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Updated: June 13, 2025
Three minutes later he was telling me that the state of the maize crop was something disgraceful, and that the railway-companies would not pay him enough for his timber. The talk shifted to and fro with the bottles, and we discussed very many stately things, and the King became confidential on the subject of Government generally.
American railway-companies have never been troubled with too much money. They have usually commenced with a great desire for economy, selecting a "cheap" engineer, and getting a low estimate of the probable cost. A portion of the amount is subscribed for in stock, and the next thing is to run in debt. "First mortgage bonds" are issued and sold.
He further increased his revenues by selling timber to the railway-companies; for he would cut the great deodar trees in his one forest, and they fell thundering into the Sutlej river and were swept down to the plains three hundred miles away and became railway-ties.
"Is it just in the nation," she said, "to abandon those who can do nothing to help themselves, to be preyed upon by bad landlords, railway-companies, and dishonest trades-people with their false weights, balances, and measures, and adulterations to boot, from all of whom their more wealthy brethren are comparatively safe? Does not a nation exist for the protection of its parts?
The scaffolding for the destruction of the Vendôme Column is arranged, and the eighth of this month is the day fixed for its fall. The fighting around Paris continues violent and the troops of Versailles press steadily forward. The railway-companies are taxed to the amount of 2,000,000 fr. Let us terminate this day by the recital of the pillage of Notre-Dame.
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