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The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20
SCARED BY MENINGITIS,
 TEXAS SOL0NS ADJOURN,
Third Member of Legislature Is Stricken and Speaker Excuses
 Representatives.

Austin, Tex, Feb. i6.-The third case of cerebro-spinal meningitis in three days among Texas legislators developed yesterday. Speaker Ter rell of the house immediately eX- cused all members from attendance until March 3, unless he notifies them otherwise by wire. Repre- sentative John c. Hunt of Canyon City is the third member to fall ill. The other two, both members of the house, died.
 The senate will adjourn until February 24 on account of menin- gifts. In both house and senate the presiding officers will declare the respective bodies adjourned from day to day.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20
MANY ARE WOUNDED
 IN RIOTS IN JAPAN
Police Start Outbreak When They Endeavor to Prevent Mass Meeting of PeOple-Charge MObs
 With Swords.

Osaka, Japan, Feb. 12.-Violent rioting continued in the streets of this city throughout last night. The police charged the mob several times with drawn bayonets and many persons were injured, all though so far none are known to have been killed.
 The authorities announced this forenoon that more than 100 per sons in all were hurt yesterday and last night in the political riots which started when the police at tempted to break up several mass attended by holiday crowds which were celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the Japanese constitution.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20
WOMAN SLAIN WITH AN AXE.
Starving Childrens' Cries Called At
 tention to Oklahoma Murder.

Ft. Smith, Feb. i6.-The cries of two children, and years old, led yesterday to the discovery that Mrs. Tina Hendricks had been murdered, possibly several days ago, in her home east of Stigler, Ok. Neighbors passing the Hendricks home saw the children crying in the yard, and when they inquired of their trou- ble 4-year-old daughter exclaimed, We ain't had anything to eat for days. Mamma is lying asleep on the floor and we can't wake her"
 When the neighbors entered the home they found the woman had been killed with an axe. She soon would have become mother.
 The whereabouts of the woman's husband has been unknown for two years.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

You all know the man who, when you politely ask him how he feels, says he is feeling very poorly, then launches into a vivid and lengthy description of the spell of pneu- monia or something that he had three years last fall, and how if it hadn't been for Dr. Bunk he would have died. Almost makes you wish the doctor hadn't been so successful, doesn't it?
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20
The Best Couah Medicine.

"I have used GhamberIain's Cough Remedy ever since l have been keeping house" says L.. c. Flames of Marbury, Ala. 'I consider it one of the best remedies I ever used. My children have all taken it and fl works like charm. For colds and coush it is excellent" " For sale by all dealers.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20
Wiqht Iniure His Complexion.

Guest in country hotel, in tones of whitening sarcasm-"Hey, land lord, send me up an axe. The water in my pitcher is froze solid"
 Landlord-"Land sakes, mister. You don't say you intend to wash on a cold morning like this?"-Biff.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

The man who marries an angel in disguise is apt to find the dis guise both perfect and lasting.
 We have often wondered if some men don't get married for the pur- pose of having some one to drive them to drink.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

Why look old when Mildredina Hair Remedy will restore your gray hair to it's natural color in a few days, destroy the dandruff germs, stop falling hair and give new life to the hair? Free mail sample 10 cents.
 Mildredina Specially Co.,,
 Boston, Mass.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

Albert's Headache Checkers give instant relief and permanently cure all headaches, neuralgia and periodical pains. Five doses 10 cents; 25 doses 25 cents. Mail or ders filled by the Bloodine Corpora tion, Boston, Mass.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

For that distressed feeling after eating, belching and nausea be- tween meals, take Bloodine. It cures Dyspepsia by strengthening the digestive organs so that they are capable of fulfilling their functions.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

Wanted-50 young men for tele- graph positions. We teach you in a few months, and furnish transpor- tation to our school, and from our school to your position. Will place you in position the day you graduate. We have plan whereby first il, who enter may earn while you learn. Write for special Ten Day Proposl- tion. Hugo Telegraph School, l.. $. East, Manager, Hugo. Okla.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

