With regard to the knockings on the front door, Mr. Neaves pointed out that he was puzzled to know how anybody could have got away without being seen; for he would have had to make his exit through a gap in the fencing guarded by a constable, who had never left it.
On several occasions since, Mr. Neaves, waiting to trap some human door rapper, stood close to a door and opened it swiftly when the knocking came. For all his celerity, however, he has found nobody, though his torch has fiashed swiftly afterwards into every conceivable space.
"T am not a superstitious man," declared he, "and I am heartily sick of this business, not having had any sleep for a long succession of nights.""
In order to ascertain whether dongas or any points of vantage had sheltered stone-throwers, Mr. Neaves has been in the habit of leaving his house at dusk—which is when the stone-throwing usually begins—and, accompanied -by his boys, of making detours to suspected spots. During his explorations, stones have fallen on his roof, and he has invariably returned without getting any nearer a solution of the mystery.
The elimination of the word "obey" caused considerable discussion and in some cases firm opposition. After the announcement of the vote, which was 36 to 27 in-favour, the Right Rev, Charles M. Beckwith, of Alabama, said: "TIT move something be done to release all women who have already taken the vow to obey."
Bishop Bratton, of Mississippi, replied that he could see no reason. why the word "obey" should be left out of the ritual. "I stand for the solidarity of the family and every family must have a head. The Christian family must have a head, yet ib must be la partnership."
The grape juice petition came from the diocese of Los Angeles in a grape growing state. It asked that grape juice should be substituted for wine in the communion service or "that its use permitted by clergymen to whom the subject of prohibition had become a matter conscience."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.