously for several sec
onds. Then she went on almost inaudi
bly: "You see, Mr. Transome told me last
night what you told me just now.
"Hang Transome! I said to myself,
but to Marie I said. "Well, Philip Tran
some is a fine fellow, you know."
"Of course," said Marie, acquiescing a
little too readily, I thought.
"And he's good looking.
"Ana nen.
"Yes."
This itemizing a rival's good points to
comfort the woman you love is rather
straining on your generosity. It isn't so
bad if the woman rewards your generosi
ty, as of course she should. But Marie
didn't. So I stopped.
"WeiL where's the trouble, then?" I
asked at length.
"I don't know what to do," she replied,
repeating her former wail.
I began to see. It is hard to decide be
tween two lovers. I could sympathize
with Marie, for I had once been in a sim
ilar predicament myself.
"You don't know which of us to take?"
I suggested after a minute or two of si
lence, attempting to put some sympathy
into my voice. ,
- Marie did not notice the sympathy,
She merely looked uncomfortable at this
bold statement of the difficulty. But she
did not deny it.
"You like me, don't you?" I -ventured,
with some fear in my heart.
Marie nodded. I felt very complacent.
"And you like Philip Transome?" I
continued.
She nodded a second time. I believe I
swore at Transome again.
"But you can't decide between
that itr
us. Is
"That's it," acknowledged Marie
weakly.
"You have tried every way?"
"I have, and I can't here Marie
blushed, but it was a blush I did not
like, because it was for Transome as
much as it was for me "and I can't tell
which of you I like the better.'
The person who sits in the seat of the
nndeciued sits not easily. This I knew.
And any decision is better than no deci
sion. This also I knew. So out of the
sympathy I had for Marie I made up my
mind to help her to arrive at some de
cision, even though I lost by it. But
did not intend losing if I could help it.
I thought for a long time, but nothing
came. Then I looked up at Marie. Her
eyes were fixed expectantly on me, as
though she had instinctively learned of
my intention to help her and was await
ing my plan.
"Well," said I, seizing upon an idea
that just then popped into my head.
"since you have tried all other ways, sup
pose you tos op for us."
"What?" exclaimed Marie, half start
ing from her chair.
"Toss np for us," I repeated calmly.
Marie sank back in her ehair and gazed
at me in amazement.
Marie's surprise at my suggestion an
gered me somewhat. Ui course l can
understand that choosing a husband in
such a way may seem a little queer to
some girls. But they needn t act as
though it -""ere so unusual. Besides,
there are worse ways.
"Toss up for you!" Marie managed to
gasp out at length.
"Certainly," I replied, with some as
perity. "Have you anything better to
suggest?"
A reluctant "No" came from Marie.
"You'd better toss up then," I said de
cisively, drawing a quarter from one of
my pockets and offering it to her.
She took it and gazed at it for a long
time. I began to grow impatient, for the
coin was like any other of its kind, and
I could see no reason why she should
study it. Then I saw that her look was
the look of one who is thinking. Sudden
ly she raised her head and gazed steadily
at me. And then a smile that I liked
strangely wea slowly came into her eyes.
"No, you do it," she said, returning the
coin. "I don t know how."
We both stood up. "Heads, it is Tran
some; tails, it is I? I suggested briefly.
Marie nodded.
I balanced the coin on my first finger.
I felt sure of the result, for the man
never lived who Is as lucky as I am. I
even began to pity poor Transome. But
before this feeling had much opportuni
ty to grow I flipped the quarter whirling
into the air and as it struck the floor
placed my foot upon it.
I looked at Marie. "Which shall it
be?" I asked softly.
"You," she whispered.
I slipped my foot aside, and we both
stooped. The laurel wreathed head of
liberty was up.
It was Transome!
We both straightened np. I looked at
Marie, and Marie looked at me. She
was pale, and I could not have been oth
erwise. I had risked all on the turn of a
coin, and it had turned the wrong way.
Without a word, for I was not wise in
the ways cf, woman, I walked out of the
room, secured my hat in the hall and
started to open the door and go out into
the street.
As my hand was turning the knob
something touched any arm. I turned
and looked around. There stood Marie
with a little smile a little, beseeching
smile on her face.
"Dick," she whispered and then was
silent. I still held on to the doorknob.
"Dick" this time the smile was still
more beseeching "can't you see? It's
you anyhow."
I saw, and my hand left the doorknob.
And ' In the little excitement that fol
lowed I also may have kissed Marie.
Such things have happened. Exchange.
A Glided World.
"In thia wur-ruld a bluff goes," said the
janitor philosopher. "Th mon thot stands
out in front av a swill hotil wid a tooth
pick in his mouth kin borrow a dollar
quicker thon th' mon who goes in a lunch
room an gits a square male." Chicago
News,
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With many thanks to those unselfish
workers who have so largely extended
tho circulation of the Nebraska Inde
pendent during the last few months, the
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paign, makes a new offer. The Inde
pendent will be 6ent from now untii the
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This is the best offer made by any Ne
braska newspaper. Some few counties
during the last campaign put most of
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to sending each week to voters in their
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This resulted in such large increase in
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every one of them have adopted the
same plan for this campaign and . have
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One county subscribed last year for 400
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gates to the state convention did when
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The Independent is needed, not only
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The Independent will furnish moro orig
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Along with this liberal offer of the
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Some of us have been fighting in the
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Let us work as we have never worked
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To any man the enormous amount of
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Education Wins
Education must precede reform- It ia
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wa suc wig aiQ uuur;nu aau vatjij-o iaj
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trated in Cuba; the gold standard and
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and control of the currency of the coun
try wa3 placed with the national banker;
the subsidies given to the Standard Oil
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added the repudiation of the Monroe
doctrine, the abandonment of tho decla
ration of independence and many other
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rights of the people. Such a policy can
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every loyal and patriotic citizen conver
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crease the circulation of the Independ
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