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THE INDIAN WHO GROWLED`AND BARKED LIKE A DOG,

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A convict in the Federal prison at At- lanta, Georgia, under a charge of murder, has been released to find himself a millon

The prisoner was Charmer Tidwell, for whom Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson had each rejected appeals for pardon. It the death bed confession of a woman that

brought about the convict's liberation with

exoneration of the crime. Tidwell is a half-breed Cherokee Indian, who lived in

in Tallequah,

Oklahomo. He was 17 when a neighbour, whose husband, der Brown, had bean shot to death, ac James cused the lad of the murder.

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She had been indicated jointly with the Indian but was acquitted on the testimony

AN UNPURGED RACE. THE DRAWBACK OF MODERN

- SOCIETY.

The probability is (ays Professor J. Arthur Thomson in the Sociological Revisio) that if ten biologists were asked what troubled the most in their thoughts of modern society, nine would answer-the rarity of selection. In early days an was sifted by famine and pestilence and in his struggle

salo with wild beasts, with tho forces of iature, with other tribes. There is still some differential death rate in connection with diseases, but, on the whole, inan is conquering the microbe; and mere thinning. does not spell progress. He has the wild beasts and the forces of

f modern warfare sifts at all, it is pul in the wro

wrong galirection. As everyone man has thrown off the yoke of Natural for it any-

of her son," who swore that he had seen Selection, without a way of rational

Tidwell are the shot,

Tidwell denied sil knowledge of the crime and many witnesses substantiated his alibi, which was that on the day of murder he was miles away

The jury, however, believed Mrs. Brown and her son.

Was it to be wondered at that this innocent viction of what the Federal depart

At

and social selection. The gro thing at all adequate, in

growth of social sentiment or kin-sympathy leads him

every second turn to be kinil in the present. at the great risk of being cruel to the future. Thus arises tha dilemma of civilisation, never bettor stated than by Herbert Spenove: -

The law that each creature shall take the of Justice calls one of the most re benefits and evils of its own nature has been markable and perhaps the most tragic case of the law under which life has evolved thus

kind ever brought to its attention, should far. And arrangements which, in a con at first have been farinusly intractable siderable degree, prayene superiority frons The prison warders preported that he profiting by the rewarts of superiority, or growled

and barked like a dog, in his vellshield inferiority from the evils it entails whenever they went near him. He was hand-any arrangements which tend to make it as quffed and put in solitary confinement on well to be inferior as to le superior, are a liet of bread and water."

arrangements diametrically opposed to the progress of organistation and the reaching of a higher life."

But fate and the whirligig of timer were rking in his favour. Two years ago Miss Alice Robertson, then rae uler of Congress for Oklahoma, interested herself in Tidwell's ease. Several other women joined her.

endent Planting, telling him there appear. on the man's behalf to President Hares) el to be circumstances connected with the prisoner's conviction which furnished grace elements of doubt.

Attorney General Daugherty was, there- fore, requested by the Presidens to examine the recorda

At this juncture, by an extraordinary coincidence, the former Mrs. Brown, who had wedded again and once more had bean widowed, was stricken with a malady, and realised that she was dying.

"Consciously or unconsciously," as Pro- fessor Karl Person puts it, "we have suspend- ed the racial purgation maintained in less And what Dr. Tretter secs so clearly cust developedcommunities by Natural Selection." be kept in mind. that just as the integration and goodwill of the society increase, the nere must the unit be sheltered from the sifting of Natural Selection. This is true in animal societary forms as in mankind. It is much more than a mory coldling of the waster that we have ro" face; it is a teces sity imposed by the

foreover, civilisest man must go on saving every fact of society. lives, eliminating our eliminators, and in sa if he would, doing cannot help himself, even

In a paroxysm of remorse she confessed to her two daughters that it was not Tid-from saving the weaklings along with the well, but her lover, afterwards her second strong. We can neither reserse the develop- ment of social sentiment nor cease in any husband, who killed James Brown.

effort of preventive medicine and health The daughters informed the authorities And the brother been coerced himself.

also confessed that he had mouth is a dilemma; and the only out in to devolop modes of rational and his mother and her lover social selectim which will sift progressively; into perjaring

There is plenty of hardness in the clash of He was arrested and lodged in gaol, and President Hanling on the Attorney-General's modern life, but there is little systematic

recommendation, set Charner Tidwell free.

Meanwhile, during his imprisonment Tid well had inherited oil lands of such value that now he finds himself the possessor of i fortune of several million dollars.

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NEW WAY TO TEACH HYGIENE.

The headmistress of an infants' school in Paris, much to the astonishment of the educh tion authorities, and in face of their dis-

A novel method couragement, has adopted

the

of teaching hygiene. Much attention was devoted in tim

schnal that cleanliness is the syllabus to tenching of health, but Mr. Ford, we are told, is the richest man the hendistress was woon con avinced that in the world; and figures are given far out- it was useless to attempt

to teach hygiene Topping anything alleged of any former from books alene. During an examination, millionaire, writes the Times. They sound, for instance, in anwering

question, indext, like national debts rather than pri- When should we take tits 1 large num vnte fortunes, and Lave a nightmare enor ber of pupils replied, "When we fall ill." She iity if we try to imagine ourselves in control proposed, therefore, to install a. liath room of them. Cash in hand to the amount of on the school premises for practical demon- £36,000,000; an incomut of £190,000 a day; strations, but was promptly advised by

the net annual profits, after payment of taxes, authorities not to attempt any such

revolu of £22,000,000

it is IL reductio ad absu tionary change in the curriculum. Lacking dun of riches, na astronomical figures official support, she installed two baths at are a reductio ad absurdum" of distance. her own expense, and, having obtained the Call it millions or billions, and it consent of the parents, began a course of would maka no practical difference, practical hygiene by bathing ten of ber for the smaller sum would be as impos-pupils every morning, assisted by a papil sible to spend as the larger, and if not teacher. After a short while she was able to spent it

more and more would grow

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THE ARMY HUMORIST!

mous fortune, we should do with it; but to send inspectors to report from time to for the should do with one a large

a this.

