THE AMERICAN
OR THE
NAN OF HOHOR.
( BY TOM JOXSON. )
CONTINCED.J
CHAPTER VII.
When Marie J acquet hereafter
Marie Tabor fell back on the pallet
after finishing Uncle Joshua's sentence,
all that he did to restore her to eon
sclousness seemed to have no effect, so
he desisted, but remained watching
her during the night, only leaving her
long enough to prepare a place for
Jessie.
What a long, miserable night it
proved.
Old, fond recollections would crowd
in upon his thoughts in spite of all that
he could do.
How vividly did every day's doings
rise up.
He lived again in Watkins Glen;
walked again in the still, clear, de
lightful June evenings with a lovely,
fair-haired girl; wended again his steps
toward the little, modest church; sang
again those love-freighted songs, and
read again the same books he perused
six years ago In the cooling grove, and
with him In all these enjoyments ap
peared a lovely girl.
"I thought those days were burled
too deep for resurrection," he mur
mured, "and yet here they are. I am
weak or they would not come up so
vividly. I will crush them down the
deeper."
But how poorly he succeeded in that
attempt.
As often as he would try to shut
them out of his thoughts, just as often
would they return.
The hours dragged slowly along, and
the light of another day began to ap
pear in the east, but the poor, tired
being never gave the least sign of life.
Gradually the morning advanced.
The sun mounted higher in the
heavens, and nothing remained to tell
of the heavy storm that had passed
over the camp.
Midday came and went and Btill
Marie Tabor remained as one dead, only
occasionally lifting one hand and let
ting it drop before it reached her poor,
aching head.
Anxiety was pictured on Uncle
Joshua's face as each hour passed, and
she showed no signs of ever coming out
of that quiet, death-like state.
He even began to ask himself
whether he did not even now care for
her as much as in those days, when
they were both young, but as he re
membered that her husband had barely
been dead a day, he shut out the
thought and only watched the more
anxiously for the slightest sign that
would tell him she still lived.
The day was drawing to a close, and
all hope for the sufferer ever coming
out of that dangerous state was dying
with it.
Scarcely bad the sun gone down,
however, when she moved uneasily,
opened her eyes and asked:
"Where am I?"
"Never mind; you are safe, and
Jessie is with you."
"Yes; I remember now. It seems
like a horrible dream.''
"It is only a dream, and if you will
remain quiet a moment I will get you
something to eat. It will not be very
tempting to a sick person, but it will
be the best I have."
Without speaking again she laid
quietly, looking upward, seeming to be
in a deep study.
The meal was soon placed before her,
and she ate quite heartily, but never
offered to speak or sit up until it was
over, when she asked:
"How long have I been here?''
"Only a day."
"And he was drowned? Oh, Jessie,
my darling young, innocent and name
less child how can I live and know of
our shame?"
"Do not worry, Marie Mrs, Jacquet
it will come out alright."
"No, not now. If he is dead, the end
for which I have been his slave even
worse did not find me as I have been
promised it should; but he is not dead,
I know he is not, for I dreamed he was
carried out to sea by the swift running
waters, and that he was rescued from
his perilous position, and heard him
vow before heaven that our child
should not longer be "
"Mamma, are you better," asked a
childish voice, "and shall we be here
when papa returns."
"Yes, darling, I am much better, but
we will not wait here for your father's
return. He may be a long time on the
road, or he may not come at all, but
will wait for us to go to him."
"Can't we start now? It is so lone
some here, and the man seems so sorry
when he looks at you."
"Yes, we will start, but not for a
few days yet, if Mr. Smith will let us
remain; but perhaps he will not care
to give us shelter longer than is neces
sary." "Do not say such things, Mrs. Jac
quet, "
"Call me Marie; I am not Mrs. Jac
quet." "Jessie said her name was Jacquet,
And he called you his wife."
,,Yes, but I was not."
"That is strange. Yon permit man
to call you 'hi wife' and yet you are
not; what doe this mean, Marie?"
"I cannot tell you now; let us not
speak of it."
"No, it cannot be as you wish; the
present is the time to tell why you per
mitted it. Do sot ask me to be tatis
Sed with simply a promise for an ex
planation at some future time, for I
will not wait. Go on."
"Spare ue the disgrace of a'discloe-
ure of all that hat transpired."
"I do not wish to cause you pain, but
for your own sake, tell me all, and if I
can do anything to aid you I will gladly
do it."
