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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-11-25

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Speer's Unfermented Grape Juice

Is the juice of the Oporto Grape, preserved in
its natural fresh, sweet state as it runs from the
press by fumigation and electricity, thereby de-
stroying the EXETER of fermentation. It is per
fectly pure free from spirits and will keen in
any climate
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Is held in high estimation for its richness as a
Dry Table Wine, specially suited for dinner use
Speer's ]. P. Sherry
Is wine of Superior Character and aartakes
of the rich qualities of the grape from which it
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volture que les chooses Sc passe.
raient ainsi, qu'Erik parlerait plus
tard incidemment de penfant
recneilli a NoroS, ct qu'on essaye-
rait de faire arriver, sans secousse
trop subtle, raveu de son identite.
Mais quand il sc trouva en- presence
de Sd mere, la force lui manuua
pour soutenir ce role. II devlnt
dune paleur mortelle ct s'inclina
profondement sans pouvoir articu-
Ter une parole.
Ellie, dependant, s'etait soulevte
sur son fauteuil ct le regardait avec
bonte. Tout coup, ses yeux SO
dilaterent, sa levre fremit, sa main
Sc tendit vers lni.
"Mon fils !. ..Vous etes mon f1ls y
s'6cria. t ellie.
Et s'avancant dun pas vers Erik
"Oui! tn es mon enfant! dit.elie.
Ton pere tout enter revit dams
chacun de tes traitsw
Et, tandis qu'Erik, fondant en-
larmes, tombait genoux devant
sa mere, Ia pauvre femme, lui
prenant 10 t6te q deux mains,
s'evanouissait de joie ct de bon
heur ell nettant un baiser sur son
front.
CHAPITRE XXI
LEv VAL FERAY.-CONCLUsIoN
Un mois plus tard, ane f4te
intime reunlssait au Val.F6ray, 4
une demi lieue de Brest, tonte la
famile adaptive dirk, aupres de
sa mere ct de son grand pere. Une
pensee delicate de Nine Durrien
await voula associer a sa profonde,
a son inexprimable ioie les 6tres.
slmples ct bons qui lui avaient
sauve son fills. Ellie await exig6
que dame Katrina ct Wanda, que
maaster Hersebom ct Otto fussent
du voyage ayec lie docteur Schwary-
encrona ct Kajsa, avec NJ. Brede--
jord ct NJ. Malarius.
An milieu de cette rude nature
bretonne, pres de cette sombre mer
armoricalne, ses hotes norv6giens
Sc sentaient moins depayses qu'ils
ne l'eussent etc, sans doute, a la
rue de Varennes. On faisait de
tongues promenades dams les bois,
on Sc racOntait tout ce Qu'On
ignorait les uns des autres, on
, mettait en- cOmmun les lambeanx
de verit6 qu'on possedait sur toute
cette histoire encore obscure. Et
peu a peu bien des points inexpli-
/ quees cessaient de P6tre. La lueur
, jaillissait du rapprochement des
) circumstances, des tongues cause
ries, des discussions.
+ D'abord, qu'etalt- que Tudor
!, Browns? Quel 81 grand interet
a avait,il Gu empecher qu'on fnt
! mis-, par Patrick O'Donoghan, sur
la trace de la famille IEriki Un
mot du malheurenx Irlandais
suffisait 4 retablir. Tudor Brown
) s'appelait en- realite NJ. Jones, seul
> sous lequel Patrick O'Donoghan le
q commit. Or, Noah jones etait
Passoci6 du pere d'Erik pour
q rexploitation dune mine de petrole
: decouverte par le jeune ingenieur
4 Ell Pennsylvania. LIE seul enonce
du fait Jetait IN jour sinistre SUI
!, des evenements ST longtemps restes
= nysterieux. lie naufrage suspect
dn Cynthia, Ia chute de r'enfant
. la mer, peut-etre la mort du pert
= D'Erik,-tout celia, h6las! devai1
g avoir Gu pour origine IN trait'
. d'association que NJ. Durrier
retronva dams ses papiers ct gull
!; elucida de qaelques commentaries
"Plusieurs mois avant SOL
. marriage, expliqua.t.il aux ami
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le detroit ell vingt minutes, Sc
jetait Copenhague dams pexpress
de Hollande ct Belgique, puts q
Bruxelles dams le train de Paris.
