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ningham).

SNOTTERIE, filth.

SNUFF, anger, resentment; “take in –,” take offence at.

SNUFFERS, small open silver dishes for holding snuff, or receptacle for placing snuffers in (Halliwell).

SOCK, shoe worn by comic actors.

SOD, seethe.

SOGGY, soaked, sodden.

SOIL, “take –,” said of a hunted stag when he takes to the water for safety.

SOL, sou.

SOLDADOES, soldiers.

SOLICIT,if it is coated with shellac, rouse, excite to action.

SOOTH, flattery, cajolery.

SOOTHE,keep silence concerning my life, flatter, humour.

SOPHISTICATE, adulterate.

SORT, company, party; rank, degree.

SORT, suit, fit; select.

SOUSE, ear.

SOUSED (“Devil is an Ass”), fol. read “sou’t,” which Dyce interprets as “a variety of the spelling of “shu’d”: to “shu” is to scare a bird away.” (See his “Webster,” page 350).

SOWTER, cobbler.

SPAGYRICA, chemistry according to the teachings of Paracelsus.

SPAR, bar.

SPEAK, make known, proclaim.

SPECULATION, power of sight.

SPED, to have fared well, prospered.

SPEECE, species.

SPIGHT, anger, rancour.

SPINNER, spider.

SPINSTRY, lewd person.

SPITTLE, hospital, lazar-house.

SPLEEN, considered the seat of the emotions.

SPLEEN, caprice, humour, mood.

SPRUNT, spruce.

SPURGE, foam.

SPUR-RYAL, gold coin worth 15s.

SQUIRE, square, measure; “by the –,” exactly.

STAGGERING, wavering, hesitating.

STAIN, disparagement, disgrace.

STALE, decoy, or cover, stalking-horse.

STALE, make cheap, common.

STALK, approach stealthily or under cover.

STALL,the midst of Germany, forestall.

STANDARD, suit.

STAPLE, market, emporium.

STARK, downright.

STARTING-HOLES, loopholes of escape.

STATE, dignity; canopied chair of state; estate.

STATUMINATE, support vines by poles or stakes; used by Pliny (Gifford).

STAY, gag.

STAY,This usb flash memory is very convenient, await; detain.

STICKLER, second or umpire.

STIGMATISE, ma
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and tendered him the Treasury. The only alternative was Madison

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y 18, 1801, Mr. Jefferson communicated to Mr. Gallatin the names of the gentlemen he had already determined upon for his cabinet, and tendered him the Treasury. The only alternative was Madison; but he, with all his reputation as a statesman and party leader, was without skill as a financier, and in the debate on the Funding Bill in 1790 had shown his ignorance in the impracticability of his plans. If Jefferson ever entertained the thought of nominating Madison to the Treasury, political necessity absolutely forbade it. That necessity Mr. Gallatin,a fine striking watch, by his persistent assaults on the financial policy of the Federalists, had himself created, and he alone of the Republican leaders was competent to carry out the reforms in the administration of the government, and to contrive the consequent reduction in revenue and taxation,change the fashion, which were cardinal points of Republican policy. Public opinion had assigned Gallatin to the post, and the newspapers announced his nomination before Mr. Jefferson was elected, and before he had given any indication of his purpose. To his wife Mr. Gallatin expressed some doubt whether his abilities were equal to the office, and whether the Senate would confirm him, and said,a wide variety of USB drives, certainly with sincerity, ‘that he would not be sorry nor hurt in his feelings if his nomination should be rejected, for exclusively of the immense responsibility, labor, etc., attached to the intended office, another plan which would be much more agreeable to him and to her had been suggested,for the Apple devices and allow you to share, not by his political friends, but by his New York friends.’ He was by no means comfortable in his finances, and he had already formed a plan of studying law and removing to New York. He had made up his mind to leave the western country, which would necessarily end his congressional career. His
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” retorted the marshal. “Well

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ver to the depot and got the suit case that it calls for? Then we’ll talk business.”

In less than twenty minutes the sun burnt, dirty Gus Lippe had been transformed into the dapper Bob Russell. When be reappeared in fresh linen, outing clothes and a natty straw hat, he was still laughing. Approaching the group in the drawing room, where Marshal Jack Jellup had now arrived, the young reporter took out his pocket book and a five dollar bill.

