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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, Jmt 29, 1923

EDITORIAL

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Sparks from the Fiery Cross By JOHN EIGHT POINT " The noblest motive is the public good." VIRGIL

Passnr bar! his Brutus but Al

Send all IMews Items and Address all Inquiries to 578 and 68 Century Build- gmin wm have to be satisfied with

A yap may yawp every time

the flag Is unfurled, but the

popples grow over the tired

bodies of one hundred perceuta who lived their patriotism.

The time is rapidly approaching

Shades of Abe Lincoln

Tolerance, un-American publication, voice, not of the Catholic church,

but the un-American Unity League, and the Jesuits, prates and harps, and

hides behind the cloak of the Shades of Abraham Lincoln. We have always

held the memory and patriotism of Abraham Lincoln too hitch, sacred and when political parties will no longer

dignified to mention it in the same breath with the American Unity League, charge up to each other the adverse

Neither have we touched upon the fact which those well-informed know hy biame their "troubles" on the

ana mere is pienry or evidence to prove this tact beyond a shadow of Klan

doubt which was the insnirinz Influence behind the Civil War and T.in-

-nin'M citi Many a man Who began his bus!

ness me oy peuaimg bock neer over On that memorable morning, April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort a pine bar has erraduated cum laude

Sumter, in discussing the matter with Rev. Charles Chiuiquy, ex-Catholic by selling moonshine across the

nriest nf lennirnVoo Til -Ph-cQant t .incoin ,,m. aiiauian ouraer,

IM common people hear and see the big noisy wheels of the Southern An Indiana political writer broad

Confederacy cars, and they call them Jeff Davis, Lee, Thompson, Beaure- casts a little of his common stock of

mo inn iu iii uur uuuuies, nui u h s raistaRe, rne irue moave very mucn up in the air over the power 's secreted behind the thick walls of the Yatican the colleges and Klan. They are in the dark as to

schools of the Jesuits, tho convents of the nuns, the confessional boxes 'wt is who.' Their information

of liome. leaves no question tnai tne ruan nas

Frown vprv rnnin v. sninft or me rfi-

"There Is a fact which Is too much ignored by the American people and ports indicate that its membership

with which I nm ncuuainted only since I became president. It 1 that the (in Indiana) is more than 300,000

best and leading families of the South have received their education and men "ft Au?nce any c?ntm: ,, , . , . . .. . . , gent of 300,000 in a primary is not been influenced In great part, if not alLfrom the Jesuits and the nuns- disc0nnted bv sane-minded immi

nence me degrading principle of slavery, pride and cruelty, which are as cians. It is conceded that any candi

date with such a formidable group

behind him might obtain a majority

which of the votes cast in the primary.

What force is showing in the world?

The Klan.

Who bows when our great flag's un

furled 7 The Klan.

Who always stands for law and

right?

Who will protect you day and night? The Caseys? Not by a damsight

The Klan!

"An evil tree can not bring forth good fruit." Nevertheless, America

is asked eadi year to eat and to as

similate the fruit of alien debauchery and licensed prostitution crown In

filthy, old-world gardens of crime,

ignorance and revolution. Silver.

tongued fools rant about the United States as a great melting pot In which Is fused all the noble qualities

or an the European nations, forget

ting that In large degree we receive

at our ports ot Immigration an lg

Alas, Alas, the Fatal Error!

(From "Tho New Age," Official Or

gan, Supreme Council, Thirtythird Degree, A. and A. Scottish Rite of Freemasonry) Our Sunday Visitor, issue of April

29. comes out wtih an addition to its

title. It now calls Itself also The

Harmonizer! The whole issue la devoted to an attempt a casuistic and

rather specious attempt to harmon

ize Freemasonry and the Catholic

church. It pretends to tell Freemasons what Freemasonry really is, alleging that very few Freemasons

have any such knowledge. And all

this, regardless of what ought to be

very well known to any sensible and thinking individual, namely, that

Freemasons prefer to listen to defi

nitions of Freemasonry advanced by

pereons who are in a position to know what it is, and not from any arty or parties who set up a man of

straw, and then proceed casuist!

caHy to demolish it. The whole thing is simply a very painful wail from one desiring to accomplish the

impossible the compromise be

tween oil and water.

