Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis
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country secretly approved, and later imitated. And because they
attempted exactly the same thing for which Dr. Jameson was imprisoned in Holloway Jail, two hundred thousand of his countrymen are now wearing medals. The by-laws of the Knights of Arabia leave but little doubt as to its object. By-law No. II reads: "We, as Knights of Arabia, pledge ourselves to aid, comfort, and protect all Knights of Arabia, especially those who are wounded in obtaining our grand object. "III--Great care must be taken that no unbeliever or outsider shall gain any insight into the mysteries or secrets of the Order. "IV--The candidate will have to pay one hundred dollars cash to the Captain of the Company, and the candidate will receive from the Secretary a Knight of Arabia bond for one hundred dollars in gold, with ten per cent interest, payable ninety days after the recognition of (The Republic of----) by the United States, or any government. "V--All Knights of Arabia will be entitled to one hundred acres of land, location of said land to be drawn for by lottery. The products are coffee, sugar, tobacco, and cotton." A local correspondent of the New York _Herald_ writes of the arrest of MacIver as follows: |
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