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Libertyville Independent, 15 Nov 1923, p. 10

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Dethi, the ancient capital of Hindu-- stan; and it is only one hundred 'and twenty years since Delhi feli, and Hin-- dustan surrendered to the British arm#. We have to deal with the events thuhl-ptotln_eolquutothdh.- The Mosiem su)tans, sons of the Great Mogu!, had long reigned over Hindustan, but in 1784 Sbah Alam, last of these emperors, was driven from Delll In his ruin he appealed for help to Madhojt Scindhis, a Hindu prince: from the-- South, who-- kindiy restored the emperor to his palace, then gave him into the keeping of #& jailer, who gouged out the old man's eyes.-- Still Shah Alam, the blind, help« less, and at times very hungry pris oner, was emperor of Northern India, and in his august name Scindhia led the armiés to collect the taxes of Hin-- PDe Boigne proved honest, faithful to his prince, a tireless worker, a glorl-- ous leader, the very pattern --of manli-- ness. The battallons which he raised for Seindhia were taught the art of war as known in Europe, they were well armed, fed, disciplined, and pald tweir wages; they were led by capable white ; men, and always victorious in. the feld, At Scindhbia's death, De sovereignty of India. pri ce Daulat Rao, his heir, an army twenty years of service, longed for his home among the Italian vineyards, Scindhia himself was one of many turbalent Mahratta princes subject to the peshwa of 'Poona, near Bombay.: He had to sit on _the peshwa's head at Poona, and the emperor's head at Delhi, while he fought the whole no-- bility and gentry of India, and kept one eye cocked for British invasions from the seaboard. 'The British held the ocean, surrounded Indila, and were advancing inland, Madbojl Scindhia was a--very busy man. . He had never heard of tourists, and when 'De Boigne, an Italian gentle mmwummflm his highness, scenting a spy, stole poor man's luggage. De Boigne, vet-- sran of the French and Russian armies, and lately retired.from the Britisk service, was annoyed at the loss o his luggage, and having nothing lei but his sword, offered.the use of that to Scindhia's nearest enemy. In those Boligns lnid down the burden of the Indian empire, and retired.:to his vine yards in Sayoy. 'There for thirty years he befriended the poor, lved simply, lvo,w-e,nlutnnded'nd The Russian army could not hope conguered the Hariann. 'This district, | t0 defeft Napoleon, was routed again m"m'm"m"m.mmnh-mtomm their Irish king won all their hearts, | NAVest, drove away the cattle, left the and they settled down quite peacefully towns in ashes, Napoléon's host under his government. His revenue.| PArched through a desert, while dafly, / was eighteen hundred thousand pounds | DY W2ste of battle, wreckage of men i year, M&Bud. his capnital town. méh "::'d wounds, horrors of he "crlact rvation, wolf--like hordes of he coined his own money, cast B# | no5c, oks who cut off all the StTAGGICTS, of years and honorg. While De. Boigne was still figthing for Bcindhla, a runaway Irish sail« had drifted up--country, and taken servy-- ice in--one of the native states as a wlnuldghr. G:ota'l'hunum great big heart, a clear head, a ter-- rife sword, anl a reckless delight in tumble adventure he fought his way upwerd, until with his own army of SAve thousand men he invaded and conquered the Hariana,. This district, Just to the westward of Delhi, was a desert, peopled by tribes so fierce that mar--hed afoot; the a*my worshiped him, and the very terror of his name brought strong cities to surrender, put legiong of Sikh cavairy to Aight. All things seemed possible to such a man, even the conquest of great Hindustan, De Boigne had been succeeded as commander--in--chiet under Scindbia dby ~FBerron, a runaway sallor, a m:-.-km-uu'- gder, set up a pension fund for wl'vnndm-.otlhm All round him were hostile states, and Bolgno's power had been a litle thing mmmmemm of who actually reigned over tempt., Perron feared only one man d-!fl.flo:.vd,mm.uh Irish rajah of : hl}tlont an expedition to destroy o The new master of Hindustan do tested the English and, degrading the their place, hairdressers, waiters, acal-- awagn, all utterly uneless, Major Bour-- yulen, the worst of the lot, wan sent against Thomas and got a thrashing. But Thomag, poor sout, bad a Prad-- ler enemy than this coward, and now THE CONQUERORS OF Copyright by Bobbe--Merrill Company By Roger Pocock NS victory Instead of attend-- uilncns, He awakened to And P 5 n orders with > com L« TWe to i{"fimw mad veterans. There wak no> Weter, Spiés burned his stacks of for-- no: weter, mples burned his stacks of for-- age, his battallons were bribed to de sert, or lost all hope. ¥Finally, with three English oficers and two hundred m.'!h-neuhl--'m the lovesting army and fed to his cap The coward Bourguien had charge of the pursulag force that now invest-- Perron had no need of Scindhia now, but.was leagued with Napoleon to hand over the Indian empire to Now Scindhia, had the Fremchman been loyal, could have checked the Mah-- ratta princes, vut these got out of hand, and one of them, Holkar, drove the Mahratta emperor, the peshwa--of Poona, from his throne. The peshwa fied to Bombay and returned with a British army under Sir Arthur Welles-- ley, So came the battle of Assaye, wherein the British force of four thou-- sand five hundred men dverthrew the Mabhratta army of fifty thousand men, General Lake swept Perron's army out existence and captured Delhi, 'the of the North. Both the capt-- eities of India fell to British arms, tection, and that vast empire :3 : ~And Arthur Wellesicy, victor in that stupendous triumph of Assaye, became the Iron Duke of Wellington, destined to liberate Europe at Waterloo, ¥French, master of Europe, almost con-- queror of the world--and he was still only thirty--three years of age when, founded wherein King George now reigns, As to Perron, his fall was pitiftul, a freak of cowardice. He be: trayed. everybody and : sneaked away to Fraiice with a large fortune. -- gathered from all his subject nations --Germans, Swiss, Italians, Poles, Aus-- million men, an irresistible and over-- whelming force, launched like a shell into the heart of Russia. That old city, hallowed by centuries of brave endeavor, stored with the spoils of countless victories, that hboly place at the very sight of which the Russian traveler prostrated himself in prayer, had been made ready for Na-- THE FALL OF NAPOLEON A. D. 1812 tion prepared sw awfol a sacrifice as that which wrenched a million people from thelr. homes, 'The empty capital mm,nmaumm then all the Were released and provided with torches, Erery vestige O 400d had been taken away, but the gold, the gems, the sllver, the precions things of treasuries, churches and pal-- aces, remained as bait. Dexpite the horrors of the march, Napoleon's entry was attended by all the gorgeous pagenntry ot the Grand Army, a binze of gold and color, com quered Kurope.at thé heels of the Hit-- tie Corsican adventurer with waving Aags and trinmphal music, The car-- alry found cathedrals for stabling, the guard had palaces for barracks, where they could lHe at ease through the winter ; but night after night the groat buildings burst Into Aames, day after dny the TJoraging parties were caught In' Inbyrinths of blazing satreets, and the Army stailed on a diet of wine and gold in the burning capital, 4s a penniless lHeutenant of artillery, he rose to be captain, wea cape, and the winter was cominpg on the Russian winter, ¥rom the time when the retreat be= gan through a thousand miles of naked mu-_"nmhw.b~ starvipg army, men w.wmml'ma:w lces,. ingots of silver, bars of goid And jewels, but they had no food. The tranzport numbered thousands of carts ladén with grain, but the horses died because there was no forage, so all the commissariat, except Napoleon's treas ed to treat tof peste, bat Hosala Lept troops ctlosed down on the line of es-- Then the marching regiments were placed in the wake of the cavairy, that they might get the dying horses for food, but when the cold came there was no fuel to cook the frozen meat, and men's lips would bleed when they tried to gnaw that ice. SBarthe wake of the army, was a wide road blocked with broken carts, dead horses, aban-- stooping to look at the hody I saw that It was a woman. I approached, the f@ead woman to take the sheepskin for & covering, but it was impossible to move iIt. --A piercing cry --came from the cart. 'Marie! Marie! I am dying!' . *~*"Mounting on the body of the horse in the ghafts I steadied myself by the top of the cart. --I asked what was-- the matter. -- A feeble yoice answered, *Bomething to drink? x:' "I thought at once of the frozen blood in: my pouch, and tried to get down to fetch it, but the moon sud-- camp followers remained to --murdger the dying, strip the dead and gathér the: treasures of Moscow, the #words, the gold lace, the costly uniforms, un-- i1 they were sigughtered by :0-0- Paotied rvompbingh.a oo eovered ev e *' . y a * No words of mige could ever tell the story, but here are passages from the Memoirs . of -- Sergeant -- Burgogne (Heineman), 1 have ventured to con-- dense parts of his narrative, memories of the lost army, told by one who saw. He had been left behind to die:-- \ "At that moment the moon came out, and I began to walk faster.-- In this Immense cemetery and this awful silence I was alone, and I began to,Cr3 like a child. The tears reli¢ved me, gradually my courage came back and, feeling stronger, I set out again, trust-- ing to God's mercy, . taking care to avoid the dead bodies. .. "I moticed something I took for a wagon.: It was a broken canteen cart, the horses which had drawn it not only dggd_.bntpnrt!y ecut to pleces for eat-- Ing.~ Around the cart were seven dead bodies almost naked, and halt covered w !«..y;iiss wSL with snow; one of them still covered 1812, perhaps about seven o'clock in mm_uduyctnmhmi light. I was musing on all that I had seen, when the head of the column appeared, Those in advance seemed to be generals, a few on horseback, but the greater part on foot. There were also a great number of other oficers, the remnant .of the doomed squadron and battalion forimed on the twenty-- second and barely existing at the end of three days. 'Those on foot dragged themselves painfually along, almost all of them having their feet frozen and wrapped in rags, and all nearly dying of hunger, Afterward came the small remains of the cavairy of the guard. 'The emperot came next on foot, carty-- Ing a baton; Murat walked on foot at his right, and on his left, the Prince Eugene, viceroy of Italy. Next came the marshals--Berthier, prince of Neu-- chatel, Ney, Mortier, Lefevre, with other marshals and generals whose corps were nearly annihilated, Beven or eight hundred oficers and non--com-- misstoned officers followed, walking in %Mp&niina.mm- ing the eagles of theéir different regi-- ments which had so Often led them to ¥ictory. --This was all that remained of sixty thousand men. After them came the imperial guard. And men cried at seeing the eaperor on foot." cipline, and at the passage of the River Beretina the engineers contrived to build a bridge. But while the troops were crossing, the Russians began to arivé the rear guard, and the whole herd broke into panic. '"The confusion and disorder went on Increasing, and reached their full height whes Mar-- whal Victor was attacked by the Ra» sians, and shells and bullets showered thickly upon as, To complete our mis-- rvm.ldunlmml night, and all this time the Bere | zima became gradually Alled with 1ce;} dead bodiea of men and horses, while | the bridge got blocked up with carts | full of wounded men, some of which ; wailed over the edge into the watss,.: aee: 1 d »r terlts udhve o --Curt t "beacrk / im nekt night, and all this time the Bepe | thrashed them. --He got that supper, hb'uum'uflyfldwflhle&.! "mmmfium dead bodiea of men and horses, while | O# that they now invited Napoleon III the bridge got blocked up with carts : to send an army of invasion. Undis full of wounded men, some of which ; MAYed, the unfortunate Uherals fought :"cmthcbmmflm,;ummdm-lmi mm"".'"mimuuffl.mfl evening, Marsbal Victor began nis re| Mount Orizabs, and so routed them | treat. He and his mert had to croes | before the walls of Puebia that it was the bridge over a perfect mountain or: Bine mosths before they folt well corpaes." w * «nough to secew the aitack, The day mmcm\-«!-tmmcmumnm stayed to burn abandoned wagons, and! Meé as their great national festi mw---------'-"-"---';"__': its di# shooting forn :the 3 they had in finte walletg tading mo. tl'hfl"h?':fl towns, or falling back at the worst on frozen horsefiesh. 'Garrisons left by Napoleqag, on his advance fell in from time to late for Aight, and of the hundreds who attempted to swim the river, not ong reached the farther bank. 'To prevent was set on fre, and so horror .was plled on horror that it would be gross offense to add nnother word,~ > »-- Of half a million men who had en-- tered Russia, there were only twoenty-- fAve thousand left after that crossing of the Berezina. 'These were veterans in en iess who e > KS : ,... w wnaeees hom stripged -- Relo clusters Of men~no longer kept their mwum'mhm tried to help the weak, and often com-- rades would die together rather than zlow exhaustion of dysentery, the mig-- eries of vermin and starvation, and dttempted the Bridge.~ On serve the emperor, > abhead, traveling rapidly to send the. re-- lief of sleighs and food which met--the survivors on the German --border. 'Thence he went on to Paris--to raise a new army; for now there was con-- spiracy in France for the overthrow of the despot, and Europe rose to destroy him. _ So on the field of Leipsic, in the battle of the nations, Napoleon was Once again he challenged fate, es-- caped from his island prison of Elba, and with a third army marched Waterloo, with that last banishment to Saint Helena, where the great ad-- years, dreaming of glories never to be revived and that great empire which was lost forever. pected terror. He drilled them into sol-- diers, marched them to his native city, Oaxaca, captured the place by assault, drove out a local usurper who was making things too hot for the citizens, and then, arsid the wild rejoicings that followed, was promoted to a captalitty in the national guards, i Captain Diaz explained to his nation-- al guards that they were fine men, but needed a little tactical exercise. So he took them out for a gentle course of maneuvers, to try their teeth on a re-- bellion which happened to be camped convenlently in .the nelighborhood. When hbe had fAnished exercising his men, there was no rebellion left, so he marched them home. He had to come home because he was dangerously wounded. It must be explained that there were two big political parties, the clericals and the liberals, -- Diaz was scarcely healed of his wound, when a clerical excursion came down to steal the city. He thrashed them sick, he chased them until they dropped, and thrashed them again until they scattered in helpless panic. -- The Uberal president rewarded Colo net--Diat with a post of such eminent danger that he had to Aght for his life procure him a holiday, sent up the md'nua-&w"um ment to the capital. Of coyree, the clerical atmy objected gould get a vacation. Then Oaxaca, to strongly to the debates of a Uberal congress sitting in parliament at the eapital. .They came afd spolled the migm"hth(!vd Mexico, the member for Oaxrnca was deputed to arrange with these cler Heo loft his seat In tha house, gath-- ered his forces and chased that clerical army for two months At last, denad wenry, the clericais had camped for THE HERO--STATESMAN -h::audbc'i'ofldb ebia, : in toungd Dlue---szu outpost, _ 'The place 'wey only a large resthouse for those--bars, escuped, rallled a handful of Mexicans, armed them by. capturing a French ¢éonvoy camp, railsed the southern states of Mezi¢o, and for {wo years held bis own against the armies The city held out for sixty days, but snccumbed to famine, and the French could not persuade such a man as Dias to yive them any parole... They locked him . up in .'M,Gfln dungeon had but a little window far with a rush, One man insd to de tried to congquer'Dias in the south. The Mexican herc had three thousand men and --a cBHain' of forts. l&l that chain of forts he was busy reorganiz ing the government of. the southern states, and among other details, found-- Ing a school for girls in his native cliy. men to attack three thousand. Rlowly he drove the unfortunate nationalists to Oaxaca and there Diaz made one of the most glorlious defenses in the annals of war. He melted the cathedral bells for cannon balis, be mounted a gun in the empty belfry, where he and his starving followers fought their last greét fight, uat!i he stood alone among the dead, Bring charge «after charge Into the siege lines. away the--French in swaths until bis ncross the square and recovered the afterward sold France to the Germans, attempted to bribe Diaz, but, failing in Once more he was cast into prison, only to make such frantic attempts at escape that in the end he succeeded in schling--an impossible wall. -- He was an outcast now, living by robbery, hunted lUike a wolf, and ¥et on the second duy after that escape, he commanded a gang of bandits and captured a French garrison.----He ambuscaded an expedi-- when in action. The country suffered from a very plague of politiclans until pme day he dropped in as a visitor, guite unexpected, at Vera Cruz, select-- 'ad 'the elaven leading politi¢iens with aut the slightest blas as to their views, put them up against the city wall and shot--them.© Politics was abated. The leading industry of the country was bhighway robbery, until the presai-- dent, exgquisitely aympathetic, invited ull the principal robbers to m with him as to the details of ment, He formed them into a body. of ;-u police, which swept like a whirtwind through the republic and 'fluufl--'umw tal panishment not béing permitted by '&i--u government,. the robbers | Were all shot for "attempting to &# tion sent against him, raised an army and reconquered southern Mezxico. .It was then (1987) that the United States compelied the French to retire. President Juares marched from the northern deserts, gathering the people as he came, 'besieged Queretaro, cap-- tured and shot the Emperor Maximil-- Rendish tortures. The whole distract-- ed nation cried in its agony for a lead-- er, but every respectable who wtohelpwurm;:uolj by the government, stripped of his pos-- sessions and driven into exile. At last General Diaz could bear it no longer, made a few remarks and was prosecut, ed. He fied, and there began a period of the wildest adventures e, while the government nmnu hunt him down.