"You will only despise me."
"Have I ever done that which would
lead you to suspect me capable of de
spising the dearest woman on earth to
me?"
"Oh, cease! Those words will drive
me mad. Sometimes I think I have
been mad all these years, orthat I am
only a ghost of my former self."
"Perhapj we have both changed. I,
also, have seemed more to exist than to
live since I left you for jthat trifle; but
now in the name of heaven, Marie, do
not keep me in suspense, for-ltlsno
Idle curiosity that prompts'me to beg
you to give your secret into my keep
ing. Can you not trust me?"
"I can trust you, but how can I bear
the shame that will .bo borne by my
confession?"
"You know me as a friend. Here
after I will be as a brother In my coun
sel and shall pledge that no action of
mine will cause you to regret placing
confidence in me."
"Your words are cheering, and yet I
tremble."
"Do spare yourself and me this need
less delay."
CHAPTER VIII.
If an explosion had occurred in the
oftice of Jacquet he would 'not have
been more surprlsedthan he was when
the bustling individual. asked if he bad
not, at one time, lived 'in Watkins
Glen.
His attempt to appears unconcerned
and incredulous was a notables failure.
With commendable fact, however, he
asked the stranger why he supposed he
had lived there.
"Well, you see, a youngs follow with
exactly your name andcoprofesslon
settled in that place about six years
ago," replied the stranger, "and was
doing well, when'one day he turned
up "
"Dead!"
"Not a bit of It."
"What, then, was so: peculiar about
how he turned up?"
"Nothing peculiar about it; only
turned up as any other young fellow is
liable to when spending itoo much
money on a young flirt."
"Then it must have been forgery?"
"You are wrong again;but you seem
more Interested in my narrative than
many a stranger would."
"It Is quite natural that I .should
take some interest in it, as n the man
you are speaking of was my brother.
We were twins; so near alike that our
parents christened us both 'Jules."
"Just what he told me, but I didn't
believe him."
"Nevertheless itlwas true. But what
about him, my friend?"
"As I was saying when you Inter
rupted me, he turned up missing, and
has not been heard ifrom since, but the
curious part of the thing is, the same
night he disappeared the girl he was
trying to button to was also not to be
found."
"An elopement?"
"Some said it was, but oothers said
she had been carried off by force, and
my boy, so he claims, esaw Jacquet and
an accomplice board the west bound
train with the insensible Marie Tabor."
"It's a lie! No one saw me!"
"So it was you. I have been six
years on your track, and was peering
over the edge of the canon when you
cast yourself into the waters. I gave
up all hope of being able to convict you
then, but to-day, two years after, I
noticed your sign and concluded to see
if you recognized an ol d friend. Several
times when on your track I have oc
cupied the room next to that occupied
by you and Marie, but when IJfound it
out you had flown. I see you do not
know me with all this toggery on, but
before I mane myself known to you you
had better put these on," producing
and quickly snapping a pair of hand
cuffs on Jacquet's wrists. "Now you
may see who I am," remarked the de
tective as he removed a wig and false
beard.
"Herbert Engle!"
(To be Continued.)
A. P. A, President in Trouble.
Topeka, Kan., June 25. A. D. Hub
bard, president of the A. P. A. of Kan
sas, it is charged, is said to be a de
faulter as receiver of the Snow-Hamilton
Printing Company. The shortage
is variously estimated at from $2,000 to
18,000, but the exact amount will not
be known until a referee, who was ap
pointed by Judge Hayden, shall have
examined his accounts.
Hubbard is one of the best known
men in Kansas. He is a Republican
politician of some note, and has made
stump speeches in every campaign for
years. He has held numerous positions
in this county, and stands high in lodge
circles. At the last state meeting of
the A. P. A. he was elected president.
A. r. A. MIS MEETlMi.
Addressed by W. 8. Llntoa, State Pml.
deat Stephe as and Ex-Majer
Webster IavU.
A mass meeting wa held last night
at Twentieth and Sallithury streets of
councils No, 7, 11, 19, 25 and 2ti of the
A. P. A. of the State of Missouri. To
gether with the five consolidated coun
cils mentioned there was present Ban
ner Council No. 13, A. P. A. The hall
was crowded to suffocation before 8
o'clock. Every seat In the place was
taken, and a mob of people filled every
inch of standing room both in the hall
and corridor. The "little red school
house" stood on a table in the center of
the stage. W, S. Linton, together
with ex-Mayor Webster Davis of Kan
sas City, State President Steveus and
others addressed the meeting. It. II.
