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A NEW EVOLUTION TRIAL.
STORY OF INTOLERANCE FROM TENNISSEE.
1.Main street, Jamestown, Tena: 2. Professor & Elmore Gentry, arvused of teaching evolution; 3. The Fontross county school board, before which the charges were fled; 4 and 5. Fred Dixon and Bart Jones. farmers and fathers of boy students, who brought the charges; G Sergeant Alvin York, Jamestown's most famous citizen, who showed deep in- terest in the ease but reirainea from expressing an opinion.
Elmore Gentry is the chief
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Alvin York was a spectator. "I'm
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EX-CONVICT'S HONOUR, Noll Cream had lived" and was saying too much. I have news arrested. The recruit for King for you, Mason." He had em- "Renton is and country was walking proudlyphants on the name. down the street, when a
forgotten-if, Indeed," he ever passed him, looked at him, then existed. My dear friend, I have u
message for you the Commis-) A valued old friend-retired some returned, and for some distance years ago, from the C.I.D followed like a shadow. Sudden- sioner of Police presents his com-
pliments to Mason, V.C." stopped me s I was sauntering ly he stopped the soldier.
"Your name is Renton," he said. through Fleci-street (writes Vin- cent Wray in the Sunday News). "No, no. It is Mason," replied "Have you heard that His dead?" the soldier.
ho asked, cryptically. I looked. "But I know differently," said bewildered; and he hastened to my detective friend, "and you are to explain. "One of the herole wanted for falling to report on epics of the great war. A con-your tleket of leave. You had vict who was always something of better come without making any a mystery and made good. It is a fuss."
coincidence that he has passed Then came a scene surely un- just before Christmas, for the precedented in the history of Iwo greatest and brightest criminals. Reaton pleaded that episodes of his eventful career are he should be permitted to carry on
associated with Christmas Eves." in his determination to make good. JEWELLERY
new.
Then I understood, and recalled He wanted to turn over a the story.
leaf. He wanted to fight Eng- Let me preface the narrative, land's foer. "Look here," he said however, by stating that the man at last, "I know you and I respect "I" when he
suppose
have was last sentenced you.... I and sent to Dartmoor was known someone who is near and dear to
"Renton," Admittedly, that you at the Front ?"
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not his real naine, but he The detective nodded. He had refused to divulge his identity, two sons and a son-in-law out in and declared that he sprang from France. But even so duty must good stock, had been well educat- be done.
Once more there came a sincere ed, and was anxious not to bring
and passionate appeal. "1 promise dishonour upon his family.
All the same, he was "a bad that I will write to you personally
· Tot." He had swindled and and will send for you when-if ." He talked robbed, and twice he had been ever- come back. trapped when on burgling Ex-je-no one replied; he stared peditions. The police generally around, wonderingly. The detec- regarded him as hopeless, and hejtive had vanished.
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openty pronounced one or A long time afterwards there the most rascally of the person-was mentioned in dispatches the alities which appear in the rogues'gallantry of a private who in the gallery at Scotland Yard. He was face of withering machine-gun continually in and out of prison fre went to the resent of till the dramatie happenings whieh ollicer and, though himself severe- I will now detail,
ly wounded, staggered back to the
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The chaplain at Dartmoor. English The bearing the insen- despite the sluner's misdeeds, had aible body of his captain. This a kind of sneaking liking for him, private was the man known in the This may have been because of Army as Mason, known to his retly surrender to irksome rollee as Renton. and unpleasant discipliner or the
His Visitor, streak of something better thao. He received attention at the himself which was
Was then sent occasionally base, but peeping but.
