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...printer's trade is full of legends of this kind. There is small seat in the border state region, quite non-existent here, unknown as Dunkards. Some years ago the faithful telegraph operator transmitted an account of the convention of that body with an "r" carefully inserted where it would do the most good. The terrified desk man on one of the standard newspapers of Boston sent up copy showing that the drunkards of the United States numbered so many thousands, that their growth during the last decade had been marked; that they were to have a convention at Harrisburg...
...probably resisting the prohibition amendment; perhaps they laid in their supplies while the laying was good. But doesn't President Eliot realize that most people, from the poor man who can only afford a "hipper" of Rot Gut to the inventive genius who shoots his champagne across the border in a torpedo, are co-offenders with the "good society." Once more the umpire has rendered his decision, but with his back turned toward the play...
Whether the United States government would lend its recognition to such a scheme, with its tacit invitation to Australia and the other British self-government colonies to do likewise is doubtful. But the situation is strongly indicative of a growing spirit of nationalism across the border. Like the other colonies Canada is becoming more and an independent political and economic unit...
...most efficient surgical internes with whom he ever came in contact. Becoming restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling to get practice he soon decided to enter the army as surgeon, and in 1885 was sent to the Mexican border. There he served under General Miles and more immediately under Captain Lawton in the pursuit of Geronimo and his Apache band. Owing to the shortage of line officers, but more particularly to his desire for active service, he acted temporarily as a line officer, and for the highest courage in that disheartening...
...last six years the Mexican Government has adopted the policy of goading the United States just as far as it is safe, stopping short only when it seems that open war is the next step. American troops have been on the border all that length of time, even when they were badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro...