Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — The Indemnity Was Paid. [ARTICLE]

The Indemnity Was Paid.

' “The controversy between Haiti and Germany over the Lueders case,” said an old resident to a Star reporter recently, “brings to my mind the fact that the United States at one time at least during my life showed the same spirit that Germany did in demanding an indemnity at the point of a gun. The incident happened just after the close of the war and was about the same kind of affair. The Brazilian government had Imprisoned or treated an American citizen In some outrageous way, and the American minister at Rio Janeiro, acting on his instructions, demanded an indemnity. He was put off from day to day, and finally from week to week, until he made up his mind that he was either going to do his duty or lose his position, so he said nothing more about the matter, but waited for a United States warship to anchor in the harbor. When the vessel arrived he quietly moved his effects from the legation to the boat and then announced to the powers in Brazil that ho had located the United States legation on the deck of a United States warship, and that unless that Indemnity was forthcoming In three hours he ,would shell the town. The indemnity was paid.” | ■ ' If the Lord answered the girls’prayers he would afflict every one of them with a fever, after which their hair would come out and grow in curls. Every time a man cuts a cantaloupe which he picked out for a good one, he has to revise his rules governing the no* fits of uood cintuloiiDCß. Ul J»WU LWUUUV