England so that he might receive Anyhow, the night before his more effective treatment. He was release-two days prior to Christ- desperate clic. mas-the good clergyman chatted possible to effect a complete cura; with him. "You were meant for but it was hoped that they would nicer things than you do," he be able to "patch him "up" in Jamestown. Tenia' Jan, 24. - prosreators failed to appear and have him held to the April term said. "You claim to have been some fashion. Back in the rugged hills of within ten minutes the ease was of the grand jury:
well brought up and to have had And it was in a hospital in Fentresa «county, where Sergeant dismissed. Fifty pupils of the Such action would assure James advantages which most of your London that the last scene I have Alvin C. York Woll hooling school were present, ready to town of another gut fight over fellow prisoners lack. Why don't described happened. Again it matches with a turkey as the testify that their teacher had not evolution, like at Dayton several | YOU live up to them and make was the eve of Christmas, and the prize in the days before he taught evolution. Other patrons rears ago when Clarence Darrow good? Give me your hand and wounded soldier was lying anxious Shouldered a gur for Unele Sun were present, ready to back the und William
and restless on his bed. He many Jennings Bryan promise that you will try." and marched to world fame, principal.-
the visitor times inquirel after fashed.
Sehl of Secrecy, consther Scopes case is leaming,
nut Gentry The Scopes, does
There was a good deal more be expected. The time passed on, much interested, want publicity, however. He is a talk, and the convict told his kind and was not until long after the figure in Tennessee's" serul though, commented the famous member of the Christian church counsellor his name-under the regular hours for the admission of
Janestown, the historic Hitle
and a believer in the literal interseal of secrecy. Later he told it quests that a nurse came to him,
friend bus your And town folk generally were pretation of Scripture,
to my police friend, again under "Mason,
: County seat where Mark Twain's
"Professor Gentry bought, the The pledge of silence--and, both arrived," said the nurse. father and mother resided before unexcited, they moved to Missouri, & tu But S. S. Parnell, young after books pat in the schat library and promises have been honourably A tall, plainly-dressed man,
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an- which led to the charges, but did kept. 1 know, however, that the carrying a bowler hat, cums and man was a degenerate olfshont of Hond by the bedside. There was Gentry was citaryed by Bart wounced that he would swear ou not know then what they
one of the noble families of our a gentle smile on the generally Jones und Feed Bison with teach state warrant, charging Gentry Lained," says A. E. Hogne, one of
land.
tern face. ing evolution. Both are parents with violating the state law the attorneys in the case.
sey I had your letter," Soon after leaving prison. "You of boys in his school. A book in which forbids the teaching of the "He says that the books do not
Renton joined up.
said the visitor. the school library led to the theory of, evolution in the public conflict with the Bible, 30 far as
But there was one thing he had! "And I have kept my word," chargés. 11 fiches evolution, schouls. He said that he would he knows, and he does not ap; absolutely forgotten-a thing was the answer. "I have made
of narrowness and When the seheal-board con- have fientry takam before a justivé proved
that, with his experience, should good, and now I can vened to bear the charges, the of the peace and endeavour to bigotry,"
have haunted his memory. He my old name-the name Renton, was on tirkel of leave. It was his ( which was convicted. 1 ami forgetfulness of this fact that led ready to return to prison-- to a dramatic meeting with my though," a faint smile crossed the police friend-and, Incidentally, to weary face, "I had hoped that I the detective's breach of the re-had finished with prison for ever, Once, when I was a youth, I gulations,
like to visualise the scene as heard an address to youngsters it was described to me by one ofton "What breaks, pays. That is only right. I am Renton once the chief actors.
A New Lenf.
I will pay." The time was more than a monthị The visitor laughed lightly.
elistment. The "You have done well," he re- Stanford-street.Jplied. "We at the Yard have Blackfriars, memorable for all fallowed your later career, shall. I time as the thoroughfare in which say with pride? Yes, that is not
sera.
CONTROLLING THE WEATHER.
WILL MODERN SCIENCE SUCCEED?
A booklet just isted by the In- Stitute of Patentes contains the
Interested. He
HOUSE-WORK BY ELECTRICITY.
WIVES WHO WILL, OPERATE SWITCHBOARD,
Switchboard wives are cominż.
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Miners mont. Makes sausages. Father has not been forgotten, For hm was shown a garden
altered to suit the state of the roller, the weight of which can be
lawn, and a trouser press which “éan be fokled-up and carried about
with one.