The man who says he never had a show probably never had the price of admission.
 Better laugh at peoples jokes; you may have occasion to spring one yourself some time.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-20

Heartburn, indigestion or distress of the stomach is instantly relieved by HERBINE. It forces the badly digested food out of the body and restores tone in the stomach and bowels. Price 50c. Sold by Davis Drug Co.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15
frau UareIint l1ihlfs,

Siart ar 1rrilnq eeH IL. getraar 1913
ActaCils / ll6r 50 aEiua,sn
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

burd bos 3eusnib i.ines gesleiiers
bDs in Die Gnge gstrieben, seItanb bann
ben WilobisbIiabl unb ihliebIih audi
ben S9uB auf ben Sdser, bod ohne
5obtuagsabiiht.
Sn Der 5hpurserihtsperbanoluns
tam es su bohinterefantsn Ilsetnans
oerIebunoen. innem Der Bertbeibiser
cine Gpentualfroge nuf Sootibldg uno
3uidbfraoe auf 0otbtpebr iorpobl sur
3ootIhldgs= ais ouh sur Utprofrdge
lkoutrdate. Der Siuatsunlpolt mdhte
hingeoen aufmertIam, bob Wtpro In
Iptblpebr elm Ding Der llnmDglihteit
Iei, oa Der Wl6rber in Der abitdt su
tDbten boubIs, Rptbipebr absr cine abs
iibt dusihlisbe. Der Gjsridtsbof lieb
iopobl bic 3pntf6luqs ais oud Die
gotbpebrfrage su, Die IeBtere nidt nur
sur 5ootihlags=, Ipnosrn aud 3ur
W(orofrae: O. NIT Der Searinoung.
baB Strafausfdlisbuugsgriinoe rid
| fhtli6 ansr 9erbred<n, baber audi
riidfibtIib oes Wlcroes @ 3uldfiis
| Ieien.
3ur Crisntirung bjtns: Hdd BEN
Diterreihiiten Strof9tieB begebtWorb,
lper oegen einen Wtniden in Der abb
! fGt, ibn su tobten, ouf cine folfe art
| banoeIt, bab noraus oes betrefienben
WsnIhen soo erfOI1t (par. 134).
5pbtidIne aber tptro angerebnet. tpenn
Die 6anoIuna, burd bic Elm Wenfd
ums 2eben tommt, Strdr nits in bcr
4biitt, ihu su tooteu. aber bod in ons
oerer IstnoieIiger abfht ousgeiibt
niro (par. 140). gorTdblihe g0bs
tung i'm 2lffstt iit Morb. ni6t 9ob.s
IhIag. Gine geftimmuna nah pdr.
% oes bsutitxn Strdfeeiebbunes
(Dsr pori0tIit einen auoeren torpsrs
lidl mibhoneelt potr an Der Gefunos
belt ihdoiat, piro tp<9sn aprperb:rs
l<Buus nit 8sfdngriB bis su br,i
Sobren ober nit 9eloityafe biz .auftnb
Mart bsitraft") fehI; in Se1tsrrsih,
poieIbit aud iolts IOotuneen ols
U9oro su beftrdfen iiro.
Der 4ngsilooie tpu-Ds lrtoen Ipbts
itlaes 3u iets Sohrtn iblpertn aers
ttrs psrurtbxiIt.
Qnlab CUR abneieuuG unb Sheu
por oem Geridt, QrIaB su Der ers
pdbn:sn 8<3sitnun2 aeben Die gbs
ion6erIifteiisn oes oiterreihiIb.n
StraFosietss. has eirtu ,uormen BAL
lat aus psrgonesneu 3tiisn mite
ihIeppt.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