It has not been so very long since we all were made aware of a very

blatant and boastful campaign to "make America Catholic;" and then Freemasonry and Prote stantlsm

were anathematized in unmistakable terms. Later, we began to hear

wails to the effect that Catholics and the Church were being persecuted, and plaintive appeals were made for

fair treatment (I). And now we

Trie B

of the

ound

Law

A NOVEL FOR ALL KLANDOM

(Continued From Last Issue)

Some ran to

second nature among many of the people."

A sappy mystic, who is more in

terested in penetrating the void than

he should be, says: "You will get

nothing that you are un-ready' for."

norant and disreputable omnium

gatherum of scorbutic and vicious have a very specious attempt to mix

spawn peopie wno possess neiiner oil and water l1n.,l 1 t . 1 .1

,, 7 Why this decided change of front? comprehenulne foes of American Lt.h ', . , , ...

. , . , . . , . , , ' T ail, kuo laub Id tuts nuuiau III t I - ideals-a turbulent peasantry whose arch reallzea tnat lt haa started eacli succeedins (feneration has ,

drifted farther and farther from the

distinctive type of manhood and womanhood to the production of

Pituiuuc iuieiaiuersueui. it chew so lt ardently

. r , desires to call the game off; to get of their prophetic understanding. To U8 all to g0 to gleePi 60 that lt may

.it upu.. us me uuscourmgs i r.u- very quietly and peacefully go on

'v',v? ,t"""" 5f5f , with its designs,

generation has something that somehow is not pro

ceeding to its satisfaction and com

fort. It has become clear to it that it has "bitten off rather more than

And, continuing, Mr. Lincoln analyzed the Roman psychology played its part in his own murder, when he said:

"Hence that strange want of fair play for humanity; that Implaeable

hatred njrainst ideals of equality and liberty, as we find them in the Gospel

of Christ It. Is true that we bought Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina,

w Mexico and Missouri from Spain; but Home had put her views of her This is a kind of sublime bunk that nntl-soclal and anti-Christian maxims into the veins of the people before is now being ground out of schools

they became Americans!" that teach biological transcendental ism rather than Protestant Bible

Surely no clearer conception of the enemy with which that ereat man fact- Not lonS ago a young Protes

H.--Q f-nntondinT Trac o-imnmri xtThH fhr. v ctAiaA t i 1 tant teacher in a weeds-patch coun

,.r,,r, ' try school was prohibited from read-

di l uir.jj iuc.il, nua cue aouve lnmrpreiaiiua 01 me .erriDie conoici in

done month after month and year alter year by mistaken and mis-

guided political tancy is a crime against Americanism the Ameri

canism that stands four-square to

Heaven tor the perpetuation 01 Its

own royal' lines of sons and daugh

ters.

which ho was the commander In chief is startling in its accuracy. It is

very simple now for those of us who have the knowledge of an array of

facts before us to see what Lincoln then saw; but we must remember when

he spoke those words, he was the very storm-center and chief actor in the

social upheaval without the advantage of retrospect. Mr. Lincoln had a prophetic sense almost uncanny, which alone made him superior to any of his contemporaries. More than once he told his close personal friends that he had a strong premonition that he would not outlast the rebellion, that hl3 work would be finished with it. Apparently, Tolerance, in its campaign of hate and disorganization of our churches and schools, is going to force us to present the facts of the Divine Right Idea which rent this country from stem to stern and gashed its fair face with the Mason-Dixon line In 1S60 THE ONE LINE THE KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN WOULD WIPE OUT. The Klan has nothing against the people of the Catholic church, but It will meet the assaults of these Jesuits with vigor and determination. The Women's Organization

The Women of the Ku Klux Klan, which has just been endorsed by the Imperial Kloncillum, are now planning a nation-wide campaign to advance Its principles. The order is by the women, for the women and of the women alone, and no man l;s exploiting it for his individual gain. The prime and moving function of the Women's Organization is to the end that the women will become informed and educated to the point where

they are wholly adequate to take up the great and solemn work of building

up a mighty army of substantial, clear thinking, thoroughly 100 per cent

American women, who will be mentally and morally equipped to take their place and do their work In this great Christian crusade, the greatest of

all ages.