Yet cost of installing the baths. we may wonder what Mr. Ford does, on mistress applied for a small allowance for will do with it. He certainly a able man. Like the power of the Tsara, his ly, after much on the untillatives was

remark towels, but sen this was refusat Eveus day extra my to men who succeeded in wer, however, unlimited in theory, must insion, the initial cost of practice Ye subject to the limitation of allowed, on the clear understanding that huinn capacity. Napoleon himself did not authority could go no farther with this know half that was done in his same. And "revolutionary" method of the enjoyment of wealth is even more ness.

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A MARGINAL COMMENT IN LATIN,

It was consule Haldane (sys Lieut.-Colonel A. A. Irvine in the Army uarterly) that the idea originated of granting twoperco a passing a shooting test; and on one occasion Tommy, who had hitherto failed to pass, had got close enough to the required seare "outer" in

in order to attain The lessons coming cleanli- to need only an

however; to the coveted rank. He fired his Last shot, limited than its

power: for

for enjoyment, like authority supplies wise precepts, while the and the hateful shriek was heard of a nerfs, knowinge. power, net

Mr. Ford

headmistress furnishes from her own re-ricochet spooling on its way! wished to build

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my little tuppence, he remarked more gardens of Telegraph

in sorrow than in anger as he rose fram the ground, Babylon on one side and the gardens of the

oppin', oppi oppin The corolla the way to

this anecdote is the story of the first class shot of arose, wiped the amoke out of his ridano-loses!"

and observed can placently: "Mister

During the South African War the meint- ed infantry at first came in for a certain amount of good natured chaff; and probably the most sarcastic remark made about one of their number was the answer to a question concerning one "Nobby Clark's powers as answer; why, 'e couldn't ride in a railway an equestrian Caule ride! was the

dates the story same peric officer, who rode

the

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INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN „

CETTINJE.

An interesting find has been made in s private house in Cettiuc, the former Montenegrin capital, of four boxes of valuables, the property of ex-King Bebare e iled from San Nichols. Giovanni di Medus in 1916 these boxes wore scat from Cettings, but did not his palace. Frothers they mysteriously dis

hidden until their recente

carriage with the door g reach him in tine, and so seru returned to

From tio of the smart young

who find that and other means of night, and have pray,

may have less, not more, to spare then other men if you possess four hund- red million pounds worth of property. Besides, man who has made a huge for tane in business schlom pa joys himself except in his business. Napoles only idea of diversion was to lagin a new war. The great despot, the great capitalist, is tied to his position, which at onco gives him power and denies him the free exer- cise of it. But, luckily for themselves Ami the world, great capitalists seldom have inordinato

The 'freak' din desires. ners we hear of are usually given by their

to a party of slusty warriors weary offspring,

with "foot Blogging" many miles over the reducing their fortunes to a manageable The property is valued at was fifteen Veldt with the query: "Are you the Weat

sted in. Bogut Honey, however mich he has mele, does not fussian jewels of

Riding No. me tord" came a cheery clades a large number of jewelled care to waste it,

historical than the

value. able d

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blinkin' Buffs-walkin' !" not cares to spoil his kingtion with and gold vessels, the gifts of various Russian extravagance. Mr. Ford no doubt lives rulers and also a number of shares in foreign quietly enough and spends his uoney on companies

The whole of this property other people rather

falls to the Serb-Croat Slovene State, and than bimself,

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Pro. much con, he would tell you that he had the jewels will be placed in one of the

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national muscuimus. power than you might suppose, For his power siepends finally on a rational

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VRENCH'EIRTH RATE.

India, naturally, hus beer for many years a fruitful hunting-ground for soldier stories and it was an officer of every exalted rank who provided the following specimen. To his lot it fell to peruse the scholarly re port of a siember of the Indian Civil Service,

poraryding, for special reasons, zero-

rank

I was report written in the best style of the Civil Secretarist, and was some that profusely sprinkled with Latin quotations. However,

palace in behave as some people expect multi-mil- Statistics published in the Journal one corament only was indítél upon its fioonires to beture; and Kone did not en Office shows that the number of births margin: 'I know some Latin, too. Nil dure

them

very long. They, too, spent in France in 1922 was 150,846 and the sanguicum tomas." money just because they had never earned it, number of deathe 689,267, being an excess They enjo

enjoyed waste as a child enjoys it, be of births over deaths of 70,570. caush it does not understand that waste all 1 The excess of births in 1021 was 117,023 | is finally waste of labour and not

merely

and in 1920 159,790, but the figures for delicious anashing or scattering of things last year compare favourably with those that e come by usture. But the

the great capit of 1013, when the number of births was alist has earned his money and knows from 700,355 and the number of deaths 731,441.

ow. business very well what waste means" He could not enjoy waste if he being an excees of births over deaths of would; in fact, he is forced by bis own only 58,014

conscience to live much like the rest of us The number of marriages, in 19922 was and also by the fact that there are only 383,2), against 456,221 in 1921, 622,503 in twenty-four hours in the day.

1920, and 312,036 in 1913,

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