No one shall read common prayer, keep Christmas or Saints' days, make mince pies, dance, play cards or play on any instrument of music except the drum, trumpet and Jew's harp. No gospel minister shall join people in marriage; the magistrates only shall join in marriage, as they may do it with less scandal to Christ's church. A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of ten pounds; a woman that strikes her husband shall be punished as the court directs. A wife shall be deemed good evidence against her husband. No man shall court a maid in person, or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents; five pounds penalty for the first offense to imprisonment for the third offense. Married persons must live together or be imprisoned. Every male person shall have his hair cut round according to a cap. A child over sixteen years old who strikes his father shall be put to death. A child over sixteen years old who is stubborn and rebellious shall be put to death. Whoever, professing the Christian religion, shall wittingly deny the Song of Solomon to be the infallible word of God, may be whipped forty lashes and fined fifty pounds. Whoever marries two wives or more shall be executed. Saying that the Christian religion is a politic device to keep ignorant men in awe shall be punished with death. Any man who uses tobacco in the street shall be fined, or if he do so in his own house, a stranger being present, he shall be fined, but if on a journey, five miles from any house, he may smoke. Any single person without a servant, wishing to keep house by himself, must get the consent of the selectmen unless he be a public officer. Persons not proved guilty, but lying under a strong suspicion of guilt, may be punished, though not so severely as would be the case had they been convicted. Every family must have a Bible, catechism and other good books. _Los Angeles Times_, Feb. 5, 1921. CROOKED MINDS The prompt detection and punishment of the two kidnappers, who were fools enough to believe that they could carry out a melodramatic abduction and get away with it, is a satisfaction to the public. But it does not remove the possibility of similar crimes, attempted and perhaps executed, by the large class of individuals who, like the Carrs, have crooked minds--minds that see only glamour and excitement in the life of a criminal, that are willing to take any chance and gamble with their own lives and liberty as the stakes, for revenge or merely to get money to satisfy their physical demands. Ten years, more or less, spent in the penitentiary is not likely to straighten out the false conceptions of such men. The Carrs will probably leave the prison with criminal tendencies strengthened by the associations and repressions of penitentiary life.