Such an army ot women, with the intelligent use of the ballot, together with their moral influence, will be able to act as a mighty unit in combating the forces of evil and destruction that would undermine our civio and

political institutions, particularly the public school system They will be ahle to stand resolutely upon the word of God when the time of fiery trial

shall be set upon tlum, and will have informed themselves upon the great problems concerning our nation today. The furthpr inspiration -of the Women's Organization is to create in the .women, collectively and individually, a sense of great collective and individual respounibility toward the maintenance of those great principles of Anslo-Saxon Protestantism, which shall, like "the pillar of cloud by day und the fire by night," guide Protestant America through all the dark miss, vicissitudes and trials of the wilderness into the Promised Land, into p better America in which to live. A Nation's Consciousness

The cry of persecution is nothing

but the most rubbishy kind of bunk.

The Masonic press in general, and the New Age Magazine in particular,

has 'merely, been publishing to the

world and sayings and doings of the Roman hierarchy and its blind ad

herents sayings and doings that it

and they can not successfully deny

Anil Tin-w it pf) rnAHtl v rioniroa tr li n vo

c ,. : .... ..i' 1 i is! -

divine iur a meie Bnpeuu nan. the whole thing stopped!

Brethren, shall the game be called

off? For our part we'll say that it

shall not!

ing the Bible as a part of the morning exercises at his school. His feel

ing was that the Bible should be read just as lt was read long ago in the

country schools ; but he did not dare

to follow his conviction because doing so would have cost him his job,

And that is some comment upon the

trend of the times. Mark you, Boaz

when the Bible is again read every

morning in the little red schoolhouse (also in the big brick centralized

schoolhouse), there will be less philosophy and more fact csammed

.down the mental gullets of our

promising youth. A great many hopheads are getting things they are "un-ready" for ask, incidentally, the Newark bootleggers, whose

knowledge of primordial ooze and biological bosh carried them no farther than the police station.

Who stands for what your fathers

stood? The Klan.

Who makes the wild ones all be

good? The Klan.

WTio loves our institutions great,

Obeys the laws of every state. Is guide and guard at each man's

gate? The Klan!

enough to keep a modern American

family alive many a government

clerk gives valuable plans and suggestions to his superiors and reaps only the satisfaction of unselfish service and devotion to his country's welfare. His superior may be, and ofter is, a sublime pimple-head who climbs to accomplishment and recognition on the merits of his subordinate alone. Freauentlv. bv leavinar

eovernment enmlov and eoinsr over Tfle Fiery Cross is today in re

to Drivate comorations. these ouiet ceipt of a letter from a negro, dea-

slaves of the eovernment lamn misrht con in one of the colored churches of

earn princely salaries. That they Indianapolis, and following is a copy

do not follow the Tiath of ereed at or me letter

A Negro's View on the Klan

the expense of their country's good

shows that the love of country and the vigor of Americanism still in

spires the lives of many Who pay

no tribute to the god of graft and

greed. The stupid senator who said,

"Indianapolis, June 25, 1923. Editor The Fiery Cross:

T have taken time and written

several articles to Indianapolis

newspapers but they were evidently

too strong for those papers; there

in an investigation in point, "If they fore I am writing you,-knowing that

can get such Salaries as you say, on the outside, I would like to ask why

on earth they don't accept them?"

may have lost sight of . the spirit that

animates a healthy patriot -

Under unusual stress, but with

great presence of mind, President

you stand for sound doctrines. I must admit the Klan has done harm.

but the harm has been to lawbreakers.

"If both the colored and the white

people will admit the truth they will

say that the Klan has done more

good in Indianapolis in six months

Harding recently remarked: "I like than any other agency has done In

the highly purposed fraternity, be- six years.

cause it is our assurance against

menacing organization." A salubri

ous sentiment which we are all

pleased cordially to endorse.

Wholesale Boycott

The Knights of tho Ku Klux Klan is the most remarkable movement of modern times, not in the form of a mystlo (mythical) fraternity, but a

mighty movement strong in its convictions and consciousness of the presence of wrong. This movement is also remarkabla in its idealism, gathering up unto Itself the holy traditions, hopes, aspirations, dreams, purposes and faith of the Anglo-Saxon Protestant people. Its idealism is born In a passion to free men from all wrong, prejudices and unrighteous usurpations of power. It works where all others have failed, or are failing; it recognizes God's

law as supreme. It protests with all its soul against any and all en

croachments, be they political, civic or social, upon any and all institutions Of freedom, which have become the flower and glory of the United States

of America.