Cunningham (culored) was called on
for a speech, which ho gave with a
good grace. The crowd varied the
monotony of quietly waiting for the ap
pearance of the gentleman 'rom Michi
gan by frequent outbursts of patriotic
cheers. A large band was in attend
ance to furnish music. After waiting
a while for Mr. Linton the crowd called
for Mr. Lyons, who arose and ad
dressed them. He knew what they
wanted and gave It to them in a char
acteristic manner. Judge Pea body
then Introduced Mr. Linton.
He had not proceeded far when It be
came evident that he had no Intention
of taking up the Filley banner. He
made a good speech. It was politic
and was appreciated by the A. P. A.'s
present, but it carefully and studiously
avoided any reference to either Kerens
or Filley. Mr. .Linton was greeted
with enthusiasm, and his remarks
elicited enough applause to have satis
fied Filley himself.
He spoke ol congress having appro
priated money for parochial schools
and how the A. P. A. had headed off
the movement for the future. He fa
vored the retirement of Crockrell and
Vest from the senate and deprecated
the placing of Marquette's statue In
Statuary hall.
He also said that the Mlssourlans
should enter a protest against the
erection of a statue they could feel no
interest in. Mr. Linton told his audi
ence to keep their councils together, as
heretofore, to preserve order, and keep
on growing.
Rev. J. Scott Carr followed Mr. Lin
ton with a short speech, in which he
called attention to the Importance of
the A. P. A. factor in politics.
State President Stevens, arriving at
the close of Mr. Carr's remarks, was
cheered, and a speech was demanded.
He prefaced his remarks by saying he
was proud of having the honor of being
in the presence of the man wh had done
more to show the people what Ameri
canism meant than any other man of
the age. This brought out a volley of
cheers. Continuing, Mr. Stevens said:
"We are on the eve of a great cam
paign, the greatest, I believe, in our
nation's history. We appeal to-day
to the intelligence of the American
people. We want to-day leaders. I
care not to what party they belong.
They must be American leaders. We
want men who will discharge their
duties of American citizenship, and
who will not stoop to Romanism or
party bosses."
The last man to address the meeting
was Webster Davis, ex-mayor of Kan
sas City. Mr. Davis was greeted with
cries "Davis for governor" and "Our
next governor," to which he responded
with a gentle smile. He made one of
the most unique speeches ever listened
to by a large audience. Without hurt
ng anybody's feelings or inflicting any
serious damage to his reputation or to
his prospects, he managed to roll to
gether, religious, politics, fashion,
poetry, prose and a number of minor
accidents which kept his audience
smiling broadly. Mr. Davis jumped
from a tirade against the codfish aris
tocracy of England to an impassioned
plea for the upholding of the American
spirit with startling suddenness. He
closed his truly meteoric address with
a poem in which his legs and arms,
face, hands and voice all played equal
parts. The audience went mad over it
and thumped and yelled until they
were tired. The crowd dispersed Im
mediately after Mr. Davis' speech, and
the great mass meeting at which Com
mitteeman Kerens' name had been so
prominently meant and so scarcely
mentioned was over. Si. Louis Re
public. Roman Catholic Crime in Proportion to
Population.
At a recent public meeting held at
Worthing, the Rev. E. K. Elliott, rec
tor of Worthing called attention to the
prevalence of crime through the coun
try, as being in far greater proportion
amongst Roman Catholics than
amongst Protestants. The home truths
which Mr. Elliott uttered on that oc
casion have made the Romanists very
angry. The have attacked him fiercely
in the local and other newspapers; but
he is not the man to ba easily fright
ened, and it is always wise of the Ro
manists, in their own interests, to leave
him alone. He has more information
lodged within his memory than they
give him credit for, and, what Is more,
he knows how to use the vast stores of
information which he possesses. Facts
are stubborn things, and in the Worlk-
imj IiitelUijrnoer, of April 11th, Mr. El
liott produce many facta, in the form
of the following letter to the editor,
which I well worth reprinting in every
Protectant paper throughout the coun
try: "Sir. Circumstantial statement
made more than once by such a paper
as the Time, with references for ver
ifying the same, cannot off hand be
denied. Neither also can a statement
of facta, connected with his own de
partment of justice, made In parlia
ment by a responsible minister of the
Italian crown. The only way, there
fore, it would appear, to evade the
force of the serious allegations con
tained in such statements is simply to
pooh-pooh them."