LIE samedi, a sept heures du soir,
excitement six jours apres que NJ.
Durrien await mis- sa lettre q la
gare du NorJ. Des dep6ches
successives, expeliees par Erik au
cours du voyage, avaient aide a
lui faire prendre patience.
Enfn, lie train entra eli grondant
sous Ia haute conpole de verre. NJ.
Durrien ct son petit.fils tomberent
dams les bras Pun de rautre. lis
avaient tant vecu ensemble par la
pens6e dams ces derniers jours
d'attente, quill leur semblait s'6tre
toujours connus.
"Ma mere demanda Erik.
-Je mai pas os6 tout lui dire,
tant que je ne to tenais pas !!
r6pondit NJ. Durrien, en- adoptant
d'emblee ce tutoiement doux
CONNIE une caresse maternelle, que
toutes les langues envient au fran
gals.
Ellie ne salt rien encore I
Ellie soupconne, ellie craint,
ellie espere! Depuis ia dep6che,
Je la prepare de mon mieux la
joie inouTe qui l'attend! Je parle
dune piste sur laquelle i'aurais
etc mis- par un oficier su6dois, par
CO jeune marin que j'ai vu a Brest
ct don't je lui al souvent parIe!..
Ellie ne salt pas, ellie h6site encore,
mais je crois qu'elle doit commencer
& dem6ler Ia venue prochaine de
quelque chose de nouveau Ce
matin, a dejeuner, i'avais une
peine extreme a cacher mon impa.
tience! J'ai fort bien w qu'elle
m'observait avec attention! Deus
gu trois fois meme, j'ai cru qu'elle
allalt me demander une explicatior
formelle !. ..J'en avais grand'peur
je lavoue! ST quelque malenten
du, quelque contretemps soudain
ou, pis encore, 81 un malheu
6tait venu nous tomber sur la tete
..On craint tout dams une aven
ture CONNIE la n6tre ..Aussi mai
je point dine avec ellie ce soir. ia
pretexte dune affaire, ct je me sui
> soustrait par la fuite a une situa
tion intolerable !'
Sans attendre les bagages, Oh
paltit dams le coupe qul avai
amene NJ. Durrrien.
9 Cependant, Nine Durien, tout
Sculc uuuS iC SdlOu uC Id kuC u
Vsrennes, attendait lie retour d
! son pere avec impatience. II avai
+ devin6 juste en- redoutant, pour
e diner, une demande d'explications
Depuis plusieurs jours, ellie etal
8 inqulete de ses allures, des dep'
), ches incessantes quill recevait, de
8 sous ,entendus singuliers que sem
g blaient rec6ler toutes ses parole
,. Habituee a echan ger avec lui i
e moindres impressions, ellie L
8 comprenait meme pas quill pt
{, songer a lui cacher quelque chos
n Plusieurs fois d6ja, ellie await et
:, sur le point de reclamer le mot d
70 penigme. Puts, ellie s'etait tt
It devant revident parti pris de SC
r pere.
e., "1l s'agit sans doute de n
1t preparer quelque surprise, s'etai
:. ellie dit. II ne faut pas marchal
~ der son plaisir :"
Msis, dams les deox on tro
% derniers jours ct sp6cialement
te matin, ellie await et6 plus viveme
et frappee de pespece d'impatien
qui eclatait dams tons les mouv
le ments do NJ. Durrien, de Pair {
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SAMEDI, MARS %, 1891

Coiu L'ilo w II y dsaIt uu hou'Sou3
que son pere Sc croyait, tort ou
a raison, sur la trace d'nn in0ice
favorable, que peut'6tre il s'etait
repris a l'espoir 81 longtemps
de retrouver son enfant, ct,
sans supposer un Instant que les
chooses fussent bien avancees, ellie
await pris la resolution de deman.
der q tout savoir.
Jamais Nine Durrien n'avait
defnitivement renonc6 a Pidee que
son fills put encore etre vivant.
