Mullan, Leary's successor, warned Knappe, in an emphatic despatch, not to squander and discredit the solemnity of that emblem which was all he had to be a defence to his own consulate.

And Knappe himself, in his despatch of March 21st, 1889, castigates the practice with much sense.

But this was after the tragicomic culmination had been reached, and the burnt rags of one of these too-frequently mendacious signals gone on a progress to Washington, like Caesar's body, arousing indignation where it came.

To such results are nations conducted by the patent artifices of a Becker.
The discussion of the morning, the silent menace and defiance of the voyage to Laulii, might have set the best-natured by the ears.

But Knappe and de Coetlogon took their difference in excellent part.