The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is also remarkable because of Its

mysticism. It Is hard for the uninitiated to understand or appreciate its meaning and mysticism; its fundamental principles are only understood by-those on the inside. Its helmet, robe, fiery cross and other emblems

and symbols are each profoundly significant and in its own particular way

is expressive of the highest patriotism and most sublime devotion to right

In all this it Is at once a challenge and a warning. It is a challenge to the true, patriotic, sincere son ot America to do his duty, nd is a solemn

warning to the bad, the designing, the unscrupulous, the demagogue. It

la a nation's consciousness of a growing need and the answer to many

aoaUL civic and political problem-

"A whole lot of drunkards and

grafters are in Jail and others have

gone to work. This gets that class

of persons out of the way of those

that wish to be Christians. We know

that all true Christians know that

it is against the law to have wine or

strong drink or to do anything

Only those in intimate - touch with the un-Americanism of the un- against the righteousness of the law.

American Unity League can conceive of the league's action in asking of Therefore, I say that to be really

Limber Lung Lew that he "order the police" do things which are unlawful. , - PftTlt Ampr cans. H fir wnn -txra nhoir

This, however, was done following the refusal of the council of this city the law of the 'land, that is right-

to be a part of a plot to overthrow Protestantism. eousness. The spiritual law is

At a meeting of the un-American Unity League, held after the city God's.

council had withstood the taunts, jeer3 and threats of the league on Mon- naturally, am not a member of day niKht at the city hall, this league "requested" that Limber Lung Lew L1," JjS"? ' Xh-!

have his police "disperse all parades in which disguises are worn." To jsm j am a negro but will hold

be exact, this league has asked Limber Lung Lew to stop the Klan should for the right and those in the right

it attempt to hold a parade in this city. regardless of what follows.

This un-American organization knows full well that should such an 'There are a lot of other things

uC mue chl pynvc u,u u0 m6 me iiw """ the Klan and the Bible, but this is

nanas. rne act wouia De an auriagmeni oi tne rignts or American citizens;

yet this un-American Unity League, spawned in hate, with its sole purpose

that of destruction, petitions a public official to commit unlawful acts. This reprehensible act is only accentuated by the added information that "eop'es of the appeal, together with a report on the council's action, were ordered sent to the members of the league." Just why Is "a copy of the council's action" being sent to league members, when it is common knowledge that the un-American Unity League was unable to choke down

the throats of loyal citizens of Indianapolis an un-American ordinance,

and the daily newspapers carried the fact? Is it because all the members

of the league were not familiar with the correct names, addresses and the

business of each councilman that voted against the measure!

Last Monday night, In the council chamber, members oi the league

shnnted that conncllmen who voted against the measure would be po-

litlcally and commercially ruined. Is this a part of the plan to effect that

ruin If possible 1 Early Tuesday morning certain councilmen were caueu

over The phone and told they "would have no more business. Is the re

port" a part of an Infamous boycott? It is wholesale business and po

litical boycott, true to the principles of the U. A. U. L.

taking up a lot of space."

The name and address signed to

the communication is. withheld for

obvious reasons. The letter is on

file in this office.

Much Comment Follows

Ku Klux Klan Ceremony

Welcome! Catholic Press This week the Catholic Press of the nation and Canada meets in In

dianapolis. As an efficient and highly-organized publicity macumu ic without equal in the world. True to its faith and true to its principles, it

is entitled to the plaudits of even those who are not in sympathy witn its views.

Quoting from the Indiana Catholic Hecord, referring to the Press Association, "they have followed very carefully the various pronouncements of the popes, the helrarchy, and particularly those of our Indiana bishops."

Tea they are entitled to the plaudits of the multitude, and they certainly

do follow very carefully the various pronouncements and orders of the

higher ups, even here in Indiana.

DAYTON, Ky., June 25. Following an Initiation of more than two hundred candidates here recently, there has been much comment on the

Klan. The ceremonial was held at the Alexandria fair grounds and was a great success. Many spectators

journeyed to the scene of the ceremony and were much impressed with

what they witnessed. Klansmen from a radius of fifty miles were

present.

Klansmen at Funeral of

B. and O. Engineer

WASHINGTON, Ind., June 25.

