Afterward Patricia learned from Miss Agatha of the wrong that had been done Virginia by Olaf's uncle, Senator Edward Musgrave, the noted ante-bellum orator, and understood that Olafwithout, of course, conceding it to himself, because that was Olaf's waywas trying to make reparation.

The official correspondence of the ante-bellum days is full of suggestions for arbitration, mediation, and other plans to preserve the peace, coming from the Allied countries.

Thus I reasoned with myself, and to such purpose that, by the time I reached Fetter Lane, my dejection had come to quite manageable proportions and I had formed the resolution to get back to the status quo ante bellum as soon as possible.

Et naves rostratas, præter decem triremes, traderent, elephantosque, quos haberent domitos; neque domarent alios; Bellum neve in Africa, neve extra Africam, injussu P. R. gererent, &c. Ibid.

Gradually the British commissioners abated their demands, and gave up all territorial and fishery claims, and on December 14, 1814, concluded the negotiations on the basis of things before the war,the status quo ante bellum.

[Lat.]; looking before and after [Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum [Lat.].

[Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum [Lat.].

"In statu quo ante bellum."

A writer of the third century, a period from which the Romans naturally looked back upon everything connected with their own early habits, and with the same kind of interest as we extend to our Alfred, (separated from us as Romulus from them by just a thousand years,) in speaking of prandium, says, "Quod dictum est parandium, ab eo quod milites ad bellum paret."

[5300] "In amore haec insunt vitia, Suspiciones, inimicitiae, audaciae, Bellum, pax rursum," &c.

Dulce bellum inexpertis, as the proverb is, 'tis fine talking of war, and marriage sweet in contemplation, till it be tried: and then as wars are most dangerous, irksome, every minute at death's door, so is, &c.

158. Malle se bellum cum magno principe gerere, quam cum uno ex fratrum mendicantium ordine.

Bellum rem plane bellui nam vocat Morus.

Bellum quasi bellua et ad omnia scelera furor immissus.

Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum.

It has a strange history, being the "Pawnee House," in which the Territorial Legislature met in the early ante-bellum days, confident of protection by the soldiers from the roaming Indian bands infesting the prairies.

For as they contracted duellum into bellum, and duis into bis, so they called Duellius (the man I mean who defeated the Carthaginians in a naval action)

This treatise, however, is too brief to inculcate an appreciation of the extensive efforts to enlighten the ante-bellum Negro.

Accounts for the adverse circumstances under which many ante-bellum Negroes acquired knowledge.

This is wanting in the state of nature, in which the passions govern; for the state of nature is a state of war of everyone against everyone (bellum omnium contra omnes).

One took place on the 8th inst., at the theatre, in which a Mr. Bellum was so badly stabbed that his life is despaired of.

Confiscation was swallowing up not industrial and commercial properties merely, but private homes; espionage peeped round every street corner and into every back window, and "A. Ward's" ante-bellum jest, that "a white man was as good as a nigger as long as he behaved himself," was a jest no more.

St. Anthonyopposite Minneapolisis one of the oldest towns in the State, and was, in ante bellum times, quite a fashionable resort for the Southerners.

Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants; that it was not a duellum, but a bellum,a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black.

My correspondence with Aguinaldo has been strictly of a personal nature, and I have missed no opportunity to remind him of his ante-bellum promises.