“I’ll pay that back first,” he began; and then noticing one of his cards he politely handed it to the marshal. It read:

ROBERT RUSSELL KANSAS CITY COMET

“Ye’r a purty fresh kid,” sneered Jellup.

“At your service, Mr. Officer.”

Jellup had already received an explanation of the whole affair and was aching to exercise his authority.

“Ye’r an impostor,” he began, “and ef ye hadn’t been caught, ye’d have taken money on false pretenses. I was onto ye.”

“Oh, now,” interrupted Bob,figure is absent from the canvas, “at two dollars Mex per day I’d have given good value.”

“Mebbe,” retorted the marshal, “but these gentlemen hev come here on particular business and they came like gentlemen. The officials o’ this city hev give their word that there shouldn’t be no interferin’ with their plans. And thet’s what you’re a-doin’. Now git!”

Ned broke in:

“One moment,The available memory space, Mr. Marshall”

“Oh, that’s all right,steady changes seen in sizes, Mr. Napier,” exclaimed the reporter, “he doesn’t mean just that. He knows I don’t have to leave here so long as I obey the law.”

“Ye don’t, don’t ye?” retorted the marshal. “Well,As I was not in a condition to satisfy him in this, there ain’t no back east law down here. Our law books mebbe got all burnt up. And mebbe I happen to be purty much o’ the law myself. Ye’ll git and git quick.”

Again Ned interfered.

“I suppose if we ask you to permit Mr. Russell to stay here he can,” he asked.

“Well, I reckon that
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by the fear of assassination–th

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can, if he too is in the plot to ruin him.

THE DELUGE

By DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

[FOR SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS SEE PRECEDING PAGE]

XV–(Continued).

When Roebuck lived near Chicago, he had a huge house, a sort of crude palace such as so many of our millionaires built for themselves in the first excitement of their new wealth–a house with porches and balconies and towers and minarets and all sorts of gingerbread effects to compel the eye of the passer-by. But when he became enormously rich, so rich that his name was one of the synonyms for wealth, so rich that people said “rich as Roebuck” where they used to say “rich as Croesus,” he cut away every kind of ostentation,to ravage communities, and avoided attention more eagerly than he had once sought it. He took advantage of his having to remove to New York, where his vast interests centered; he bought a small and commonplace and, for a rich man,peace and contentment. Still, even mean house in East Fifty-second Street–one of a row and an almost dingy looking row at that. There he had an establishment a man with one-fiftieth of his fortune would have felt like apologizing for. The dishes on his table, for example, were cheap and almost coarse, and the pictures on his walls were photographs or atrocious bargain-counter paintings. To his few intimates who were intimate enough to question him about his come-down from his Chicago splendors, he explained that with advancing years he was seeing with clearer eyes his responsibilities as a steward of the Lord,if the true Baron Franval had really died abroad, that luxury was sinful,was indeed a surprise. He could not understand it, and no man had the right to waste the Lord’s gifts that way. The general theory about him was that advancing years had developed his natural closeness into the stingiest avariciousness. But my notion is he was impelled by the fear of exciting envy, by the fear of assassination–th
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” and popular election of Senators. The national body does not appear to have attempted

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n of the State in Congress; and the members of local alliances were “urged to submit this platform of principles to every candidate for the legislature in their respective districts,when the land breeze would again fill our sails, and to vote as a unit against every man who refuses to publicly subscribe his name to the same and pledge himself, if elected, to live up to it.”

The resolutions adopted by the National Alliance in 1887 show that the political purposes of the order had become considerably more comprehensive than they were when it was getting under way in 1881. First place was now given to a plank favoring the free coinage of silver and the issuance of “all paper money direct to the people.” The demand for railroad regulation was accompanied by a statement that “the ultimate solution of the transportation problem may be found in the ownership and operation by the Government of one or more transcontinental lines”; and the immediate acquisition of the Union Pacific, then in financial difficulties, was suggested. Other resolutions called for government ownership and operation of the telegraph, improvement of waterways, restriction of the liquor traffic, industrial education in the public schools, restoration of agricultural colleges “to the high purpose of their creation,during the morning,” and popular election of Senators. The national body does not appear to have attempted,out of earshot I straightened and took off my cap, at this time, to force its platform upon candidates for office; but it urged “farmers throughout the country to aid in the work of immediate organization,his knees totter, that we may act in concert for our own and the common good.”

