And I would have inquired, if I had had the muskets; but, in the circumstances, he seemed better fixed to conduct the investigations than I was.
One Monday, near the time of our visit to St.Louis, the 'Globe-Democrat' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby it appeared that 119,448 St.Louis people attended the morning and evening church services the day before, and 23,102 children attended Sunday-school.

Thus 142,550 persons, out of the city's total of 400,000 population, respected the day religious-wise.

I found these statistics, in a condensed form, in a telegram of the Associated Press, and preserved them.

They made it apparent that St.Louis was in a higher state of grace than she could have claimed to be in my time.

But now that I canvass the figures narrowly, I suspect that the telegraph mutilated them.