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Show SOUSHT AID FROM THE SOD. Japan Villagers United In Curilnf Robber to Death. This bit of local color la from Ua Japan Times: "At Shlnokubo, a small village In Soshu. '.consisting of only 70 .houses, several cases of robbery have lately occurred to the great alarm of the villagers. X diligent search instituted by thent for the offender of-fender proved an utter failure. The community consequently held a mass-meeting mass-meeting and unanimously agreed upon cursing the robber to death. A virtuous vir-tuous priest or the locality waa accordingly ac-cordingly applied to for the purpose. He, however, declined to curse the robber to death, an act too cruel for a holy man like him to resort to, but promised that he would paralyze the robber by his powerful prnyWs, so as to disable him nnd lend him to repentance. repent-ance. Thus the priest commenced hie incantations. Hut, behold, the robber continued his subtlo operations to the Indignation of tho entlro community. Tho prleBt has been condemned as a. worthless fellow, nnd the villagers, havo taken upon themselves tho task' of repairing every day to the village temple by twos and threes to offer horrible praets by which the robber Is doomed to an early and fearful death." |