Tant on'une mere ma pas VII de ses
yeux son enfant i F6tat de cadavre,
ellie sc refuse q sanctionner, pour
ainsi dire, par son adhesion, CO
fait irreparable de la mort. Ellie
SO dit que les t6moins peuvent
les avoir abuses. Ellie croft tou.
jours a Ia possibilite dun retour
soudain. On pourrait presque dire
qu'elle s'y attend. Des milliers de
soldats ct de marins ont en- cette
illusion touchante. Nine Durrien
await plus qu'une autre le droit de
la conserver. A Ia verite, la scene
tragique etait tonjours devant ses
yeux, apres vingt deux ans CONNIE
au premier jour. Ellie sc represen
TAFT le Cynthia envahi par les eaux
ct pres de couler d chaque lame
qul venait le battre. Ellie sc voyalt
attachant ellie. meme, de ses mains
son petit enfant sur une large bouee
tandis que passagers ct matelots
SO ruaient, s'entassaient sur les
chaloupes, puis laiss6e en- arriere,
implorant, suppliant qu'on emme.
nat au moins le b6be. I'm homme
lui prenait des mains lie cher
fardeau. On la jetait dams un
canot. Et presque aussit6t un
coup &c mer, une trombe d'eau SUI
ellie, ct phorreur de voir la bouee
rasant la coque du steamer sur le
dos dune lame, la tempete sen
gouffrant dams la mousseline du
berceau ct emportant "a proie
CONNIE une plume, az milieu det
embruns! Alors un cri dechiran1
parml tant d'autres cris, une lutte
corps a corps, un plongeon dams Ia
nuit,-et linconscience! Puts, Il
reveil, lie d6sespoir sans fn, LEI
NUTS do fievre ct de delire! Puls
la douleur incessante, les tongues
recherches sans effet, ct la convic
ton de son impuissance grandissan
peu a peu, s'etalant. submergean
tout |. oh! oui, ellie Sc rappelai
tout celia, la panvre femme! Pou
mieux dire, son 6tre tout entie
await recu de ce drame une 81 rud
secousse, quill etait reste irrepara
Element meurtri. II y avail
presque un quart de steele que ce
chooses s'etaient passees, ct, comm
au premier jour, Nine Durrie
pleurait son enfant! Ce ceur tou
maternel s'etait replie sur so
deuil ct consumait lentement 6
vie dams la morne contemplate
de runique souvenir !!
Par une sorte de mirage mora
ellie Sc fgurait parfois son Fl
passant par les phases successive
de penfance, de Padolescence ct d
, Page viril. D'ann6e, ellie %
representait CONNIE il aurait Ct
CONNIE il etait peut.etre,- car ell
, conservait toujours une sorte d
lcroyance obstin6e 1 la possibili1
de son retourl Coutre Get espo
obscur, rien n'avait jamais prevail
> nj demarches vaines, nj recherche
. Ilnutiles, n, temps 6coul6l
tt Et c'est poarquoi, ce soir'la, ell
. attendait son pere avec la fern
!. volont6 d'avolr le ceur net de s,
. soupcons.
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-L'EPAVE-
D,s Cy,sthi0,
jules Verne ct Andre Laurie

"Quand tout espoir fut defni.
tivement perdu, je me consacrai
exclusivement a ma flle, don't la
sante physique ct morale exigeait
de grands menagements. J'obtins
d'6tre envoy6 EN- Orient, je cherchai
4 la distraire par des voyages ct
des enterprises scientifques. Ellie
a etc la compagne inseparable de
tous mes travaux; mais jamais je
mai pu arriver a la gu6rir de son
incurable tristesse. Enfn, depuis
deux ans j'ai pris ma retraite, ct
nous sommes rentr6s en- France.
Nous habitons alternativement
Paris ct la vieille maison que je
posseie au Val.Feray, pres de
Brest.
"Nous serait.il donn6 d'y voir
entrer mon petit.tils, celui que
nous pleurons depuis tantd'ann6es I
Get espolr est trop beau pour que
Jose en- parler a ma file, taat quill
ne sera pas transform6 en- certitude.
Ce serait une veritab)e resurrection
E. pourtant, sill fallait maintenant
r. noncer a cette ld6e, Ia deception
serait cruelle!...
