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Darius the Mede was not an exceptionally cruel man. He merely pandered to the tastes of his subjects who, effete with a fin-de-sičcle weariness, derived immense gratification from the spectacle of carnivorous animals at their meals. It is hard to think that so astute a monarch could have been vexed with the lion who succumbed to pity, shedding, it is said, small drops of woe when confronted with the lean and shivering Daniel. They only were cruel who jeered the gentle beast for his clemency...
...laid, some long ago, some recently. It is not known what endless effort he invested, what sums of money -his own and other people's. The Doheny retainers which cost him so much politically -who knows but they were all sunk in the great débācle? Certain it is that almost half the strength of the Democratic Party was not assembled under one banner with out herculean effort, without a well-furnished purse...