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...realize it. I remember very vividly just how it feels to be hungry, damnably hungry, and not warm, and wondering where to sleep. Once you've had that, you can never afterward forget that somehow or other this society has a responsibility to its weak people who can't make peace with it enough to get on. Once you've been scorched-oh, well, I sound like a socialist...
...Jefferson County, Tenn., one W. B. Johnson, prosperous farmer, once a sheriff, was walking along a lane with a revolver in his pocket. Just why he was carrying a revolver no one, afterward, could tell, or why, meeting an old woman and her daughter in the lane, he began to quarrel with them. Mr. Johnson, some said, had had a love affair with the daughter. He ended the conversation by shooting each woman in the mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition...
Died. Armand Reclus, 83, who in 1879 traced the line afterward used without change for the Panama Canal; in Paris...
...themselves ejected. Thereupon the chief tenets of the Christian religion were held up to derision and ridicule. Frightened, the Wesleyan female Chinese converts stopped their ears and cowered in their seats. Later the students rushed through a dormitory distributing anti-religious literature to a group of converts, who were afterward discovered to be blindmen...
Founded at Zurich, 1523, the Mennonite faith soon afterward received its name from its ablest early exponent, Menno Simons. This young onetime Catholic priest chanced upon some tracts of Martin Luther, experienced regeneration. But he devised tenets more like those of the Quakers than Luther's. Mennonites discard priesthood, own no authority outside the Bible and "enlightened conscience," stress the sanctity of human life (hence will not fight in any war) and "a man's word" (hence never swear...