~ He raised an insur-- rection in .the north, but, after a series of extraordinary victories, found the southward march impossible. 'When-- next he entered the republic of Mexico, he came disguised as a laborer by sea to the port of Tampico, At Yera Cruz he landed and, after a series .of almost miraculous escapes-- from captcre, succeeded in walking to Oaxaca. There he raised his last re-- bellion and with four thousand follow-- taking three thousand prisoners, the guns and all the transport, President Lerdo heard the news and boited with all the cash.. General Dias took the Clity of Mexico and declared himgelt president of the republic, _ Whether as bandit or king, Dias bat Always been the handsomest man in Mexico, the most courteous, the most Next in' importancte was the mining OW sllver, and the dectine in its value Porfirie Diaz. | is ereigns went about among his people the simplest, most accessible of men. "They may kill me if they want to," hn}dm"fit&eyho'tmu 'They rather like me." . So one might see him taking his morning ride, wear-- "Ing the beautiful leather dress of the Mexican 'horsemen, or later in the day, in a tweed sult going down to the of-- with railronds, equip the cities with Clectric lights and traction power, open great seaports and Htter all the states wagic of his Onance, Dias used that t Mexicoe with prosperous factories. Meanwhile 'he paid off the nationa} debt and made his coinage sound. He never managed himself to speak ny other language than his own ima-- &'WM&MMMM' | is to be the tongue of mankind. Wrery child in Mexrico had to yo to schoo! to learn Euglish, call cougar, or of a Bunday going to ch@rch with his wife and children. On duty he was an absolute--morarch, oK duty a kindly citizen, and it seemed to all: of us who knew 'the country that he would die as be had lived, still in harness. One did not expect too pleakant farce, but the country was a tions of the western halt of the Unit-- eda, & tes, Any fellow entitled to a linen ollar in Europe wore a revoiver In--M.Kico, as part of the dreoss of a gentlieman, but in the wildest districts I never carried a eartridge. Diaz had made his country a land of peace and order,-- strong, respected, prosperous, with every outward sign af coming greatness. Excepting only Napoleon and a late Japanese emperor, he was botb in war--and peace the greatest leader bur world has ever known. But the people proved unworthy of their chief; be became a broken exile, and Mexi¢o lepsed back into anarchy. . **~ huntirig the ninefoot cats which we oficer, 'The young chap meant no harm, but as be had to be taught man ners, & Meutenant slightly his senior Invited him up. upon the ramparts. There, arm in arm, the two walked up and down, the senlor making amusing remarks about the weather, while the storm --of lead swept round them, and the soldiers watched horror--struck, ex-- pecting both to fall. That oficer who crowded under their earthworks to es cape the Russian fre, one of the sub-- *me be killedT t _ «"Tsake him down to the river and shoot him!' And aside: 'Put him in my Gordon not only saved the poor ad-- venturers, but where he captured gar risons of Talpings, he would arm his prisoners, drill them, and lead them on to attack fresh cities in the march of were slightly against him, three hbun-- dred and seventy Ave to one--an army mmmmmnt: MNIN!'IO«M *-r" which he starved 1 . | The Talping 'generals laid down their arms to Gordon because he gave them their lives. 'Then L1 Hung day, revolver in hand, he bunted the Chiness © commander--An--chief through mm«nmw.mumm aly for him, and hid under some mat In a steamer, destroyed a Taiping army near Quin SBan, had mmm for his personal hse--a little awagger cane, such as Tommy carries in the atreet; It was known to the Chi-- Reas ans his Maglc Wand of Victory, With which to had overthrown an army seven times an 'big as that of Great The Chiness emperor sent an im perial dacres conferring four thousand pounds and all sorts of honors, -- Gor don wrote on the back of the parch ¥ent: "Hegret that owing to the cin eumatantes which occurred saince the captiure of oo .Chow, J am unable to During the Crimean war, when men This Seotchman who, with forty men let the doctor attend him, and ¥°* CGordon had a swift came!, and a reputation for sorcery, because, leaving. his escort days astern in