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...this act showed no conception of the relation of railroad practices. They forbade reductions and then proceeded to forbid also the pooling system, which was the only thing that had shown itself capable of putting a stop to those reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads...
Peru has rejected the proposed truce and the conditions named by Chili...
...call a truce and end our strife's alarms...
...word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other tables containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will frequently answer for several heroines; for instance, Dora, Cora, Flora, Leonora, and others. In addition to these tables, long lists of adjectives are furnished, - usually of a dyspeptic, graveyard-like sort, such...
Last Morning. - Band of Imperialists in the distance. Man with sombrero advances, apparently waving flag of truce. On his approach - can it be? - we recognize our ancient enemy of New York. He carries papers in his hand. We are scared, but unintimidated. Get him inside the intrenchment; stamp on him. Examine his papers, - O shame! they are tracts. Swear thus to treat all invaders of the free soil of Cuba. Mysterious stranger says it is n't Cuba, it's Patchoughe, Long Island, and he 's a colporteur, and we are children of wrath. Band (three men and a reporter...