Identifier: sixoneabroad00thom (find matches)
Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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Publisher: (Austin, Tex.) Printed by E.L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t reaches to the waist. Only one-tenth of the people can read and write, and thisto the shame of England, who in the past hundred years hasspent a hundred millions on her fortifications and hardly afarthing on the education of her wards. The law permits the marriage of children, and it is fre-quently the case that parents have large families before theyare themselves 21 years of age. The prevailing ignorance, thegreat density of population and early marriages contribute toan infant mortality that is appalling. Catholicism is practically the only religion that has a foot-hold on the island, and it is said that in this church there are2,000 clergy, or one to every twenty families. The Phoenicians were the first inhabitants of this minute bitof land. They were succeeded by the Romans in 259 B. C.;by the Vandals in 534 A. D.; by the Arabs in 870; by theKnights of St. John in 1530; by Napoleon in 1800, and by thsEnglish from that year to the present. The Knights of St. M Six and One Abroad
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A Semi-Colon in the Journey 45 John, or Kniijhts of INFalta, as they are best known, were or-ganized at Jerusalem in 1048 as a military and religious secretorder; they were confirmed by the Pope; removed to Rhodesin 1300, and to Malta about 1550, their numbers increasing inthe meantime and their battles on land and sea being an almostunbroken chain of victories. Their struggles were mainly di-rected against the piratical ravages of the Turks and repeatedattempts of the barbarians to overrun Europe. Their gallantryelicited the admiration of the Christian world. Under La Va-letta, the most famous of the grand masters of the secret or-der, the city bearing his name was founded and a series offortifications were begun that have long been without parallel.Two of the cardinal tenets of this order were temperance andchastity, but with the growth of power and wealth the Knightsfell from grace in these respects, and their virility as an activeforce declined. No page in history is more romantic

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