Before passing on, may I refer your
correspondents to "Notes by a Natural
ist," in connection with the Challenger
Expedition, ISMit, 2nd edition, 1822, by
Mr. U. N. Mosely, late fellow of Exeter
College, Oxford? They will find it
there asserted that:
"Papal indulgences for sins and even
crimes are still sold in the Philippines
by the government at its oftlces all
over the country. The por
petual right to sell indulgences in
Spain and its colonies was granted to
the Spanish crown by the infallible
pope in 1750. In 1844-6 the govern
ment received from this source of
revenue 58,000."
Permit me now to prove my asser
tion, which you called in question, that
one fourth of the criminals in this
country are of the Romish creed.
On April 21st, 1873, a parliamentary
return was presented to the House of
Commons, showing that in England
and Wales there were 90,017 prlsonors
belonging to the Church of England,
38,681 Roman Catholics, and 11,408 of
other denominations. The Romanists
were then only one-twentieth of the
population, but their proportion of
prisoners was about one-fourth.
Another return showod that at the
close of 1872 one-fourth of the entire
number of juvenile criminals under de
tention in England and Wales were
liomanlsts. Will some of your readers
work out from these returns what ad
ditional burden this large excess of
Roman Catholic crime threw upon the
rate-payers?
The Times, October 27th, 1874, in re
viewing the Parliamentary Report of
the Judicial Statistics for England, re
marks: "By the last census it appears that
out of 22,712,200 who formed the popu
lation of England and Wales, there
were 506,510 of Irish birth, and In this
proportion it might ba expected that
this contingent would furnish between
3,000 and 4,000 to our prisons, but in
stead of that we had 22,100 criminals
of Irish birth in our prisons last year
unfortunately for the rate
payers"
A parliamentary return (No. 215)
presented in the session of 1880, speci
fied 2.1 prisons (county and borough)
where the Roman Catholic prisoners
numbered about one-third of the whole.
The preponderance of Roman Catho
lic, in proportion to population, is ad
mitted by a Roman Catholic, who,
writing in the lmes of June, 1887,
states that the Irish in England and
Wales being about 2 1-6 per cent of the
population, the committals to prison in
188.1-4 numbered 20,232, or llj per cent
of the entire, which is more than five
times the proportion number according
to the population.
A writer in the Tablet (a Roman
Catholic newspiper), of November 24,
1888, says:
"I was astonished to find that
the percentage of juvenile criminals of
Catholic parentage was out of all pro
portion to the relative Catholic popu
lation I found that we Catho
lics contribute more young criminals
than any other religious denomination
The stock excuse among our
people for painful disclosures in the
morning papers is, that we Catholics
are such a poor body, quite unable to
carry out the offices of religion and
and charity to the extent of many Prot
estant denominations. But is this so?
Are we poorer as a whole body than
the Baptists or Primitives or Meth
odists? No. We can show a consid
erably larger proportion of men of
wealth, ability and leisure we are as
numerous as the two bodies together.
Yet their control of their poorer popu
lation is more complete, socially, as
well as morally, than our own. Do we
find the groups of young men, all of the
loafer and criminal class, to be seen
daily at the public-house ends of our
streets contributed by the Baptists or
Primitive Methodists? You will find
on inquiry that the majority of these,
perhaps with scarcely an exception, for
they are select though gregarious, have
been brought up at a Catholic school"
We pass now to some of our larger
towns. On January 4th, 1876, the fol
lowing letter was published in the
Liverpool daily Courier. It stated that:
"During last year the committals to
the borough goal were 13,683, of which
number 9397 were Romanists, and 4286
Protestants. But the Roman Catholic
population is only one-fifth of the
whole, while they furnish criminals to
the extent of nearly four-fifths. The
borough gaol expenses were 17,702
pounds, of which the proportion incur
red by Roman Catholic prisoners was
12,981 pounds. It may be said la ex
cuse that these people are exceptionally
IgnoraU and degraded. But no! The
Roman Catholic chaplain has been at
pains to tell us that they are well in
structed in the principles of their re
ligion, lie hat spoken of the notorlout
corner-men or " " at being well
taught member of the Romish
church."
