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Only a bare score of followers surrounded General Gallegos when the Federal troops finally caught up to him at Tepozan last week. Federal rifles barked and suddenly the General's horse, wounded, grew knock-kneed, whinneyed in agony, sagged and toppled. As Rodolfo Gallegos struggled to rise, the troops broke through his men and were upon him. Pitiless, they pumped lead, then jabbed swords, into fat General Gallegos until he expired, butchered. Near Nogales, Ariz., 33 rebel Mexican Indians fled across the border to be lodged in a protective U. S. jail...
...Chicago Tribune, which had fought against Mr. Thompson, sold 909,448 copies (its high water mark for the daily edition) and soon boasted, the fact with figures five inches high, meanwhile trimming its political sails with a weak-kneed editorial hoping that Mr. Thompson would turn over a new leaf...
...Story.† Serafino Gubbio serves a black, knock-kneed spider. Daily he whets its appetite with coils of transparent membrane. Not knowing why, creatures come near and sacrifice their real selves to the spider. Serafino Gubbio helps the spider devour them. Not long afterwards, myriad people issue from dark places where, seeking pleasure, they have seen the ghosts made by the spider. Relieved to be out again, they say, "What terrible rot!" Serafino Gubbio is a cinematograph operator for a big company near Rome...
Said he, "You little, knock-kneed...
Pastoral Staff. The heathen Roman augurs used crooks as insignia. Later, in Christian times and before the advent of seats, the staffs were utilized in the cold old churches as supports to the weak-kneed. They became the special glory of early Christian art, and today are extremely handsome. Naturally mystics associate it with the Shepherd symbol. Once it was suggested that it had often been utilized to hook in the weak-willed and wandering. The Eastern Catholic churchman has a short pole, resembling and being used as an ordinary walking stick...