For the commercial traveller
after Repton's Before long, it seems, instead and others who are compelled to
Was sitting entry, "a means of regulating the of having to spend the morning spend much of their time in, hotels rain supply" under the heading: doing the washing or turning out there is a portable door lock "What is Wanted Ta-day." This a bedroom, wives will just spend which they can carry about with ilen must that he regarded as an half an hour operating a switch them to ensure that their bedroom impossibility in these days of rapid board, and lo! the housework will door always securely lacked. scientific progress faaya R. F. be done for the day. Tiltman in the Daily Chronicle. Simply by pressing a button or The probability, of obtaining a operating a lever "futurist" wives measure of control over the ele will be able to: ments is really nid so fantastical as the suggestion appears' at first glance, for the matter has receiv ed serious attentam in This pas! few years.
"The hardware trade is very different to-day from what is used to be a few years ago," said Mr. H. O. D. Davies, and of the organisers of the exhibition re cently.
Do the world's washing, Clook the dinner, Make sausages for supper, and The up-to-date hardware-mat Clean the sitting-room all al is to-day "as" important" to the housewife as the draper. In the
pare.
His easy to see that the time old days he only supplied such
́s rapidly approaching when even things as nails and hammers, but
of
Sir Oliver Lodge has referred to the matter, and declares that he he baby may be bathed mechani- to-day he stocks all sorts does not see why we should put ally, and by means of a simple mailern appliances which halve up with had weather which we device the beds may be made by the work of the housewife. not want it.
urning a handle.
"Every year tonds to make life
"Tapping" the Clouds.
DIET AND DISEASE.
"A visit to the` Fronmongery, easier, and I expect the day is Ather British scientist, Pro Hardware, and Domestic Al not far off when she will just Tessor A. M. Low, when direntsing liances, Exhibition, which opened press a button and her work will the matter with ine, definitely exerently at the Royal Agricultural he done." pressed as his opinion that wall, provided a revelation of thei shall eventually 'obtain a certain test "gadgets" for housewives. amount of control over loral wea One invention exhibited; it is ther. He did not suggest that ruin laimed: would be produced from a clear. shy, but rather that we shall be able to tap the rain clouds when rain is needed. Further, he sug
Washes and wrings clothes. Clents and sharpens knives, Makes ice-cream.
(By Dr. D. Muray Lyon,) Cheapness and other consider tions have resulted in a great in- jerease in the consumption of bread
gested that it may be possible there is no suggestion of man re; and wheat flour generally. The move rain-bearing clouds from one modelling the universe, but rather older melheds of milling permitted district to another to spread the of obtaining a certain control over all the necessary constituents of rainfall 'more evenly. We may purely local condition.
The the grain to pass into the floor. also be able to dispel fogs.
deal is an even distribution of Modern methods have robbed it of certain valuable elements. The
In the past few years scientiate ain in place of the present state mistaken idea that the purity of t in different countries ha e been of flouti in one district and flour was proportionate to its engaged in research with some trought in another.
whiteness has lessened the value measure of succoss. Perhaps one The wish to "make rain" is pro- of our staple food. of the most promising demonstrably, the oldest desire of min;
The resistant outer coal or bran tion took place at Dayton, Ohio.ind. It dates back to the dawn of the grain, being indigestible, when an airplane was down above of humanity, when the cave-maniacts as roughage, and the wheat rain clouds. Electrically chargorayed to some rain god to save germ is rich in vitamina. Both ed sand was strewn on the clouds, his crops. In early days the rain-järe removed in the process of mill and as a direct result there was fall mide all the difference being. There is no doubt that the a fall of rain in each case.
tween famine and plenty.
almost universal tendency to con
Even Distribution.
Will the efforts of modern solen-stipation is largely as a result of When discussing weather con-tists eclipse these ancient rites and faulty feeding, and consumption trol it should be remembered that achieve success where medicine of ten great quantities of white weather is a cloak which envelops men and magicians have failed for bread, pastries and sweet cakes, the earth and travels with it. centuries?
which leaves little or no roughage.
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