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Itsntemberahtpttio union cause an well as soldlcrftofthrt confederacy although ti fenro Comparatively fow veteran Oftlto trof tho rebellion to be fdlindIn Ka more than 200 camps

Fow organizations hdvo made suchVQbeenthe United Spanish A merlrqn WarVetorwis In that brio period theorder iias nearly doubled Its niembershlp It now enrolls 40000 thenln the United States The department of New York which ls tlfostrongest of the stato organizationshis 4000 members With between300000 and 400000 men frtim whichto draw the veterans will be able toattain ti large membership within thenext few years according to the confident predictions of the officers

First in the field was tIle NatiqnnlArmy and Navy Spanish War Veterans which was chartered in Ohiosecond came the SpanishAmericanWar Veterans who first gathered Intho state of Now Yorliand last thoService Men of the Spanish War whofirst convened In Illinois

In 190i tho three organizations metin ono convention in St Louie andwere amalgamated into tho UnitedSpanish War Veterans

Buttons Indicating membership Int TInlted Spanish War Veterans aronow frequently seen In tho coat Upietc of men one meets In the streetlIThe official badge which is also wotsIn button Style consists of a StAndrews cross of bronze Tho toparm bears thb word Cuba thoright arm has Porto Rico and theleft arm Philippine Islands whileat the bottom are the letters flU SA In tho center medallion is a soldeer nt the position of charge bay

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ItInChlefposition is on guard Between themIs the kneeling figure of a womanand In the background IS a battle-ship

Around the group are two circleswhich have between thorn the words

Spanish War Veterans 139899The badge Is suspended by a ribbonone Inch wide in form of a miniatureUnited States flag Its anchorage Isa bar of bronze which has on it arifle and a saber crossed beneath thocontor of a shield emblazoned withtho stars and stripes Around the bot ¬

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rel wreaths On the left end of thobar are the Totters Unl and on thoheft ted forming the word UnitedThe ribbon is surmounted by a brasspin consisting of an author crossedby a cannon About them Is twineda wroath of laurel loaves andperched upon tho cannon IB an Amer-Ican eagle with wings oXtendod Thobuttons are worn In the labels ortho coats df members when In civil ¬

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toughcnmpassatT kCon ovary8 1y Russian tbrr r maighi of the brcachcjjfnaue Uy the-Russian guns in ItyraJhe Khivanhhanstill screws aim frotrembling people cutstfir fits in time open tfiJffiJRbK and die1 ch4es the high the litrjjUt and the1 justice from a rai histdmittyard tustaby rode to the gi ram thenorth and underwent dr iipul pri¬

vations to spend three diiTs thereArminiufi Vambory nearly homost-

s ootirageous traveler of modern timesreached there disguised asa holymatt The American McGahan enitorcil with Gen Kauftmann in 1873Dn Emmlscll and Capt Abbott madeIhojOurney and lastly Mr RobertL Jefferson as recorded in his boookcalled A Second Rido to Khivamade a long bicycle ride across theRussian steppes and a camel ridodown to Khiva from Orenburg in thenorth But other than these I knowonly of Russian officers who havebeen within the gates

Since the Russians themselveshave agreed to keep out they havedone all in their power to preventothers from going into the city orVven crossing the boundaries of thelittle kingdom What they fearfrom visitors it is not easy to imag ¬

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rupt and unintelligent court circlerevolvingabout a stupid ruler wouldnot repay a second thought evenfrom the spies of the viceroy of In¬

dia But the fact is that foreignersare not allowed access to the stateand the Eighteenth regiment ofchassoura is quartered at Petro Alexandrovsk in such a way as to controlthe Khivan water supply along thecanal from time Oxus

In tho old days caravans fromSForv and Bokhara wore frequentCarpets and stuffs wero sent bothwest and east from tho city in exchangq for drugs and tea TodayRome cotton is sent up the river tothe railroad and occasionally asmall party of merchants comesfrom the south but more and moreKhiva is becoming forgotten andisolated Modern improvements in¬

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rent with the world have left her inslack water the deserts are a moreeffective barrier today than theywere two centuripMgo and a greatcity is left to feed upon itself tillpartof

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