More than one hundred and fifty Klansmen in full regalia participated in the funeral of H. F. McMullen. B. and O. engineer of this

city, who was killed when his engine left the tracks In a wreck. The B.

and O. railroad ran a special car to

Washington to carry the friends oi

the deceased from Vincennes.

Frances had fainted.

her. And the judge got no further. Taylor, who had been sitting stolidly through all the grilling testimony, was on his feet and advancing. There was murder in his eyes. A pallor of fear spread over the face of Karraker. "Taylor!" he yelled In dismay. Before he could be stopped, George

had struck him a crushing blow full in the face and was pommelling him into insensibility, "Dirty hound!" he

was crying in a hot rage. 'Damn dirty hound! Call yourself a judge! I ought to kill you!" Someone pulled him off the fallen judge, and helped Karraker to. his feet. He was dazed but unhurt. George was hurried from the room between threats and counterthreats.

The jury hastily rendered a verdict of "Not Guilty" and the court ended

in a furore of confusion. Despite his

interruptions the Judge had once

more vindicated his title of "Old Kar

raker who always gets them out."

Frances "came to" a few minutes

later in her room. Mrs. Hogan was

sitting beside her, fanning her. "Oh,

God, isn t it awful!" she gasped as

she opened her eyes and the realiza

tions of consciousness came to her.

"There, there, dear, it doesn't mat

ter," consoled the elderly lady. "It will be forgotten In a few days and

probably is now."

But she knew that at that instant

Frances' name was on a hundred

tongues, yea, many hundreds of them

ana tnat sne would be the topic of

conversation over most of the tea

cups in Prairie City that evening;

that it was being set up in big head

lines by the afternoon papers; that

furred and powdered dames, cod

dling poodles, riding about in pol

ished limousines, were tearing her

to pieces as they went about on their

rounds of "calls." There is only one visible, understandable substance that travels faster than light and that is gossip. It defies the etherpaths with its rapidity. A lowEl outhed, slanderous, characterdamning story is started, and like fire it leaps from tongue to tongue. Even the radio can not segregate its influence or direct it Into given channels.

Therefore, Mrs. Hogan knew what it

meant when the telephone rang. "Long distance calling Miss Fran

ces tsanaeiur, tne operator an

nounced.

"She is sick. Can not answer." "Will you take the message?" "Yes."

"Head nurse at Calhoun requests

that she come at once as her mother

is dying. Some bad news, told by a

lady caller about half an hour aeo.

caused the shock."

"I'll deliver the message. She will

be there on the 3 o clock local."

Mrs. Hogan hung up the receiver

Told by a woman caller three hours

after the court scene and Calhoun

twenty mile3 away! The scientist who devises a means of measuring the traveling power of gossip will

knock the man who evolved the

atomic theory into atoms.

Frances was sitting in bed, brush

ing her hair when Mrs. Hogan re-en

tered. "It was a message for you

dear," she said with as little emotion as possible, "and they want you to

come on the afternoon train. Your

mother is worse.

"Just as I feared. It has Teached

her. Poor, dear mother! It will kill

her. And to think that she has to go

into the other world with that doubt on her mind that dark uncertainty, that suspicion that there might be something to it after all! Of course, she has heard it all, whispered by the tongue of some old gossiping gadabout Oh, my God! How can I stand lt! I may not reach there in time to tell her the truth." The girl flung herself on the bed in a wild fit of tears. The elderly lady patted her head but could say

nothing. Tears were her best friends

now. Then she raised her face and there was a new strange light in her

hitherto placid eyes the look Samson must have had when he decided

to pull down the house of Dagon

disappointment, determination, desire

for vengeance.

"Mrs. Hogan, where are all the

men of this country?" she cried. "In

school I was taught to believe we were the great and chivalrous race

that Anglo-Saxon men would defend

the purity of their womenkind unto

death. I went out into the world, un

protected and unafraid, trusting to

the virtue of Anglo-Saxon manhood;

and now I am ruined and the dog

who denounces me is a judge in a

court of Anglo-Saxons. Before God,

am as pure as the morning dew.

but wagging tongues will tear my character to pieces. Where are the

laws? Where is justice? Where is

chivalry?"

Mrs. Hogan saw that' she' was working herself into a mental hys

teria. "Be quiet, dear, and get ready.

she soothed her. "The train leaves in an hour and you most have some refreshment before you go."