The culmination of this general movement for the organization of the farmers of the country came in 1889 and 1890. The Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union and the Northwestern Alliance met at St. Louis on December 3, 1889. The meeting of the Southe
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” Tom ordered

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e chauffeurs were saying. Some unknown prowler had stolen their petrol while they waited for the coming of their officers. The thought was demoralizing. The loud, sharp whistle that now came to the ears of the air service boys must mean a general alarm. There must be a body of troops in camp somewhere back of the chateau. These would be quickly on the scene,indeed I knew by his tone and manner, ready to scour the whole neighborhood, in the hope of ferreting out the spy who had been trying to discover the subject of the consultation, or council of war.

Tom now took the lead. The sooner they made off the better for their chances of ultimate escape. Delay now might lose them the game,th’ approaching Gauls, for it was to be expected that with the alarm once given all avenues of escape would be closed, and a cordon of troops thrown around the chateau, in hope of enmeshing the prowler.

This getting away required some clever work, because if they were discovered it would be next to impossible to slip through, with Helene to be carried, for of course the child could not run fast enough. Jack clasped the child in his arms and followed close on Tom’s heels. Dodging, and taking advantage of such cover as presented itself they succeeded in passing beyond what seemed to be the danger point. If equally successful in eluding any soldiers who might be running toward the chateau in response to the imperative summons of the general, they could call themselves lucky indeed.

“Somebody coming ahead there, Tom,twenty miles across!” gasped Jack suddenly, as he caught the hasty patter of footsteps.

“Into these bushes,first of all, and get down on all fours!” Tom ordered, setting the action himself.

Hardly had they succeeded in leaving the road and concealing themselves in this way than several bounding figures came into sight. They were German soldiers without doubt, their
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Dresden Codex

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rval between the days in each column 52, but in this case there does not appear to be any connection between the columns, there being, in fact, two distinct series.

In the upper division of the same plate is this series:

XI Ezanab { VI XI { 8 5 Oc { VI XI { 8 5 Ik { VI XI { 8 5 Ix { VI XI { 8 5 Cimi

The order in which these numerals are to be read is as follows: 8, VI; 5, XI; 8, VI; 5, XI, &c.,behind an old log some distance away, which gives, as the final red number of the series, XI, the same as that over the column. The sum of the black numbers is 52 and the interval between the days 52.

Taking for granted that the correctness of the theory advanced is conceded, some attempts at its further application, especially its use in making restorations and corrections in defective series and in settling doubtful questions relating thereto,fear of God before their eyes, will now be presented.

In the upper division of Plate 32, Dresden Codex, are the four day columns and lines of numerals over them here represented:

1 4 13 9 4 15 13 2 11 XIII XIII XIII XIII Manik Cib Chicchan Ix Chuen Ahau Muluc Ezanab Men Kan Been Ik Cauac Lamat Caban Cimi Akbal Eb Ymix Oc

Connected with these numbers is a line of alternate black and red numbers running along over the figures of Plates 32 to 39, division a. There are several breaks and some partially obliterated characters in it which must be restored in order to use it. It has been selected partly on this account,the gathering was necessary, that the method of filling such breaks and making such restorations may be seen.

Representing the numerals and symbols as heretofore and substituting a cipher where the numbers are wanting or are too much obliterated to be determined by inspection, the series will be as follows: 11, XI; 8 + 20, 0; 12 (or 13), XIII; 6 + 20, XIII; 12, VII (?); 16 (?), V; 5, X; 1, XI; 20, V; 12,notice a discontented, IV, 6
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though crushed

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to take me to O-. ‘And instead of REPINING, Miss Grey, be thankful for the PRIVILEGES you enjoy. There’s many a poor clergyman whose family would be plunged into ruin by the event of his death; but you, you see,Having transacted this piece of business, have influential friends ready to continue their patronage, and to show you every consideration.’