.Die id bic gtpen iibers
.fIog." nutir if. 1!s Iei ih nahns
'inniQ." Tas ipdren oi: eriisn Morts,
bic gisIorucic, Der juuse peruaniihe
giIOt. Der nun bic 4Ipen gIidIi6
utrrTlo1tn bat, ausrieF, nIs er pom
Sibe isines Glus3eu1es. ecs iid ti.f
ia b,r Shnst grub, lei 3outpnoFpIa
al;prars. eintn 4ussublid, 10 err
5dtIt cin snsIii6er gIugsnseuse. itorris
Der FIisgsr nit pei:aufserifTenen Aus
Gen ouf isins Maietus; oonn ober
ubsrranb sr Die 4ufyesuns, in bic ibn
be oIiitlide 9olItrnung bes tuhuen
5lusss peristt bate, uno umarmte
Idts!rc bic 3u ',tren GmpfGne herbeis
oeeiI.er Trsunbs. 4uf etr Tobrt mad,
TpmccoFola srsobIie er ocnu i'm auto
ben isjuem 5lugr. AIS i'd .iniee
bLneert Uitisr boh mar. fssie pIoss
liu rein Wlotor aug. Sd mar s,raos
lber bsr Tiefc bsr idredIi5 itpurs.h
SaItinsihIuti. 9a er.onnts bic Sc
fabr asr ss ssIaug mir elitli6trs
ntii,, ben Wotor pieoer in Gang 81
bringsn; in IpiraIsHf0rusiesn GurD.n
touut, it tpisotr bober bnoufftsiesn.
Zen Simplon iiberflog ih In etnsr
Sohe BON 10000 Jub. Dori. ;onn.n
ben bsslemmsnbsn ginnrud uiht
idiItern, ben it brtie, !pohrsno it
empor'titq. Tis qlpsn fd,isnen uuisr
mir al perTiut.H. BUR Der Meibmsib
uao Der Wonte Gsone molten ni6i faIs
len. .oohtr 'tsige in empor. unb nun
enbIih babe ih uuh ben Meibmelb
uutsr mir. Sd fIog nun tn elmer 9ok
pon 1C,6O0 CUB iiber ben gobps9ob;
su msimr 2ii,tsn 9ohnt 6os furttbare
G,ereoihal, oeNtn Qnftitromuneen
Gtupes srihlun9sn unb Die CT ben
.sorrioor Der 5oIe" nannie. es pes
lrret mir, ibH 81 permeiDen. id halie
oerdce oui ben wsonte Utpnseera su.
Qtber plDslit padeR eifiee ouftitros
mrnosn bon benz MeibmeibaIetiher
nuine Ws1itins, eurnriitieln fs. Jh
futile mid srlorsu. Wirn Der ~aprris
hrc Der 5Due~ audi mid perihlinsenf
stter nein, meins Uhaffine triumpbir'.
trpbt benz @iuos btfreit ith. unD nun
itnett ih iibsr Dem Wonte Monseera.
4nss un.sr mir 10 peiB. bab ih foii
oehlenbet bin. Gott fei Danf. nah
Gin poor Minutsn Offnet iih Dor msis
nen @ugen bas 6rnurx SFolatbol.
@elhs 9efr.iung! Do 1T S.alien. Gs
iii mein 3isl. 1os ift Der Sieg. Sh
fielIc msinsn Dtotor ab unb gebe nies
oer." Cine babe Siunbe ipGter elite
gitlenueie su Der Siene, ipp isin
aonbsmnnn su 9onen fam uno bes
bsdte bas Grabual ieines Jrsunbes
NIT g!uineu.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

3eug init SImorrhniben. Gtnipri.
tlngen bon Gift uno geenlttfeln.
einreiblneer. gsnif)niittel, Glirire
itno bic iiusahIise WaIfe Don uniinni.
gen 0eteimmiiteln gegen Sanor.
rhoiben iino bon feincm bouerroen
0iisen. Oft iogar fehr fdsdblit. Cine
sDun5igiahrige Grfnbring bat flnr
berpieien, bnb anafeiis bos etn3ise
nerniinftige uno iidere Wfittel segen
Samorrlpioen IT. gs Iinncrt Die
Sf]merSen ioiort. perhinhert bns
Serporfommen Der Wdfnpuliie. be.
feitigt oiefelbew iinb perbiitet lire
Wieberfehr. Groben bon Mnnfdis
lperben BON q. sseiftdbtKr & Co.,
Boz 1916, Reu Uoss -iJgt uGsianot
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

yereinisfe Sanser.