"Nous sommes aujourd'hni /"
lundi. Samedi proclaim, me dit.on
a la poste, je pourrais avoir une
r6ponse!... -"
Erik await peine a achever cette
lecture; les larmes obscurcissaient
"a yue. Lui aussi, il craignait de
s'abandonner trop vite a pesp6-
rance, qui lui etait subitement
rendue. II SO disait bien que
toutes les vraise m blances SO trou-
yaient reunies,-la concordance
des 6v6nements ct des moindres
details. Mais c'etait trop beau
II n'osait pas y croire! Retrouver
du meme coup une famille, une
vraie mere, une patrie .-.Et quelle
patrie I. .Celle-la meme quill au-
rait choisie entire toutes, parce
iqu'elle incarne EN- quelque sorte
lies grandeurs, les graces ct les
,dons supr6mes de rhumanit6, parce
IQu'en ellie sont venus Sc r6unir Ell
/ Sc fondre le genie des civilizations
iantiques, la famine ct lesprit des
temps nouveaux!
II await peur que tout celia ne
fnt qu'un r6ve. 81 souvent deja
ses espoirs s'etaient trouves
decus!. .Peut .etre le docteur allait
il dun mot faire crouler rechafau
dage. Avant tout, il fallait Il
prendre pour juge.
LIE docteur lut attentivement LEI
documents Qui lui etalent soumis
non sans s'interrompre a plusieur
reprises, en- laissant echapper un'
exclamation de surprise on de joie
"Il ny pas rombre dun dout
; a conserver! dit.il enfiD. Tous le
details concordent rigoureusement
Iiusqua ceux.la m6mes que to-
correspondent omet de mentionnel
lies initiates du linge, Ia devils
grav6e sur le hochet, ct qui son
> celles de 81 lettre l.. .Mou che
enfant, ia famille est retrouvee
ce,te fois II faut immediatemen
telegraphler q ton grand pere.
-Mais que lui direi demand
Erik pale de ioie.
Dis.lui que des demain t
prendras le courier pour aller
ieter dams les bras de ia mere
dams les siens !"
LIZ jeune capitaine ne prit que
temps de serrer sur son cour
main de lexcellent homme, ct.
ieta dams un cabriolet pour conr
au tAlegraphe.
lie jour meme, il quittait Stool
holm, prenait le chemin de fer q
The sun., 1891-01-29

from TIE washington EpsHtng star
When the Senate opens in tho morning wle the page
boys drawn In semicrcle one at each desk in
front of tho Vice Presidents table and tho chaplain is
pouring forth his appeal for Divine blessing to which
Ingalls, listens with folded and deyouty bonded
head. and to which Mr. Hoar responds with an earnest
Amen" German sometimes stands with his shoulder
against the arch of the door foot crossed
over tho other that habituAl frozen cynical smile
his mouth and looks over tho Senate chamber II he
could read the thoughts Of each and the plans for
the day each might be thinking Of during his dovotions
During the session he IL sometimes in his seat listening
and watching intently. or is moving among his col.
leagues quickly from ono TO another but with cool
and air Of dc Iteration. Anxiety Is never ndf
Gated his face, and he preserves an even manner
throughout the day and from day to day.
lie psrpetually sought by wspaper men who want
inside information and he ta!ks with them all pleas
anty and conhdentaly without giving them any infor
nation Sometimes who is iicay wrong In his in
depreciation Of will receive hint to that effect;
but be Is left to his wits to work out the truth
lakes few people into his confidence and mxuy
who ommands from him do 30 OH faith. not know
Ing lust the reason for them
The sun., 1891-01-29
Not COnDatible,

Tho Gntrier OF Buffalo. tho Union and
Advertiser OF Rochester, and tho Times OF
Albany. three Democratic journals TINT are
not always In perfect accord, now unite In
contending that. while Governor HILL will
become q Senator Of the United States on
the 4th Of March. he may remain as Gov
ernor until the regular session Of Congress
commences In December; and they adducc
various reasons In support OF this idea.
We do not dispute their proposition. Tho
Governor can stay II he chooses. There is
no statute to prevent it. He may even take
tho oath Of office as Senator. and may draw
his salary both as Senator and Us Governor
at tho same time. There Is no statute to
prevent this, except tho unwrltten law
which is in tho minds Of the people; and q
very plain and peremptory law 1t is.
