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Show J . V' Sorry She Wasn't a Man. ' The case of the young girl, Agnes : ' Rankin, who was recently pardoned out I of the penitentiary, prompts the irrever ent suggestion that nature sometimes doesn't know her business thoroughly and gets conflicting elements mixed in the same body. Agnes seems to have lived in a perpetual protest against the feminine form with which she is endowed. en-dowed. She got into the penitentiary by stealing a horse in order to get away from home and live as a man. In the prison she frequently besought the I guards to let her exchange her female i attire for the breeches, and within two weeks after being pardoned she has again put on boy's clothing, clipped her hair and run away from home. Louisville Courier-Journal. |