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...lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep on whooping for Genesis. . . . The colored Baptists are all hot fundamentalists. . . . Bible and Lynching Belt [Mississippi] . . . At the slightest sign of heresy the alarm-bells are rung and the culprit is in the fire. The prevailing theology is strongly supernatural, and even shows a demoniacal element. . . . In most parts of the South a Methodist is relatively liberal and civilized; compared to a good Baptist he often seems almost an agnostic...
...commissioned officers, but (being still under orders from the War Department) without any means of livelihood. The President waived Col. Mitchell's personal feelings. "Discipline is the whole basis of military training," he said. But he did not waive the question of fairness to some future culprit. He modified Col. Mitchell's sentence to the extent of granting him one-half of his monthly pay and all his allowances -that is $397.67 a month, or about $4,760 a year...
...malicious mischiefs, waiting there for their cases to be called, gaped, nudged one another, bent forward excitedly to hear charges read. Chauncey Depew, it was alleged, had made indecent advances to one Mrs. Louise Kracher, had addressed her in profane language. The malodorous crowd leered knowingly at the culprit-a bald, skinny little man with glasses...
...another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average was steadily good enough...