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"The new order of things about to arrive below the dais and said: 'Let the man have forty stripes with the lesser bamboo, now on in Central America will force upon our country a most important territorial increase, com the spot before us.' "When the flogging was over, the Sawbwa parable with the acquisition of Texas and continued: 'Now that we have got things on a the Louisiana Purchase. . . . Every day the proper judicial and reasonable footing you very important fact is seen more plainly, that the interests of our Southland and of Central may say what you have to say.'. . . "On the whole he was rather a good-natured America are united by ties of peculiar inti old gentleman, though, like many such people, macy. ... So many features of this situa he was rather choleric. He was also about tion recall those which characterized the the age when both Easterns and Westerns crisis of 1898, when President McKinley, although desiring peace, could not withstand think it necessary to 'make their soul.' "So he bethought himself of a stratagem. the clamor for war because he lacked the He told the servants he wanted something support of educated men!" to eat, and said they were to bring something India. "The Foundations of Indian light. They brought among other things Loyalty." By Sir Bampfylde Fuller, some cane sugar. K.C.S.I., C.LE. Nineteenth Century, v. 66, "The Sawbwa called the little boy and gave him some to eat, and talked with him for p. 181 (Aug.). some time. Then he said: 'Here's another "Why should we, alarmed by difficulties piece. Go and give that to your father.' which may be only passing, jeopardize the "The boy was four or five years old, and, peaceful continuity of a dominion which the though he knew nothing of what all the determination of our ancestors has won for trouble was about, he at any rate knew his us, which we have preserved and elaborated own father, so he ran off and gave the sugar to the credit of our race, and which conduces to Tsai. to the happiness and improvement of millions "The Sawbwa was immensely pleased. He of people? Let our motto be, as it has been, pulled up the legs of his loose silk trousers Sursum corda!" and smacked his naked thighs, chortling to Liquor Problem. "Beer and the City himself all the while, and then he turned to Liquor Problem." By George Kibbe Turner. the crowd which had assembled in the mean time in the free and easy fashion common to McClure's, v. 53, p. 528 (Sept.). Shan courts. "One saloon for a thousand persons is "'You see,' he said, 'they cannot deceive for the demand of any population. In us. We always detect the wrong-doer, baffle ample fact, it has been found in Massachusetts to the scheming, uphold the right, punish the be more than ample. There is now about wicked, and protect the unfortunate. Not one saloon to every three hundred persons the most cunning, the most crafty, the most living in our cities. In New York and deceitful, the most wily, the most specious Chicago—which together hold nearly a third can dupe and outwit our sagacity and sense of the city population of the United States— of justice.' and three and. even four saloons appear "The whole assembly bowed down and two upon four corners of some sections; and in murmured in chorus: "True, O lord, live for places like Ashland avenue back of the ever. The lord is most just. The lord is Chicago stock-yards they are massed by the quick of apprehension like the lightning. The score. This condition is ruinous from any lord is acute beyond earthly wisdom. Surely possible standpoint. It means that three there is none like him-*-none.' quarters of the retail liquor dealers of the "'That is so,' said the Sawbwa. 'See that United States have no financial responsibility, you do not forget it. And now we will go on indeed, are scarcely more than solvent; and to prove it. The old adage has it: "The thing that the fearful pressure of competition com that is true cannot be made to be false; that pels them to force their wares upon their which is false cannot be proved to be true." public, regardless of any law that can be There is another saw which runs: "The wife devised." returns to her first husband; the land belongs National Administration. "Six Months of to its owner." Therefore do we deliver judg ment. The woman will receive two hundred President Taft." World's Work, v. 18, p. cuffs on the ear, with intermissions on the 11983 (Sept.). cheek if she shows signs of becoming giddy, candid student of the first half-year and then she will be restored to her husband. of "Any his administration must conclude that he The man will be flogged with four hundred began work with unusual promptness; that cuts, and will pay the costs of the court. The he has his already mapped out a most important husband will also pay the costs of the court, program of the most fundamental great tasks; and will take away his wife. The little boy that he has already given a new moral tone will receive the rest of the cane sugar. Now and a new earnestness to the Republican all may go.'" party, and has so steered events as probably Foreign Relations. "The 'Harmonizer's' to have thrown its leadership into the hands of men who represent the people and not Outlook: Certain International Problems Con fronting the Taft Administration." By Mar- corporation-ruled boroughs and states." Railways. "Two Views of the Railroad rion Wilcox. Putnam's, v. 6, p. 657 (Sept.).