Tasaateu.Sitnnc rnb TsnnHen.GigflhrHn
beuis sItsiih, aen 10. Dstracr. In ssfamHs
safts. I6e 1issr err siso mseaTi6en sios. ii
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

WibgIldtes aOmpliment.
Qeutnani (au elmer 6ltersn Tome):
sGndDiee Jrou itben beute 70 bliixno
aus. MI sins JipdnjiGiabyios Rois.1
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1913-02-15

9iiire ben TT Eaamei EiGfse 1=nnsrlser,
itdsletf on SguniGe, An1alttsaa& ) ubt sW
1rdae1haufe &a 1909 gehn suatsg fpetG
streHabe tafHfa eiuaeidhea fine gccrsiauag
afa Gi' Meg Nspracn Hnb III pvtnai 1916
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
G. w. FAIRCHILD & SONS, Inc.

JEWELLERS AND OPTICIANS
MAIN STREET AND p. o. ARCADE
At the Sign OF the Chimes
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
WARRANTS ARE COMING FOR
PERSONAL TAX DELINQUENTS

Between 20 and 80 Bridgeporters.
some of them reported to be promi-
and professional world, are on the eve
of experiencing the serving of a war
rant upon them and, city court expert
ence. Neglecting to call upon the per-
sonaI tax collectors will be the charge
against them. Prosecuting Attorney
Alexander L. Delaney announce this
morning that the list has been care
fully gone over and the names veri-
fed. As soon as the printing Of, the
warrants is completed they will be
filed in and served. He ADM ted that
the identity of some of those on the
list will be a great surprise. It is ex-
pected that the warrants will be ready
within a week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
BOYLE CLAIMS He
WAS ASSAILED BY
UNKNOWN MEN

Saying that he had been assaulted
by two unknown men. robbery being
credited as the cause, ]. F. Boyle, a
canvasser and giving the Golden Hill
hotel on Harrison street as his resi-
dence, called at the emergency hos
pita1 for treatment last night Ac-
cording to his story he was on his
way to his room when the men step
ped up to him and started to beat
him UP. How far they would have
gone he does not know as he man
aged to escape. DR.. John j. MacDon-
aid found him to be suffering from
Commissions and abrasions of the fore
head, a liberation over the temporal
region, decorations of the index and
second fingers of the left hand. The
wounds were cauterized and Boyle
continued his trip to his room.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
CITY DOCTORS DISCOVER
DIPHTHERIA SUSPECT

Two cases of suspected diphtheria
were discovered this morning by city
physicians in responding to a sick call
from 70 Church street. In a base
ment tenement among surroun dfngs
considered to be far from beneficial,
two children of Angelo 'Tezzio were
found suffering from badly swollen
threats, the attack showing indica-
lions of being of an extremely malig-
nant nature. One is 10 years old,
Nicho 1as Tezzio, deaf and dumb from
birth, and the other his IL years old
sister, Rose. The cases have been
reported to the Department of Health
and anti-toxin has been administered
as a preventative. There are other
children in the building.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
ANTICIPATING

church, funeral services were held
this morning at o'clock for Frank
L. Murray who died at his home, 9z5
Stratford avenue, on Tuesday after
noon AS the body was being brought
into the church, the choir sang, Thy
Will Be Done,'' during the ofertory
Mrs Frank Munich sang Ave Maria.
and after the mass, Joseph Cla.bby
rendered There is a Land" John
Dooley, David Greenbaum and Ber-
nard Flanagan of the Trolleymen's
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03