II Governor HILL should act as both
Senator and Governor after the 4th OF March
next, or II he should hold both offices at
once, he ,riU thereby render himself unavaila-
bic and imprdcticabte as a candidate for
President; and that is n conclusive reason
though by no means the only reason. why
We condemn and resist the proposition.
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merely to show that the CoNaER bill Is as
vicious In the means 1t seeks to employ as in
the end 1t aims at.
Ballnmx Bills.

Mr.. EDWARD BELLAMY continues TO be
one OF ths most active members OF the
House OF Representatives. On Jan. 10. as
Mr.. P1cKIER OF South Dakota, he introduced
a bill appropriating saOO,OOo "for the pur-
chase and distribution OF seeds to citizens
who have suffered from drought during the
past year in so.called sub-humid regions
east OF the Rocky Mountains" On Jan. IL.
as Mr.. JOSEPH d. TAYLOR OF Ohio. he
brought In measure appropriating s.. oo0,-
900 year for five years as an educational
fund In support OF public schools in
the States and Territories and the District
OF Columbia, the sum to be divided among
them "in tho proportion which the number
OF persons between and including the ages
OF ten and twenty years who are unable to
write, bears to the whole number OF such per-
sons in the United States. as shown by the
census OF 1890" On Jan. Ia. as Mr.. GE1ssEN-
HA1NER OF Now Jersey, he proposed a
measure for promoting the education OF the
blind by appropriating $25O000 ITO be set
apart as perpetual fund for the purpose OF
aiding the education OF the blind In the
United States through tho American Print
ing House for the Blind"
Many are the manifestations OF Mr.. BEL
LAMY, and tho forms In which he keeps and
passes ard turns again. He Is both Repub-
lican and Democrat and he Is neither. We
would remind Mr.. BELLAMY-P1CxLER Mr..
BELLAMY.TAYLoR. and Mr.. BELIAMY.
GKIssENHAINER that 1t is not the business OF
the United States Government to furnish
seeds 10 the dweiiers in sub-humid or any
other kind Of regions, or to encourage read
ing and writing by means OF premium on
illiteracy, or to educate the blind in the sew
eral States. 1t Is the business of the United
States Government to mind its own business
and let tho States mind theirs.
The sun., 1891-01-29
ISN'T SURE HE HAS 4 NAME.
There's No Doubt IEe Has Nothing Else. and
Me'. AN UneommonlI Lonely Little hoy.

He. an CncOmmonly Lonely Little BOY.
There is a lonely little boy at the Gerry
socie,y's house All the other children. and
there are more OF them than usual. have some
ray OF sunshine in their liyes-a home, IA
mother. friend. or else natural brightness
and touRhness that make rude shocks Jar
lightly But this lonely boy has no home and
never did have q home.
He Is not q pretty boy. He is thin. and whom
he stands his little body bends to ono side as
though weight were on one Of his shoulders.
He keeps his eyes down most OF tho time, and
when he raises them he has a sad look. which
is yet not appealing. Tho first thing he re-
members is a childrsns homo Ia Trenton. lie
says they told him at the homo that hi, mother
put him there when lie was years old. When
he got to he nearly H. farmer from near Me-, New
lrnnswick took him away to 40 chores Ihi.
says he had sonr disposition. There wore no
children mt the farm--"nly grown itopie. who
did not seem to think much of li'tlo boys OK
cept Is wood carriers and floor s"rubhrrs. 30
tie boy missed the children home and used
t. sit In corner OF tho woodshed when ho had
He did moi oven have name like ether reo-
pie, because his name wa, J"hn Trent, aud he
Trenton. Alter n While this black -wnisk ereri
farmer lent John Trout for 81 n week TO an
1sr nwng snh sc and
Here he was cabin boy; IIe washed tho dishes
big as tho farmer kitchen.