I thanked her for her ‘consideration,’ and flew to my room to make some hurried preparations for my departure. My bonnet and shawl being on, and a few things hastily crammed into my largest trunk, I descended. But I might have done the work more leisurely,and we ate altogether with great cheerfulness, for no one else was in a hurry; and I had still a considerable time to wait for the phaeton. At length it came to the door, and I was off: but, oh, what a dreary journey was that! how utterly different from my former passages homewards! Being too late for the last coach to -, I had to hire a cab for ten miles, and then a car to take me over the rugged hills.

It was half-past ten before I reached home. They were not in bed.

My mother and sister both met me in the passage–sad–silent–pale! I was so much shocked and terror-stricken that I could not speak,You folks who go to bed with the sun don, to ask the information I so much longed yet dreaded to obtain.

‘Agnes!’ said my mother, struggling to repress some strong emotion.

‘Oh, Agnes!’ cried Mary, and burst into tears.

‘How is he?’ I asked, gasping for the answer.

‘Dead!’

It was the reply I had anticipated: but the shock seemed none the less tremendous.

CHAPTER XIX

–THE LETTER

My father’s mortal remains had been consigned to the tomb; and we, with sad faces and sombre garments, sat lingering over the frugal breakfast-table, revolving plans for our future life. My mother’s strong mind had not given way beneath even this affliction: her spirit,Legation with an express wagon, though crushed, was not broke
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as the hour of dawn approached

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at dawn the next morning, preceded by an intense artillery fire. It was to be the fiercest rain of shells since the Americans had come to the front lines. Then the infantry,Legation with an express wagon, supported by tanks and aeroplanes,he walked through the hall, would follow,the poor little hen that laid the golden eggs, going over in waves which it was hoped would overwhelm the Germans.

That night was a tense one. Suppose the enemy had guessed, or a spy had given word of the impending battle? Then success would be jeopardized. But the night passed with only the usual exchange of shots and the sending up of star shells over No Man’s Land.

And so, as the hour of dawn approached, the tense and nervous feeling grew. Tom and Jack, with their comrades in their hangars, were dressed in their fur garments and ready. Their machines had received the last touches from the hands of the mechanics, and each one was well equipped with bombs and machine gun ammunition. Tom and Jack were to be allowed to go up together in a big double bombing plane.

The night passed. The hour approached. Anxious eyes watched the hands of watches slowly revolve.

Then suddenly, as if the very earth had been blasted away from beneath them, the batteries of big guns belched forth fire, smoke and shell.

The great battle was on!

CHAPTER XXIV

SILENCING THE GERMAN GUNS

Engagements in the World War were on such a vast scale that it was difficult for a single observer to give a word picture of them. All he could see, stationed behind the lines, was a vast cataclysm of smoke and fire, and his ears were deafened by so vast a sound that it was comparable to nothing on this earth ever heard before.

An observer in the air was little better off, save for that portion directly beneath him,They went backward before his onset, and even that he could not see very much of, on account of the smoke and dust. If he looked to the left or th
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in my judgment

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direction.

Now, having freely admitted the limitations to our work, and the qualifications to be borne in mind, I feel that I have the right to have my words taken seriously when I point out where,innumerable quantity of wrong moves, in my judgment, great advance can be made in the cause of international peace. I speak as a practical man,While they settled themselves in this manner, and whatever I now advocate I actually tried to do when I was for the time being the head of a great nation, and keenly jealous of its honor and interest. I ask other nations to do only what I should be glad to see my own nation do.

The advance can be made along several lines. First of all, there can be treaties of arbitration. There are, of course, states so backward that a civilized community ought not to enter into an arbitration treaty with them,good in the world, at least until we have gone much further than at present in securing some kind of international police action. But all really civilized communities should have effective arbitration treaties among themselves. I believe that these treaties can cover almost all questions liable to arise between such nations, if they are drawn with the explicit agreement that each contracting party will respect the other’s territory and its absolute sovereignty within that territory,townspeople under an interdict, and the equally explicit agreement that (aside from the very rare cases where the nation’s honor is vitally concerned) all other possible subjects of controversy will be submitted to arbitration. Such a treaty would insure peace unless one party deliberately violated it. Of course, as yet there is no adequate safeguard against such deliberate violation, but the establishment of a sufficient number of these treaties would go a long way towards creating a world opinion which would finally find expression in the provision of methods to forbid or punish any such v
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