the desert, he would ride alone in the midet of a hostile nation, dressed in a diplowat-- ic uniform consisting of gold lace and trousers, quite unarmed, --but compel}-- ling everybody to obey his orders. He was so tired that he wanted to die, and --when the tribes disobeyed he merely eut off their whole supply of water un-- til they learned to behare. o for five years, the only honést man in all that region fought the Soudanese, the Egyp tian government and the British wmin-- He was a Sunday school teacher, and reared slum boys to manhood;he was NIWh&;EM.Nm «ranky as an old full of odd The Turkish empire got its supply Of slaves from this big Bondan, a tract of the size of Europe, whose on'y trade. m'o--h':t.h-n :du'i' If Gor: savages ate thewm.. But the '(!"w; whims, a little man, with tender gray mq.u'n';'l«l!nu.uld* ¥or six years he rotted in Gravesend, then served a couple Of years as Brit-- then in 1874 was borrowed by Egypt to be viceroy of the equatorial prov-- intes, 'There he made history. -- government 'wanted money, so. Got, don's work was to stop the siave trade, fcials, whose only interest in the Job. _ was the collecting of bribes, plundér .. and slaves for their private use; also ... a staff of Europeans, all of whom died.. _ of fever within the first few montlis, / Moreover, the whole native population was more or less, d% war with the _ mhfimtj 15 peror made him a prince of the Ch+ nese empire, and with the uniform of that rank as a curlo in his trunk, bhe returned to England. In China he was prince and com queror; in Gravesend Major Gordon did gurrison duty and kept-- ducks, which he delighted to squirt with the emperexr's recognition." Bo he s thing back--a sigp in the face of Ixtry to put an end to slavery. ne emperor sent a gold medal, but Gordon, seratching out inscription, nn}b.elul'ub::l. The en Long chapters would be required for the story of Gordon's work in Bessara-- bisa, Armenia, Iodia, South Africa, or the second period in China. . In 1694, EKngiand, baving taken charge of Egypt, was responsible for the peace of Soudan. But the Arabs, united for once, and led by their progh et--the Makhdi--had decilared a holy war against everybody, and wiped out thousand, five hundred women, chil-- dren and servants eacaped from the goming death, At the last moment be managed to send the Englishnmen, the BEuropeans and forty--fAve soldiers downs the Nile. They were saved, and be re mained to die with his soldiers. "May 'our Lord," HBe wrote, "not visit us as s nation for our sins; but may His wrath fall on me." / > He could not believe in England's covwnrdice, but{walled his city with ramp and bastion, planned mines and raidd, kept discipline while his troops were starving to death, and the Union Jack aflont above .the palace, prayipg for his country in abasement, waiting for the army which had been sent toe late. Sotornga-omhonnnate. of all England's engineers held at bay an army of seventy--five thousand fight Ing--Arabs. And when the city fell, rak lying the last Afty men of his garrison, he went to his death, glad that he was not doomed to outlive England's honor, Year after year the atrmy fought throughthe burning deserts, to win back England's honor, to make awmends for the death of her hero--snint, the knightliest of modern men, the very pattern of all chivairy. Apd then his grave was found, a hbeap of blood-- stained ashes, which once had been Khartoum. # Now, in Trafaigar square, men loy wreaths at the base of his statue, where, with his Magic Wand of Vie tory, that prince of the Chineseo en» pire and yiceroy of the African equs torial provinces, ~stands looking s#or-- rowftully on a people who were not worthy to be his countrymen. But mul(n't«meatynordo-. a new Sondan s whore live at penia .under the Unilon Jack, slavery is at an end forever. perior court, having applied under th# , act of congress permitting American. . t:ymw'hdmnflmz' jects to « W married a m'nbu in Rowe, -- twoenty--five years aga. gCrf . g Regaina Her Citizenship, _ ___ Mra, Maud Howe Elllott, danghter of Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn --of the Republic," in once an A ¢itizen, She mz refontiy' nikhranmed in "The Hu Anglent Tavern to Ba--Prevarved. The famous old Arrow Rock evers, on the Missour| river, in Minsourt, has been purchastid by the state and turned over ty the Daughters m American Revolution, The old was a place of rest nnd refreshment for the sonthwesten 30&1 ' pMainsman. _ma&mfl / a depository for articles of h ¢itizen, She . I in the Su-- ; ied under the ag American. irrh] foreign . :W._m $4

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