The
country people round would sell neither food, clothes, nor medicines to
any of the family.
The peasants cut Captain Boycott off from the rest of the world, and
kept him thus isolated until the Government had to interfere.
A gang of laborers was sent down, under the escort of a troop of
soldiers, and gathered in the crops, and when the work was done, under
the protection of the soldiers, the Captain and his family were taken
from their home and safely guarded until they reached Dublin.
In describing this most extraordinary affair there was no word which
properly applied to it, and so the word "boycotting" was coined, after
the man who first suffered from the system, and in the new editions of
the dictionaries "boycott" and "boycotting" appear as regular words of
the English language.
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We may have an Arbitration Treaty with England after all.
President McKinley is in favor of an understanding between England and
the United States, and it is said that a new treaty has been prepared.
Sir Julian Pauncefote has refused to take any steps in the matter until
the United States has made a formal offer to his Government, but it is
understood that he is as much in favor of the arrangement as the
President.
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