The Catholic TiiM, of April 17th,
1885, taid: "The criminal returns of
II. M. prison at Liverpool for the year
ending March 3 1st, disclose a state of
things which the catholic public can
not contemplate without a feeling of
sadness and humiliation. The dally
average of the prison population for
the year was 633.45 Catholics, against
327.62 of all other denominations,
though our people form less than one
third of the population of Liverpool."
In his address at the League Hall,
Liverpool, on November 12th, 18HQ, the
Rev. Mr. Nugent, Ihe Roman Catholic
chaplain, alluding in the .Immorality
prevailing In that town, said:
"Nine out of ten of the girls to be
seen at night along were Catho
lics. There was no use biding It."
Culltolic. Tim?.
At the Bristol Roman Catholic con
gress, on September 11th, 1895, Mr. A.
C. Thomas, speaking of the Bjlmont
Road Test House, noar Liverpool, said:
"It will not bo pretended that the
Roman Catholic population out-numbers
the other working class elements
of the town, and yet we find at Bel
mont Road the Catholic element it
largely, very largely In .excess.
In ono month a total of 80 Catholic
boys was in detention, as against 12
Protestants nTalM,fifpt. llh,
l8or.
At a meeting of the Manchester
School Board, January 27th, 1882, Mr.
W. Hughes furnished statistics com
paring the relative criminality of the
Romish and Protectant population of
Manchester. He remarkod:
" The Roman Catholic popula
tion of Manchester is estimated at 10
per cent. The figures given show that
the semi-criminals of that denomina
tion roach nearly 42 pur cent, of the
number committed In the last
batch of juvenile criminals the Ro
manists furnish more than 60 per cent.
With regard to the inmates of
the city gaol, no absolute records are
kept as to the religion of tho prisoners,
but the city justices, from whom I
have asked information, are unani
mous in saying, from the numbers at
tending the services of the Roman
Catholic and Protestant d chapels
within the prison, that fully two-fifths
or 40 per cent, are Romanists '
Mimkmlcr (lurdiun, January ssth,
13SJ.
A somewhat similar statement was
made at the London School Board by
Sir E. Currio on March 1st, 1885.
With regard to Scotland, the North
ISrilLsh Diibj Mail in 1870 observed:
"Oat of 600,001 pounds spent on
criminals In Scotland In 1872, the Ro
man Catholics of that number cost 277,
629 pounds, whereas they should have
cost only 75,482 pounds had their
criminals been in proportion to their
population." In 1877, Mr. Cross, the
then home secretary, stated in the
house of commons "that about ? one
third of all the prisoners In Scotland
were Roman Catholics." z (Times, July
24th, 1877.))
The Daily Mail also, with reference
to the City of Glasgow, remarked that:
"But for the presence of the Irish
Roman Catholic element in our city,
we might dispense with the services of
three-fourths of our policemen, might
shut up the same proportion of our
workhouses and goals, and reduce our
assessments for the support of pauper
ism, and the repression and punish
ment of crime to one-fourth of the
present amount. The ratio of the
crimes committed by the Romanists is
out of all proportion to their numbers."
I have briefly referred only to Eng'
land and Scotland, but if your readers
will turn to Littledalo's "Plain Rea
sons against joining the Church of
Rome," pp. 203, 204, they will find sta
tistics showing that, in proportion to
population (for here is the real point to
be observed and not to be evaded) Ro
mish crime is excessive everywhere.
But whence this excessive crimi
nality? The Rev. T. Purdon suggests
"giving quotations from leading and
known theologians." So let mo refer
him for an answer to the above ques
tion, toLlguorl, Busembaum, Gury (a
text-book at Maynooth) and other
standard theologians of his church,
whose criminal producing teaching
was exposed in the French Parliament
of 1880, the exposure retulting in the
closing by the government of the Jesuit
schools in France and in their re-opening
in England (contrary to law) and
elsewhere.
I thank you for kindly allowing this
letter to appear in your columns, and
am, Sir, Faithfully yours,
E. K. Elliott.
The Rectory,
April Sth, IS;.