Union, of which the deceased was a
member, and Patrick Moran, John
Mul1oy and Charles Mccarthy Of
Court Burnhah, F. of A., were pail
bearers. Interment was in St Mi
chaePs cemetery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
OBITUARY

The many friends of Thomas Nee
han will be grieved to learn of his
untimely death which occurred yes
terday afternoon, at his home, 35
Sachs street, Stratford, where he i ad
resided for many years. AS a brake
man on the New Haven road the de-
ceased had made a large circle of
friends and he will be greatly missed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03

Bridgeport Public Market
Interesting special for Saturday in
beef, lamb, poultry and vegetables and
grocery department.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03

With requiem high mass celebrated
by Rev. FIR. Mulcahy in ST. Mary s
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-03
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United labor bulletin., 1913-11-15
CHAPTER ~.
The Face In the Crowd


Up to the present moment the two
young men had been confronted only
by a series of mystifying incidents.
baffiing. to be sure. but bearing moth
ing sinister upon their face; and un-
less Van vechten's more recent per
turbation lat sight OF the veiled LADY,
be taken into account, neither had the
mornings queer events borne any
especial significance whatsoever
But here. In the twinkling of an eye.
was tragedy stark and grim. Only a
minute or two ago and this man was
pulsing with the perfect vitality of
young. vigorous manhood; now the
spark of life was fiown-extinguished,
as one might pun out the fame of a
candle.
Both were profoundly sobered by
the shocking end OF their brief chase.
and even Van vechten's more active
mentality was slow to accept realiza-
ton. As for Tom Phinney. he merely
stood gaping at the still form. his
brain for the time being utterly be-
numbed.
The spell of horror was in a meas
ure broken by a policeman's belated
arrival. He stopped and turned up the
mans face, and n thin crimson line
could be seen staining the left temple.
The features were composed. as IL
death had been kind and mercsfully
swift
"Slugged." was the officers senten-
tious conclusion. Standing upright. he
shot glance round the crowd. "who
saw this done?" he roughly demanded.
Nobody replied: only an uneasy stir
ring undulated through the small gath
ering. which promptly settled again in
to silent immobility: and the blue.coat.
as usually happens in such cases.
sought to cover with rudeness his in
United labor bulletin., 1913-11-15

competency to handle the situation.
1t was at about this juncture, Van
vechten forever afterwards remem-
bered, that he first became aware of
the face. He was standing behind
Tom. bit to his left, and opposite the
alley mouth. His entire attention, nat
urally enough, up to this time had
been absorbed by the ugly scene at his
feet. 1t was all the more strange,
therefore, that his mind should have
been attracted and held elsewhere,
even temporarily. But nevertheless,
all at once he experienced sn indefin-
able, irresistible impulse to glance up
ward at certain point in the ring of
onlookers. And his regard came to rest
upon particular face.
Straightway he became sensible of
an unfamiliar thrill. an abrupt quick
ening of the pulse, for which he could
not in the least account.
Perhaps he would have looked away
again at once had there not come to
him, as instantaneously as had the
impulse to glance upward, a convic-
ton that the face signified something
far out of the ordinary. The present
circumstances might in measure ac-
count for the horror mirrored there,
but not for the despair, the terror,
which seemed gradually to be chilling
the faces owner into statue of ice.
The face, Van Vechten told himself,
was rejecting emotions of depth and
potency for which the mans death
alone was wholly inadequate to ac-
United labor bulletin., 1913-11-15

