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Show SOUGHT AID FROM THE GODS. Japanese Villagers United In Cursing Robber to Death. Tl'la bit of local color Is from tho Japan Times: "At Shlnokubo, a small vlllngo In Boshti, consisting of only 70 houses, several cases of robbery have lately occurred to tho great alarm of tho villagers, A dll'gont search Instituted by thorn for the offender of-fender proved an utter failure, Tho community consequently hold a mass-mooting mass-mooting and unanimously agreed upon rurslng tho robber to death. A virtuous vir-tuous priest of tho locality was accordingly ac-cordingly npplled to for tho purroso. He, however, declined to curso tho robbor to death, nn act too cruel for a holy man llko him to resort to, but promised that ho would paralyzo the robbor by his poworful prnyerB, so as to dlsablo him and lead him to repentance. repent-ance. Thus the priest commenced hts Incantations. But, behold, the robbor continued his subtlo operations to tho Indignation of tho ontlro community. Tho priest has been condemned as a worthloBS fellow, nnd tho villagers have taken upon thorasclvca tho task of repairing every day to tho vlllago templo by twos and threes to offor horrlblo prayers by which tho robber Is doomed to an early and fearful death." |