We bought one for ourselves for the rest of the trip.
I want you to do something for me: keep all the unfavorable notices you get.

I know Mother won't do it, so I shall expect Nora to make a point of saving them from the waste-paper basket.

If there is not a lot of them when I get back, I will raise a row.
DICK.
MANAQUA--NICARAGUA--February 13, 1895.
DEAR FAM: I had a great deal to tell you, but we have just received copies of the Panama Star and have read of the trolley riots in Brooklyn, a crisis in France, War in the Balkans, a revolution in Honolulu and another in Colombia.

The result is that we feel we are not in it and we are all kicking and growling and abusing our luck.

How Claiborne and Russell will delight over us and in telling how the militia fired on the strikers and how Troop A fought nobly.