When, fifteen minutes later. Judge Karraker, as president of the school board, called to request Frances'

resignation, she could not restrain

herself. She spat in his face." "You!

calling upon me to resign! You with your bought Jury your imbecile court slandering an innocent girl and defending the reprobate who tried to assault her ." "Wait, young lady," he said coldly, "I won't have any more of your insolence. You have said and done quite enough here already. Rest assured it will follow you. You are dismissed." "You," she cried. But he was gone.

Like an enraged animal, caged in

the bars of inexpressible wrath.

George Taylor walked the streets all that afternoon. He wanted to strike.

to manhandle, to stamp every man

he saw, whether he had wronged him

or not. A whimpering, vacillating

generation of puppets these men of

the twentieth century seemed to him.

Spindlelegged dudelets, clad in formfitting clothes, puffed cigarettes incessantly and bantered each other In silly revelry on the street corners, or

eyed maliciously every passing woman. And these were sons of the men who founded this western em

pire! Visions thronged before him

in a colorful panaroma: There was a

beleaguered Alamo, surrounded by a horde of vicious half-savage Mexi

cans, held by a handful of men. In

front these barbaric slaves moved

forward, cursed and urged-and driven

on by an atrocious, drug-crazed dic

tator. Behind those trembling walls were a few big-hearted, broad-shoul

dered manly Anglo-Saxons, not afraid

to die. Men who stemmed the northward march -of ignorance and superstition and who wrested from an incapable government an empire greater than Germany in extent. The blood-crazed semi-savages rush forward with ferocious yells they pour in at the doors and windows bayo

nets flash, swords rattle, bullets sing their songs of death and inside men

were dying from knife and dagger

and bayonet thrust

And today, on the streets of the

cities of that south wesT which" They bought with their blood, men were

engaged in the "noble" acts of pro

faning God's name and slandering women's character.

It was dusk. He stood on the cor

ner by a drug store as two pimplyfaced young men came out Their eyes looked blank, their faces as ex

pressionless as the Sphinx. Their pockets were bulging with copies of "magazines" extolling a certain type of odious feline and some devoted to

the exploding of pedigreed bunk.

Morris Stewart parked his car and

came over to them. Taylor, with effort, restrained himself as he listened to the conversation of the trio.

See they had you up in court to

day, Morris."

"Yep, one hell of a case." He

struck a match on his trouser-leg and lit a cigarette. "Got out easy. Got old Karraker. Slipped him some

coin now this is on the Q-T and he

soon corralled a jury. Cost me a

hundred bucks but the fun was worth

it Sa-a-y, hut me and that old gal done some lovin' out there on the pike. You ought t'have seen us." "Oh, boy!" exclaimed one enthusiastically. "Hot dawg," commented the other. "I'd a had some time but she got scared and beat it for that old coon's house. Old Barnes that you see yonder." Farmer Barnes and two strange men were approaching from down the street. Stewart's first impulse was to flee as he feared that Barnes

intended to do him violence; but, as they seemed bent on some peaceful mission, he stood stilL The men were well dressed and rather distinguished in appearance evidently business men. Probably oil promoters. They were talking in low tones, their heads close together. Mr. Barnes motioned to Stewart They eyed him critically for a moment, then one of them approached him. "You're a taxi driver, I believe?" "Yes, sir!" "Will you take us to Calhoun soon

in the morning? We want to be there

by daylight and there are no trains."

"It'll cost you somethin'. I dont

like to get out so early."

Never mind that. We 'are at the

Brent hotel. Call us at 4 o'clock

sharp. Don't forget"

They walked down the street with

Barnes and Stewart turned back to his companions. "Some swell guys,"

he said. "Probably here hoodooia old Barnes out Of his oil leases. I'll stick 'em a fiver each for that drive, anyway. Come in and have a smoke on me, fellows, and then well go down to the poolroom for a game. They disappeared Into the drag store. From a shadowy corner George saw and heard these things, all of which he remembered.

Chapter Tin THE NEW SPECIES The next day Thursday was a

memorable one in Prairie City for

many reasons; but mora especially for one, which is talked ot to this day. .

A mm aw u mvvwflhuw Ul a UCI

specie ot the anltual kingdom-a the

streets. (To Be Continued) . The next Installment ot Th Bounds of the Law" will appear I

Wis space next wees. : ,