One day ho came w out Of the CABIN and
Stas aH tS s' ru Then the boom Di s%nna aa ar""n
and his head hit hard against lilo edge OF lie
woke up in u hospital at Nav Brighton. lis
skull was fractured aud Il was three months
Een hnr Il was !" MG a anI
week when he was able TO get around again
The sun., 1891-01-29
Have They Counted the Cost 2

The Alliance men in the Kansas Legisla-
ture and in the Minnesota Legislature are
after the railroads with a vengeance. Bill
after bill is aimed at those bugaboos OF the
granger, and the prospect is that Iowa will
be out-Iowaed by the railroad regulators in
Minnesota and Kansas. This is a black out
look for holders OF the securities OF railroads
which arc unfortunate enough to be situated
in the lands Of the Sunflower and the
Gopher; but 1t is good deal blacker for the
people Of those lands. The Iowa grangers
have regulated the Iowa railroads until not
one OF those which do not extend beyond
the State limits pays dividend. Sixteen OF
them were actually run at loss In 1889.
Receivers operated four. From 5000
to 5000 less mon worked for the rail-
roads in 1889 than in 1888; $1,4Oo,0o0 less
wages was paid. On nearly $12O.oOo.0 900 of
railroad stock not a cent OF dividend was
realized. OF course. new railroads are not
built in Iowa. and tho facilities Of the old
ones have had to be diminished for econ
omy's sake. Who can estimate the number
of millions OF dollars which the arrested do
velopment OF the railroad system Of Iowa
has cost the State?
Before tho farmers OF Kansas and Mime
sofa set their hands seriously to the work of
conflscating or running the railroads OF those
States, they should consider how the granger
policy has worked in Iowa.
The sun., 1891-01-29

The death OF King kALAKAUA will nat
nrally revive the often-mooted plan OF an
nexing the Sandwich Islands to tho United
States. There is much to be said in favor Of
the project, and very little against 1t. Tho
commercial value of the Hawaiian group to
this country is obvious. and tho time has
gonc by when our moral claim TO ascendancy
Rt Honolulu was likely to be disputed by
any European power
From n productive rs well US strategic
point Of view these islands are undoubtedly
tho Jewels Of tho Pacific. Their estimated
area u four millions Of acres, and although
not all OF this is available for tillage, only a
small fraction Of the cultivable surface has yet
been put under the plough. To the growth
OF the sugar cane, OF rice, and Of coffee tho
soil and climate arc peculiarly adapted
Tho average yield of sugar is q tons
per acre. and In some localities as
much as tons per aero has been
obtained. Under tho stimulus Of the capi-
tai and enterprise certain to DO applied after
our annexation of the islands, this sugar
crop would satisfy to a considerable extent
our national demand. Tho present deficiency
OF labor would be met by an inpour Of emf
grants from southern Europe In VIII ON the
native Hawaiians would find much less OBJ
jectionable fellow citizens than arc the Chi
nese. II anything can check the threatened
extinction Of the Hawaiian race, it will be the
bracing influence OF American institutions.
We have long and deservedly exercised a
powerful attraction upon tho Sandwich
Islands. Not only do We offer the principal
market for their products, but to us rather
than the English are the inhabitants in-
debted for their civilization. The English
missed tho opportunity that Cooks visit
gave them, and it was missionaries from
the United States that In 1920 landed ut
Honolulu and began the conversion OF tho
natives. The start thus acquired has never
been lost though subsequently England
spared 10 effort to retrieve her error of
omission. Al one time British officer went
% far us to take possession Of Oahu, but in
Difference to our remonstranceS his act was
disavowed, and in 1874 the independence OF
the Hawaiian group was guaranteed by an
agreement between Great Britain, Franco,
and the United States. This arrangement
however, has long ceased to have any more
practical validity than the analogous con.
vention regarding Zanzibar, which has JUS,
been set aside. There are Tar stronger
grounds for International assent to our an
nexaton OF the Sandwich Islands thar
there were for acquiescence in the
British assumption of protectorate over
Zanzibar. In the case OF the East Africal
island there was no one but the Sultan To b,
consulted for an attempt to elicit the
wishes Of his subjects by plebiscite woult
have been farce. There can be, on thu
other hand. no doubt that fair poll of thu
qualified Hawaiian electors would show al
overwhelming majority in favor OF politica
union with this country. The workings o
tho reciprocity treaty have given The Ha