like natl!
count; the fixed stare was directed at
something beyond and behind the life
less figure.
1t was a girls face. 1t was refined
and delicate of contour. and was
framed in a nimbus of wavy midnight
hair. 1t was. moreover, a strikingly
beautiful faee-even hauntingly beau
tiful, for it was a face which the be-
holder would not be likely to forget for
many and many a day. Van Vechten
knew that he had never seen the girl
before; still there was something
about her that teased and perplexed
him
He knew dimly. later. that she must
have been slender and not very tall
Tor she was standing in the paved al
ley. on the crowds outward edge. and
Il was only an accident OF relative po-
sitions that afforded her an uninter-
rupted view.
What terrible. gripping horror was
it that seemed to be paralyzing all her
fancies? What did this mans death
signify to her more than it did TO any
one else here present?
To one such as Van Vechten, accus-
toned to reading the all but impercept-
ible indices OF schooled features, this
vision was like a naked human soul.
Terror and despair parted the delicate
pink lips and widened the lustrous
dark eyes. they blanched her cheeks
and held her breathless. utterly OBJ
livious of aught else save the dead
man.
And now he discovered. suddenly.
that he was not the only person inter
ested In the agit&ted girl. His atten-
ton was somehow drawn 10 a man
standing a half dozen or so feet from
her; a tall. raw-boned fellow with
powerful frame and a sullen cast of
countenance-a countenance Just now
scratched and bruised. as II its owner
had recently met with q severe acci-
dent of some kind.
This man was staring angrily at the
girl. He too seemed to be oblivious of
the dead man. and intent only upon
catching her eye. And then the mag
netism OF his look had its effect; her
eyes were drawn to his. and she came
to herself with start A tinge OF color
appeared in her cheeks; but Van Vech-
ten observed that the terror and de
spair still fingered in her eyes.
Van Vechten turned his attention
to the man with something like resent
ment stirring in his bosom. for the fel-
lows manner suggested proprietary
relationship toward the girl. which. for
a reason he did not attempt just then
to explain. made him angry. As far
as attire went. the man was present
able enough: but Van vechten was not
favorably prepossessed by the sullen.
battered countenance, the coarse.
sandy hair. nor the big. loose jointed,
powerful body.
Then the cautioning glance was of
sudden accounted for: the man, salts
fed that the girl had caught his mean
ing. showed that he had noted Van
Vechten's more than casual regard. by
n vindictive look from n pair of steely
gray eyes-a look at once SO keen and
truculent and challenging that its re
cipient was for the moment dunn
founded.
However. Van vechten's puzzlement
over this strange bit of byplay, his en-
crossing admiration of the girls
beauty. was broken rudely in upon by
n sudden confused movement of the
crowd. With changing bell and
noisy clatter of iron-shod hoofs upon
United labor bulletin., 1913-11-15
SYNOPSIS.
Book l..

Book !.
CHATTER I-Rudolph Van vechten, 9
young man OF leisure. is astonished &c
see man enter No. 1913. a house across
the street from the Powhatan club. The
house has long been unoccupied and l.
spoken OF as the House OF Mystery.
CHAPTER II-Several perSons at regu.
lar Intervals enter No. 1913.
CHAPTER III.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-12-31
WHAT TO 30 WITH THIS BOY
Case Of Juvenile Grimm Atty In France
That May Well Puzzle the
Social Reformer.

Here is a little life story that more
wildly flluminates the task of the So
cial reformer than any number OF trea.
tises. IA couple of nights ago boy of
less tl%n fifteen was discovered along
side tie Seine by couple of police
men. 99At first he refused to utter a
word. but eventually he narrated his
/ Odyssey. Eighteen months ago, when
he was barely thirteen, he surreptiti-
ously left his parents house in Paris,
taking with him a. sum of. 500 francs.
With this money in his possession he
went to Brussels. where he was short.
~. after arrested. The police conduct
ed him home, but he escaped again.
Taken back a second time, he was ap-,
prentfced to farmer. but promptly de-
parted on fresh adventures. Since then
he has existed by means of begging
and thieving. Two months ago he
stole a couple Of bicycles, and, mount
ing one and propeliing the other, made
on for Rouen, where he sold one of the 4
riding to Paris on the 9th 4
er This he sold in Paris, and lived on
the proceeds for a time, until, shelter
less and without resources, he WAS
found by; the police. What can the
sociologist, the penologist, or the phi
lanthropist do with 50 youthful and
precocious a criminal? The problem is
2 serious one in France, where juve-
nile crime is alarmingly on the in !
Corresponds London
Globe. /