P. S. I have been unable, person
ally, to verify all my quotations, but I
believe they will be found perfectly cor
rect. Go to Edward Baumley for Livery,
17th and St.-Mary's Avenue. i
ILLITERACY IN THE NATION
forooBtaf Mw Ofnitr la Now Ba
From the Minneapolis Time: T
report of the commlsaloner of educe
tloa present tome curium and Inter
esting fact with regard to Illiteracy la
tb United State. Tbls Information
I derived mainly from official records
and drve careful attention. It ap
pear that the number of person ovt
10 yean of age who can not read and
write It 6,324,702, or 13.3 per cent of
the total population, according to the
latest autistic. In 1880, the rate of Il
literacy was 17 per cent, and a de
crease of 3.7 per cent since that time
I gratifying In the sen Be that lmpllta
gradual Improvement, but the situa
tion Is still lnmentable, and no goo4
citizen can contemplate It without ex
periencing a certain degree of humil
iation. The government It based upon the
Idea of popular Intolllgence as an as
surance of political safety and pros
perity, and vast sums of money are
expended for eduratlonal purposes.
There It really no excimo for Ignor
ance In a country whero free schools
abound and Instruction Is within easy
reach of alt cIhsspb. Nevertheless, over
thirteen out of every 100 of the people
are unable to road and write. This
great army of Illiteracy It a standing
reproach as well as a menace, and
there la no more Important duty than
that of reducing it as rapidly as pos
sible. There was a time when New En
gland led all the rest of the country
In the general average of popular In
telligence, but this la no longer true.
It la now In the west, and not In the
east, that the best showing la made
of the education of the masses. Ne
braska stands at the head of the state
In point of literacy, only 3.1 per cent
of Its population being unablo to read
and write. No state west of the Mis
sissippi river, with the exception ol
tho four southern states, ranks as low
as Massachusetts In the number of il
literates In Its population. This
means, of course and the fact Is a
very significant one that a large per
centage of the educated clement of the
east has removed to the west, thereby
materially modifying Its "wild and
woolly" condition, and It means fur
thermore that the west has been doing
a great deal In the enlargement of Its
educational facilities.
The public schools of such states as
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
and the Dakotas are equal in every
respect to those of any of the eaBtera
states, and their academies and univer
sities are rendering effective service la
the sphere of higher learning. So far
as the south Is concerned, allowance
must be made for the presence of the
colored race, the Illiterate members of
which constitute nearly one-half of the
total number of Illiterates in the
United States, but even with this
serious drawback, tho southern states
are making substantial gains In educa
tion, and the conditions promise an ac
celeration of such progress from ysat
to year.
A Funn? Story.
Miss Klngsley, tho famous Afrlema
traveler, In an Interview with the rep
resentatlve of an English paper tells
the following amusing story about sue
adventure with a hippopotamus)
"We were going down a river in a
boat," she said, "when we saw ahead
of us a herd of hippos, and I, being
nervous, asked my guide If the ani
mals were dangerous In this country.
" 'Sometimes they are, ma'am, and
sometimes they're not; you can't tell
till you're past 'em,' said he.
"We went on and Just as I thought
'savedl' one came under the boat and
we were In the water. I always go.
conscientiously to the bottom and when
I returned to the surface I saw out
crew making for the bank and heard
a voice saying: 'I)o you happen to
survive, ma'am?' 'Temporarily,' said
I. 'Then hang on to the canoe.' 'I am,'
said I; 'hang yourself and he hung,
I suggested the bank. 'No,' said he,
'not yet; wait till the canoe carries us
past the land. If they can get a foot
hold they'll stamp you down. They
can't do much in deep water.' But the
worst of floating along like this is, the
chances are a crocodile will come along
and sample your legs." New York Re
corder. Salvation Army T.ockd cp
The other evening, the entire Sal
vation Army at Decatur, III., was ar
rested and locked up la the city prison,
This Is the culmination of a crusd
which the city began to stop the opea
air meetings of the army under the or
dinance which prohibits the blockad
ing of streets and causing a nuisance.
The army went out on the streets and
held the usual meetings, stopping oC a
prominent corner, and attracting a big
crowd. The police then made the ar
rests. The merchants In front of
whose places of bnsiness the arm;
stopped were the first to enter com
plaint and appealed to the city to stop
the meetings. The officers Rave the
army the privilege of parading, but
ordered it not to stop anywhere.
Should Try the Trick on tho Man.
There Is a man In Des Moines wha
hitched an old pair of horses In a bara
and left them to starve to death, as aa
asy means of ridding himself of them.
When found by the society officers, the
horses had with their poor old teeth
gnawed away a good part of the wool
of their stalls.
A Raco of rycmlM.
The smallest race of humaa befngs
known are the inhabitants of the An
daman Islands. Their average stature
1 three and one-half feet, and few ol
them weigh mora than 65 pounds.
