The St. Johns herald., 1892-01-14
A Record of CranciadeS.
BY A. cRANQUE.

Arizona finally takes the cake, in fact 1t takes the whole bakery, and for the nonce is entitled to wear the laurel crown of duncedom. For years past I have been dofing my hat to southwest Missouri and north west Arkansas, under the impres sion these two nottd sections were the undisputed provinces of dunce- dom. But, 1 find myself egregious- ly deceived and, instead, Arizona certainly and without doubt, now possesses a greater human jackass or jennyass { no reflection on the ass, as I have, you may perceive, qualified my remark by prefxing to 1t the word human, than either of the aforementioned sections of "duncedom." Some person, male or female, at Rumble Bee, Yavapai county, Arizona, wants to be in- formed through the columns of the San Francisco Examiner, "when will there be another leap year?" This, of course, knocks out poor southwest Missouri in the first round, and awards the prize to Ari- zona-the prize of possessing the greatest dunderhead of this century. As Rumble Bee, the famous-fa- nous in it's present possession-is near to the city of Prescott, where intelligence is the rule and not the exception, I would suggest that one of its school children send down a cheap tin-whistle to the "dunce of Rumble Bee," as such an instru- ment would about fill his or her in- tellectual requirements.
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 In view of the fact that in every newspaper one looks at, are seen ac- counts of cranks and other crazy people, exercising their instincts of murder upon inofensive persons :; therefore, this sort of thing is be- coming tiresome, and 1t is time the sane portion of the commonwealth were organizing for self-preserva- It is but natural that we kill off rabid dogs at first sight, and why not destroy, in the same way, the numerous human mad-dogs as fast as they appear? The preservation of maniacs is not only the rankest of folly, but it is systematic inhu- manity to the good and useful of our people, for all such human wild beasts should not be permitted to exist, as they are of no account to themselves nor are they of any ben eft to the commonwealth. In the city of San Francisco the other day, one of these human mad-dogs got into his crazy and worthless head, that he must kill few children, and in broad day, upon crowded street, he jabbed a knife into the skull of d little girl. Instead of be- ing shot down like any other rabid animal, the police arrested the brute to be again sent to the asylum, and perhaps again released therefrom to begin over his murderous inclina tions. As between the life of that one child, or the lives of each and every maniac in the United States, my vote is for the total destruction of the whole tribe of maniacs rath CT than the life of even that one child. Why, in the name of req son, such human vermin are per mitted to live, is beyond my limit ed comprehension they are not on- ly dangerous to good and useful lives and to valuable property, but they are a continuous source of ex pense to the state and of much mental worry to all good citizens. The law should instantly condemn to death all, not otherwise shot to death while in the act of murder, of such dangerous and useless animals.
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 Humanity Well, yes, humanity is a good and noble sentiment or